Book 4: Chapter 3: 4th of September (Friday) – Asamura Yuuta
Us two men got up early in the morning. We were sitting down at the dinner table when my old man suddenly started talking.
“Akiko-san and I thought about this together, you know.”
“Together?”
I was in the middle of putting some rice in my old man’s rice bowl, but I paused in confusion. I wanted to ask how these two lovebirds, who constantly talk past each other, even reach something that could be called consensus. When I asked him about it, he said we could discuss it via LINE, despite being too bothered to chat with me. I guess he’s changed in his own right. That aside, however…
“I’ll take time off work and come with you to your parent-teacher meeting after all. It’s true that my company’s buried with work at the moment, but I can’t just let Akiko-san carry all the weight on her own.”
“Oh, about that, Dad.”
I told him about my discussion with Ayase-san that had happened the previous night, and explained how we decided that we’d hold both of our meetings on the same day so that Akiko-san would only have to take one day off. As a result, he wouldn’t have to take time off work either.
“Whoa… Are you really sure about that?”
I nodded.