ăAoba-sensei, the principal, and Tachinami-sensei, the homeroom teacher. Everyoneâs concerned that yer overdoinâ it.ă
ăOhâŚâŚă
I felt even more pathetic now. Itâs sad that I even made the people around me worry. But still, I mustâŚ
ăIâm dumb ân clumsy, so I prolly canât change this way oâlivinââŚâŚă
ăYukariâŚâŚă
ăAnd I honestly canât do nothinâ to atone for what I did to hurt Azuma-kun. If I could, itâd be to neva get involved with âim again. So I gotta do my best in all otha things.ă
Yes. I can do nothing for the victim. All I can hope is that he can recover enough to love again. I pray every day that there will be an amazing woman that can help the broken Azuma-kun to get back on his feet. At any rate, itâs important that I never do anything to him ever again. It would be outrageous should I get him into more trouble by trying to atone just to fill my self-satisfaction.
ăYukari, come onâŚâŚă
ăWhatever. Letâs head back.ă
Because I fully intend to live out my life carrying these regrets.
ďźďźA Certain Private Highschool, Third Year, the case of Katsutoshi Hideomiďźformer male classmateďź
ăWazzup Katsutoshi, ya seem super pissed.ă
ăOh, itâs you, Omori. Flirtinâ around as always I see.ă
ăNope, I ainât.ă
ăNah, I heard. Ya did it with the fifth one, rightďźă
Looking coldly at the dandy man of the class, I check to see if what I heard was true or not. In actuality, no matter how many girls Omori did in succession, as long as it didnât harm me I didnât care. But for some reason, every time this guy changed girls, I always got caught up in the mix. It wasnât like I teamed up with Omori or anything. We were hardly even friends, and I was reluctant to even hang out with him.
ăSo Omori.ă
ăWhatďźă
ăIf ya donât put a can in it, yer gonna seriously be fed raw meat chocolate one day.ă
ăNah nah nah, I ainât do nothinâ like that unless itâs a real nice girl, yâknow?ă
ăIt donât matter how fine a girl they is, when it happens it happens.ă
I really donât want talk about this, but the one who messed up Azuma this bad was just a normal girl who, other than in class, or more accurately, other than when she made contact with Azuma, never stood out in a good or a bad way. Even the girls who blindly imitated her and the girls who beat Azuma so bad he got sent to the hospital were all super normal girls that didnât fall far from the cloth that you could find anywhere.
Thanks to that, both me and the other guy who came from that middle school couldnât trust these living creatures known as women.
ăWelp, ya really donât like girls, so I get why ye say that. But whyâre ya so grumpy?ă
ăSame reason yer grumpy. Why do the gals ya dump always come to me fer revenge time afta timeâŚâŚă
ăThey doďźă
ăYup. Wanna try askinâ the othersďźă
Omori looked around as he heard me say that. Several of the boys who met his gaze gave me a dirty look before staring fixedly at Omori with slightly harsh expressions as they nodded.
ăFor seriousâŚâŚ?ă
ăAnd they act like Iâm tellinâ ya lies about âem to getchu to break up with âem. I donât even care about who ya decide to go out with, an look what happens to me.ă
ăAhď˝âŚâŚăIâm real sorry âbout thatâŚâŚă
ăIf ya really feel that way, then make sure to rein in ya women real close, or else donât get close to me eva again.ă
Iâm just tired of it all, so I told him off loud and clear. Ever since Azumaâs incident, Iâve hated girls. I honestly never want to get involved with any guy who even tries to be a playboy.
ăYou hate meďźă
ăI donât like or dislike ye. Ya greet me, Iâll greetcha. But imma tell ya upfront that I donât wanna progress no further, and I donât got a single interest in who ya are as a person.ă
ăMan, thatâs even worse than sayinâ ya hate meâŚâŚă
Omori frowned, but I donât care.
I know that this guy wonders why both I and the other guy who came from that middle school hate women. But heâs a fool and he goes about things the wrong way, and even if that wasnât the case, I donât need him butting into our affairs. He was an unbelievably charming guy, so I couldnât hate him, but neither do I want to get to know him, nor do I feel there would be any merit in doing so.
ăI wonât say that Iâm without ma flaws. Yer prolly talkinâ to me outta genuine concern, and I git that. But that ainât no reason fer the girls ya dump to be handed off to me fer disposal, yâknow?ă
ăI neva intended to do thatâŚâŚă
Well of course he didnât intend to. If he didnât know what the girls would do after he dumped them, it would be weird for him to be aware of it.
ăHey, why they even goinâ to you for complaints?ă
ăCuz apparently everyone knows I hate girls. They claim I toldja things about âem to get yâall to getchu to break up with âem.ă
ăI neva heard nothinâ about ya interest in womenâŚâŚă
ăâCourse not. Ya donât try ân get to know none of them so ya donât know what they be like.ă
Precisely that. Not a single classmate knew a single thing about what each girl was actually like. No one knew what would set off a land mine, so everyone knew their names and faces, but other than greeting or talking to them in a professional manner, none of the boys tried to forge connections with them.
Honestly, itâs already painful enough to have to memorize the names and faces of people I either have no interest in or despise, so Iâm not so much of a masochist that Iâd go out picking fights with these girls. Several boys in the class, including Omori, said they werenât scared of girls and claimed the girls never tried to snap at them, but it was still ridiculous to insist that I trust the same bunch who whispered malicious gossip behind peopleâs backs in class or banded together to ostracize others.
First of all, the girls who claimed women arenât scary were hardly different from the same kinds of girls that bullied and sent Azuma to the hospital, nearly killing him and leaving him with a mental disorder in the process. What they really meant was that they decided whether or not losers had the right to live. Maybe some of them had good intent in their warnings, but ultimately, what they advocated for was generally slandering other peopleâs personalities and interests.
And although they claimed that men should wear clean, proper clothing, the girls had still ended up finding a way to slander Hiroshi, who only looked a bit uncool but was not dirty nor sloppy. This was truly double standards in a nutshell.