Even though it’s already summer, I haven’t made any progress with the girl at cram school.113Please respect copyright.PENANAEZmpU19Qti
But I know her name now. It’s Yorino Aoi-chan.113Please respect copyright.PENANARYK4vHXqxU
As per usual, I stole a look at the name written on her books.113Please respect copyright.PENANAytYnkAwU3q
Aoi-chan. What a fitting name.113Please respect copyright.PENANAvD6gWrP6nL
I kind of get the feeling that my stalker traits are getting stronger and stronger.113Please respect copyright.PENANAJ3VHVPLsEU
I don’t think I can laugh at Kaburagi anymore…113Please respect copyright.PENANA0yoedPNbak
But a chance suddenly appeared.
As usual, I was on stand-by next to Aoi-chan as I watched the situation.113Please respect copyright.PENANAkV6N2609i7
And while I was doing so, Aoi-chan suddenly dropped her pen!113Please respect copyright.PENANAa6jCojgAyT
At the speed of light, I picked it up!
“Ah-…”
Having lost her pen, Aoi-chan looked at me in a panic.113Please respect copyright.PENANAY2eoq4QWUt
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAlCcimOSmvJ
Why? Is it because my eyes are shining like a predators? It is because of my drill hair?113Please respect copyright.PENANA6agPz1Gq3F
Nooooo, I’m not scary, you know!?113Please respect copyright.PENANAftZ2gcVXPM
An opening, look for an opening…
“I too like Tarow the Taro!”
“Eh-”
I decided on all or nothing.113Please respect copyright.PENANAS8YhKISdqj
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAc3Lwb8cXZ0
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAf9NlQqSCfx
Oniisama, I meant to earnestly get closer to her, but I ended up jumping the gap in one go!113Please respect copyright.PENANA7sizNskfS8
What do I dooo? Saveeee meeeeeeeeee!
“…Um, my pen, please return it.”
“……………”
Aahh, it’s over.
Aoi-chan is frowning just like Tarow is.113Please respect copyright.PENANAWbCJMOhL4A
Of course she wouldn’t want to be friends with a girl like me.113Please respect copyright.PENANApYy5uobxUh
Of course. A fake Rococo would be the type that Aoi-chan is worst with, after all.113Please respect copyright.PENANAVk28KTPiHa
I’m just a drill hair girl.113Please respect copyright.PENANA5au07t27l5
I see, I see.113Please respect copyright.PENANAY8sBbeazJY
I’m sorry. I won’t follow you around anymore. Drill hair girl will quietly leave…113Please respect copyright.PENANAws8zId4wIm
I held out the pen to Aoi-chan.113Please respect copyright.PENANAmJrMlciPOP
Definitely, don’t cry.
Oniisama, I’ve been rejected.113Please respect copyright.PENANA4DzeKPlHTn
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAfglzFTsoTP
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!113Please respect copyright.PENANA4EJjqjEZ9C
Oniisama! I tried my best!113Please respect copyright.PENANAmzENoVZPxq
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANApR5NqhUWTK
About how she bought her keychain last year when she went over there to play.113Please respect copyright.PENANAA646FbDMjw
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…113Please respect copyright.PENANAYZzvAKUY79
So like me, Aoi-chan also became fans of him because she felt sorry for him.113Please respect copyright.PENANACQk5Eeo1bd
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAhZzMqV4R82
It was really fun.113Please respect copyright.PENANAy7UvufDK43
We promised to sit next to each other next week too. I’m so happy.113Please respect copyright.PENANAZUzQDTOzzI
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANAIZLZqyxa8W
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.113Please respect copyright.PENANArFn5DR04MB
But Oniisama gave me advice about Aoi-chan didn’t he.113Please respect copyright.PENANA3Twl8wvLvm
As thanks, should I try making him dinner again?113Please respect copyright.PENANASTERbnPwnF
Oniisama, look forward to it!
Aahh, what a good day it’s been!
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