After My Girlfriend Dumped Me and I Got Fired From My Job, I Was Picked up by a Yandere Blonde High School Girl With Big Breasts - Chapter 64

We Met Again in an Unexpected Place

※ Kaede Perspective

I knew. I already knew.

I knew that Noda-senpai was in love with Ryoma-kun.

And I also knew that Horinochi-san was starting to be drawn to Ryoma-kun too.

I was supposed to know everything. Everything about the girls around Ryoma-kun.

I had marked them thoroughly, observed them carefully, and every girl who looked at Ryoma-kun with a woman’s eyes should have been properly registered in my data.

And yet… and yet.

I didn’t know that Ryoma-kun had an ex-girlfriend.

How could I not know something like that? Isn’t that the most important thing? Why did I only find out so recently? I felt so frustrated. It was the mistake of a lifetime.

It was proven that even though I thought I understood Ryoma-kun completely, I actually understood nothing at all, and that made me feel angry and helpless.

Takai Unma… I remembered her. I had only met her once, but I would never forget that woman’s face.

There was a side of Ryoma-kun that I didn’t know. And that woman knew that side of him. That fact drove me crazy. It made me want to twist my body in agony and suffer.

Because of that frustration, lately my heart had been rough, and I had taken it out on Ryoma-kun too. I regretted it.

I did regret it, but I couldn’t stop this rough feeling myself. I didn’t even know how to stop a heart like this.

I didn’t know… I didn’t know.

Even in such an unstable state, time didn’t wait for me. I still had to do my lessons properly.

There was no option to skip. I could never allow myself to rest because of a woman like that—my beliefs wouldn’t forgive it, I couldn’t bear it.

Today was an important day for my lessons.

The final violin exam. If I passed the final test, I could perform in the violin concert.

It was a special concert that only the chosen few could join. I absolutely had to perform in that concert and bring Ryoma-kun to watch me.

For the final exam, there were about ten judges, and I had to perform in front of them.

The violin school I attended was very prestigious, only for wealthy people, and the judges were all from the upper class.

It was a classroom with a very noble atmosphere where only people of high status gathered.

I was a young lady too, so I was used to this kind of atmosphere. I didn’t feel nervous, no problem. I actually felt way more nervous when I was with Ryoma-kun.

I was the young lady of the Nakajo family. And I was the woman who would become Ryoma-kun’s wife.

I had always been expected to be perfect. Even now, I would perform perfectly, without shaming the name I carried.

“Fuu…”

Carrying the name of the Nakajo family on my back and thinking of Ryoma-kun, I quietly began to play.

—

The performance ended.

I passed the final exam, and my participation in the concert was decided.

As the young lady of the Nakajo family, I absolutely could not fail. I was confident and not nervous, but the pressure had still been huge, so when I saw the result, I let out a relieved sigh and stroked my chest.

Anyway, I passed. Thank goodness.

Right after the exam ended, the pressure was gone, and for the first time in a while, it felt like the cloudiness in my heart cleared up just a little.

Just a little, really. It wasn’t completely clear, but clearing it even bit by bit was important.

For today, I just had to go home. I wanted to go home right now and see Ryoma-kun. I’m coming now, Ryoma-kun.

But before that…

I stopped by the powder room before leaving.

There, I reapplied my lipstick.

I knew. If you watched Ryoma-kun carefully, you could tell—he had a thing for lips.

That’s why, before meeting Ryoma-kun, I always did my lip makeup as carefully as possible. I kept them well-moisturized so my lips would always look soft and glossy in front of him.

I really wanted to rush back to the house where Ryoma-kun was, but I held myself back. This was one thing I could absolutely never skimp on. No rushing—I took my time…

I was carefully applying lipstick in front of the large mirror, taking my time, when—

—…!

I sensed someone coming. This was a powder room, so it wasn’t strange for someone to come in, but my woman’s intuition gave me a bad feeling.

Click-clack, footsteps. Probably high heels.

The door opened with a clack.

One woman entered the powder room.

“…!!!!!!”

…My bad feeling hit the bullseye.

I, who had been looking only at the mirror world, caught the figure of the woman who entered through the reflection.

It was Takai Unma.

I had only seen her once, but the scene from that morning when she suddenly appeared and hugged Ryoma-kun was burned clearly into my mind. What an infuriating sight, but because it was so infuriating, I remembered it vividly.

No mistake—it was Ryoma-kun’s ex-girlfriend, Takai Unma.

I had thought we might meet again someday, but I never expected it to be now.

Right after the exam, when my mood had lightened a bit and I was finally relaxing a little. The timing for our reunion couldn’t have been worse. The mood that had just started to clear was ruined again.

Well, whatever. I had wanted to meet her again anyway. I wanted to meet her and hear everything she had to say in detail. This saved me the trouble of looking for her.

My eyes met Takai Unma’s in the mirror. She was clearly looking at me too, through the mirror.

I had so many things I wanted to ask her, but first I wanted to finish my makeup properly. I was still in the middle of it. There was no way I could stop makeup halfway, no matter what happened—I would prioritize makeup.

—Okay, makeup complete.

I snapped my makeup pouch shut and turned toward Takai Unma.

“Hello.”

I looked her in the eye and greeted her properly.

My father taught me that greeting properly is the most important thing first. As a young lady from a distinguished family, I had to do that properly. Even toward someone I had a grudge against, there was no exception. I greeted her while somehow holding back the fierce emotions boiling up inside me like a volcano.

“…Heh.”

Takai Unma’s only reaction was a small huff of laughter. Then she went to the mirror next to mine, took out her lipstick, and started applying it.

So Takai Unma came to do her makeup too. Well, of course—this place was mainly for women to touch up their makeup.

Even so, that was some red lipstick… really red. Wow, so red. The color was completely different from the lip I usually used. Such a flashy color. A woman who stood out just with her lips.

Maybe for lip-fetish Ryoma-kun, these flashy red lips were irresistible… Should I switch to red lipstick too…?

…No, Ryoma-kun told me, “You’re good just the way you are.”

That was about my hairstyle, but he said the current me was cute! Since he called me cute, I didn’t want to change anything. I wanted to keep making an effort to stay the same as I am now.

I knew that changing your image like Noda-senpai did could be effective at making a boy feel surprised, but I wouldn’t change.

Ryoma-kun also said he “didn’t want me to change.” If that’s what Ryoma-kun said, then I absolutely wouldn’t change. I decided to believe his words, follow them, and never do an image change no matter what.

And above all, I couldn’t stand to copy this woman! My pride wouldn’t allow it!

She’s her, and I’m me!