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It was only recently that I discovered that Amane-senpai, the head of the Game Studies Club, is very popular.
I had left something in the clubroom and was going back and forth around the school looking for Amane-senpai, who had the key to the clubroom, when I witnessed a scene where she was alone with a male student behind the gymnasium.
It was quite a close range, but because I hid quickly without making a sound, my presence was not discovered.
However, the most common thing for a man and a woman to do alone behind the gymnasium is to confess to each other.
I was curious to see which one was going to confess, so I decided to watch over the two of them so that my presence would not be noticed, and I also had business with Amane-senpai.
“Amane! I like you! Please go out with me!’
It was the boy who confessed.
He lowered his head and held out his hand.
Ooooh, what a traumatic scene that would bring back memories.
I felt a little like throwing up, but I continued to watch with the desire to see how the confession went.
“Shall we shake hands then? Here, handshake.”
“Heh?”
The boy raised his voices in a frenzy, and I almost did too.
Normally one would have responded with a yes or no, but for some reason Amane-senpai started asking for a handshake.
(No, but shaking hands means agreeing to go out. ……)
When I was thinking about this, the boy held Amane-senpai’s hand with a quizzical look on his face.
That department head, who is only interested in games and ice-cold drinks, is going out with a boy. ……
“Gyaaaaahhh!!!?”
Suddenly, the boy raised a strange cry.
With a voice as pitiful as the girls’, he turned bloody and ran away as if he’d seen a ghost.
Without looking aside at me, who was hiding, he ran like a relay race to the main gate.
What in the world could have frightened that boy so much, when I looked back towards Amane-senpai, she had disappeared.
I look around, but she’s not there, I can’t find her.
I thought she had left towards the other side where I was hiding, or so I thought.
“Hmmm, peeping on the scene of senpai’s confession, Amami-kyun is a naughty junior, isn’t he …….”
“Hyah!”
I hear a voice from below, and I jump like a cat when it sees a cucumber.
I didn’t notice her because she was short, but she was right in front of me.
Amane-senpai was looking up at me, and for some reason she was grinning.
“….. Um, I’m sorry for looking at you without permission.
“Because you are a boy around my age. I’ll forgive you in a special way.☆”
“Thanks!”
I know that senpai isn’t the type of person who would get angry just because I peeked at her.
She’s the kind of person who doesn’t hesitate to come into the men’s restroom to tell me about the day’s club activities when I’m relieving myself in the restroom. What I’ve done is still better than her.
“I mean, why was he so scared ……? he was screaming so much.”
“There’s a deeper reason for that.”
“Well, he wouldn’t have run away screaming like that if you didn’t have a deeper reason. ……”
“Seriously, it’s a really stupid reason☆.”
Amane-senpai sticks out her tongue and winks.
She held her hand high, and if you looked closely, it looked like she was grasping something.
As I was paying attention to that, Amane-senpai suddenly opened her hand and showed me what was inside.
“Gerogero.”
“It’s a frog……, and a tiny one at that.”
A tiny tree frog, as small as a thumb, is moving in Amane-senpai’s hand.
It wasn’t a toy or anything, it was properly alive.
“How do you like it? It’s cute, isn’t it? It’s as tiny and cute as me, isn’t it?!”
Amane-senpai approached me like a child and asked her.
I felt like the tree frog in my hand was also staring at me.
“I’m sorry …… I’m not good with reptiles.”
“Hey, oraa, hey, a frog is an amphibian! Don’t get it wrong!”
“Oh, yes, that’s right! I’m sorry!”
I bow my head and apologize to Amane-senpai, who got angry with exaggeration.
When I lowered my head, my eyes met the tree frog hugging Amane-senpai’s index finger.
It seemed to be very fond of her.
I don’t know if frogs miss people, but it is a slightly smiling sight.
‘When I showed this to the boy who confessed to me a while ago, he changed colour and ran away. I was just trying to introduce him to my friend, but he was so rude!”
“Any normal person would have reacted the same way. …… Or rather, you were aware that you were being confessed to. You didn’t seem to take it too seriously, so I thought you were joking.”
