Kasamatsu's black silk

Later, he fell asleep unknowingly, and was awakened in a daze by the ringing of the phone outside the door.

I rubbed my eyes and sat up from the bed. I tried to call my mother who was supposed to be at home a few times but got no response. In desperation, I could only get out of bed and answer the phone by myself.

By the way, is the air conditioner at home turned on too strongly?always feel a little cold...

When I rubbed my arms and walked into the living room, the phone had stopped ringing. Although there was a number showing missed calls on it, it was just a series of unfamiliar numbers to me who had never been used to reciting numbers. I stood there. I yawned and was about to go back to sleep when the phone rang loudly again after being silent for a while.

"...Hello, this is the Tachibana House."

"Is this voice... Natsu?"

It was the voice of a friend.

I was stunned for a moment because I couldn't think of the reason why she called me, and then I subconsciously turned my head to look at the quartz clock hanging on the wall - it is more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the school should have just finished school.

"I'm right, but why did you call at this time?"

"I wanted to call you before, but some things were not ready, and it was just after school."

If you listen carefully, you can indeed hear some noisy background sounds, and the voice of your friend is trembling. It seems that he is on the phone with me while moving fast.

The friend panted slightly as he spoke, and his tone sounded a little rushed.

"Although I just came to confirm it now, I didn't mean to ask for your opinion...ah, sorry." There was a muffled knocking sound and a friend's subconscious apology from the receiver at the same time, but her speech did not stop at this paragraph, and even flowed smoothly Then I picked it up, "You should have nothing else to do tonight, and I will push you away. Then dress yourself up, and use the cosmetics I lent you last time and haven't returned to me to fix your haggard face. Looks like a five or six-year-old face, put on cute clothes and make your hairstyle beautiful, come out for me!"

Eh?Eh?what happened? !

"You, you slow down, speak slowly... what's going on?"

"Don't you understand? Dress yourself up and go out. At four o'clock, wait for me at the gate of the nearest station to your house."

"No! Wait a minute! You wait for me!"

I grabbed the phone and yelled loudly before my friend cut off the call. She was silent for two seconds, with a little more impatience in her voice.

"What?"

"So what are you going to do? Suddenly let me dress up or something..."

"Don't worry about it."

My friend answered very simply, but...what do you mean I don't care, hey! ?It seems that I was the one who was asked to go out, right?It's scary to say nothing about the purpose and intention, isn't it? !Always felt like I was going to be called out to do something horrible...

"Don't worry, I won't let you go for compensated dating."

Probably guessing the uneasiness in my heart, my friend comforted me.

...I said this is not consolation at all, bastard.

After saying this, my friend hung up the phone in a rude and concise way without leaving me any room. I can almost be sure that she must have spotted her. That’s why I did it... Well, I really didn’t dare, and in the end I could only obediently tidy up a little bit as she said, and when I put on makeup in front of the mirror, I couldn’t make it because I remembered what happened a few days ago , A few hasty strokes will be completed.

"...Well, it's barely okay."

When we met in front of the station, a friend made such an evaluation of me.

...So what exactly do you want! ?

If I just come out to meet, my friend will not ask me to dress up at all, and she will have her intentions every time she acts, even though none of them harm me, but for the current person who is already disturbed by certain things , a little anxiety makes me feel unbearable.

After the assembly, she didn't say much and took me to the ticket gate of the station. Although I had already taken out the PASMO from my bag and prepared to swipe the card to enter the station, I still couldn't help asking.

"Where are you taking me?"

My friend looked back at me with a calm expression - it was only then that I realized that the makeup on her face was more detailed than usual, her hair was also done, and her clothes were usually well-dressed, so I didn't have any special impressions.

Is it not just for me alone?

Then, she finally answered my doubts.

"Go to the karaoke over there in Harajuku, I made an appointment with someone."

"Haha... sing K? With whom..."

"Someone you don't know."

"Eh?"

