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The Game Research Club club room in the old school building.
In the silence after school, Amane is alone in front of the monitor, immersed in practicing a fighting game.
The other club members have already gone home, and the only sounds in the club room are her tapping on the keyboard and the light sound of an energy drink can being placed on the desk.
“Fu…… finally getting a steady combo, huh?’
Amane takes a small breath and stands tall.
She had been practicing to get as good as she could at the fighting game, her least favorite of the games, but there was no player she could play against, even in online matches.
“Oh, yes. Maybe I should practice my streaming too. ……”
After taking a short break, Amane put her hands on the keyboard to prepare for her next game.
At that time, the door to the club room rattled open.
“Eh?”
When she turned around, she saw Kuramoto, a senior member of the same game research club, standing there.
He had scrawny arms and legs and a somewhat awkward smiling face.
He is usually timid and reserved, but today he approached her with a strangely restless look on his face.
“Amane-chan,……, you’re working hard all by yourself. I admire you.”
Kuramoto’s voice was lower than usual and sounded somewhat sticky.
Amane reflexively pulled her chair back a little to put some distance between them.
“Oh, yes,…… I’ve been practicing for a bit,……. Why are you in the clubroom too, senpai? Do you have something to …… do?”
“No, it was about our match the other day. I didn’t think I’d lose so easily, I was so frustrated… so there’s something I wanted to talk to you about.”
Kuramoto then thrust his hand on Amane’s desk and stood there as if to surround her.
The light from the monitor illuminated his face pale, and his eyes were oddly glazed over.
“Well, is this a …… talk? I’m not good at fighting games, so I can’t give you any tips or tricks,…… and I was thinking I should go home,…… and, um, close,…….”
Amane tried to stand up, but Kuramoto stepped in and grabbed her arm.
The power is surprisingly strong, and the petite Amane’s body shakes with a jerk.
“Wait a minute, Amane-chan. It’ll be over soon. Just for a little while… Just for a little while, okay?”
Kuramoto’s hand tightened even tighter, and the blood drained from Amane’s face.
She desperately tries to shake his arm off, but Kuramoto conversely tries to push her against the desk.
“No, don’t do it, ……! Let go of me!”
“Oh you’re so cute,…… small and quiet,…… Amane-chan is my favorite,…… I won’t give you to anyone else, only to me. I won’t give it to anyone else, it’s my own …… Amane-chan!”
The moment Amane’s small voice echoed in the clubroom, the door opened with a bang.
“—Get away from Amane!”
He was tall and solidly built.
He was so intimidating that he blocked the small entrance to the clubroom.
Kuramoto looked shocked as his body barreled into him with the speed of a bullet train.
The next moment, Kuramoto’s profile distorts as if it had caved in for a moment, and he is blown away.
Kuramoto’s body plunges into a pile of cardboard boxes that had been placed in the distance.
Released, Amane looks up at the figure with teary eyes and spills a large tear.
“……Kenmochi…. kun …….”
It was Kenmochi who came in to help.
“Kenmochi,…… you hit me,…… violence,…”
Kuramoto stood up, holding his face, and stared at me with bloodshot eyes.
But he didn’t stop.
He swung his fist down a second and a third time, and kept hitting Kuramoto until he collapsed to the floor.
Breathing hard, He looked down at him, breathing on his shoulder, and he saw that Kuramoto was bleeding from the nose and crying.
His face was bruised and he was crying.
it’s too much, in fact, He thinks it’s too little.
He looked at Amane.
She was sitting with her back against the wall, holding her knees and trembling.
The collar of her school uniform was disheveled, and tears were streaming down her cheeks and falling to the floor.
He rushed to her side and kneeled down.
“Kenmochi-kun,…… it was scary,……uuu…….”
“It’s….. okay, I’m here.”
He hugged her as she trembled like a puppy.
“…… it’s all right now.”
Amane was sobbing softly in his chest.
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