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The arrival of the girl in the wheelchair stops the fierce argument.
Okashira takes one look at the young lady, clicks her tongue, and returns to her seat with her two sidekicks in tow.
She must be one of the most powerful people on campus to make the head of the school back down with just one word.
“Be careful with her…”
Perhaps she thought I was in a negative light, mood young lady clasped her hand in mine and put it on her own chest. Eventually, she pulled her hand away with reluctant tears and turned back to her own place.
I felt a sense of fear as I watched the young lady who looked as if she was saying goodbye for the rest of her life.
The situation is put to an end, and the classroom comes back to a bustle. The topic of conversation seems to be about me and the young lady, and I feel the pain of other people’s eyes on me.
“Oh, you were right next to me.”
The seat to my right, which I had assumed was empty, was apparently hers.
I am relieved to see her smiling elegantly with her hand over her mouth.
A halo shining brilliantly like a savior. A dignified crane’s call that quells an altercation. The young lady is a young lady, but I can feel the difference in her status.
I bow my head and thank her for resolving the unsightly fierce fight.
“Thank you for what you just did. I thank you on behalf of the master.”
“No, that’s fine. What’s more, Izumi-san’s mannerisms were a bit original, but what was it about?”
“Well, it seems that there was a dispute over whether I am her lover or a dog.”
“Ha…?”
She was stunned and speechless at my answer. It seems that my explanation was unclear. I recounted the circumstances of the incident.
The young lady sat on my lap, complaining,
Okashira took her insolent attitude to task,
An argument broke out involving outsiders as to whether Hozuki Akane was a girlfriend or a servant,
The resurrected young lady challenged Okashira, who was threatening Yuzuriha-san, to a rematch,
Finally, a truce was reached due to the arrival of the wheelchair girl.
“Hozuki-san …… a little bit.”
While I was explaining the situation, Yuzuriha-san pointed out to me.
From a distant seat, there is a young lady staring at us with a lifeless, expressionless face.
She was muttering something,…… perhaps a curse, and the students around her were frightened, and I couldn’t help but shudder.
“The meaning of what you are saying is …… Oh, I beg your pardon. I am Tsukishiro Yukina. Please call me Yukina.
“Thank you very much for your courtesy. It’s nice to meet you, Tsukishiro san.”
“Please call me Yukina. Tsukishiro, please don’t call me that in a stranger’s way. It’s fine if you call me “san”, so please call me Yukina. okay?”
“Ah, yes.”
Tsukishiro-san, no- I succumbed to Yukina pressure, and I had no choice but to call her by her name.
“Yuzuriha Arisu-san, right? May I call you Arisu-san?
“Y-Yes, Nnnnnno problem!”
Yuzuriha-san returns the greeting with a salute of respect as she agrees.
The two commoners were overwhelmed by the dignity of Yukina-sama, who had the overwhelmingly ladylike disposition, and we were all a bit flustered and distraught.
To this nervous Yuzuriha san, Yukina held out her hand.
“There is no need to be nervous. We are friends, aren’t we?”
“Fuh, fuhhi…… f-friend…… fuhheheh.”
“From now on, the three of us will enjoy our school life to the fullest, won’t we? heyhey oou.”
The three of us made a pact to celebrate together.
There will be many peaks and valleys ahead, and we may experience many hardships and setbacks. But I am sure that the three of us will be able to overcome them.
I see hope for the future in the future. Tomorrow, I am sure, will be a wonderful future. …… Wait a minute.
The young lady ……?
After the entrance ceremony last week, today was practically the first day of classes.
For the most part, Shugetsu enrolled internal students, but as you know, there are us outside students as well, so the first class is a light one, with self-introductions.
During the break time, no one was in isolation except for one person, perhaps because friendships had already been formed, and everyone was relaxed and congenial without a sense of tension.
Yuzuriha-san and I, who were the center of attention, were almost left out of the group, but we were not completely isolated because of Yukina’s presence.
After the morning classes, it was time for lunch, and I agreed with Yuzuriha san’s opinion that she was interested in the cafeteria, and we headed for the dining hall.
“Since Akane and I have the most important appointment of spending our honeymoon alone on the rooftop, would you two please feel free to make each other’s acquaintance?”