I can understand if my friend asked me to sing K because they want me to vent my emotions by yelling, but why they invite strangers I don’t know is puzzling to me.

I waited for her next explanation, but my friend was silent. I had to follow her footsteps all the way into the station, down the stairs, and catch the tram that was about to close. In the last shrill siren, the door closed behind us .

I took a little breath.

My friend threw over the answer that I had been caring about all the time.

"Next, I'm going to take you to a fellowship."

What, isn't it friendship?It would have been nice if you had said it earlier, it made me worry for a long time... I couldn't help loosening my tense shoulders, and let out a long breath... Wait?wrong? !

What did your friend just say?

Union... Friendship! ?

"why!?"

"Why?" My friend looked at me with a face that didn't understand me, "Just to make you forget the old love and find you a new love?"

My friend patted me on the shoulder while she was talking. Although she didn't say it out, I could already clearly feel the meaning of "Look at how nice I am to you and thank me" in her actions.

I almost turned around and slammed on the door—if that made the driver stop and let me get out and go home.

To actually let a person who just broke up with him go to socialize... Friend, you are simply...

You are insane!

But I still dare to say this kind of thing in my heart. Thinking about it this way, compared with Chapter 1, I really haven't improved at all...in various aspects.

Although it is not impossible for me to take the opposite car and go back directly after getting off the bus, I feel horrified when I think about how my friends will treat me later.My friend probably also expected my reaction. After arriving at the station, she got out of the car without looking at me too much. I hesitated but still followed.

It's the first time for me to have a friendship or something.

I watched the scene during the summer vacation, but the concept of it is still at the level of N men and N women sitting face to face, chatting and drinking tea, what can I say to the opposite sex who has never met and chatted... ah , No, my head hurts so much, I don't have a clue no matter how I think about it.

"Although it's someone I don't know, I found them through my friends. They won't be bad people, so don't be nervous." On the way, my friend finally looked back at me, and then held my hand, "You don't have to think about it." Too much, just act like you normally do."

I pondered for a few seconds.

"...For example, carefully observe the length and line of the opponent's lower body..."

"If you use such obscene words again, I will break your tongue."

"..."

After that, we arrived at our destination in silence all the way.

From a distance, you can see the strangers that your friend mentioned on the tram are already waiting at the door of the store. There are three men and one woman. The girl looks very similar to my friend. She can definitely be called a beauty. The grades of the boys are definitely not bad, and judging from their appearance, at least they are all college students.

I subconsciously looked down at my clothes...

I regret not dressing up properly before going out.

"Sorry, did I keep you waiting?"

My friend walked over a few steps before me and apologized to the beautiful girl who waved to her. She waved her hand with a smile, saying that they had just arrived and did not wait long, and when they turned around to ask the opinions of the three men, the other party also smiled nodded.

Then they turned their attention to me.

...To be honest, at that moment, I really wanted to run away and go home immediately.

"Let me introduce you." My friend firmly grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the crowd, "This is the friend I mentioned earlier on the phone - Tachibana Tatsumi, who is the same age as me. I just fell out of love recently So I want to take her out to change my mood, and I will ask you guys today."

"Did you break up in love? This is really... don't be too sad, if you get a new boyfriend, you will soon forget about the sad things?" The only girl in the stranger's team stretched out her hand to me first, " Hello! My name is Emi, Emi Sato, just call me Megumin~"

"You, hello..."

Then the boys also briefly introduced their names to me. From the left, Akira Kobayashi, Haruna Sakurai, and Takahiro Honma, they seemed to be college students from a certain university in Kanagawa.

After greeting each other one by one, we entered the store together.

Although there are only six of us, my friends and the others seem to have reserved a large private room in advance. I, who don’t usually go to such places, are somewhat caught by the excessively luxurious decoration in the room, and I sat on the sofa in a daze. While flipping through the playlist they forcefully stuffed into their hands, they even decided on drinks and the waiter brought them in.

On the table was a full jug of chilled draft beer and six empty glasses.

