Omae o Otaku ni Shiteyaru kara, Ore o Riajuu ni Shitekure!:Volume 9 Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Considering my struggling finances, I decided that I will have a date with Azuki-chan to the beach park.

Actually, I wanted to take her to an amusement park, or even winter skiing, but I do not have much money now. After I bought a coat and bag for over 30,000, I also bought a Christmas present for Azuki, so I became poor at once. There was a lot of events listed on the date magazine, but all of it was on Christmas day, so I got a problem with the date.

When she heard the place I wanted to go, Azuki-chan sent her answer that she wanted to go to the sea, so I decided to go to the beach park in Chiba somewhere by looking up the nearby ocean that we can go. But it is the sea ......

I do not want to recall the time I went to the ocean in Odaiba with Hasegawa ....

"But why do you want to go to the sea in the middle of winter?" In the bus heading to the beach park I asked Azuki-chan.

"I thought you would have wanted to go to Ikebukuro's butler cafe or something like that....”

"Well ... I said it before, but more than the fact that Naoki will be with me...I want to go to a couple’s date site! " What are you saying...?Whatever it is, the fee for admission the beach park is easy on my budget, so it is a very nice date spot for now.

By the way, Azuki today is wearing a beige coat with a fur on its white hood. It is totally cute as it looks like a bit like a rabbit somehow. ...... I think....

Today I’m wearing a muffler I got from Azuki - chan and a set of clothes I bought at Amazon. Soon the bus arrived at the beach park. After paying the entrance fee, we moved to the beach.

"Cold !!"

When we arrived at the beach, we shouted at the same time. I should have known ... ... The winter seaside is fucking cold. Even though the temperature is not that low, the wind is cold and you can catch a cold

"Azuki-chan ...... Ocean in this midwinter is too hard, isn’t it !?"

Today I am wearing Heat Tech under the shirt, but still I can’t bear this cold. Apparently only a few people came to this cold place, and I can’t find anyone else around.

"Because, because ... ... I do not think that everything is that cold ...... I watched scenes in anime where couples go on a date at the sea, so I wanted to do the same, even this one time ...!"

Azuki seems to be feeling cold, and says this while warming her hands with her breath. This cold girl is kinda cute ...... But this not the time to think about it. She might freeze with the cold as it.

"But the winter sea is really beautiful ... ...."

As Azuki turns her eyes towards the sea and says it with a groan, I also looked and saw the ocean. It certainly was quiet, slightly fantastic and beautiful.

"Oh, that's right!"

I saw Azusa grab something inside her bag. She took out a tough looking camera from the inside. It is a single lens reflex digital camera that she often uses when cosplaying.

"Today I want to take pictures of the sea ... ... Uu, my hand is shivering ~!" Azuki who shoots some sea shots while braving the cold.

"Yes, Naoki, smile ~!"

"You can even take photos !?"

"Of course! It's my first holiday date celebration!" So this is a memorial, too ......

Azuki takes a picture of me alone, then turns the lens towards us and shoots a two-shot by taking a picture of herself.

"I really like the photo, do not you think?"

"……memories……"

"Huh……?"

"I want to keep memories .... I want to keep it ... I do not want to forget all of the time I spent with Naoki .... I do not want to forget it someday, if I take a photo, I can always remember today." Somehow laughingly, she says.

"Oh, Azuki-chan ..."

"... ............ Nothing, was that ... something like a fragile character?"

"Oh, a fragile character ... Does she hide her sickness?"

"Hahaha, I have a healthy body!"

She laughed innocently like a child.

"... ___ ___ ___ 0 ___ ___ ___ ___ 0

I noticed her white neck peeking through the coat's fur is getting colder.

"Oh ... you noticed?"

She looks happy, looking at my face.

"Oh, that, ... ... that time ... ... today, today ... ...."

Somehow shaking from shyness, she moves closer to me. I thought, ... she grabbed the end of my muffler and started to unscrew from my neck. Hmm? Are you going to take my muffler? I thought that ... ... Aftershe removed it halfway, she wraps the muffler ... to her neck.

"What?! Eh, ...... !?"

"Well, I definitely want to try this ..."

She is red with embarrassment from laughing. We are sitting together with one muffler tied to our necks. ...... What are you doing? Oh my girlfriend!?

