People say that ‘If you sigh, your happiness will run away’, but I could care less about that.
What comes out, comes out.
It’s worse for your body to endure it.
I walked through the passage leading from the school building to the gym as I held my breath, and sighed deeply once again.
At that moment, the phone in my pocket rang.
I knew that it was the notification for emails and calls……but I ignored it.
In front of me was the gym, but instead of going in, I went to the courtyard at the back.
Although it’s called a courtyard, the size of it was about 6 tatami mats. It looked like a Japanese styled garden.
There were stepping stones on the gravel, and a stone wash basin was placed nearby.
The arrangement of the stones close to the wall was perfect, and it was my favourite hiding spot for skipping class.
Nobody comes here anyways. This quiet place heals my tired heart.
Not knowing how many times I’ve sighed, I sat on the stone with the perfect height.
The way his back remained motionless, he looked like a person who couldn’t tell his family that his company downsized, and sat on a park bench to kill time. Even the former corporation soldier couldn’t win over the grief he had.
And once again, my phone rang.
“So noisy……at least leave me alone for a while……”
I was fed up, but I decided to take out my phone.
I could guess who it was from and what they wanted, but I should check just in case.
FROM Kaede
>>> Where are you now?
FROM Hiiragi
>>> Can we meet?
FROM Hina
>>> [Incoming call]
What meddlesome people……!
I’m not your guardian!
All of you should just team up with each other!
Kaede sticks to me day and night, and for some reason Hina is opposed to that.
Hiiragi is still Hiiragi, and he frequently sends emails to me, but there’s a limit for that!
Return my peaceful peeping life back to me!
Even now, my brothers could be flirting[1] with each other!
I want to see it-nyaa……[2]
[1] The ori text actually said that they were meowing at each other. I’m just guessing that it means that they’re flirting. *shrug*
[2] ‘Nyaa’ is in ori text too, looks weird but whatever.
Please give me profit!
Grant me an oasis named Homo in my desert!
“I wonder what is this……this feeling of fatigue and obstruction.”
I remember way before this, I would usually go out and play with my friends.
But now that Kaede is sticking so close to me, I feel like it’s become difficult to go out.
Where did it all go wrong?
I feel that bad luck has been around me since I started caring about the broken hearted gays.
It’s a sudden drop in fortune.
It may be better to go to my ancestor’s grave, and strengthen the protection of my guardian spirit.
I think it’s better to just have my big brothers as a gay couple……[1]
[1] Ori text had ‘ホモ充’ and I don’t know what’s that but search #ホモ充 on twitter for reference that I’m confused about.
Is it because I’m too greedy?
I guess it’s what people call, ‘If you run after two hares you will catch neither’.
I caused trouble for my big brothers; it would be a disaster if they’re not zealous in the future.
All right, I should be more careful when I’m chasing those broken-hearted gays from now on.
I decided in my heart, and looked up at the sky.
At that moment, I saw something move.
It was in the student council room at the corner of the third floor.
It was a person moving.
He had burning, bright red hair, and a well-mannered face that could be seen from a distance.
He was like a punctual person who measured the timing.
He was the last person of the broken-hearted gays, Aogiri Natsuki.
He’s the student council president, and he was especially popular in the game.
In the game package, his existence was like the jack of all trades.
He was the character with good looks and good grades. He was like a person who would hold down someone with his true strength when they oppose him.
He’s overwhelmingly popular with the girls, but the boys were scared of him.
There might be people who lost and thought ‘No matter how much I struggle, I can’t win against this guy’, and didn’t dare to go near him again.
But of course, there were people who admired him too.
I’m sure he liked my big brother……despite having the same specification as himself in terms of academic ability, agility, or appearance, he was attracted to a character that was loved by everyone. Unlike him, who was avoided by everyone.
It might have been decided that only my big brother could talk to him.
As I was recalling memories from the game, I could only think of him as a stranger and felt like puking. I should take a deep breath and calm down.
The moment I decided not to get involved with them from now on, he suddenly appears. I have a bad premonition.
I was thinking of getting away from this place as fast as I can, but if I suddenly move, he’ll see me.
I carefully, naturally, and slowly started walking, but I felt something strange behind me, so I looked at the student council room once again.
Suddenly……
“Hiii!”[1]
[1] He’s screaming, just making sure[if someone doesn’t get this]
He was looking.
The president was clearly looking at me.
There was a distance but our eyes definitely met.
――Grin.
“U-uwahhhh!!”
He laughed.
