Not much time has passed since the sun shone on my face, so it wasn’t that hot yet.
It’s refreshing and it feels good, but I came to school feeling unpleasantly cold.
I reached the school gate with Kaede on my left, and Hina pulling me on the right.
And there was a red demon who seemed to be the gatekeeper of hell, standing there with a daunting pose.
I wonder if I’ve fallen without being aware of it.
Or maybe the school moved to the world of spirits somehow.
The red demon seems to have been born with a special characteristic where he can attract girls and make them go red, while he can overpower boys and make them go blue.
Anyone who passes by the splendid president will be split into two.
Fortunately, the red demon hasn’t noticed me yet, so I can escape and avoid having contact with him somehow.
I don’t want to turn blue.
“Sorry, I’m going in from the back gate, so both of you can go in first.”
“No thanks.”
“No way.”
Both sides raised their voices, and grabbed my arms at the same time.
I’m not a captured alien!
“Let go! If I get found, it’ll be troublesome……”
“Too late, Amachi Akira!”
“……What do you want, really.”
Look, I got found now!
The red demon is glaring at me, he’s definitely targeting me.
“Natsuhi told me not to use the school broadcast, so I came here to wait for you. Come with me at once!”
His younger brother warned him over something so obvious, this gay can’t be saved.
“Now!? The morning homeroom is going to start though.”
“Who cares about that? Just follow me.”
President proceeded without my consent.
Without his hands passing through the sleeves, his blazer draped over his shoulders.[1]
That back looks like an artist who’s going to perform on his last stage. He looks uselessly cool.
[1] Looks cool indeed.
It’s annoying that whatever he does, he looks cool.
“This time, the student council room……”
“Aki, are you okay?”
Kaede and Hina looked at me with a worried look on their faces.
I don’t know why they’re worried, but I’m not okay. I’d like some help if possible.
It’s too troublesome having to deal with the President first thing in the morning.
“He’ll be noisy if I don’t go with him…I’ll just go for now.”
If I ignore him, he’ll do something unnecessary and it’ll be troublesome later.
Let’s just go along with him, and listen to what he has to say.
But because I ignored him and went home just like that, I’m kind of scared thinking about what he’s going to do to me.
※※※
It’s the same location as yesterday—the student council room.
It seemed like President had the key. He took the key out of his pocket and unlocked the padlock. Then he strode right in, so I just followed after him.
I wanted to retort and say ‘Is this your own room or something’, but I changed my mind thinking that it’s DM(Dungeon Monster), so having your own room is nothing strange.
Since it was locked up overnight, the air in the student council room was more stuffy and unpleasant than yesterday.
The President sat at the long desk, crossed his long legs, and glared at me.
“How dare you leave in the middle of our conversation yesterday.”
Of course he’s not going to let that go.
When it comes to being called out by him, this is the only thing that comes to mind.
It’s a natural development.
“Can you leave my brothers alone?”
“That’s impossible. I must wake Makoto up.”
“I think my brother is extremely serious.”
“That can’t be. It’s strange not to listen to me.”
“……Excuse me.”
I let out a big sigh of astonishment.
This world must have a problem with me, because it’s a matter of course that this thing is around me.
“If you think that everything will go as you wish, you’re very much mistaken! Besides, don’t hide and secretly do it, be honest and open! President, have you properly told him your feelings yet?”
“That’s……”
In the game, there were statements such as ‘You’re mine’, but I don’t think I would have been able to confess my feelings and face them honestly.
Such a thing would be good if it was a game, but if you actually experience it, it would be troublesome and confusing if you declare it without permission. It’s very perplexing.
If he reciprocated the Gay President’s feelings, he might’ve been able to proceed smoothly, but big brother is Haru-nii’s now.
If it’s like that, you should have the guts to face him and confess your feelings, and catch big brother’s heart!ーAs if, that’s impossible.
“To ‘wake him up’, don’t say that like it’s an escape route, face him! You should tell him that. If you attack him with your feelings, the other party will properly face you!”
“Attack……with my feelings.”
“Yeah!……Ah.”
Shit, that’s not it.
That ‘other party’ was big brother!
What am I doing supporting him! I wanted him to leave my big brothers alone!
“W-well, it’s too late now. It’s best to stop thinking about him……”
“You’re right……if you say that with such a similar face, I can bear with it.”
There wasn’t a predator, always full of confidence and always looking down upon the lower world.
