Chapter 56
“I’m not very close to Ibuki-senpai, so I don’t know much,” Chitose Kazumi hesitated for a moment, deciding to reveal what she knew.
“So, you do know some things about her?” Minami Yuuki looked pleasantly surprised.
He had just asked casually, trying his luck and looking for a topic to chat about with Chitose Kazumi. He hadn’t expected his luck to be so good; Chitose Kazumi actually knew something about Ibuki Yuko.
Chitose Kazumi looked at him. The joy in the boy’s words was like a chilling winter wind, extinguishing the flame that had ignited in her chest upon his arrival.
“We were in the same junior high school. Back then… she was quite famous,” Chitose Kazumi clasped her hands together on the table, speaking slowly.
Junior high school here generally refers to middle school.
“Famous?” Minami Yuuki thought to himself. Given Ibuki Yuko’s appearance, being famous was normal, but seeing the hesitation on Chitose Kazumi’s face, this fame seemed to carry a different meaning.
“Ibuki-senpai is very cute, and whether it was teachers or classmates, both boys and girls paid a lot of attention to her. People thought she was peculiar because her appearance was always changing.”
Chitose Kazumi reminisced for a moment and gave examples. “There was a time she wore glasses, a time she had short hair, a time she dyed her hair curly, a time she hung many cute dolls on her school bag, and a time she wore a bandage over her eye even though she wasn’t injured… Her changes were always sudden and unpredictable, and after a while, she would return to normal. Plus, she had no friends and interacted with everyone in a plain, indifferent manner. No one could understand her.”