I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Light Novel) by Yoru Sumino

Author:Yoru Sumino [Sumino, Yoru]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2018-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

Five

A series of unusual events began that morning. I already mentioned my missing school slippers, but that was just the start.

I arrived at school the same as always, and when I went to retrieve my indoor slippers from the shoe rack, they were gone. I was wondering what could have happened to them when someone said, “Morning…”

The girl was the only person in my class who ever greeted me, but this didn’t sound like her usual high-energy voice. Wondering if her pancreas had gone kaput, I turned and was surprised to see it wasn’t her at all.

The best friend, standing at her shoe cubby, glared at me with open hostility.

A shiver ran down my spine, but even an antisocial person like me knew not responding would be rude. I returned her greeting with a noncommittal, “Morning.” The friend stared me in the eyes, then snorted and began exchanging her sneakers for school slippers. With my own pair missing, I didn’t know what to do. For now, I kept standing there.

Once her slippers were on, I thought the friend would just go, but she gave me another dirty look and snorted again before she left. I didn’t mind. That’s not to say I enjoyed it—I’m not a masochist or anything—but I saw uncertainty in her eyes. I suspected she was having trouble deciding how to act toward me.

Even if she chose to be hostile, I respected her for greeting me. If our positions were reversed, I would have hidden around the corner until she was gone.

I gave the shoe racks a quick search but couldn’t find my slippers. Hoping someone had taken them by mistake and would eventually return them, I decided to go to class in only my socks.

When I entered my classroom, I felt rude stares upon me from all sides, but I ignored them. When I decided to keep doing things with the girl, I had resigned myself to being scrutinized. She wasn’t here yet.

I sat at my desk in the back row and transferred over what I needed for class from my school bag. Since this was the day we got our tests back and reviewed our answers, all I needed was the question sheet. I also put my pencil and a paperback into my desk.

I was glancing over last week’s test questions and wondering what could have happened to my slippers when there was a commotion at the front of the classroom. I looked up to see the cause: The girl had strolled cheerfully into the classroom. A bunch of clamoring students rushed over to her, surrounding her in their circle. Absent among them was her best friend, who wore a conflicted expression as she watched from her desk. The friend glanced at me, and since I was looking at her, our eyes met before I quickly looked away.

I decided to stop paying any attention to the circle of students and their excited murmur. If the fuss had nothing to do with me, then I didn’t care.

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