On the contrary, he had a ‘serious face’.
“Certainly, I might’ve had been running away. ‘It’s my imagination that Makoto wasn’t looking at me,’ is what I might want to think. But……”
Before I knew it, he stood up and gripped his fist.
“It’s as you said, let’s acknowledge the current situation. And on top of that, I will be honest and open, and will not stop.”
“No, uh……”
“Thanks, Akira. Watch me. I’ll become serious.”
He’s so cool……it’s half-assed, but cool!
Is this what they call the king of aspiration!?
That’s not it……
“I think you should stop……”
“WAIT FOR ME, MAKOTO! HA-HA-HA!”
While his loud laughter echoed through the hallway, he left.
As I thought, that leaving figure was like a big-shot idol’s last stage. No, it’s more than that. He sparkled like he was a galaxy star chasing his dreams.
It’s too bright that I can’t look directly at it.
Eyes……my eyesss!
……As if I have time to do this!
It’s no good, I hate this disappointing constitution that makes me joke around shortly after something happens.
“Sighh…Now I’ve done it……”
Although I was trying to make him give up, I got carried away by the atmosphere and supported him instead.
I’m sorry, my big brothers.
But I believe that their love won’t lose to the galaxy star’s dream!
“……Oi.”
“Yes?”
It felt like there were ice thorns growing. I got surprised by the cold tone of voice, and turned around.
A cobalt blue coloured hair person stood there. He looked like an ice wizard, so the icy air was not surprising.
“Hii!”
“I was curious so I came to have a look……older brother just went off with a horse laugh[1], what happened?”
[1] Loud, coarse laugh
I sensed that I was likely to be frozen if I tried to deceive him.
I’m afraid I’ll have to tell the truth.
“Uh, that’s……”
I explained the situation to him while trembling with fear.
Natsuhi-senpai was expressionless as he was listening.
That face makes it even scarier.
“……And that’s what happened.”
As I finished explaining, a colder gaze penetrated me.
I froze.
“You……by making it worse, what are you going to do? Are you possibly badgers of the same hole?”
“You’re wrong.”
I was very frustrated by Natsuhi-senpai, who looked at me scornfully. But on the other hand, I was disappointed that I was disturbed in response to the word ‘hole’.
I’m saying this again.
I’m disappointed.
“……By the way, previously when you pushed your friend to the wall, there was an unusual atmosphere.”
“Huh? What are you saying?”
Friend? Pushed to the wall?
I searched my memories as I was thinking about what he’s saying.
My recent friend is Kaede, so the possibility that it’s him is high. And then, the wall……Ah.
That ikemen at that time when I kabedon-ed him!!
That’s it! I learned from Hiiragi, and tried to kabedon Kaede…. Then the ikemen who witnessed it……Eh, it was Natusuhi-senpai!!
Why couldn’t I recognize him immediately when I saw him?
There’s no way I could forget an ikemen like him.
As a memory that I want to seal, my body didn’t want to remember it.
“Senpai, I have a request.”
“What?”
“I want to erase senpai’s memory, so can I please hit you with a blunt weapon at the back of your head just this once?”
“Huhh?”
‘What’s this guy talking about?’
I joined hands with Natsuhi-senpai who looked like he had a face that said ‘What’s this guy talking about?’
“Only once, just this once! The weapon can be a vase or clay figure!”
“……”
“It’s really not like that! That was just a joke! I wasn’t serious! Really! There’s no deep meaning!”
I want to hide in a hole!
This time is just not reacting to the word hole, I want to actually enter a hole!
The eyes to my desperate excuse remain cold.
While wondering what was going on, Natsuhi-senpai muttered.
“No wonder. So your brother was actually like that……I feel sick.”
I felt that I heard something that makes me doubt my ears.
“……Huhh?”
My awareness suddenly cooled and sharpened.
Did you just make fun of big brother?
“Are you mocking big brother? If you say that, your brother is in the same situation, right? We’re in the same situation, right? Well, I respect my big brother. And I wouldn’t say anything to devalue him, much less insult people like a certain someone’s older brother has.”
I suppressed my impulsive desire to hit him; instead, I raised the corners of my lips and said that.
You’re just an insignificant existence, an insignificant existence that can be unconcerned to insult other people’s big brother.
You’re just a mob with a high facial deviation!
Your occupation is Ikemen A!
That’s why you couldn’t’ appear in the game!
