Chapter 285: Where Miyagi is — 285
Translated by KaiesV
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I had nothing against hamburgers, but my resentnt is growing.
Miyagi has not returned yet.
That is the reason why I’m turning my negative feelings toward hamburgers, simply put, I am taking it out on them. If I delve further into these feelings, I can trace them back to her friend.
Utsunomiya Maika sells hamburgers.
To be precise, she works part-ti at a fast food restaurant, and Miyagi inford that she was going to stop by that fast food restaurant before returning ho.
I go from my room to the common area with my phone in hand and sit in the chair where Miyagi always sits.
Pictures taken at the school festival or at the zoo.
And pictures taken in this house.
My phone is full of Miyagi and I never get tired of looking at it. I am frustrated by the lack of Miyagi, but I can live with it. I really want to see the real Miyagi, not the one in my phone, but I can’t help what isn’t there.
I let out a big breath.
I didn’t expect to see Miyagi as soon as I got back from college, but it was no fun to hear that she was going to make a side trip. Moreover, the destination is Utsunomiya’s part-ti job.
There was no call to go out for dinner.
But Miyagi will probably have a hamburger.
To be correct, what she will eat is a hamburger that Utsunomiya sells at her part-ti job. A patty sandwiched between a bun is called a hamburger, but a patty made of ground at is very similar to a hamburger, so I think it can be thrown into the sa category as a hamburger.
I find Miyagi’s detour so uninteresting that I want to think about this nonsense endlessly, and I want to take it out on the hamburger.
I know it is a pointless act.
「What should I make for dinner?」
I am not very hungry, but it is ti to prepare dinner. But it’s too much trouble to cook.
No matter how elaborate I make sothing, it will not taste good without Miyagi. If nothing I eat tastes good, I may as well settle for cup noodles. I feel like I’m being Miyagi-fied at tis like this, but cup noodles is quick and easy to prepare, and there are no dishes to wash. It’s perfect for when I’m feeling unmotivated.
「I don’t rember if there was stock of those.」
The other day, when I ca ho from a part-ti job, I saw Miyagi eating a cup noodles. I think that was the last one, or maybe not. My mory is kind of fuzzy, so I put my phone down and check the shelves.
「There’s nothing here.」
I exhale and sit down again in my chair at Miyagi.
If only Miyagi had co ho, I wouldn’t have been discouraged by a problem as small as whether or not I had a cup of ran. I would really hate it.
It is okay for to be late for my part-ti job, but not for Miyagi to be late for her friend’s part-ti job.
I can’t help but be disillusioned by the fact that I have such selfish feelings, but I have been stuck in my selfish feelings ever since I t Miyagi. And the feelings are definitely growing and getting out of hand.
After what happened to my family, I had stopped being obsessed or strongly interested in people, but only Miyagi is in a different fra of mind.
I had many friends in high school, but all of them were only superficial, and I can only rember treating them with a pasted-on smile.
When I t Mio in college, I sotis think that she might beco to what “Utsunomiya is to Miyagi,” but that is all. Even though I was willing to get to know her better, I wasn’t able to deepen the depth of my relationship with her. The “friendships” associated with Mio were more botherso than I wanted them to be.
Only Miyagi is special and only Miyagi is needed.
If I still want to live with Miyagi in this house, I need to keep going to college. If I stop going to college, my parents will stop paying for it. If I want to live with her beyond that, I need to find employnt and money to maintain this place on my own, and I also need to continue to interact with people to so extent.
It is a hassle.
But even if it’s too much trouble, I can’t cut out everything but Miyagi.
And eating is also a necessary part of life.
It is really a hassle, but you should eat dinner.
I’ll have Miyagi buy sothing for .
She always looks grumpy, but she will at least go shopping if I ask her to.
I take my phone from the table and send a ssage saying,『I’m too lazy to cook for one, so go buy sothing to replace dinner on your way ho,』and I get an imdiate response.
『What about my dinner?』
『I thought you were going to go eat a hamburger.』
When I return a question to a question, I don’t get a response.
I don’t know what was wrong, but sothing was wrong.
When I was wondering whether I should send a new ssage after finding out only such a vague thing, I received a rare phone call from Miyagi.
