Fool's Love

The feeling of uneasiness is always lingering in my heart.

We still haven't been able to see snow, and the winter in Osaka isn't cold enough.Shortly after the new year, it was back to school for the third semester of study.

During that time, the image of Masumi wearing an indigo kimono during the New Year's visit to the shrine often appeared in my mind.

When I was a child, I saw a delicate child in a kimono like a joruri doll, and I had a good impression. Since then, I have a vague longing for a beauty in a kimono.

We had no pre-arranged meeting and met by chance at the shrine.Amidst the hustle and bustle, the first thing I saw was the iconic curly hair.

Then I called to him over the shadows of passing strangers that sometimes obstructed his view.Masumi finally noticed me, his face suddenly filled with a smile.

Although she was wearing a kimono, the part above the neck that Masumi exposed did not have the dignified and majestic feeling of Japanese classical at all, but was very soft, without a trace of shadow in her eyes.

He is a small male with a small frame.He walked over to me and held my hand with the hand outstretched in Haori.

The feathers are jet black, showing off the slightly protruding tendons and slender blood vessels on the back of his hand.

"Teacher "West Raspberry"? "

I was leaning my arms against the window, thinking about Masumi I saw that day in a daze, when suddenly a deliberately low voice came from beside me.The one who can call out this name is undoubtedly Sasaki.

"Don't call me that at school." I lowered my voice and whispered to Sasaki.

"It's okay, no one will hear it anyway, and if they hear it, no one will know who "West Raspberry" is.Even if someone happens to know—there’s nothing shady in the manga you draw as a fan writer. "

What she meant——I understood a little bit, maybe it means that there are no outrageous plots in the comics that my sister and I collaborated on.

How can there be such content, even if it is a real sibling, it will not appear that the elder sister asks the younger brother to draw danmei comics with pornographic content!

At this time, although I wanted to refute "Just knowing that I am a man but can draw BL is enough to make people imagine", but the words came to my mouth, but I couldn't say it.

After all, as she said, there are only me and her by the window now, and no one will hear it.

I sighed, "So? What do you want to ask me?"

"About the new issue at the next fair."

"That... I don't think it will come out again for a while."

"How...why?"

"My sister and I have some things to do, and the time can't be arranged."

I just called her "sister".Sasaki already knew at this time that she was my collaborator.

This is a matter of course: in the group name Nishiyama mimi&ichiko, the elder sister uses the pronunciation of her real name.

In this way, as long as I know that I am the "Nishiyama Berry", the identity of the remaining "Nishiyama Mimi" will be obvious.

"Is there something urgent?"

"Well. Elder sister, she has a new boyfriend recently, and the activities of the fan club have been reduced a lot. As for me, I will be busy with the comics published by the department at the beginning of this semester, and I really can't find time..."

"Department manga? Which one did Yamagishi-san participate in?"

"Yeah, with a group of Masumi-san..."

Having said that, Sasaki suddenly opened his mouth and let out an "ah".I was a little suspicious, "What's wrong?" I asked.

"Speaking of Masumi-san, I think of one thing."

"what?"

"Last semester...about the second half of the semester, I heard some rumors about you and Masumi."

My heart skipped a beat, and I almost showed the expression of a cat whose tail was stepped on.

Is it true that I like Masumi?No, think about it... I haven't told anyone about this, and I have the confidence that no one will notice-despite the fact, the feeling of uneasiness is still lingering in my heart.

I pretended to be calm: "What rumor?"

"In other words, Yamagishi-san and Masumi-san are rivals in love...such rumors."

……what?

"How...how can such a thing happen?"

This is outrageous.I should be happy that the secret was not exposed, but at this moment I was shocked by the content of the rumor, and couldn't help but say what I was muttering in my heart.

"I didn't believe it at first. Because I had contact with Yamagishi and Masumi, I knew that you were friends. But for a while last semester, you didn't even talk, and you seemed like strangers during departmental activities.

Is it because they fell in love with the same person that the two who had a good relationship broke up?

As soon as this idea popped up, it lingered in my mind.In addition, when I met you at the manga exhibition, I asked you if you liked Masumi-san. At that time, you seemed a little flustered.

When asked if I like someone who is both a friend and a rival in love, "I started to reflect on whether I usually showed it, and I didn't know how to answer it"-if this is the case, it is not unreasonable to be at a loss. "

"There was just a little friction between me and Masumi just before the sports meeting."

I frowned and explained helplessly.Where did that weird rumor come from?

"I know. When you fell down on the day of the sports meeting, Masumi-san suddenly ran over in a hurry. I was shocked when I saw that scene."

"So where did you hear that?"

"How should I put it... I heard the news passed on several times, and it may be different from the original version. But if you want to talk about the source, it seems to be Morita-san."

Morita Takumi... my brows furrowed even tighter.I heard gossip from him a few times before, so it turns out that he is also the one who spreads such false rumors that sound like he made it up at random?

……wrong.

I remembered.I asked him about Masumi very early on.Why would I care about intelligence from a different class of people who seem to live in another world entirely?

When he questioned this, I went with his guess "because the person I like has a close relationship with Masumi".

After all, it is even more unreasonable to say that I am very interested in Masumi.After that, did Morita take this matter seriously?

Halfway through the anger towards Morita, I suddenly found out that the source of the rumor was myself, and my heart was full of mixed feelings.

However, this is also a lesson for me: try not to talk about yourself with Morita, whether you lie or not, how much you say is wrong-that guy is a big mouth, he listens a lot, and he will add embellishments before spreading Get out - I don't want to hear any more shit about myself from other people.