I started dating a cute girlfriend I met during my eighth grade days when we reunited in high school. - Chapter 23
Translator: AJ1703
Editor: Matsu
(**Shinya’s POV**)
“Shinya and Okita, I have a once in a lifetime request to both of you! The girl I asked to be a vendor at the only event this weekend has the flu.”
“Huh?”
“What?”
When Eriko suddenly called us after school, Okita and I couldn’t help but ask her back. Or rather, we’re in the astronomy club… but this is the best place to talk about secrets… The first time I brought Eriko in here, she looked at the interior and had a face that said, “Seriously?”.
“You’re the only ones who know my hobbies and get along with me, and you two have the perfect height difference in terms of character measurements.”
“So why do we have to do it? I have important plans at home to save up my magic power.”
“I also have plans too… I have to go round the events… I’m going to save the galaxy.”
“I see… that’s a problem… Oops, I dropped it.”
Sighing at our words, Eriko dropped a picture of something. In the photo, there is a male student wearing a maid’s uniform and unfamiliar makeup. That’s me from middle school, isn’t it? Why the heck does she have it!? I lost in a rock-paper-scissors match at the school festival back then and was forced to dress up as a girl. It’s one of my black histories.
“If Shinya doesn’t give me the okay signal, I might have to show this to Sacchan.”
“I heard you…”
D@mn it… isn’t this childhood friend of mine too cowardly? To take hostage a person’s black history… how will Beni react when she sees it? It’s kind of scary how happy she’ll be…
“Ah. Shinya doesn’t mind. I think I’m going to go home first.”
“I’m going to tell her you were walking with a middle school kid the other day.”
“Wow, tell me more about that.”
“Shinyaaaaaa!”
I kept Okita from leaving the room as if she had nothing to do with it, but Eriko was very interested. I think that a best friend should share both the hard times and the fun times with their best friends.
“The other day, we were on a double date at a café, and this guy made the middle school girl angry by showing her a s*xually explicit website and made her leave.”
“Uwaa, that’s disgusting…”
“That’s not entirely trueeeee. No wait, he’s not lying, but there are some circumstances involved with it.”
Okita’s exclamation echoed in the clubroom as Eriko glared at him with a look of trash. That’s right, I’m not lying. And It’s not a double date, but rather a battle between The Knight of the Black Dragon and The Witch’s Genus, but to the casual observer, it may seem like a double date.
“The ace lolicon of the kendo club… I always tell everyone about it, so it spreads quickly, but I must stay strong.”
“I’m also going to tell everyone too, but you’ll have to forgive me. I’m sure the younger members of the kendo club will think that you’re a cool lolicon when you say something important. Good luck, lolicon.”
“Okay… I’ll come with you, but can you please keep the matter with Zhu a secret…?”
Finally, Okita seemed to have given up, and we decided to listen to Eriko’s story. It seems that there is a doujin event for a certain game, and they want us to help them sell the doujin magazine for the event.
All we had to do was to cosplay the characters of the coupling, exchange money, sometimes stare at each other as fan support, casually touch each other’s skin, and pass drinks around with indirect kisses. Wait, isn’t the second half kinda weird? No, not the second half, the whole first half.
“Well, it’s okay. It’s not like it’s going to hurt.”
“I feel like it would diminish my dignity as a human being…”
“I wonder if they’ll look at us in a s*xual way…”
“…I’m sure it’ll be just fine.” [ED/N: It’ll not be fine.]
Wait, what was that between us? It’s not unusual for Eriko to ask me for a favor, so I might as well accept. I was free because Beni turned down the date because she was going to hang out with Zhu that day.
“I’ll take you up on it. You can at least buy me dinner.”
“Well, if Shinya wants to go, I’ll go with him.”
“Thanks, both of you! Here’s the costumes. Just make sure it fits.”
With that said, Eriko handed us the bag that she had been carrying, she didn’t think that we would be rejecting her from the start… It seems that things are going according to Eriko’s plan, but it’ll be fine I guess.
“I’m not a fan of this character. I’m more of a Shinsengumi guy, but that’s okay. I know some of the dialogue.”
“I don’t really understand this character…”
“For now, just say ‘I’m a genius with a sword’.”
“What’s with the underdog-like line…”
So we decided to go help Eriko on our next day off. I didn’t think it would turn out like that at the time.
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