Chapter 2: Even So, His and Her Routine Will Continue On
No matter how the seasons alternate, some things never change.
Inversely, some things do change.
For example, the service club that I’m in has had some change.
A while after parting with Hayama—
I entered the special building and headed towards the club room, immediately, something running towards me appeared in my peripheral vision.
“Oh, Onii-chan, what took you so long?”
The biggest change here, is that we now have an adorable new club member, who was coming to greet me in smiles.
The one and only, best sister in the world, Hikigaya Komachi—wearing the Sobu High uniform and joining the service club. That was a scene that I never imagined I’d see one day.
During spring break, I’d already seen her in uniform at home plenty of times, but to see it in school made me more emotional than I thought possible. Because of how precious she is, I don’t even dare to talk to her when we run into each other on the hallway. To be exact, Komachi treats me like air in school, but talks to me normally in the club room, Onii-chan is so happy …
Perhaps because she was still not used to it, she wore her uniform jacket with her sleeves slightly rolled up, and had a new hair pin to put down her bangs, and now, there she was, applying Sock Touch casually like it was no big deal..[2]
When she had just joined the club, she was like a new cat in the house exploring its new home, however, just a few days later, she had already completely adjusted, thus exposing such a defenseless pose now. Don’t do that in front of other boys, alright? With how cute you are, I’m afraid that you will awaken a Sock Touch fetish in them.
Sock Touch … sounds pretty good …
Of course, the change is not only in my newly discovered fetish, there are other things that have changed here.
“Ah, Senpai, what took you so long?”
Isshiki Iroha puffed her cheeks in an adorable manner, and was busy doing a manicure on her nails …
This person is just the same as the last huh? Say, what are you even doing here …? You’re not a club member, right?
But the one sitting next to Isshiki, Yuigahama Yui, did undergo a bit of a change.
“Hikki, yahallo!”
Her smile and cheerful waving had not changed, neither did her weird but lively greeting.
Although, she sat in a different place compared to before, now, she sat at the other side of the table, right beside Isshiki.
“… Oh, good afternoon.”
The change from the usual distance made me confused, thus, I was slow in my reply. To cover that up, I speedily walked towards my seat.
But even this seat was different from before.
“Good afternoon.”
As I was sitting down, a soft voice came from beside the window. As usual, this voice was quiet and composed, but it felt closer than before. And so, I replied with a quieter voice than usual:
“… Yeah, good afternoon.”
This was probably the smallest change of all.
Yukinoshita Yukino sat in front of the windows, the sunlight shining in and forming a glowing backlight on her. She was lightly combing her hair, with an elegant smile on her face.
The distance between us had become slightly closer than before, just by a few millimeters.
In the past, my seating arrangement had always been diagonal to Yukinoshita’s, but now, we were on the same line.
Looking back at the past, it was clear to me that however far I stretched out my hand, it would never be enough to reach her, and so I never tried. In the past, the distance between us was as far as that.
But now, the distance between us was such that, if we both took a step forward, and tried our best to reach out, we would be within each other’s grasp.
Even so, the distance between us now was still not all that close, that point hadn’t changed that much from the past.
Despite being an almost negligible change, it was still something.
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