Chapter 275:
T/N: Thank you Thiranoyama for the coffee!
“C’mon, Rep. Sorry for telling you such a weird lie, but surely you don’t need to react like that? Your jaws are wide open!”
“Huh? A-Ah, s-sorry, I—”
Nitta-san had told us silly jokes and made a fool out of us, but she never lied to us before. That was why I found this to be so surprising.
At a first glance, she seemed to be laughing at my reaction, teasing me like usual. But it was clear that she didn't feel the same way inside. Just like I thought, not long after, her laughter turned to sound bitter as she let out a deep sigh.
“Well, I get what you’re feeling. I don’t even know why I lied to you. Actually, I came here by myself for no reason at all. I probably thought that if I just told you guys that, you’d find me pitiful or something… Well, at least, thanks to that lie, Yuuchin didn’t have any strange thoughts about me being here.”
“I see. Is Yuna-san still studying at home, then? Or maybe she’s in the cram school?”
“The former. She was nagging at me, telling me to study or something when I was lazing around at home, so I went outside. Since I didn’t make any plans to go out with anyone today, I couldn’t just invite anyone to come with me out of nowhere. And, I don’t want any of my friends to see me loitering around if I were to go to the usual places, so I took the bus ride and came here instead.”
In the end, the four of us somehow bumped into each other here, unplanned, leaving out Nozomu, who was busy with practice, like always.