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The day after the outpost of the Great Love War unfolded.
Aoto, who knows nothing about it, is visiting Kagetsu High School today as well.
It’s only been the second day since he transferred to the school, but because so many things have happened, his mental state is already as tired like a first month old.
“No one……”
When he opened the door marked “1-B,” there was still not a single student inside.
The first to arrive at the school was Aoto.
No wonder, he woke up early because he had a strange feeling in his heart.
So he got to school much earlier than usual, and the clock was still pointing to a little before 8:00 a.m.
“I wonder how it’s going to be?”
The classroom was still occupied only by Aoto.
The three of them, as well as the other students, have not yet arrived.
Do the three of them feel awkward when they tell someone that they love him?
He wondered about that.
Himari’s personality makes it unlikely.
Even if Koharu had been thinking about it, it seems unlikely that she would have let on.
Noa is likely to be blunt about it.
While he was somewhat imagining how the three of them would react, the door in front of him opened.
Entering the door was a group of four girls, a group that always go to school together.
These four girls, who come to school together every morning, seem to have come to school together this morning as well.
“……”
For Aoto, it is a miserable sight.
He still only has two friends, so going to and from school together is a dream come true.
Aoto looks with envy at the four girls talking happily, but tells himself that it’s impossible because he has no friends.
How sad.
“Ah, Rukawa-kun, good morning.”
“Good morning.”
He wished they would stop greeting him, as it would make him even sadder, but there was no malice in their intentions, so he did not ignore them.
The door opens soon after those four come in.
Two boys come in next.
They were talking about some idols and both of them were laughing happily.
“…….”
Sad.
And so the number of people in the classroom increased as students arrived at school one after another.
But the three of them are still nowhere to be seen.
The time is 8:10. Normally, Koharu would surely have arrived at this time, but today she was still not there.
Aoto wondered if she had had a long conversation with someone else yesterday, and as he was thinking about it, the person in question showed up.
“Phew. …….”
Opening the door in front of him, it is Yozakura Koharu who walks in tiredly.
Her too beautiful black hair is flowing as she makes her way to her seat.
Once seated, Koharu was immediately surrounded by a crowd of schoolgirls.
As usual, she is incredibly popular, a girl who changes the atmosphere of the class just by coming to school.
“Wow. ……”
Aoto let out a voice, feeling the awesomeness once again.
Then, Koharu suddenly got up from her seat and walked towards Aoto with elegant steps.
“Good morning, Aoto-kun.”
“E-Eh, me?”
Koharu, smiling gently, had apparently come all the way over to greet Aoto.
Usually, Koharu is on the receiving end and never moves.
In fact, she would never move to greet someone of the opposite gender.
“That’s right, I came here to say hello to Aoto-kun.”
“G-good morning.”
“Why are you so surprised?”
“Eh, no, it was really me.”
“It’s Aoto-kun, really.”
Apparently, she really was after Aoto.
And so, having achieved her goal, Koharu happily returned to her seat, not paying attention to her surprised classmates.
Aoto was still unable to grasp the situation at all.
Then, without a chance to think, the door in front of him opened again.
He was so happy to be back in his own seat that he couldn’t take in the situation at all.
“Hmph, good morning.”
The person says, “Good morning,” shyly, without making eye contact.
It’s Kisaragi Noa, her hair shining golden and curled into a high ponytail.
“E-Ehh?”
Aoto lets out his voice again, still bewildered.
“What, you were happy?”
“Umm, even if you say it with that face. ……”
Noa still doesn’t make eye contact.
No matter how you look at it, Noa is the one who looks happy.
“Shut up. I feel sorry for you because you don’t seem to have any friends, so I’m just saying hello. Please don’t misunderstand me, please?”
“That stings, so don’t do that. ……”
“Baaka.”
At the last minute, Noa gathered her courage and made eye contact with Aoto.
Aoto monopolizes Noa’s precious dere, and the eyes of everyone are split evenly between those of envy and those of jealousy.
