Oregairu Volume 06 by Wataru Watari

Author:Wataru Watari
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: Unusually, Yuigahama Yui becomes indignant.

What do you call it when you keep working and working, but things never get easier?

My life.

Even Ishikawa Takuboku[47] would agree. For an average person like myself, that’s a given. I stopped my laboring hands against my better judgment and found myself staring at those hands with reproachful eyes. As a result, my laboring hands stopped entirely and it became harder and harder to work. What’s with this deflationary spiral?

Just how and why are we so busy? I looked around at my surroundings to solve that conundrum. First, there weren’t enough people.

The executives were bogged down by various problems and the helper Haruno-san wasn’t here either. Hayama was doing his share of the work, tackling all the matters related to the volunteers alone. But the stiffness in his usual smile indicated even he was getting tired.

Lately, this number of people should’ve been enough to manage the work.

But unlike every other day, missing today was Yukinoshita. She would arrive here at the conference room before anyone else and stay behind later than everyone else to work every day.

That appearance of hers was nowhere to be seen.

“What’s wrong with Yukinoshita-san today?”

“Who knows…?” I couldn’t give an answer to Meguri-senpai’s question. But it wasn’t just me; no one else in this planning committee could either.

The door of the conference room was opened with a creaaak. Entering a room without bothering to knock was Hiratsuka-sensei’s bad habit.

“Hikigaya.”

“Yes?” I answered.

Hiratsuka-sensei walked over to me. Her expression was uncharacteristically meek. “It’s about Yukinoshita. She wasn’t feeling well so she took the day off. She contacted the school, but I figured that didn’t reach the planning committee…”

She was exactly right.

After all, there wasn’t anyone here who could keep in touch with her.

But still, not feeling well, huh? I knew she wasn’t a physically active person, but I thought she was the type that paid attention to her health. Well, with how swamped with work she was recently and the basic mistakes she made yesterday, she must’ve been considerably exhausted.

…Is she okay? She’s living alone too, I thought.

Hayama lifted his face with realization. “Yukinoshita-san lives alone, so I think someone should go check up on her.”

“Oh, I see… Okay. I wonder if someone can go check up on how she’s doing. The other executives and I can hold down the fort here,” Meguri-senpai looked at Hayama and me and said.

“Will you all be okay by yourselves?” Hayama asked.

Meguri-senpai frowned. But she showed us her usual, comfortable smile right after. “Hmm… Sure. As long it’s something I understand, I should be able to manage something, I think.” She may not have sounded confident, but her smile looked reliable.

If she insisted, then it would be better if Hayama and I handled the case with Yukinoshita and leave the administrative work here to the executives. It would be much more productive to have them here than Hayama and me, a volunteer and assistant historian.

Meguri-senpai was the only one with a bird’s eye view on everything. Meguri-senpai ended with “thanks again” and tried to go back to work.

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