Monogatari Series vol.17: Owarimonogatari 3 by NisiOisiN

Author:NisiOisiN [NisiOisiN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TrolloWN/LN EPUB
Published: 2017-02-19T17:48:22.834000+00:00

007

I wake up.

I wake up?

Crap, I guess I dozed off—no matter how tired I am, and no matter how cozy this planetarium is, falling asleep in the middle of a date is over the line. How unbecoming of me… or should I say, this is too much even for me.

It seems I managed to wake up just as the program ended, but I have absolutely no memory of what was projected on the screen, or what kinds of stars were reflected on the dome.

I had a deep, dreamless sleep.

How embarrassing.

I’m not sure what I should say to Senjougahara, who’s currently sitting to my right: should I act like I was awake the whole time, or should I come right out with the truth and apologize for ruining our long-awaited date?

Still unable to decide, I turn around to face Senjougahara, but…

“…”

Senjougahara is fast asleep, too.

She’s sleeping without making a single peep.

She’s showing so few signs of life that, for a moment, I almost had to wonder whether she was dead… By pure chance, it seems I’ve finally witnessed Senjougahara’s slumber for the very first time, but is this really how she sleeps…?

Frankly, it’s kind of scary.

She’s no Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, yet all the same, she looks like she’s in some kind of deathlike coma.

Wait, she’s not actually dead, is she…?

“Senjougahara…”

“I wasn’t sleeping.”

Without any warning whatsoever, Senjougahara’s eyes both open with a snap.

It’s more reminiscent of a “revival” than waking up after a nap. She’s like some kind of computer that can start up in a second.

“I didn’t fall asleep. I didn’t fall asleep at all. I was just thinking about something with my eyes closed.”

“…”

That’s as cliché an excuse as they come, but when she says it with such a straight face, I have to wonder if it’s really the truth…

Still, just how light of a sleeper is she that quietly calling out her name is all it takes to wake her up?

Well, if you consider her past experiences—plus the length of time she spent perpetually tormented by a sense of impending danger—it’s understandable that her sleeping habits would resemble those of a wild animal.

“Sorry. I did fall asleep.”

Perhaps realizing that it would be impossible to run with that lie, Senjougahara comes right out with an honest apology—and, truly, that she can bring herself to apologize now speaks to how honest she’s become compared to the old days.

She used to be the kind of person who would die before apologizing. Talk about too much force of personality.

What I can’t believe even now is that I resolved to start dating Senjougahara back when she was still like that…

At any rate, if Senjougahara fell asleep, it feels like it offsets the nap I took myself, so I’m actually more grateful than anything… But reassuring myself while leaving Senjougahara to be tormented by guilt would feel wrong, so I confess, “Don’t worry, I drifted off, too.”

It was more like falling fast asleep than “drifting off,” but I ask that you accept my compulsion to downplay it as a charming flaw.

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