Gimai Seikatsu - Volume 10 by Mikawa Ghost

Author:Mikawa Ghost
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-12T00:00:00+00:00

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By evening, when we started packing up, I’d managed to calm down a fair bit.

Or it might be more accurate to say I’d simply grown tired of overthinking things.

With my head cooled off, I realized how self-centered I’d been, and my sense of reason sluggishly started to shake itself awake.

I regretted my immaturity and took the lead in folding the tarp and cleaning up the camp site.

Kozono-san was my junior, after all. I was two years older, and she only entered high school this spring. Half a year ago, she was still in junior high school. She’s basically still a child, isn’t she? It’s one thing to be jealous of her, but to treat her unfairly is not who I want to be as Saki Ayase.

After finishing the cleanup, I did one final check to make sure nothing was left behind.

“Camping’s not over until you’re home. Let’s get pumped for the ride back!”

“You don’t need to get pumped, but you’re right. Let’s be careful on our way back,” Asamura-kun responded seriously, eliciting a pout from Yomiuri-senpai.

Kozono-san laughed at that.

As we started walking towards Yomiuri-san’s car, I stopped on my own and looked back.

Dusk was approaching. The sun was setting beyond the western mountains. The sun, now close to the ridge, was coloring the clouds floating at the mountain’s edge with the hues of sunset.

I stared at the spot where our tarp had been. Wind off the mountain quietly blew through the now empty rectangular piece of land. The treetops swayed, making the whispery sound of leaves brushing against each other.

As I stared out, it was almost like I could hear the echoes of our laughter. It was as if the day’s adventures were playing back like a mirage. The tarp we put up while dripping in our sweat, the BBQ we managed to enjoy despite sometimes choking on smoke, the sauna, splashing around in the river as a substitute for a cold bath, and me gazing up at the light dancing on the water’s surface. It’d been like looking through a kaleidoscope, light and darkness shifting with the current.

It was fun.

Despite some frustrations, it was a day filled with joy.

I hope Asamura-kun feels the same.

“Ayase-senpai?”

Turning around, I saw that the others had walked quite far ahead, and Kozono-san had come back to check on me, looking worried.

“Did you forget something?”

“Ah, yeah.”

“Oh, did you find it? Want me to help you look for it too?” Kozono-san asked with a worried look.

She’s a kind girl.

“It’s okay. I found it,” I said, smiling at her.

The connections we make with people are often a once in a lifetime thing. It occurred to me that perhaps this group of four might never go somewhere like this again in our entire lives.

With that in mind, the moment felt all the more precious.

As Kozono-san and I walked to catch up with the others, I mustered up the courage to speak up.

“About the barbecue…”

“Huh? Yes?

“You said it was your first time cutting meat that big, didn’t you?”

“Ah, yes. It was.

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