Episode 2 - A beautiful seductive girl in a jersey won't leave my vicinity.

"Ah"

"Oh, what a coincidence, Yuzu. Let's go together."

    The next thing I knew, I was on my way to the gymnasium for PE class.

    As I was walking down the hallway, Ayaka-san came running up to me from the other side - from the women's locker room. After she said that shortly, she moved next to me.

  When she said something about 'coincidence', another way of putting it would sound like Ayaka-san was waiting for me.

"That's not true."

"Sorry"

  She denied it quite a bit seriously with an angry red face, so I apologized honestly. Incidentally, I glanced at Ayaka-san's figure.

  Ayaka-san in her jersey is surprisingly mature and stylish. This is the first time we went to the gym together.

　Even though I tried not to look at Ayaka-san with perverted eyes, it is a man's nature to look at her. So I calmed down, then strongly reminded myself to just only forgive her and look at her properly.

“Haah…"

　Ayaka-san shrugged her shoulders and let out a sigh as if she could not help it. Then, she lowered her arms, which were crossed to some degree in the front, and spread them out.

　I wonder if this means she has permitted me to look? Then…

　A little concerned about my perverted side, I decided to take the time to gaze… no, no, no, I meant to observe.

A jersey that partially hides the lines of her slender body while partially revealing them as well.

　Black socks peeked through the gap between the hems of her rolled-up pants and her shoes. Her fingertips can be seen through her loose sleeves.

　I thought it was quite a bit lewd.

“It's special because it's Yuzu”

    She glared at me sharply while saying this, and then took strides in the direction of the gym. At that moment, I felt the pain of being stabbed through the heart and crouched down. 

    I couldn't move as if I was paralyzed, and after a few seconds, the pain disappeared.

　I catched up to Ayaka-san. First, I strongly apologized and said,

“I’m sorry, forgive me”

"It was my bad that I showed you, so it’s okay ”

“Uh… next, I have a question. What was that?”

    My heart ached because of that glare, what my head concluded after sorting out the situation. In addition, I had an idea that it might be Ayaka-san's psychic ability.

“Psychic ability. Secret"

　Just as I'm about to reply with "It's not a secret", I realized that it was a reminder not to tell anyone.

　While it’s not worth the trouble to ask every time, so I prioritize what I've wanted to ask from the beginning.

“What do you mean by special?"

“I used it on you because you’re Yuzu. I wouldn’t normally use it. But I use psychic powers to show you that I can”

"...isn’t that special meaning negative? Can I take that as something positive? I'm not sure"

“If you weren’t Yuzu, I wouldn't have spoken to you again."

　My heart jumped when I hear that. Not out of embarrassment, but out of fear. Just imagining how lonely I'd be if Ayaka-san stopped talking to me made me dejected.

“Sorry… and thanks”

    As I said that, I looked at Ayaka-san and she had a blank expression on her face.

　Expressionlessly, Ayaka-san opened her mouth.

“Why thanks?”

"For trusting me not to tell anyone and using your psychic powers on me. I'm embarrassed to say that, so why did you ask me that?”

“I wanted to hear the reason because it makes me so happy when you say thank you.”

"Oh~ Stop it, you’re embarrassing me on purpose!"

"Yuzu was the one who made me say that"

    Ayaka-san said with an inexpressive face, but there was a little red under her eyes. I thought it was cute when I realized that she was embarrassed as well.

　As I thought of that, the blush on Ayaka-san's face quickly faded and turned completely expressionless. I was puzzled at how difficult it is to understand a straight face, I thought to myself.

　Without being warned, a wall spread out in front of me, which caused my forehead to be struck with a smack.

　As I rolled around on the floor in pain, the memory of Ayaka-san's cold eyes looking down at me is still fresh in my mind.

*

“Orya!”

　Dodgeball. The ball was approaching indicated by the shout as I was standing absent-mindedly in the corner of the court. In a hurry, I got my hands ready to catch it. And threw it to the outfield at random.

　When I was in junior high school, I learned that whenever I threw the ball and it missed, I would get booed.

　I felt a strange force when I caught the ball, so I tried waving my hand, but there was nothing strange. I don't think I’m hurt.

    I looked toward the outfield and saw Ayaka-san. She’s been following behind me the whole time, as I was deftly running away from the ball. I thought to myself "No way", and then I ducked the ball as it came flying at me again.

　As I dodged, I turned my attention to Ayaka-san, who was glaring at me.

“Can I get serious now?"

    Please don’t!

　I’ve got this inkling for a while now.

　The unthinkable trajectory from the rotation of the ball, the repulsive force of the catch, and the number of times I was targeted.

　In an instant, I realized that all of that was due to Ayaka-san's psychic powers. There’s no point in making a tsukkomi about how many psychic powers she can use, even if it’s a supernatural phenomenon in the first place, so I swallow it and ask her about something else.

“Why are you targeting me?"

“It’s funny, so why not?”

　Hmm, I was about to think… why do you want to make contact with me in this way, but stopped when I saw Ayaka-san's face switch to a blank expression.

“Yuzu, can I use my other psychic powers too?"

“What are they?”

“Hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, brainwashing…”

“Of course not! That's against the rules!”

　I shouted as I dodged. Ayaka-san, you're so cute, then she took a step back away from me with a pouty look on her face.

　Sometimes I look at Ayaka-san while I'm dodging the ball. I can tell where the ball is from the movement of Ayaka-san’s eyes.

　The moment I thought of that, Ayaka-san hid her eyes with her hand. I didn't even have time to shout "That's not fair.”

　And then the flying ball hit me. I had been dodging the ball quite a few times, but in the end, it was just a matter of time.

　The final whistle blew as I stumbled towards the outfield… behind her position. Then the whistle blew again.

    I turned around to see Ayaka-san putting the ball in its place and coming towards me. Just as she passed me, she said in a whisper.

“Being alone is boring”

　...please don't say that, I'm going to get embarrassed.

　I strongly reminded myself to follow Ayaka-san to learn from her while I stand propped up in the corner of the gym and watched the game.

    I can't go back to the infield on my own without Ayaka-san, who said that it was boring to be alone. With that in mind, I stole a glance at Ayaka-san and saw that she was beaming a bit happily.

    Oh right, she can read my mind. Ah, she became expressionless. Maybe she gets expressionless when she’s embarrassed?

    After a few seconds of silence, Ayaka-san softly spoke.

“Yuzu, you were good at dodging”

“I don't mind moving my body around, but I'm not that good at it that I can brag about it”

“I see. By the way Yuzu, do you mind being beside me?”

    I didn’t hear any scolding about not going back to the infield or trying to be active in the outfield. So I nodded to Ayaka-san, who in turn nodded her head.

“I've had enough fun, and chatting with Ayaka-san like this is more fun and is more to my liking"

“Okay then”

　Ayaka-san said that with an expressionless face.

　Silence is created.

　The sleeves of our jerseys touched each other and it tickled me, but I held back because I knew if I moved, she would pull away from me.

　I secretly look at Ayaka-san and her face was a little red.

    I felt a grip on my sleeve a little forceful.