After rebirth, I confessed to the losing heroine - Chapter 14- Compensation?

“Why do you think, I would ignore you? Don’t give yourself so much importance, Takeda Hiroto.”

An anxious Miyuki is a fake Miyuki. When she doesn’t know how to react to a certain situation, she adapts her usual cold and indifferent facade to tackle her opponent.

And currently, she couldn’t have been any more thankful for such a trait.

Hiroto raised his brows at that before he got up from the seat.

Miyuki stiffened upon finding him this close, but she didn’t react to it and kept her demeanor unchanged.

Hiroto remained silent for a moment, looking down into her eyes with amusement blended in his gaze as he whispered,

“I know you are trying to escape from me since you don’t have any answer to my confession. And as your well-wishers, I won’t like to see you in trouble. So…” Ejecting himself from the seat, Hiroto gestured toward it, before finishing his sentence, “…here you go. I would take the farthest row to not disturb you.”

Miyuki blinked in silence as she saw Hiroto making his way away.

She was…astounded by how well he read her mind and showed such gentlemanly consideration. She was touched by his behavior to give her time and space to sort her thoughts out and didn’t force her to answer.

Taking the seat he offered, Miyuki felt the lingering warmth he left behind…making her face adapt to the heat as well.

‘Why am I noticing such trivial things all of a sudden…’ Hooking her bag to the side of the desk, her gaze suddenly traveled toward the other end of the classroom where a group of students was chatting.

And the whole group was centered around a single boy: Hiroto.

Unlike Miyuki, he is a very social and good-natured person, with whom everyone likes to associate. Miyuki never noticed it before, but now that she looked at him closely, Hiroto was quite popular in class.

‘Hmm?!’ Suddenly her eyes narrowed when Hiroto pulled the hairpin of the girl sitting just in front of him….and the girl allowed him to do that.

‘…’ Under Miyuki’s blank gaze, Hiroto collected the girl’s hair and tied it in a bun before clipping the hairpin back in place.

Even though they seemed so casual about it, the action was quite intimate, from any angle Miyuki looked at it.

‘…then why did he say that he loves me?’ Miyuki herself didn’t know, what kind of scary look she was making at the moment, as her eyes remained trained on Hiroto.

All of a sudden, he took out his phone, and the next moment her phone buzzed.

Taking it out, Miyuki found that it was a message from none other,

Hiroto :[I can do it for you as well 🙂 ]

Her mood worsened reading that, as her finger automatically began to type out a response.

Me: [Do you think I care about whom you get close to? I don’t need your or anyone’s assistance to arrange my hair so go and-]

‘…why do I need to reply?’ The realization struck the girl hard before she deleted the message and after tapping on the three dots, she blocked Hiroto.

As she thought, she shouldn’t get involved with such a…womanizer.

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On the other side, Hiroto smirked at the sudden disappearance of Miyuki’s timeline and her display picture. He very well judged that she was looking in their direction, that’s why he texted her in the first place.

‘Haah…how adorable can you be, Miyuki.’

****

Hours went by and it was already lunch break.

Miyuki remained undisturbed for the initial four periods, engrossed in her studies and answering the questions, the teachers asked. She was one of the top-ranking students and she made sure that she retained her position.

She strives to be perfect and school was her primary step to the path of success.

“Miyuki-san.” While she putting her books back in the bag, Miyuki heard someone calling for her before the silver head lifted her lids and looked at the person.

It was the class representative—Hanzo Aika.

“Hirakawa-sensei is looking for you.” Saying such, the girl walked away in a hurry.

Miyuki frowned her brows slightly hearing that the school nurse was looking for her, all of a sudden. However, being a responsible student, it was her duty to report as soon as she could.

Deciding to have lunch afterward, Miyuki got up from her seat and walked out of the classroom.

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It was not an unusual thing for the lobby to be busy during the lunch hour, however, since Miyuki barely left the class before departure, she wasn’t too used to the crowd.

Not to talk about…

“Hey, hey…isn’t she…”

“Gosh…even her lashes are silvery~ I just want to touch her skin even once…”

“You think she would reject me if I asked her to step on me?”

…these kinds of whispers just never end whenever she walks in crowded places. Her classmates fortunately have stopped approaching her with such intent but those underclassmen…she just doesn’t know what goes in the minds of young teenagers.

Ignoring everyone she was about to turn toward the staircase and walk downstairs when suddenly someone held her by the forearm and pulled her toward the stairs leading to the rooftop.

Miyuki panicked before she somehow snatched her arm away from the guy.

“Who are you?! Don’t you have any manners to-” However, soon her voice died down when she realized the person who had pulled her.

“I just wanted to ask you something.” Hiroto turned to look at her with his hand tucked inside his pockets, casually.

Suddenly, his eyes went toward the two boys who were also walking upstairs with (fake) concern written over their faces.

Hiroto narrowed his eyes at them, instantly pausing the two in their track and turning around to mind their business.

This upperclassman was too scary to approach—they simultaneously thought.

Miyuki, who missed this small wordless altercation, remained silent for a bit, seemingly already aware of what Hiroto was talking about here.

Previously, before the homeroom, she thought she would outrightly reject him, given how comfortable he seemed around other girls…but now, she thought she should give him a proper answer.

“Takeda-kun…I don’t thin-”

“Uh-huh. I am not asking for a reply to my confession since I know you won’t accept it. And trust me, that would make me too disheartened.”

Miyuki raised her brows in surprise as she asked not so long after, “Then what did you want to ask me?”

Hearing her query, a grin spread his lips as Hiroto responded in a matter-of-fact tone,

“Well, of course, I am asking for compensation for saving you~”

“…”

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