My Classmate Whom I Helped Seems to Be Mentally Sick, So I've Been Trying My Best to Hide My True Identity, But It Seems Like I've Been Found Out - Chapter 37

After School

“Takizawa-kun, I came to pick you up.”

Right after school ended, Sumire Murasaki came to pick me up.

Seeing this, my classmates were buzzing.

Then I stood out.

I quickly realized this wasn’t a great situation and headed to where she was waiting in the hallway.

“You know, you didn’t have to come to get me…”

“But it’s okay for me to come, right? Or, is it a bother if I do?”

“No, it’s not like that, but…”

“Right? Then, let’s go.”

Then I follow her as always with her typical self-paced manner, or rather, her lack of willingness to listen to me.

Even if she hadn’t come to pick me up, I would’ve gone to the clubroom myself… Huh?

“Um, where are we going? The clubroom is that way.”

“Oh, can we go somewhere else first?”

“Uh, sure?”

I panicked a bit when she started walking in the opposite direction of the home economics prep room, but I couldn’t bring myself to oppose her playful grin and just slowly followed her.

Then…

“This place is…”

“The rooftop, right? Look, we were here before.”

She led me to the rooftop.

I had run into Sumire Murasaki here by chance before, but why bring me to such a place after school?

“Takizawa-kun, you said you had something to talk about after school, right?”

“A talk? Hmm, did I mention something like that?”

“Don’t play dumb. Look, no one’s around now. You have something to tell me, right?”

” …… ”

I started to feel cornered now that we were alone.

Suddenly, the door banged shut with the wind, her long hair flowed, covering her face.

When her face was visible again, Sumire Murasaki was intently gazing at me.

“…Um, Murasaki-san.”

“Mm, what is it?”

“Er, actually… I…”

Realizing I couldn’t lie to her as she looked at me with those penetrating eyes, my mind started to get fuzzy, as if I was being sucked into her eyes.

When I came to my senses, I found myself speaking.

And then, I said this:

“…actually, I was Momo-nyan that day.”