Vol. 2 Chapter 1.4

Translated by SoundDestiny Edited by SoundDestiny

“Shut up. Just leave me alone……”

“Well, I’m saying this for Masahiro’s sake, but you still talk like that!”

Minami shouts hysterically and several of the remaining students in the after–school classroom turn to look at us.

“Aa–Mouu”

At about the same time as I was scratching my hair in frustration, the classroom door opened and a girl with very formal silver-rimmed glasses approached Minami from the corridor.

“Shibata-san. Kobayashi-sensei was looking for you.”

“Ah…yes, sorry, Chairman, I’ll be right there.”

I frown involuntarily.

Takada Takayoshi, the head of the public morals committee. She’s a real bitch. She has a gag-like name, but she’s a very serious person and always looks down on us.

When Minami hurriedly ran towards her, Takada  looked at me as if she was looking at something dirty, and said.

“You…..Tachioka-kun, was it?　That haircut is against school rules. Make sure you get it cut before the next hair inspection, okay!?”

Takada slammed the classroom door shut and the sound of their footsteps moved away. I sat down lamely on the seat nearest to me and spat, my cheeks contorted.

“She’s driving me crazy……seriously.”

The window seat, the open classroom window, I rest my elbows on its window sill and look out onto the schoolyard.

Among the students leaving school, Mai Fujiwara, with her blonde side-tails, stands out from the crowd.

She walks out of the school gates with a bouncy gait, her own arm entwined with the arm of Fumio Kijima, the lowest-ranking student in the class.

‘Tch…..of all people, Mai-Chin. Why do you have such… bad taste. Especially that guy?’

This year, since we were in the same class, I’ve been secretly targeting her. The reason was simple. I wanted to get laid with her.

My girlfriend Minami and I have been dating for four years now. But lately, she kept nagging at me and I’m starting to feel annoyed with her.

[ It must be time to move on. I’ll switch to Mai-Chin next time ] that’s what I thought.

I was taking it easy, thinking I’d have her down by summer, but I have no idea what happened, just like that, she started flirting with Fumio Kijima.

To be honest, it hurt my pride. For example, if she had gone out with someone from our group, I would have understood. But not that one. I can only think that she’s got rotten eyes, that she’d rather have that than us.

“Damn it…..this is not funny.”

As soon as I spat that out, someone called out to me from behind.

“Heh, Tachioka–kun, were you aiming for Fujiwara?”

When I turned around, Hikari–san was standing there.

Teruya Hikari – very athletic, short cut, healthy tanned skin. She has a well-defined face, but her thick eyebrows are a little assertive. She is a boyish girl.

Frankly speaking, she’s not my kind of girl. However, it’s polite to show a girl that I am interested in her.

“Ahaha, I’m fine with you, Hikari–san? Can you comfort me?”

“No thanks.”

She says so sharply and frowns.

‘It’s social etiquette, you know. I don’t want you either.’

“But more importantly. Why aren’t you here today, Junichi–sa……Kasuya-kun?”

“He heard from a guy who saw Misuzu-chan in the next town. He’s going there today to look for Misuzu-chan.”

“On a school holiday?”

“Yes, yes. What can I say,He’s deeply in love with Misuzu,Hikari–san. He had been trying to get Misuzu to go out with him many times, and last Christmas, she finally went out with him….”

“Hmmm…”

Hikaru looks blandly mushy.

‘Aaa, I forgot. This girl also had a pure target on him too…..’

“Misuzu–chan has been missing for more than a week now. She might be somewhere making love to another guy at the moment……I wonder if Jun will be looking for a place to lean on..”

When I gave her a bit of a breather, Hikari was quick to put herself in a good mood.

“Yeah, that’s right!”

It’s a bit of a stretch, well, I don’t think Hikari will ever have a chance.

“Hey….Tachioka–kun, do you want to make a deal with me?”

“A deal?”

“Actually, I got……Fujiwara’s big weakness.”

