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“Oh, Orimura-kun! Good morning!”
“How was your day yesterday?”
“Did your date with the prince go well?!”
It was the first Monday after the vacations.
When I went to class as usual, the three girls who had told me to dress up talked to me.
“I don’t know if it went well or not, but it was fun for me. Thanks to you.”
“So, then, did something happen with you and the prince, ……?”
“What?”
“No, I mean, like something …… memorable!”
“Even if you say it’s a memorable…I remember basically every interaction I had with her…”
“I don’t mean, like, sleepovers, for example!”
“Hmm? Staying overnight? Well, she did stay at my house.”
The girls were so happy when I told them that.
“Ah, …… but it sounds like Orimura-kun’s parents were there, right?”
“No, it was just me and Kurusu.”
“””Kyaaa!!”””
No, I don’t understand.
She just stayed the night, right?
“So, so ……! What did you do with the prince……!?”
“What do you mean …… we cooked and ate dinner together, watched a romantic movie together–“
“””Kyaaa!!!!”””
Is watching a movie something to scream about……?
“After watching a movie?! A-After that, the two of you ……!??”
“Kurusu took a bath first, and then I went in after her.”
“””Ohhhh, ……!”””
“After that, we played Maricar together until midnight.”
“””…………”””
“It was fun.”
“””Die.”””
“Why?!”
The three of them looked at me as if I were trash and slinked off.
As if in anticipation, a boy in the seat behind me patted me on the back and said, “Oh hey.”
“Did you use that thing properly yesterday? Was it too big for Orimura?”
“Don’t be silly, Inukai. I almost dropped it by accident and Kurusu saw it.”
A classmate with pudding hair and earrings――Inukai Youta.
He was the son of the hairdresser I went to the other day, and he was the one who put a condom in my jacket.
I glare at him, but Inukai doesn’t seem bothered by it.
With his usual bright, playful smile, he pokes me in the shoulder and says, “Sorry!”
“I’m expecting a lot from Orimura in today’s ball game! Let’s win this thing for sure!”
“……I will do my best, but we can’t beat the next three teams, can we?”
“That’s it! You’re going to have to use your superpowers like you did when you beat up the prince’s stalker!”
“Don’t be absurd. I’m not going to get anything for winning. I don’t want to get tired for nothing.”
Today is the big event before the final exams, the ball game tournament.
We second year students will be playing volleyball for the boys and softball for the girls. Each of us is competing for the championship in a tournament format.
I don’t know if I should say this myself, but I am good at sports.
However, due to the nature of the sport of volleyball, all team members must have high ability levels, and if they don’t work well together, the game will be lost.
The three neighboring pairs have many members of the volleyball team, and some of them are aces. Even if we make it to the finals, we will lose without a doubt.
“By the way, where is Kurusu? It seems like she is not in the classroom”
“Ah, she was called out by a guy from class 3 just now. It’s the ace. You won’t punish him either right.”
“…..I’m going to check on her.”
“Take care–.”
A while ago, no one in my class confessed to Kurusu anymore.
However, other classes and grades are different.
In particular, the ace of Class 3’s volleyball team has been in love with Kurusu since the beginning of school. He is approaching her every week, or at least every month, and everyone knows how much he is in love with her.
“I’m not the type to use violence, so it’s okay, but if something happens…”
She wasn’t in the third class, so I looked around the empty classrooms at random.
Then I heard a faint Kurusu and a man’s voice.
As I got closer, the voice became clearer and clearer,
“Come on, you’ve got to go out with me!”
“….Ah I’m sorry, I can’t.”
After all, what can I say?
The exchange I had heard dozens of times was unfolding.
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“Come on, you’ve got to go out with me!”
“….Ah I’m sorry, I can’t.”
The usual guy from the third class of volleyball team.
How many times has this guy done this?
I hope that’s enough. I mean, he’s just plain scary. ……
“Maybe you feel sorry for Orimura? He’s a hard worker who can do some exercise, right?”
