What If I Told Tomori-san, The Girl Who's Cold Only Towards Me, That I Knew Her Secret Account? - V2 Chapter 2.6

The Hidden Side of Everyone’s Admiration 6

“Since we finally got to see each other, you can lean on your big sister a little, you know?”

“Stop it. If someone sees us, they’ll misunderstand.”

I tried to cover up my embarrassment with a retort.

[Isn’t it fine? With you, Kimitaka, it’s fine even if they misunderstand.], she whispers sweetly, tinged with a hint of shame.

‘Are you kidding me again?’ never left the back of my throat.

The window in front of me reflected Seira’s face, which was tinted with a soft cherry blossom hue.

“——Hey, Kimitaka. With me, how about——”

But before my childhood friend could finish her sentence, the door to the student council room opened.

“Excuse me!”

A knock, and then the door opened.

I meet her eyes as she enters.

For a full five seconds. Silently, we exchanged glances, and then——

“What are you doing, Kagisaka-kun?”

Azusa Tomori spoke to me as the student council president was hugging me.

“Ah, h-hi, Azusa-chan!”

Seira quickly separated from me in a fluster.

(——Now I get it.)

I thought she was hugging me for encouragement, but it seemed like this was her intention.

“E-err, um, please don’t misunderstand?”

A perfect performance worthy of a professional actress.

As her face serves as a canvas, Seira paints a sense of impatience all over her expression.

“I’m not in that kind of relationship with Kimitaka.”

“Huh… K-Kimitaka?”

“I-I usually call Kimitaka by his name. We’re childhood friends, after all.”

“!?”

“Ack! S-Sorry? If I say things like that, people might misunderstand my relationship with Kimitaka even more!”

She’s clearly trying to create a misunderstanding!

Seira probably call out Tomori in advance.

And then, she tried to show some scenes of her interacting intimately with me.

Her goal as my childhood friend was to check whether Tomori and I were dating.

——What’s this about [trust me from the bottom of her heart?] She clearly doesn’t believe a word I say.

When I confront her with eye contact,

—Sorry? As your big sister, I just wanted to thoroughly check Kimitaka’s love life.

She conveyed a message blended with seriousness and teasing before resuming her act.

“…there really is nothing between Kimitaka and me.”

“But… you hugged him just now, didn’t you?”

“Umm, I just wanted to encourage Kimitaka because he seemed a little down.”

“I’ve never seen Seira-san do something like that to a boy before.”

“I used to do that for Kimitaka when we were kids.”

“O-oh, I see.”

“Yeah, Kimitaka and I have always been close. I was just about to invite him too.”

“…Invite him?”

“I mean, dance with me at the prom?”

“Haaaah??”

Her usually charming face is now filled with astonishment, or rather, it’s as if surprise paint has been splattered all over it.

(…What’s going on?)

Isn’t she a bit too surprised?

“…Seira-san, do you understand the meaning of your words just now?”

“Of course. Everyone knows, right? There’s a superstition about the prom. It says that if you dance with someone at the party, you’ll become a couple.”

What’s with that cheesy line you’d find in a romance manga?

Wait, no, this is bad.

The ‘Everyone’s Admiration.’ student council president was my childhood friend.

And now she’s hugging me in the student council room and inviting me to a dance that supposedly makes a pair a couple.

(No wonder Tomori was so agitated.)

If that happens, the fact that Azusa Tomori is in love with Kimitaka Kagisaka will be revealed.

“O-oh, really~? Then you should’ve just said so, Kagisaka-kun!”

But Tomori smiled with an air of composure.

“I’m surprised to know that you and Seira have been friends since childhood!

“Y-Yeah?”

“You’re my partner, you should have told me! “

“Sorry, there wasn’t a good time to bring it up.”

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“You stink of water! This is why you’re a little boy who doesn’t have any friends except me!”

(TN: “水くさい” (mizu kusai). You stink of water!, metaphorically to describe someone’s behavior as being insincere or superficial, much like how water has no distinct smell or taste.)

She smiles at me and hits me on the back with her right hand.

Yet her face shows not the slightest sign of agitation.

“Hmm.”

The student council president looks at the younger student’s face with interest.

Perhaps because we have known each other for a long time, I could read her thoughts from her expression.

——I wonder if she is not in love with Kimitaka, she doesn’t flinch at all.

(I guess you may have concluded so.)

She is so absorbed in observing Tomori’s facial expression that she doesn’t notice that her hand is stuck in the pocket of her red-checked skirt.

Azusa Tomori has a special skill that only I know.

Touch typing.

She can operate a smartphone in her pocket without even looking at the screen.

And what she’s accessing on her phone is…

《——She called K-kun by his first name without honorifics… Seven times…》

” … “

…This is going to be a big problem.

I let out a deep sigh, looking at ‘Everybody’s Friend’, who is full of confidence on the surface but is full of jealousy in secret.