The Elf Is a Freeloader

- Is that it? Anyone in front of the house?

Yasushi noticed someone standing in front of her far-sighted home.

As you approach your home, Yasushi knows who it is.

"Ryu...?

Sleek length and refreshing appearance. That's definitely for your best friend Ryu by making him a good childhood friend.

Ryu also seemed to notice Yasushi, pulling out his right hand, which was in his pocket with a smiling smile on his face, and let him lift it up a bit.

"Hey, Yasushi"

"What's the matter, in front of the house... something urgent?

"No, it's not like it's urgent. Hey, I need to ask you something."

What do you want to hear? Hearing back, Yasushi tilted his neck.

"Was it before..." Dream Festival "? I heard that from you, didn't I?

The heart of Yasushi beats hard.

─ ─ You mean Elle... what do you think?

Once, Ryu asked Yasushi that.

At that time, Yasushi answered Ryu nothing. But in my mind I had a clear answer.

When I thought of that answer again in my mind.

"─ ─ Yanggui!!"

Unexpectedly, a deafening voice called his name from behind.

Unexpectedly Yasushi turns around and Ryu also turns his gaze behind him. There's another childhood tame figure from Yasushi and Ryu.

"... Aye?

"... sorry, Yasushi! Just listen to me!!"

With a bright red face, meditating on both eyes all the way to the ground.

"Me... I like you!! For a long time now... I like you!!"

Aye made his thoughts clear to Yasushi.

In the corner of the living road where the car goes from time to time, staying in uniform on the way home from school. Situations in the immediate vicinity up to Ryu, a third party.

There is no mood at all. But the frank confession seemed flattering.

In a sudden confession of aye, Yasushi makes his eyes black and white. No, that's all I could do.

With him, I was half aware of Aye's feelings. But I didn't want to see how she felt toward face to face.

We have been together for a long time. At least we are confident that we are not hated, and we have a fondness for each other as friends.

But I can't honestly tell how far a man and a woman can go when that favor is fulfilled.

No way. "How much do you like me? I couldn't even ask, and I didn't want to break up my current relationship of" best friends, "so I was trying not to touch her feelings more than I had to.

To be honest, Ryu had his head in his heart.

His plan was to clarify your feelings here and sneak it out to El.

There it is, a sudden imbalance intrusion. Besides, I confessed to Yasushi directly from the front.

Should we keep going as planned, or should we temporarily suspend the plan?

Ryu could only keep an eye on things as he checked his fingertips on the smartphone he had snuck in his pocket.

"Oh, hey... I..."

"I know!! For Hayashi, I'm only a 'friend'... I know who your feelings are right now... maybe it's just annoying for Hayashi... but... still, I want you to know what I think..."

As always, keep your face to the ground, and Aye continues to speak.

At her feet, Yasushi was aware that one or two transparent drops would fall.

"... Yasushi Akatsuka... I... Aoi Kimura... I like you..."

His face raised and finally turned to Yasushi had a sunny smile on his face.

Apparently things are going to move for better or worse.

Having so decided, Ryu let his finger softly touch his pre-prepared smartphone.

In response to a confession from the front of Aye, Yasushi smiled back.

Here and now, it's not hard to live up to her feelings.

Yasushi and I have quite a thing for Aoi. Besides, I'm also confident that I understand her better than anyone else when I was young or with her all the time.

I'm sure if we had such a relationship with her and her lover, we could do it well.

And it was also about finding some kind of answer to the troubles he now has.

If you accept the confession of tomorrow as it is.

There will be nothing more troubling about her future than now.

Only as a family. As a sister-in-law only, I will face her seriously in the future. But still, you shouldn't have to worry as deeply as you do now.

But.

But I couldn't make that choice to Yasushi.

"Thanks, dude. I'm very happy with your feelings... so... I'll be perfectly clear. 'Cause I think that's the courtesy you gave me for seriously confessing to Aye."

Yasushi faces Aoi with a serious look.

"Sorry, aye. I'm definitely very happy with how Aye feels. But I... I like Elle. So I can't live up to my feelings."

Clear, Yasushi's refusal words.

But Ao smiled again.

"Thank you, Yasushi. Ask me how I feel. Give me a clear answer to my thoughts."

Aye did realize that something cold flowed down his cheek.

Still, Aye keeps smiling. Because that's the last thing that's left of Aye.

"Hey, Yasushi? If I could, would you continue to be my friend as always?

"Oh. I'm begging you, too. Tomorrow, will you treat me the way you always have?

"Absolutely."

When Aye approached Yasushi for a few steps, he gave him his right hand.

Yasushi also approaches Aoi and holds his right hand together with his own.

"Sa. Clearly shaken and refreshed. Then I'll leave it to her."

That said, Aye moves his gaze beyond Yasushi.

If you look back behind your back so Yasushi can follow it.

There - - Elle stood in front of Yasushi's house with her smartphone in her ear.

"Ya... Mr. Yastaka..."

