Himegi-san a Bride from the Future Begs Me to Confess My Love to Her Again - Volume 1 Chapter 2.5

Date 5

“Hmm… Right. It certainly doesn’t connect.”

The screen of the smartphone showed the message ‘Mobile network is unavailable.’

“It’s not working, huh?”

“No, it’s not.”

“Oh, right! Ha-kun, try calling my phone from yours.”

“Got it. Please give me your number.”

Touka-san verbally gives me her phone number.

I take out my white smartphone from my pocket, input Touka-san’s number, and make the call.

“Huh… It’s connected?”

The familiar sound of ‘ring, ring’ comes from my phone.

And then——

『——Yes?』

From the other end of the smartphone, I hear the lovely voice of a woman who could rival popular voice actresses.

In my opinion, the owner of this voice is undoubtedly a beautiful and cute girl.

However, what is it? This voice sounds familiar.

I feel like I was listening to it just a moment ago…

“Hello?”

『I can hear you. Excuse me, but may I ask who’s calling?』

“…Ah!”

Finally, I understood who was on the other end of the call.

It’s Touka Himegi-san! Touka Himegi, the high school girl from this timeline!

“Hellooo, this is the Japanese-Sumerian person, Maq Hajio, desu.”

I decided to play the role of a foreigner who can only speak broken Japanese.

『A-a Japanese-Sumerian person, Maq Hajio???』

“Like, I’m giving it my all at the Mesopotamia Stadium in my country~”

『W-What?』

“Nano desu, Japan wa okotowari~desu~!”

『Huh? Eh? What?』

“Aimu sori 〜 I wanted to have a dream in Japan, I’m sorry! The tempura in Japan, the sweets were delicious!”

I tapped the button to end the call and forcefully terminated the call.

I’m sure that by now, Himegi-san must think that some well-meaning foreigner dialed the wrong number.

Phew, if it weren’t for my quick thinking, I wouldn’t have been able to bluff my way out of that.

“…Touka-san.”

“Yes, what is it?”

“Could it be that you’ve been using the same phone number all along?”

“Yes, that’s right. I’ve been with the same mobile carrier since middle school, so it’s the same number.”

“Just as I thought…”

“Is there a problem?”

“It’s a major problem. It seems that there are currently two identical SIM cards in this world.”

“Ha-kun?”

“What’s wrong?”

“That… SIM card…what is that?”

I held my head. I had one of the biggest headaches ever.

And then, I explained everything to this clueless woman from start to finish.

“I see. So, the card inside this smartphone and the card inside the smartphone I have in my time are the same. So, why aren’t calls coming through to this smartphone?”

“I can’t explain the technical details of the communication, but it seems that the other phone has priority.”

“Why doesn’t my smartphone have priority? I feel like I’m losing to my past self.”

Why is this person competing with her past self?

“Anyway, the call function of this red smartphone isn’t broken.”

Earlier, when I swapped my smartphone’s SIM card with this red smartphone and called my parents, I was able to make calls without any issues.

This means that the call function of this smartphone isn’t broken.

However, even though communication worked, I couldn’t open other apps.

“Why can’t you use other apps? I don’t know, but I can speculate.”

“Can you tell me?”

“Maybe it’s not a malfunction; maybe it’s just magic that’s preventing it from working.”

“Oh, really?”

“Yes, maybe there’s some kind of magical restriction in place.”

Honestly, it’s hard to explain it without thinking that way.

“So, that means LINE, Instagram, and Twitter won’t work either?”

“That’s right. Well, even if it was a malfunction, it’s impossible to repair.”

Sending a new smartphone from six years in the future to be repaired would cause a huge mess.

After all, at this time, smartphones like this one don’t even exist, so sending something like this for repairs would create chaos.

In that sense, I can’t help but say that this smartphone is dangerous too.

“It was working normally until yesterday…”

“Probably, if you go back to the time you came from, you might be able to use it again.”

“Ha-kun, can’t you at least somehow manage to retrieve the wedding video I showed you yesterday?”

“I really want to help, but it seems beyond my capabilities.”

“I see…”

Touka slumped her shoulders and looked down.

Seeing her like this makes me want to help, but this is so far beyond my expertise that I can do nothing.

“I guess there’s no other choice. Let’s start by solving the other problem.”

Touka picked up her wallet from the table.

“This is just a wallet, right?”

“Ha-kun, the issue isn’t the wallet itself. The problem lies with what’s inside.”

“Inside?”

Touka took out several banknotes from her long wallet and placed them on the table.

“Wha—!? Is this…!”

For a moment, my body froze from the shock.

Something so astonishing had come out of the long wallet.

“Yes, the problem lies with these banknotes.”

The banknotes that came out of the long wallet were ones I had never seen before.

I tremblingly picked up one of those banknotes.

“…Th-this isn’t… It’s not Yukichi Fukuzawa… This ten-thousand-yen bill…”

I tried to convince myself that it might be foreign currency, but the banknote clearly read ‘Bank of Japan’.

Actually, the design depicts a man who definitely looks Japanese from every angle.

I’m sure this new ten-thousand-yen bill was supposed to be released next year…

“Maybe I’m the first person to get this new 10,000-yen bill…”

“Hehehe, that’s an interesting thought.”

“No, it’s not a laughing matter. Just to be sure, this is real, right?”

“Yes, it’s real.”

So it seems. Touka-san really does seem to be from the future, after all.

“By the way, the 150,000 yen there is all I have to my name.”

“Meaning you’re currently broke. Is this the second issue?”

“That’s right.”

This money is unusable. The reason is that it hasn’t been circulated yet.

Well, even if we brought ten thousand bills with Yukichi Fukuzawa’s face from the future that we often see, using them would still be no good.

If we did that, the same serial number would end up circulating in the world.