Why Not Make Both Twins 'Girlfriends'?-Chapter 6Volume 1 .3 - What Was Revealed...?

What Was Revealed…?  3

“I’m sorry for not realizing your feelings, Usami-san…”

“It’s okay… It’s my fault that I’m not cute…”

“No, that’s not true——”

“…I hate myself.”

“What!? Usami-san…!?”

Usami ran off towards the station.

Sakuto, who had been staring blankly at her retreating figure, snapped back to reality.

The phrase ‘too late’ flashed through his mind.

Should he let her go like this?

He felt that if he let her go, she might never properly meet her again.

Everything up until now, and what was to come——at this moment, he feared all his relationship with her might be lost.

Sakuto looked down at his feet.

Usami’s ribbon, which she usually wore in her hair, lay there.

As he picked up the ribbon and gazed at it——

『——Sakuto… I’m sorry…』

He felt a voice within him urging him to follow her.

His hand tightened around the ribbon, and a resolute look appeared in Sakuto’s eyes.

(I can’t let her go like this…!)

Sakuto pocketed the ribbon and chased after Usami’s retreating figure.

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Following Usami’s back, Sakuto dashed into the Yuki Sakura Station.

The station was crowded with people returning home in the rush hour.

He couldn’t spot Usami anywhere.

He looked around, wondering if she might still be nearby, but as time passed, Usami could have already boarded a train.

(Which gate?)

Yuki Sakura Station has three lines: the East-West line and the North-South line that divide the city into a cross, and the subway runs to the northwest and southeast.

Sakuto never saw Usami on the North-South line, which he usually uses.

So, her destination would be limited to the East-West line or the subway.

Sakuto closed his eyes for a moment.

He pulled out a memory from the third year of junior high school from his memory box.

Although it was a box filled with memories he didn’t want to recall, it was necessary——

The scene of the cram school classroom——not a fragmentary picture but a moving image.

He rewound the image like a videotape.

Winter, close to the entrance exams.

Among students in different school uniforms, Usami was there.

Sitting at a rather inconspicuous seat in the middle by the classroom wall, she quietly wrote with her pen.

Just like now, her uniform was neatly worn, but she used to wear glasses.

Focusing on her uniform——the school badge with ‘West’ on it was visible.

——Sakuto opened his eyes.

(West Junior High… so, the East-West line…!)

Sakuto quickly headed towards the gate of the East-West line.

Then, just before the East-West line gate, he saw a uniform from Arisuyama Academy.

(There she is!)

With an intense look, as if he were cornering someone, Sakuto navigated through the crowd that stood in his way.

He moved aside, apologized, moved aside again, and continued moving towards her.

He was gripped by a sense of urgency.

He couldn’t let her go like this.

The past couldn’t be changed, but there was still time to change the present now.

There was still time, he thought.

Finally, he caught up to her. Sakuto’s heart raced even more fiercely.

“Usami-san!”

“Ah! Takayashiki-kun, what’s g─!? “

Before she could finish speaking, Sakuto embraced her from the front.

Passersby stared at them curiously as they flowed through the ticket gates.

But he no longer cared about the surroundings. He had made up his mind.

He tightened his arms around her, determined not to let her escape, just as she had done earlier.

“Wh-wh-what!? What is it? What’s going on!?”

“I’m sorry, there’s so much I don’t understand… but there’s one thing I need to confirm.”

“Eh…? Wha, what is it…?”

“Is it true that you like me?”

“——!?”

She was surprised in his arms but eventually relaxed as if resigning herself.

“It’s embarrassing, but, um, that… yes, I like you…”

“Thank you. Then I’ll make up my mind too.”

“M-make up your mind? …what do you mean?”

Sakuto gently released his embrace.

“T-takayashiki-kun…?”

He looked directly into Usami’s eyes, and she looked back at him with tearful eyes, blushing with an upward gaze.

But he didn’t look away this time.

Eventually, Usami understood Sakuto’s intentions.

She quietly closed her eyes and offered her lips.

Sakuto, responding to her invitation, leaned in closer.

Slowly, their lips met.

It was sweet and soft, and her slight heat transmitted through the kiss.

After one touch, they kissed again, twice, thrice, continuing without parting.

He didn’t care about the surroundings anymore.

To have met someone who truly likes him like this——

“Ah, there she is, Hii-cha… what, Takayashiki-kun!?”

Sakuto turned with a ‘Huh?’ towards the direction of the voice.

There stood Usami——huh?

But he had just embraced and kissed Usami. And there she was, standing and looking surprised.

“…huh?”

Confused, Sakuto looked at the person in his arms.

“Mmnh… oh no… my legs are giving out…”

The one with a blissful expression, weak in the knees, was also Usami——wait, what?

“Ta-ta-ta-takayashiki-kun, what, just now, with Hii-chan, you!?”

“What? Uh, Hii-chan…”

“Is that Chii-chan——? Chii-chan~I just kissed Takayashiki-kun…”

Usami giggled happily.

“The person I like is Takayashiki-kun…wait, Chii-chan? Why do you look like it’s the end of the world?”

Hii-chan and Chii-chan——I see, the names are different.

I see now.

Finally understanding the situation, Sakuto’s face gradually turned pale. No, it was more like ashen. He felt like he was barely alive.

“Uh, you two, could it be——”

“We’re twins!” “Twins, okay?”

Chii-chan, a.k.a. Chikage Usami, turned bright red in anger.

Her sister Hikari, also known as Hii-chan, turned just as red but with a beaming smile.

Both were certainly red-faced, but Sakuto, who was ashen, let out a dry laugh,

“ahaha…”

——I see… hmm, so that’s what it was!——

He finally understood the source of the slight discomfort he had been feeling this whole time, but it might be too late.

This chapt𝒆r is updated by frёewebηovel.cѳm.

This was a very, very, very bad situation.

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TN: Summary; in case my tl is confusing.

Chikage (Chii-chan) is mistaken for Hikari (Hii-chan) in front of the arcade >>> Chikage hears that Sakuto already has a girlfriend >>> Chikage confesses and runs away to the station.

Sakuto chases after Chikage >>> He meets Hikari at the station and mistakes her for Chikage >>> He ends up responding/confessing to Hikari instead of Chikage.