Even though it’s already summer, I haven’t made any progress with the girl at cram school.112Please respect copyright.PENANAvZbm6pYhoh
But I know her name now. It’s Yorino Aoi-chan.112Please respect copyright.PENANARvGlKp2SnD
As per usual, I stole a look at the name written on her books.112Please respect copyright.PENANAP9Vy8Opb5e
Aoi-chan. What a fitting name.112Please respect copyright.PENANA357wSarukn
I kind of get the feeling that my stalker traits are getting stronger and stronger.112Please respect copyright.PENANAOHHsnfGRaU
I don’t think I can laugh at Kaburagi anymore…112Please respect copyright.PENANAIYZe3HbA05
But a chance suddenly appeared.
As usual, I was on stand-by next to Aoi-chan as I watched the situation.112Please respect copyright.PENANAU3J8ovuJrv
And while I was doing so, Aoi-chan suddenly dropped her pen!112Please respect copyright.PENANAZguaij5ewZ
At the speed of light, I picked it up!
“Ah-…”
Having lost her pen, Aoi-chan looked at me in a panic.112Please respect copyright.PENANASARBTyMccq
It’s my chance! My once-in-a-lifetime chance!
“Umm…”
“I-, I-, I am Kisshouin Reika! Gokigen’yoh!”
Aoi-chan’s hand reached towards the pen I was grasping and hesitating in mid-air, but it was a precious hostage. I wouldn’t hand it back so easily.
“Hmm…”
Aahh, she’s frightened of me.112Please respect copyright.PENANAdU7S1q2YWs
Why? Is it because my eyes are shining like a predators? It is because of my drill hair?112Please respect copyright.PENANA3ksRYAIrLk
Nooooo, I’m not scary, you know!?112Please respect copyright.PENANATv9k2HNfCm
An opening, look for an opening…
“I too like Tarow the Taro!”
“Eh-”
I decided on all or nothing.112Please respect copyright.PENANAh2t3Ye1Dns
To begin with, the reason I wanted to become friends with her is because I saw the unpopular yuru-chara on her bag.
“Ever since I saw your, um, Tarow the Taro keychain, I have always wanted to speak to you.”
Aahh, this kind of feels like a love confession.112Please respect copyright.PENANAwxOVenOVIj
My hands are shaking from the nervousness. My heart is pounding away.
“So, um, could you perhaps be my friend?”
“…”
Uwahh, I’m about to cry from the nervousness.112Please respect copyright.PENANAwiRHQkf2lO
Oniisama, I meant to earnestly get closer to her, but I ended up jumping the gap in one go!112Please respect copyright.PENANACLKZIPUuWj
What do I dooo? Saveeee meeeeeeeeee!
“…Um, my pen, please return it.”
“……………”
Aahh, it’s over.
Aoi-chan is frowning just like Tarow is.112Please respect copyright.PENANABQOcHU1PJm
Of course she wouldn’t want to be friends with a girl like me.112Please respect copyright.PENANAkZVqisVZ4O
Of course. A fake Rococo would be the type that Aoi-chan is worst with, after all.112Please respect copyright.PENANAn0SLMWOeo4
I’m just a drill hair girl.112Please respect copyright.PENANAdGEJPCobdS
I see, I see.112Please respect copyright.PENANAgHtQWYKq1a
I’m sorry. I won’t follow you around anymore. Drill hair girl will quietly leave…112Please respect copyright.PENANAFZ4hO1Dk1s
I held out the pen to Aoi-chan.112Please respect copyright.PENANA8lanKKdqwf
Definitely, don’t cry.
Oniisama, I’ve been rejected.112Please respect copyright.PENANAh7rDJF6zJM
OTL…
“…Please take care of me.”
After grasping the pen tightly, Aoi-chan had fallen into thought for a while, but then she raised her head to look at me before saying that.
Huh?
“I’m, Yorino Aoi.”
I know. Because I’m a stalker in the making.
“Please be my friend.”
After saying that, Aoi-chan smiled.
EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!?
“Really?”
“Mn.”
Eh-, why!? Even though you were that scared of me, why!?
“But, weren’t you avoiding me?”
When I said that, Aoi-chan looked a little awkward.112Please respect copyright.PENANAlyAVfZ1hZ9
I asked something unnecessary.
“Because, you said that you liked this,”
she said, pointing at her Tarow strap,
“Nobody has said that they liked him before.”
“Same here!”
I’ve never actually asked around, but far from people telling me they like him, nobody has even mentioned him before. They probably don’t even know about him.
“I also want to talk to you about Tarow.”
“Mn!”
Did it! I did it!112Please respect copyright.PENANAY6JaSEN8gm
Oniisama! I tried my best!112Please respect copyright.PENANAbq3u4kPdVf
And it looks like Aoi-chan is willing to be my friend!
Class began so we stopped talking for a while, but the moment that it ended, we started talking again.
About how Aoi-chan’s grandpa lives in the countryside, in the area that Tarow the Taro came from.112Please respect copyright.PENANAzOdoMa0pWp
About how she bought her keychain last year when she went over there to play.112Please respect copyright.PENANAvL62fw4KJf
About how Tarow the Taro goods were only sold in his hometown.
“I see~ I also searched the internet, but nobody was selling Tarow goods anywhere, and I was really wondering where on earth you got your keychain, you know? I even thought that you perhaps made it yourself.”
“Ahaha, he’s not very famous so I don’t think they’d sell him on the internet. There isn’t much variety in his goods, and I don’t think they sell very well.”
“Truly?”
“Yeah. Where he comes from, they sell a Tarow pouch with a picture of him in it, and in shops they sometimes have cardboard printouts of him, but the time that I went there, nobody was buying Tarow goods except me.”
“My~”
So Tarow really is a pitiful kid…112Please respect copyright.PENANANpKQuXqyjK
So like me, Aoi-chan also became fans of him because she felt sorry for him.112Please respect copyright.PENANAlwP8lOhNf3
Can Tarow not get any fans outside of sympathy votes?
“Looking carefully, he’s got quite an interesting face, huh~ At a glance he looks plain though~”
“Mn…”
He’s mostly a light brown, so he really is quite plain.
After that, we continued happily talking until second period began.112Please respect copyright.PENANAnM39epIoKh
It was really fun.112Please respect copyright.PENANAr2mB3KiSzS
We promised to sit next to each other next week too. I’m so happy.112Please respect copyright.PENANA2Pxb96CPFL
When I got home, I immediately let Oniisama know.
“I did it, Oniisama. I became friends with Aoi-chan!”
“Aoi-chan? The girl that you said you wanted to become friends with, last time?”
“Yes. Today we had a good time chatting about Tarow.”
“Aahh, the… weird little yuru-chara that you like…”
The other day I showed Oniisama Tarow the Taro on the internet.112Please respect copyright.PENANAoDkilK8EA4
Oniisama wasn’t sure what to say about him that time as well.
“Oniisama, you still haven’t understood Tarow’s charm yettt?”
“Looks like it. I don’t think it’ll ever happen.”
“Ehhhhh?”
Oniisama, why won’t you understand its cuteness.112Please respect copyright.PENANAvjg9sYkdLl
But Oniisama gave me advice about Aoi-chan didn’t he.112Please respect copyright.PENANAENHIkt2EbC
As thanks, should I try making him dinner again?112Please respect copyright.PENANA6KXpwoIsJf
Oniisama, look forward to it!
Aahh, what a good day it’s been!
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