A bewitching smile appeared on his good-looking face.
At that moment, I ran.
I ran away.
It was instinctual.
I went to get my bag from the classroom and as I jogged down the hallway, I heard the speaker noise as if the school broadcast was going to air.
“Amachi Akira, come to the student council room! Immediately!”
“Huh!?”
I almost fell down reflexively.
No doubt that was the student council president.
In terms of content, I can’t think of anyone else who has a nice voice that would sound like a rock band’s vocalist.
The broadcast cut off, and ended just like that.
It sounded more like a forced call than a broadcast.
“I’ll ignore it, let’s do that.”
Right now, I’m at a place where I can’t hear the broadcast, let’s go with that.
I put on a fresh look, and started walking towards the classroom again.
“Oh, Amachi-kun. The student council president called you.”
“Eh.”
In the hallway, I was stopped by my classmate, and she informed me about it.
“Ah, I see. Thank you.”
Thank you for coming all the way just to inform me about it.
I thanked her with a stiff smile, and headed to the classroom.
Ignore it, ignore, ignore!
I tried not to look at anyone as much as possible to prevent anyone from calling me, and continued to walk down the hallway when……
“Ah, Amachi-kun, you’ve been called over by the broadcast.”
“The president called you, you should quickly go over.”
“He called you over the broadcast.”
“……Sure, thanks.”
One girl after another, they’re opening their mouths like they’re the president’s followers.
People I didn’t know, even people I have never talked to came over to call me.
This is definitely the enemy’s territory.
I have to hurry up and get out of here……!
Until my HP runs out!
At that moment, I heard the speaker noise again.
“It can’t be……”
As I expected, the school broadcast started, and then……
“Amachi Akira, quickly come to the student council room!”
The voice was clearly more irritated than before.
The clicking sound that’s made when the broadcast ends, might become my trauma after this.
“Hm?”
I felt someone’s gaze, and naturally lifted up my hanging head. I saw several girls around me, and they were all looking at me.
“Hii!”
Scary, this is completely horrifying!
“Amachi-kun, you’re being called though?”
“You should quickly go!”
“You definitely can’t let the president wait for you!”
“Yeah……I-I can’t do that!”
When I came to, I realized I was running.
Scary, encountering girls is scary!
When did school become the enemy’s land?
In this school, I wonder if the president is absolute justice?
I still strongly held onto my heart, and chose to escape. While fighting against the assassins(the girls), I somehow reached the classroom.
The hallway was such a terrible and long one……
The encounter rate was also odd.
For such a tiring dungeon, the experience value was horrible.
There was nobody in the classroom……was what I thought, but Shirousa-san was the only one left.
Shirousa-san’s desk had some distance from mine, but for some reason, she was standing next to my desk.
I wonder if she was curious because there was a bag on top of my desk.
While I was feeling doubtful, our eyes met.
“”…””
What was it.
Both of us went silent.
“Uhh…I came to get my bag though. You’re not going back yet, Shirousa-san?”
“Hmph.”
She held up her thumb, blowing her breath with a blast.
Her thumb was pointing at the speaker.
……So there was an assassin here too.
The classroom wasn’t a safety zone.
“Ah, sure……Thanks.”
It was like she was telling me to quickly go.
I snapped.
My heart snapped.
I know!
All I have to do is go right!
Fine!
※※※
I heavily walked up the stairs to the third floor, going to the place that I was looking at from the bottom just now.
It’s a place that I’ve never came or entered before, but since I knew the location, I knew where to go right away.
“Sighh…”
My happiness is completely gone.
It’s a negative.
It’s as much as having to deduct it from next month.
I continued to move forward, even though my bicycle shop business is leading me towards bankruptcy.
“Sighhh…”
Ahh..this is neverending.
I looked up.
The nameplate wrote ‘Student Council Room’.
I didn’t want to come, but here I am.
After knocking on the door weakly, I opened the door and unwillingly entered the room.
“You’re late! Amachi Akira!”
It should’ve been opened just now, but now both the windows and curtains were closed. The student council room was light and warm.
It was somewhat suffocating, this space isn’t the least comfortable at all.
The space was as big as a normal classroom, but of course there were no individual desks.
There was only a long desk for meetings, pipe chairs, and a bookshelf to place documents and other necessary things.
In the middle of the classroom, the long desk is placed in the center, and in the shape of the character ‘コ(Ko)’.
Over there, was an ikemen that looked like he was carrying a sign saying, “I’m irritated from numbness”.
