Chapter 18

Chapter 18

“Good morning, Cecile-san~”

As soon as I opened the door this morning, the cheerful, smiling face of a tiny animal like girl greeted me…… Or should I say a detestable sex offender appeared in front of me, first thing in the morning.

Bang!

Locks.

Before I can even think, my body had moved on its own, slamming and locking the door in her face. Thank goodness the academy thought to install locks in the dorms.

From the other side of the door, I hear Leila knock very politely.

“Sorry about yesterday. I had been rather upset and I somehow ended up being a bit rude to you.”

“Not another word, you molesting pervert. Did you think you could fool me with just that?”

“Of course not! I only wanted to apologize to you…..”

“No need for apologies. Just stay at least 5 meters away from me at all times.”

Despite there being a door between us, I can still hear a prominent tch from outside.

“So f*ckin’ sensitive. I just touched your legs a bit.”

It seems she’s finally given up on her charade. She should just give on life while she’s at it.

“I’m still a pure maiden you know! Just touching my legs? That’s enough for capital punishment! You enemy of all women!”

“Isn’t it embarrassing to call yourself a maiden?”

“Just go find yourself a bad end!”

If possible, Alec’s would be good. I can’t let Ashley be forced to deal with this outrageous girl. Plus Gray-Senpai already has zero intention of forming a relationship with this perv. And now that Lufrey’s route has been crushed as well, that only leaves us with two options. Rudolph’s route is still a possibility, but his bad end just results in isolation! So for Leila who’s already friendless, that would hardly even be a punishment.

So Alec’s route is the only one left. Go run along and fall prey to his violent ending.

“Haa? What’s ‘bad end’ supposed to mean?”

“Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand. So just mind your own business and get out of here.”

“Even though I came all the way here just to see you? You’re so cruel, Cecile-san!”

“You trying to be cute will no longer work on me.”

The girl’s dorm, and probably the boy’s dorm as well, are split up into two sections: east and west.

I have the room on the very farthest edge of the western side. According to my investigations, Leila happens to have the opposite one on the eastern side. Plus, I’m on the second floor while her room is on the first. Our rooms are literally as far away from each other as physically possible so there can be no mistaking that she came to find me on purpose. What could have driven her to come all the over here?

“I have nothing against yuri, but for that you need to have an element of cuteness that you severely lack.”

“So you wanted cuteness, huh? Well it can’t be helped if I don’t have it, since I was originally a guy.”

“Right….. So you’re trying to tell me that you were born in the wrong body?”

My preferences lean towards pure yuri and unadulterated boys’ love…. I don’t have anything against the types of stories where a guy ends up in a girl’s body or vice versa but they definitely aren’t my thing.

“That’s not what I mean. Back in Japan, I was born and registered as an actual man…. Not that you’d understand what I’m talking about.”

Oh, so she’s saying that before she was born here, she was a man….. In Japan……

Wait…. Japan?

“What did you just say?”

“It has nothing to do with you. Just forget about it. Open this door and let’s screw.”

“Go die.”

She really did come here with ulterior motives.

Wait, wait, wait. But before that!

“You…. where are you from? Where in Japan?”

“Haa? From Chiba….. But who cares? You don’t even know what that means.”

It’s here! I can finally see it!! This pervert does have a scrap of value after all.

“But you know…. If you don’t leave soon, aren’t you going to be late? So why don’tcha open the door?”

Once I open it, she’ll only force her way in here I’m sure.

So what should I do? What is the right way of handling this?

I could just stay here in safety but…. I know Ashley is waiting for me at the front gate and I want to tell Gray-Senpai about this new development as soon as possible…

“Okay, Leila Morton. Feel free to grope my chest or touch my legs this time.”

But.

“Only if you can catch me.”

I open the door as quickly as I can, forcing my way past her in a mad dash down the hallway. As long as I can make it to where Ashley is waiting, Leila probably won’t recklessly try to lay her hands on me.

“Fine with me!” Leila cries, chasing after me at an amazing speed. I had thought this yesterday too, but that girl can run way too fast!

“Once I’ve caught you, I’ll have you go all the way with me!”

“I don’t want to hear about where we’ll be going, so don’t finish that thought!”

“Let’s wash each other’s backs! What do you say, Cecile-san?”

