Chapter 7 This Time Shijou-chan, Who Came to Me

This Time Shijou-chan, Who Came to Me

A few days have passed since Shijou-san visited my apartment.

“Yawn…sleepy….”

In the morning, I went to the university with a loud yawn.

I had a part-time job until midnight yesterday, so I was a little sleepy today. By the way, yesterday I had a part-time job at a construction site as a day laborer.

Well, since I quit the club a while ago, I have more free time, so I thought I’d take a lot of part-time jobs while I could and save money, so I’ve been taking a lot of one-time jobs lately.

Then I started working part-time late at night, and lately I’ve been having a lot of days where I don’t get enough sleep.

“Hmm, well, I don’t have a part-time job today, so I guess I’ll just go home after the classes and go to bed early….”

“Ah, Sawashiro-senpai!”

“Hmm?”

At that moment, someone suddenly approached me from behind. From the sound of the voice, it seemed to be a woman.

I turned around to see who it was, and there….

“…ah, Akane-chan, is that you? Yes, good morning.”

It was Shijou Akane, a junior, standing there. As you can see from her surname, she is Shijou-san’s younger sister. And like Shijou-san, she is a member of the outdoor club I used to belong to.

“Yes, good morning! Senpai!”

And my junior, Akane-chan, greeted me with her usual innocent smile.

(Ah, yokatta… It doesn’t seem like Akane-chan doesn’t like me either.)

Like her sister Shijou-san, her younger sister Akane-chan greeted me with the same attitude as usual.

I was shocked a while ago when Kusumi and Narumi told me that all the club members didn’t like me, but since Akane didn’t seem to dislike me, I was relieved.

“But it’s been a long time! Until recently, I was able to meet with Senpai often, but lately I haven’t been able to see you at all; I’ve been really lonely….”

“Ah, yes, that’s right. Come to think of it, we used to meet in the club room a lot until recently….”

Akane-chan always helped me when I worked at the club.

So when I was a member of the club, I met Akane-chan quite often, and we worked together.

So again, this girl’s name is Shijou Akane. She is a 19-year-old college student with a very honest, bright, and active personality.

She is about 157 cm tall and has a slim figure, like her older sister. However, her appearance is very different from that of her sister, Shijou-san.

While her sister Shijou-san has long black hair and is a neat Yamato Nadeshiko beauty, Akane-chan’s hair is dyed a very light color and has many piercings and nail polish.

To take it a step further, Akane-chan has the cuteness of an idol, while Shijou-san has the beauty of a model. Well, they are both very popular girls.

“Yes, that’s true. I haven’t been able to see Senpai lately, and I’ve been feeling really lonely… Oh, that’s right, since we’re meeting here, why don’t we have lunch together today for the first time in a while?”

“Yes, of course, that’s fine.”

“Great! I’ll call you as soon as I’m on my lunch break!”

“Oh, yeah, okay.”

So Akane and I decided to have lunch together today.

(Still, it’s a great pleasure to be adored by such a nice and lovely girl.)

But there was a little reason why I became such good friends with Akane-chan, who is such an idol-level pretty girl.

Actually, when Akane-chan was a first year student, there was an incident where she got involved with a nasty pick-up guy in front of the train station near the university.

I happened to be passing by the station at the time, and I saved Akane-chan right away, so Akane-chan is still very fond of me.

(At that time, I was really glad that I had been training my body since I was a kid.)

I’d always lived in the countryside, often climbing mountains and helping my relatives work in the fields, so I had a pretty muscular body.

Thanks to that, I was able to get rid of that nasty pick-up guy when I grabbed his wrist with just a little bit of force.

Well, that’s how I helped Akane-chan, and since then, Akane-chan talks to me casually whenever she sees me, and if she needs advice or something, she just asks me.

Ah, yes, this is a recent story. Akane-chan is only 19 years old, but there was a dangerous incident where she accidentally drank alcohol at a drinking party some time ago.

At regular drinking parties, people who only drink soft drinks or can’t drink alcohol sit together at the same table, so there would never be a case of alcohol being brought to the wrong table… but for some reason, such a mistake happened that day.

Akane-chan, who drank by mistake, immediately turned red and got drunk, and I did my best to take care of her when she got drunk and passed out.

I had tried my best to help Akane-chan in various situations like that. Thanks to that, Akane-chan still thinks of me as a reliable and kind senior.

“Well, still, I was really surprised when I heard that Senpai was kicked out of the club. Oh, I already heard a detailed explanation from Nee-chan, so you don’t have to explain anything to me!”

“Oh, you heard it from Shijou-san? If so, that’s good, because I was afraid that Akane might’ve misunderstood me.”

Then Akane-chan brought up the subject of me being expelled from the club.

Apparently, her sister Shijou-san had told her in detail about that in the past few days.

This means that Akane-chan seems to understand that the reason why I was expelled, which was told to everyone in LIME, was a complete lie. Anyway, I was relieved that Akane-chan didn’t think of me as a pervert.

“Hahaha, it’s okay! I knew it was totally wrong for Senpai to have se_x with another girl! Because Senpai would never have se_x with anyone other than me, right?”

“Hahaha, I’m glad that’s the case. Akane-chan also thinks that it’s a lie—eh?”

“Yeah? What’s wrong? Senpai?”

A while ago, I had the feeling that Akane-chan had just said something like a bombshell, so I looked at her face without thinking.

But Akane-chan didn’t seem to have changed at all, and she was staring at me with her usual cheerful smile on her face.

(…Hmm, is it my imagination?)

I felt like I had heard some kind of bombshell, but if Akane-chan was just being herself, then I must’ve just misheard something.

Well, it might be weird to ask too many times, so I’ll stop asking her what she just said.

After that, we walked to the university together and continued our happy conversation.