“Haha, I’m not so cold that I would disrespect an event of a lifetime for a student, am I? I made sure for him to confess☆”
“I think once-in-a-lifetime is a bit of an exaggeration, but what was the answer to your confession?”
“Of course no. I can’t date someone who gets scared when they see my friends.”
Amane-senpai crossed her arms and let out a breath.
It seemed like she was quite conscious of it, as she was glaring in the direction the boy had run away from.
“By the way, this frog’s name is Melon! Not because it’s green, It’s because my favourite food is cold melon soda! How’s that?!”
“Oh, that’s great naming sense, …….”
“Right! Right!”
Oh no, I can’t keep up with her too high tension.
I think I’ll just say the conditions and quickly receive the key to the clubroom.
Yeah, that
“Um, rather than that……the clubroom……Ugh!?”
“Shush, there’s a sign of two people from the direction of 12 o’clock! Let’s hide!”
The mouth is covered by a hand and pulled towards the wall of the gymnasium.
Hiding behind a pillar, I looked towards where Amane-senpai was staring, and there was a familiar face there.
“Kenmochi senpai! I like you! Please go out with me!’
There he was, the man amongst men.
He had a strong face and body that made it hard to believe he was a student, and in his casual clothes he was a full-fledged adult, Kenmochi-senpai, vice-president of the Game Research Club.
“Oh, it’s Kenmochi. Is she a first-year student? he’s confessed to.”
Even though she said she was going to hide, Amane-senpai was laughing so hard that Kenmochi-senpai and the others could hear her. She was as amused as a friend watching her friend’s confession scene.
“Is there such a coincidence…? Just now, you were confessed, and then Kenmochi-senpai was confessed.”
“I don’t think you know Amami-kyun, but that guy is quite popular, isn’t he? Although he acts scary, he’s kind and tolerant. Is it like attracted to an adult? That guy’s face… Apparently there are a certain number of female students who fall in love with him because of the gap in his personalities.”
“Surprisingly …… I thought only guys would fall in love with him.”
Amane-senpai is cute, so it is not surprising that she is popular, but Kenmochi-senpai is so unexpected that I could not close my open mouth.
However, I’m curious to see what happens. What will happen, confession.
“Sorry, I can’t respond to your feelings.”
Kenmochi-senpai apologetically lowered his head.
The fact that he had been confessed to many times was probably because he had turned them down so many times.
The girl who confessed looked like she was about to cry.
It’s a waste, even though she’s quite a pretty girl.
“I have a girl I like. I’m really sorry.”
Kenmochi-senpai, there’s a girl you like ……?
I guess that’s why he refused his confession. I’ve always heard that he is a single-minded person, but Kenmochi-senpai’s honest thoughts almost brought me to tears.
“I see, thank you for your time!”
The girls ran towards the main gate, as if fleeing from the place.
The two person who had been crushed by confession, would probably cower in bed and cry when they got home, just like me.
“Hmph, that guy, cheekily refusing a pretty girl’s confession, could it be that he’s a homo?”
Next to me, Amane-senpai is thinking seriously with her hand on her chin.
No, he said there’s a girl he likes.
Why do you come up with such oblique ideas like that every time? …… Are you a weirdo because you’re a professional gamer?
No, it doesn’t matter.
“Hey, do you guys …… think I don’t know?’
Kenmochi-senpai’s already scary face became even scarier, and he turned his frightening eyes towards me and Amane-senpai, who were hiding.
Even more horrifying than the contemptuous gaze that was once directed at my childhood friend, it made me squirm.
Amane-senpai, on the other hand, jumped out in a dignified manner.
“Hahaha! As expected of kenmochi? You recognised me ……ouch!”
Naturally, she was hit by Kenmochi-senpai’s hand sword.
Looking away from Amane-senpai, who was crying and in pain, Kenmochi-senpai bent down and extended his hand to me.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you. I guess Amane ended up dating him anyway She’s a really troubled woman…”
“Oh, you! What is the hand sword to your best friend? And to the manager! I’m the manager!”
Amane-senpai, who had a lump on her head, patted Kenmochi-senpai below his knees with both hands.