“……”
“He doesn’t even seem to have that many friends, and I’m sure you’ll have more fun with me.”
“……”
“I don’t know if he’s your best friend or not, but you’d be doing him a favor if you let him go, wouldn’t you?”
“……”
I’m going to kill you, you bastard! What can an outsider like you know about Arata?!
You’re selling me a fight! Then I’ll buy it!
Just turn over your inventory and bring it all to me!!!
I wanted to say ……, but I swallowed hard and held back.
If I get angry and he gets upset with me and starts to lay his hands on me, it’s going to be a big problem. If that happens, Arata might really kill this guy.
“Then, if my class wins today’s ball game, will you go out with me?!”
What do you mean, “then”? What’s that?
Is it only for your own convenience?
…Well, Arata is just a well-made man, and maybe high school students are like this.
He is the ace of the volleyball team, right?
Don’t you think it’s embarrassing to compete against Arata in a thing that you’re good at?
…But, if he lose this way, this guy will probably be heartbroken and give up.
Arata won’t lose anyway.
My best friend is the strongest.
“Can’t help it. I’ll go out with you if you win.”
“Seriously?! Thank you!!”
With that, he left the classroom.
I dropped one sigh and went back to my class.
” Ah. Good morning, Arata. Actually–“
Arata had arrived at school and was sitting in his seat.
I tried to talk to him, but he seemed to be in the worst mood I’ve ever seen him in, and I couldn’t help but hold my tongue.
“What is it? Is something wrong?”
“No, no, ……, it’s okay. It’s nothing.”
The voice is also somewhat low, and I feel a wall against me.
did I do something wrong…… ?
Did he find out that I ate some of Arata’s snacks when I went to his house? No, he wouldn’t get mad at me for that.
“Sit down, you guys. Let’s start homeroom!”
The homeroom teacher came over and I returned to my seat.
During homeroom, Arata kept a difficult look on his face.
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“Maybe you feel sorry for Orimura? He’s a hard worker who can do some exercise, right? He doesn’t even seem to have that many friends, and I’m sure you’ll have more fun with me. I don’t know if he’s your best friend or not, but you’d be doing him a favor if you let him go, wouldn’t you”
I quietly listen from outside the classroom.
He’s saying whatever he wants, that guy.
Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s true that I’m a hard worker who can do some exercise, and that I don’t have that many friends. Also, I have absolutely nothing to do with you not being able to date Kurusu.
“Then, if my class wins today’s ball game, will you go out with me?!”
The guy said.
…… What’s with this guy?
He treated Kurusu like a prize. She’s not a thing.
You are the ace of the volleyball team, right?
Don’t you have any shame in taking a gamble like that in a team sport that you’re good at?
There’s no way Kurusu would accept such an unfair offer.
“Can’t help it. I’ll go out with you if you win.”
“Seriously?! Thank you!!”
Haaa ……?
I almost shouted, but I returned to my classroom with those feelings.
Resentment that Kurusu was treated like a thing.
And the question of her taking a bet that wasn’t fair.
Have you thought about the possibility that I might lose?
If that’s how much she trusts me, I’m rather honored and I don’t mind. ……
Even if I lose and they decide to go out with me, you don’t think that’s okay or anything, do you?
…… Kurusu is going out with someone.
This is not something I have any say in, but for some reason, just thinking about it makes me feel a bug crawl inside my chest.
I remember that I almost kissed her yesterday, and when I imagine that it was that ace, not me, who was there, I feel so bad.
“Oh, Orimura? How is it with Prince and Ace-kun!”
Inukai said, smiling brightly.
I sat down with a thud,
“…… For now, I’m going to smash the three groups as hard as I can.”
“What the hell was that?! A moment ago, you said you didn’t want to get tired for nothing,……!”
“I’ll definitely win, even if my limbs are shredded. Please cooperate with me, Inukai.”
“L-limbs? …… you’re a character who says that kind of thing? huh……?”
I don’t really understand myself either.
But right now, I couldn’t help but feel irritated.
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In the last part I can imagine flames in his background