Chastity Reversed: Part-Time Life by the All-Girls High School

Could You Meet Me Tonight

“Bieeeeeeeeeeen!!!”

“Sato-saaaaaan!!!”

“I don’t understand anymoooooore!!!”

After that night, I got a message from Rika-san on LUIN. It said, “You want to scream, right?”

And so now, I was at karaoke.

“…My eardrums are about to burst.”

“Haa, haa…”

“Have you calmed down?”

“…”

“Still no, huh?”

“Yes…”

My confession – honestly, I had thought he would reject me. It had been a try-and-break-yourself-against-it situation. I had cried, though…

But the problem came after that. Honestly, my head was still a mess.

In this world, the value of a man’s virginity absolutely did not balance against a woman’s virginity.

And yet… why?

[- “Don’t worry about it. It was just a virgin boy and a virgin girl getting horny together, right?” -]

Why was he the one acting like he was sorry?

Why had he phrased it like he had “taken my virginity” back then?

Everything was normally the “opposite.”

It was not just kindness anymore. It even felt like, from the bottom of his heart, Sato-san truly thought that way. That was exactly why the hazy feeling inside me would not stop.

“…………”

“You went quiet.”

“…Um. Sato-san is a slut, right?”

“He is.”

“Isn’t he different from a slut?”

“What are you talking about?”

I felt a look like she thought I had lost my mind. But – that was how it actually felt.

“It’s true that he does it with lots of people, but…”

“That’s what you’d call a slut, right?”

“I understand that his sense of chastity is low. But something is different.”

“??”

“How do I put it? It’s like he seriously sees the value of his own body, of a man’s body, as lower.”

“Isn’t that what having a low sense of chastity means?”

“…Hmm.”

“Well, he does seem to have a side of him that thinks doing it is some kind of charity work.”

“Yes! That’s it!”

“…So he’s gone beyond the realm of ‘strange,’ huh?”

It did not feel like he was doing it because he wanted to. In fact, when I asked him to help my friend throw hers away, he agreed easily. He responded because the other person wanted him.

I did not understand. The hazy feeling would not disappear.

“Sato-san said something a long time ago.”

“What?”

“‘Because I was a man, and you were a girl.'”

“!”

“Normally, it’s the opposite. But Sato-san was always saying that.”

“The opposite… huh.”

Right.

[- “If it’s an unpleasant ‘first time,’ it’ll drag on afterward too.” -]

[- “I hate that. I really do.” -]

The adult shop. The words he had said there.

[- “Then save it. Use it to treat a man in the future.” -]

At the aquarium too, when I took out my wallet. I really could not believe those were words a high school boy had said to an older woman.

[- “Then I’m the worst too.”

“It was the other person’s first time too.” -]

And most of all, those values of his.

Everything about him was different from “normal.” Everything ordinary men would think was different from him.

Things the world at large would find impossible. Thoughts that would not be understood.

[- “Sometimes he has this incredibly distant look in his eyes. I’m sure he’s carrying all kinds of things. Like a bottomless swamp.” -]

Those would surely make him suffer.

[- “I’m definitely hated by my class.” -]

The gazes from people of the same sex too.

[- “I’m the one at fault. I kept doing things that would make you misunderstand.” -]

The gazes from the opposite sex, like mine too.

[- “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t pry.” -]

And maybe even from his “family.”

“…I’ve decided.”

But if that was his “normal.” If the people around him denied it.

Then what I could do for him was-

“Rika-san.”

“Yeah?”

“Is Sato-san’s contact still connected?”

“Weren’t you going to give up?”

“…I no longer want to have ‘that kind’ of relationship with him.”

“!”

I would throw away common sense too.

“For now… I’m going to a 1,000-yen haircut! And dyeing my hair black!”

“Huh, not a salon?”

“It’s fine now!”

☆

Ring-a-ling, ring-a-ling.

“Welcooome.”

“Welcome!”

The next day.

It was Sunday, and I was working my part-time job from the morning today too. This convenience store was my oasis. If it disappeared, I would disappear with it. Bound by shared fate!

“Manageeer.”

“Wah. Wh-wh-what’s wrong?”

“I just felt like calling you.”

“S-Sato-kun, you can make such a cute voice too, huh?”

Haa, haa.

“It’s fine because it’s me, but saying that to a man is pretty bad.”

The manager, who had been breathing hard, froze in the next instant.

It was fine because there were no customers right now. I was sure this convenience store was much more empty than others on weekends and holidays. As for why – because the public safety around here was bad!

After getting through the morning rush (lol), it had become empty again.

“…Haa.”

At times like this, being busy would have helped. I had taken mental damage, so I wanted work to make me forget it.

Uoooooh, give me labor! Give me labor! Let me work for the rest of my life…

“…”

“Wh-what is it?”

“No. I was just thinking that looking at you heals me, Manager.”

“Eh!?!?!?”

“You’re too surprised.”

“D-did something happen, Sato-kun?”

The manager looked worried. So it was obvious even to other people.

“Yesterday, I turned down a girl.”

“Eh.”

“Is that surprising?”

“…N-no. I was just startled.”

“True, I don’t really talk about that sort of thing.”

“Yeah. But you seem like you’d be popular, Sato-kun, so it’s not surprising.”

She said that.

Uoooooh, I’m super happy. …Ahem, not good.

“Thank you. But that was the first time anyone confessed to me.”

“I-is that so?”

Ah, confessions “during the act” did not count. Things like “I love you” or “I’ll take responsibility” were mostly words that came out in the heat of the moment. Pleasure made people’s heads go all loose.

“Yes. She was a good person, someone who was too good for me.”

“…I see.”

“…”

“Ahh. Sorry for bringing up something so hard to react to.”

“It’s fine, it’s fine! We’re free anyway!”

Hmm. Manager really was a good person. Seriously, the men of the world had no eye for quality-

Ring ring ring.

“…I’ve been getting a lot of calls lately…”

“Ah, you can go answer it!”

“Sorry.”

I lowered my head and headed to the locker.

Well, Yuuka was already blocked on LUIN. It probably was not her-

“Hello, is this Sato-san?”

– Or so I thought.

You really should not raise flags. Though the moment I got a call from “Rika,” I should have figured it out. And I was probably an idiot for answering.

“Could you meet me tonight?”

From the receiver, her voice was more serious than ever.

I gave only one word in reply, then hung up.