He didn’t flinch, probably because her power was too weak.
“Don’t think that you can wield the power of the game club elsewhere, Amane. If you have time to do something stupid like this, then go home now.”
“Mookie!”
“Hmm? What is that a tree frog in your hand? It’s cute.”
“Hmm. Right? Right? I knew that You have good eyesight!”
Amane-senpai’s mood improved at the speed of light after being praised for her pet tree frog.
Was Kenmochi-senpai aware of this and dared to praise Tree Frog, or did he just think that way?
Anyway, the two who had been quarrelling returned to their usual friendly thing
What a good match
(Nn, wait. The girl that Kenmochi-senpai likes, could it be her……)
Such a thought crossed my mind and I awkwardly looked at the two of them in turn.
They seem to have been together for a long time and are the same professional gamer.
They spent a lot of time alone together in the clubroom, isn’t this already a sure thing?
“Come to think of it, who’s the girl you like, Kenkakechi?”
Amane-senpai asks.
“The entertainer Takagi Yukari.”
Kenmochi-senpai immediately answers.
It seems like my guess was wrong, and I feel relieved, and I get caught up in a feeling that doesn’t make sense. Well, maybe that’s the case, I convince myself.
“!!! There are signs of a marathon coming from the direction of the 24-hour TV!”
“That’s not even a direction any more!”
I tutted at Amane-senpai, but I was sure someone was coming, so the three of us quickly hid ourselves.
Somehow, it’s too lively.
Two people came to the back of the gymnasium and I secretly peeked out to see how they were doing without being noticed.
There stood a blushing, nervous boy and a yawning Karina.
Amane-senpai and Kenmochi-senpai, who were also peeping, seemed to have lost interest and made bored faces, and sat down appropriately to wait for the confession to be finished.
This is because it is too commonplace for her to get confessions.
It’s part of everyday life at this school, a common sight.
Confessing to the most beautiful girl in school and getting crushed, it’s a regular occurrence.
However, I, who have come to have sincere feelings for Kalina, cannot be said to be at peace, and I watch the end of her confession with a face more tense than anyone else’s.
“I love you! Will you go out with me?”
“Who are you?” (She said Huu aaa yuu)
The International student Thomas, in his clumsy Japanese, plucks up his courage and confesses his feelings.
Karina refuses, holding her hands out in front of her and shaking her head.
“But, I love you!”
“I don’t love you? I’m sorry.”
“Oh no.”
A conversation unfolded, which could not be identified whether it was in English or Japanese.
Thomas ran away from the scene, crying.
It should have been a usual scene, but I found myself heartily applauding Thomas, who confessed more passionately and straightforwardly than the other students.
“Nn…… this presence, Takaaki-kun!”
Karina changed from her boring look and ran up to me with a happy face as she found me, waving her hand in my direction.
How sensitive are her five senses to be able to pinpoint my location just by a presence?
But she is still cute.
“Ah, that’s right. Now that we’re all here, let’s go out to eat for the first time in a while. I feel like eating meat, so let’s go for yakiniku! Yakiniku!”
“I know a good place near the station. Let’s go there.”
“Ah, that sounds good~. I’m getting hungry, and Takaaki-kun is going too, right?”
Amane-senpai decides on her own, and Kenmochi-senpai and Karina take advantage of it.
We just went out to eat the other day, and I’m going home after this to do my assignment ……
(No, Kumatani-kun had advised me before, ‘If you get a dinner invitation from a friend, don’t turn it down as much as possible’. If I want to be a cheerful person, I have to be in a good mood here.)
“I’m going, I’m going~!”
I say, raising my hand as cheerfully as possible.
I want to continue to cherish the connections I’ve been able to build with the Game Studies Club.
I want to get to know everyone better and I want them to get to know me.
“Then let’s go, Takaaki kun”
Karina pulls me by the hand.
I may still be far from being the positive person Kumatani-kun says I am, but I want to keep doing my best.
I hope that someday I can become a human being that I can accept…
“Ah.”
I remembered this when I was learning how to grill from Kenmochi-senpai.
I forgot something in the club room and forgot to go get it.
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