Aoto was more devastated by Noa’s unforgiving comment, “You don’t seem to have any friends.”
“What happened ……?”
Aoto mutters as he watches the back of Noa, who leaves happily.
The door in front of him opened vigorously about five minutes before the chime rang.
“Ooooh! Just in time!”
The usual person enters at the usual time, with the usual tension.
Onodera Himari, a habitual offender who always arrives at school just in time.
“You’re late, Himari chan”
Ogawa-sensei, who is sitting at the teacher’s table, gives her a warning as usual.
And then, Himari smiled and said, “Tehe” as if she was letting it slide,
“Good morning!”
and greeted her classmates in a cheerful voice.
Aoto was about to reassure himself that Himari was doing just fine when he heard her voice.
“Ah! Aoto, good morning!”
Normally, Himari would just say to everyone, But in front of everyone, she shouted out Aoto’s name.
It’s not like he hadn’t imagined Himari like that, but he was really confused when it actually happened.
However, Aoto decided that ignoring her was not a good idea, so he responded by lightly raising his hand as his classmates looked at him.
Seeing Aoto’s reaction, Himari did not go in front of him because of the time, but she went to her seat, singing in a nasal voice with a higher tension than usual.
The glaring eyes of Noa and Koharu were several times stronger than yesterday.
“Eh, what, what?”
“Oh, good morning.”
“Good morning.”
Before he knew it, Kairn had arrived at school.
Karin was the only one who greeted him as usual.
Because of the situation, he did not notice that she was sitting next to him at all.
“Why are you being greeted by Himari-chan like that?”
“No,……, I don’t understand.”
“How could you not know?!”
“I really don’t know.”
“That’s suspicious. Perhaps, from the three of them?”
“……, yes.”
“Hee… Karin’s mind says it is even more suspicious.”
Karin’s hunch that she definitely had something in mind was correct.
But there was no way he could tell the truth that they told him that they like him.
“I really don’t know. ……”
“Hmmm. Okay then”
As Karin looked shocked, someone’s footsteps approached Aoto again.
“Again…: Though he thought, Aoto prepared himself to face one of those three again.
And that person stopped in front of Aoto, just as he had expected.
“Good morning, Karin chan”
“……Huh?”
“G-good morning! Kakeru-kun!”
“Ou, good morning to you too, Aoto.”
“G-good morning.”
Aoto was surprised to hear a voice so far removed from the one he had expected.
As expected, it was Kakeru who stopped.
“What, did something happen?”
Kakeru, who unexpectedly arrived at school later than Himari, said so when he saw Aoto’s tired face.
From Aoto’s point of view, he is concerned about the fact that Kakeru and Karin are normally good friends.
“No, nothing. ……”
“The three of them greeted him individually, Aoto said! Isn’t that bad?”
Aoto, who was trying to deceive, was mercilessly pierced by Karin’s horizontal spear.
“Haa!? perhaps you…”
“No, I don’t know either.”
“Suspicious. Right? Kakeru kun?”
“You’re right, Karin chan. I have eels today too, but I won’t give them to you.”
“Ugh. ……”
The temptation of too big eels pushed Aoto a little bit.
“Oh, I knew there was something wrong,”
“No ……. Really.”
He managed to overcome and fooled them.
–But Karin’s intuition wouldn’t allow it.
“I don’t know, maybe the three of them said something strange to him. I can’t help but feel suspicious.”
“……”
“Oh well! I heard the chime.”
The chime that announces morning homeroom rings, as if to offer a helping hand.
At the same time, Kakeru also went to his seat.
Karin’s intuition is sometimes sharp.
—he wondered if it was a coincidence that she seemed to know something about it.
After that, he digested until fourth period, feeling that the three of them were acting somewhat strangely.
Lunch time.
As usual, there is a space that is typical of high school students, with desks being moved around and seats being shifted.
Aoto was also having lunch with Kakeru as usual.
