Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta The Second (eBook)

toshizou (Autor)

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2023
250 Seiten
Distributed By PublishDrive (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7024-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Yotsuba Hazama has it made. Summer vacation is just around the corner, and this year she gets to spend it with her two girlfriends, Yuna and Rinka! Sure, she'll spend it doing makeup lessons instead unless she passes all her finals, but how hard could that be? And her girlfriends' fan club is a ticking time bomb in the background of her school life, but it's not like that has any chance of causing her problems! And, yes, her little sisters have been treating her with an inexplicable mixture of contempt and suspicion lately, but there's no way that'll go anywhere unpleasant!

On second thought, let's start over: Yotsuba Hazama is in way over her head! Her first-ever summer with her new girlfriends is in peril of flunking-induced cancellation, her social standing at school is dangling by a thread, and she can't even figure out what's wrong with her relationship with her sisters, but it's definitely going to be a problem! Who knew having two girlfriends could be this difficult?!

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Prologue: Love and Wishes

Love will change your world!

Those words suddenly popped into my head as I watched a couple who happened to be walking in front of me. They were holding hands, only they’d surreptitiously tucked those hands into one of their pockets to hide the act from prying eyes. It was a move straight out of some cheesy romance manga.

Yeah... Maybe it really is true, I reflected. I’d encountered the claim just a moment earlier, written on the cover of a magazine in the convenience store I’d stopped by—one of those fashion periodicals marketed mostly toward teenage girls. It was January 1, New Year’s Day, and I couldn’t even tell if the magazine was supposed to be an end-of-year or start-of-year special edition, so I think it sort of goes without saying that defining “love” was completely beyond me.

My name is Yotsuba Hazama, I’m sixteen years old, and I’m a first-year high school student with no redeeming qualities to speak of. I’m equally terrible when it comes to academics and athletics, and I barely even have any friends! Saying that I have no business talking about love would be an understatement—to me, love is about as realistic as princesses who live in castles, evil witches, princes, dragons, and all those other classic fairy-tale characters. But, like, who cares, right? What does it matter if love’s never gonna change my world? I think it’s praiseworthy enough for people like me to get by and carry on with their loveless lives!

...Yeah, I’m not even sure who I was delivering that excuse-laden internal tirade to. At least my hands were as warm as that couple’s probably were, if only because I’d shoved them into the pockets of the brand-new duffle coat I’d bought during a New Year’s sale. All that wasn’t to say that my world hadn’t done any changing lately, though, even if it wasn’t on account of love. In fact, about nine months earlier, my admission into high school had triggered a shift in my life more dramatic than anything I could’ve ever imagined!

Yotsuba! ♪

Hey, Yotsuba.

Just thinking about them made me feel like I could hear their lovely voices echoing within my mind, soothing my gray matter. Heck, it made me feel like they’d just materialized right before my very eyes: the angelically adorable Yuna Momose and the divinely graceful Rinka Aiba. The two of them seemed to live in a totally different world from me, and were so overwhelmingly revered by our peers that they were commonly referred to as the Sacrosanct, of all things...and somehow, they’d ended up becoming my friends!!!

At first, I’d been half convinced I was, er...I think they call it “getting catfished”? But I quickly realized that Momose and Aiba were such incredibly good girls it was almost absurd. Every time they learned about another of my not-so-great qualities, they just accepted it and moved on without batting an eyelash. They were nice and cute and cool, and spending time with them was just so much fun...and I quickly found myself so head over heels for them in a friendship sort of way that I didn’t even care if I was getting catfished anymore. Heck, if it meant I’d get to savor even another second of this happiness, I’d fall for that sort of scam hook, line, and sinker! I probably would’ve happily given them at least an internal organ or two, if they’d asked! Like, uhh, my liver? I think people pay for those, right?

So, yeah, that probably gives you an idea of just how important they were to me. I’d just waltzed into high school and gotten two incredible friends right off the bat! It felt like I’d been promoted several ranks on the human-being scale out of nowhere...but love still felt like it lay somewhere far up above the clouds, sneering down at me with no intention of ever descending upon my head.

Momose and Aiba, though? Their situation couldn’t possibly have been more different. Their relationship with each other was so spectacularly, excessively wonderful that nobody dared intrude upon the sacred realm that was the space between them, to start! As far as I was concerned, it would’ve been great if the thing they had had escalated into even an even more full-on and intense sort of yuri than it already seemed to be! Though of course, I was also okay with the totally plausible scenario in which they each met their own respective special someones to explore the untrodden lands of love with. If love was hiding beyond the clouds for me, it was fluttering incessantly around the two of their heads, constantly within arm’s reach.