The young lady smiled and spoke in a mild tone, but behind her words, she was full of desire.
She resolutely clutched my arm and conveyed her strong will to take me to the rooftop, no matter what.
It was hard for me to ignore Yuzuriha-san’s proposal, and I was curious about this upper-class dining room, so naturally I tried to get away from the young lady.
“U-Um, Hozuki san……, why don’t you come to the school cafeteria,……?”
The heartbreaking tone of Yuzuriha san voice makes my heart ache, but the young lady, on the other hand, is not at all impressed and bounces it off.
“Fufufu,…… sorry about that. Today I have a lunch box full of love and affection that I have made with great care for Akane. If he eats my bento, he’ll be amazed. In an instant, his clothes will burst and he will surely reach a climax.”
“What is the theory behind this?”
Putting aside the latter part of the young lady’s statement, rejecting the invitation of the girl who prepared the lunch box is just like a young lady who does not have a human heart.
I regret my curiosity about the diner, but I convince myself that I can visit again later, and I decide to follow the young lady’s order.
“That’s right, you two are also going to the rooftop…wait, what are you doing, stop it…”
And just as I was about to suggest that Yuzuriha-san and Yukina go to the rooftop as well, the young lady instantly interrupted me.
“……nu! Don’t be aggresive, ……! It’s okay, Akane, please be quiet…! ──So, we’re going to the rooftop, so please excuse me…fufufu.”
The young lady was about to dash off with me, but Yukina called out to her.
“Are you really Izumi-san?”
Yukina asked, the young lady stopped for a moment, but she ignored the words and walked again.
If the personality of a person who is known as a ruthless and self-righteous black rose maiden with a full name changes, rather than a sharp point ……, she is bound to suspect it is a fake.
I decided that the young lady who had time leaped had lost her mind due to a cold, but Yukina clearly doubts that she is the same person or someone else.
“Hello, can you hear me~? Hearing loss …… No, Izumi-san, who has a reputation for having a hell of an ear, shouldn’t be like that …….”
“…………”
Yukina approaches the young lady standing silently and begins to circle around her.
“Hello, Izumi-san? Hearing impaired systems are out of fashion nowadays, you know? Don’t ignore me, I’m going to cry. Izumi-san, hey, Izumi-san?”
“…………”
I and Yuzuriha-san were dumbfounded by the strange sight of a beautiful girl in a wheelchair calling out the young lady’s name repeatedly as she circled around the young lady.
This is not the time for me to be watching in a fluent manner. As the young lady’s servant, it is my duty to take care of the danger she is in.
“Can’t you please moderate your abuse of the young lady?”
“Ara Akane-san, …… excuse me. Izumi san’s possessiveness, similar to that of a toddler who keeps her toys to herself, rises my intellectual curiosity. Oh, and…this isn’t bullying, it’s just a game between best friends.”
“Best friends ……. Is the young lady and Yukna ……?”
The truth that is suddenly revealed to us is puzzling to me. The loner lady actually had someone who was recognized as her friend…?
“Yes, at least I consider myself close to Izumi-san.”
I had always been concerned that the young lady’s wild antics made her enemies all around her.
I was afraid that even the most stubborn young lady would eventually lose her mind.
So I vowed to at least be on her side, even though my recent words and actions were wearing thin.
However, I was afraid that she might be alone, but in fact, she had an ally in Yukina.
“Good for you, young lady …….”
“Aaaaaaaa! Don’t get me wrong! There’s no way I’m friends with this black-hearted, sickly, weak woman!?”
“That’s…..! At one time, we were good rivals and feuded with each other, but now we are friends and have become friends without any friction. “
“Akane, listen? This girl is a crafty person who considers all events in terms of profit and loss, and acts based on how beneficial it will be to herself. She will use any means to achieve a bloodless goal! So, no more. You can’t get close to this Machiavellian fox!”
The young lady confuses Yukina, but Yukina herself seems to be at ease, and more than that, she seems to be enjoying the exchange.
Perhaps it could be called an equal relationship ……, but it created an atmosphere different from that of Okashira’s.
I and Yuzuriha-san, who had become bystanders as usual, watched the internal quarrel for a while.
