Chapter 72 - The Day Before Christmas
December was coming to a close, and Christmas time had finally arrived.
It snowed more and more, and the snowfall had already become above 5 cm.
If it had been before, they would be in high spirits, preparing for a party, and playing in the snow, but the current state of affairs didn’t allow that.
Their supplies were barely enough.
They had nothing to decorate with.
It wasn’t Santa in red clothing that came but zombies drenched in blood.
However, even if it was that unusual.
No, because of it being unusual, maybe they wanted to do what they normally did.
“Let’s do a Christmas party!”
“Huh?”
“As I said, Christmas party!”
Hazuki desperately urged Takumi.
“Let’s do it!”
“And as I said, what about a Christmas party?”
“Huh?”
“A party is about celebration, but what is Christmas?”
“W-whaaat!? It’s Christmas! Santa will come!”
“Santa1?
“It’s not a Japanese person!”
“I see. Santa has never come.”
“Senior, do you not watch TV?”
“I never had a TV.”
“W-what about talking with a classmate about it…”
“I have devoted myself to club activities, you see. There is no one that I talked to.”
“S-Senior, do you mean, are you all alon…”
“What are you trying to say?”
“Huh? No, nothing. Then, is it fine if we do a Christmas party?”
“I don’t know, but how about asking Tooru? I don’ mind.”
“Aright, next I only have to persuade Tooru and Senior Sayoshi!”
Hazuki rushed out energetically.
“What? Christmas party?”
“Yes!”
“Hmm… Don’t you also know that we don’t have a lot of supplies left?”
“But everyone is saying they want to do it.”
“Even if everyone wants to…”
“Isn’t it fine?”
“S-Saejima.”
“Everyone has accumulated stress, and if we recalculate the estimation of supply consumption, there might be leftovers.”
“With all due respect, but are you planning on using all the supplies for this winter alone? It should be more important to make them last as long as possible.”
“But, it’s meaningless if there are supplies if there’s no one to use them. If the stress among us explodes and a rebellion occurs, it won’t matter. Therefore, I think the necessity of the supplies is to prevent that from happening, right?”
“However…”
“Besides, don’t you want to do it too, Senior Sayoshi?”
“Ugh, that’s…”
“Good, it’s decided. Hazuki, we will probably have to save up for some time, but if that’s okay, let’s do it.”
“Hooray! Then, I’ll let everyone know!”
“Huh? I will be santa?”
“There’s only Ryou after all.”
“That’s right. You look like Santa the most.”
“Do you mean my body shape?”
Seeing the excitement of Ryou, Yui, and Rei, Seiji called out to Sayo.
“Will you come?”
Sayo slowly turned around.
Since that incident, Sayo had forgiven only Seiji.
She didn’t speak to other people, but if it was Seiji, she would talk to some extent.
Knowing that, Seiji seemed to be trying to talk assertively with her.
“...Yeah, if I’m allowed to.”
Sayo said, looking downwards.
Seeing that, Seiji laughed scornfully.
“Are you an idiot?”
“W-why do you have to call me an idiot?”
“There’s no one here who wouldn’t allow you. Besides, you who haven’t noticed it yet are an idiot.”
“Ugh…”
“So, make sure to find it out during this Christmas party.”
“Hehe, how kind of you.”
“Tsk, what. So you can laugh.”
Seiji turned away, feeling shy.
Seeing that, Sayo smiled again.
That smile was becoming similar to what it was when Jun had been there.
- This was written in kanji as an ordinary name, while Santa is originally supposed to be written in katakana. ↑