Discovery

the ranking of the most awkward moments of my life has been updated today, in my room I'm sitting on the bed with a girl I don't even know.

"how the fuck did I reach this situation!?"

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two weeks has passed since the culture festival, the atmosphere was awkward in the literature club during that time.

the second years are already going on their school trip so Suzuki decided we should stop our activities until Hiragi-senpai is back

when I tried to spend my time outside of the literature club I realized something important

"I don't have any friends.."

during school I would do my job by following Emma around, but after school I don't have anyone to hang out with

"you have me though..."

I guess Makoto is the only one I can spend time with, was I a loner in middle school? I genuinely forgot most of my life before becoming a hero, and my memories of being a hero are mostly sealed so all I have is a blank past

"hey Makoto, did I change since middle school?"

we were just walking randomly in a mall without buying anything so asking something weird won't be surprising

"it hasn't been a year since then don't act like you've changed so much, well I guess you changed"

"how did I change?"

"hmmm...you got stronger physically, and you're talking to girls normally now"

I kinda remember being awkward with girls, I don't think I'm good at communicating with them but it's better than nothing right?

"what about me? what changed about me?"

"who are you"

he punched my shoulder while making some angry noises

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm just kidding"

"don't mind it, anyway wanna go somewhere?"

It's the fifth time we reached this point today, we want to do something to kill time put there's nothing to do.

"what about the arcade?"

the arcade is the best place to go if you're hanging out with your male friends, I didn't go there for a while so I'd like to check it out. but surprisingly Makoto didn't agree to my suggestion

"yeah...I can't go there"

"why not?"

"I'm banned..."

can you even get banned from an arcade? what the hell did he do to get that? when the boy in question noticed how surprised I was he started explaining

"H-Suzuki asked me to come here with her a while ago, she was good at playing surprisingly, but her attitude was a bit..."

Ah, she asked to help her learn how to play before, looking back I can see why would they ban her

"shs dragged you with her?"

"yeah...she started a fight with some girls and it just got bigger and bigger until we were banned"

even though she act shy most of the times, she turns into a different person sometimes

"so..what about your house? can't we go there?"

my house huh? Airi shouldn't be back early today so that shouldn't be a problem

"sure, but can we ho buy a new game first?I got bored from most of the gamesI have"

as we were walking to the store I heard someone calling us from behind

"Makocchi! Arucchi!"

just by hearing those names I immediately knew who's the caller, Makoto looked behind quickly with a smile

"Chi-senpai!"

was spending time with a boy this bad? he looks ten times happier just because he saw a girl, Tch I hate this womanizer, there's another girl that I don't recognize walking with Chi-senpai so I asked

"who's she?"

"oh right the boys don't know you, introduce yourself!"

"Hoshino Rei, I was in the literature club before graduating last year"

there's something wrong about this girl...no, it's more like there's nothing wrong with her! people who look normal are the most likely to be dangerous.

"I'm Tsukasa Makoto a first year in the literature club, nice to meet you"

"Sawano Aru, same as him"

at this point I accepted that I only exist as a background character in Makoto's story so I don't need to say much about myself

"why are you two here?" Chi-senpai asked

I pointed at the game store and answered

"we were going to buy some games to play at my house later"

"what a coincidence! we were going to do the same!"

since we had the same goal we decided to move together until the station after buying the games

"by the way I didn't know you live in this area too"

"hmmm? I don't "

"oh so, you're going to Hoshino-san's home?"

"No"

"just to confirm, when you said "we're going to do the same" you didn't mean the part of "my house" too right?"

"Of course we're going to your house, you're the only one I know who have a console"

"..."

even Hoshino-san was surprised..no, she was more surprised than me

"did you mean a boy when you said we are going to your friend's house?!"

"it's Airi-chan's home too so it's fine"

"who's Airi?"

Makoto asked, she remembered that I'm hiding Airi from Makoto so sge started sweating, everyone was looking at her waiting for her answer

she punched her head slightly and made a cute pose saying "Tehe"

"Tehe my ass, were yoi going to bring a girl I don't even know to my house?!"

Hoshino-san covered her face in embarrassment as she started apologizing to us

"I am really sorry about Chi's behavior, don't worry we will take the next bus and go home"

"Eh? what about the games?"

Hoshino-san grabbed Chi's hair and started pulling it

"okay okay I'm sorry we'll go home"

after staying silent for a while Makoto spoke

"they come all the way here, why not just spend time together?"

"Makocchi is right we should just go!"

"Aru don't mind it too right?"

Chi-senpai and Makoto looked at me with excitement that I couldn't help put nodding

"Ugh, but..."

"please Shin-chan only for this time, okay?"

after begging her for a while Hoshino-san finally accepted it

"I'm home"

no one responded when I said that, did Mom go out?

"excuse me..."

unlike Chi-senpai who entered the house as if it's her own, Hoshino-san was acting politely

"mom isn't here?" said Chi-senpai while looking around

"why the fuck are you calling my mom like that??"

"Watch your language! there's a lady here!"

she said it as she pointed at Hoshino-san

"you're a girl too...no, don't change the subject!"

"Your mom told me to just call her "mom" so I did that, what's the problem?"

"there's a lot of problems! and please stop looking at me like this Makoto!"

the guy was looking at me with dead eyes, I can see his feelings right through them (you betrayed the loners and got a lover)

it took a while to explain our relationship to Makoto without talking about Airi, he didn't accept it but still decided to stop talking about it for now

it's already trouble even before we start playing , I'm getting exhausted

"oh right! we didn't buy snacks! I'll go get some so start withoutme"

"wait Chi-senpai I'll go with you"

"..."

they left the house without leaving me any chance to talk...

"A-ah...should we go and start without them..?"

"I g-guess we should"

after we entered my room I finally noticed that I'm bringing a girl I don't even know to my room...I don't even know what to talk about, I'm going to die if the silence continues!

"um..sorry about Chi, she isn't a bad person"

hearing her talk like this I calmed down quickly and turned on the console with a smile on my face

"don't worry about it, I'm already used to how unreasonable she is, I guess that's a part of he charm"

evenif it's annoying at the moment it becomes a funny memory after everything's done.

"do you hang out with her often?"

I used the chance to keep up tge conversation about Chi-senpai since she's the reason we're talking to each other

we kept talking for a while, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, honestly I enjoyed talking to someone who doesn't have any weird traits, but maybd being normal is her trait? well, playing a good game is the main reason I'm having fun it was a racing game

*ring ring*

after the doorbell rang I opened the door for Chi-senpai and Makoto, they were talking so they didn't even notice that I were there

"third wheel huh?"

I just accepted it at first, but suddenly I had a big realization, I turned to see Makoto and Chi-senpai, the perk of being a third wheel is the ability to notice someone's feelings so it didn't tike long for me to understand...No, it's more like why didn't I notice earlier

the reason Kiriyama acts like a kind and cheerful girl most of the time...

it was because she knew his type more than the angone, Makoto's face I confirmed it

"Tsukasa Makoto, fell in love"