Ranobe Mo Ore Mo Sukina Gyaru - Volume 1 Chapter 10.2

Gal and the Bakery 2

Tsumakawa-san’s mother—who apparently looked like a high school student from any angle—struck a cute pose towards Tsumakawa, then started walking towards us.

After that, Tsumakawa’s Mother, who stopped in front of me and Nakamachi, cheerfully said,

“Hello there, I’m Miona’s mom, Reika. You’re both Miona’s friends, right? Nice to meet you.”

“Nice to meet you.”

“Uh.. Nice to meet you.”

“By the way, are you Ryosuke? Surprisingly cute face you have. Please continue to get along well with my daughter, Miona, okay? She has lots of friends, but she tends to get clingy with the ones she really likes. You might find her annoying eventually, but please don’t dislike her.”

“…Hey, Mama?”

“But seriously, isn’t this kid stylish? She takes after me. She’ll become quite a beautiful woman. If you’re interested, how about you two get together? Then you can show me the cute face of my grandchild!”

“Wait, Mama!”

Tsumakawa tried to reign in her mom, who was getting involved with me and snapped at her.

What can I say, it was overwhelming.

Her appearance, the way she talks, her gestures—everything about her radiates a sunny energy.

She’s not just a sun-kissed extrovert; she is the sun itself. It’s as if I could get sunburned just by looking at her…

As I was thinking that, the overwhelmingly radiant Tsumakawa’s Mom smiled while scratching her cheek and turned her attention to Nakamachi, asking,

“By the way, Nakamachi-chan, I’m feeling a bit hungry. Is there any bread you’d recommend today? If you don’t mind, could you tell me?”

As Tsumakawa’s Mom said this, she naturally put her arm around Nakamachi’s shoulder and led her to where the bread was displayed.

Nakamachi responded, ‘Today’s recommendation? Well, everything is recommended, but today’s special is Dad’s—’, and started explaining the different types of bread to Tsumakawa’s Mom.

” ” …. ” “

And then, the only ones left in the scene were Tsumakawa-san and me.

In the slightly awkward atmosphere, she suddenly took her smartphone out of her bag and started reading an e-book.

Seeing that, I couldn’t help but ask her.

“…Why did you suddenly start reading an e-book…?”

“It’s nothing. I was feeling a bit annoyed, so I’m just reading one of my favorite light novels to cheer myself up.”

“Huh, annoyed…?”

“Yeah, reading light novels is fun. It helps relieve stress. This way, I might be able to swallow back things I wanted to say because I got ticked off. Maybe.”

Saying this in a monotonous tone, Tsumakawa-san continued reading her e-book on her phone.

But after a while, she let out a sigh and said, ‘Sigh… But still, reading this in my current mood might be disrespectful to the author…I guess I’ll ask him…’

After muttering that, she closed her phone and then whispered in my ear:

“You’re not cheating, are you?”

“Wha——? How can I cheat on you when I’m not even dating anyone… What are you talking about?”

I looked at Tsumakawa-san in genuine surprise, and she seemed somewhat troubled, lowering her face gloomily.

“That’s right. After all, Yoda, you haven’t been cheating or anything… And yet, I… Sigh… we’re probably not even a thing…”

“W-What happened all of a sudden…?”

“…To begin with, Yoda isn’t even Miona’s boyfriend or anything like that… But why? Right now, I’m just feeling so down. More like, I’m just plain annoyed for real…”

” ….. “

Tsumakawa-san said that while playing with her nail-adorned fingers and wearing a pained expression.

There was something akin to remorse in her demeanor.

Because she’s naturally a kind girl, holding such ugly emotions might not suit her.

Maybe she feels a sense of self-loathing towards herself for harboring such feelings despite the fact that she shouldn’t.

So, her confession slightly resembled something a sinner might confess to a priest in a church.

“I mean, Yoda is just helping Nakamachi-chan, right? BBut even if that’s all it is, I keep overthinking——Is that really all there is to it? I’m seriously thinking about it… Could it be that Yoda helped Nakamachi-chan because she’s Nakamachi-chan? Maybe Nakamachi-chan wanted your help because you’re Yoda… Thinking about things like that really makes me dislike myself…”

” ….. “

“I don’t have the right to tell you not to be with another girl… I mean, I don’t go out alone with guys, but I hang out in groups that include a few male friends sometimes, and yet, to demand only that from Yoda, isn’t that too unfair? It’s strange, especially when we’re not even in that kind of relationship…”

” ….. “

“Ah, am I talking too much? Sorry… But if I don’t say it, I might not be able to stand it anymore——Hey, please don’t get too close to other girls. If Yoda wants to do something intimate with Nakamachi-chan, tell me, okay? Whatever you want to do with her, things you can’t do with her——I’ll do them all in her place… So, please, just keep your desires only for me, okay?”

“T-Tsumakawa-san…?”

“——or something like that? I’m just saying… Ahaha….”

With a soft and emotionally unstable voice, she said so, and in the end, she forced out a laugh that seemed somewhat forced.

Honestly, it was a series of statements that left me at a loss for how to react.

Could it be that she really likes me a lot?

However, it feels more like a kind of ‘possessiveness’ rather than genuine affection…

It’s similar to how I feel when my older sister brings a boyfriend home, a kind of ‘unpleasantness’…

As I was pondering this, Tsumakawa blushed, straightened her posture, looked at me again, and continued.

“Well, something as embarrassing as this is definitely something I could never say to Yoda!”

“Uh, Tsumakawa-san? Weren’t you just confessing all your feelings a moment ago?”

“Ughh, I’m rambling… I’m totally babbling right now… But well, it’s not like I’m lying, so it’s okay… While it’s true that I’m rambling, all of it is from the heart….Just know that this is what I’ve been thinking, okay?”

Saying words like that, Tsumakawa-san playfully hit my shoulder as usual.