Me and Ojou-sama Vol 1 Chapter 4

Thus Harukawa Kotono brandished her eccentric personality to me and our surroundings.
Everything was unexpected.
But the most unexpected thing was, at the third year’s summer, Kotono lost her sight because of an accident.
There’s no mistake that she didn’t expect it too.

I didn’t know the detailed information about it.
The only thing I know was Kotono fell from a plane tree, and her fall was bad.
There were so many rumors about it, but different from now, just a trivial thing didn’t become a criminal case.
Everything got taken care of behind the scenes, and before one knows the rumors disappeared.
Probably the guardians were thinking of the children future, so they made it confidential.

Back to the story.

The first day of semester 2 of third-year elementary school, Harukawa Kotono surprisingly was absent from school.
That Harukawa Kotono who always came to school.
Harukawa family was always spending their summer vacation at the villa in Swiss and came back at last week of August to j.a.pan.
I was spending my summer vacation at pool cla.s.s, soccer boys training camp, and grandmother village at Hokkaido.
That’s why, both of us completely didn’t see each other, even letter and phone call too for one month.

Only once in second-year’s summer, a beautiful postcard was sent to me from Swiss, but in the center of the postcard, with very thick permanent marker, there was

ーYou must be envious of me, right.

written on it,

「Never send it again.」

So I protested the first thing to her after the vacation.
Therefore I didn’t know what happened to her in summer,

「It has been decided that Harukawa-san would be absent from school for a while.」

So the retirement age grandpa teacher said, I was surprised and had a hunch that this wasn’t just a trivial matter.
The cla.s.smates gaze concentrated on me, seemed to say that I knew something about it, but I shook my head horizontally.

「Do you really don’t know anything?」

Mukojima behind me pulled my t-s.h.i.+rt.

「Who knows. I didn’t even meet her at all.」

And thus semester 2 without Harukawa Kotono began.
It’s peaceful but it feels strange kind of peaceful.
The source of the storm in the cla.s.s, Harukawa Kotono being gone, there were who feels lonely and disappointed, and also who feels refreshed and gratified.
Speaking of me, I felt like a stretched balloon that was deflated at once, that was how I spent the days.

It’s not like I’m lonely. It’s just, when I think that it’s good to be not bothered by that girl for a while.
I feel that she will definitely come back again, it’s like having prepared for the typhoon to come but it curved at the last time.
I didn’t know whether to feel glad or disappointed.

And then after two weeks, Mukojima invited me.

「Hey, let’s visit Kotono-chan!」

It’s not like she said this for Kotono’s sake, she’s just being considerate to me that it would be embarra.s.sing for me to visit her alone.

「It’s fine, it’s not like I’m called.」
「There is no doubt that Kotono-chan would be happy if Sasuke came. right?」
「No way. She would just say why you came and that’s it.」
「I don’t think that would happen though.」

Mukojima was a very caring girl from the first year.
Surely she had her own thought towards Kotono, but she was a fair person.
Well, she won’t enter any girl group, and wasn’t on bad terms with them, cleverly a.s.sociating.
Even to the girl who put on airs, she still treats them normally.
That’s why it wasn’t a big thing for Mukojima for wanting to visit Kotono, it’s just it would be easy for me to go if I went with her.

Mukojima must not expect that I will refuse, but she didn’t give up.
She tells me on my mother!

ーI invited Sasuke to visit Kotono-chan, but he refused.

「Hey, I heard it from Yos.h.i.+mi-chan. You’re that close to each other, at least go visit her.」

So mother said, I became speechless and cussed at Mukoujima.
Nosy Mukoujima. If I visited her and she said why I came, I would die.

「I think they’re at a hard time, but I called them just in case. The parents were delighted, ‘please come to our house’ they said. This Sat.u.r.day, they will send car to pick you up.」

Don’t decide it on your own, mom.

Without knowing my distress, the world moves on their own.
Three days later, Sat.u.r.day, The black Lincoln that I and Mukojima ride, went through the gate that encloses Harukawa family’s residence.