“Eels again today”
“Isn’t that amazing? mother’s fortune.”
“Don’t be so dramatic.”
“But Aoto’s lunch looks really good too.”
“I don’t care what the eels say. ……Hey!”
Kakeru steals the tamagoyaki as if it were natural.
However, he didn’t feel any discomfort, in fact, he even felt happy.
Of course, it’s not about being a masochist or anything like that, it’s about the fact that they’ve become good friends.
“Yum!”
“Give me yours!”
“No, stop!”
“Yum”
Kakeru and Aoto are fighting over a side dish.
The target was an eel and a fried egg, clearly not the right price for the food.
The two are clearly not getting their money’s worth.
“I didn’t know you and Karin got along so well.”
“That’s right. I was talking to her before you came.”
“I see. But why do you call her “chan”?”
“Isn’t it easier to call her that? Karin sounds like kakarintou”
“In terms of the number of letters, Karin-chan is closer to karinto, though, isn’t it?”
(TL/N : I don’t understand…)
After finishing his lunch, Aoto headed to the hand-washing station set up in the hallway to wash his hands.
The bathrooms are located in a separate area from the toilets and are shared by both men and women.
–As he stepped over to it, he saw that one female student was already there.
“Koharu?”
Aoto called out, and Koharu’s shoulders jerked in surprise.
“Eh, ah, Aoto-kun! Hello.”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to call out to you so suddenly.”
“Ah, I-it’s okay! I was a little surprised.”
For some reason, Koharu was so suprised that she couldn’t explain it with just the word “surprised.”
While the two of them were washing their hands, Koharu and Aoto continued speaking.
“You were unusually late coming this morning. It was my second day at the new school, so I don’t know what is it though”
“Eh, Ah, yes. I were indeed late.”
“Did you oversleep?”
“N-no. No, that’s not true. I just went to bed a little later.”
“Do you still go to bed at nine o’clock?”
“Y-Yes! That’s right! As expected of Aoto-kun”
“You’ve been doing that since elementary school. I remember.”
Aoto and Koharu continue their conversation.
Koharu was still shaken.
“Yes, and yet I fell asleep at about 23:00 last night.”
As he recall, it was 22:00 when he received the phone call from Noa.
Even Aoto, who usually goes to bed at 22:00, was sleepy, so in Koharu’s case, she must have been even sleepier.
Was there something she had to do?
“Ah! Were you on the phone or something?”
Aoto asked, and Koharu became even more shaken.
“No, no! Nothing at all! Really. Really, really.”
There is clearly something in Koharu’s attitude.
As if to prove that, Koharu’s hand was far out of range of the water supply.
“But…you are so shaken that you can’t even wash your hands.”
“Eh? Ah! It’s intentional, Fufufufu.”
“…….”
Aoto stopped following deeply because it would be rude if it was something she really didn’t want to be asked, although he felt that even the way she laughed was becoming funny.
“Then! I’m going back.”
“Y-Yeah”
“Fufu, you look cool today too.”
Koharu smiles gently with her usual laugh.
Then, without letting Aoto say anything in reply, Koharu left the place.
“Well then, that’s all for now. Rukawa-kun, I have something to give you, so please come to the first math room later.”
Time has passed since then, and the end of fifth period has arrived.
Aoto was called in individually, apparently to hand over something.
“Aoto, did you do something wrong?”
“Maybe they’re going to give you something.
you don’t have the files.”
“I see. I thought I was going to get scolded”
“Why are you looking a little depressed? Do you want to get scolded?”
“T-that’s not true okay? because Karin is kind.”
“It’s completely unbelievable…”
Karin is too easy to understand.
That’s one of the things he likes about her as a friend.
The first math room is in a separate building.
Therefore, he had to go up the stairs.
And when he was about to turn the corner just outside the classroom to go up the stairs.
“Wa!”
“Ooou!?”
“Ehehe. Were you surprised?”
