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Today, the whole day felt much longer.
The reason is that I’ve been talking to Minase all day during lunch break,…..because it’s not often that I get to have a chat with such a beautiful girl with a boyfriend,…..but even so, I was surprised at how much we were able to talk.
[…..Sukui kun, you’re like a prince.]
Me, a prince?
Even though I’m the furthest thing from being a prince, that’s how Minase sees me in this reversed world, so I don’t understand.
(Even though…if this is just a feeling she has for now. If things go back to normal in a few days, I’m sure this conversation will never have happened…If it remains as a memory, people would probably think I had a disgusting dream.)
It’s too unreasonable, but I have to put up with it because I’m a the only one who notice this world.
“……………”
Damn it…why do I spend my time after school feeling so depressed?
But I want to understand.
Because from now on, I’ll definitely live my life paying attention to the laws of these two contradictory worlds…maybe I’ll go back to the way I was before I felt uncomfortable, but I feel like my current self will disappear because of that.
“……?”
Or rather…….
I’ve been feeling some kind of gaze from a while ago,…. and it’s coming from behind me.
(…Is anyone there?)
To tell the truth, I noticed it a while after I left school.
There’s a non-zero chance of a misunderstanding, and it could be someone who has something to do with me…in fact, I’m just embarrassed that someone’s curious about such an ordinary person like me.
……Okay, let’s turn around.
That’s the moment I turned around and saw that a girl I recognized had been arrested by a male police officer.
“L-let go of me !”
“Don’t be stupid. You’ve been stalking him this whole time, and that’s a crime.”
“……Eh.”
I can’t help but wonder.
Although he has a sense of justice, a male police officer who clearly looks down on the other person would be a good thing…The problem is with the girl.
She’s Noto Ami,……a classmate of mine.
She’s the girl who’s been bumping into my desk a few times lately, and she looks like a gal.
(In today’s world, women are treated very harshly–perhaps even high school students are taken away without mercy.)
No…..is it normal for a high school student in this case?
I mean, that cop seems to be assuring me that it’s a stalker, but I can assure you that it’s not possible—because it’s me.
I head towards her, who is usually strong-willed, but is now on the verge of crying.
“I’m sorry, Officer. Actually, we were playing a game to see how far it would take for us to notice after leaving school. She’s my classmate, and she is a good person who was willing to be with me like that. I’m also sorry Noto san, I never expected something like this to happen.”
I’m impressed with myself that I’m surprisingly articulate at times like this.
Noto san was surprised, wondering what I was saying, but her eyes looked as if she were seeing something unbelievable.
The men in the current reversed world are really terrible to women,……and knowing the original world that has not been reversed, they must have been under some kind of curse or something.
(I’m not so sure about Noto right now.)
I immediately freed Noto from the officer.
He looked stronger than me…well, it’s not that I’m lanky, but maybe because I’m average-sized, my opponent’s size stands out.
The reason I was able to pull Noto from such a man was probably because he denied the fact that I was being stalked and furthermore, I defended her without a single disgusted look on my face.
“Don’t tell me you’re being threatened?”
“No, of course not. I have to correct the misunderstanding, and she’s my classmate…..and it’s too sad to see her life tarnished by such a trivial thing.”
T-trivial thing….?”
I turned my back from the man and started walking with Noto.
When I reached the end of the road and the police officer from earlier was no longer visible, I turned to Noto again.
“It was a disaster…huh?”
I called out to Noto, but she was staring at me in horror–our hands were connected to each other.
Noto’s eyes were wide open, and she slowly raised her head…and stared at me…to be honest, I was scared.
“…Ah, sorry !”
Suddenly, Noto let go of her hand.
“So, what have you been up to?”
“…………….”
She looks away when I ask her what she was doing.
……Eh? Could it be that…..you really were a stalker? No, no, no way….right?
“……lunch break.”
“Yeah?”
I tilted my head at the words that were whispered to me.
“During lunch break, you were with Minase, right?”
“Yeah….what, did something happen from there?”
“No, i t’s not like that ! You seemed to be having fun alone with a girl like that. I thought it was strange… and I was curious…”
I see………she saw me and Minase at the time.
Well, in the original world, eating lunch with Minase, who has a boyfriend, would have been a rather risky move, right now, just because I’m a boy who gets along well with girls, people are astonished like Noto.
“It’s not that strange.”
I’m just curious because it’s not normal……”
“……………”
I’ve never had any contact with a gal like Noto.
If someone as beautiful and friendly as Noto, and has a body that’s even better than Minase’s, I’m sure she’ll attract a lot of men… she’s curious about me right now…..Haa, it seems like such a change that it makes me want to sigh.
“……Noto.”
“Eh? My last name……?”
“What now?”
“No,……it’s just that I’ve been called a bitch so many times that it’s new to me.”
“This world is over”
By the way, I was a little relieved to hear that it wasn’t me.
But it seems like I was there too, calling my mother an old hag, and I can’t help but think that I might have said cruel things to other girls…the same goes for Noto, and Minase too, especially in that area.
“You…you’re a strange one, aren’t you?”
“Gimme a break. I’ve been worried about a lot of things too…I’ve been wondering why things have turned out like this, and why the world has come to be like this.”
“…..Are you okay?”
Noto is looking at me with serious concern.
It’s still better to be seen as if you’re saying something crazy at times like this,……,but being seriously worried like this makes me think that this is a world where a man is worth something even if he doesn’t know what it means.
(……As it is now, even if I have this conversation with Noto and Minase, if this goes back to normal, it will be reset, right? Even if I seem to be rare among the girls, when things turn around, I will be nothing.)
……Well, I’m a guy too, you know?
So I expect a little bit or something……but my senses are not reversed no matter what……I think I’m normal, so there’s no point in standing out in this world.
(I mean, think about it. In a world that doesn’t make any sense to me, my sense of values switches from one person to another. To have a different person by your side every time….it’s not hard, but exhausting, you know?)
Even just seeing my mother change… makes me feel indescribably frustrated.
“Hey Sukui…..are you sure you’re okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine. Sorry for making you worry.”
“Ah…um…I think this is the first time a boy has said sorry to me.”
“What’s that?”
I wonder how many times.
If things are reversed like this, memories and the flow of the world will change, so why doesn’t it collapse…it’s kind of like horror, isn’t it?
Then, before I said goodbye to Noto, who had a smile on her face that she would never show me, and went home… a housewife in the neighborhood had this conversation with me.
“Lately, Sukui san is in a great mood.”
“It’s true…did something happen?”
“I don’t know. But…it’s annoying to see her so happy.”
…This world is really over.
“I’m home.”
“Ah, welcome home !”
I came home and my mother came out of the living room at a great speed.
She ran up to me and said thank you for your hard work and took my bag.
“Nothing happened…? Didn’t any strange people talk to you…?”
“No, I’m totally fine. What’s for dinner tonight?”
“Today is stew…. I made your favorite.”
“T-thanks.”
My mother over here is very kind,……and of course my original mother is kind too, but a little different.
If I had to say it, I feel like her love is getting a little heavy…maybe it’s just my imagination?
“…..Were you talking to someone?”
“Eh? Ah..with a friend.”
“I see.”
……She’s a little scary after all.
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