BXBX NOVEL Chapter 258: Miyagi is always in a bad mood — 258
Chapter 258: Miyagi is always in a bad mood — 258
Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV
「It’s fine, it looks good on you. You’re cute.」
The curtains of the fitting room open and I call out to Utsunomiya, who is wearing a skirt of my choice.
「Which one is better than the one I just wear?」
「Nhn, let me think. I like what you just wore, but… If I had to choose one or the other, I think this one suits you better, Utsunomiya.」
「What do you think, Shiori?」
「I think the skirt you’re wearing now is better, but which one do you like better, Maika?」
「About that, I like them both. I love the skirt that Sendai-san chose, they’re both so cute. Ah, I want to be an oil tycoon.」
Utsunomiya spins around and looks at herself in the fitting room mirror and sighs, and Miyagi chuckles,「When you become an oil tycoon, buy me something too,」she says.
It was peace.
Three hours have passed since we gathered under the guise of choosing clothes for Utsunomiya, two tops have been chosen and now a skirt. Utsunomiya, the star of today’s show, is in a good mood and does not make a sour face no matter how many stores she visits. She is even willing to try on clothes several times.
It’s really peaceful.
Except for Miyagi’s good mood.
「Okay, I’ll go this way then.」
Utsunomiya, who was happily talking with Miyagi, said as she looked at herself in the mirror. Then she added, “Wait a minute,” and closed the curtains of the fitting room.
Miyagi is in a good mood today.
She is smiling in front of Utsunomiya all the time.
Yesterday, she let me do her braids, which she said「just a little bit,」and she let me do her makeup. She didn’t let me put her ears out, but the braid she let me braid on one side looked good on me, and the lipstick I bought that she let me apply looked good on her. She even wore a skirt.
So Miyagi, who is always cute, is extra cute today.
But she stands in front of the fitting room and doesn’t look at me.
She is in a good mood only for Utsunomiya.
「Sorry for waiting.」
Utsunomiya comes out of the fitting room. Returning one of the two skirts to its original place, she headed for the cash register with the remaining one.
There are a good number of people in the store and a good number of people piling up at the cash register.
Utsunomiya is not likely to return for a while.
I looked at the overflowing clothes in the bustling store and called out to Miyagi, who was in an exquisite location, neither near nor far.
「What’s wrong with you today?」
「Nothing’s wrong with me.」
A curt voice that is never issued toward Utsunomiya is returned.
Today, Miyagi, who’s in a good mood, was in a bad mood only with me. While I was waiting for Utsunomiya in front of the fitting room, she didn’t speak to me even once. Utsunomiya tried on the dress not once, but many times, and never spoke to me. She didn’t walk next to me as I moved from store to store. There was always Utsunomiya in between, not that that was a bad thing, but Miyagi, who was in a good mood, was far away.
There’s no way that Miyagi would “feel nothing.”
She didn’t really want to wear braids or makeup.
She didn’t want to wear a skirt.
Was all of that bad?
I try to think about it, but I don’t know.
Today Miyagi didn’t mind any of them.
I thought perhaps it was wrong that I was wearing a ponytail, but she didn’t complain before we left the house.
「Miyagi.」
There’s no reply.
I hear voices here and there saying, “This is cute, I wonder if it comes in my size,” but I don’t hear Miyagi’s voice. The only noise is in the store. I stroke my earring and tug on my earlobe. I don’t know what to say, so I keep quiet, and Utsunomiya comes back.
「Sorry for waiting.」
A bright voice echoed among us, where there had been only silence.
「You bought a lot of stuff.」
Utsunomiya replied with a smile as she looked at her increased luggage.
「Big New Year’s gift. I will be saving for a while. Maybe I’ll get a part-time job this year.」
「Maika, are you going to work part-time?」
「I’ll give it some serious thought after spring break.」
「I see.」
「I wonder if Asakura-san knows of any good part-time jobs.」
「Asakura-san want to go to events, and she probably work a lot of part-time jobs.」
I hear aspects of college life that I will never know, and I learn that Asakura-san and Miyagi, whom I met at the school festival, continue to communicate with each other as usual.
New information brings me both joy and frustration.
It is good to know who Miyagi is friends with at the university and what they are talking about, but once I know, that information turns into jealousy. I cannot help but be jealous of Utsunomiya, who knows information that I alone could not obtain, and of Asakura, who has a relationship with Miyagi.
「Oh, right. Would you like to work part-time with us, Shiori?」
I heard a statement that I could not hear, and I think it should be me, not Utsunomiya or Asakura-san, that Miyagi should work part-time with.
Well, there is no way Miyagi would say she would work part-time with me.
「I won’t. It’s a hassle to get a part-time job and all that.」
I hear the words just as I thought they would.
「Well, why don’t you try it on? I think this skirt is cute.」
「Now, you know, it doesn’t matter what I try on.」
「Since you’re here, why don’t you at least try it on?」
「I’m fine.」
「Eh, why? Which one do you think is better, Sendai-san?」
This time I heard words I had not expected to hear, and I stared at Miyagi before looking at the skirts lined up in the store.
White, yellow, black.
Checks, polka dots, and floral patterns.
There are many other colors and patterns. She can choose any skirt she wants, but I doubt that Miyagi will try on a skirt as many times as Utsunomiya did, and I doubt that she will even try it on once, since the story is going on without her consent.
