CH 16

Mob Highschool Student gets involved

“Alright, class dismissed.”

“All stand, attention. Thank you very much.”

I was getting ready to head home as usual but……..the thing is, today I can’t go home yet.

“Oh, Seiya. You are heading back early today too eh! Wait, you can’t do that today huh……..”

“If I didn’t come back……erase the contents of my hard disk……”

“Oi oi, it’s Ichinose-san you are meeting right? I don’t think that it would be that bad you know……”

Hmph, Masato is too naive…..her type is the one that can go great length for her friends.

Such a person called me out alone, I’m already getting chill recalling the time she walked up to me.

“Ah, I didn’t actually have a hard disk by the way, don’t worry about it.”

“Stop getting cold feet and just go already……..if you are that worried then just go ahead and wait for her there in a dogeza alright.”

“Right…….guess I will do that. I’m off.”

“Oi, that was a joke okay? Don’t actually do it alright!”

I can hear Masato’s voice from behind me but he must be cheering me on. Thus, I headed to the room I was called to.

“Classroom No.314……..this room huh, isn’t this place too inconspicuous……”

The room I was called to by Ichinose-san was located at the quiet end of the 3rd floor.

Even among the entire school, she is one of the most beautiful girls. Normally, when you get called to an empty classroom by a flawless girl who is both innocent and good at socializing like her, you would think that she might confess to you.

“…..excuse me. Uwahh, isn’t there too much dust in here…….”

Unfortunately, it seems that Ichinose-san still hasn’t arrived yet.

I came here immediately after a short talk with Masato but Ichinose-san is as popular as Eihashi-san.

She was surrounded by a lot of people when I left the classroom so it may take some time before she arrives.

“In a dark and isolated place like this……it’s like I’m gonna get a group lynch or something……Alright, let’s get on with it and wait for her in dogeza.”

“Hey, I’m not going to do that alright!”

“OHH, when did you……!?”

“I just came.”

It seems that she arrived earlier than I expected…….maybe, since she was the one who called me, she didn’t want to keep me waiting?”

She is alone as far as I can see and there is no sign of scary onii-sans glaring at me from behind her either. Moreover, I don’t feel the chill I felt during the lunch break from her.

I kinda know why she called me out here alone but let’s ask Ichinose-san for her reason anyway.

“So, what is it……..?”

“I think that you already know, Hiura-kun. It’s about Reika.”

“…..let me tell you this first, there is nothing between me and Eihashi-san you know? I’m telling the truth here.”

“That’s a lie! Reika would never take interest in a boy……”

Even if you say that, I really don’t know what she wants………no, there’s a possibility I can think of but I still want to believe that it’s wrong.

“……she always talks to other boys normally too right?”

“Even so, she always took a proper distance you know! Even when we head home together I have never seen her with any boy before……How come she wants to borrow a book from you now?’

If I tell her that it was Eihashi-san who invited me to walk home with her, she probably wouldn’t believe me huh.

However, even if I tell her that I am Kamishiro Kousei, that scenario would totally be unrealistic.

Ichinose-san’s words have the same weight as Eihashi-san. If I deal with her poorly here, my mob life will face even more crisis.

On the contrary, why don’t I just tell her the truth while leaving the inconvenient fact out? Better yet, if I explain it well, Ichinose-san might even be able to help clear the doubt Eihashi-san has about me too right?”

Ichinose-san will surely confirm my story with Eihashi-san so even if she doesn’t believe my words, she should be able to believe it my asking Eihashi-san later.

“Hey, do you know Kamishiro Kousei?”

“Eh? I’m a big fan! ……I don’t think that there are that many high school girls who don’t know about him you know…….why did you bring him up?”

“Right……..did something happen between Eihashi-san and Kamishiro Kousei?”

“Hmm? I haven’t heard anything like that from Reika you know. She should only first learn about him just this week too……Rather, if Reika talks about Kousei-sama then I wouldn’t forget about it…….”

I don’t know what she talked about in the latter part but it seems that Eihashi-san didn’t tell Ichinose-san about how she was saved by Kamishiro Kousei.

I mean, did Ichinose-san just called me Kousei-sama?

“Hmm….I think that Kamishiro Kousei is involved somehow though……”

“……at least could you add -san when you refer to him.”

“Ah, of course.”

She was saying [Could you add -san when you refer to him] but I felt something along the line of [Don’t you dare ditch the honorifics!] from her atmosphere. It was the same one I felt during lunch break so it seems that it was not just my imagination after all.

It’s weird to use -san when referring to myself but I gave her an immediate reply since I couldn’t endure her pressure.

Referring to him without any honorific, who the heck do you think you are! Was what I felt from her so I wanted to tell her that I am him but I will not make such a silly mistake.

“Eihashi-san asked me if I am Kamishiro Kousei-san at least twice yesterday you know.”

“……..was she hallucinating?”

Replying so, Ichinose-san gave me a dubious look as if she was cross-examining me.

“Maybe.”

“Right.”

“But during her hallucination, she asked me to promise her to lend her my book.”

“Hiura-kun…….I think that hypnotism is a crime you know?”

“I haven’t done anything like that! …….no, so that possibility is more viable huh? ……..Hah! To test it out, can I try doing it on you, Ichinose-san?”

“…….Hiura-kun, are you perhaps the type that can easily get carried away?”

Oops. I unintentionally started talking to her like how I talk to Masato.

“For the time being, Ichinose-san should try asking Eihashi-san about that.”

“…..certainly, there’s no way that Hiura-kun is Kamishiro Kousei-sama……..I will try asking more from Reika! Thanks for coming today!”

Perhaps she was convinced, Ichinose-san didn’t give me the chilly gaze she gave me earlier.

“No, it’s normal to get worried when your friend’s behavior suddenly changed. Please try asking more from her.”

Then you can convince her that I am not Kamishiro Kousei so that Eihashi-san stops doubting me………Please deliver me back to my mob life.