Even though it’s already summer, I haven’t made any progress with the girl at cram school.116Please respect copyright.PENANAe6Z7rfeXm3
But I know her name now. It’s Yorino Aoi-chan.116Please respect copyright.PENANATwZdctBT8F
As per usual, I stole a look at the name written on her books.116Please respect copyright.PENANAvon94I3jgS
Aoi-chan. What a fitting name.116Please respect copyright.PENANABzfiiMaglp
I kind of get the feeling that my stalker traits are getting stronger and stronger.116Please respect copyright.PENANAXwWl4Lgn6X
I don’t think I can laugh at Kaburagi anymore…116Please respect copyright.PENANASqxfSOleDN
But a chance suddenly appeared.
As usual, I was on stand-by next to Aoi-chan as I watched the situation.116Please respect copyright.PENANAUcLsDvkSi4
And while I was doing so, Aoi-chan suddenly dropped her pen!116Please respect copyright.PENANA4SrNPBkOie
At the speed of light, I picked it up!
“Ah-…”
Having lost her pen, Aoi-chan looked at me in a panic.116Please respect copyright.PENANAYxsXMm8Q2F
It’s my chance! My once-in-a-lifetime chance!
“Umm…”
“I-, I-, I am Kisshouin Reika! Gokigen’yoh!”
Aoi-chan’s hand reached towards the pen I was grasping and hesitating in mid-air, but it was a precious hostage. I wouldn’t hand it back so easily.
“Hmm…”
Aahh, she’s frightened of me.116Please respect copyright.PENANAM5cQr6Mmp3
Why? Is it because my eyes are shining like a predators? It is because of my drill hair?116Please respect copyright.PENANA72OXWyt1mA
Nooooo, I’m not scary, you know!?116Please respect copyright.PENANAjL5NIC5boN
An opening, look for an opening…
“I too like Tarow the Taro!”
“Eh-”
I decided on all or nothing.116Please respect copyright.PENANAEFtp4YP0IY
To begin with, the reason I wanted to become friends with her is because I saw the unpopular yuru-chara on her bag.
“Ever since I saw your, um, Tarow the Taro keychain, I have always wanted to speak to you.”
Aahh, this kind of feels like a love confession.116Please respect copyright.PENANAdaReqOgOk6
My hands are shaking from the nervousness. My heart is pounding away.
“So, um, could you perhaps be my friend?”
“…”
Uwahh, I’m about to cry from the nervousness.116Please respect copyright.PENANAuPL5ifPLHx
Oniisama, I meant to earnestly get closer to her, but I ended up jumping the gap in one go!116Please respect copyright.PENANAAd1snG4d4j
What do I dooo? Saveeee meeeeeeeeee!
“…Um, my pen, please return it.”
“……………”
Aahh, it’s over.
Aoi-chan is frowning just like Tarow is.116Please respect copyright.PENANAobyrE4PGzw
Of course she wouldn’t want to be friends with a girl like me.116Please respect copyright.PENANAUTu2JJajNS
Of course. A fake Rococo would be the type that Aoi-chan is worst with, after all.116Please respect copyright.PENANAt3OVWn4lP1
I’m just a drill hair girl.116Please respect copyright.PENANAAk1JJVPlCv
I see, I see.116Please respect copyright.PENANAnzQzwjNztT
I’m sorry. I won’t follow you around anymore. Drill hair girl will quietly leave…116Please respect copyright.PENANAYZoasmgeFD
I held out the pen to Aoi-chan.116Please respect copyright.PENANACT8adorQPm
Definitely, don’t cry.
Oniisama, I’ve been rejected.116Please respect copyright.PENANASiXvOQwoNN
OTL…
“…Please take care of me.”
After grasping the pen tightly, Aoi-chan had fallen into thought for a while, but then she raised her head to look at me before saying that.
Huh?
“I’m, Yorino Aoi.”
I know. Because I’m a stalker in the making.
“Please be my friend.”
After saying that, Aoi-chan smiled.
EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!?
“Really?”
“Mn.”
Eh-, why!? Even though you were that scared of me, why!?
“But, weren’t you avoiding me?”
When I said that, Aoi-chan looked a little awkward.116Please respect copyright.PENANAG8HWjSPpPl
I asked something unnecessary.
“Because, you said that you liked this,”
she said, pointing at her Tarow strap,
“Nobody has said that they liked him before.”
“Same here!”
I’ve never actually asked around, but far from people telling me they like him, nobody has even mentioned him before. They probably don’t even know about him.
“I also want to talk to you about Tarow.”
“Mn!”
Did it! I did it!116Please respect copyright.PENANAROS2fMF6NF
Oniisama! I tried my best!116Please respect copyright.PENANAhvEtefvPPQ
And it looks like Aoi-chan is willing to be my friend!
Class began so we stopped talking for a while, but the moment that it ended, we started talking again.
About how Aoi-chan’s grandpa lives in the countryside, in the area that Tarow the Taro came from.116Please respect copyright.PENANA10IMfFr9kt
About how she bought her keychain last year when she went over there to play.116Please respect copyright.PENANAT0OmGUtHj2
About how Tarow the Taro goods were only sold in his hometown.
“I see~ I also searched the internet, but nobody was selling Tarow goods anywhere, and I was really wondering where on earth you got your keychain, you know? I even thought that you perhaps made it yourself.”
“Ahaha, he’s not very famous so I don’t think they’d sell him on the internet. There isn’t much variety in his goods, and I don’t think they sell very well.”
“Truly?”
“Yeah. Where he comes from, they sell a Tarow pouch with a picture of him in it, and in shops they sometimes have cardboard printouts of him, but the time that I went there, nobody was buying Tarow goods except me.”
“My~”
So Tarow really is a pitiful kid…116Please respect copyright.PENANAENrvqmJAEs
So like me, Aoi-chan also became fans of him because she felt sorry for him.116Please respect copyright.PENANAJaSFtEN8DJ
Can Tarow not get any fans outside of sympathy votes?
“Looking carefully, he’s got quite an interesting face, huh~ At a glance he looks plain though~”
“Mn…”
He’s mostly a light brown, so he really is quite plain.
After that, we continued happily talking until second period began.116Please respect copyright.PENANAsH6yQEGEgb
It was really fun.116Please respect copyright.PENANAPs2bb8dnqC
We promised to sit next to each other next week too. I’m so happy.116Please respect copyright.PENANAiT8Li5da7F
When I got home, I immediately let Oniisama know.
“I did it, Oniisama. I became friends with Aoi-chan!”
“Aoi-chan? The girl that you said you wanted to become friends with, last time?”
“Yes. Today we had a good time chatting about Tarow.”
“Aahh, the… weird little yuru-chara that you like…”
The other day I showed Oniisama Tarow the Taro on the internet.116Please respect copyright.PENANAfPGM9LDMvP
Oniisama wasn’t sure what to say about him that time as well.
“Oniisama, you still haven’t understood Tarow’s charm yettt?”
“Looks like it. I don’t think it’ll ever happen.”
“Ehhhhh?”
Oniisama, why won’t you understand its cuteness.116Please respect copyright.PENANA8MByWaEJy3
But Oniisama gave me advice about Aoi-chan didn’t he.116Please respect copyright.PENANAfsWm18dcFW
As thanks, should I try making him dinner again?116Please respect copyright.PENANA8DwCsC8lxt
Oniisama, look forward to it!
Aahh, what a good day it’s been!
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