He sat on the pipe chair like he was a boxer waiting for the next round in the ring, and was tapping his finger on the table.
He had a ballpen in his hand, but it looked like he was holding a jack-knife and it was scary.
He casually placed his blazer on a different chair, and rolled up his sleeves.
It’s the wild style that I saw exactly in the game.
His hairstyle too, he had a casual, deep crimson coloured hair that looks like it’s burning. He had the complete wild look; he looks cool.
His pupils were as if it was a gem, the purple amethyst crystal.
There’s no mistake that his sharp, and handsome face can capture the girls’ heart.
“You surprisingly made me wait, didn’t you, ahh?”
“Uh, this is our first time meeting……”
I understand that he’s irritated from waiting and I’m also a junior, but his attitude was too rude that I had to confirm.
I don’t know if he got offended by what I said or not,but the crease between his eyebrows deepened, he stopped spinning the ball pen in his hand, and tapped it on the table.
“[Makoto’s younger brother], just calling you that is enough.”
“Oh.”
I don’t know whether that was an answer to my question or not.
Shirousa-san and Kaede too, I guess they’re only interested in me as [Amachi Makoto’s younger brother]?
Okay,okay……it’s just my imagination that I want to hit him.
Don’t call someone you’re not interested in using the school broadcast, you idiottt!!!
I’m so irritated that I don’t feel like listening to him.
I want to hurry up and go home.
President Aogiri glanced at me, folded his arms, and opened his mouth.
“If I said that your older brother likes guys, what would you do?”
“Huh?”
……This guy, what is he talking about?
Are you stupid?
“I don’t know, what should I do……”
I don’t know what’s his intention of saying that.
Let’s play dumb for now, and see what happens next.
“Hmph.”
Whether he’s irritated over me not giving a proper answer or not, he looked at me with a gaze that says he’s looking down on me, and laughed with his nose.
Seriously, what’s wrong with this guy?
He sure irritates me every single time……
“Well then, what do think about Sakurai Haruki?”
“Huhh!?”
Are you really an idiot?
Hey, are you?
It can’t be……is he asking me, as someone close to them, information about both of them?
No no no, he probably won’t do something with no delicacy.
“How you say, he’s big brother’s best friend……he’s also a good older brother to me and I like him a lot.”
“Like him a lot!? You brothers, including you, have tricks up your sleeves too!?
“You’re really an idiot!”
I said it out without thinking.
He really had no delicacy!!
“You’re the one who’s an idiot! Are you serious! What’s so good about that guy!”
“What do you mean, compared to you, he’s……gasp!”
Dangerous, dangerous, I was about to be lured in by that idiot.
It’s weird that he knows about their relationship.
I have to pretend that I don’t know anything.
“Uh, what are you talking about? Why are you calling big brother’s best friend……Haru-nii…‘that guy’?
“Why……that’s because…”
In my current remarks, I went out of my way to emphasize that I recognized the relationship between my brothers as close friends.
The top-ranking and intelligent president doesn’t understand what I mean……it’s probably not like that.
He wouldn’t spill secrets to a younger brother who doesn’t know anything without permission.
It’s the same as indirectly exposing yourself, but if you’ve never been aware of BL, you won’t know, and if you’re insensitive, you won’t notice.
I’m that so called “insensitive younger brother.”
“Why?”
“You, if your older brother dates guys, what would you do?”
“Huhhh!?”
Like I said, don’t spill it!
I even gave you a chance!
I—
“No, like I said……I don’t know……”
I beg you, please understand what I’m trying to do!
“Actually, your brother is going out with Sakurai.”
Ahhh……He said it……
Oi, you’re doing something that you’re not supposed to do.
I don’t know how I should react to that.
“……”
“……Don’t you have anything to say?”
Yes, to your stupidity.
To you having no delicacy, and coming out for him to his younger brother without permission.
“I want to wake Makoto up.”
What are you going to do when he does?
The point is, you want him to be yours right?
“I want to.”
……So it was like that.
I understand, I understand.
“Sighh……Why do you want to wake him up?”
“Hm? I feel uncomfortable with that intonation of yours……Uh, whatever. It’s because Makoto is an important friend of mine.”
Just because of that, you called his younger brother over the school broadcast. What are you trying to do?
I know what you’re intending to do!
“Do you like big brother? Is president gay?”
A straight ball is a straight ball.
Ahh, the word ‘gay’ that’s been repeating in my brain for a thousand to ten thousand times, just saying it out with my mouth makes me happy.
