Regarding Saeki Sayaka Vol. 2 by Hitoma Iruma

Author:Hitoma Iruma [Iruma, Hitoma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Light Novel
Publisher: Seven Seas
Published: 2020-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

In the latter half of May, after midterms had finished, it was nearly time for us to swap out our seasonal uniforms. We had no events in June, so our work in the student council had reached a lull.

One day after school, when I tried to head over to the student council with Touko as usual, she replied: “Oh, you can go on ahead, Sayaka. I have to take care of something first.”

“Hmm.”

“What’s with that reaction?”

“Is someone confessing to you again or something?”

Her shoulders twitched noticeably.

“Goodness. I was mostly joking.” She had just been confessed to about two weeks ago, and now she was already getting another one. I suppose it was like how bamboo shoots appear right after a rain. “At this rate, the whole school’s going to have confessed to you.”

I spoke as though I were joking, but I was slightly jealous. Touko turned her head down and acted as though she were thinking.

“It’ll get awkward if rumors go around that I always reject them the same way…”

“That’s quite a novel problem to have.”

“But it would be weird if I had different reasons for each one, too.”

So I’ll reject this one with the same reason as always, her words seemed to imply. I felt relieved, though I didn’t say so out loud.

Touko always rejected confessions automatically… I had to wonder what her type was. Maybe her heart really wouldn’t be swayed in the slightest even if she received a confession from every single student in the school.

Including me.

“So if everyone at school were going to confess to me, would that include you, Sayaka?”

Her joke was so close to what I had been thinking that I nearly lost my cool.

“Maybe, but maybe not. Since I already know you’d reject me.” Joking or otherwise, just saying it out loud made my heart twist in pain.

“You don’t know that. Your confession might just be too charming to turn down.”

Touko’s jest made dreams blossom in my mind. I sorely wanted to go along with it, to put my feelings into words and deliver them to her. But my actual response was to only look up at the sky like a flightless bird.

“All right, then. If you can’t find anyone else…that might not be a terrible idea.”

I prayed that the lie, which was so precarious that it felt like it could topple over even now, told her nothing. Before Touko could reply, an interruption, or perhaps a lifeboat, came to my aid.

“Then maybe I’ll put my hat in the ring, too.”

This time it was my turn to twitch. Manaka stuck her face out from next to me. Behind her, Midori had her hands on her hips, her eyes narrowed in an exasperated expression.

“You already know how she’ll reply, so please just stop.”

“Aw, but you don’t actually know that.” Manaka sought agreement from Touko, who promptly rejected her with a smile.

“Sorry.”

“Oh, that was over quick.”

“Told you so.” For some reason, Midori seemed smug.

Instead of withdrawing, Manaka turned to me. “Then maybe I’ll try Sayaka.”

What’s that supposed to mean?

“What do you say?” Manaka innocently asked me out.

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