Book 3: Chapter 5: Part 2
I will repeat myself over and over again, but a guy named Yousuke Hirata was a cool guy. Not because of his outstanding looks, but because of his ideals of how actions ought to be. An ordinary human being takes the initiative to be responsible for troublesome, unpleasant matters while responding uppermost to the others. Cooperating with the girls, he was setting up 2 tents to keep them at a distance from the boys.
I, who was on the other side, had a fixed role of hammering pegs of carrying tents to the ground. At the beginning I immediately struggled to be completely omitted, but as soon as I got the hang of it, I had a fixed position in the first tent. It was unexpectedly easy. Right now I was nailing the peg of the second tent with a hammer while wiping my sweat. Our link Hirata assisted me with spreading the rope and hammering the peg.
“Sorry for giving you a hard time.”
The other boys were playing outside or trying to store some food with fishing.
“Oh – no, you don’t have to apologize. It would be bad leaving it to you.”
“It’s not bad. I’m doing it as much as I like.”
The existence of his refreshing smile was a big factor in the coolness of this guy.
“It might come off as weird, but why are you working so hard?”
“Working hard? I don’t tend to work hard. I’m only doing what has to be done.”