Kokoro Connect Volume 11: Precious Time by Sadanatsu Anda

Author:Sadanatsu Anda [ANDA, SADANATSU]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

Right as I was starting to think I wasn’t going to talk to anyone new today, one of my classmates spoke to me for the first time.

“You said you were in the ping-pong club in middle school, right?”

I was sitting in the classroom, packing up after the final bell. And since I was in Go-Home Mode, I wasn’t mentally prepared for someone to strike up a conversation.

“Wanna join Yamaboshi’s ping-pong club?”

“Nah, I think I’m done with ping-pong now that I’m in high school.”

I couldn’t find the right words. What came out instead was incredibly blunt.

“Aww, c’mon! Don’t give up now!”

“I’m just kinda bored of it,” I replied flatly.

“...Okay then.”

And that was where the conversation ended. He walked over to someone else, and I missed my chance to correct myself.

As I recalled, he was in the ping-pong club in middle school, too. And I’d heard that he was trying to start a new club here at Yamaboshi. But I was never very good at ping-pong, and since I had no hope of improving, I wasn’t interested in pursuing it any further. Instead, I was hoping to join a more popular club... Not that I was going to pick my club based entirely on how much attention I could get from girls, mind you.

Still, I could have said something better than “I’m bored of it.” I could have said “I’m not personally interested, but I support you starting up a new ping-pong club.” Or “I remember you were really good.” Or “We should play a match together sometime.” I could have kept the conversation going in any number of ways.

Then, as I was drowning in regrets, I overheard one of the guys in a group chatting nearby.

“Man, did you see that Culture Whatever Club? The girls were so hot! Let’s go check them out!”

“Cultural Research Club, or CRC. Says so right here on the flyer.”

“I was thinking I wouldn’t mind paying them a visit at least once!”

“But you’re not gonna join?”

“Look, dude, they want people to sit in on their club activities, right? So what’s the harm?”

Apparently they were having fun planning out what clubs they wanted to visit. This was hardly a rare occurrence; I only noticed because I heard them mention the CRC. Even those who had already basically chosen their club were still more than happy to browse around for the fun of it.

Because the conversation had caught my attention, I naturally looked in their direction. Then one of the guys in the group looked over, and our eyes met.

“Weren’t you hugging one of those CRC chicks yesterday morning?”

I felt my heart thump loudly in my chest.

“Yeah, I remember that. I was like, damn! Wasn’t expecting him to go there!” added another of the guys who witnessed the incident in question.

“What? I didn’t hear about this. What happened?”

I needed to say something.

“It... It was an accident,” I told them, since it was the truth.

“Have you been to see the CRC?”

“No, I haven’t...”

“Then would you wanna come with us? We were just talking about it.

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