Chapter 41 Another Troubled Woman?

Another Troubled Woman?

A few days have passed since the day I visited Shinomiya-san’s house.

She’s no longer coming to school.

However, when I visited her house yesterday with Aoi-senpai, I felt that her expression had improved a lot.

Her eyes, which used to be cloudy, were now calm and looked just like Aoi-senpai’s.

“Hiiragi-senpai, Kudo-senpai. I decided to try something a little more daring. I think one option would be to go to a correspondence high school and aim for university. That’s what I was thinking, but… I want to enjoy school life with my friends.”

“I see.”

Shinomiya-san’s cheeks blushed a little when she said that.

It seems that Shinomiya-san’s parents are working on various things right now, and they’re preparing to thoroughly punish the main b🬀lly and her friends.

There’s nothing I can do about it, but Aoi-senpai seems to be helping a little, so I don’t think it’ll be a bad thing.

I wish there was something I could do at a time like this, but there is nothing I can do. I’m just a helpless little person.

“Hiiragi-kun. I can't wait to visit Shinomiya-san’s house and talk to her again.”

“Yeah, me too.”

Right now, I went to a café near the station with Aoi-senpai.

She is supposed to be a student taking entrance exams right now, but a lot of things have been going on lately and she probably doesn’t have time to study, so I wondered if it would be okay for her to be with me.

After a short conversation with her, I got up from my seat to pay the bill,

“Ah, …”

That's what I heard.

I looked over and saw that it was a girl who was a classmate of mine in junior high school.

She was also the cause of my false accusation of molestation and the cause of my bullying.

“Oh, uh, um…”

“What’s wrong, Yuko? You’re in such a hurry all of a sudden.”

Someone who seemed to be a friend of hers looked at her with a strange expression.

I think her name was Akasaka Yuko.

“Hiiragi-kun. What is going on? And that person over there …”

Aoi-senpai looks at me and looks worried.

“We were classmates in junior high school.”

“Oh, So that’s how it is.”

Aoi-senpai-senpai seemed to have guessed something and stepped in front of me to make eye contact with Akasaka-san.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Hiiragi-kun’s friend, and my name is Kudo Aoi. Excuse me, do you want something from Hiiragi-kun?”

“Um, that’s …”

Aoi-senpai said that to Akasaka-san with a fake, no-nonsense smile that was completely different from the smile she had directed at Shinomiya-san.

“…I’m sorry, Hiiragi-kun. Really, I’m sorry.”

After saying that, Akasaka-san left the café she had just entered and ran off somewhere else.

“Wait. Yuko, where are you going? …I’m sorry…”

Her friend also left the café after Akasaka-san.

Aoi-senpai and I were stunned, but within a few seconds, we were back to normal.

“Should we leave, too?”

“Yes.”

I had caused trouble for the people at the café. Thinking about that, Aoi-senpai and I left the café. …

“Hiiragi-kun, can you give me more time?”

“I’m fine.”

“Thank you.”

I went to a park near the café and sat down on a bench.

“What Aoi-senpai-senpai wants to ask me is about that person, isn’t it?”

“Ahaha, I guess you’ve guessed it. I wanted to talk to you about a few things before we started talking…”

Aoi-senpai laughs a little awkwardly.

“That person and I were classmates in junior high school. She’s a person from my past…”

“I guess so. I kinda thought so.”

“I see.”

Like Shiramine-san, it’s hard to say that I no longer care about Akasaka-san, but it’s in the past, and I don’t feel sadness, anger, or hatred toward her, just the impression that such things happened.

“Has she contacted you lately?”

“No. We went to different schools…”

“I see. But I would appreciate it if you would let me know if anything happens.”

“Understood.”

I don’t think Akasaka-san will contact me after this, so I don’t think anything will happen, and I still don’t think she’ll do anything to me now.