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Chapter 14 – Sara’s Side Then Kazunari
TL: Cheetah
ED: Ryuubii
(Sara POV)
It’s Saturday.
Later, after Takanashi-san left, I was overcome with impatience.
I couldn’t convey the most important thing to him, and at this point, it’s something I can’t do

I, myself, believe in you.
You’re not like any other boys! You’re someone I trust!
I haven’t been able to tell him these words yet

I’ve been trying my hardest to tell him that.
“
 Let’s just calm down and stop for today.”
Natsumi stopped me.
“Natsumi, I haven’t been able to tell him what I wanted to convey
”
“Please calm down.”
Natsumi then continued to persuade me.
“I think Takanashi-kun is being stubborn, so you should give him some time to calm down and then try again later. Don’t be in a hurry, take it slow next time. However, you know what you have to say first in that time, right? Tell him that first. I will help you if I can.”
“
 Yes.”
Honestly, I don’t think I was ever this pathetic before.
I thought that if I explained carefully from the very beginning, he would listen to me until the end, but I failed to convey the most important words

I had become so accustomed to disliking boys and rejecting others that I had missed on the most obvious thing to do, which was to think about what the other person felt first before proceeding to talk to them

It was today’s events that made me fully aware of this.
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It was now Monday.
Takanashi-san didn’t come during lunch break

Watering alone was something I had always been used to doing, something normal.
But now

I looked at the bench, but I couldn’t see Takanashi-san there, enjoying his lunch.
I couldn’t even prepare the lunch that I had planned to make to thank him.
And the hamburger that I practiced so hard to make
 will there ever be a chance for him to eat it
?
After dutifully finishing the watering, I opened the shoebox to change my shoes at the entrance and noticed an envelope.
‘I have one last thing to tell you.’
‘I’ll be waiting for you on the roof after school.’
I was about to tear the letter open, thinking it would be the usual confession, when the word “last” caught my attention.
There has never been a letter with such an opening before

Was it from
Takanashi-san
?
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(Kazu POV)
It’s Monday.
I was depressed from early morning, but didn’t want to take a bad day off and have my aunt and parents called, so I headed to school.
I didn’t go to the flower bed during lunch break, but spent the rest of the day in the classroom pretending to be asleep.
Halfway through, I received a concerned LINE message from Yuji, but I returned a suitably reply.

Is senpai alone in the flower bed?
Saturday’s conversation made me realize that I’m in the same category as the other morons, and that she didn’t even trust me.
I don’t want to be seen with “that look”, let’s just forget it

It was after school, and I was slowly getting ready to leave because I was feeling very overwhelmed

Coincidentally, I overheard some morons in my class talking about something.
However
 this coincidence was a blessing in disguise.
M1: “Hey, are we going today?”
M2: “To see that haughty empress and the others?”
M3: “What do you say? Should we go see it too? ”
M2: “Hmm, I don’t know. That might be a bad idea, and I don’t want to be an accomplice.”
M1: “Yeah. Although I’d like to see that haughty empress crying her eyes out.”
M3: “Maybe we should take a picture with our smartphones.”
Hmm
? What are they talking about?
I know they’re talking about a bunch of c**p, but

Empress?
An empress looking haughty at these guys
 no way
 there’s no freaking way right
?
I calmly left the classroom and after a short distance I ran out as fast as I could.
Senpai’s class was 2-B!
At this moment
 I had forgotten what Senpai thought of me, my fear of her, my negative feelings, and all other unnecessary things.
The possibility that the senpai I knew might be in danger
 that was something that I can’t stop worrying about.
If I let it pass here and something bad happens to senpai, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life

Don’t think about anything else, it doesn’t matter now, if it’s not Senpai, then I can at least warn her

That’s what I was thinking.
I reached 2-B and looked at the classroom through the open door.
Is senpai somewhere inside
?
What should I do
 she’s not here
 should I look for her somewhere else?

No, I won’t find her in time.
At that moment, my eyes met with a female student looking at me from behind the door.
I’m pretty sure that’s the girl who was with Senpai the other day

The other side looked surprised, but quickly came over to me.
“Hello Takanashi-kun. I’m sorry about the other day. But if you’re here, then I guess it was you who called Sara.”
What did she mean? I called Senpai?
“Please tell me that story. Did Senpai get called out?”
“Yes, I heard there was a letter in the shoe box, and because it had ‘last’ in the sentence, it was too meaningful to be a love letter, so Sara thought that it might be from Takanashi-san
”
“I didn’t send it. If I wanted to do that, I’d send it through LINE.”
“Yeah, I told her that too. but
 she’s a little mentally unstable right now.”
Now was not the time to be thinking as to why!
“Where is it? She told you the place right?”
“She told me it was at the rooftop
”
I didn’t hear the end of it and started running.
Please let me get there in time
!