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Chapter 28: A Social Outcast Becoming Popular? Impossible

“T-Things have really taken a turn…”

Several minutes later, as I finally reached the vicinity of Tsukishima High School, I couldn’t help but let out a sigh of admiration.

Adults wearing television station armbands and those shouldering large video cameras were among the countless reporters waiting in front of the school gate.

“Things have really taken a turn, you say… As if it’s someone else’s problem.”

Shiozaki, walking beside me, replied with a slight sigh.

“All of this is because of you, Kirishima-kun. Everyone is here looking for you.”

“Huh…? Why?”

“Why? Haven’t you seen the news? Kirishima-kun, you’re incredibly popular right now.”

Popular? I was aware that I had been featured in news articles, but I’m just an ordinary high school student.

Until recently, I was known as the biggest social outcast in the school. The idea that I could become popular was absolutely impossible.

“But this is a problem, Shion-san. We can’t get into the school like this.”

“You’re right. In that case… shall we enter through the ‘secret back door’?”

By the way, the reason I call her by her first name, Shion, is because she herself had requested it.

I felt like something similar had happened recently— but when I tried to refuse, she would make a truly sad face.

So I resigned myself to calling her Shion, and she seemed incredibly happy about it.

I have no idea what makes her so happy, but it’s a hundred times better than making her sad, so I’ve decided to call her by her first name.

“Ah… it seems safe here. As expected, there are no reporters.”

What we reached was an entrance in the school known as the “secret backdoor.”

To get in, you have to slip through the gaps between trees, so leaves end up sticking to your uniform. Students who are running late, or those who find it too much trouble to go all the way to the main gate, sometimes use this route.

Reporters would have no way of knowing about this path, so of course, no one was waiting there.

Thanks to that, it looked like I could go to school without any problems.

“By the way, Kirishima. You said earlier that we can’t start dating immediately, right?”

“Y-Yeah. That felt a bit abrupt…”

“In that case, how about we get intimate right here and now?”

“No-no, isn’t that even more abrupt!?”

I really don’t understand her. Between suddenly insisting that I call her by her first name and what she just said… she seems a bit off.

She’s cute, no doubt, but her personality seems somewhat disappointing… Not that I’m one to talk.

“Hmm~. You really are a saint, huh? Other guys approach me just for my looks, but you’re different from ordinary guys, and that’s what makes you great. I feel like you’re my first love.”

“Sorry, I couldn’t quite catch that.”

“Fufu, it’s fine. Anyway, my goal is to have you touch my breasts.”

“I really don’t understand what you mean…”

“Let me appeal to you now; they’re F-cup and so soft that even I’m smitten.”

“I didn’t ask!”

I feel embarrassed for even imagining it.

While engaging in this pointless back-and-forth, the time for morning homeroom arrived.

We exchanged contact information and returned to our respective classes.

★

As one would expect, the atmosphere at school was different than usual.

Even though it was time for homeroom, our teacher was nowhere to be found. The class representative went to check the staff room, but all the teachers were busy with phone calls and couldn’t be interrupted.

That wasn’t the only oddity. Goyama, who usually struts around the classroom, and his entourage—none of them had shown up yet.

According to students who had arrived at school early in the morning, all of them had been called to the principal’s office.

Goyama is usually as noisy as a gorilla, but at that time, his face apparently looked drained— and he still hasn’t returned.

Could this have something to do with what happened yesterday?

“Second year, Class-3 student, Tsukushi Kirishima. Second year, Class-3 student, Tsukushi Kirishima. Please come to the staff room.”

Just as I was pondering these developments, an announcement like that suddenly came over the school’s PA system.