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Chapter 3 – Interacting With Enami-san\nVolume 1\n<hr class="wp-block-separator is-style-wide">\n“Naocchi, do you have a minute?”\n
The next day.\n
During my lunch break, I was about to eat my lunch as usual when Nishikawa spoke to me.\n
It might be a report on the fact that she had mentioned earlier that she was going to ask Enami-san about the situation. I agreed with two words.\n
I moved to the landing of the stairs.\n
“It’s about Risa-chan. ……”\n
As I thought, the content seemed to be about Enami-san.\n
It’s already been three days since there was something wrong with Enami-san. Considering the commotion of yesterday, she must have heard that we went home together.\n
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Nishikawa was depressed as one can see. I don’t think I’ve seen her talking to Enami-san much lately.\n
“Did you ask …… Enami-san about these things?”\n
“Yes,” Nishikawa answered.\n
“I don’t know anymore. When I asked Risa-chan, she just said that she was a little interested…Rather than that, what have you been talking to Risa-chan lately?”\n
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It seems that the main purpose is not to report but to ask questions. I answered.\n
“…… Actually, we were studying together yesterday.”\n
“Bu~h~e, studying ……? Together ……?”\n
She was shocked to the point of exaggeration. She held her head with one hand and was speechless.\n
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As expected, it’s surprising. Until recently, she hadn’t had a good conversation with anyone other than Nishikawa. It was understandable that Nishikawa would be confused if she suddenly found herself studying alone with a male student.\n
“We went home together the day before yesterday. Enami-san ambushed me in front of the main gate.”\n
“……”\n
“We’re talking about the most trivial things. We’re talking about our studies, our families.”\n
“…… he~e.”\n
“Also, I exchanged Line IDs with Enami-san yesterday.”\n
“Can you wait a minute? My brain is reaching its limit with all this rage of information!”\n
That’s right. My brain has also reached its limit. That’s why I stopped thinking.\n
“I knew you went home together yesterday. But to think, the day before yesterday as well…..”\n
“Yes. She was waiting for me at the main gate until the club activities were over.”\n
“Until the end of the club activities?”\n
She was getting more and more confused. I know the feeling. Nishikawa held her head in her hands. She froze for a while but then gave up trying to think.\n
She then lowered her arms and sighed.\n
“Risa-chan, she hasn’t told me anything, so I’m feeling lonely. There hasn’t been much change in the way she interacts with me, but it’s the first time this has happened.”\n
“In the end, I guess only she knows. When I asked her about it, she just said, “It seems interesting,” so I don’t really know.”\n
“Hmm, I see.”\n
In hindsight, I don’t understand why she is so cold to people in the first place. Looking at Enami-san these days, I think that she is not a cold person. She laughs normally and responds to my words normally. The Line was not strange at all either.\n
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Anyway, the only way to solve this mystery is to talk to Enami-san more.\n
“…… Hey, by the way, is it true that you exchanged your line ID?”\n
“Yeah.”\n
Apparently, that was what she was most concerned about.\n
“Of course Nishikawa knows her Line, right?”\n
She was the only friend, to begin with, so of course, she would have told her. If not, I don’t know why she had installed the Line.\n
“…….I know”\n
There was an undertone to his words.\n
“But I’ve never actually done Line with her. I sent her a message once, but she just read it and didn’t respond. It wasn’t something that required a response, though.”\n
“I… I see……”\n
Huh? I’ve had a robust conversation with her. Moreover she sent me the first message.\n\n
“Hey, hey, Naocchi. You just exchanged line IDs, but nothing particular has happened since then, right?”\n
She asked me with an anxious look on her face. It was a rare expression for Nishikawa, who always looked cheerful and energetic. If she was the only one who had been ignored and the other party suddenly started talking to someone else on Line, she would feel bad.\n
I couldn’t tell her the truth, I thought.\n
“Nothing, really.”\n
“Really?”\n
“Really, really.”\n
“I~is that so~”\n\n
She was blatantly relieved. She exhaled heavily.\n
“But I should be happy that Risa-chan has opened her heart to someone else! I’ve been the only one she’s ever talked to. I’m sure Naocchi will be able to get along with Risa-chan.”\n
“Yeah, I’ll do my best…..”\n\n
It’s crazy that I have to work so hard just to talk to someone.\n
“I’ve told you before as well., Risa-chan, sometimes she says things that make you angry, so be careful. Sometimes she can be blunt, but often she just doesn’t know what to say and is troubled because of that. Also, if she’s in a bad mood, don’t ask her too many questions.”\n
“Ah.”\n
“Risa-chan sure is interested in Naocchi, so don’t be too hard on her.”\n
“I know.”\n
“And also ……”\n
She seemed to be very worried about Enami-san.\n
I was a little afraid that Nishikawa was talking to Enami-san just because she is a very caring person. But it seems she is not. She really likes Enami-san and spends time with her because of that\n
–That was the one thing I understood.\n\n
<hr class="wp-block-separator is-style-wide">\nTN: That’s really it. Good night…\n\n