Adachi and Shimamura Vol. 10 by Hitoma Iruma

Author:Hitoma Iruma [Iruma, Hitoma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2022-11-30T08:00:00+00:00

Like the average person, I wondered where it all went wrong. But while it would terminate our friendship if I were to say this flat-out…these days, I liked Adachi more than Tarumi. That, and that alone, was the root cause.

Was that what she wanted to hear? Was that why we met up today? Or was Tarumi hoping something would magically change? What kind of something? A fever blazed behind the scarf around my neck as questions came to mind one after another.

Maybe Tarumi had secretly hoped for something more between us—a seed that slumbered under the surface without ever blossoming. But now our friendship was quietly coming to an end, and I was just…watching it happen.

Was I supposed to scream in protest? Call her name at the river this time? Was this merely a hurdle our platonic friendship was meant to overcome? Surely she wouldn’t be satisfied with that. After today, she and I would likely never hang out one-on-one ever again. Whether or not our friendship survived, the end result would still be the same.

Somehow I knew it was over for us either way.

I knew what Tarumi wanted, and I knew how to achieve it. If I truly cared about her as a person, then staying friends was probably not the answer. But I couldn’t offer her anything more than that. And so my only option was…to sit there.

Smiling without an ounce of joy, Tarumi kept painting, tears streaming down her face. I suspected she didn’t know how to fix this any more than I did. So I sat there and watched as this unbalanced love triangle slowly fell apart.

I thought I heard a whisper—something like, “I wish we could have gone farther together.” But it was as distant as the roar of the river. And so, unable to think of anything I had done wrong leading up to this, I embraced the present moment.

In junior high I had experienced conflict. I had hurt someone with my words and felt bad afterward. But it was someone I didn’t like, so they were functionally a stranger.

This, however, was most likely my first time ever hurting a friend.

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