A Twisted Introvert loner Like Me, Mentally Wrecked One-Sidedly due to Love, Throws Away the Love Letter Sent by the foremost School's Beauty, Leading to an Unwanted Romantic Comedy - Chapter 30: Just like a surprise attack…

Chapter 30: Just like a surprise attack…

“Ah sorry, but I think the twisted side is better after all.”

“Ah, is that so? You prefer this side better after all?”

Katase, who had been walking with a shy demeanor, immediately switched back to being carefree and casual as soon as I spoke, like switching the light button on and off.

[TL: This is scary…]

“It’s actually not about which one is better. It’s just easier to talk to the current Katase.”

“Fu~un… Well, regardless of the reason, in short, Kazari-kun prefers this side of me better, am I right?”

“…Yeah, that would be the case…”

“Then I’ll indulge you. But in return, keep this between us, okay? Don’t tell anyone else.”

“Everyone else? Does that mean including Hiiragi as well? Who doesn’t know about this side of your’s?”

When I mentioned Hiiragi, who was surely an important friend to Katase, she quickened her pace to walk ahead of me and then stopped abruptly facing me. Then, with a graceful flip of her body, she bent forward in a calculatedly exaggerated manner, her eyes looking up at me and her enticing bust fully on display, as if she were out to slay virgins.

“Of course, Yuzuki-chan doesn’t know about it as well, and I won’t tell her about this either. You’re the only special one I’m making this exception for, Kazari-kun.”

“R-Right…”

No, no, this is absolutely bad.

Unable to withstand the overwhelming power of Katase’s body that was being transmitted through my eyes, I inadvertently looked away. It felt like I could boil the tea right from my mouth itself, instead of my stomach.

“Arre? Kazari-kun, your face looks a little red. I wonder what happened to you?”

“I-It’s just your imagination.”

“I see… so it’s just my imagination, heh? ~Fufu.”

Even without looking what expression Katase was making towards me, I knew it already. That’s why I didn’t turn my face towards her. Since she’d definitely get carried away if I did.

““……””

Silence stretched as we continued to gaze into the distance.

It wasn’t the problem about whether I was being watched or not. The problem was rather about being able to convince myself that I was being watched so be careful, which was actually exhausting.

Was my expression going weird? Were my legs or hands trembling? I was getting worried about all sorts of unnecessary things.

Please, I beg you, let’s just start walking already. That’s what I wished for.

“…Speaking of Yuzuki-chan…”

However, she changed the subject while maintaining the current situation.

“W-What about her?”

“Yuzuki-chan confessed to Ryogoku-kun, even you know about that as well right, Kazari-kun? And about what happened after that as well.”

“Well…”

It wouldn’t be strange for Katase to know that Yuzuki had been turned down by Ryogoku.

“Sorry, Hiiragi. I might have said something out of line.”

“Seriously… Darn it, this is why bocchi are so…”

“Nn? Yuzuki-chan, what’s wrong?”

At that time, Katase hadn’t seemed to notice Hiiragi’s obvious attitude. Which means, she hadn’t told about that stuff to Hiiragi’s yet at that point.

Maybe Hiiragi had either told Katase herself to ensure that her most important friend knew, or maybe she had heard it through some rumours going around. Both were possible, but that wasn’t the real problem here.

What makes it astounding, is the possibility of the fact that Katase may have been pretending to be ignorant about Hiiragi’s ploy at that time.

I once suspected that Katase was actually acting to be ignorant and went about it to know if that was so. But… it was… how should I put it? Frankly, it was just a far-fetched excuse to forcefully convince myself that, ‘Katase can’t do an act/trick like that’ as my real inner opinion.

But right now I’m seriously doubting it. There’s even the possibility that she’s seeing through Hiiragi’s plan as well.

Since right now, Katase’s providing me with such information to make me think in that direction.

“It’s amazing, isn’t it? Confessing your feeling to someone you like. Even now, somewhere in the world, someone might be confessing to their crush. It’s such a common occurrence in this world, yet I am still to experience something like that.”

“Is that so?”

“Un… That’s why today—maybe I’ll try experiencing it for the first time in life.”

…………HAAH?

Katase’s suggestive remark made my previous thoughts, that I had been thinking about until now, go blown out of the head immediately.

I slowly, no, fearfully returned my gaze towards her.

“Is it okay? To try experiencing that?”

It wasn’t a calculated pose. With her hands clasped behind her back, she stood up straight, and… with a fragile smile like that of a young girl, to such Katase-san—my eyes met her’s.