A Yandere Who Can Turn Back Time Confesses to Me Until She Succeeds - Chapter 17

Names

The train ride took less than an hour.

The destination we arrived at after the long journey was a zoo.

“Did you really want to come here?”

“Yeah. Yu-kun, you like animals, right?”

“…Well, I guess so.”

Understanding my likes and dislikes, it seemed she had chosen the zoo as our date spot.

Even though it’s a date, it would’ve been fine if we just went where Sakurazaka-san wanted to… I feel she went out of her way too much.

If it weren’t for her ability to turn back time and her unhealthy obsession with me, I’d think Sakurazaka-san was quite the ideal girl.

I sincerely wish she had fallen for someone else, not me.

After buying tickets and entering, we began to wander around the zoo.

Sakurazaka-san clutched the hem of my clothes tightly and followed half a step behind me.

“It’s crowded, isn’t it?”

“Well, it is Saturday.”

It’s a famous zoo.

It would likely be busy even on a weekday.

On a holiday, the crowd is even more unavoidable.

“Oh, right. Since it’s our date today…”

“Hmm?”

“I want you to call me by my first name.”

“What?”

I was taken aback.

“It’s my name. As lovers, we should call each other by first names or nicknames.”

“There’s no such rule.”

“Ugh, maybe, but just calling by each other firsty names should be fine, right? I’ve been refraining from holding hands after all!”

She pleaded with her eyes welling up with tears.

Well, just the name should be okay. I feel bad for constantly turning her down.

“Fine. I’ll call you by your name today.”

“Yay!”

“…..”

“…Aren’t you going to call me?”

“Do I need to call you now?”

“Yes! In fact, you were planning to just drag it on without calling me, weren’t you!?”

She quickly saw through my intention.

I sighed softly and decided to grant her request.

Calling her name once should satisfy her.

“Akari. There, are you happy now?”

“That sounded so mechanical! There was no emotion in it at all!”

“You don’t put emotion into just calling a name.”

“Huh? That’s not true. Whenever I call you ‘Yu-kun,’ I always do it with the utmost affection.”

“In that case, why don’t you shift your focus to someone else? There’s surely someone else out there who’d be better at meeting your demands than me.”

“…why… why would you say something so sad?”

Sakurazaka-san murmured sadly.

She stopped in her tracks and looked back at me.

“I’ve told you before. I like Yu-kun. It’s impossible for me to like anyone else.”

“I’ve heard that before, but I can’t understand why you’re so fixated on me.”

“It’s not something I can put into words. I just… really, truly like you. More than you can imagine!”

“It troubles me when you say things like that… Ah, come to think of it, I never really told you. The reason why I don’t get into relationships.”

I had been so focused on Sakurazaka-san’s feelings that I hadn’t shared my own.

I’ve made it clear that I can’t be in a relationship with Sakurazaka-san, but I haven’t fully conveyed the core reason.

“I want to know.”

“Rather than standing around, let’s walk and talk.”

As we continued to look at the animals, I decided to open up and share my story with her——a past I didn’t really want to talk about.