Chapter 6
“‘Sakura-chan sure is something else, ain’t
she?”
Again, following our last chapter, in Taiju
Private Academy senior high school first year A class. Before the morning
homeroom.
“She’s got stonkin’ tits and legs for days.
Her face’s dainty an’ she’s always standin’ tall. She don’t dress fashionably
but that ain’t gonna fool me. She’s right up there, definitely the hottest at
school, yeah, Hikaru?”
“Yup, I agree.”
The guy Hikaru was talking to was Toudou
Raita, a friend that he gained after starting the school this spring.
“Ya know, I got an eye for the ladies even if
I don’t look like it. I gotta say I’m glad that Sakura-chan was the first girl
I met when I moved to Tokyo. Ya know, I never met a girl like ‘er back in
Kansai. I weren’t really sure how it’d go when my old man switched jobs and we
had to move here, but she sure got my motivation up!”
“Is that so? That’s nice.”
“Right, I’m gonna aim for ‘er for real! Imma
use all I can to get close to ‘er, so can ya support me from the back as a
friend?”
“Ah, sorry. If you are going for Sakura, I
already confessed to her earlier and we’re officially going out now.”
“Wha- You-!?”
Raita sank down.
It was the over the top Kansai move, an
overreaction he was very fond of.
“Hold up, hold up, when did that happen… It
def’nitely dain’t seem like that yesterday… and actually, how ’bout you mention
that stuff first? I ended up lustin’ after a taken gal.”
“Yea, sorry about that.”
“Eh, I kinda thought that might happen though.
You ‘n’ Sakura are too close, so I ‘ad a feeling you were dating at times.”
“Yea. Well, that’s how it is.”
“But still, broken ‘earted at the speed of
light. Well, whatever, it happened before I got inta deep shit.”
So saying, he swung his legs onto the desk and
heaved a big sigh.
Incidentally, he was a handsome guy, with a
well-shaped face and a slim body. His grades were good and was physically
active, too. So with that considered, it wouldn’t have been strange if he was
popular, however his Kansai nature was sticking out a bit too much and he was a
little cut off from his class.
Hikaru was also the same in that regard. That
said, he had a gentle personality, so it wasn’t his intention to avoid his
classmates, but still, he wasn’t someone who would proactively go and make
friends either, and moreover, he had that feel of enlightenment all around him
which made him a bit difficult to approach.
And as such, these two cut off individuals
often tended to hang out with each other like this.
“It’s alright,” Hikaru smiled at his friend
who was in his heartbreak mode and said, “You are a handsome guy, Raita-kun.
You’ll get yourself a girlfriend whenever you want. Sakura doesn’t have to be
the one you have to aim for.”
“...Do ya really realise what yer sayin’?
Those ain’t the words a man who’s dating Sakura should say to the man who got
heartbroken by her, don’t ya think?”
“Yeah, I know that. But I’m saying that
because it’s you. You don’t seem like a guy who’d mind such things.”
“Well, that ain’t wrong, but still…”
Raita said while knitting his eyebrows,
pouting and making a weird face.
“Even if ya look like a frank guy, ya actually
do know how to read the mood. Ya notice what ya wanna notice, and ya get yer
point across without raising yer voice. And if ya felt like it, ya could easily
become the center of this class.”
“Isn’t it the same for you, Raita-kun. If you
behaved a bit more normally, you wouldn’t be cut off from our class, would you?
And you can also read the mood if you feel like it, right?”
“You ain't wrong there. Kansai is the land of
laughs, and laughs come from readin’ the mood. I read the mood if I gotta, and
if not, I’m just doing what I feel like.”
“Those parts of yours really don’t make you
feel like a high schooler.”
“I’m just doing what I want. Matching the mood
around ain’t my thing. ...And if yer gonna talk about not feeling like a high
schooler, ain’t that the pot callin’ the kettle black?”
“Is it?”
“You ain’t deceiving my eyes. I got an eye for
people even if I don’t look it. It’s like, yer both non-serious and composed at
the same time, Hikaru. Ye have that feel around ya that says ye ain’t gonna
give a shit even if the world was ending tomorrow. To give ya an example,
lessee──”
After racking his brains for a while with
difficult face, Raita said.
“You are kinda like, a Pharaoh?”
“Pharaoh?”
“Like, ya know, it’s like yer sitting on a
giant stone chair and smiling at ya people, with pyramids and a sphinx behind
you. Ya give off that kinda feel.”
“Hahah. I see.”
Even Hikaru, unflappable as he usually was,
had been amazed by this.
He was already used being called the
reincarnation of Odin, but Pharaoh was a first.
“I see, so a Pharaoh, huh. That’s quite a
unique way of thinking.”
“No, it’s yer reaction to it that’s unique…
But it don’t quite fit yer image… Ya sure are a strange guy, ya know?”
“Really?”
“I mean, that’s how it is if ya look at it
objectively.”
“I see. Well, my family structure is a little
special, you see. And due to that, my sensibilities aren’t quite like most
people’s.”
“That’s true, but I think yer personality is
really great. If we made a comedy duo, I bet we’d do pretty well. How about we
do a performance when the cultural festival gets ‘ere?”
“I’ll think about it.”
“While we’re on about it,”
Raita bent himself forward.
“Just what kinda family structure do ya have?
What kinda people are your parents? I’m kinda curious as to how they managed to
raise someone with your character.”
“Both my mom and dad are scholars. They are
really busy so they rarely come home.”
“How about yet siblings?”
“Well, you could say I have them, but you
could also say I don’t.”
“What the. The heck does that mean?”
“Uhh, there are three people who are just like
my family living with me.”
“They women?”
“Yup.”
“All of ‘em?”
“All of ‘em?”
“All of them.”
“Young?”
“From early teens to early twenties.”
“Are they beauties?”
“A little unbelievably so.”
Hikaru answered him without hesitation.
Raita, on the other hand, closed his eyes with
a difficult face, and said after some thinking.
“Hikaru.”
“Yeah?”
“Would ya let me call you brother from now
on?”
“Nope.”
“Don’t be like that! Ain’t we friends!”
“I’m close to you as you say, but it’s only
been a month or two since we got to know each other, so I think that’s a bit…”
“No, don’t say that! Ever since we met, I was
sure ye weren’t an ordinary guy! I’ll do everything! I’ll lick yer shoes if
that’s what ya want, I’ll even be an errand boy and buy yakisoba bread for ya!”
“Sorry but I don’t want to dirty my shoes, and
I’m more into sweet buns than sand buns. Also, I’m against you calling me
brother, but I can introduce them to you.”
“Say that earlier! I just knew we were
kindred-spirits!”
With a broad smile, Raida over-familiarly
placed his arm around his shoulders.
He was the very picture of self-interest, but
Hikaru didn’t dislike the straightforward Kansai bloke.
I hope
he gets along with the three sisters. And while we are at it, I also hope
Sakura drops her stubborn attitude and gets along with them too, Hikaru thought with his whole heart.
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