Yashiro-kun's Guide to Going Solo: After Story (eBook)

Dojyomaru (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
250 Seiten
Distributed By PublishDrive (Verlag)
978-1-7183-7004-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Shigeaki Yashiro's saga as an expert loner continues when the students of Iikanyama High take a school trip to Kamakura. Yashiro wants nothing more than to spend some time alone with his girlfriend, but his plan begins to fall apart when their popular friends ask the couple to join in on some group fun instead. How will these wildly different personalities get along? Enjoy these stories of the past and the future, from the perspectives of loners and cool kids alike.

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Has there ever been a more adorable creature in this whole world? I looked up towards the ceiling. My girlfriend was so cute it was physically painful.

And just then... “Argh!”

A book with a tiger embroidered onto the cover smacked right into my face. Apparently Nue had been so embarrassed that she whacked me with the book she was reading. Unable to bear it any longer, she ran out of the classroom.

“Jeez! What are you doing?”

“Yeah, don’t you think that was a bit insensitive?”

“You should probably apologize later.”

The three girls seemed exasperated with me. Meanwhile, I still had a book glued to my face.

“I’m pretty sure you started all this, Hanamizawa-san...”

“Oh. Yeah, well... Aha ha!” She brushed it off with a laugh. Ido-san and Sato-san joined in.

I peeled the book off my face and let out a sigh. Even the tiger on the cover seemed fed up with me.

◊◊◊

Honestly, Hachijo-kun...

After I finished eating my lunch, I went to the library and thought about what had happened earlier. It seemed like Hachijo-kun was running late.

Even though Hanamizawa-san had started it, it was obviously embarrassing to have him praise me like that in front of other people... I mean, it was really sweet, but still!

Hanamizawa-san and the other girls really enjoyed it too. Argh!

I felt like my world had expanded a bit ever since the incident before the school festival. Since Hanamizawa-san, Ido-san, Sato-san, and Hadori-kun had all been talking to Hachijo-kun, they’d started reaching out to me as well. They’d even wave when we made eye contact.

I wasn’t great at talking to people in a group. If it was just one person, I could at least manage to say hello. But if they were with someone else, the best I could do was bow, and I felt bad about that. All four of them were great people, so it was easy for me to smile at them.

I never thought I’d gain so many acquaintances in such a short amount of time...

First, there was Kanon Hanamizawa-san. She was the popular girl who was friendly to everyone and a great communicator. She had soft and fluffy long hair and had a curvy, feminine figure. After Yashiro-kun gave her pointers on how to spend time alone, she began to enjoy doing things both in a group and by herself. Lately, she’s been smiling a lot more than she had before. I was envious of her personality.

Next was Chikaze Ido-san. She was a pretty girl with short hair, but she could come off as stern sometimes. But I realized that was just her way of protecting her friends. She was physically fit and toned from playing sports. Honestly, I wished I could look like that.

Yukito Hadori-kun was the star member of the kendo club. He was a hot-blooded guy who cared deeply about his friends. He would always be there to lend a hand to a friend in trouble, but also just watch over them when he knew they could handle it themselves. I’ve heard rumors that he was really popular with girls, to the point where even upperclassmen were after him. He and Hachijo-kun were pretty much friends by now and talked often these days. Friendship between guys was so nice.

Then there was Yuzuki Sato-san. She was a transfer student who was a little shy. A pretty girl, and an introvert like me. But she’d been trying hard to change herself. I liked being an introvert, but I still thought her desire to change was really admirable.

“U-Um, Torano-san?”

Speaking of Sato-san, she was standing right in front of me. I had a bad habit of getting so absorbed in my thoughts that I couldn’t see the world around me. Sometimes Hachijo-kun said he was worried about me when I didn’t even notice someone coming into the library.

“Sato-san... What’s up?”

“Oh, um... I was just hoping we could talk,” she said. “Can I sit down next to you?”

“Sure.”

“Thanks.”

She took a seat behind the desk, in the chair Hachijo-kun usually sat in. It felt strange seeing someone else sitting there.

Sato-san took a deep breath and then said, “U-Um... You and Yashiro-kun are dating, right?”

“Yes...” I replied after a short pause, nodding. I was silent because I was wondering why she was asking that, and how I should respond. Luckily, Hachijo-kun had told Sato-san and the others about my tendency to process things first before speaking. She didn’t seem to mind waiting patiently for me to answer.

