Chapter 4.5 — Luna and Nikoru’s Long Phone Call
“...Then, you know, Ryuuto
looked really cool earlier!”
“Eh, really? I can't believe
it!”
“He gave my dad a hard slap, he
looked so manly and cool! I'm still getting heart palpitations from that~! That
was really 'losing the debate', wasn't it? Ryuuto is really smart. All the
things that make me feel 'Is something wrong?' and upset are all expressed in
words to my father."
"Hee, what a great
guy!"
“Yeas, he’s very cool! I think
Ryuuto is my best boyfriend!”
“Fufu, to make Luna say that,
huh.”
“Eh?”
“You're really in love with
him, right~.”
“Yes... I'm really in love! I
really like Ryuuto...”
“Then maybe it's time?”
“For what?”
“S*x. You guys haven't done it
yet, have you?”
“Ahh, ummm... I wonder if this
is what the feeling 'want to do' means?”
“Huh~? If you feel like you
'want to do it,' that means you do, right?”
“I don't know~! This is the
first time I've ever felt this way. I feel heart pounding even though we're
always together, does that mean I want to get closer to him?”
“Wow~, how annoying, do you
want to show off ? My relationship with my boyfriend is even more tenuous, you
know. Even though it's New Year's, he hasn't sent me a New Year's greeting via
LINE either.”
“Ahh~ I'm so sorry, Nikoru!”
“It's okay. Besides, I'm
popular with other guys.”
“Ehh!?”
“I got a Happy New Year LINE
message from Nishina Ren. He said, ‘If
you go out with me this year, you'll be very lucky!’ What kind of fortune
telling is that?!”
“Ehh, really!? Oh, so you communicate with Nishina-kun
through LINE?”
“When we played Savage, we
formed a LINE group of six people, right? I think he contacted me from there.”
“Wow, he seems really
aggressive! I can't believe it!"
“Yes indeed, maybe people change
when they fall in love, huh~”
“Hahaha, you say that like it's
someone else's business~”
"It is indeed someone
else's business. It has nothing to do with me~.”
“…But it's true: People can
change because of love. I can't even trust myself. I'm so flustered because of
my own boyfriend.”
“Ahh~ yes~ yes~.”
“Sorry, I've been talking about
myself all day~~! Does Nikoru feel the same way?”
“No, it feels like a waste.”
“Does Nishina-kun feel the
same?”
“That guy is just a casual
friend.”
“In that case, it's okay if I'm
the one who goes off on my own!? I'm really sorry! Ryuuto's performance today
is really cool~! In the end, my father couldn't say anything, it was so
satisfying!”
“Hee~”
“I really like Ryuuto~!”
“So, how did it go? Do you want
to live with your dad's new partner?”
“Well, my father was angry at
first, but after Ryuuto left, he told me, 'Give
me some time to think about it’. Then he went out for the night, maybe to
talk to his girlfriend. And then my dad said, ‘If you're so unwilling, you don't have to see her tomorrow’, so we
can play all day!”
“Okay~! So we'll line up for the
lucky bags at Marukyu, right~”
“Yes! I'm really looking
forward to it!”
Luna replied excitedly, then
she set the time and place for tomorrow's meeting with Nikoru and hung up.
Then she opened the camera
gallery on her smartphone and looked at the selfie she had taken in front of
the shrine gate while returning from today's Hatsumoude visit with Ryuuto.
“Thank you, Ryuuto.”
She murmured with a blush on
her cheeks.
