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"...No es ridículo. A diferencia de ti, soy muy sensible." | "...No es ridículo. A diferencia de ti, soy muy sensible." | ||
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Rubbing her eyes with her small fists, Taiga finally lifted herself up and sat down next to Ryuuji. He couldn’t see it earlier because it had been hidden by her hair, but there was a cooling pad stuck to her round forehead. Maybe it had even ended up swelling. Feeling a pricklish pain in his heart, Ryuuji almost unconsciously started gently stroking part of the cooling pad with the tip of his finger. Taiga just let him do it, | |||
“…What’s that…I’m 165 centimeters tall, so…” | |||
Her lips showed some displeasure as she mumbled that, and she hung her head a little. ‘I’m only just a little taller’, he thought, but then Ryuuji realized. She wasn’t talking about herself here--- | |||
“…And my name, it somehow feels like something from Mercury, so…so, so…" | |||
These were things that Ami Kawashima said. | |||
With her stylishly proportionate eight headed figure and her name that seemed cute like an anime character’s. Taiga’s ideal woman who had all the things she wanted, that would be Ami Kawashima. | |||
‘Now I get it’, Ryuuji breathed. Taiga had fallen into depression like this because in addition to worrying about what Kitamura thought about her, she was also feeling an inferiority complex caused by Ami. The fickle woman she despised had all the things she ever wanted. On that point, there was just no way she could win...If it was like that, just about anyone would want to crouch in a dark room and gloomily shut themselves in, probably. | |||
It’s not like Ryuuji couldn’t understand the kind of state she was in. He nodded a few times seriously, | |||
“And more than that, she’s an old friend of Kitamura. Even their families are on good terms.” | |||
“Auh…” | |||
---He had meant to show his support, like ‘I understand what you mean’, and yet. In some way resembling melting ice, Taiga’s face ended up twisting pitifully. | |||
''…Crap. I ended up hitting the largest complex…'' | |||
If it was just that Ami had the proportions and her name was cute, Taiga wouldn’t have gotten so depressed, but in addition to all that, Ami was on close terms with Kitamura. That most important point, it was because Ami had that advantage in what was the most serious concern for Taiga that she was getting this depressed. She was just futilely chasing after the things that Ami had and she didn’t. | |||
Ryuuji finally realized his mistake, but it was all ready too late. Looking like the contents of a confused jack-in-the-box, Taiga shuffled back to her hikikomori corner. Finally, she completely closed herself in with her blanket, | |||
“…I wonder why you’re so insensitive like this…I’m just amazed at your thick-headedness…” | |||
Her low mumble resounded with bitterness. With her saying that kind of thing, he couldn’t keep himself from retorting, | |||
“Well, I’m always dumbstruck with the way you live your life.” | |||
“What?!” | |||
At his accidentally rude comment, Taiga quickly became livid. She flung aside her blanket and stood up. | |||
“W, well aren’t you energetic?” | |||
“Tell me, just, what, part, of me, is, so, surprising!” | |||
“Well, like that! Right now! Wait a! Oh! Auh!" | |||
Interrupting him, she started hitting upside the face with a cushion, | |||
“You! You’re a! Dog! Mutt!” | |||
“Dust! It’s flying everywhere! Stop it! Pah!” | |||
“Quiet! Shut up! Ha…choo!” | |||
“Ah! Oh!...Uwa, your nose is running!” | |||
More than the physical impact was the emotional degradation…It was enough to keep him from even resisting, but then…Taiga’s stomach rumbled with a sound similar to an earthquake. | |||
“Huh?” | |||
Widening her blank-looking eyes and halting her attack, Taiga looked down at her own stomach that was making such a tremendous sound with a surprised face. | |||
“I wonder what that sound was just now.” | |||
“Don’t go ‘Huh’! That sound’s coming from your stomach!...Geez, I knew it, you’re hungry, aren’t you? Come on, let’s go eat tonkatsu.” | |||
“…I told you I don’t need it didn’t I?” | |||
“I believe your stomach more than your words. It’s almost time for Yasuko to leave, so come on, get up.” | |||
“…The meat, is it black pork?” | |||
“It’s black pork.” | |||
“…The fatty parts, can I eat them?” | |||
“Ah, yeah.” | |||
Looking a little reluctant, Taiga finally got up from her nest of blankets. First he made her blow her nose, then check to make sure the doors were secure and she had her key, and had her put on sandals over her bare feet; like that, Ryuuji successfully brought Taiga out from her apartment. | |||