“And... You like him, right?”

“Yes, I really like him.”

Once I had straightened out my thoughts, I was able to have a normal conversation. And yes... I liked Hachijo-kun. A lot.

“Well... I like Yukito-kun.”

“Yes, I know that.” I nodded.

Before, she’d been accosted by some bullies from her old school, and Hadori-kun, Hanamizawa-san, and Ido-san ran to her aid and helped her.

“He was like a prince who came to rescue you. I can see why you’d fall for him.”

“So you were there.”

“I don’t know what you mean...” I shook my head vaguely, though I was sure it was obvious at this point. Still, Hachijo-kun didn’t want anyone to know he’d been involved, so I had to do my best to keep it a secret.

Sato-san gave me an aggravated look and let out a sigh. “Whatever. Anyway, that’s why I wanted to ask you something.”

“What?”

“Who confessed their feelings first? You or Yashiro-kun?”

I paused. Um, do I really have to answer that? I thought that wasn’t the kind of thing you just went around telling people. Sato-san must have realized how I felt about this, because she put her hands together in front of her face.

“Please! I could really use the advice. All my friends are really great girls, but it turns out none of them have boyfriends. You’re the only one!”

It still seemed surreal to think that I had a boyfriend, and it honestly felt good to hear it out loud. I was so simple.

“Please tell me!”

“Hachi—er, Yashiro-kun confessed first,” I answered reluctantly. Sorry, Hachijo-kun!

She blinked at me. “So he told you he had feelings for you first?”

Oh, actually...

“Not exactly. I was the one who told him I liked him first.” I felt my cheeks getting hot. I was probably blushing.

“Huh? But you just said Yashiro-kun confessed first.”

“He was the one who asked me to be his girlfriend first. But I was the one who said I liked him first. Subtly.”

“Subtly?”

“We went to a karaoke place to study together, and I sang it to him.”

“I have several questions about what you just said, but I’ll hold off on those—can you give me some more details?!”

“I didn’t have the courage yet to come straight out and tell him, so I tried to say it through my song choices. I sang ‘I’m in Love with You Again’ and ‘I’ve Always Loved You,’” I told her, fidgeting.

She looked stunned for some reason. “You expressed your feelings through song...? That sounds like something out of the Heian era.”

“You’re not wrong.” I was fully aware just how roundabout and vague it was. After all, Hachijo-kun himself had no idea what I was doing at the time.

“Aha ha. Still, it’s kind of cool to secretly tell someone how you feel. Maybe I’ll do it next time we all go out to karaoke together...” Sato-san giggled.

I shook my head. “You probably shouldn’t. It’s honestly a double-edged sword.” The kind that only hurts yourself.

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“If you put your emotions into song, you’ll start thinking everyone else is doing it and reading too much into their own singing. That’s what happened when I was with Yashiro-kun too.”

“Ohh, I get it. What songs did he sing?”

“They were all over the place. He sang ‘Carrying You,’ and it made me so sad.”

“That song from Castle in the Sky? What’s sad about it?”

“That song’s about wanting to see your soulmate who isn’t with you right now. He sang that even though I was sitting right there.”

“Ohh, so you thought that meant he didn’t consider you his soulmate!”

“Yep. But at the same time, my heart raced when he sang ‘I Want to Live in This City With You.’”

“You have a really active imagination.”

Of course, Hachijo-kun probably didn’t mean anything when he sang those songs. But since I was in love with him, every single word he said or sang affected me.

Ahh, my face is burning up! There was no way I’d be able to cover it up now. I just wanted to go crawl into a hole somewhere.

Sato-san looked at me and giggled. “Yashiro-kun is absolutely evil for making you blush like that, Torano-san!”

And I had to agree.

◊◊◊

“I’m going to go talk to Torano-san for a while, so can you give us some time alone?” Sato-san asked when lunch began. So I waited awhile before heading to the library.

Are they done yet? Well, first...

I stopped by the vending machine on the corner of the...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Yashiro-kun's Guide to Going Solo
• Reihe/Serie: Yashiro-kun's Guide to Going Solo
• Illustrationen: Dojyomaru
• Übersetzer: Dojyomaru
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: High School • Light Novel • Loner • popular girl
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-7004-0 / 1718370040
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-7004-3 / 9781718370043