47 - As expected, if you do the same thing every day, you will start to remember it (Patreon)

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Lately, Hiuri started hugging me when we were about to wake up.
After a few days, even I would get used to it, and when she hugged me, I started hugging her back and patting her head. How should I put it, we used to not have a lot of skinship, so I'm happy about that.

That said, it is unclear how such a routine suddenly came about. I thought she started to remember, but Hiuri in real life is not particularly different from before, so I don't know what's changed.

“Kazuki.”
“What?”
“It seems the way we divide into groups for the school trip is free.”

While I was racking my brains thinking about Hiuri, another event came around.
The one that can be said to be the biggest event in our high school life, the school trip. On the school trip, students abandon the entirety of the school part and enjoy the trip part to the fullest. That school trip, for some people, can be a few days of hell.

“Let's form a group together.”
“Sure.”

The school trip groups are divided into activity groups and hotel groups.
Hotel groups are decided by gender based on attendance numbers, so we don't have the right to choose at all, but activity groups are different. They’re free groups of mixed genders.
By the way, you can’t create a group that crosses class boundaries, so unfortunately I can’t be in the same group as Hiuri.

It seemed that there was no separate time put aside for the school trip, so they told us to make a decision during lunch break. Tadashi immediately gets to it after finishing his bento.

“Maximum of six people, minimum of four, huh...”
“If it’s Tadashi, you can get as many people as you want, right?”

Tadashi has a wide circle of friends. If it’s me, I still have classmates with whom I have never had a proper conversation.

“Since this is a rare chance, you want to include girls too, right?”
“I don’t really care whichever it is.”
“You want to, right?”
“Whichever...”
“You. want. to. right?”
“......I guess so.”

Even if there are girls I don't get along with in the group, it won't affect me at all...
In any case, since Tadashi wanted to have girls as group members, it was decided to form a group of three boys and three girls.

The two boys are already occupied by me and Tadashi, so we only need one more...

“Motoyasu─!”
“I’m already in a different group─!”
“Got it─!”

Two people from one end of the classroom to the other were talking to each other by shouting. No, we’re inside the classroom after all, he can hear you even if you don't shout that loudly. It's actually hard to hear you instead because of the noise.

“Kanda-kun has as many friends as Tadashi, so isn’t getting him difficult?”
“Motoyasu was involved with Kazuki, right? It’s better than going for someone you've never met, right?”

Tadashi's thoughtfulness makes me happy. He should use that good point of his more to appeal to girls.

“Well, any boy is fine. Most of them are your enemies anyway.”
“Don't say scary things...”
“It’s the truth after all.”

That said, we won’t feel safe if they are hostile to us all the time, so we choose Sasa-kun as he is a boy who is not interested in Hiuri. He's the type of person who always reads books in the classroom, but he still seems to be looking forward to the school trip.

“Best regards.”
“Yeah.”
“You two sure have the same tone.”

Will we be deprived of our identity? No, mine isn't an identity or anything, so I’m fine.

Now, no female members have been decided yet. According to Tadashi, we need at least two girls. Although it is possible to clear the number limit with just one girl... well, as you’d expect, it would be difficult for both parties if there is only one girl in the group.
That's why we want to have at least two girls.

“That said, as expected, there aren’t many people I know when it comes to girls...”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. Kazuki only know jackpot-like people, including the princess, but normally boys and girls don't interact that much...”

When I look back at myself from last year, it's true that I didn't have any interactions with girls. At most, we just talk at events.
I don't think even boys other than me were chatting with girls on a regular basis.

“But the same can be said for the girls. All we have to do is talk to them from our side!”

Saying that, Tadashi rushes into the place where the girls are gathering.
Even though the groups are mixed gender groups, there is no rule that says they must be mixed, so if they all make groups with only girls, we can’t put them in our group.

Some of the boys have already completed their groups and are talking about the school trip. There were also some girls who were already separated from the gathering and were talking to each other, they probably already completed their group.

“Nakano-kun, he's always like that, isn’t he?”
“Tadashi is the type who rushes forward recklessly after all.”

We talk nonsense until Tadashi comes back. There's no point in us talking to the girls, so it's just right for us to wait for Tadashi to come back.

While we are talking about our favorite books, Tadashi comes back after a while.

“All right, I brought them here.”

The people Tadashi brought along were Morimoto-san, the class committee member, and Nakatani-san, the one who had been assisting Tadashi during the school festival the other day.

“I brought along two people who were kind of in command of the entire girls’ group!”
“Was it okay to bring them along?”
“What are you talking about? There's no need to be a leader in a place like this, we should just have fun without worrying about anything.”

It's hard to understand because words aren’t enough, but the point is that he brought them here because they probably wouldn't be able to enjoy themselves freely among the girls due to their personality.

“That's what I'm saying.”
“It's not like I can't enjoy myself, but I was having trouble with the group, so it's fine with me.”
“Me too.”

Apparently neither of them had any complaints.
At times like this, Tadashi often doesn't make girls get angry at him. He is good at discerning the line in these kinds of things.

“It's just that, well, the pressure from these two was so strong that I didn't catch the third.”
“Wouldn't catching her be terrible?”

With Tadashi's joke as the start, we begin to chat.
　However, perhaps because each of them has a serious personality, even in their casual conversations, they are making plans for the school trip. I think everyone can become a full-fledged member of society as is right now.

“Hm, lunch break is over, huh. Then, that's all for today.”

We disband and start preparing for the next class. Now then, I wonder if I'll have a chance to play with Hiuri on the school trip.

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