「I didn’t say anything about eating a hamburger.」
I hear a low, gruff voice coming from my phone.
「I thought you went to Utsunomiya’s part-ti job?」
「Why do I have to eat hamburgers when I go to Maika’s?」
「Eh, because Utsunomiya sells hamburgers, right?」
「Sendai-san, if you go to a place that sells hamburgers, do you definitely eat hamburgers?」
The conversation is not engaging.
I’m just returning questions to questions and the conversation is parallel and there is no intersection. I know, but I’m back to returning questions to questions.
「You an eating dinner at ho?」
「Yes. Also, I’m here already.」
「Eh?」
The phone hangs up and I hear the front door open. And Miyagi soon appeared.
「I’m ho.」
「Welco back.」
I call out to Miyagi, who has returned earlier than expected, and she cos trotting over to .
「…Sendai-san, that’s my seat.」
「Ah, sorry.」
I tried to stand up with my phone, but Miyagi steps on my foot and I cannot stand up. It was not bone-crushing, but she is grumpy and presses my feet against the floor with quite a bit of force.
「Miyagi, move your feet.」
「Dinner, what are you going to do?」
Miyagi says as she stomps on my foot.
「I’ll make sothing. Olette with rice?」
「…It’s not hamburger?」
「Did you like the hamburger?」
「Olette rice is fine. And I think I’ve been eating too many hamburgers lately.」
Miyagi looked neither disappointed nor happy and stepped away from . Then she sat down on the other side of the table, in the chair I always use.
「Sendai-san, you don’t like hamburgers, do you? Why have you been making so many hamburgers lately?」
It’s an important thing for Miyagi.
That important thing is sothing I have been asked to make, and it is also connected to my mory. But no matter how many reasons I give, when I tell Miyagi that I like her, her mood turns sour.
The reason why I was making hamburgers is probably similar to that, so if I don’t want to make Miyagi’s mood any worse, I shouldn’t tell her. But then I would have to prepare another reason.
「If you suddenly want to eat it, it’s a hassle to go out and buy the ingredients. So, I thought, why not serve hamburgers so that you don’t ask for them all of a sudden?」
I don’t think it’s a good reason, but I can’t think of any other appropriate reason. I think she might say sothing. But Miyagi didn’t pursue the question further as to why I made hamburgers over and over again, and blurted out,
「You’re getting fat. I an, I got fat. You serve too many hamburgers.」
「So, do you want to exercise with ?」
「You’re going to exercise, Sendai-san?」
「I’m doing it. I’m getting fat.」
「Sendai-san is getting fat too.」
Miyagi says in surprise.
「I’m going to get fat. What do you think I am?」
「I kind of thought it was always like that, even if you didn’t do anything.」
「It’s not that I don’t do anything. I at least walk one stop.」
I don’t know what Miyagi ans by “that kind of feeling,” but it doesn’t an that there is no flab.
「Is that so?」
Miyagi said, as if taken, and the conversation was cut short. There was no response to my question, I asked,「Do you want to exercise with ?」She didn’t ask to cook dinner quickly, she didn’t ask to cook with her, only silence.
It’s not an uncomfortable silence, but Miyagi is staring at , so I sohow call her「Miyagi.」
「What?」
I didn’t have anything to say, I just wanted to call her Miyagi, and I didn’t have the words ready to be spoken. So the words that don’t need to be said,「About Mio,」pop out of my mouth.
「I don’t want to hear about it.」
Miyagi says in a voice devoid of affection.
「Why?」
「You’re going to say she wanted to co visit at this house for the holidays anyway.」
「Nice try, but wrong answer. She wanted you to co out and play with her during the holidays.」
Since I had ntioned her na, even if only sowhat, I told her in passing what Mio had asked to tell her this afternoon.
「I don’t want it more. She should go to Sendai-san alone.」
I thought she would say that.
Still, I am glad to hear Miyagi say what I expected.
But I want a different response to my next words than I expected.
「I’m not going either, so why don’t you and I go sowhere for the holidays, Miyagi?」
Mio and Utsunomiya are both gone.
Just and Miyagi.
I want us to go sowhere.
I looked across the table at Miyagi, who was sitting in my chair.
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