Volu 17, Chapter 6 Part 1
“You really are a terrible person.”
“Perhaps.”
It had been about an hour since Sakayanagi ca to my room.
“With this, we now share a secret we can’t tell anyone else about.”
“If you put it that way, you’ll invite misunderstandings.”
“You’re the one who invited a misunderstanding in the first place, Ayanokouji-kun. Am I wrong?”
“No, you’re right.”
“Setting that aside, this was my first ti on a boy’s bed.”
“You left in ten seconds, so I think it shouldn’t count.”
“You’re not taking a girl’s mories seriously.”
I showed my phone to Sakayanagi, selecting what was necessary and deleting the rest. While I was doing that, I must’ve swiped too far back because a photo of with Kei ca up. It was a photo of us we’d taken at Keyaki mall.
“It looks like your relationship with Karuizawa-san is going well.”
“I suppose.”
Kei was smiling cheerfully in the photo. Sakayanagi looked at it as she continued,
“At so point, Ayanokouji-kun was attracted by her appearance, voice, or personality… Ordinarily, that’s what I would’ve thought, but there are a few things that I don’t understand.”
Then, she looked up at , her eyes sharp, her expression just as when she was facing off against .
“I looked into her, as much as I could. From what she does after school to what she does on her weekends. The way things are right now, it is easy to put a tail on you, Ayanokouji-kun.”
Because the entirety of the third year is observing , I’m not on guard for each and every one of them. It was difficult to pick out Sakayanagi’s agent once they had mixed in with the rest. It could’ve been Hashimoto, who I had noticed following earlier, or it could’ve been soone else I couldn’t identify.
“I could not fully ascertain why you chose to date her, Ayanokouji-kun, but there is sothing I could figure out. The strong trust and love she shows for you—I could go so far as to call it blind faith. Perhaps you are planning to use her for so experint down the line, or you are trying to save her. I deduced that it must be sothing of that nature.”
I don’t rember ever telling her anything more than I needed to. I would think she does not know as much about Kei as even Ryuuen does. Despite that, she did well in getting so close to the truth with her conjecture.
“The special lesson you had for , it is also related, isn’t it?”
“I’m getting sowhat tired of saying this now, but well done. You’re right.”
For different things than with Kei, Sakayanagi and I could understand each other without even speaking.
Ding dong.
The doorbell suddenly rang, its slow and relaxed sound spreading through the room. It was around 12:30, about ti for the students to finish their lunch. I got a visitor all of a sudden, even though nobody should have been in the dorm at this ti.
Sakayanagi and I looked at each other before turning to the doorway at the sa ti. There should have been three bodyguards in the lobby. Did this person break through them with force? No, assuming they could use overwhelming force to suppress the bodyguards, they wouldn’t stop there. They would enter my room as they pleased, without bothering to do sothing like calmly ringing a doorbell.
The bell rang once again. It was known that I was resting in my room, so ignoring this any further would be cause for suspicion. While unlikely, it was possible that it was soone from the school.
“Who is it?”
I called out to the visitor, staying on my bed.
“Remain as you are and listen to .”
A boy responded. He must have figured out from my voice that I was sitting at so distance from the door. A young voice. Not of an adult, but of soone of roughly my age.
“I rember your voice.”
But I couldn’t attach a face to it. The voice should be of a student’s, and while I couldn’t rember the person, I clearly rembered the voice. Of course, I had also overheard many random voices while living in the school. However, this person’s voice quickly clicked with .
“You’ve called once before.”
I responded. The person on the other side of the door was quiet for a mont.
“Incredible. You rember my voice after hearing it just once.”
It was after my father had co to visit this school, I rembered clearly.
“Back then, I think you had sothing to say, but you didn’t.”
“I was happy to get in touch with you, but imdiately after that sothing put in a bad spot. I couldn’t contact you again… I’m sure you’re interested in it, but who I am is irrelevant right now. That is because to you, I am neither an enemy nor an ally.”
“Then why did you co here?”
“After eliminating Tsukishiro, peace will return if you eliminate the White Room student. I was concerned that you might be laboring under that misapprehension, so I have co to give you advice.”
“Fufu. What an interesting conversation! Do you mind if I join in?”
“Oh, Sakayanagi Arisu.”
Sakayanagi’s response was unexpected, but the boy on the other side of the door didn’t seem surprised. If anything, he imdiately figured out who it was from just the voice. He might have looked into who was absent from the Sports Festival, or he could have t her before and rembered her voice.
“Anyway, stay on your guard if you want to enjoy your school life until graduation.”
“You claim to be neutral, but you’ve co to support .”
“Your existence is a bad influence. I want to prevent anything more from happening, that’s it.”
He answered, his voice growing fainter as he walked away. It didn’t seem like he ever intended to stay for long, and we could assu he had left.
“That voice… I rember it from sowhere…”
“You have so idea of who it could be?”
“Just like yourself, Ayanokouji-kun, I can’t say for sure. But I get the feeling that sowhere, I have heard that voice from behind a door once.”
In short, it was sothing different from my own mory of his voice.
“It wasn’t recent. Five, maybe ten years ago… At any rate, it was an old mory.”
“If that’s true, then it is close to impossible that he is a white room student.”
“Indeed. If I had t him as a child, then that would be the case.”
That matches with his reaction when he found out Sakayanagi was here. He was not surprised, and further, his reaction conveyed that he was familiar with her.
However, whether it ca from Amasawa or this guy, that was just the thing I didn’t care about at all. At this point, I had not been hard at all, so I had no desire to do anything about it.
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