You couldn’t dig[1] anyone!
[1] To like, understand, or approve of someone.
While cursing in my heart, I sent him a disdainful look.
We did not hide our displeasure towards each other, and looked at each other with a distorted face for a while.
“……Hmph.”
He snorted and looked away as if conceding defeat
I won, it’s your loss.
Natsuhi-senpai left as if nothing happened.
“What’s wrong with that guy?!”
I feel sick already in the morning.
People who insult my angelic big brother deserve a certain death!
You’ll be cooked well in the kettle of hell!
The Aogiri brothers are unlucky.
No, they’re more like demons than unlucky people.
They’re sinister beings who bring bad luck.
Salt,I need some salt. I should bring salt with me wherever I go from now on.
※※※
“Akira, why are you bringing salt to school?”
“Please don’t mind me. Grace of the sea, please protect me……”
After I finished the breakfast big brother prepared, I took a small bottle from the kitchen, poured salt into it, then stowed it away in my bag. I looked suspicious.
“What’s that for?”
“I’m going to get rid of the evil. This is necessary because I’ll probably be forced to participate in Tsunotsuno red demon number one and Tsunotsuno blue demon number two’s tango[1], so I need this.”
[1] ‘The Red Demon and Blue Demon’s Tango’ is a song that played in a music program from NHK, called ‘Minna no Uta'[1978]
“……Huh?”
“Ah, big brother. If you have a good psychic friend, or you know an acquaintance of Momotaro, introduce them to me.”
“…… Unfortunately, I don’t have any acquaintances like that.”
“I see, that’s too bad. Well then, I’ll go first.”
“……Akira, do you want to take a break from school today?”
“Why? I’m going.”
I left big brother who had a bewildered look on his face for some reason and turned towards the entranceway.
I wonder what happened for big brother to make that kind of face.
Well, if big brother messes around with Haru-nii, there will be no problem.
I walked to the entranceway with a carefree mind and opened the door……and that guy was there.
It was the first red demon of the tsunos.
“Morning Akira, is Makoto here?”
“Saltttt!!”
You appeared too early!
I hastily opened the bottle lid, and desperately threw some on him.
Dear God, the evil is about to enter our sanctuary!
Purify,purify!
“Oi, what are you doing! Stop!”
“Meltttt!!”
“This is……salt? Wait, I’m not a slug!”
Why is he here……why is this guy here?!
Unlucky, I’m too unlucky!
“Gay President, please restrain yourself.”
“Stop calling me that! You said to attack, didn’t you?”
“Akira, you okay? Eh……Natsuki?”
I don’t know if he heard the fuss or not, but big brother appeared.
He looked at the person who wasn’t supposed to be here, and frowned.
“Morning, Makoto. I have to tell you something.”
President looked at big brother with a serious face.
Eh, wait a minute, wait!
It looks like you’re going to confess right now though!
If I hear it too, things will get complicated!
Big brother’s not dense either. It feels like he could sense the atmosphere, and he looked like he was on guard.
“W-well then, I’ll be going first!”
It’s too dangerous to stay here.
I left the front door in a hurry to avoid danger.
I stole a glance at big brother. He had a troubled look on his face.
It’s tough for you since the morning, big brother.
Maybe big brother should’ve been the one holding salt instead.
“Ah, Aki. Morning!”
Hina called out to me brightly as I walked out the door.
Seeing the spirited and refreshing appearance made my heart feel at ease.
“Hina……”
“Hm?”
“When I saw you just now, it made me feel safe for some reason……”
“W-what?”
What is this sense of security, or the peaceful atmosphere that’s being created?
It might be from Hina, just thinking that she’s a ‘girl’ heals me.
I grabbed Hina’s shoulders without thinking, and earnestly wished her.
“You, be happy in the future.”
“Eh? W-what’s wrong with you?”
“Mn-mn, Hina should stay as Hina. Grow up and stay like that.”
It felt like I was a grandfather spoiling his first grandchild.
A grandfather wishing that his grandchild grows up healthily.
I’m looking forward to seeing your moment of triumph.
“……Aki should make me happy then.”
“Huh?”
“Nothing! We should quickly go or Mary-san will come soon!!”
“Who’s Mary?”
Hina pushed my back, and when we were about to leave, Kaede appeared.
The golden hair blessed by God shines like an angel’s halo again today. Even the air around him is shiny, it feels divine.
It’s a normal and beautiful Kaede.
