Character Stories/Shinya Shibasaki/Chapter 7

Shinya Shibasaki: Character Story Translation: MDR
Chapter 7
Female student	Shibasaki-senpai! I wrote this in the letter too, but in preparation for our marriage, please go out with me!
Shinya Shibasaki	M-Marriage!?
Female student	Yes! When I saw your "Defying Club Activities Special Feature" on Ourtube, I decided, I have to marry you!
	"Ourtube" is a world famous video site. There's a pretty famous Ourtuber at school here, so it seems that my eccentric behavior was broadcast to the whole world.
Shinya Shibasaki	(After that, the number of people I don't know calling out to me suddenly increased...)
Female student	Shibasaki-senpai!!
Shinya Shibasaki	Y-Yeah?!
Female student	Yeah!? In other words, yes!! That I really get to marry you, I'm so happy....!
Shinya Shibasaki	Ah-- um....
Yanagi Hanabusa	I wonder if you'd wait on that marriage for me?
Shinya Shibasaki	Yanagi-kun...?
Female student	H-Hanabusa-senpai...!
Yanagi Hanabusa	Your proposal to me yesterday, did you forget?
Female student	Ah-- I-I'm so sorry! Excuse me!!
Shinya Shibasaki	Ah-..... She left.
Yanagi Hanabusa	Could it be, did I do something unnecessary just now?
Shinya Shibasaki	No, you really saved me there! Thanks, Yanagi-kun.
Yanagi Hanabusa	You're welcome. Recently, you've been quite popular, haven't you?
Shinya Shibasaki	(You could call it popularity, but it doesn't feel like that to me...)
	That is to say, when someone calls out to me, it's a love confession only about 20% of the time. The other 80%, someone needs my "zone state". It's nearly always people treating me like an odd-job man.
Shinya Shibasaki	(I can't ignore someone who's in trouble, so every day's become really busy.)
	Because I was called out to, I couldn't eat lunch with Shigure today either-- BAM! The door to the rooftops suddenly burst open.
Shigure Hakka	Shinya! Are you alright-- ...? This time, Hanabusa is here.
Yanagi Hanabusa	This love letter, it was dropped in the classroom.
Shinya Shibasaki	Ah!? That's, from that girl from before...
Yanagi Hanabusa	If she'd kept pressing you like that, then right about now, you'd have a fiance.
Shigure Hakka	Shinya... It's wonderful that you're so kind, but to be equally kind to everyone is just cruel.
Shinya Shibasaki	Ahaha...
Shigure Hakka	If you don't turn anyone down, your burden will only increase. That's hardly a desirable outcome. I heard you accepted a request to appear on "News One"s documentary corner.
Shinya Shibasaki	Ah, you already know about that? That's Shigure. I couldn't refuse them. That Ourtuber from our school knows this television producer, and apparently if I turned them down, they'd be fired.
Shigure Hakka	They wouldn't get fired, they were lying.
Yanagi Hanabusa	Definitely lying.
Shinya Shibasaki	Eh-- it was a lie...? (But, I can't turn it down now....)
Shigure Hakka	... sigh.
Shinya Shibasaki	(Ah, Shigure's getting upset.)
Shigure Hakka	Appearing on television in your condition, will you really be alright?
Shinya Shibasaki	Uu... I suppose you're worried I'll do something really klutzy in front of the camera. But, I'll probably be fine! Recently I haven't been forgetting things, and I've been getting by without bothering you, right?
Shigure Hakka	......
Yanagi Hanabusa	It's true that you haven't done anything catastrophically klutzy lately.
Shinya Shibasaki	Right! I think I've become able to control my ability to concentrate!
Shigure Hakka	Your... ability to concentrate?
Yanagi Hanabusa	Heh?
Shinya Shibasaki	--eh, Yanagi-kun? For a while now, what have you been folding my letter into?
Yanagi Hanabusa	By concentrating, I made a paper airplane.
Shinya Shibasaki	A paper airplane...
Shigure Hakka	Shinya, you were saying?
Shinya Shibasaki	Oh, yeah. Where was I again? Ah, that's right-- control! Recently so I wouldn't get withdrawn, I've kept my concentration mode on continuously here. Because of that, my brain was trained, and my concentration was normalized also, I think. That's why, appearing on television will be fine too. And I think the ways I'll be a bother to you, Shigure, will decrease as well!
Shigure Hakka	.....
Shinya Shibasaki	(Eh? He seems.... even more upset?)
Yanagi Hanabusa	Looks like he might've outgrown you, hm?
Shinya Shibasaki	Eh...
	Yanagi's finished paper airplane left his hands and softly floated into the sky. Without my realizing it, the sky above us had turned cloudy. The plane quickly began to fall, and in an instant, it crashed.....
Yanagi Hanabusa	Aa~ah. It's gone.
Shigure Hakka	When's the filming?
Shinya Shibasaki	Ah, it's tomorrow.
Shigure Hakka	Tomorrow? On a day you have an operation?
Shinya Shibasaki	I told them it's fine since as long as it's after. The schedule's already decided, haha.
Shigure Hakka	... I suppose.
Shinya Shibasaki	(Shigure...?)
	I thought that once the withdrawal issue was settled, as long as the "special" business remained vague, we could go back to how we were before.
Shinya Shibasaki	(I thought that, but...)
	This obvious sense of distance between us, there was no doubt that it was because of my zone state not coming undone.
Shinya Shibasaki	(Even if it's just Shigure, I don't want him to know....)
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