—Wait a minute I said something is not right! ?

"That, that..." Seeing that the other five people didn't seem to notice the violation at all, I raised my hand bravely, "I haven't turned twenty yet, so I can't drink."

"Neither Xiaonai nor Xiaoyou are adults? Although the four of us are already adults."

Emi Sato looked at the three boys with some trouble—although I don't think she was troubled from the bottom of her heart, then Honma Takahiro, as the representative, smiled and opened her mouth.

"It's okay to just drink a little bit."

No, no, it's really not a big deal, this one! ?

"Isn't Xiaoju in trouble? Drink some wine to relieve your worries."

Kobayashi-kun, I don't want to remind you that it will only make you more worried! ?

"That's it, that's it~ Singing K requires a little wine to add to the fun~"

So it's not a question of adding to the fun, it's illegal, Sakurai-kun!

I couldn't help complaining about their speeches one by one in my heart, maybe because I saw the trouble on my face, Honma Takahiro who spoke first asked me if I really don't want to drink, would you like to do it for me? Additional beverages such as fruit juice.

"Just let her drink this."

The one who stopped Honma-kun's kindness was his silent friend.

I couldn't figure out what she was thinking, even if I looked at her with wide eyes, I couldn't decipher her original intention from the expression.My friend ignored me, and lifted the container containing the draft beer to fill the six glasses without authorization, took two of the glasses, and handed me a glass.

"Drink it."

A commanding tone.

Obviously I can refute her words and reasons can pile up into mountains, but I still haven't done so.

I only hesitated for a second, then reached out to take the cup and drank it.

--So sad.

Within 10 minutes of my heroic and cool demeanor, I was green with regret.

Having never had drinking experience, I obviously overestimated my drinking capacity, but just a small glass of draft beer made me feel that the whole world was spinning, and the waves of vomiting in my body tortured me even more. Can't say a word.

I noticed that my friend had seen me a few times, and she even had a worried look on her face. She didn't come over to care about me. Instead, Honma Takahiro-kun, whom I just met, noticed something was wrong with me and sat down with a frown. Take the empty seat next to me.

"……Are you alright?"

"Maybe, there's something...vomit."

As soon as I spoke, I felt the desire to vomit even more. I quickly covered my mouth and left the private room in a hurry after saying that I wanted to go to the bathroom. Just some.

The dizziness did not improve at all.

I was so dizzy that I couldn't tell the difference between front, back, up, down, left, and right. I leaned on the wall to barely maintain my balance and walked forward step by step. The soft carpet under my feet was like a piece of soft tofu. One foot is shallow, almost fell directly several times.

But if it really makes a loud noise because of the fall, someone in the room will definitely chase it out.

Believing this without any basis, I squinted my eyes and looked for the sign of the bathroom in the blurred field of vision. After finally finding the destination, I spit it out almost as soon as I touched the edge of the pool.

—I swear I'll never drink a drop in my life.

After vomiting out my empty stomach, I finally felt a lot more comfortable. Although the dizziness still remained, at least it wasn't as unbearable as before.

But still very uncomfortable.

I rinsed my mouth with clean water, and when I saw the pale face in the mirror, I tried to pull out a smile, but it was really ugly and scary.Hesitating between going directly to the box to lie down or finding a place to sit for a while before going back, I walked out of the bathroom, and at the corner of the aisle, I had a full embrace with the person who hurried over.

I was already dizzy, but now I lost my sense of balance even more.

Fortunately, the person who hit me grabbed my arm in time, otherwise I would definitely have the back of my head hit the ground hard, and even the soft carpet would not be able to save me.

"Hold, I'm sorry, you didn't..."

With a panting sound.

Although it sounded a bit hazy to my ears, it still gave me a lot of familiarity, but I couldn't figure out who the owner of the voice was, and the words that suddenly stopped made me feel a little confused. looked over with interest.

Then, don't know why.

——I saw Yukio Kasamatsu's face.