Butterfly | Dreaming Chrysalis - 7

[kumakuma]

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〈Location: Coffee Shop〉

〈30 minutes later. Having safely retrieved the pillow in question, Izumi and Ritsu are in the coffee shop waiting to meet up with Tsukasa and Makoto, who are running late.〉


Izumi: ……and?


Ritsu: Hm~? Could you be clearer? Making me guess what you want to say from a single “and?” isn’t very nice of you, is it?


Izumi: You’re smart enough to figure it out.

…...Anyway, what’s going on? What are you trying to get at by playing a prank on me?

This morning, you were saying something like “Su~chan and Yuu-kun are going to be doing something weird later, so I’ll just bear with it and play along as best I can”―

It must have been a pretty rare and desperate situation if you of all people were willing to go along with it.

So many times I’ve thought about how stupid this is and whether I should go home halfway or not. Soo~ troublesome.


Ritsu: Ah, did it really come off as desperate? As I thought, Secchan’s earnest at heart, so making it seem like it’s something serious is super effective, hm?

Nice nice. My acting skills are improving. I polished them up so I could be spoiled by other people~ ♪


Izumi: Hah? If you tell nothing but lies, other people aren't going to trust you anymore, you know?


Ritsu: That's fine~ I don't need 'strangers' to trust me.

In any case. Surely Secchan’s sharp enough to work out the purpose behind all this without having me go out of my way to explain it.

I’d say it’s stupid to spell out every little detail when you don’t have to~, but I don’t want to sound like a cliche villain.

Hm. But if I had to say…... we’re more like the villains than the heroes of justice.


Izumi: Then again, I suppose there's no need for an explanation.

The point was to get those damn brats to spit out whatever they were keeping bottled up inside~ right?

Confronting them head on and having a serious talk at this point would be embarrassing. Or rather, it seems laughable.

This time it was ‘body-swapping’…… Since you’re borrowing someone else’s appearance and their point of view,

I guess it makes it easier to bare the things you’d normally keep hidden?

Kasa-kun’s obstinate, uncompromising and tries to show off, so normally, he wouldn’t speak his mind even if it’s something important…...

He’s constantly complaining, but then he hides the really important things. It’s like he’s walled himself off so that he doesn’t get hurt.


Ritsu: That sounds just like a certain somebody …...Well, in any case, it’s basically what you said.

Secchan's going to graduate soon, so before you leave, open up to each other and talk about your real feelings.

If you have any leftover regrets, you won’t even be able to die peacefully.

This time, say your goodbyes properly so there's no hard feelings in the future. My stomach hurts from seeing that sort of thing up close all this time.


Izumi: Hm. It's just graduation. It's not like I’m saying goodbye forever.


Ritsu: Nobody knows what the future holds. Only the gods know when we'll see each other next......

Wasn’t Secchan mistaken about how long ‘Ousama’ would be away for last year?


Izumi: ..........


Ritsu: You should seize the day while you’re still alive. It’s much nee~ded advice from an old vampire.


Izumi: Kuma-kun. I don't know if you're aware, but recently you've been becoming more like your brother.


Ritsu: Hah? You want to die?

......Just kidding. Even though you've said something like that, I don't really feel annoyed. I don't get it myself.


Izumi: You’ve opened up your heart. I’m honestly glad for that. When I ran into you before, you always used to seem like a dead body, you know?


Ritsu: That was around this spring, wasn’t it, Secchan. It didn't seem like I was alive, but recently...... I've been really enjoying each day.


Izumi: All thanks to a group of certain sombodies.

......oh?


Tsukasa: H-he~y! Sorry, Izumi-san, Ritsu-kun! We're late!


Makoto: Fufu. A few fans found us and begged us to give them our autographs. Since we were swapped around, we had a rather difficult time dealing with them.


Tsukasa: Y-yeah. Me signing as ‘Suou Tsukasa’ would make it a forgery.


Izumi: Uh huh. Instead of fidgeting over by the door, why don't you come over here and take a seat?

It’s about time you took notice of the calories you've burned by pointlessly running around, so let's get some food in you―

Since we got back the pillow without a hitch, we’ll take a break and return to school. Then we can get you back to normal…... How’s that sound?

With that, it'll be case closed. ‘And they all lived happily ever after’, right?




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