Misaki, I can't see you anymore

"What a pity. 』

"I never saw him as an enemy. 』

"……Feel sorry. 』

——Chapter Records

"I let you stay here only because of the deputy chief's order. You'd better not think that I accepted you."

This was the only sentence Fushimi said to Hatta since he stayed for five days.

But despite saying this, Fushimi did not show any rejection of his caregiving behavior. At most, he frowned impatiently when he spoke, and he usually just ate and slept normally. Just sat in the room for a long time lost in thought.

Probably because of the deputy chief's legendary red bean paste, Fushimi never mentioned that Hatta should be kicked out.

Or, to be more precise, throw "Sano" out.

Hatta thought, if he was facing "Misaki Hatta", Fushimi would probably ridicule him endlessly until he was forced out of this room.

"In the end, I'm actually not as good as a stranger..."

Hatta was a little frustrated, and felt as if he was jealous of himself, so he shook his head awkwardly to regain his senses, and continued working while reading sentences like "Why are you jealous because of that monkey?"

In fact, it is not so much looking after him, because Fushimi is unwilling to communicate with him, all he can do is to buy vegetables and cook, and the rest of the time, except for occasional cleaning, is mostly idle, relying on playing games and sleeping dismissed.

Such a leisurely and frantic life made Hatta irritated and wanted to scratch the wall, so on the afternoon of the sixth day of work in "Sano", the little guy who failed to pass the level 12 times left the terminal and pushed open the door of Fushimi's room.

"Fushimi-kun, do you... want to go out and bask in the sun?"

A small part of this suggestion was due to Hatta's selfishness of not wanting to stay at home until it got moldy, but it was more due to Fushimi's increasingly pale skin giving Hatta the illusion that he was about to dissolve into the air.

So he thought, once in a while, he should take this gloomy guy out for a walk, otherwise it wouldn't be surprising that a mushroom would grow on his body someday.

"No." With a decisive tone, Fushimi didn't even think about it.

Hatta shrugged his shoulders, thinking "it really is like this" while walking towards the blue-haired boy who buried himself in the shadow, then ignoring the other's frowning brows and pulling aside the heavy cotton curtain.

"If you stay out of the sun all the time, you won't grow taller!"

Fushimi was taken aback for a moment, opened his mouth hesitantly, seemed to say something, then suddenly pursed his lips and stood up, stretched out his hand and groped forward.

"Hey, wait a minute, what are you going to do?!" Seeing Fushimi's cautious and serious expression, Hatta stepped forward in panic and tried to support him, but was grabbed by the other party, and then a pair of slender hands wrapped around his Scratching around the head.

"Wait, wait, what are you doing?!" Struggling to interrupt the other party's random behavior, Hatta stared angrily at Fushimi, but unexpectedly saw a shocked expression on his face.

"How can you……"

"Misaki?" The blurted question was interrupted by the other party's abrupt voice, and Hatta felt that even a nuclear bomb explosion was not enough to describe his panic at this time.

——Too bad it was discovered.

—How could the monkey know?

——Where was it exposed? !

——What to do, what to do, what to do, what to do, what to do? !

Hatta felt that his brain had never turned so fast before, staring at Fushimi's suspicious expression, he quickly thought of a solution in less than two seconds.

"Hey, how do you know my name is Misaki? The deputy chief doesn't seem to have told you."

The voice of doubt naturally made Fushimi doubt his own judgment.

——Isn't... misaki?

"Your name is... Misaki?"

"That's right, my name is Sano Misaki, I know it looks like a girl's name, so I didn't let the deputy chief tell you..." Hatta tried his best to suppress his unsteady breathing, trying to make his voice sound natural .

There was a long silence, until Hatta was about to give up concealing it, Fushimi finally opened his mouth, and his voice was full of disappointment and joy.

Yes, loss and joy.

——Contradictory to death.

"Sorry, I probably misunderstood the person. Your tone of voice just now, and your height, are very similar to someone I know."

"His name is Misaki Hatta, he was my friend in the past."

"……past?"

"Ah... now we are... the enemy."

Silence again.

It took a long time for Hatta to recover from the definition of "enemy". He wanted to force himself to laugh but found that tears had already flowed down his chin.

"Hey, how did you become an enemy?"

For the first time, Hatta is so grateful for the characteristics of the character "Sano Misaki".

At least by virtue of his identity as a stranger, Hatta can unabashedly ask the questions he wants to ask the most, and he doesn't have to be afraid that his voice that has become hoarse due to crying will be noticed by Fushimi.

"Why should I answer you?" Fushimi refused to answer as expected, with the usual impatience on his face.

"Well, that's a pity."

--it's a pity.

"Now, monkey, when will I understand? 』

— about the real reason for your betrayal.