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“Edano kun is so smart, right !? If you want, can you teach me math !?”
It was a girl’s loud voice that broke through my gray world.
As I tried to lift my head, the first thing that caught my eye was a stunning pair of blonde hair.
It was not like it had been dyed at a beauty parlor; it was natural, so it looked clear with no signs of damage.
I honestly could tell who was speaking to me from the hair.
But, however, I couldn’t believe it and fearfully lifted my gaze.
I finally met her clear blue eyes with my own, just past her chest, which was pushing her uniform up.
“N-Nanamura Fraser? Reisa san……?”
For some reason, Nanamura F. Reisa, a returnee, was standing right in front of me.
She clapped her hands, perhaps amused by my reaction.
“You’re so uptight ! Just call me Reisa !
“Eh, o-oh. …Why are you here?”
“I have a math quiz tomorrow and I need to get a good score ! But I’m not good at studying. I saw that Edano kun seemed to be free these days, so I called him !”
I realized what had been said.
I remembered that Kako, who is usually in a different class from me, came to talk to me every now and then.
Well, most of the time it was just to disturb me while I was studying or to make fun of me for not saying anything back.
After what happened the other day, I realized that she really dislikes me.
In short, she was really just playing me for a fool.
Anyway, I thought she’d been strangely quiet recently, so that must have been why.
I haven’t had any contact with Kako since then.
I was thinking in a daze, when Reisa came closer and closer to me.
“What’s wrong? Do you have a stomach ache? Are you busy?”
“Oh, no. Just thinking.”
“Oh. You have the nerve to ignore me.”
“S-sorry. I mean, what was it? Quiz?
I heard that there was going to be a quiz in tomorrow’s math class.
I was so nervous that I had missed even such an important schedule.
While I was getting anxious, Reisa in front of me had a more serious look on her face.
“Please be serious !”
“Hmm.”
I was so reluctant to do so.
When I hesitated, I realized that the boys in the classroom had a murderous gaze, thinking that there was no reason for me to refuse a request from such a beautiful girl.
However, I’m currently in the midst of a poor academic performance.
I honestly don’t have the time or the ability to teach others.
On the other hand, Reisa is different from me.
Nanamura Fraser Reisa.
She was born in a major confectionery company and was the daughter of the president’s younger brother or something.
In any case, she was a very wealthy person.
She was born to a pastry chef father and his wife who brought her from Paris, and lived abroad until last year, that’s what Kako told me.
What is noteworthy is her appearance and her communication skills.
She has blond hair, blue eyes, and an out-of-this-world appearance, but her eyes and nose are cute and very Japanese-like.
She has perfect proportions, with a little bit of everything, and a lot of everything in between.
She has a strong mentality that allows her to talk to me, who has an aura of negativity, and she also has the communication skills that she has cultivated in social situations and abroad, and she has many friends.
Yes, many friends.
Why would such a person put her hands together and plead with me……?
I came back to my senses as Reisa knelt on the floor in front of me.
“W-w-what are you doing !”
“I thought if I got down on my knees you would help me.”
“I’ll help you even if you don’t do that ! Stop it !”
I was taken aback by her outlandish behavior.
I really want you to stop.
If you do that, it’s bound to spread around the school later that a hard-working, negative person made Reisa san get down on her knees.
I don’t want to make it even more uncomfortable than it is now.
“Really? You’re gonna teach me? Yay.”
“T-that’s not a big deal, but why me? You have a lot of friends, don’t you?”
“Hmm? I knew Edano kun was smart from the proficiency test right after the entrance ceremony ! Even today, he was called on during math class and he answered the questions fluently.”
In our high school, grades are posted up to the top 10.
On the first test, I was ranked third and my grades were posted.
I remember the teacher praised me by name in the classroom afterwards.
As a result, it seemed to have gotten on my nose, and since then I have had a lot of criticism in the classroom.
Now that my childhood friend has betrayed me, I’m under siege.
I remember a lot of things that I don’t like.
I’m getting sick and tired of having so many landmines.
I guess she was happy that I offered to help her with her studies, because Reisa whispered something to me..
“…..Should I thank you?”
“Eeek !”
I stood up, embarrassed.
In response, Reisa clasps her hands behind her back and approaches with a grin.
“Hehehe, fun awaits, y’know~?”
“I-I can’t after all.”
I was scared.
I was confused, not knowing what the woman in front of me was up to.
It was too close for it to be just skinship.
My gaze would go to her chest even if I didn’t want it to.
Everyone in the classroom was looking at us, and they were already whispering behind our backs.
I decided that this was a bad idea, so I said to myself.
“I-I have a stomach ache, I’ll have to go to the restroom !”
I decided to tell a random lie and run out of the classroom.
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“So, when are you gonna teach me?”
“Gyaa !”
After hanging around until the bell rang to signal the start of class, I came out of the restroom and suddenly heard someone call out to me from beside me, causing me to let out a scream.
When I turned around, I saw Reisa standing there, her eyes glazed over.
“You lied to me, didn’t you? You said earlier that you didn’t have a stomach ache, so it’s either what you said then or what you just did in the restroom was a lie to avoid me.”
Reisa touched my shoulder as if she was about to kiss me, and then I pulled away.
And then I gave a lousy bitter laugh.
“Haha. You’re smart. That’s a brilliant deduction. T-then maybe you should use that brain to study mathematics too. Well then, I’m leaving-“
“You said you were gonna teach me, didn’t you?”
I tried to escape, but she came around me !
“Eek.”
Bam ! I screamed out in a strange voice.
I was cornered and had absolutely no way to escape.
I let out a sigh and decided to be honest.
“It’s scary. The way you close the distance.”
“Hahaha ! I get that a lot.”
As I watched Reisa smile, I thought to myself, “Then fix it.”
“If you say it like that, I would take it the wrong way, you know? That kind of thing scares me a lot…”
“Does that mean…..you were expecting it?”
“I-I don’t mean it that way. I’m just saying things that could easily be misunderstood.”
“Hmm, well, I don’t really care either way. That aside, it’s quite surprising.”
“Eh?”
When I tilted my head at that, Reisa flashed a smile like a blooming sunflower.
“You’re more capable of communicating than I thought!”
“Sorry for being such a socially awkward loner.”
“By the way, then is today’s lunch break okay?”
“It’ll be fine.”
Things were going smoothly and I found myself smiling as I decided to tutor her.
Come to think of it, when was the last time I had such a cheerful conversation with someone?
It seems that studying only narrowed my perspective.
This kind of thing isn’t so bad after all.
Wait a minute.
Studying…..?
“Come to think of it, we have class !”
“You’re too late to notice.”
“Whose fault is it ! ……No, it’s my fault too !”
“You’re good at making your own jokes～”
I’m annoyed that I’m a little happy to be praised in such a crude way.
Ah, I don’t know what to do.
My grades are dropping, and I’ve been betrayed by my childhood friend.
And yet I even skip classes like this.
This should be the worst thing in my life, but for some reason I feel a little lighter in my heart.
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