The Happiness That The Shinigami Gave Me - V1 Chapter 16

Volume 1 Chapter 16

Ever since I came to live with the Yamaokas, I was always in the good hands of my stepsister, Anna.

“What are you getting excited about? Don’t get ahead of yourself just because dad praised you.”

She would drag me back to reality with her usual retorts like this.

Anyway, when I showed the Yamaoka couple my mid-term exams results, they were so happy to the point that they made a cake to celebrate the occasion with me.

After I left the living room, Anna, who had been smiling while eating her share, approached me.

“Don’t forget that you’re just an orphan who’s supposed to be dead.”

These days, she stopped hitting me when her parents were around.

Whenever they weren’t around, she would nonchalantly say those words to me.

To think that this was the same girl who always said whatever came to her mind without caring about her surroundings. Her growth astounded me.

She also grew to be a perceptive person.

Perhaps my meeting with Natsuhara Suzuno made my previously repressed feelings loose.

My joy, my happiness, my excitement.

I was probably overwhelmed by those feelings.

“Don’t worry, I know. I won’t bother any of you guys.”

Don’t worry, Anna.

I am someone who’s life is bound by a contract with the shinigami. My life will come to an end soon.

“Do that. Though, your existence here already bothers me. Don’t forget about that.”

Suddenly, my stepbrother, Kento, approached us from the hallway.

“Oi, Anna, I’m going to take a bath first.”

He had become a high school student. Like usual, he acted as if I didn’t exist.

Anna’s attitude toward me was bitter, but at least she’d go out her way to talk to me. However, it was Kento’s attitude that hurt me more.

It made me uneasy. He always treated me like air.

I exist, right? I haven’t turned into a ghost, right?

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Even though I said those words to Anna.

In the end, I couldn’t go back to the person I was before I met Natsuhara-san.

My clumsy idea of ‘wonderful summer’ failed to come to fruition. Like the previous summers, I spent the long summer vacation cooped inside my room.

It was easily the worst summer of my life.

Because I was unable to see Natsuhara-san.

It was strange. I spent the previous summer just fine without her, but now I had become a total wreck.

The world I was currently living in was vastly different compared to the world I lived in last year.

This was the world where Natsuhara-san existed.

It felt like even the way I breathe had changed. My very being had changed.

That was why I was sure that I couldn’t go back to the world I previously lived in.

Just like the snow being thawed by the spring sun. Just like animals who migrated to a new land.

No matter how much I told myself to keep my emotions in check.

I could never go back to those days.

TL: Iyo

ED: samheart564

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