Haibara’s Teenage New Game+ Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 5] by Kazuki Amamiya

Author:Kazuki Amamiya
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: Relationship Responsibilities

The day after I visited Miori’s house.

I messaged Serika—apparently, Miori was absent again. Including today, she’d been out for a whole week now. Is she never going to come back to school? Her voice was shaking when we talked yesterday. Her train of thought is turning pretty self-flagellating. I’m worried. I want to do something for her...but I couldn’t find the right words to tell her then.

“Natsuki, can I have a sec?” Tatsuya’s voice snapped me out of my ruminations.

“What’s up?” I asked. He wore an oddly serious expression.

“Can we talk outside?” He pointed to the veranda and walked out. I followed after him.

Because I’d been so lost in thought earlier, I hadn’t noticed how the gazes on me felt different than normal. I figured out what he wanted to discuss immediately.

Once we were on the veranda, Tatsuya leaned his arms against the railing and said, “It’s about Motomiya. There’s a weird rumor going around about her.”

Reita also stood on the narrow veranda with his arms crossed. Uncharacteristically, his expression was dark.

“Apparently, it came from the girls in class one... Have you heard anything?” Tatsuya asked.

I explained what I’d learned yesterday: how I’d heard about the rumor, my discussion with Serika and Hikari, and that I’d visited Miori’s house.

“Got it... So it was just a load of crap in the end, right?” Tatsuya said and let out an annoyed sigh.

“Yeah, I mentioned it earlier, but it was just an accident that might’ve looked otherwise.” It hadn’t been an accident, but I couldn’t reveal that now. If I told them the truth, I’d have to go into the topic of Miori’s feelings. And above all, Reita was here. I hesitated over voluntarily breaking the news myself.

Even after listening to my story, Reita said nothing. He kept his eyes directed up at the cloudy sky.

“Uta’s depressed,” Tatsuya said bitterly.

I followed Tatsuya’s gaze and looked inside the classroom through the window. Uta, who was usually cheerful, stared emptily at the blackboard from her seat.

“If I heard about it, then obviously she would’ve too.”

Well, the class one girls started the rumor. It makes sense that the girls would hear about it before it reached the boys in class two. “Yeah, plus Uta and Miori are both on the girls’ basketball team.”

“Her best friend on the team has been out for a whole week. I’m sure she’s looked into why on her own. When she found out, she couldn’t say anything about it, and now she’s crestfallen,” Reita said, finally speaking up. “It’s Uta we’re talking about. She’d normally make a bigger fuss that Miori’s been absent. The reason she hasn’t is because the rumor that’s supposedly keeping Miori out of school is related to us. She’s worried, but she hasn’t brought it up since it’s a sensitive topic. I’m sure that’s what she’s thinking.”

He’s observing people closely, as per usual.

“So no one can get in touch with Motomiya?”

“Seems like it. After she said, ‘Sorry. I’m fine,’ I haven’t heard a word.”

“If we got nothing from Natsuki’s visit, then she must be in a real jam.

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