CH 17

Active Girl Questions the Transcendental Beautiful Girl

Side: Ichinose Akari

Afterschool of the day after I met up with Hiura-kun, I am currently walking back home with Reika.

There is nothing wrong with Reika both when I talked to her at school and when we are alone like this so it made me doubt if Hiura-kun really told me the truth.

No matter how much I think about it I will not get the answer anyway. Let’s ask it directly from Reika!

“Hey, Reika, can I ask you something?”

“What’s wrong?”

“Did something good happen to you recently?”

“To me? There’s nothing you know. Why do you ask?”

“Really? I never saw Reika getting involved with a boy by yourself before you know!”

Yup, as far as I know, I have never seen Reika ever take an initiative to talk to a boy before. No, even if she had, it is only something like a business contact.

Even in case that someone offers to lend her a book, she would only talk to them to not be impolite. She wouldn’t really borrow a book from them.

It’s strange that she suddenly went off to borrow a book from a boy she never talked to before even though she rarely brought up anything like that to me……

Normally, if she spotted a book she wanted to borrow at the bookstore, she would at least come to talk to me first. Just what did Hiura-kun do……

For now, the only clue I have is that it is somehow related to Kousei-sama from Hiura-kun.

“Nnn, is it related to Kousei-sama after all……..”

“Wh, what are you talking about!?”

….Hmm? I only blurted out what I was thinking but, My my? So it is really true?

“Reika~? Why are you suddenly panicked? Is it just me but you reacted qui~te a bit when I mentioned Kousei-sama?”

“That is……I was just curious because he is the most famous among high school girls. I have no ulterior motive at all.”

“Hou Hou, no ulterior motive is it. I see, I see, YOU THINK YOU CAN FOOL ME WITH THAT!”

When I suddenly raised my voice, Reika jumped. Her reaction was so cute……..NO, isn’t she acting so suspiciously!

“I wonder why?”

“Wh, what is it?”

“WHY DO YOU KNOW THAT KOUSEI-SAMA IS FAMOUS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS RIGHT NOW!? YOU DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HE EXISTED UNTIL THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY RIGHT!”

“That is…….That’s it! I found out about him on the internet!”

Eh, that’s weird…….was Reika really this much of an airhead…….

“If you are going to make things up then make it more believable! Anybody could tell that you just came up with that excuse just now!”

“Ehhh, but, Uhh……”

“No but! First, if you want to know about Kousei-sama you should have come talk to me in the first place, it’s plenty weird that you didn’t!”

“Uuu………”

“Next, when I showed you the magazine and talked to you about Kousei-sama, you weren’t interested at all, how come you started looking him up on the internet on a whim!”

Perhaps I hit the bullseye, Reika started fidgeting. However, there is one last point that I have to bring up. No, there is one thing that I have to talk to her about today.

“Last, I know that you have been asking ‘Are you Kamishiro Kousei?’ to Hiura-kun so it’s clear that you are looking for him! Rather, it is already strange enough why you would ask that to Hiura-kun!”

Hearing that, Reika who was casting her eyes down looked up at me with a surprised expression.

“HOW DID AKARI-CHAN KNOW ABOUT THAT!?”

“Since Reika was acting strange, I called out to Hiura-kun and interoga—no, I asked him about you.”

“….I was acting……strange?”

Ara, did she not notice? She seriously wasn’t aware of how she was acting?

“It’s the first time that Reika talked to a boy by yourself right! Moreover, the opponent is Hiura-kun that you have never talked to before. I thought that he did something to you, you know………..”

“Hiura-san didn’t do anything to me!”

“I already know that when I intero—–when I asked Hiura-kun himself. But before that, don’t you have something to tell me?”

“Uhh…..I’m sorry that I lied to you…….”

“Umu, I forgive you.”

NOOOOO! It is the first time Reika lied to me but her reason was too cute and honestly, I already forgave her when I saw her strange reactions earlier……

“By the way, how did Hiura-kun get involved with you in the first place?”

“……it was me. I was the one who invited him to walk home together with me the day before yesterday……..”

“I see…… So Reika invited him huh………WAITTT!?”

No no no no no, didn’t you too coincidentally ran into each other at the bookstore!! HEYYY!? So you two were walking there together!? And there is no witness to that too!

“……can you tell me what happened the day before yesterday?”

“…..yes. The day before yesterday, I wanted to talk to Hiura-san after school but when I finished gathering my things, Hiura-san already left the classroom so I hurriedly looked for him.”

Fumu, is it just me that thinks that it is already weird enough when she said that she wanted to talk to him? Ah, only me? Tehepero! LIKE HELL THAT IS THE CASE!

“When I found him, he was about to leave so I asked him if I could walk home together with him. He refused me since he was heading to the bookstore but I insisted and ended up walking to the bookstore together with him……”

Reika………I am surprised that Hiura-kun actually turned you down but he probably refused because he didn’t want to get into trouble you know……

Haa…..isn’t Hiura-kun completely the victim here? It seems like I did something bad to Hiura-kun huh. I never thought that Reika has this side to her before……..