283 – I’m so popular that it’s a mess
Anyway, I can’t stay still in a situation like this, so I decided to calm her down with a roundabout attitude.
“I don’t know what… I don’t know what you were thinking, but it’s not too late now. Go back to the room where the other kids are staying.”
However, Ayase’s attitude in response was firm.
“No. I won’t go back to my room until you accept my confession.”
“…….”
How did the situation come to this?
Maybe I’m dreaming.
Otherwise, there’s no way something as absurd as this would happen in real life.
“Ayase.”
“Huh?”
“Sorry, can you pinch my cheek just once?”
“Why? Is it because being confessed to by me is like a dream?”
“Uh.”
Then Ayase approached her without words and pinched her right cheek.
“…It hurts normally.”
“Then will you answer me now?”
Ayase looks at me with an expectant gaze.
But my answer hasn’t changed.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t accept that confession.”
“Why!”
Ayase suddenly screamed out loud.
Looking at it in surprise, Ayase saw a tear trickling down from his eyes.
“Why does Rika work and I don’t! I fell in love much earlier!”
“…….”
I couldn’t say anything while watching Ayase sit on the floor and cry bitterly.
She must have worked hard in her own way.
I must have thought that if there was a way to change my mind that I was already dating Rika, the only way to do that would be to establish a fait accompli by having a physical relationship.
Fortunately, I was able to stop it before it was irreversible because I was a light sleeper, but I could only see that the friendship between me and Ayase was completely ruined.
From noble mtl dot com
To be honest, it was a shock to me in many ways.
Unlike Rika, Sasha, and Karen, who openly showed their liking for me, Ayase had never shown that in front of me.
I carefully asked Ayase, who was crying sadly by herself.
“That… Since when did you like me?”
Then Ayase answered while whimpering.
“A year and a half…about a year and a half…since you killed the stalker…because I liked it.”
… Long.
A year and a half ago, do you mean the first semester of the first year?
At that point, it was probably the time when I became very close with Ayase.
After watching the video on Satoru’s recommendation, I found out that I was a virtuber, and as I got involved in it, I went home to play a few times.
To be honest, getting rid of the stalker was something I hadn’t even thought about.
But I never thought that would have made me fall in love.
“I never thought you would like me.”
Then Ayase timidly nodded her head.
“I tried not to show off….I was a coward who couldn’t even confess properly.”
She wiped her tears with her forearm, pouring out all the emotions she had been feeling as if she were making her confession.
“Actually… I tried to slow it down at first. There were no women around you other than me.”
I remembered myself in first grade.
Ahhh, the only friends he talked to in class were Ayase and Satoru.
I was scouted as the secretary of the student council in the second semester, but that didn’t really make me popular.
Things changed completely when I was in my second year.
Because of the blonde transfer student who transferred to Class 2-B.
“…Starting with Rika, more and more women started to appear around you. As a result, you lost the timing to confess and gave up halfway. In the first place, an ordinary girl like me can’t compete with pretty girls like Rika or Sasha. Because it won’t.”
“What? You’re a face that won’t be called ugly anywhere.”
“…Thank you for the empty words.”
I looked sadly at Ayase who was muttering that with a self-deprecating face.
Her self-esteem is about to pierce her inner core.
Perhaps Ayase now hears nothing but the intention of comforting me no matter what I say.
So I turned the subject.
“So you were about to give up?”
“…Yes.”
“Then why did you decide to confess to me again?”
Then Ayase looked straight at me with her tear-stained face and said.
“Because I like it.”
Do you know how ugly it is to try to forcefully take away a guy who already has a girlfriend from her?
It’s obvious that you’ll be caught and pointed at by people around you.
But I couldn’t give up.
“Because I felt like I would regret it for the rest of my life if I gave up like this.”
“…….”
It was a sincere confession indeed.
Ayase’s heavy heart was contained to the point where he hesitated even to dare to refuse.
But I have to refuse this one more time from now on.
Just like she did to Rika at her amusement park, she has to leave her with scars that won’t heal for a long time.
Thinking so, her mouth couldn’t stop.
“…….”
Uncomfortable silence in the room.
After much thought, I opened my mouth.
“That…”
Udangtangtang!
It was then.
