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“Oi!”
“…”
“Oi, Miyuki!”
“Hm?”
“Wake up, you good-for-nothing Captain. We have a problem.”
“Stop hitting the chair, you’re so annoying.”
“You are annoying. Come on, it’s important.”
“What? Did the coach say something? Did Yakushi cancel the practice match?”
“No. Why would they? The last I heard, Todoroki was thrilled to have a re-match with Sawamura and Furuya.”
“How do you know?”
“Sawamura is in group chat with him and Amahisa.”
“Ugh. I don’t trust him around Sawamura.”
“No one does.”
“Then, why are you waking me up from my hard-earned lunch break nap?”
“Sorry to interrupt your beauty sleep, princess, but as I said, this is an emergency.”
“Out with it then.”
“What the hell did you do to Sawamura?”
“…Why do you assume that I did something?”
“…”
“I hate you.”
“You love me. Come on now. The kid is having one existential crisis after another non-stop for two days. He was still questioning our place in the universe as a species when I left him. And that is if he is not staring into walls without talking. He is giving me creeps. You need to fix it.”
“I don’t know if I can.”
“Why? What did you do?”
“…”
“I am not letting you go back to sleep until I get my answer.”
“Well…”
“Yes?”
“I kinda… accidentally… uhh… kissed him.”
“You… you kissed him? Why?”
“I told you it was accidental.”
“But… what were you trying to do?”
“…kiss him.”
“…”
“…”
“You lost me.”
“Look, I leaned in to kiss his cheek, but he turned his face, so I accidentally kissed his lips. And then we stared at each other. And he ran away. And now he avoids me. So there. I don’t know how I can fix it.”
“Wait, wait. Back it up. Why in the hell would want to kiss Sawamoron in the first place?”
“To mess with him.”
“There are thousands of ways to mess with him. The kid is so messable. Why did you think kissing him is the best option?”
“Shh. Keep it low.”
“Why? No one else is in here. Unlike you, people like to have lunch at lunchtime.”
“Then why are you not eating?”
“I happened to have this more urgent business, Captain. And don’t change the subject.”
“You changed it first.”
“Miyuki…”
“Alright! Okay. Well to answer your question, it kinda happened once and he was blushing so hard it was funny. So, I, you know, keep doing it to mess with him.”
“It kinda happened once.”
“Yeah.”
“You made a conscious decision to continue to kiss him.”
“Yeah.”
“Are you in love with Sawamura?”
“What? No!”
“Okay, you lost me again. Why is it, then, you are harassing the kid?”
“I am not harassing him! Don’t look at me like that. I am not! It was not until two days ago, and yes; I understand why he reacted like that. It was embarrassing for both of us.”
“Look Miyuki. I am trying to understand, I really am but that doesn’t make any sense.”
“Alright, I’ll begin from the start.”
“Yes, please.”
“As you know, after Sawamura got the Ace number, we started to do more one-on-one practices.”
“You mean this has been going on that long?”
“…”
“OK, shutting up. Please continue, Captain.”
“And he has been doing very well for a while. And I didn’t like that he was throwing that well while being so cool about it.”
“…”
“Shut up. One day, he did exceptionally well. And I was very tired but also pumped up with excitement. I threw my arm around him as usual. Then I felt an urge to… You know how you see a cute baby and you want to destroy it because something that that cute shouldn’t exist?”
“Something is so very wrong with you.”
“I wanted to crush him like that. But instead, I pulled him to me and um… kissed the side of his head.”
“Very rational response.”
“Anyway, he turned and looked at me. I wasn’t sure if he realized what I did then, but we stared at each other for a while. Then someone came in and the moment was gone. But after that, we continued to practice and he… umm… He started to get really close to me. Usually, I have to trap him to keep him close. You know how he is.”
“Yeah, he hates that. He is very evasive, too. Unless you are Chris-senpai.”
“…”
“Jealous?”
“Shut up, Youichi.”
“HYAHAHA.”
“Anyway, I was very surprised that he was intentionally in my personal space all of a sudden. Until I realized what he was playing. He was trying to get a rise out of me. That moron. As you can guess, I wasn’t going to let him win. So, I started being more physical with him.”
“You mean more than you already were.”
“I guess. His responses were so funny. What else should I have done?”
“Literally anything except that.”
“Well, I didn’t. I started kissing his cheeks as obnoxiously as I can. He was getting flustered and going completely red. But he didn’t back down either.”
“Of course, he didn’t. You two are as stubborn as mules. No surprise it ended in disaster.”
“It really did, didn’t it? Damn. Koushien is coming. I need my Ace in top performance.”
“We need our Ace in top performance.”
“That’s what I said.”
“Ugh. Kazuya. You should either stop toying with Sawamura’s feelings or be honest with your own.”
“What do you mean?”
“So, what happened after that? You were once again trying to kiss his cheek, but he turned his face. And then what?”
“Then we kissed. I told you. Don’t change the subject. What do you mean?”
“I am not trying to. We’ll come back to it. You kissed him. Did he kiss you?”
“Umm… I don’t know. I leaned back first. His eyes were closed. He opened his eyes and looked very embarrassed. I apologized. He ran away.”
“How did you apologize?”
“What’s up with this interrogation?”
“I’ll explain. I promise.”
“I think I said, ‘Sorry, my mistake’.”
“Yeah, that would do.”
“What?!”
“Calm down.”
“I am calm!”
“Yeah sure. Look, Kazuya. Do you like Sawamura?”
“…”
“Do you like talking to him? Making him flustered? Being close to him? Touch him? Kissing him?”
“…”
“Well, it might be news to you but so does Sawamura.”
“Did he tell you that?”
“All he told me is that it takes 4.2 years to get to the next habitable planet if you travel by speed of light. I think he wants to leave this one because of how embarrassed he feels.”
“He researched? Wow. You think he likes me?”
“Yes, you idiot. And you like him. So, fix it.”
“No, wait! Don’t go! Sit down. Please? How do I do that?”
“Begging, Captain? Really? Okay. Stop that. No need to do puppy eyes to me. Save that to your boyfriend when you apologize. I’ll help. Happy?”