Himari surprised Aoto by using her own loud voice.
“I was surprised ……. What are you doing?”
“I also have an errand to run for the math teacher. “
“Errand?”
“Yeah! I forgot to submit my assignment!”
It was a very Himari-like errand.
Since there was no reason to refuse, Aoto headed to the first mathematics room with Himari
“By the way”
On the way there, he asked Himari about something that had been bothering him.
He confirmed that Himari answered, “Yes?” and continued to speak.
“Koharu is acting strangely, do you know anything about it?”
“Eh? I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know at all”
‘”……You also?”
Himari is more understandable than Koharu.
“I really don’t know! I didn’t talk to her at night or anything.”
“Talked?”
“Ah, eh? What’s wrong with you, Aoto? Himari-chan never said anything like that!”
“But you’re so upset that you’re walking funny.”
“…!?”
Himari walks with her left leg in front of her left arm and her right leg in front of her right arm at the same time. She was walking in a way that was inhuman from the upset.
After all, Koharu seemed to have stayed up late for some reason.
It is probably true from the understandability of Himari.
“So, what were you talking about?”
“I Said! I didn’t talk about anything! Even the talk group hasn’t been active for a long time!”
“The tool you talked about was group talk, I see.”
The more she tries to deceive, the more she is exposed.
He does not know the content, but it is certain that they talked in the group talk at night.
“So….Noa too?”
“Huh!? Why did you find out!?…wait, no you didn’t find out! you didn’t do that!”
“It’s already obvious, so don’t fool around.”
“……Noa, Koharu and I talked about it, but I won’t tell you what we talked about! It’s a girl’s secret.”
Finally, Himari, who had been pushed to the edge, told the truth without deception.
“You’re back together enough to share secrets and stuff, aren’t you?”
“Mouu shut up! Let’s talk about something else, okay? …wait, we are already in front of the first mathematics room!”
“Well yeah. Himari, you can go ahead.”
Before they knew it, they had arrived at the first math room.
Himari smiled at Hekito and said, “Thanks! “
Within 10 seconds, Himari, who had just turned in her assignment, came out of the Math 1 room.
Aoto confirmed that Himari had come out and was about to enter the first mathematics room, passing each other.
“You’re definitely the coolest, Aoito.”
Himari whispered in Aoto’s ear as they passed by each other.
Her voice was so captivating that he couldn’t believe it was coming from the normally energetic Himari.
Without hearing any reply, Himari runs away.
Aoto turned around to look at Himari, and Himari also turned around in the middle of running and waved to Aoto.
Like Koharu, Himari leaves with a final word of praise.
Aoto could somehow imagine what the three of them had talked about.
Today, as always, school was coming to an end.
“Good-bye~”
After homeroom was over, the classroom, which had been lively, became quieter and quieter.
Aoto, who had nothing special to do, slowly prepared to go home and then sat up to leave.
“Hey. Wait”
Aoto was about to leave when Noa stopped him.
Aoto’s cheeks were as red as ever, whether from the setting sun shining in through the window or from Noa herself
The other students have already left, and they are alone in the classroom.
Noa’s eyes were firmly locked with Aoto’s.
“Hnn, What’s wrong?”
“Wrong? I’m talking to you because you can’t talk to anyone.”
“Well, I’m going home.”
“Wait a minute! Sit down, quickly.”
Aoto slightly teases Noa, who is unable to be honest with him.
As if to stop him, Noa forcibly brought him back.
“Let’s talk just a little bit.”
She looked away and said something unusually honest about her feelings.
“Well, it’s okay that you said it correctly.”
“What do you mean by ‘well’? Don’t be so arrogant.”
“Yes. I’m sorry.”
“I’m happy……, so it’s fine.”
Noa is embarrassed and tries to make sure he doesn’t hear her, but Aoto can clearly hear her.
Any student other than Aoito would fall in love with her instantly.
“By the way, I heard you talked with Koharu and Yohoi?”
