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Suddenly, I woke up. It was not because I had satisfied my need for sleep, nor was it a depressing awakening to the noise, but an awakening due to hunger.
After that, we all enjoyed playing board games together and listening to the stories of senior prodigy’s lost loves. After that, all of us, exhausted, went to our bedrooms and flew off into the dream world, not even having the energy to talk about love.
I was hungry because I had not been able to eat dinner due to the impact of the slap. The bill for that came here.
“Hnn….Reito….”
As I tried to get up from the bed, Ryo grabbed me with both arms. He had forced himself into my bed to sleep with me before going to sleep. I didn’t have any particular reason to refuse, so I just went along with it, but he had a really bad sleeping posture.
I pulled Ryo off of me and got out of bed. I quietly opened the door with the same steps and headed for the living room.
The living room was quiet as if after a festival. After all the noise, I felt a little sadness. Feeling the post-festival calm, I open the refrigerator. I look for something to satisfy my hunger, but there is nothing left but foodstuffs.
“What are you doing here in the middle of the night?”
I hear a voice from behind me, and my shoulders jump. I turned around to see Uryu-senpai standing there.
“I was startled. …… Don’t scare me. why you’re here.”
“I thought it was about time you woke up. Sit down. There’s a cup of noodles on the shelf.”
I poured hot water into a cup of ramen and sat down on the sofa. Why the chairman woke up at this hour is a mystery to me, but I guess she had something to do with me.
“You can hear the insects chirping a lot in this area. You can really feel the summer atmosphere.”
“It’s a peaceful place, isn’t it? How long do you intend to continue your out-of-character conversation…..?”
“Sometimes it’s okay. If you want me to get on with it, I will.”
The chairman looked at me with her cool-headed eyes, which did not show any of her usual boisterousness.
“Can you tell me a little more about your past? About Sendo Reito, who came from a famous family and suddenly turned into a problem child.”
“I don’t think it’s very interesting to hear about …….”
“That’s okay. because getting to know you satisfies my need to know you.”
I had no veto power. The Maeda family picked up a problem child like me and I owe them a lot. I owe them more than I can ever repay.
“…What do you want to ask me?”
“The reason for the scar on your back, I guess. No one would tell me.”
“……I told you that I had a lot of behavioral problems in my junior year. And by problematic behavior, I mean, specifically, fighting with students outside of the school.”
“…… Is that what gave you those scars? You must have gotten into some pretty loud fights.”
I got into a tangle and got punched in the face. At the time I had lost everything I dreamed of and wanted to do, and I was like a desperate man. I felt as if all the inequalities of the world were being brought together against me, and I couldn’t do anything without taking it out on something. So I turned my attention to a student who was causing problems outside the school.
“Oh? So you were distracting yourself by defeating students who were causing problems outside of the school?”
“……That was the only way I could justify my depression at the time. Every day, I would do violence in the name of “defeat” to get results. It was a meaningless day. I don’t know what would have happened to me if it weren’t for Guren and Hiiragi Sensei.”
“When did you meet him? I heard that you and him met in the third grade.”
“I met him when I was in the third grade. The fight with that guy was my last fight. He was the one who stopped me.”
The chairman sniffed with interest at my response.
“Hmmm?” You guys are apparently more complicated than I think. ……, you’re a really interesting person. I’m liking you more and more.”
The president likes me. As a man, and as a person. There’s nothing wrong with that. However, unlike Yamanashi and Hoshirobe, this person’s love is on a different level. It’s like she’s “liking” me as an object of observation, like observing an animal in a laboratory.
“There are not many people who can truly understand a person like you. I wonder if Yamanashi Anri or Tsukishiro Miyabi would accept this story with complete acceptance? How ……? I can understand and accept everything about you. I can understand and accept everything you have to say, and I can accept the idea that you will leave those women and become mine.”
“…I’ll decline. I’m not staying with Yamanashi or Miyabi because I want them to cherish me. I’m staying with them because I want to cherish them. Even if they reject me as a person, I’ll accept it as divine punishment. That’s my destiny.”
Chairman Uryu laughed, this time in an amused tone.
“You are as stubborn as ever. You haven’t changed at all since you entered the school. You’re an interesting person in your own right. …… ramen, it’s going to get long.”
“It’s already late.”
I slurped down the soggy noodles to satisfy my hunger, unaware of the figure staring at us from the shadows.
“……”
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