You are too cute! Her body sticks to my side;we share our body warmth. My heart rate jumps abruptly.

"............" Since I saw looking at me with half her eyelids closed.... I acted suddenly.

"Ha ha!" I grasped her hand. A big exaggeration, her body reacts. Her hand was so cold, I was surprised.

"The moon shines bright tonight............"

Said Azuki who seems to have been terribly shaken by my actions, although she did not move from me. My cheeks colored red and I see her face with a surprised expression. I just put that cold hand into my coat's pocket.

"Hang in there ... ...! Hawahwahawah ...... !?"

"No, something strange voice has come out ..."

"Oh, no, no ... suddenly this ...!"

"Ah ...... Azuki-chan ......" I stare straight at Azuki-chan. Azuki is too shy to look at my eyes.

"Azuki-chan ...... here, here, turn around ..."

"... ...!"

At my words, she finally looks up at me. The eyes that look at me with eyes were moist enough to seem to cry and the hands in my pocket are trembling.

"The moon ... shining brightly...."

For a while, we stare at each other silently. Azuki finally settled her determination to the serious me, ... finally closing her eyes slowly. To that shivering little lip ...... I ... .... I softly kissed her.

"............"

"... ... Huh!?"

The moment I take my lips off, I felt her embrace all the time without looking at my face. "Oh, Azuki-chan ...... !?"

She says nothing.

"... ............ ...are ... you crying ...?"

"......! No, not crying ...!!" Her voice was completely hazy. I understand that my hugging her lead her to tears.

"... ... Naoki ... ..." She keeps saying my name while hugging me.

"... .... I like ... .... I love you .... Always and forever ...... no matter what happens in the future ...... I love you, Naoki!

"Azuki-chan ... .... I love you ..."

I hugged her crying in my chest.

I felt ... not exaggerating, I felt that this is the happiest moment in my life. Thanks to her, I was able to know for the first time what kind of happiness to be able to say that I love you to theperson I love ....

In the past few weeks, she quickly became an irreplaceable person to in me. I do not want to leave her. Always ... I want to be by Azuki-chan. I thought so from my heart.

"For our next date ... what are the weekends and days available next week?" On the way back, I asked Azuki who is sitting next to me.

"Well, next week's Saturday ... .... Oh, that's right! Naoki, do you know about Momo-chan and her novel going to be discussed by a committee this month?"

"Committee? No, I have not heard of that ... ...." Committee ... ... is certainly for the creative doujinshi sale.

"It seems that Nikaido will join the circle this month, and said that we are going to go with Momo-chan and Murasaki ...."

"Oh ... that, is it an event that for the original joint magazine published by Nikaido, that includes the novel by Koigasaki?" It surely was a conglomerate or a committee.

"Oh, that’s it indeed ... this time Momo-chan said she wanted to go to know the atmosphere of what the committee is like. It's Saturday .... Can you go straight ahead, too? "

"Next Saturday? Wait a moment"

I tried to open my mobile to check the schedule.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, Azuki shouted.

"What !?"

"That……"

Azuki-chan was looking at... the standby screen of my cell phone. Oh my goodness! My current stand-by photo is the framed picture we took last time.

"No, this is that ...!!"

I am embarrassed and tried to say something but no words come up. Azuki seemed surprised and took out her smartphone from her pocket.

"Hey ... me too!"

"Huh……"

Azuki-chan's smartphone display ...... Is the same one as mine.

"I never thought that Naoki would use our photo as the stand by ... ... I'm sooo happy!"

"Well! ... No, that is my line ..."

Azuki-chan liked this framed photo....

Oh ...... I am now ... ... probably the happiest person in the world. Azuki and my bond is real. I love Azuki-chan.

We have not been together for a month, but I never thought that I liked it so much. Today I was able to reconfirm my feelings once again.

".................."

While watching the framed photo of the standby screen, I indulge in a single-minded thought for a while.

"... .... Naoki, what are you thinking?"

"……Ah, nothing…" ..... I have something to do.I secretly made up my determination within my heart.

The next day.

Before morning home room begins ... I stood up and moved to the front seat. The front row, the seat right in front of the table. It is the same as usual, behind it. I decided my resolution and called out.

