That's Right, Youre Really Cute - Volume 1

Prologue: Restart! Senpai from another world and I

"Also, what kind of relationship do you have with Watase Kairi anyway?"

If you ask me that, I, Koori Nano, would have trouble answering.

To keep it in simple and straight terms, he's a Senpai of two years in our combined middle and high school. Kinda lonely, but sometimes you can't help the circumstances. Sometimes we'd meet on the rooftop and eat lunch, sometimes go home together from school, he'd protect me from scary people who approach me...any more than that...might have happened, might not have happened, sure. We've been in the same grade school as well, but oddly enough our parents don't even know each other. On the contrary, we never even talked about them.

...Yeah, what are his parents doing anyways?

But, enough about that. I don't really like talking about Senpai with other people. I'm trying so that people don't even get a chance to talk to me about him, so when I'm 'there', I sneak around, hoping not to run into anybody, but-

"Ah, Nanō? What are you doing here?"

Since the hospital is always brimming with people, I tend to run into friends from time to time like this. Once I'm unlucky enough for that to happen, a short conversation like such ensues:

"Ahh, y'know, I'm visiting someone." I would say.

"Oh, who?" They would answer.

"...Watase-senpai."

"Watase-senpai...Wait, Watase Kairi?! Eh, seriously?! Why?!" And of course, that gets us to the question from before. "Also, what kind of relationship do you have with Watase Kairi anyway?"

"...Well~"

I'd try covering it up with some adequate excuse, which would lessen their interest so that I'd pull a winning pose inside my chest, but now...

"Why are you doing that?"

My friend's words caught me quite off-guard. I mean, I was a bit surprised that they caught me off-guard that much, but I was good at laughing that off.

"Mmm...I don't really have a reason or anything...If I had to say something, it's probably because it sounds interesting~?"

"-Aha, that's juuuust like you, Nanō! You always jump on that~"

"Ehe, right right? It sounds totally like me. But anyway, I gotta get going now~"

A peerless JK like me doesn't have enough time to waste it like this. My friend was kind enough to understand that, and said bye bye. Well, she really did, but...

"Why am I doing that, huh..."

Her words didn't say bye bye.

Giving a quick greeting to the nurse as we passed each other, who I got acquainted with over my countless visits, I went to open the door directly, since the sleeping Watase Kairi-senpai inside wouldn't even know if I knocked.

"I tell ya, Senpai! Same as usual, I see."

Talking to myself from time to time; the awkward kind. Of course, calling out to Senpai didn't do anything because he was unconscious just like the last time I saw him. Even if I know that he can't hear me, I keep doing this monologuing, and really, it totally hurts.

"Well, the very fact that I'm still coming by after two years hurts pretty badly, to be fair~"

Sitting down on the pipe chair, I put one elbow on the bag I had on my lap, and just started gazing at Senpai. My friend thinks this was the first time I came by for a visit, but it's actually been two years since I stopped by here regularly. What was I doing this entire time? Well, I was looking at the sleeping Senpai. The Senpai who hasn't opened his eyes for the past two years.