Still, I choose a long blue skirt among many skirts.
「How about this? It looks like it would go well with the clothes you always wear, like a hoodie, Miyagi. Just try it on.」
Today, the blue scarf I gave her for Christmas was wrapped around her neck until she came here, but she will soon stop using it. So, I would like her to wear blue skirts instead. Even if it isn’t the same blue as my earrings, I would be happy if we had something in common: blue.
「I’m not buying it, and there’s no point in trying it on.」
I hear a curt voice, but it’s not as cold as before because Utsunomiya is there.
「Shiori, why don’t you at least wear it?」
「It’s a hassle.」
「You say things like that right away. Isn’t it enough to try on a dress once?」
Yes, it is.
Don’t be stingy, at least try it on.
I swallowed down the words that were almost in my throat. When I say the word “try on,” Miyagi never tries on.
「Then, just only once.」
Miyagi looks like she has no choice but to take the blue skirt from me and disappear into the fitting room. I knew he would listen to Utsunomiya’s words.
「Sendai-san. I didn’t want to say too much because Shiori wouldn’t like it, but…」
In front of the fitting room with the curtains still closed, Utsunomiya smiles at me.
「Shiori is so cute today. I really wanted to say how cute she was when I met her at the rendezvous point, but Shiori stopped me and said that was enough.」
I laugh at Utsunomiya’s words, “haha.”
Miyagi had stopped Utsunomiya from calling her cute at the meeting place, as she said. The look itself was so cute that I couldn’t help but brag that I braided her hair, did her makeup, and picked out her skirt.
It is no exaggeration to say that I made Miyagi today. I am happy that Miyagi is praised. I want to keep it to myself, but I also want people to know that Miyagi is cuter than anyone else.
「Sendai-san is like Shiori’s exclusive stylist. And Shiori was so cute at the school festival.」
「Thank you. After I graduate from college, I think I’ll live as Miyagi’s exclusive stylist. I don’t think I’ll get paid, though.」
「Then you’ll have to get a part-time job on the side.」
「Then I guess I’ll continue tutoring.」
「You’re not working at the cafe to continue, but you’re tutoring?」
「I think I’ll get more time to be a stylist than tutor.」
Utsunomiya smiles and replies,「Indeed.」
The curtains of the fitting room opened as the two of us were talking about something that Miyagi could not hear.
「I wore it, but…」
.
Miyagi looks at Utsunomiya with an unexplained look on her face.
「Shiori, you’re cute. It suits you.」
「Cute is superfluous. Does it really suit me?」
「It suits you. Right, Sendai-san?」
「Yeah, very cute. It looks good on you.」
I won’t be too loud, but condense a hundred pretty things into one message.
「Shiori. Is there anything else you’d like to try on? I mean, don’t you? We can go to another store. What do you want to do?」
「I’ll buy this one.」
「Eh?」
Miyagi’s words to Utsunomiya were unintentional.
I didn’t think the word “buy” would come up.
「What?」
「It’s nothing.」
「I’ll get changed. Wait for me.」
The curtains in the fitting room closed and Miyagi came out shortly after. And she bought a blue skirt.
「You can wear something that isn’t a hoodie, but when you put this on, you have to pick the right one.」
Miyagi, returning from the cash register, blurts it out to me alone, though her voice is not very friendly.
「Leave it to me.」
「Where do we go next?」
Miyagi responds to Utsunomiya’s voice, 「Anywhere is fine.」
「Sendai-san, you don’t want to buy it?」
「Yeah. I did a lot of shopping last month.」
「I see.」
I don’t know why Miyagi bought the skirt I chose. Today Miyagi is in a good mood only in Utsunomiya, and Miyagi is not coming next to me. With Utsunomiya in the middle and trying to distance herself from me, I don’t think there is any way she would buy my choice.
But I’m glad.
Today, I have not been called Sendai-san once from Miyagi, but that is a trivial matter.
Maika is, Maika was, to Maika——
Utsunomiya was the only one who called me names, but I can write it off because she tried on the skirt I chose, bought it, and asked me to coordinate it. I wished I was alone with Miyagi today, and was jealous of Utsunomiya for smiling at me, but I was glad she was there.
「Is there anything you want to see, Shiori?」
「I don’t I have any.」
If it were just the two of us, I would have said, “Let’s go home,” but as expected, I didn’t. Still, she looks like she want to go home. However, it’s too early to say that the three of us have already broken up after having gone to the trouble of getting together.
「Oh, yeah. Can I show you something?」
「What is it that you would like me to see?」
Utsunomiya looks at me.
「Pencase. A student I tutor got into high school, so she’s celebrating. May I take a look at it?」
She wants to use it in high school.
With that said, Kikyō-chan requested a pencase. Maybe she wanted it as a gift for her acceptance because she said she thought the cat pencase she got from Miyagi that I use was cute.
「Of course.」
Utsunomiya answers in a cheerful voice.
I could walk around the museum aimlessly and look at all the different stores, but I don’t think Miyagi would like that. I think Miyagi would enjoy spending some time at a general store that carries pen cases.
「Then, we’re going to the grocery store next.」
Miyagi says nothing.
Utsunomiya walked out and we headed for the grocery store with her in the middle.