“Ah,……, let’s leave those ladies and go to the cafeteria alone, shall we?”
Feeling that the quarrel is not going to get any better, I decide to invite Yuzuriha-san to the cafeteria.
Yuzuriha-san, who had been looking right and left to mediate the quarrel, her expression broke into a smile at my words.
“……! Ah, but don’t you have to stop them ……?”
“It will stop sooner or later. Let’s go sooner rather than later.”
“……Ah, yes!”
We leave the two of us alone and head to the school cafeteria.
Yuzuriha-san asked me while we were calmly heading towards our destination without any particular conversation.
“Oh, um,…… Izumi-san, what kind of person was she when she was in junior high school?”
“We went to different schools in elementary and middle school, so I don’t know much about the situation there, but at home she was a roughneck who would immediately resort to violence if something offended her.”
“Wow. ……”
Oh no, I have inadvertently told the truth about the young lady, and now she has become very disillusioned. I have to defend her before her reputation gets worse.
“But I believe that the young lady is now a reformed woman, transformed into a philanthropist who lives for others and a saint who is good at helping others.”
“W-Well, I didn’t see it that way, though ……”
Indeed.
I was satisfied, but the words came out of nowhere.
“Although she is no longer violent,……, she has degenerated into a pervert who is loyal to her own desires and is likely to be caught by the police for trespassing and indecent assault.”
“I-I see. ……”
I can’t defend the young lady …….
No, there are good things about the young lady.
It should exist, it should exist, but no matter how much I think about it, all I can think of is its mysterious charm.
Sharpen your own thinking, I’m sure I can find the good points of the young lady. Go Akane, go ……! I’ve endured the company of the young lady until now. I’m a can-do guy. ……
“It’s just that, well, she’s cool even then.”
A series of events of the girl in the park and the girl in the alleyway passed through my brain.
I couldn’t help but look around to see if there was a young lady around me, as I was surprised to hear that I said something that would probably be amplified and annoying if I were right in front of her.
Relieved that I could not see her, I turned my head to Yuzuriha-san.
“Hozuki-san, uh, well, you know, ……! Do you like Izumi-san, ……!?”
Where did she get the illusion that I liked the young lady?
“Ah, a,aaa…..what did I say…!? I’m sorry, forget it!”
“I don’t like (love) her.”
“Eh, Ah, eeh…..!?”
Did I misunderstand that I was supposed to reply that I like her there? Yuzuriha-san was surprised at my immediate denial.
There is no way I would like a young lady who has transformed into a perverted personality on top of being troublesome. Before that I was …… No, let’s stop belittling ourselves.
I return the question to her with a question.
“Do you dislike the young lady, Yuzuriha san?”
She chokes on my question.
It is obvious that Yuzuriha san is not fond of the young lady, because she does not immediately answer “I don’t dislike her.”
That’s right. She insulted her as a cunning woman and threatened to kill her.
As she wonders how to respond, I mock myself for having asked her a somewhat nasty question.
“……I know she still has a stubborn streak of good-naturedness, but since the entire Izumi and Hozuki families will be working together from now on to teach the young lady some moral values, please don’t hate her so much.”
“If Hozuki-san says so, I-I will do my best ……!”
Yuzuriha san clenched her fists and got fired up.
She repeatedly called out, “Izumi-san is a good person ……!!” No, you don’t have to go that far. ……
“Akane.”
Then I hear a familiar voice calling my name from behind me.
The frog staring at the snake is probably referring to the present moment. I gasp and turn around.
“Akane”
There, with a big smile on her face, was the young lady pushing Yukina in her wheelchair.
The two of you are surprisingly close ……. I’m not sure how long it will take me to catch up with her, but I’m going to make an excuse for the many insults I’ve hurled at her.
No, it’s better to be sincere here and not make excuses. I’m just telling it like it is, I did nothing wrong.
“How long have you been hearing about ……?”
“From the roughneck.”
─ Since the very beginning.
I wonder why these two didn’t call out to us when they caught up with us so quickly.
Then the young lady silently raised her fist and gave a thumbs up.
Then, with a smile on her face, she said
“I love you too, Akane!”
“I told you I don’t love you.”
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