We really do live in totally different worlds, I reflected. I was happy just being with them, really. My daily life had taken such a miraculous turn, I couldn’t imagine it possibly getting any better. What I could imagine, though, was that someday, the two of them would find somebody way better than the likes of me to fall in love with—and when that day came, our remarkable friendship would come to an end, just like that.

I’m not saying that would be a bad thing, to be clear! If anything, it would be for the best. I’m not so full of myself that I’d ask them to stay super close with me or anything like that. The thing is, though, that the two of them were just so, so profoundly kind that I knew that when the time came, they’d probably try to spare my feelings somehow. I knew that I’d end up being a shackle, holding them back from their romances, and part of me was actually glad to realize that. I hated that part of me, and I hated myself for harboring those thoughts.

I didn’t need my world to change. As long as the people I loved were happy, I knew I would be happy too. That meant Momose and Aiba. It meant my mom and dad. And it meant my beloved, adorable little sisters, Sakura and Aoi. There were so few people in that category I could count them on my fingers, but still, when I finally arrived at the offertory box I’d been lined up for and clapped my hands in prayer, their faces were the first thing that came to mind.

Please, let everyone be as happy as possible! I thought, dividing my wish into six evenly sized parcels, one for each of them. It wasn’t the most ambitious wish, but all six of them were just such wonderful people that it seemed a lot more worth the gods’ time than wishing for my own romantic prospects to improve. I had a feeling that the gods would agree as well.

“Hey, Yotsuba, let’s go draw fortunes! C’mon!” prompted my younger little sister Aoi as I stepped away from the shrine’s main building.

“Fortunes...? I think I’ll pass, thanks. I really don’t want to start my year off by drawing a fortune that says I’ll have terrible luck!” I replied, slipping right on into a super negative mindset that really didn’t suit the occasion. My sisters were used to that little habit of mine, though—for better or for worse—and didn’t seem to make much of it. “Anyway, are you sure it was a good idea to do your first shrine visit of the year here, Sakura?” I asked, turning to the older of my little sisters. “This shrine’s supposed to bring people good fortune in love, right? You could’ve gone to one that’s good for test-takers!”

“Meh... One shrine’s as good as the next, as far as I’m concerned,” said Sakura with a shrug, which didn’t really feel like the sort of opinion you were supposed to express out loud when you were literally on the grounds of a shrine. She had a big scarf wrapped around her neck, covering up the lower half of her face, and her hands were shoved deep into her coat’s pockets. She seemed to be in an ever so slightly irritable mood, but she was at the age where kids sort of just end up like that sometimes. She’d be taking her high school entrance exams next year too, which had to be stressful.

Still, I had to wonder—why had the two of them been so set on going to this shrine in particular? It wasn’t like it was the most convenient one out there. We’d had to take a train and everything! “Hey, what did you two wish for?” I asked, too curious to restrain myself.

“Me?” said Aoi. “I wished for—”

“You know that if you say what you wished for out loud, it won’t come true, right?” cut in Sakura.

“Wait, really?!” Aoi and I exclaimed in unison.

“I mean, I don’t really know,” Sakura said with a shrug, “but I do know that if you tell Yotsuba what you wished for, she’ll end up trying to grant it.”

“You bet your boots I will!” I proudly declared!

“But what if it’s something she can’t make happen?” Sakura continued. “What if it’s something that needs time? If she runs out to try and grant your wish, she might even make it harder for the gods to make it happen.”

“Wait, that actually makes sense!” I gasped. “You’re so smart, Sakura!”

“Not like I really know what I’m talking about anyway,” Sakura grunted as she looked away from me. I had a feeling my praise made her a little bashful.

It was certainly true that I probably wouldn’t be able to do much to grant their wishes, even if I did know what they were. Speaking as their big sister, that made me feel a little sad...but that was something I was going to have to get used to one of these days. After all, both of them were...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta
• Reihe/Serie: Yuri Tama: From Third Wheel to Trifecta
• Illustrationen: toshizou
• Übersetzer: toshizou
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: disaster lesbians • female protagonist • Harem • High School • impostor syndrome • Slice of Life • Yuri
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7024-5 / 1718370245
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7024-1 / 9781718370241