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 58

Piping Hot

The simmering soup is piping hot, steaming to the point it looks like it could scald you.

Sumire feeds me the soup, saying,

“Here, open wide.”

“Ah—— Ow, hot!”

“Ahaha, you can’t do that, Hayate. You have to eat it without spilling.”

“Sorry, but it’s hot.”

“Hehe, just kidding, just kidding. Thank you for putting up with my whims.”

It’s been a month since Sumire and I officially started dating.

She’s become brighter than before, although she has started to tease me a little.

I find even her pranks adorable.

I don’t want to see her face again, the one where she points a knife at my throat, looking sad when I refuse her.

Besides, when Sumire is smiling, it calms me down too.

‘Today is peaceful,’ I think to myself.

I feel alive.

“Sumire, we’re going to the Momo-nyan show today, right?”

“Yeah, let’s take a photo together.”

Today is an event date for the two of us.

This town really depends on the character called Momo-nyan, so he shows up in almost everything.

Today, there’s a Momo-nyan handshake event at the only shopping mall in town.

I don’t know who’s inside the costume, but if you worry about that too much, you can’t even enjoy a fantasy land.

Today is going to be fun.

I wonder how many days it’s been since I’ve been outside.

It was a long weekend after all.

I haven’t left this room the entire time.

“Sumire, summer vacation is just a little bit away once we go back to school.”

“Yeah, we can be together the whole time during summer vacation.”

“But don’t you want to go out somewhere far once in a while?”

“As long as it’s together, right?”

“Of course. I want to go with you, Sumire.”

“Yeah, but I don’t want to go to tourist spots. They’re crowded, unlike the countryside.”

‘So, I’d like to go somewhere with fewer people.’

After saying that, Sumire closed the curtain.

“Well then, it’s a bit early, but shall we head out?”

“Yeah. Sumire, what should we eat for lunch?”

“I’ve made sandwiches. We can’t eat out, you have to eat what I made.”

“Haha, sure.”

We both stepped outside.

As I go out for the first time on the last day of the long weekend, the brightness makes me squint.

When I look to the side with my squinting eyes, I see her and become even more dazzled.

I can’t help but squint my eyes again.

I, who was into Momo-nyan, met her, and today we’re going to see Momo-nyan together.

Come to think of it, today’s event was a knife sale, wasn’t it?

Sumire, she’s quite homey.