Maria-sama ga Miteru:Volume29 Chapter1 5

Onee-sama, Rosary and Petit Soeur. Part 5.

And that's why, about three minutes later, Yumi was standing in front of the third-year pine group classroom.

She was here because she had always intended to come back during her break. This was what Yumi kept telling herself. However, each time she thought it, it still sounded like an excuse. Perhaps she was feeling guilty about tracking down her onee-sama.

The front door of the classroom was half open, so Yumi peeked inside. Sachiko-sama was nowhere to be seen inside the still mostly empty classroom.

(I must have been mistaken after all.)

Since Sachiko-sama wasn't at school, then it must have been someone else that she had seen earlier.

What kind of nonsense had she been thinking? Yumi smiled wryly. There was no way that the angelic Ogasawara Sachiko-sama would be reduced to uncouthly running through the hallways. Yumi was glad she had taken such drastic measures to determine the truth. A happy ending all around. – After a few joyous steps Yumi ran into someone she hadn't expected to see.

"Yumi."

"O... onee-sama."

Standing in front of her was Ogasawara Sachiko-sama. Running into a third-year student, like Sachiko-sama, near the third-year classrooms was hardly something unexpected. But as Yumi had just recently concluded that Sachiko-sama wasn't at school, she was left flustered.

"Go... gokigenyou. Have you just arrived at school?"

If Sachiko-sama was in the classroom, then the probability that it had been her went through the roof. Yoshino-san's words came rushing back to her.

"What a silly thing to say. I've been here for hours. What time do you think it is?"

As further proof, Sachiko-sama wasn't carrying her school bag. Nor was she wearing her coat. Finally, she looked just as beautiful as ever.

"I was in the bathroom. My hair was a mess, so I went to brush it."

As Yumi outwardly nodded in acknowledgment, internally she was going over her onee-sama's words.

Her hair was a mess? She's been here for hours? – Yumi had a bad feeling about this. However her musings were unexpectedly interrupted when Sachiko-sama cheerfully said:

"That reminds me, you came to visit this morning, didn't you?"

"Ahh, yeah."

"My apologies. I only made it here just in time for morning prayers."

Completely throwing out Yumi's previous conclusion.

"Did you oversleep or something?"

Perhaps that sort of thing even happened to Sachiko-sama, from time to time. However, she shook her head.

"I forgot to get off at the right train station."

Sachiko-sama seemed somewhat different to usual. This was probably the first time that she had ever done something like that.

But their short break was almost up, so as much as Yumi wanted to stay and have a leisurely chat all she could do was inform Sachiko-sama that she would return at lunchtime, and then leave.