All the Heroines Who Showed Their Overwhelming Emotions on Me Have Mentally Broken Down and Gone Insane, so Now My Only Choice Is to Pamper Them Endlessly to Avoid Total Chaos — Sweets Work Best on Lovesick Heroines - Chapter 2.1: Double Stalker by an S-Class Beauty and a Senior Young Lady

Chapter 2.1: Double Stalker by an S-Class Beauty and a Senior Young Lady

Let me start with the conclusion. Raimu Tendo was strange.

It had been truly awful back in our first year.

We reunited at the entrance ceremony, and for some inexplicable reason, we ended up in the same class.

At first, I was thrilled.

To be in the same class as Raimu Tendo of all people. And she seemed to view me quite favorably. Back then, I had no doubt that a rose-colored youth awaited me in my high school life.

How naive I had been. Incredibly naive.

“–Kaname Aotori, let’s go to school together!”

She ambushed me every morning like clockwork.

I had no idea how she had looked up my address, but the very next day after the entrance ceremony, she was standing in front of my house.

“–Kaname, want to eat lunch together? I made a bento just for you!”

I had my sister’s bento, so I did not need it.

When I turned her down like that, she burst into loud sobs right in the middle of the classroom.

The stares from my classmates stung.

“–Don’t touch Kaname with your filthy hands!”

That happened when I was talking to a female classmate.

It was just a routine update about class duties, yet Raimu barreled right into the girl.

“Only I get to touch Kaname!”

For the record, I did not think the girl had even touched me.

When Raimu threatened her, the girl paled and backed away.

After that, none of the girls in class came near me anymore.

“–Redo the groups!”

That was during group work.

Pairs were decided by seating order, so Kaname and Raimu should have been in different groups.

But Raimu would not tolerate that.

“I don’t want to if I’m not with Kaname! I absolutely hate seeing him talk to other girls! Redo it!”

She pounded on her desk, disrupting the entire lesson.

The teacher gave up and made an exception to pair me with Raimu.

And that was how the rumor “Kaname Aotori is always next to Raimu Tendo” took hold.

By the time summer break started, I had earned titles like “Raimu’s boyfriend (completely unfounded),” “Poor guy,” and “Crazy girl magnet.”

I did not want to recall anything more about what had happened that year.

–And now.

It was the new semester of our second year in high school. The calendar showed early April.

The moment the lunch chime rang, I bolted from the classroom.

Of course, I left my smartphone in my desk. If I did not, the location-sharing app she had forced me to install would give away my position.

This year, I had managed to get into a different class from Raimu, but I knew she would come flying over during lunch. My only option was to evacuate before we ran into each other.

I arrived at the back of the special building. It was behind the structure that housed the music room and art room, a spot where students rarely ventured. Raimu would not bother me here.

I sat down on a convenient step.

I opened my only possession, my bento bag.

Inside were a thermos and a bento box.

It was mostly frozen food, but the tamagoyaki was handmade by my sister.

“Itadakimasu.”

I picked up a piece of tamagoyaki with my chopsticks.

At that instant, a figure appeared right in front of me.

“Good day, Kaname.”

An elegant smile and cool eyes.

Her semi-long straight hair swayed in the breeze.

I doubted my eyes.

But there was no mistaking it; it was Yami Ayakura-senpai.

“What are you doing here…?”

Yami Ayakura. She had been famous around school as the former student council president, a beautiful woman whose refined demeanor had not changed.

She wore a blazer and a knee-length skirt, the school’s uniform.

“I am always by your side, Kaname.”

“No, spare me the lofty lines. What I am asking is why a senior who should have graduated last year is still at this school.”

It was trespassing.

Well, this was someone who might pull it off. She probably would not get caught in uniform.

I had no idea if she had gone on to university or gotten a job, but maybe today was her day off.

“I repeated a year.”

“Huh?”

“I repeated a year. So I could spend one more year with you, Kaname.”

“…What?”

My brain refused to process it.

“Sorry. That was a lie.”

“Oh, yeah… I figured.”

“I plan to repeat again this year, so it was a mistake; it will be two years. Next year, we will be classmates.”

I was speechless.

After a brief pause, I said,

“Are you okay in the head?”

“Of course not. My head feels like it is about to short-circuit from all this love for you, Kaname.”

Had it not already short-circuited…?

“–Ah! There you are!”

My shoulders jerked up at the sudden, all-too-familiar voice.

A woman with flawlessly sculpted features emerged from behind the special building, as if by divine intervention.

Her long hair was tied up in a half-up style.

Big eyes under defined lids and thin lips.

It was Raimu.

How had she found my location…?

My smartphone was in the classroom.

“Yami-senpai!? Why are you at school!?”

“Oh. What a nuisance of a woman.”

You were the one to talk.

“Seriously, this is ruining our precious rendezvous…”

“Don’t you dare lay a hand on my Kaname!”

“My Kaname.”