Episode 94 – Senpai’s Selfishness

“Look, Rin kun The train is coming.”
“Wait, sorry I didn’t think there was any more money in the watermelon. ……”
“Come on, come on, don’t worry about that. Come on.”

Senpai takes my lagging hand and runs into the train.

Shortly thereafter, the door closed with a whoosh.

“Haaaa Haaa”
“Nagi kun, are you okay? You look a little out of breath.”
“No, I’m just a little out of shape.”
“I see. There’s an empty seat over there. Come sit with me.”

Senpai takes my hand and leads me to a seat.
The only two seats that were empty were the ones that had just been exposed to the sun.

“I’m sorry, senpai.”
“It’s okay. I’m just taking you out to do my thing today.”

She smiled as she sat down holding my hand and looked up with her other hand.
My hand was sweaty from running, but Senpai’s hand was cool, and I thought about how girls’ hands are different from guys’ hands.

“By the way, Nagi kun, where do you always buy your clothes and stuff?”
“Oh, me? I get cheap ones from Amazon ……”
“That’s because you never want to talk to the sales clerk, right?”
“No!! I don’t like to hear that.”

How do you know? ……. I’m scared.
No, but I definitely think there is a phenomenon that when I am alone in a clothing store, I am definitely approached. I want to give this phenomenon a name.
I mean, there are definitely people who buy from Amazon for the same reason, though

“Nagi kun has always been a bit of a suck communicator.”
“No, I’m not! look, You’re talking to me properly like this!”
“Nagi kun ……. A suck communicator is a person who can talk with people he gets along with but can’t talk with people he meets for the first time.”

She looked at me so pitifully.
But I couldn’t say anything back to her because she is a frank person who can talk to anyone.

“I mean, it’s rather like the word “suck communicator” was created to refer to you, Nagi kun.”
“There are many people who can’t speak as well as I can!!”
“Ah, Onee san~! This side is vacant~”

However, in spite of my desperate resistance, Senpai found an old lady standing there and went to talk to her.

The other woman, a gray-haired woman with a cane, was supporting herself with both hands on a pole by the boarding gate and looked as if she was in pain.
When Senpai saw the elderly woman, she moved before she thought.

“Oh, my. I can’t believe you’re calling me onee san. I’m an old woman.”
“That’s not true~. Please come this way.”

The elderly woman sits down with a smile on her face as senpai makes an aggressive gesture of escorting her.

With her meek demeanor, she is able to enter the other person’s heart, and easily allows herself to be taken in. That’s the kind of woman she is, Senpai.

“Then excuse me”

Somehow, I also felt awkward with the old lady sitting next to me, so I got up from my seat and went next to senpai, and she gave me a “well” look with a surprised expression on her face.

“Are you two dating?”
“Wow~, do we look like that~?”
“You two make a perfect pair.”
“P-Pair!?”

It seems that this old lady has really let senpai get the better of her. And I was caught in the middle of it.
Well, the old lady is happy to have been given a seat, and Senpai seems to be enjoying herself, so I guess it’s okay.

“Hey, I don’t want to disturb you two too much, so I’ll see you later.”
“Roger~. Take care, onee san!”

Bowing to the granny who saw us off with warm eyes, senpai and I got off the train.
I wondered what the old lady meant when she winked at me at the end.

“You haven’t changed in that respect either, have you?”
“Hmm? What?”

I meant to say something about the action taken by senpai, but senpai really didn’t seem to know what I was talking about and was buying juice from a vending machine.

“No, it’s nothing.”
“Really? Then, let’s go~”

And I look at the Senpai who has not changed.

I was intensely curious as to why Senpai decided to become a Vtuber.

Then I came with senpai to a slightly more expensive clothing store in a large shopping mall.

Being a holiday, the place was crowded with people.

“Hey, Nagi kun, where are you?”
“You’re right next to me. ……”
“No, no, no, I just wanted to try it once. A lost child game.”

Let’s leave aside Senpai’s unintelligible hobbies.
It was difficult to get used to a place that was clearly out of place. I couldn’t help but notice at first glance or the clothes of the people who came to these places.

I wonder if I really have the right clothes to be in this kind of clothing store. If I need proper clothes to come to a clothing store, how can I come to this store?
It’s not for first-time customers, no matter how you look at it. I’m sorry, I’m going home.

“Come on, let’s go, Nagi kun.”
“Eh, wait”
“I’m going to coordinate Nagi kun’s clothes anyway~. I’m getting so excited.”
“I didn’t ask you to do that!?”
“Ara~, don’t talk nonsense to me~”
“It’s your fault, no matter how you think about it!”

I tried to resist, but….
I ended up spending more time in the jeans, slacks, and shirts section than I did in my own clothes.
Senpai would buy clothes that she liked right away.

“Are you okay? Is it heavy?”
“No, it’s not heavy, but the paper bag is digging into my hand and it hurts. ……”
“There’s a place to sit down. Let’s take a break.”

We sit on a bench-like area near the ice cream shop.

“Taha~, well, crowds are already tiring, aren’t they?
“I feel like I was brought here because of senpai… ……”
“Huh? Is that what you say to someone who bought you clothes?”
“I said I would pay for it, but you paid for it yourself!?Don’t talk nonsense to me!”

We were exchanging silly stories for what seemed like the millionth time since we met again, when suddenly there was someone who interrupted us.

“–Hojo senpai, perhaps?”

There, a classmate from high school.