“Ahh, don’t talk as if you are adding a heart to the end of your sentences!”

“How many children do you want?”

“Stop asking such suggestive sounding questions!”

Raising quite a racket, I finally manage to make it out of the dorm. Just a few more steps and I’ll make it to the gate! But it was that moment…

“Oh my, too bad.”

That an arm encircled my waist.

This has to be a lie…… I was just about to reach the gate…..!

“Let’s ditch class today and have a nice, slow time together, ya?”

“Le– Le— Let go of me!”

“Didn’t you say I could do whatever I wanted once I caught you?”

I never said that anything was fine…..

“I! Would much rather just hear about this stuff!”

“Ey, we’re both girls here. It’s not like you have anything to lose.”

“I do! I’ll lose practically everything that matters!”

Like my morals, pride, self-respect, and other fine qualities that any normal human being shouldn’t have to do without!

“Stop making a ruckus, Ojousama, and let’s head to class,” Ashley says, decisively grabbing Leila’s arm and flinging it off of me before he grabs my hand and pulls me towards him.

“Ashley! You came for me!”

“With my master causing quite the commotion by the front gate, of course I couldn’t just ignore it.”

Not willing to let go of her chance, Leila demands, “Cecile-san! This isn’t what you promised me!”

In front of other people, I guess she still likes to feign innocence…. Though since Lufrey already knows her true nature, I guess she doesn’t bother in front of him anymore.

“I’m rescinding that offer.”

“That’s playing dirty!”

“Are you sure? Miss Morton? That you want to take that tone in present company?”

“Ugh…. Grr….”

Most likely having sensed what happened, Ashley positions himself between me and Leila, making sure to stay there the whole time as he escorts me to the school building.

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I may have had quite the frazzling morning, with my plans going a tad awry, but once I had made it to school, my movements were downright majestic.

During one of our short breaks I made sure that I was wandering in the hall where the third year classrooms are. I skillfully managed to bump into Gray-Senpai as well, awarding me the perfect chance to hand him a slip of paper, saying, “Kaichou, you seemed to have dropped this?”

On the paper, I had written the words, “Lunch break, our usual classroom” in Japanese before giving it to him.

During another of our short breaks, I was also able to find Ashley and tell him that “A teacher had asked to speak with me during lunch break today,” and that he shouldn’t wait for me to eat with him.

And then it was finally our lunch break.

“Is Miss Morton present?” I ask, giggling girlishly, standing in the doorway of Leila’s classroom.

Across the room I see a group of boys huddled together give a little cheer as they glance towards the window where Leila is standing. She bends her arm, raising her fist just a bit in a victory pose, acknowledging them, before she starts walking in my direction. Those guys all seem to have a thing for yuri, so I can understand their joy.

“What can I do for you? Cecile-san?” Leila asks, her charade of cute innocence firmly in place.

“Suddenly find yourself wanting to be eaten?” she then murmers to me suggestively, seemingly unaware of my sudden and strong urge to slap her across the face. To remove that temptation, I clench my fists rigidly at my sides.

Lufrey, who had been watching our exchange, gives me a sympathetic look, but realizing my rising desire for violence he quickly puts his hands up in supplication. Where I come from, that sort of pose is only used to pray for dead people though? Please don’t kill me off so easily!

“Shall we go have some fun? Miss Morton?”

This time it’ll be my idea of fun though.

Leila’s eyes widen in surprise hearing this, but she keeps hold of her innocent smile and says, “I’m not quite sure what you mean, but okay.”

And then, just loud enough that only I can hear it, “Did that part of you get aroused?”

“Maybe,” I say, hoping that by agreeing, she might stop talking for a bit.

I lead her through heavily populated hallways, since even Leila probably wouldn’t try to attack me in a public space. But once we had reached the hallway with the empty classroom in it, there was not a single person in sight, and I knew I had her.

“Well now, there’s nobody around. Maybe you really were hoping that I’d attack you? If that’s so, I’ll happily take you up on it.”

“It’s true. I want to have some fun with you. At the moment, you’re the only one who can help me enjoy myself to the fullest.”

I open the door to the empty classroom and guide Leila into it. Completely unsuspecting, Leila struts into the room, humming a tune, pitifully unaware that she is being tricked.

