NouCome: Volume 1 Interlude 2

Interlude 2: A Certain Possibility’s Story

My girlfriend’s a little strange.

Her hair’s slightly on the longish side, she’s pretty cute, she can make cookies, vegetables, meat stew and so on, your typical domestic-type girl. The weird part is that when she talks, she seems to emanate this masculine feeling...

“What kind of bullshit is that! Ah, nah...that’s not possible!”

That’s basically it. She gets into arguments with other people pretty easily, so when she starts badmouthing others her tone becomes particularly masculine.

Not just her speech, but even her actions, like for example once she nearly went into the males’ toilet by accident before I quickly pulled her back. She smiled and laughed it off as an old bad habit, but I still don’t get what she was trying to say.

I’m very sure that she’s a real woman. Because, um...I just know, alright?

Oh, right, right, she has a pretty weird mantra she mutters often:

“If I had said John Manjiro like I should have back then...” "Ryuji! Here, here! Bakachi broke it!" "Ooohhh..." In the corridor leading to the dressing rooms, Taiga, in her PE uniform, leaped onto Ryuji from behind, and suffocated his throat by grabbing onto his collar with her entire weight, causing Ryuji to imagine he was crossing the River Styx. Just as he was about to black out, he suddenly saw Taiga doing a spin kick - which got him back to reality. "It's broken over here! It's all that Bakachi's fault!" In order to let Ryuji see the extent of damage of the ripped PE trouser edge, Taiga stood beautifully on one foot while lifting her other in a kicking posture. Ryuji quickly grabbed her ankle, "Sheez! This is bad... Maybe I could patch this up with some cloth... but it'll need to be elastic... maybe I could use some of Yasuko's old thermal underwear..." Ryuji thought of his mother's beige underwear and hesitated. If I only wrap one side, then it'll look too unbalanced. But if I wrap both sides, I'll be altering a school uniform, since PE uniforms are part of the school uniform as well. "Hmmm....." Ryuji's brow furrowed even more. "Whoa! Whoa!" Taiga, whose ankle was being grabbed onto by Ryuji, began to lose her balance, and wave her hands like a drowning child, but Ryuji took no notice of her. All he was thinking of were sewing kits, needles, the PE uniform and his mother's underwear. He had already entered into "Ryuji World" - A world where if you're not careful and stumble into, you'll end up as a housewife. "Just wait a minute~ Can you not jump to conclusions? You were the one who stepped on your trousers when you tripped and caused it to break! Takasu-kun, you were there, weren't you? I didn't do anything~" Trying to rebuke Taiga, Ami purposefully ran to Ryuji's side and looked up with her cute eyes and pouted. "Wha?" Ryuji finally came to his senses and looked at Ami with his menacing eyes. Just as Ami was about to return her usual pretentious smile... "Phew, that was close! I nearly fell!" "Wha!?"

Sometimes she even says it without realizing, but no matter how many times I ask her she refuses to reveal what it means.

Also, sometimes when she’s not paying attention, it’s like she’s in a complete world of her own, not in our world at all...

“What’s up?”

Her voice made me come to my senses. It appears I’m the one not paying attention this time. The way she looks at my face with concern...yep, she’s really a cutie.

“Nothing, it’s nothing. Let’s go.”

In order to dispel my uneasiness, I grabbed Kana-chan’s hand tightly and strode off.

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