Volume 1 - CH 60

“Oi, Kouyouー, let’s eat lunch togetherー!”

Lunch break, Akira invited me for lunch like usually.

“Ahー, I’m sorry. I have somewhere else to go to today.”

“Ehー……….”

“Ah, by the way that is meー!”

Koyomi intruded from the side.

Since it’s troublesome, I rarely had lunch together with Koyomi. Probably around once a week. Of course together with Akira.

“Eh, aren’t we going to eat together today?”

“Ahー, but I insisted!”

“Koyomiー? What are you talking aboutー? I don’t remember promising something like thatー?”

“Ehー, isn’t it fine once in a while!”

“Yes, yes. Next time okay?”

“Really? Yes!”

Koyomi didn’t say anything as she was happy when I promised her next time. She is easy when she needs to be.

“But it’s unexpected. Who are you going to eat with?”

“Well yeah. But I’m not really eager for this though.”

“? Hoh, well then see you later.”

“Yes, yes.”

And so I walked towards the hallway.

It should be around this time now…….

“Yo, I’m sorry. To have made you wait a while.”

Here it comes.

“No, I would have preferred it if you hadn’t come.”

“Tsu! ……….Is that so……Then should we start going?”

“Where to?”

“Somewhere where there aren’t many people around, how about the backyard?”

“Okay, okay, I got it.”

And so we moved towards the backyard near the gymnasium.

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“So? What do you want to talk about?”

“Before that, do you really not remember anything about me?”

“Nn, well yeah.”

“First I shall have you remember it then.”

“Nnー……….I feel like I’ve seen you somewhere before but…………..”

“Heeh, where?”

“Nnー? If I’m not mistaken somewhere around the park?”

“That’s wrong. That’s definitely someone else.”

“Ahー, I’m sorry. You look like someone I could meet anywhere so I could have mistaken you for someone else.”

“Don’t try to get on my nerves every single time. At the first place, did you went to a park yesterday?”

“Ah, no I didn’t.”

“Are you dumb………….it’s in the cinema. I saved Tachibana-san when she got hit on!”

“Nnー……………………….?”

“Koyomi is mine.”

“……………….Ah! You’re that person from back then!”

I remembered it. Come to think of it, there was someone like that.

“Nn? Koyomi is mine? Which means?”

“I’m telling you you don’t match with Koyomi.”

He glared at me as he said that, brimming with malice. The atmosphere was different from a little while ago.

“Heeー, your character changed quite a bit. Do you have a split personality?”

“You, can you stop making fun of me?”

“I wasn’t really making fun of you though. It’s just that I’m tired of people who don’t even confess looking down on me, and Koyomi is not anyone’s belonging. That kind of thing is already outdated.”

“I’m not like those idiots, I don’t confess unnecessarily. And that was a misinterpretation. Would it be easier to say that Koyomi is my girl?”

“Saying you don’t, but rather you can’t right? Because you’ll get dumped. That’s what creepy about you, just like a stalker.”

“Yes, I know that if I confessed to her, she would have rejected me. That’s why I’m saying I didn’t. Those idiots around here don’t understand that, so they just go for it.”

“No, you’re just twisting facts to be convenient for you. There’s no rule that you have to give up when you got rejected. You’re just scared. That fact won’t change.”

“I would like for you to call it careful instead.”

“Mr. Careful.”

“Are you making fun of me? That’s not what I meant. In the first place, you two weren’t supposed to be in a relationship either.”

“Why?”

“In the first place, Koyomi rejected guys because she had no interest in them, not because she hate them. Probably some trauma regarding her boyfriend. I’m not sure of the details but, I hit the mark right?”

“………..I wonder. And even if that was the case, why would Koyomi go out with me?”

“Because she likes you right.”

“Hah? What are you saying? You are contradicting yourself, Mr. Careful.”

“But……the reason that you are dating right now.”

“What are you trying to say?”

“She wasn’t in love with you at her. Isn’t that right? It started with a punishment game.”

“………………”

This guy, he noticed it?

“Hmm? What’s with those eyes. Where’s your calm demeanor from earlier?”

“Haa……..This is silly. What’s your basis…….for saying that. I would like it if you stopped lying.”

“You know how there was a rumor going around that you two were falsely going out to each other? I was the one who started it. I was the one who started that rumor, though it was denied by Rekizuki and the theory was erased.”

“Well of course that would happen. Because that’s a lie.”

“You and Koyomi go out with each other even though you don’t like her, an act that plays with a women’s feelings. And Koyomi falsely confessed to you, an act that plays with a man’s feelings. Isn’t this a pretty serious situation?”

“That’s groundless. Absurd. Let’s go eat our lunch already.”

“I have the proof…..”

Then he sticks his chopsticks in front of my eyes. The chopsticks stop just short of hitting my eyeballs.

“Don’t get carried away, okay?”

“That proof…….is just a bluff anyways.”

“Do you really think so?”

“…………………”

No, that’s probably the truth.

However, I can’t admit that as long as I don’t know how certain I am about it.

“To bluff at a timing like this. Anyone can bluff as they wish. And if you say that then shouldn’t you have said it from the beginning? Way before you got attracted to Koyomi. The fact that you say this now means that you think it’s certain right?”

“……………..I won’t accept it.”

“Hmm. You’re a lot smarter than I thought. But that’s just stalling for time. I’m sure you’ll agree. It would be a pity for Koyomi to make you leave her so suddenly.”

“What if I said I won’t?”

“I can’t get 100% of the proof, but I can get 90%. The students who see it will make it 100% in their own brains. I’m sure there will be a storm of criticism. Especially towards Koyomi.”

“Don’t you like her?…………Scum.”

“I can’t forgive it. To confess to someone who you don’t even like and then fall for him. And then there’s you. To play around with her feelings even though you don’t like her……….How repulsive.”

(TLN: The repulsive one is you here. Why, just why do you have to do this when there is left than 20 chapters left? All I want is just fluff and sugar……)

“I was surprisingly hated. Well, maybe they just like me though.”

I moved my chopsticks out of the way and got up to walk away.

“Come back here tomorrow at lunchtime. I’ll give you one day to answer. How conscientious is that?”

I turned back and glared at him.

“How silly. You can do it yourself.”

“Kukuku…………..I told you not to get ahead of yourself right.”

Iseda attacked.

I’m not a big fan of violence, but I don’t have a choice.

Iseda’s right fist comes flying. Iseda’s right fist flies at me. I brush it off with my left hand, and without pausing, I kick him with my left and he catches it with his right leg.

He immediately counters. He hits him with his right.

“Too soft.”

He avoids it and lands a right body blow. I grab him with my left hand.

But he quickly dispels my hand, releases it, and pushes and kicks me in the stomach. He gets out of range.

A direct hit. It hurts. I fell to my knees and stared at Iseda.

“Uu!”

“Hahaha, now you know. Just because you’re a little strong in a fight doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be proud of it. I’m better than you. I’ll tell you the details of the terms tomorrow. Think hard today.”

“I’m at a huge disadvantage…………you won’t even tell me what the terms are and whether or not I’ll accept them……….”

“Of course. I’m better than you after all.”

“Where did you hear it from………..”

“I overheard a girl at your part-time job talking to an okama. I was eavesdropping, of course. I recorded it on my voice recorder, of course. It’s a good piece of evidence at this point, but if you dig deeper, you’ll find a lot more, you know?………….Well then, goodbye.”

Iseda said with a grin, and went back to the classroom first.

This guy is smart. He’s not the muscle-brained type that I’m used to.

This is a nuisance………….

Author’s Note:

I have a feeling that Iceda is going to get even more hate………..

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