The sliding door that was well closed suddenly fell forward.
“Ouch yaya…”
“I never thought it would break…”
“Sasha, it’s because you’re too heavy!”
When the door was broken, it was a trio of traffic lights that rolled inside.
Thanks to that, the serious atmosphere was destroyed in an instant, and when we looked at each other with a bewildered expression, Rika, who had barely escaped from the human tower, scratched the back of her head as if embarrassed.
“Heh, sorry.”
***
A trio of traffic lights suddenly broke through the door.
Rika, Sasha and Karen.
Of course, the three people who thought they were sleeping in the room seemed to be eavesdropping on our conversation outside.
I grabbed my forehead and asked to sort out this confusing situation.
“Three people, since when did you do that?”
“From the time Ayase realized he was hiding under the futon and asked who you were?”
“It’s completely from scratch!”
If you’ve been watching, I’d say stop!
When I looked at her like that, Sasha pretended not to know and turned her head away and blew her whistle.
Okay, or not, Ayase’s pupils were completely stunned when he realized that he had been unknowingly being followed by three people.
Not to mention, right after Rika proudly declared that she would NTR the day she had a girlfriend.
“That, that, that, that,”
Like a character with a physical bug, Ayase tried desperately to say something while trembling.
In that very moment,
“It’s okay, you don’t have to say anything.”
Rika said that and hugged Ayase tightly.
“!?”
The pupil constricted in surprise.
In Rika’s arms, Ayase stiffened her limbs as if she had become a robot.
Into Ayase’s ear, Rika whispered.
“Even after knowing that Ryu-chan had a girlfriend, he couldn’t give up, right? Because his love for her was so great that he couldn’t forget it even if he tried to forget it.”
Looking back, Ayase now and Rika before were in exactly the same situation.
I have a girlfriend named Chairman (Rika), but I didn’t give up and confessed to Rika (Ayase).
And it was the chairman who saved her heart that she thought she would not be able to be saved.
Like Rika right now.
“I’m sorry… I’m sorry…”
“No, I’m more sorry for not noticing Ayase’s feelings.”
Perhaps belatedly feeling guilty, Ayase fell into Rika’s arms and began to cry like a child.
Rika patted Ayase on the back slowly.
The two people who forgive each other and are forgiven were like shadows reflected in a mirror.
As I stared at him with dark eyes involuntarily, Sasha approached and stabbed me in the side.
“The sinful bastard.”
At this point, I had nothing to say.
I thought being too popular could be a crime now.
When I awkwardly averted my gaze, Sasha smiled and crossed her arms.
At that time, Karen, who was watching the situation, said with her yawn.
“So what are you going to do now? It’s quite late, so I want to go to bed soon.”
“Oh, I did.”
Perhaps belatedly realizing that fact, Rika stopped patting her back and raised her head and said to Ayase, who was still crying.
“Ayase, I have good news for you.”
“Hey, good news?”
“Yes. Very good news for Ayase.”
Rika glanced at me as she said that, then wiped Ayase’s eyes with her sleeve and she said.
“In fact, everyone here is Ryu-chan’s girlfriend.”
Hearing that, Ayase looked at me with a startled face.
“…Octopus feet?”
“No, I really have nothing to say because I said that.”
It’s not a voluntary harem by any means, but since we’ve already decided to let everyone in at Christmas, there’s no excuse.
The fortunate thing is that Rika corrected Ayase’s misunderstanding.
“Yeah, it’s not because Ryu-chan is a womanizer. It’s just that Ryu-chan’s energy is so strong that it happened…”
Rika’s voice got smaller as she went behind her, probably because it was embarrassing to explain with her mouth.
This is something only those who have experienced it can relate to, so Sasha and Karen, who were watching from behind, nodded in agreement.
“Honestly a monster.”
“Because I didn’t blink an eye against the four by myself.”
“Anyway, if Ayase wants, I can give him a spot in Ryu-chan’s harem. What do you want to do?”
“Eh? Eh?”
In the midst of confusion in many ways, Ayase looked at the three people in front of her eyes in confusion with a confused face at the sudden choice, but the answer was already in the state.
“…Now, please take care of me?”
That’s how I joined the Kim Yoo-seong harem created by Chairman Ayasedo.