Thank you very much, you will be a good meal again today.
“Kaede should be happy too.”
“Huh? What are you saying?”
“Who knows.”
After bowing to them, we left for school.
The day has just started. We haven’t even reached school yet, and I’m already tired.
My footsteps felt heavy, and I was driven by an urge to skip class.
“Ah, Haru-nii.”
On the way, I saw Haru-nii picking up big brother.
It doesn’t seem like he noticed me, as he walked off without giving me a look.
I felt a bad premonition as I looked at his back.
I guess something bad is going to happen……my house is going to be a disaster before I even go to school.
A disaster?……It’s a BL disaster!
It’s an extremely precious scene that you often can’t worship!
I should’ve installed a camera……!
I wandered on whether I should peek or not, but the feeling that I’ll get involved won.
……Let’s not do that.
Still, I wonder if big brother is all right.
※※※
I went to school with painful reluctance, but I was worried about my big brothers, so I’m sitting at my seat while feeling uneasy.
“Did something happen?”
“Hmmmm…”
Kaede stood next to my desk, and peeked at my face.
He seems to be worried about me, but I can’t quite explain the situation to him either.
Homeroom is going to start soon, and the class teacher is probably on the way too.
As I was going to tell Kaede to go back to his own seat, at that moment――
“Amachi Akiraaaa!!”
All of a sudden, I heard a loud voice, and my body jerked.
Suddenly, the door behind the classroom opened with a violent noise, and the red demon was there. He appeared to have more power than usual.
The red demon shouted my name again with his hand on the door, and looked at me.
My classmates’ eyes are going back and forth between me and the red demon.
Some were frightened, while others were excited by the unexpected appearance of the red demon. They were screaming with joy.
Either way, he’s gathering a lot of attention.
Annoying, he’s extremely annoying!
“Listen to me, I declared war!”
“Eh.”
Declaring war means proposing a challenge or showing off your aggressive attitude……
I’m guessing it’s a about this morning’s event. Maybe he’s talking about big brother’s relationship.
I mean…… I don’t want you to don’t talk about it in front of so many people!
This guy really doesn’t have any delicacy!
“I have something to tell you! Come to the student council room again after school. Hahahaha!”
While the red demon was frowning, he said what he wanted to say, and left noisily.
Can someone please teach him what ‘considerate’ means?
Please teach him manners!
“What’s wrong with him……”
“It’s the rare animal called ‘The Student Council President’.”
Kaede who was at the stairs gave a cold look while squinting his eyes.
I think that’s the right reaction.
“Sighh……I’ll have to sprinkle some salt in the classroom too.”
I hastily reached for the small jar filled with salt, and purified myself before the class teacher came.
※※※
After school.
I didn’t want to go, but I was worried about my brother. So I came to the student council room, which was a bad gathering spot, to listen to President’s story.
President seemed unusually cheerful.
As I opened the door, I saw President sitting on a pipe chair in a relaxed pose as if it were a beach chair on a private beach.
“You came, Akira! The day where you’re going to call me ‘big brother’ is close!”
I saw a dazzling smile, which was the opposite of when I met him for the first time.
Normally my chest would be noisy and I’d be thinking ‘The seme’s smile is so dazzling!’, but I’m worried about this morning’s event right now. Not to mention that I have a bad premonition, so I could only give a dry smile.
“I mean, I can call you that anytime, big brother.”
If doing that can help you to give up on big brother, it’s cheap.
Well, but you’re not giving up though!
President froze as our eyes met.
“M-mn. It’s not bad.”
And he’s even embarrassed!
I wonder what’s wrong with this person. Sometimes he just drives me mad.
I felt someone opening the door behind me as I was absentmindedly staring at President’s deredere appearance.
“Oh, Natsuhi! You came too!”
President, who was always an oblivious person, greeted Natsuhi-senpai cheerfully. The latter looked at me expressionlessly.
It’s not like we fought last time, but we parted in a hostile way, so I was on guard.
He looked away from me, who was preparing for battle, closed the door, and leaned on the wall.
He doesn’t seem to be saying anything.
“I don’t know why you’re so happy today, but you should stop, older brother. It’s safer.”
“You really don’t beat around the bush, don’t you? You’re the one who should give up. You can’t stop me now! Hahaha!”
“”……sighh.””
We both sighed at the same time.
He’s done for, he’s seriously ill.
“And? What did you call me here for?”