“Idi-! I’m not!”
Oh really? But I feel like your face complexion looks better now though?
Such a healthy boy, he’ll be angry.
“Heeehh~”
“You’re absolutely wrong!”
“Heeehh~”
“……”
It’s sour, I mutually felt that.
“And, what do you want with me?”
“O-oh. To wake Makoto up, I need you to cooperate with me.”
“I decline.”
“What?”
“I decline.”
In other words, you’re telling me to help you break them up right?
That’s a problem!
The two of them flirting with each other is my only cure!
If that’s gone, I’ll die from gay deficiency-nyan!
I firmly oppose that!
“But I don’t know if what Gay President said is true or not.”
“Oi, wait a minute. What’s with that name!”
He stood up so vigorously that the chair almost fell over, and looked at me.
I would probably be scared and run away by now, but once I gave the gay president a nickname, I don’t feel scared anymore.
I waited patiently, and opened my mouth only when he walked up to me.
“Even if that was true, I still respect my brother.”
“What?”
“It’s fine even if he’s going out with Haru-nii.”
“……Are you serious?”
That’s what I’d like to say to you.
“Just give up on big brother, and find a new love. You’ll get kicked by a horse and die.”
You should just get kicked and crushed by a horse and die.
Your duty is over already.
To interrupt an angel’s life, fall in hell.
It would be a treat if he was a sorrowful gay, but disturbing my big brothers is no good, absolutely no good.
“I think so too.”
Suddenly, I heard a voice from the back.
I was surprised and as I turned my head to look, it was someone I have never seen before. A guy with a terribly well-mannered face was standing there.
The lapel badge on his shirt had two rose petals, so he’s a second year student.
He looks shorter than the president……but he looks like someone.
Eh, I think I’ve seen him somewhere before……
“What did you come here for, Natsuhi.”
“Eh?”
I turned my head the second time and looked at President.
“Ah!”
It’s President. He’s the spitting image of President.
But it’s just the face shape that’s the same as President; his impression is not similar at all.
One of his eyes is being covered by his long bangs that flow to one side.
The other side of his bangs is tucked behind his ear which gives out an impression that he’s intelligent, but the black parkour over his shirt also looks casual.
His hair colour is the polar opposite of President. He has cobalt blue coloured hair that reminds you of the ocean, but his pupils are the same purple amethyst crystal.
“He’s my younger brother.”
“Younger brother!?”
“He was studying abroad though. He came back due to family circumstances recently and transferred here.”
I didn’t know that the president had a younger brother.
He never came out in the game!
Wait, no, it’s kind of exciting!
Our eyes met as I was looking at him while feeling deeply excited about it, so I just bowed my head to greet him.
“Older brother, I’ve said this multiple times, but do something about chasing guys’ asses.”
……Oi.
He ignored and walked past me.
He didn’t even look at me. He’s acting like I don’t exist.
What’s this, if the older brother’s like that, the younger brother’s also like that?
Their relationship as brothers aren’t bad.
“You too! Like I said, you’re wrong! Don’t say anything unnecessary!”
“As if I can shut up. If the rumor of older brother liking guys spread, you’ll embarrass our family, and I’ll be in trouble too.”
So the younger brother’s normal[1].
[1] Not liking guys
But, it’s not like he likes other guys. He only likes ‘Amachi Makoto’, that’s the conclusion.
It feels like that.
So if he finds that kind of partner, the younger brother might follow his older brother.
They have good DNA.
I’ll set that aside.
I’m getting irritated looking at those two quarreling right now.
Like I’d just stand here for that.
Leave them to their own problems. I’ll just go home first.
I turned my back to both of them and walked off, when I suddenly heard a cold voice from behind.
“You over there. The conversation just now, you won’t tell anyone right?”
And as I turn to face towards where the voice was, the President’s younger brother had a dark smile on his face.
He sounded calm when he spoke, but it’s completely threatening.
Even though you ignored me just now, I guess you can still threaten people.
That said, this school is like it’s President’s home ground, and he reminded me of DM[1]. I wouldn’t think of opposing him.
[1] Game: Dungeon Monsters
I don’t want them to disturb my big brothers, and I won’t get any benefit from telling people either.
“Of course, I won’t tell anyone.”
“Good. Now, go home.”
“Wait a minute, I wasn’t done talking!”
Let’s ignore him, and quickly get out of here.
The President’s younger brother is a creepy person, but thanks to him, I could escape faster than I thought I would.