When I Asked My Sensei Who Was in Her Thirties to Let Me Take Responsibility for My Actions, She Brought Me a Marriage Registration~

Sakuramiya-sensei takes out her smartphone, opens the camera app, lifts her phone diagonally and adjusts it so that both of us can fit in the picture.

I’m going to make a peace sign too.

And then she clicks on the shutter button.

By the way, Shi-chan stepped out of the frame of the camera even though I didn’t ask her to do so.
She is very considerate, even for a little girl.

“Well, I wonder if this is enough for the time being.
Thank you too, Shi-chan.”

She is seeing the pictures in her phone, sliding them one by one with a satisfied smile on her face.
Shi-chan asks her to see those pictures to which she handed over the phone to the little girl.

Meanwhile, I was slowly sipping on my coffee little by little.

Then, Shi-chan, who had been staring at Sensei’s phone, shakes her head side by side.

“This won’t irritate her at all.”

It seems that she has slightly misunderstood the purpose of me and Sensei taking these pictures.
We are procuring a picture to show them to Sensei’s mother, not to stir up anyone’s negative feelings.

“That’s fine.
It’s not my purpose to begin with.”

“But if they are satisfied with this, I don’t think you should be worried about it too much.”

It was a strangely convincing word.

Certainly if someone were to look at this picture of the two of us sitting like this in a cafe, they will believe it.
But the one who will be seeing them is Sensei’s mother, who already doubts our relationship.
I’m sure she will still feel unsatisfied with it.

I thought that it would be enough with a two-shot, but was it shallow enough?

“What are you going to do about it? Segawa-kun.”

I was wondering if Sakuranomiya-sensei had had some thoughts on this matter, but instead she asked for my opinion.

When I was lost in thought, Shi-chan raised her small hand and called the waitress.

“Excuse me, can I have some straws please?”

“Ah, yes.
Please wait a moment.”

The clerk looked at her softly and quickly went to get what she asked for.
Within 30 seconds, the straw was delivered.

“Thank you very much.”

“You’re welcome.”

After receiving the straw from the waitress, Shi-chan immediately opened the straw bag and put it into the cream soda that already had a straw in it.

“Eh, uhm…..
What are you doing? Shi-chan.”

Sakuramiya-sensei let out a bewildered voice.

But I don’t need to bother to ask her.

She tells us the contents as she roughly imagined it.

“Drink this together and take some photos and everything will be alright.”

“No but Shi-chan…..
You don’t have to cut the straws on your own.”

Or rather, I am in trouble.
Why do I have to do something like this in the first place? It looks like I will lose all sense of shame today..

“I’ll do it if it’s for Minato-nii and Yumi-nee’s sake.”

She clasped her hands in front of her chest and made a decision…… She is really a good girl, but her suggestions are driving me to a corner of no return.

“……You are so small, but yet so brave.
Segawa-kun, you have a good little sister.”

With teary eyes, Sakuramiya-sensei caresses Shi-chan’s head.
She is really good natured after all.

But she is not at all aware of what she is going to do.

And suddenly I realized that I had not explained it properly to her yet.

“Ah, Shi-chan is not my sister, but my cousin.”

“Oh, that’s right.
I was thinking about the same, the difference in your ages is about 10 years……..
So that’s why she doesn’t look similar to you.”

While placing her hands on the table, Sakuramiya-sensei had a refreshed expression.

Now that I noticed we really are more than 10 years apart.
Shi-chan is just five years old whereas I am already seventeen.

Currently, Sensei and I are pretending to be dating on the premise of marriage.
But Sensei still looks youthful, so I don’t feel the sense of incongruity between us.
But when I try to replace this position with me and Shi-chan I feel a sense of discomfort… 

I am keenly aware that whatever I am doing is something that is difficult to get accepted by the standards of society.

After all, I thought it was impossible for me and Sakuramiya-sensei to be dating on the premise of marriage.