“Ohh, that’s right! Listen to this morning’s story first. I just confessed to him, like you told me to.
“Ohh!”
I want him to stop, but it’s a BL confession scene…… isn’t that thrilling!
Ahh……I knew I had to record it.
The President who passionately confesses, and big brother who listens.
My chest got hot.
Just the voice, I wanted only the voice at least……
“I requested to be his friend, but he rejected me.”
Natsuhi-senpai’s temples twitched.
“But, whatever. I expected that to happen. I asked Makoto what he thinks of me. He doesn’t think of me as a friend, but he thinks of me as a good person, and that’s it.”
“Hm?”
That……doesn’t that mean you have no hope?
I thinks it’s severe if you’re not aware that you can’t become his boyfriend.
”
”
President is a positive person, so I don’t know if I should swallow my words or not.
“If it’s like that, then I still have hope! Sakurai came afterwards and declared ‘I’ll be taking Makoto’, but I was furious and said ‘Try it!’ The only time that I can be confident is now!”
“!”
Eh……what’s with that……Haru-nii’s so cool!
I wanted to see it……I wanted to see Haru-nii as a handsome man, I wanted to engrave it in my mind.
And then, I wanted to see big brother whose heart was pounding when he saw Haru-nii being cool!
As I thought, the disaster was amazing!
It’s wonderland!
“I have to slowly approach Makoto from now on. Furthermore, I should hang out with him more and I need to know what he likes. And you!”
“Yes?”
I was moved to tears, so I tried to hold it in when President grabbed my shoulders from the front.
It hurts, it really hurts.
“First, I’d like to invite him somewhere, but what is Makoto interested in? Tell me whatever you can think of! Give me information!”
President, who was in front of me, walked past me. And as I was about to turn around in the same direction, he put his hand on my shoulder and held me in place.
No matter how much you look at this scene, it looks like “a plain child who’s getting his money stolen by a bully”.
I hate both this situation and the question that’s being asked.
I unconsciously put on a wry expression.
President didn’t care about me though, continuing to make his plans in a cheerful mood.
“Does that mean that you’re going to invite him for a date?”
“Yeah.”
“That’s……he probably can’t go.”
“Then, how about this? You go out with Makoto. Then you will act like you got lost. I will bump into Makoto at that moment.”
“What am I, a kid!? I can’t do something like that.”
I pushed away the hand that was on my shoulder, and tried to run away.
This guy, he’s strong, shit!
Although I’m desperate, President didn’t even stop, and continued on.
“Then I’ll just go with a present. What do you think is good?”
Even if you say that……I can’t think of one immediately, and cooperating with President feels like I’ll be betraying Haru-nii…I don’t like that.
“I don’t know. More like, please don’t ask me about it.”
The moment I said that, his cheerful expression dropped.
His overpowering mode that I was used to looking at returned.
“Why?”
His hand pressed down, his grip tightening.
It hurts, it doesn’t hurt like how it normally would!
“Stop it. He adores Sakurai Haruki, right? If it’s like that, you don’t want his brother to be Sakurai’s ally, right?”
I guess he couldn’t just keep quiet. Natsuhi-senpai, who had been quietly watching us, helped me out.
Even though he probably hates me, it’s unexpected for him to help me out.
As I looked at Natsuhi-senpai reflexively, our eyes met, but he immediately looked away.
“What do you mean?”
It looks like President didn’t understand by that explanation.
As expected of the self-centered guy.
I wish to listen to Natsuhi-sensei’s commentary on ‘The Human Heart.’
“If he cooperates with older brother, it means that he’s supporting his admired older brother’s love rival……it’s like he’s betraying him.”
After saying that, President made an ‘Ahh’ sound like he finally understood.
“I see. Then, I have to make Akira like me more than Sakurai and take him, right?!”
“”Huuhhhhh??!””
Natsuhi-senpai’s voice overlapped with mine.
Well, that is certainly a way to make me support President……but how did you think of that?!
”
”
“So it’s like a battle. I can’t wait. Well then, Akira, I’ll be immediately taking care of you next Sunday! Hahaha!”
“How did it become like this?! No thanks! I’ll refrain from doing so!”
“Don’t be shy. Well, you’ll see. You will come to like me soon.”
Because his hand was still on my shoulder, I could see a challenging smile on the President’s face.
I froze when I saw his smile.
If the girls sees this, I’ll probably have to call an ambulance.