“Please restrain her,” I say, coming into the room and closing the door behind me.

“Huh?”

The moment I finish talking, the room is suddenly engulfed in light as the magic starts to take hold.

When I see the rope I had stashed in the room earlier start flying toward Leila, a peaceful smile begins to bloom on my face.

“Okay! Caught you!” I say, after the rope had wound around her again and again, effectively wrapping her up like a burrito. Seeing Leila so easily subdued, I take in a big breath, relaxing a bit in satisfaction.

“Haa!? What’s going on!?”

When we don’t say anything, she starts to struggle and wriggle, trying to escape from her bonds to no avail.

Nice, Senpai! To be able to set up such beautiful restraints at just a moment’s notice…. As one would expect from the Student Council President.

And this was without any sort of prior communication on my part.

I had sent him here ahead of time so that when I brought Leila in, he could prevent her from escaping, and it worked like a charm. As the light from the spell dims, Gray-Senpai finally gets a good look at just who he had captured, and immediately his face goes pale.

“Hey! Why’d you bring this dangerous thing here!? Are you trying to raise my death flag!?”

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“Now, now, please just calm down.”

I have various things I should probably explain to him…. But first!

“Ahahahahahahaha! Don’t you look rather unsightly, Leila Morton? I wonder if this is bliss!? I’ll let you choose! Just how shall I disgrace you?　You must know, there’s no escape for you now! You poor thing~ From now on, just how much should I torment you I wonder? Ahahahahahahaha!”

See? I told you. That this would be fun for me. Laughing down on this pervert from high! It’s too late now for her to regret what she’s done!

“You’re making quite an ugly face, you know,” Gray-Senpai says, placing his hand on my shoulder and looking slightly disturbed. And he’s probably right. The way I’m acting right now is actually quite similar to how the Cecile from the game would act.

“Gray-Senpai, this guy said he’s from Chiba Prefecture.”

“……He said?” Gray-Senpai asks me, looking at Leila with suspicion written all over his face.

“She was most likely a boy originally. I’m guessing he was probably a sex offender in his previous life.”

With a thump, Senpai drops to his knees on the floor.

“D*mn it…..! Me too!”

“Please don’t tell me that you also wish you would have been born as a woman after reincarnating. You couldn’t possibly have some sort of wild delusion that if you were a girl, just by staring at yourself in the mirror all day, you’d be in heaven, right?”

“………”

Did that hit the mark…?

Realizing we had left Leila in the dark during this whole conversation, I turn to her and raise my hand in a mock wave as I re-introduce myself.

“I’m Cecile Alldington, formerly from Kanagawa. I died at 17, which has founded my lifelong hatred for motorbikes.”

“Gray Randolph. Born and raised in Hokkaido. I died at 18, just before I was about to graduate.”

I could almost see the light bulb going off in her head when Leila finally realized what was going on.

“No way! Seriously!? This is the first time I’ve met someone else like me!”

Senpai and I share a glance of understanding, remembering our amazement when we had first found each other.

“For me, I was on my way to school one day when all the sudden my heart started hurting…. And then the next thing I knew, I was waking up as a baby! And it turns out I was a girl! …..And I was in this world that wasn’t Japan, where you can use magic, but I had zero clue what was going on…. I was anxious and scared….”

I understand. I really do. In my case, I had already grown up a bit, so when I remembered my past, it came to me in supplementary fragments, instead of forming my whole world. It was a bit scary, but I’ve often thought about how much worse it would have been had I woken up as a baby, with no idea of what was going on.

“So that’s why I decided to live my own way from now on and just have fun! I figured since I’m a girl now too, I’ll be forgiven no matter what I do? Since I managed to be born a girl, I just gotta use it to my advantage, ya know!?

I really can’t stand this kid. I wish she would stop saying such awful things just when I’m about to feel sorry for her.

“Aw man, with Sarah things were great since I come from a good family, ya know? So I thought she’d let me do this and that to her without fighting back too much but… F*ck, all those ikemen out there should just die. Like that guy, Lufrey! He just had to get in my way when things were getting good. Oh, and then I heard that Cecile Alldington was interested in me, so I figured that she would let me do stuff to her at least but no…!”

“You have quite the nerve to be spouting such nonsense in your current position.”