"Hasegawa ......!"

Today she is reading at her seat as usual... Midori Hasegawa was terribly surprised she heard her name called.

"Kashiwada ... ... you? ...?"

I heard her voice after a long time.

"Oh... I have something I want to talk to you about for a bit ... ... Is it okay now?" Before, I was nervous whenever I spoke to her ... but today it was over. My voice is trembling.

"Oh, ok ...." She looks confused and but she accepts. I moved to the corridor with Hasegawa.

"Oh, that ... ... until now ... Sorry!" Grasp my fist strongly, I apologized.

"Huh……?"

Hasegawa looked at me with her eyes wide open.

"Selfishly, saying strange things ... Moreover, avoiding you, ... ... Maybe it was a misunderstanding, but Hasegawa ... ... I even pretended not to notice you on purpose, run away, ... .... "

"Kashiwada ..."

Hasegawa was stunned and is silently looking at me. Slowly she opens her lips.

"…………happy……"

"……eh!?"

I was surprised by the words of Hasegawa and look at her. She was laughing a little.

"... I did not expect you to talk like this ... ... I have thought that we can’t speak anymore ... like this ...."

She speaks slowly and carefully while biting her lips. She is happy to talk with me ...? I can’t hide my surprise at her words.

"Kashiwada, as you said ... ... I tried to speak to Kashiwada a few times .... However, I did not have that courage ..." Hasegawa keeps on a sad expression.

"In the past few weeks when I could not talk with Kashiwada ... It seemed as if there was a hole in my heart ...... Kashiwada-kun is important to me ... I realized again how he is irreplaceable ... ... "

"Hase ... ... gawa...?"

I am struck by her speech. Up until now ...... Hasegawa thinks she did not deserve all my actions, she is probably disappointed with me... I thought. Even I would think that I would be disappointed. But ... such a thing, Hasegawa did not expect too much.

Hasegawa did not change from the words that she told me before ... ...She said that I was "an irreplaceable important person". At the same time as my emotions of happiness overflows steadily ...... I am suffering from a terrible guilty feeling. I ... without knowing… hurt the feelings of Hasegawa. for my own selfish reasons. By avoiding her ... ... I hurt Hasegawa.

"I'm sorry, really ... ... I just thinking of myself ... ...."

"It is strange for you to apologize Kashiwada.... I was avoided by Kashiwada and I took it for granted ... Kashiwada-kun ... ... I got hurt.To my tender friend Kashiwada ... ... I have done terrible things. "

"Hasegawa ... ...."

"I do not care about myself ......"

"... ...?" Hasegawa is blushing furiously the point.

"Although I liked you ... I, I ... ... without noticing that ..."

To the words of Hasegawa, I blushed. At the same time, guilty feelings that I do not understand somewhat, sprouted inside me.

"No, really, I'm sorry for that!"

"……Huh?"

To me, Hasegawa is important.

"Suddenly, saying funny things ... ... without considering the feelings of Hasegawa, without any reason, I ran away ...."

"Kashiwada-kun ......"

"It’s like that ... ... I did something to Hasegawa arbitrarily .... I'm sorry ... I am not balanced at all ...... "

"Kashiwada-kun ... ... Such a thing, I ..."

"But it's okay now!"

"……Huh?"

"I already ... will not say such strange things again"

"............"

To my words, Hasegawa is looking at my face with a surprised expression.

"I will never do those things again ... So be safe in knowing that! That's why ... well, I guess I can be a friend ... Will you be my friend?"

Hasegawa kept her eyes open for a while and kept silent while looking at my face. I become uneasy as to whether she will refuse the offer of becoming friends ...

".... Yeah ...If Kashiwada wants to be friends just like before ... ... I'm very happy ..." Eventually Hasegawa laughed thinly as she seemed a little puzzled.

"Well, thank you ......! Good! ...!"

The words of Hasegawa relieved me from the bottom of my heart. This is good……. With this I can be friends with Hasegawa as before. No, it is different from before... a bit different. Now I am not after Hasegawa ... because I like Azuki-chan.

I am glad that Hasegawa did not hate me. I'm really happy to know that Hasegawa wanted to talk to me again. There were various things, but finally, in real sense, I was able to become friends with Hasegawa again....

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