Still, as they talked, they soon arrived at the faculty room, where the teacher waited for the books.
However, when Satoshi and Kaho thought about going home, the teacher said, "I am sorry for troubling you again, Juumonji-san, but..."
"Is that so...? Then, it can't be helped..."
Due to her status as the class representative, it was natural that Kaho was given a certain task that she had to do, and she also didn't think to reject the request either, especially when it was her duty, and as the daughter of the Juumonji family, the owner of one of the biggest shrines on the Takayama City, she knew that she had to help, but—
"Do you want me to help?" Satoshi was speechless by the teacher, who asked for another help, so he decided to offer help.
"No, it's fine. The task isn't physically related, and I don't think that this task suits you either."
Considering Satoshi's troublemaker character and the fact that he couldn't stay calm during a boring task, Kaho knew that it was better to let him go home.
"..."
Satoshi was speechless, but he knew that the original Satoshi didn't have a bright head despite being called the "database."
Still, it didn't mean he was stupid; it was just that he didn't have an interest in studying, and frankly, it was normal for some high school students to think so.
So, what was Satoshi's previous focus?
Well, everything, he thought since when he recalled the memory of the previous Satoshi, this guy dabbled on anything as if... he tried to search for the only thing that he could do.
Sighing inwardly, he had to say that the previous Satoshi was pretty mature for his age as he realized that he was nothing special and normal, and like most people, they were helpless by the reality before them.
However, if he had become Satoshi, his future would have been different.
"If you want to go back, then it is fine."
Still, hearing those words from Kaho, who was quite blunt, surprised him, Satoshi thought.
Kaho didn't want to trouble him, but then again, she felt a bit reluctant for him to leave, especially since he was her first boyfriend, and she wanted to stay with him. However, as she had troubled him before, she didn't want to trouble him again, but—
"No, it's fine. I will wait for you."
"Huh?"
"I want to go home with you."
"....."
Kaho blinked her eyes and felt quite shy as her face was a little hot. "O-Okay, wait for me."
"I will be with my friend." Satoshi looked out and saw Oreki, who tried to hide. "Oreki, come here!"
"..." Oreki.
"Okay, see you later, then. I will try to finish as soon as possible."
"Um."
As Kaho went to help the teacher, Satoshi walked out, feeling a bit helpless since it was hard when he had no smartphone. Or rather, he didn't even have a mobile phone, so they made an appointment to meet at the school entrance.
Still facing Oreki, who walked out from his hiding place, Satoshi asked, "Did you follow me?"
"..." Oreki.
"Well, you are a boy at that age, so it's normal for you to be curious."
"...is it only me, or do you appear more mature now?"
"Do I?"
"Yes!" Oreki looked at his friend, speechless, and asked, "What kind of a high school student casually makes a girlfriend like that?! Are you a Casanova?"
Was a girlfriend something easy to make?
Why did it only take a moment for Satoshi to make one?!
This sudden change of Satoshi made Oreki, who had always upheld the principle of the "Energy Saver," become curious.
"...you make me like a playboy." Satoshi was speechless. "She is my first girlfriend, you know?"
"...."
Oreki couldn't deny Satoshi since he knew well Kaho was Satoshi's first girlfriend, but—
"...what about Ibara?"
Ibara.
The two of them were familiar with this name, the name of the girl who fell in love with Satoshi.
Her love was so intense that during last year's Valentine's, when the previous Satoshi didn't dare to accept her chocolate, she would tear apart the packaging, then bite the bar of chocolate with her mouth like a wild beast!
With a girl who fell in love with him so deeply, if Ibara knew that Satoshi had a girlfriend, what would happen?
As Oreki thought so, he felt he was going to have a headache. "As expected, romance is troublesome!"
"...."
Satoshi only stared at Oreki in silence, wondering whether it was possible to change the genre from a slice of life to romance later. "Then, do you want me to break up with her?"
"That's..."
When Oreki thought that Satoshi would break up with the girl that he had just confessed to, somehow... he could imagine that this guy might be pushed into the river near their school after pulling such ridiculous stuns.
"Just leave the rest to me; it's my problem anyway."
Oreki snorted and said, "If you are thrown into the river or buried on the mountain alive, don't expect me to help you."
"...." Satoshi.
Nostradamus might have predicted wrongly that the end of the world was in 2000, but Oreki could tell that Satoshi's doom was near. Still, he even wondered why Satoshi dated that girl despite not loving her that much.
Yes, even Oreki could say that Satoshi had an interest in Kaho; his feeling wasn't that much that Satoshi would do anything.
What did this guy plan to do?
Oreki became curious and was worried somehow.
"Anyway, are you not going home?" Satoshi asked curiously.
To answer that question, Oreki took out a letter from his bag. "Here."
"What is it?" Satoshi took the letter and saw that it was from Oreki's big sister. "From your big sister?"
"Yes."
"Benares? She is in India?"
Knowing that this letter was sent from a place known as Benares, even Satoshi, who had many experiences, had to admit that he was dumbfounded. In the past, during his life as Ishigami, he was also about to go on a trip with Maki to India, but it was stopped by everyone somehow.
So, when he read that Oreki's older sister was in India, somehow, he felt curious.
"Yes." Nevertheless, Oreki answered Satoshi's question.
"...she is so wild." Looking at Oreki, who was listless, then thought of Oreki's sister, who went on travel to India just right after her graduation, Satoshi was speechless. "I wonder if you two are siblings."
"Yes, I wonder whether she was picked up by my parents."
Oreki completely agreed with Satoshi's statement.
"....."
Satoshi only glanced at Oreki, thinking that Oreki was the one that was picked up, but let's ignore that now.
"Let's see... she wants you to join the Classic Club?"
In the letter, Oreki's older sister told Oreki to join the Classic Club, the club which she joined in the past as it was on the verge of disbanding, and to protect her memory of youth; she told him to join as she knew well that her little brother had nothing to do.
At the same time, Satoshi knew that Oreki's older sister was just worried about her little brother since, considering Oreki's nature, he could imagine that Oreki would waste all of his youth.
Probably, this was nothing serious, especially since most memories of people's youth weren't good, and it was even silly, stupid, and embarrassing, but then again, after one became an adult, and when one was just expected to get money, money, and money, it was normal for one to reminisce of the past, wondering why they didn't, they experienced many things during their youth.
In other words, this was the care of the older sister to her little brother, but then again, Satoshi was sure that Oreki didn't understand that, and Oreki was just afraid of being beaten by his older sister.
Still, when Satoshi thought of Oreki's interaction with the heroine of this world, he smiled inwardly and thought not to join since he didn't want to bother their interaction, but—
"Yes." Oreki nodded, then looked at Satoshi and asked with expectation, "Do you want to join Satoshi?"
"....."