Is that really the sort of thing you should be complaining about in front of the person in question? And I can’t believe I actually thought even for a second this sleazebag was capable of having genuine feelings for Sarah.

“Hey, how old are you actually? You sound like some middle aged man trying to live out the fantasies of his youth….” Gray-Senpai asks, perplexed by Leila’s immaturity.

“I was also going to graduate soon when I died.”

“We’re the same age!?”

“Nah, I wasn’t in high school.”

Wait, then….

” “You’re a middle schooler!?” ” Senpai and I cry in unison.

Just what were his parents teaching him that he turned out like this!? And since when were middle school boys this sort of offensive existence??

“I would’ve been a middle schooler in a few more days…”

” “A grade schooler!?” “

That makes this even worse! Where the heck were your parents!? To raise an elementary school brat to be such a pervert!?

Though, I guess 16 years have already passed since then, so his true age should be pretty similar to us…. I guess that means I can’t really think of him as a child anymore….

“You are literal human trash but…. When I think about you dying at such a young age, I guess I do feel a bit bad for you….”

“Yeah, even if you are a scumbag….”

Even if you add it all up, he’s still just barely over 20, but he is in the same year as me in school so it would definitely be weird to treat him like a child.

“Plus, when I think about how his fate is most likely to be imprisoned, shackled, isolated, violated, or to be forced into a lover’s suicide, I guess I can muster up a bit more sympathy for him. I can’t really see him capturing any of the love interests properly, so it’s practically inevitable.”

“When you think about it that way, his future does seem like pure hell. For a guy to be locked up, chained, monopolized, tortured, or forced to commit double suicide by another guy is disgusting. If it was me, I might die just from the shock of it all.”

“Really? It sounds good to me though. I personally ship Gray-Senpai and Alec together. And as for who’s top and who’s bottom, it would have to be–“

“No! Don’t say it! I don’t want to know….”

Leila smiles bitterly as her eyes start to spin from trying to keep up with our conversation.

“Huh? What? A guy is going to….. what?”

“Hm? Don’t you know what sort of world we’re living in? And that you are the main character of this world?”

“Main character…..?”

It seems he has no idea. About anything.

Not that this is an otome game that is rampant with yanderes. Not that Leila is the main character of that game. Not that I’m the main rival character, nor that Senpai is one of the capture targets. Nor about the still unknown hidden character that has most likely appeared in the form of Rona Randolph.

As I explain all of this to him, before my eyes, Leila’s face visibly pales, which is quite satisfying to watch.

“There’s no way I want to be chased by a man!”

“Well, too bad. That was the fate you were born with.”

“That’s not the sort of thing that I want to hear right now!”

I mean, I’m not exactly thrilled with having been born the rival character either, thank you very much. You’re not the only one who wants to cry about their fate!

“But you know…. It’s pretty convenient that you turned out to be someone who reincarnated.”

“And why the hell is that!?”

“Because! When it’s time for you to make choices during the game, as long as I guide you down the right path, everything will work out well, right? I can make sure that you take the safest possible route. We’re so lucky to have the main character on our side!”

“What!? Why does it sound like I’m going to have to interact with a bunch of dangerous guys!? And what? Flattering men? Flirting with men? No thanks!”

Did he already realize that he’s free to make his own choices, regardless of what I tell him to do? Well, no matter.

“The thing is? Leila. Do you really understand what sort of situation you are in right now? If you don’t listen to me, I’m afraid I won’t be able to untie you. I’ll leave you locked up in this room, you know?”

I did ask her how she wanted to be disgraced, did I not? This is retribution for the wounds she inflicted on my pure, gentle heart yesterday.

“So, what will you do? I could untie you tomorrow but…. That will be after a whole night without food or water…. And….”

A giggle escapes from between my lips before I can even finish my thought.

“You won’t be able to use the bathroom at all, you know?”

“Wow, gross.”

“Without that chest you wouldn’t even be considered a woman! You’re disgusting!”

“Oh, shut up.”

Hey, I’m angry enough that I actually want to beat him up, but I’m settling with just this measly little threat… So I’d appreciate it if you didn’t start treating me like a villain over something like this.

“Well? What are you going to do? Are you willing to cooperate with us? Or are you going to stay here and put on a rather disgraceful show come tomorrow morning?”