Living with the Arrogant Queen from High School is Surprisingly Not Uncomfortable

After lunch, we were sitting across from each other.

“So, how is the situation with the best man speech?”

Yamamoto asked me, rubbing his full stomach.

For a while, I told Yamamoto about the results of a day of struggling with everyone yesterday. However, it made me realize that despite the several hours we spent, there was no progress.

I wonder if we can make it in time for the wedding ceremony. I was struck with a touch of anxiety.

“In other words, we thought about it a lot, but there’s hardly any outcome.”

“Hmm…”

Yamamoto rested his hand on his chin and thought for a while.

“…First of all, why don’t we think about why the discussion didn’t progress at all yesterday?”

“Huh?”

It was as if he was saying that verifying the reasons for failure would not only be painful.

“Just because it was a failed experience, we need to confront it, right?”

“…Hmm.”

“Do you think failing is a bad thing? It’s not. Failure means that there was a problem and that’s why you failed. In other words, the next time the same thing happens, it means it’s the easiest to deal with to lead to success. If you succeed even though there was a problem, you can never achieve the same success again. After all, you can’t see why you failed. On the other hand, if you fail once and identify the reason, you probably won’t make the same mistake again.”

I see.

In other words, the clearer the problem, the easier it will be to succeed next time.

Well, that might be true.

For example, if you said that you got a low score on a test because you made a mistake on one row of answers, then let’s not make a mistake on one row of answers next time, it’s a simple countermeasure. However, if you studied hard and prepared well for the test, but still got a low score, you wouldn’t know where to start.

And if you had a successful experience with that, it would be even more difficult to improve.

“…But, about this time, I don’t think it was a simple reason why we couldn’t get our story together.”

“That’s true. But, we know what needs to be improved.”

“What’s that?”

“What did you want to tell Ishida who is getting married?”

…What did I want to tell Itchan?

This time, I was asked by Itchan to give a best man speech at the wedding.

Since then, I have been researching the etiquette of a best man’s speech. Then, Akari taught me how to give a formal speech, and I planned to make a speech accordingly.

According to the form of the speech, what was necessary was to praise the other person.

“I don’t know.”

When Itchan asked me to give a best man speech, did I want to praise him?

I don’t think so.

It shouldn’t have been like that.

But, I didn’t know the answer either.

However, after reading various articles, I thought I should do so, so I was only thinking about how to praise him.

“…That’s why we couldn’t get the story together.”

“Right.”

Yamamoto was right.

No wonder we couldn’t get the story together.

After all, I wasn’t thinking that I wanted to unabashedly praise Itchan.

All I was thinking about was how to praise Itchan.

But, what did I want to tell Itchan?

At Yamamoto’s words, my frozen thoughts seemed to soften a little.

The article said that if you’re going to give a best man speech, you should praise the other person.

So, I was only thinking about how to praise Itchan.

But, it shouldn’t have been like that.

The task entrusted to me… was not to give a best man speech praising Itchan.

The task I should do is to convey something to Itchan.

What should I convey?

One of the correct answers is to praise.

But that doesn’t mean it’s the only correct answer.

“What do you want to tell Ishida?”

“…I”

What did I really want to tell Itchan…?