After defeating the demon king in another world and returning to Japan, a dungeon appeared on the ground.

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Chapter 72

“Ando-kun… I wonder who is that girl sitting next to you?”

“Uh, well, that person is…”

“Perhaps, your girlfriend?”

“No! It’s not like that at all!”

Moreover, why do I sound like I was making excuses?

Arimura’s tone was so intimidating that I couldn’t help but instead go backfoot and start justifying myself.

“Then what is it? Sharing a meal so intimately during lunch break and all… doesn’t look like just friends to me,”

Saying that she stepped even closer, still glaring at me.

“No, we’re not even friends to begin with. This girl here is Yotsui, she just transferred into my class today…”

“Yotsui…?”

In about time, Arimura came right in front and stood looking down on me.

“Ah, yes… There were some rumors about the daughter of some big group coming to our school today… So, this is the girl in question?”

“This girl…?”

Hey, Arimura. Do you even realize that you’re making an enemy of someone you really shouldn’t be, right?

“Say, Ando-san, who is this unpleasant person?”

Yotsui on the other hand, tugging at my sleeve were fanning the flames as well.

“T-This is Arimura… S-She’s known as the most beautiful girl here in this school…”

When I introduced Arimura, she put her fingers on her cheek.

“Ara~, how lovely. Ando-kun, so you thought like that about me~, as the cutest girl in this school?”

“Nope, it’s not my opinion… that’s just what people say…”

Arimura didn’t even seem to care about my clarification. She just smirked, clearly pleased with that introduction.

Meanwhile, Yotsui looked up and down towards Arimura, assessing her with a dissatisfied expression.

“Fuu~un… So this is what the best this school has to offer? The standards of this school here are quite low indeed.”

“Wha–!?”

“Ah…?”

Yotsui’s provocative comment caused Arimura to respond with an unusually low voice.

“Heh, ‘this’ right? That’s the first time I’ve been called like that, Yotsui-san. I might be just overthinking here, but don’t tell me you are in a delusion, thinking that you’re more beautiful than me now, are you?”

“Delusion? It’s the truth. Someone as vulgar as you could never surpass my noble charm.”

“Haah… Yotsui-san, it seems your eyes are just hollow huh. Keep deluding yourself like that all you want.”

“It’s not delusional. I am objectively more attractive than you. That’s just facts.”

“And how can you be so sure about it?”

“Right back at you, how can you say so surely that you’re more beautiful than I am?”

“……”

The two glared at each other silently, an intense hostility filled the air.

…Wait, aren’t these two meeting for the first time? Why are they already so hostile towards each other?

“H-Hey, you two, let’s just keep it at that…”

“Ah, welp, okay I guess.”

“Yeah.”

With which, Arimura suddenly clapped her hands together.

“Eh?”

“Instead of this pointlessly arguing about this, there’s an even simpler way to settle this.”

“And that is?”

Yotsui asked, urging her to continue.

Arimura continued with a smirk.

“There’s no point in continuously praising oneself subjectively. Cute, or not cute. Standard of beauty like this should always be determined by someone else, a third party at that.”

“Ah, I see now. So that’s what you mean,” Yotsui nodded, understanding what she meant.

“And the only third party here is… Ando-kun. You.”

“Eh?”

Both girls turned to me simultaneously.

“Now, Ando-kun. Me or Yotsui kun, which one of us is cuter? You decide.”

“Say, Ando-san, it’s obviously me, right? You’ll choose me, with my dignity, over this girl, won’t you, right?”

“Ehhhh!?”

Both of them moved closer, forcing me to step back.

No, rather what the heck is this?

What the heck is with this situation even!?

They want me to choose who I think is cuter out of them?

“Come on, hurry up.”