Volume 1 - CH 69

“Don’t, don’t lie!”

Koyomi immediately voiced out her objection

“It’s true! The proof is that this guy has forgotten about his classmate!”

“But……”

“Why do you stick to this guy!!? What’s so good about him!?”

“Ko-, Kouyou saved me!”

“If it’s just a matter of saving, then even I can do it! There are a lot of guys in this world who would protect you and prevent you from being harmed! It doesn’t have to be this guy!!”

“But…………!”

“Why!? Why!? What is good about this scum!? Why!?”

“Kouyou is not a scum…….”

“He is a scum! Isn’t that right!? Kouyou!! Why do you…..! You! You reached out to the girl that I desperately worked hard to get the attention of! Why do you act as if it’s natural that you stole her away!? You don’t even have that much interest in people and yet you still say that you don’t particularly like her!! If you don’t really need it that much! Then couldn’t you have given that chance to me!! At that time………I looked up to you……….Because I looked up to you that……….I tried to get close to you………Because I looked up to you, I could laugh it off and yet you still threw it away. You stole something that I desperately tried to get! And you throw it all after that!! That’s why I worked hard to surpass you! You……..I have surpassed you!! I am better than you! That has already been proven! Even so, why!? Tell me why!? Why do they always choose you!!?”

“I……! Tha-, that kind of thing…….”

“That was all just my grudge……..I knew it from the start…………that……….Tachibana will never look my way……I understand that! I have been watching you guys after all!! Because I have watched the bonds the both of you have!!”

“……………”

“……………”

Neither I nor Koyomi could speak at Iseda’s sorrowful cry.

I…..couldn’t bring out my voice. I couldn’t refute any of the things he said.

It’s the truth after all. I didn’t listen to Iseda, and also the fact that I throw what he deemed to be precious once I no longer need it. And also the part where I was playing with Koyomi’s feelings.

I don’t think Iseda is right.

But, I was definitely wrong without any doubt.

“Fu……..Guu……..Kuh……Ha.”

Iseda fall to his knees and tears started flowing.

And Koyomi called out to him.

“I………I am better than him! I swore! That I would never be laughed at again!! Just because I fell in love with one woman! I was laughed at!! That’s why I changed! I changed and threw myself away! I was reborn! I’ve got the power to prevent anyone from laughing at me! I am smarter than Kouyou! I can even do sports! I’m even better than him in fights! I will never play with your feelings!!”

“……………”

Iseda forced out some words while tears were still streaming down his face.

“Tell me……………what is so good about this guy………..what am I lacking in………..I should have more than what this guy has……..And yet…….Is that still not enough……….Do I not possess what he have…………Please tell me!……….What is the thing that this guy have…….that I am lacking……..Is my hard work not enough? ……..Is it impossible without any talents?………..If that’s the case……..then doesn’t that mean that there’s nothing more that I can do……….”

“I don’t know……….”

“Haah…?”

“Kouyou is definitely someone who has no interest in others with that blank look in his face, he is a coldhearted person! But even so……….”

“…………….”

“I don’t know. Which part of Kouyou is better than you. His intelligence and his athletic abilities, even personalities. I don’t know about that kind of stuff! I don’t have any interest in that! I just want to get closer to Kouyou and be by his side! Laughing together, crying together, getting angry at each other, and laughing together again! That’s why I like him!!”

“That……..Wrong……….wrong……..After all……I am better….than him……That is! Are you stupid!? Just because of that!!”

“Yes, I am!!”

Koyomi shouts while stepping forward from besides me.

“It’s because I am stupid that no matter which one is better, which one is inferior, that doesn’t determine the person that I like! Uun, it’s because of that that I love him! You cannot decide a person’s worth through their specifications, whether it be one’s superiority or inferiority. It’s love because I like him so much that I can’t stand it!!”

“…………….That………..”

Koyomi continued walking until she stopped in front of the crying Iseda.

“If all you talk about is specifications and superiority in these kinds of matters! Then that means that you have no qualifications to fall in love.”

“…………..That,…….”

“I…….like Kouyou. I don’t care about what other people think or say! You are wrong! You shouldn’t be ashamed of your feelings and given up on them!”

As she said that, Koyomi took out her phone and made some pressing gestures.

After a while, she head towards my direction and said this while smiling.

“Kouyou, I’m sorry! Everyone in the class found out about the fake confession due to an anonymous message I sent!”

“Eh?”

Koyomi looks at Iseda again.

“No matter what everyone in the class says about this, I have no intentions of breaking up with Kouyou! I will apologise as much as I can if they want to but I’m not going to fall in love with another else! That’s why tomorrow morning, watch us properly!!”

“…………”

After saying all that, Koyomi walked up towards me and just said a few words.

“Should we go now? Kouyou!”

“Ko, Koyomi………”

“Fufu, It’s alright! I love Kouyou after all!”

Koyomi pulls me by the arm after saying that.

I look at Koyomi.

There’s no way that she isn’t afraid. But even so, she has made up her mind, walking with her head straight up.

I couldn’t help but notice how cute she looked.

Author’s Note:

Koyomi….. You have become so strong…..your mother is impressed!!

And, regarding that line that Koyomi said in the end. 

One day Kouyou will be the one to say that insteadー. Well the way I phrase it could be a little wrong. Aah, I really wanted to write that scene with Koyomi! 

Do you know where it is? 

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