As I Know Anything About You, I'll Be The One To Your Girlfriend, Aren't I? - Volume 1 Chapter 4.5

Tln : so sorry for the short part. but the continuation of it is on next Chapter

Just Like You Did for Me 5

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Kujo’s PoV

“Hm?”

It was past noon when I, who was in my air-conditioned room at home, realized something odd.

“…Huh, why…”

After wrapping up my hobby programming at a good stopping point and wanting to energize myself, I launched the Miyashiro monitoring app.

Then, I noticed his “current location” was stuck in a strange place downtown and hadn’t moved at all.

“Hmm…?”

It was in the middle of the street. Looking at the data more closely, he had been in that spot for about two hours.

In this heat? Miyashiro-kun doesn’t play location-based games either…

“Ah, then…”

He must have dropped it. That’s probably it.

I have to retrieve it for him! Needless to say, that’s the best course of action here.

I quickly got ready and left the house.

Conveniently taking a bus that went nearby, I arrived at the spot in about twenty minutes.

“Found it, found it.”

Muttering to myself, I retrieved the smartphone. Mission complete. Truly, it was just lying by the side of a completely ordinary street.

Now, heading back home… what to do, maybe deliver it to his house? I know where he lives, of course, but that’s through illegitimate means, so he’d be shocked if I showed up.

What to do, what to do.

But I have to return it to him. For modern people, losing a smartphone is a major disaster.

Using the Miyashiro monitoring app, I tapped on “Stress Value.” Surely, it would show a high value…

“Ah, that’s impossible, isn’t it?”

The screen showed No Data. Of course, that makes sense.

This “Stress Value” is calculated from heart rate data measured by Miyashiro-kun’s smartwatch (by the way, it’s not a simple conversion where a faster heartbeat means higher stress and slower means lower stress… it’s a bit more complex calculation. For details, Google things like heart rate variability).

Miyashiro-kun’s smartwatch can’t connect to the internet on its own; it uses his nearby smartphone as a gateway for data communication. Therefore, since he has dropped his smartphone, his smartwatch isn’t connected to the net, and I can’t extract any data.

“Hmm…”

Nevertheless, I somehow checked Miyashiro-kun’s “Stress Value”…

“…Eh?”

And saw the extremely high value recorded a few hours ago.

“…What is this?”

A high-level value that suggests significant autonomic nervous system disruption. Something must have happened.

Despite the heat, my body shivered as if in response.

“…”

Logically, it’s not that the stress came from dropping the smartphone. Something happened that caused stress, and then he went out into the city, dropping his smartphone there.

Maybe he was in a panic…?

“…Could it be?”

Something. Something bad might be happening.

Am I overthinking it?

Honestly, the stress value measurement using heart rate isn’t that accurate. It could be just a randomly high value…

“…!”

My own smartphone vibrated. It was a call from my sister.

“…Hello?”

“Hey nee-chan? Are you outside by any chance? If so, could you buy me some ice cream?”

Her cheerful voice made such a request when I answered.

“…Hey, Touko.”

“Mint ice cream, mint ice cream, I really want mint ice cream… Ah, what?”

“Do you believe in a woman’s intuition?”

“Haa?”

I could hear my sister’s deep, deep sigh over the phone.

“Like, nee-chan, you’ve been a woman for seventeen years, right? Then you should know. Humanity hasn’t yet invented a sensor more accurate than a woman’s intuition.”

“…Right.”

“So, about the ice cream… are you listening, nee-chan?”

I cut off the call with a click. If I remember, I’ll buy the ice cream.

“…Huuuuuh.”

A woman’s intuition, huh.

Got it. …I’ll follow it now.

So, I made a call to a certain person.