Elle's cheeks are red. And the tears in his eyes are still going to destroy him.

"Uh, El... how...?

Yasushi, who apparently realized he was being asked through his cell phone about his current intercourse with Aoi, rushed his gaze to the left and right.

Its Yasushi eyes captured Ryu's smile as he let the smartphone he removed from his pocket hang around.

Apparently Ryu set it up. Probably passed on the earlier conversation to El over the cell phone I put in my pocket.

"Let me be clear, Yasushi. What do you want to do? Elle told me how you feel. If this happens, what do you want from Elle... make it clear on this occasion, Yasushi Akatsuka!!"

Pushed back by Ryu's words, Yasushi moves forward and forth in front of Elle.

The colour of his face is no less bright than that of Elle.

"El......"

"Mr. Yastaka..."

Two people who will stare at each other for a while. And Ryu and Aye watching over those two from time to time.

"Don't go..."

"Huh?"

"Don't go... don't go back to your world, El"

"Yastaka......"

Elle's eyes open wide, and the tears that were stored there glide down her cheeks in momentum.

But the tears weren't as cold as the smell had shed earlier.

"I know a hundred things about me. But still... I want you to listen to me. Of Elle's life span of five hundred years, sixty or seventy years...... that's all I need. Give me that time. Will you live with me in this world?

Elle didn't respond to Yasushi's request... just jumped into his chest in silence.

"... hold on, Yasushi's confession just now... that's more of a proposal than a confession"

"True."

Softly away from the happy two sides, Ryu and Aoi were talking about the confession of the earlier courtship of Hayashi as they walked shoulder-to-shoulder.

But Aye's voice still doesn't have energy.

I don't think Ryu has a choice either. Because she's just finished with the thoughts she's had for a long time.

"............... good luck with that"

Pong, and Ryu put their hands on Aye's head.

With that recoil, tears fell again zero from her eyes.

"... Introduction..."

"You have no choice. This is sexy."

Ryu forcefully held Aoi, who kept crying without words.

"... why... why are you taking such care of me? Weren't you a no-touch on this matter...?

Try to lay your face down on Ryu's chest, and Aye asks Ryu.

"............... I'm a coward, dude. I'm a much more cowardly person than you or Yasushi think..."

Wet eyes in tears, Aye looked up at Ryu strangely.

"If Yasushi and Elle do well... naturally, your feelings for him will end... that's what I was after..."

"Ha, Ryu...?

"As you've been thinking of him for a long time..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Aye heard Ryu's confession in his chest.

"If you wave at him... you can get into your mind... you're such a coward to think about it, I am."

With a smile that seems to cry out now, Ryu looks down at Aoi.

"... have you been despised?

"... that's not true... but... I can't live up to your thoughts..."

Again he lays his face down on Ryu's chest, and Aye says as he whispers.

"............... I just got shaken by Yasushi...? And yet, if I respond to your confession here... to you... and most importantly, I'm too dishonest with you... so... now I can't live up to your thoughts..."

"............... well. Then I'll confess again in a year."

"What!?"

"You can't do it yet, can you? Then wait a year. What, I've waited a long time. I don't know what to do for another year. Then... when I confess again a year later, let me know how you feel again."

"... aren't you stupid?

While I say that in my mouth, Aye smiles. However, the smile could not be seen from Ryu because his face remained down.

"But you did a really good job today. All right, then I'll buy you something today. What do you want?

"... Sure, I want to eat today. Then....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

"Stewed udon noodles!? These are sweet things to eat, right?

"Not bad, nothing. You said Ryu could afford anything, didn't you?

"Yes, but..."

Aye laughs at Ryu, who looks unhappy somewhere, like a kid who has succeeded in his prank.

"And the manager over there, he's a very funny guy, isn't he? Even though it's a Japanese restaurant, they can make anything you want. And the manager seems to be a so-called" visible "person."

"...................................................... What!?"

"Visible" people. I understand what that means, Ryu's complexion is much bluer.

"Anything tells me there's a spiritual path in the store that leads to a nearby funeral home… Sometimes something like smoke runs through it. And when you touch that smoke……………"

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

"Naturally. I'm talking because I know. There are other things the manager has experienced……"

"Enough is enough!! Enough is enough!! Simmered udon or anything is expensive, so stop talking about that te!!"

Ryu is about to cry in a different way than the smell earlier.

Aye leaves him, pressing the chest of such a rhubarb with both hands.

"Well, let's go home once with each other, and then we'll meet again on our bikes, shall we? Where will we meet?

"I'll be in front of Aye's apartment, so just wait there."

And the two break up once.

At this time, Aye's mind was only slightly lighter than earlier.

Still, I haven't completely swept up about you. Still, I was surprised at Ryu's confession earlier, and I was sure it made my feelings just a little lighter.

I didn't get the feeling I kept thinking about Yasushi for a long time, but still, hopefully Yasushi and Elle would do well, Aye started walking towards home.