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V1C3 Part8




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Edit 2020.07.24
“I’m Home.”
It was morning by the time I finished my part-time job and went back to “Share House Kitayama”
“Ah , welcome back~”
In the living room I was greeted by Shinoaki with fluttering hands, waved at me while reading manga.
“Aren’t you up to early? What’s wrong?’”
High-school students aside, it’s typically rare for college students to be awake at 7 am in the morning. It’s especially true for Shinoaki as it’s the norm for her to still be sleeping when there are no compulsory classes.
“I came back rather late last night so I decided to stay up~.”
“Ah…,I see.”
If that’s the case then it makes sense.
On a desk there’s about 10 books worth of Shinoaki’s personal collection of manga.
The genres were wildly different from shounen manga to shoujo and even autobiographical manga there really was no rhyme or reason to it.
“You’re not together with Nanako?”
Shinoaki asks as I sit in front of her.
“Yeah, her shift is from midnight till noon. That girl’s already a full-fledged worker there. ”
Answering with poise, works energetically, and on top of that, a beauty.
The grandpa that owns the store even treats her as his own grandkid.
“Uwa-,Nanako’s such a hard worker~.”
Shinoaki expresses with admiration as her feet dangle in the air. Maybe because she doesn’t work her self, so she seems to have a sense of respect to those who do.
Not only to Nanako, Shinoaki often talked with me and Tsurayuki.
“Oh yeah, Kyouya-kun have ye' already come up with a solution to the task? ”
“No, nothing yet. I thought about it with Nanako, but nothing’s come up yet.”
“Eeehh, I see."
Shinoaki raised her body and threw her hands at the table.
“I’ve been thinking for a lo~ng time, but I just can’t come up with anything.”
And then with a peaceful big smile on her face
"It would have been nice if you could do the thinking for me ,but that won’t be good huh~"
"Well it would be an issue if you can’t think for yourself"
"Eh~, Kyouya-kun is so strict~"
Shinoaki made her eyes look exaggeratedly scared.
“Kyouka-kun is more mature than he seems.”
*Cough*
Well it’s the truth though but let’s let that fact slide for now. It’s already my 2nd university life already though so I already have a solid grasp of things.
“It can’t be helped that my personality is like that, I wonder if I smell like an old man too”
As I make an excuse, Shinoaki beamed me a peaceful smile
“Looking at Kyouya-kun reminds me of my younger brother.”
“Younger? Not older?”
“Uh huh, He’s a very serious person and tends to scold me a lot”
This is the first time I’ve heard the state of the Shinoaki household ever since we met
“If I remember correctly your hometown was Fukuoka right?”
“Yup, At the western part in Itoshima.”
I nodded in assent
“When you think of Fukuoka prefecture, you might think of an urbanesque landscape but that’s not the case in Itoshima it’s just rice paddies and mountains as far as the eye can see. Being a patriarchal society a girl like me whose head is in the clouds gets scolded a lot as you can imagine”
Shinoaki talked about her hometown with a smile on her face
“My little brother in particular was very strict, and I don’t like it!”
As she was thinking that her cheeks puff up.
“Compared to my brother, Kyouka-kun also scolds me but is gentler in a way~, So I like you.”
“T-thanks, I guess?”
Of course I know that it’s not that kind of “like” but despite that , when being told that by a cute girl like Shinoaki my body can’t help but heat up in excitement.
“There are barely any trains too!!! If you miss one the next was 30 minutes away, I often killed an ama~azing lot of time at the bench there waiting for the next train to come.”
“I totally get that feeling. Waiting for the train to start running again when you miss the train feels so slow .”
“Yup yup, and because I missed it a lot of time the station staff even remember my face.”
Somehow that feels very Shinoaki-like.
I can see an image of her childhood self sitting on the waiting on the same bench for quite a while.
"….Aha!"
I pictured the scene in my mind as it overlapped with the story I was told by Nanako earlier.
I suddenly stood up
“What’s the matter Kyouya-kun!?”
Shinoaki’s voice sounded far away as if the cogs in my brain started turning as it told me to focus on a more important thing.
The length of time.
The things related to it.
Multiple people can share the same time at the same place.
"Shinoaki I think I may have come up with an idea"
“Eh~, You did?’ 
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