Chapter 21

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“What an example! That sounds like a fake name. Is there a reason you can’t tell us his name?”

“As I said, this is Tarou Yamada.”

“He really is going to push through…”

Yoshihiro was suspicious for a while but reluctantly nodded as giving in to Shouma, who was persistent on this name by all means possible .

“I see. Tarou-kun, nice to meet you.”

“Oh, yes. Me too.”

With his cheeks dyed in embarrassment, the Tofu Boy tightly squeezed Shouma’s hand. In this way, he really looked like just some normal kid.

“Shouma-san, Thank you very much.”

The whisper-like voice made Shouma look at the Tofu Boy.

“What for?”

“The name, it made me happy.”

“Uhm, on the contrary, I’m sorry I didn’t give you a proper name?”

The Tofu Boy shook his head.

“I like the name ’Tarou’.”

“Oh, I see. Then I’m glad to hear that.”

Shouma didn’t know why he was so happy, but he didn’t wish to get in the way of his happiness so he only answered in a safe manner.

“Well, whatever! My fellow unpopular comrades, let’s have fun!”

“Whoa!”

“Tch…”

Yamato, getting back to his usual self, pulled Yoshihiro and Shouma’s neck towards himself.

“Fuyuka-chan and Tarou-kun too!”

Giving a thumbs up, he smiled just like a big brother would.

It was kind of deplorable to let himself take the liberty of being included in the category of ’unpopular comrades’ but Shouma really was not so popular, so he took it in stride.

“I want to have a girlfriend by summer, after all!”

“Didn’t you say the same thing last year?”

“Shut up!” grunted Yamato at Yoshihiro’s prodding.

Incidentally, last fall he said ’I want to have a girlfriend before it gets colder’ and in winter he said ’I want to have a girlfriend by Christmas’ while in February he said again that ’I want to have a girlfriend till Valentine’s Day’.”

In conclusion, he sought this meeting from all year around.

“So, what kind of girl does Yamato like?”

Shouma thought it would be better to let this subject slide so he asked that, even though he wasn’t particularly interested.

Yamato looked up at the sky with a grin on his face.

“Hmm. An innocent-like and tidy… like Tomami-chan, maybe?”

“You really don’t know your place, do you?”

“Yoshihiro! Know what you’re allowed and not allowed to say!”

“What’s wrong? It’s the truth.”

“Oi, you two.”

“Excuse me…”

Suddenly, someone called out to them, the three of them turned around at the same time. A few moments later, Fuyuka and the Tofu Boy also turned their heads.

“Do you have a minute?”

The one there was Tomami.

Her Morning Glory patterned yukata was dazzling. It suited her so well that the cold indigo color seemed to shine through. Yamato covered his mouth in the spur of the moment, as if he thought the girl had heard what he had just said.

Tomami stopped in front of Shouma and lowered her gaze lightly.

“Shouma-kun. Can we talk a bit later? I have something to talk to you about.”

“Wha, me?”

“Yes”

Squirming, Tomami rubbed together the tips of her Geta clogs.

A cold sweat trickled down Shouma’s back.

(Something to talk about. Maybe, just maybe it’s about the Random Assailant…)

After catching the Random Assailant, Shouma had fled back without much explanation to Tomami, who was watching him at that time.

(Maybe she saw Subaru, and the person who attacked Washizu-san hasn’t been caught yet. Maybe she thinks I’m the culprit…)

Soon after Shouma left the Random Assailant in front of the police station, the news reported that the man had been caught. Seeing the news, Shouma thought the case had been solved, but what if the criminal remembered what crimes he had committed and also testified that he had not been involved in the ones where Subaru attacked other people including Tomami too.

So, in the public mind, the culprit who had attacked all those common girls had not yet been caught.

“Then, I’ll call you later.”

No one knows how she took the reaction of Shouma, who froze in silence, since Tomami ran back to her group of friends behind them as soon as she declared that.

“What? Why that Tomami! When! Where! How did you become such bosom friends!?”

“We didn’t get…”

“You won this race then, Shouma. Let us know when you start dating.”

“That’s not what I meant…!”

This time, Yoshihiro poked Shouma.

He never had that kind of relationship with Tomami, but when she does this, it made Shouma feel kind of uncomfortable and want to run away.

Shouma took Tofu Boy’s hand and walked away from his friends.

“I’ve been asked to take care of this kid! I’ll be out in a bit.”

“Huh?”

“Then…!”

Shouma slightly raised his hand then ran off.

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