“Eh, what does that mean?”

“That girl will listen to anything I say. For example, to go out with Tachioka–kun, to become friends, anything..”

“Seriously? No, no,it can’t be, it can’t be true.”

“Even this?”

The screen of the phone she held up in front of me showed Mai-chin in her underwear with a crying face.

‘Oh shit, it’s for real……’

“For the time being, I can only share this picture, but I can’t do that for free, can I?”

“I want to see it! I’ll pay for it!”

“If Tachioka-kun…..can help me be together with Kasuya-kun, I’ll let you do whatever you want with Fujiwara. You can take all the erotic photos you want.”

×××

It worked.

The deal with Tachioka is done.

With Mai Fujiwara as bait, I can use Tachioka as an excuse to comfort the heartbroken Junichi-sama, and it’s only a matter of time before I become his girlfriend.

Imagining myself as Junichi–sama’s lover, I open the door to the clubroom in a good mood.

I was a little late, although not late enough. Most of the club members have already started preparing for practice on the field. However, in the clubroom there were a few girls who were in the process of changing their clothes.

One of them walks up to me in her underwear as soon as she spots me.

“Hey, hey, Hikaru–chan! Masaki is missing, for real?”

Very short and slender. It’s not that she’s not pretty, but because of her narrow eyes, she looks like she’s smiling even when she’s not doing anything – the vice-president of this athletics club – Natsumi Shima.

“Hmm? Did Shima know Haneda-san?”

“Yeah, we were in the same class in second year. We still go shopping together and we get on pretty well….So, what’s going on? Is she seriously missing?”

“I don’t know the details, but….Sensei said so. He said she’s the second one, after Kurosawa–san.”

“Really…..?”

When Shima’s cheeks twitched, the president of the club, Tashiro Ui, still in her underwear, popped her on the shoulder from behind her.

“See, I told you. Thanks to that, I’ve been told to make the club activities end early. I was also told to get you out of school before dark. Now get dressed, Shima. You know that, but there aren’t many days left until the summer tournament. That’s when we, the third year, retire.”

“No, no, You can’t say that Hatsu-chan when you haven’t finished getting dressed yet either.”

Personally, Tashiro is a bit of a pain.

Slender, eight-headed, beautiful girl with long black hair tied back in a ponytail.

(beautiful well-proportioned woman)

Her personality is a parade of four-letter phrases, such as fair, honest, mild-mannered, and sincere, which are not only disheartening to look at but also to walk around with. On top of that, she is a perfect superhuman with excellent grades and is an all-round sportsman, so she is the type of person I wouldn’t want to be around if I could. If I were compared to her, I would feel miserable.

As Shima began to change, Tashiro called out to the club members sitting on the bench.

“Oi, Shiratori, you’re not supposed to take it easy either.”

“….Then, do something about Takasago.”

It was second-year student Shiratori Saki, with a mousy look on her face and a pout on her mouth.

I don’t like her either. She is so unsociable that I can only assume that she has forgotten what charm is in her mother’s belly. To be honest, I have no idea what she’s thinking.

If I look at Shiratori’s thighs, which have changed into her uniform, someone was using it as pillows with the sound of [Su–Su–].

She is Takasago Kei, a second year student.

She is a lazy person and is usually asleep when I see her. But she is a kind of genius when it comes to the high jump, coming within centimetres of the women’s national record, even though she doesn’t practise it very much.

As for this girl, I have hardly ever communicated with her. So, I never had a good relationship with her. After all, it is rare to see her awake.

What annoys me is that she’s so good-looking that she’s quite popular among second-year boys, who call her [Sleeping Beauty], an embarrassing nickname. I’d like to show the boys at least once regarding the mess in her stinking locker.

‘Well, …..it doesn’t bother me much, let’s get changed.’

While I was changing, Shima was very persistent in asking me about Haneda-san’s disappearance. I could understand her concern, but I didn’t know much either.

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