The One Sitting Next To Me Is A Real Japanese! Volumes 1
Isn't This Wrong?
So, in order to divert a very strange atmosphere to Eza, he pretended to cough and create a new atmosphere that was comfortable for him.
“So you want me to help you clean up OSIS stuff?”
“Iya ... I knew that this had to be done by OSIS itself. But you know, if we're really short of members ... Are you willing to help?”
“Yah ... I think I can help. But would it be okay if it had to be me?”
“It's okay. I feel like there's no one else I can trust about this but you. Moreover, doing this just the two of them will be difficult.”
“As long as what you are talking about is true, then ...”
Eza went around to the room Rena told him it was a warehouse for OSIS. The contents are OSIS items that are still used or used. Because the goods are mixed, it has become the obligation of OSIS to tidy it up.
Also, since there may be important files regarding OSIS, choosing the right person to help is also a part of them. It also makes Yuuki not protest, because Yuuki also trusts Eza more than anyone. Of course because it would be very rare for people to interact with Eza.
But Eza smiled wryly when he saw what table of contents he had to choose.
“Can you start now? You are free to start anywhere. But I suggest to start around there.”
While reading the table of contents, Eza answered Rena's question, “Delivering things and tidying them up ... Uh-huh. No problem with that. But to make sure, if the condition still looks good even though it's been a long time, I should keep it, right?”
“Iya, right. If it looks pretty good condition, then there is a chance we will be able to use it in the future.”
“Siap~”
After making sure, Eza immediately went to the other corner in the room. There, he found a table with a very large size along with a drawer whose condition was filled with a lot of dust and cobwebs.
“Cleaning this large room is just alone ... I don't think this makes any sense. Especially you two are a girl.”
“Actually not both. The OSIS chairman promised to help, but we didn't expect more. You know, the chairman of OSIS is very busy.”
“Once, yes.”
Eza resumed his work, cleaning dirt and dust, sorting things, and storing the still good condition.
He carefully checked the table of contents so that nothing was missed from his eyes. Until he found one drawer and checked the contents one by one ...
Hmmmm? Whatisthis? Tarot Card? ... Playing cards? ... Casino— chip
“Oi! What's this! About the cards I can still understand. But why are there casino chips here!”
“Hmm? If that's the confiscated goods that OSIS found.”
“But this is the warehouse that OSIS goods use, right?”
“I heard that the former OSIS relieves his fatigue here. But what exactly they did I don't know. They can play with the chips, right?”
“When you see playing cards and chips simultaneously, I doubt they play carombol.”
“Well, because the goods are still good, we better keep it.”
“You want to save it, anyway!”
“Hmm? Sure oes. Maybe we can play carom using the newly discovered chip.”
“Jadi karambol!?”
Eza finally put it in a cardboard that was already filled. Rena, who is very good at organizing things, picks up a full cardboard box containing chips for her to take out. Apparently, after further inspection, the object is not the original chip, but the old chocolate that has hardened and wrapped like a casino chip.
After Rena left the room and left Yuuki and Eza alone inside, for a moment, in a silent room. The sound that can be heard is the sound of items being tidied up or items that go into the cardboard. Until Yuuki broke the silence by asking Eza.
“While you guys are childhood friends, I didn't expect you guys to be so close like that. Is there something between you?”
“Nothing. My relationship with Rena is like any other childhood friend?”
“From anime of course.”
Eza was somehow able to see the dissatisfied expression from Yuuki's face even though they were far apart.
“But I didn't expect you to have girlfriends.”
“Isn't that a little rough? What do you think I am?”
“Easy only. You can find the answer yourself when you look at yourself in the mirror. Idler, have no motivation to live, arbitrarily.”
“Alright I understand. My nature is bad, okay? So please don't insult me any further than that. My heart can be fragile later.”
“I doubt you could be like that. For a semester, I've never seen you care about anyone else's talk.”
“...”
Eza does not want to answer—more precisely can not answer the words of Yuuki. After all, something that made him this way, was not something that he himself could be proud of to others. Because Eza himself is aware, if his life is not better than others and his nature like this will only trouble others. Therefore, there was nothing he could be proud of when it came to his perfectly round already formed nature within him.
“Hey ... Can you explain, why can you calmly live your life lazily?”
Irohaa ... Why did you suddenly become psychic. Is this what people call female intuition? It's hideous!
“ ... If I may know. What are you looking for in your question?”
“Entahlah ... Just curious?”
Eza who heard Yuuki's reply with a slightly bitter tone in his ear made his expression slightly sour.
“Maybe I just think too much? Lately I've been thinking about what Rena says about you, about you, which is so much more than what you show from your appearance. I just thought, am I wrong. Everything I've done ..”
Eza's dead eyes begin to look creepy when Yuuki tries to say something elusive. But even though his mind cannot catch what he wants to say, somehow Eza's heart can catch him.
“Nothing is wrong ..”
“Eh?”
“... There's nothing wrong about all that Iroha. I choose myself to follow an idealism or a thought that exists because of my own incompetence. I felt a lack of myself, so I tried to find something that suited me. And it just so happens, my present self is something I found and matched.”
There was no sound from the items being moved or cleaned. Yuuki who was far across the room, listened carefully to what Eza said.
“I think, what makes you now is that you have found something that suits you. If I can be honest then ... That something is not a lack. I see it as an advantage ..”
“Eza ..”
“So, whatever you're going to do, just trust yourself. It is you who makes you different and special from others.”
Hearing the sincere words of Eza blatantly and directly in front of her, made Yuuki's face heat up and her cheeks flushed red. Fortunately, since they are not close to each other, Yuuki can't help but hide his happy self.
Eza who said his sincerity returned to continue his work as if nothing had happened.
About a short while later, Rena had already finished delivering the unused items and returned to the room as well, their work was done.
“With this, our work is done. Thank you so much for your help, Eza. You are very helpful!”
“Thank you very much, Eza.”
“Ya.”
Ignoring the awkward atmosphere that existed on his two friends, Rena spoke again.
“Before we go home, the head of OSIS has a gift for us!”
Eza and Yuuki could only be confused while guessing, what surprise would be given to the two of them.
