Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, Vol. 5 by Shimesaba

Author:Shimesaba [Shimesaba]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Light Novel, Romance
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10 The Ogiwara Family

Maybe it was only a few minutes; maybe it was almost an hour.

Unaware of how much time was passing, I simply sat against the stone wall in front of the door, with Sayu next to me, and cried until I was totally exhausted.

The sky had cleared since we visited her old high school. As I stared blankly up at it, I noticed that we had a good view of the stars. They were even brighter and more brilliant than the ones Sayu had shown me at that park up on the hill.

“The stars are so beautiful…it’s almost obnoxious,” I whispered to Sayu, recalling what she’d said about Hokkaido’s gorgeous night sky.

“Told you so,” she replied. I could see her shoulders shaking—she must be laughing.

Since I’d only just stopped crying, my vision was still blurry. Because of that—no, thanks to that, the stars overhead were like a dazzling kaleidoscope.

I spent a few moments staring at them, captivated, before Sayu hesitantly broke the silence.

“Hey, Mr. Yoshida.”

“Yeah?”

“When you bowed your head to my mother…it felt like all my mistakes had been forgiven.”

“Huh?”

I looked at Sayu, but her eyes were fixed on the starry sky above us. The stars’ light reflected in her moist eyes, making them sparkle.

“It made me realize that…even though I’ve messed up in all sorts of ways…it wasn’t for nothing,” she said, placing one of her hands on top of mine. The chilly evening air had left my skin icy cold, and her touch felt incredibly warm.

Sayu abruptly turned my way, a relaxed smile on her face.

“…I’m all right now.”

My breath caught in my throat.

Her words and expression implied a resilience that I’d never seen from her before. Within her smile, I sensed a calm, unwavering determination.

“I know I’ll be able to make it on my own…even when you’re gone.” She paused. I felt her grip tighten around my hand. “So…there’s no need to worry about me, okay?”

Her fingers trembled slightly as she spoke, but I decided not to point that out.

No matter how prepared or brave you felt, taking the first step was always a frightening prospect. Even I knew that.

“I know,” I said succinctly, squeezing her hand in return. “You’ve got this.”

I left it at that and looked back up at the stars.

As we sat there, hand in hand, staring at the sky, a certain memory floated up in my mind. It was something Asami had said and Sayu had told me.

“From the perspective of the stars, each of us is insignificant, but we all have histories and futures of our own.”

When I’d first heard this, I hadn’t associated it with my own life. But now I saw things differently.

A decent amount of time had passed since Sayu and I first met. But what did that look like from a stranger’s perspective? From the world’s perspective? From the universe’s perspective?

The farther you zoomed out, the more insignificant our existence must have seemed. And yet, by some twist of fate, Sayu’s path had crossed with mine…and a little story was born.

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