“Eh? How did you know?”
“I heard something like that from Himari.”
“Well, yes.”
Unlike Himari and Koharu, Noa honestly admits it.
“By the way, what did you talk about?”
If Noa accepts this honestly, she might be able to tell him.
Although he didn’t have high expectations, Aoto asked out of curiosity.
“It’s not like we talked about you. I mean, there’s no way I would tell you.”
“…… is suspicious.”
“What do you mean by suspicious? You think that if you press me like that, I’m gonna say that we declared war on each other?”
“You’re almost giving me the answer to your question….”
“……Ah”
After being told by Aoto, Noa reflected on what she had said and put her hand on her head as if to say “Ah!”
Then, perhaps taking it easy that she had been found out, Noa let out a complaint about the two of them.
“…… Koharu and Himari, they sleep right away.”
“Hee. The way you put it, it sounds like you’re feeling lonely.”
“Haaa!? It’s not true!”
“But you said goodnight to each other, right?”
“…… yeah.”
Aoto mentions it as if he sees through everything.
He knows this because he is the ex-boyfriend of three of them.
“All three of you are so kind.”
“Not really. I don’t care about Koharu and Himari.”
“I can see the kindness in not saying [those people]”
“What’s the matter with you, shut up”
“Sorry, sorry.”
Aoto laughs and looks at Noa, who is becoming like that.
Then, he asked what he was most interested in.
“You really want to make up, don’t you?”
“……Who do you think is to blame for all this?”
“That’s …… yeah. I can’t say it back.”
It was truly Aoto’s fault, so there was nothing he could argue against.
Then, Noa began to speak her true feelings.
“I want to make up with them, I really do. But it’s also true that I don’t want to lose to them.”
Surprisingly, Noa seems to want to make up.
No, even if the other two really thought so, they might just be too embarrassed to say it.
“…… you’ve transferred to a new school, so that’s going to be a long story.”
“Yeah. I feel guilty.”
“It’s too late to feel it now.”
“Now?”
As usual, Aoto is insensitive.
“..AAaamoou! He really is insensitive! It pisses me off!”
He can easily see through the contents of phone calls and conversations, but he doesn’t notice anything that is most important to Noa.
“I love you too much! You! Do you understand?”
“……”
Aoto is silent, but Noa continues to speak.
“Why do I have to like you so much? It’s not guilt, it’s already a crime! Idiott! Being cool pisses me off too!”
As if to resolve her lack of satisfaction over the phone, Noa summoned up all her courage and said “I love you” to his face.
She didn’t want to lose to Koharu or Himari, and with that one thought in mind, she said
“See you later! A handsome, insensitive man! I’ll definitely make you my man!”
Aoto is silent, and Noa leaves the classroom with a flushed face.
Of course, it is not because of the setting sun that she is flushed.
Noa leaves and is left alone in the classroom.
Aoto had something on his mind.
Koharu, Himari, and Noa all left with compliments at the end.
The three of them had been acting noticeably strange all day.
And above all – the true meaning of Noa’s words that she would definitely make him her man.
Even the insensitive Aoto could immediately see it.
–Yes, they are competing for me after all!
The three most beautiful girls of Kagetsu Academy are competing for him, aren’t they!
For a normal student, this would be too dreamy a situation, but not for Aoto. They are his ex-girlfriend.
However, he is glad he decided to go with the flow.
If he had said, “I won’t get involved with you guys,” with a strange sense of justice, he would have felt sorry for them, and it would have been obvious that he would have been omitted from the class.
That’s why it’s okay to just be yourself.
There is no need to be self-conscious.
Just go with the flow and spend time with the three of them.
He is sure that from tomorrow, the three people who have found out that they like him (or rather, confessed to him once again) will open up and show off their feelings to him in a blatant manner.
He’ll just have to fool his classmates somehow.
He wonders if Kakeru will say “I envy you.”
Well, he seems to like Karin, so he doubt it.
