I Was Hired As A Tutor By A Cute Little Devilish Junior - Chapter 38 Encounter
One day on the way home.
I walked side by side with Shiina from school and headed for her house, being teased by her little devilish attitude as usual.
When we reach her house, I would start my usual tutoring job.
Just as I was thinking that, Shiina suddenly ran ahead of me. As I walked and looked at her, wondering what she was up to this time, I felt the area suddenly become dark.
However, I felt as if the place where Shiina had gone ahead of me was glowing only white.
As I froze in place in confusion, someone came up to Shiina’s side.
It was an unfamiliar boy about the same age as me.
As I looked at him curiously, Shiina spoke to him.
In a friendly manner, she called the boy by his first name, and the other person responded to her.
It was obvious to Shiina that the boy was not just an acquaintance.
And then, without even looking at me, Shiina walked further on with the boy.
I couldn’t help but reach out my hand and tried to say, “Wait,” but for some reason I couldn’t speak.
I wondered if it was because I was in shock, or what I was so shocked about in the first place.
No matter how hard I reached out, I couldn’t even get my voice to her.
I was left alone in the darkness, and even the light that had been shining around Shiina seemed to fade into the distance.
I reached out my hand once more, painfully, and shouted inaudible words.
“Shiina!”
The voice echoed out and came back to my ears. I also noticed a familiar electronic beeping sound right after that.
My surroundings, which should have been dark, were lit up, and I reached out to find Shiina and the boy gone, only a lonely calendar on the dresser door with no particular schedule written on it.
My feet were right under my outstretched hands, and the place I was on was a comfortable low-rebound bed.
I picked up the device, which was making an electronic sound, and stopped the ringing.
My body was a little sluggish, and my clothes and breathing were quite uneven.
I didn’t move for a while, waiting for my breathing to regulate, and then took one deep breath.
I looked at my surroundings again and sighed.
“A dream, huh?”
My fully awakened mind was more calm than usual, and I was able to vividly recall and replay the scene I had just experienced in my mind.
Even though it wasn’t the height of summer, I was sweating a lot in my pajamas. It was a little uncomfortable.
I got off the bed, taking off the pajamas that clung to my skin.
I took out my uniform and underwear from my locker to change first, and put them on in order.
To put the finishing touches on my outfit, I grabbed my tie and stood in front of the mirror.
My face naturally comes into view. Usually, I see a dull, sleepy high school boy, but not today.
“I look terrible.”
The basics of my face were the same as usual, but the highlights in my eyes were faded, and I had a face that was hard to look at, as if I had become emaciated.
I thought it would be better if I left the room and washed my face in the bathroom, but as it turned out, almost nothing had changed.
My sleepy eyelids had opened up somewhat. My usual dull face was still in a state of dishevelment.
I tried to change my expression a little bit, but it didn’t have any effect. I tried to avoid looking at my own face as much as possible, dissolved my sleepiness, and left the bathroom.
As I sat down at the table and had a light breakfast as usual, I thought about my dream.
“What was up with that deam?”
I had heard somewhere that dreams are about what you remember right before you fall asleep or what you remember from that day.
The day before yesterday, I was visiting Satsuki’s house, but yesterday I was tutoring at Shiina’s house as usual.
With that in mind, there was nothing particularly questionable about the dream I have about Shiina. The problem, however, was the content.
A strange boy who I don’t remember at all appeared in my dream, and he was friends with Shiina.
How did I end up having this dream?
The more I thought about it, the more I couldn’t figure it out, so I gave up and took a bite of bread and poured it down my stomach with cocoa.
I don’t know why I was so shaken about a mere dream.
It was only a rare dream with Shiina in it.
When I thought about it again, I felt so pathetic that I immediately abandoned such thoughts.
After that, I ate a quick breakfast and left the house a little early so that my thoughts would not turn to something else.
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After school that day.
Shiina and I walked home together, and because of the special sales day at the supermarket, we went to a supermarket along the street to finish our shopping and then started walking again.
Since it was a special sale day, Shiina’s shopping bag was even fuller than usual.
Incidentally, the shopping bag was not a plastic bag, but Shiina’s own bag. Shiina’s housewifery skills were as strong as ever.
I didn’t say anything in particular, but put my hand on the bag that was in Shiina’s hand.
I looked at Shiina, who looked back at me curiously, and she smiled and handed me the bag, saying, “Thank you.”
It wasn’t much different from usual, but I was able to do what I had learned at home.
What it was was a magazine for girls that I had discovered a while ago.
In the headline of the magazine, there was a ranking of the 『The Top 10 Things Boys Do To You That Make You Swoon!』
Since then, before the magazine was disposed of in the garbage, I secretly took it and brought it back to my room to read.
I felt kind of shameful as a high school boy, but I told myself that this was a necessary thing and kept reading.
What I needed to do was to fight back against Shiina.
It would ruin my reputation as a man and a senpai if I was constantly teased by the devilish girl.
So, with the help of this magazine, I took action to surprise Shiina as much as possible.
Incidentally, the one that I had prepped at home today was 『The boy to carry your bags』which was listed at No. 9.
If you ask me, carrying a bag when you go shopping is something that I do on a daily basis, so it doesn’t seem very new.
Therefore, I decided to implement the 8th ranking in a hurry.
The title was 『The boy who gives me a friendly smile and a pat on the head』
I felt that the difficulty level had suddenly increased, but I couldn’t turn my back on it.
I boldly put my hand on her head while deliberately avoiding eye contact.
“Heh? S-Senpai? W-What’s wrong with you all of a sudden?”
“No, nothing…Umm, I thought Shiina had been working hard.”
“I-Is that so?”
I immediately said something like that, but I meant it.
I continued with my head nodding and continued to speak.
“Yeah. You’re working a lot harder than I am. You’re a high school student living on your own and studying every day like this. Shiina is doing more than enough.”
“T-That’s not true…”
It was not clear if the head nodding was having an effect, but Shiina slightly bowed her head down and humbly responded.
Shiina should be more proud about this. It would be difficult for a mere high school student to live alone unless he or she was determined to do so.
Come to think of it, I have yet to hear the reason why Shiina was living alone away from her parents.
Of course, I know that I shouldn’t ask so easily, because it could be a family situation.
“You know, Senpai, you seemed…to be a little down today.”
“I-Is that so?”
At Shiina’s words, the hand on her head involuntarily froze.
I thought that a day at school would fix my complexion to the point where it would be somewhat deceiving, but I guess not.
I can’t slip up and say it was because of a dream I had about her this morning.
“It’s nothing. I’m just a little tired, that’s all.”
“If that’s the case, you can skip tutoring today…”
“Don’t worry, it’s nothing for Shiina to worry about. Come on, let’s go.”
I urged the anxious Shiina to walk to her house. A voice came from behind us, stopping us in our tracks.
I turned around at the same time as Shiina to hear the unfamiliar voice.
The person standing there was…
“Azusa-chan, long time no see.”
“Kohei-kun!”
There was a boy with a fresh smile on his face, reminding me somewhat of that dream.
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Honestly he better realize he has feelings for shina before it’s too late and say sorry for leading Satsuma on