Then they walked beneath the sky that was being overtaken with indigo more than before, and after ascending the stairway of the rented house next door, | |||
“Ryuu-chan!” | “Ryuu-chan!” | ||
Yasuko’s teary face peered out from the entrance hall doorway. Looking as if she had been waiting earnestly for the two of them until now without eating, | |||
“Even though we’re having tonkatsu, we don’t have any sauce; this is no good~!" | |||
She held the empty sauce pot in one hand and told her son the shocking news. | |||
With a quick about-face, Ryuuji and Taiga dashed off and with a fast pace leapt into the nearest convenience store. Ryuuji went all out to the aisle with sauces, while Taiga went on her own to browse magazines. | |||
Having paid for the sauce, | |||
“Come on, we’re in a hurry, so let’s go.” | |||
He hit Taiga in the rear with the convenience store bag. Taiga looked back at him offended, | |||
“I get it, so stop being so noisy and don’t touch my butt, you perverted dog. Just give me a sec…Ah.” | |||
Flipping through a magazine, her fingers that were turning the pages suddenly stopped. Then as Ryuuji was nearly out of the store in front of her, Taiga caught the end of Ryuuji’s t-shirt and pulled him back. | |||
“Hey, look at this.” | |||
She was showing him a page. Turning around and thinking ‘What?’, Ryuuji instinctively stopped walking when he caught sight of the picture being shown. | |||
“…If it isn’t Ami Kawashima.” | |||
At the bottom of the open magazine there was a small column featuring Ami in casual clothing and the following words. | |||
--- | ---Starting with this month’s issue, Ami-chan will be taking a break for a while to take care of school-related matters. Look forward to seeing her again! | ||
“That means she’s taking a holiday. That’s what this is saying.” | |||
“So she’s taking a break from work because she moved over here?...Our school, is it really all that great…” | |||
Somehow, he felt like it just didn’t make much sense, but, | |||
“Pf, this isn’t the time to be messing around talking like this. If we don’t hurry, Yasuko will be late.” | |||
Putting away the magazine, the two of them jogged out of the store, passed through the parking lot and just made it to the street. | |||
“…Hm?” | |||
“…What is it?” | |||
Practically at the same time, they ended up seeing something weird and stopped. They instinctively turned to look at one another. | |||
There was a bizarre and mysterious-looking person passing by closely in front of the two. She had a black full-body jersey on and wore sunglasses, even though it was night, so it was obviously a cover, and then on top of all that, she wore a wide-brimmed hat. Yet, with her long, slender limbs, her exposed, sheen hair, her small face, and her great style, no matter how you looked at it, she could only be the person who was surely the only model in this town---The person they had just seen in the magazine. | |||
Taiga understandably frowned with displeasure, | |||
“What, you ask…It's her…” | |||
“…Speak of the devil…But what’s with her appearance?” | |||
With such a bizarre outfit, she just ended up standing out even more. If this were Hiroo or Azabu, then, just maybe, she could have blended into the city with the air of a private performer hiding her identity. However, in this residential district no one would complain about misdeeds, even if she was mistaken as a fashionable convenience store robber and reported. | |||
Ami went into the convenience store dressed like that and naturally picked up a basket, but afterwards, it was remarkable. She took just about all the pastries and ice cream products lined up on the shelves and threw them in her basket with tremendous aggressiveness. That was followed by bentous, side dishes, and even pastry breads. PET bottles of non-diet drinks---sweet carbonated beverages as well. Even the shop clerk was leaning from his register to keep a watchful eye on her strange behavior. | |||
“…What a weirdo…Is she having a house party or something?” | |||
“No…That’s not it, not with those things. Fu~n, I see…I ended up seeing something interesting.” | |||
With a small laugh, Taiga stood up in front of Ryuuji and started walking quickly. It seemed she figured something out on her own, but didn’t feel like sharing the information. | |||
“Ryuuji, | “Ryuuji, let’s run.” | ||
“Ah, | “Ah, yeah.” | ||
They were in a hurry, after all. Putting aside what just happened for the time being, Taiga and Ryuuji took off along the asphalt road towards the Takasu residence where their tonkatsu was waiting. | |||
But at that time, strangely, as if enjoying herself, Taiga’s mouth was parted with a smirk. | |||
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