Aoto took a deep breath and then, as if to throw away the clothes he had been wearing, he shouted out what had been bothering him.
“Who am I supposed to like!”
Aoto shouted in the lonely classroom.
This is what it means to be honest about one’s feelings.
To be honest, Aoto is also a man.
If the three most beautiful girls in the world told him that they still loved him, anyone would be curious.
It is his nature and the nature of men.
–How can you not be happy when you are wanted by the three most beautiful women?
Who am I supposed to like? Aaaah!!!
And he promised himself to say what he wanted to say, thinking honestly what he thought in this way.
That is why he wanted to say what he felt in his heart.
That is the reason why, if he thinks something is cute, he wants to think it is cute, and if he thinks something is beautiful, he wants to think it is beautiful.
Aoto “joyful declaration” was also the voice that signaled the start of the main battle in the Great War of Love over Aoto.
Night.
The group talk among Himari, Koharu, and Noa is still going on today.
Noai: “Hey, he probably found out.”
Koharu: “What is?”
Himari: : “What what? That Noa and Koharu are idiots?”
Koharu: “I don’t want to be told only by Himari. I don’t want Noa to tell me that either”
Noa: “You two are the idiots. I mean, It is completely different. You don’t have to say useless things, just shut up and listen.”
Himari: “What is it, Himari-chan, is a little scared.”
Koharu: “What is it?”
Noa: “I was walking slowly to the shoe box for some reason.”
Noa: “Yes”
Koharu: “Yes”
Noa was typing a long sentence, or was slow in replying.
Himari: “Hey, what is it? Can you tell me quickly?”
Koharu: “Yes. I don’t think it’s bad to keep rushing things”
When the two of them, unable to hold back, send this, they immediately receive a message back from Noa.
Noa: “Aoto was shouting in a very loud voice, [Who do I have to like?]”
Apparently, Aoto’s “declaration of joy,” which he shouted because he thought he was in a classroom by himself, was heard by Noa.
Don’t mind, Aot.
However, the three showed no signs of despise for Aoto.
In fact, their morale was on the rise.
Koharu: “It’s so like you, Aoto kun.”
Himari: “That’s so cute, Aoto’s like that.”
Noa: “Well, He’s my only Aoto to begin with. I thought about going back to the classroom to tell him that he’s mistaken.”
Koharu: “What are you talking about? Did you get caught up in Aoto-kun’s statement and Noa went crazy too?”
Noa: “Haa? You’re the one who’s crazy, you idiot.”
Himari: “Well, well, well. You both are crazy, so calm down. Aoto is my man, you know that.”
Tonight’s group talk ended up with them fighting over Aoto.
Noa: “Well, if he found out, on the other hand, that means I can show off with an open mind.”
Koharu: “That’s right. But I don’t think either of you would have the courage to do that.”
Himari: “I heard from Aoto that Koharu’s behavior was strange. Is it true that you left your hand in a strange place even though the water was out? Wow lol”
Noa: “I heard Himari was walking like an idiot too. What a laugh!”
Koharu: “I don’t care what you two say, but I was the first one to talk to Aoto-kun today.”
The group talk is lively today as well, with the unnecessary tension of pride and the content of mutual cursing.
Noa; ”Hmm. Well, if only I’m feeling better now? I’m going to bed. Good night.”
Koharu: “I’m just telling the truth and not getting carried away. Well then, good night.”
Himari: “I hope Aoto comes out in my dream. Good night.”
No matter how much they curse at each other, the three of them never miss saying “good night” to each other.
Himari may just be expressing a wish, but if it’s okay with her, that’s fine.
Now that Aoto knows that the three of them are competing, there is nothing more that can stand in their way.
All they can do is appeal to Aoto to make him their own man.
Tomorrow, the Great Love War–the main battle begins.
(TL/N : Chapter is tooooo long. Oh yeah, yesterday I accidently uploaded the wrong chapter so I fixed it and you can check it again, sorry for that)
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