Chastity Reversed: Part-Time Life by the All-Girls High School - Chapter 92: Take me with you 2

Take me with you 2

Ever since he became the person he was “now,” I had thought he was a boy I simply couldn’t read.

He had become friends with every girl in class, and during lunch break he just played around nonstop.

Because it was me, I could tell: he had absolutely no ulterior motives.

Even so, he wasn’t stupid.

I vaguely understood that he watched the people around him carefully and thought about all sorts of things.

《–“Well, that’s how it is.”–》

《–“How is what!?”–》

In the end, lunch break ended without him explaining anything in detail.

Because of that, I couldn’t really focus on club activities after school either.

Then, the next day.

–“Long time no see, Yuuri. Been well?”

–“Yeah, w-well.”

–“Are you really well– Oh, there she is.”

In the classroom. He was at my seat.

I thought I had entered the wrong class, but I hadn’t.

Sato-kun was talking to one of my female classmates.

“G-Good morning… Why are you here?”

“Bug spray.”

“Huh?”

“It’s been getting hot early lately, right? Mosquitoes actually disappear once summer comes, after all.”

“Well, yeah, but…”

I didn’t understand what he meant!

Still, I was happy that he was here like this first thing in the morning.

Usually, boys would come over to me.

Well, Sato-kun was a boy too!

But the way it weighed on me felt different, somehow.

“Apparently mosquitoes only suck blood after mating.”

“M-Mating…”

“It’s biology.”

“It is, but!”

“One job before laying eggs. I guess if you’re that resolved, you can go suck blood from an enemy hundreds of times bigger than you.”

For some reason, he spoke passionately about mosquitoes with a smug look on his face.

Maybe because of that, the boys who usually gathered around me didn’t approach.

–“What’s with that, so vulgar.”

–“He’s calling Kamiji-san by her first name too.”

–“Isn’t that ‘new Sora Sato’?”

Instead, I could hear voices like lingering grudges…

“Come to think of it, I’ve been getting pretty serious about basketball lately.”

“Y-You have?”

“The usual empty court wasn’t open the other day, so I went to the mini-basketball court. Dunking there is so easy it’s fun.”

“Ahaha. When we were little, it looked so high.”

“Right? But if Natsuki’s here, let’s not do basketball. Balance of power and all.”

“Eh…?”

W-What was?

I didn’t even have time to wonder.

“Ah. ‘They’ came too.”

“!?”

A “wave” of footsteps approached from outside the classroom.

It wasn’t one or two people. There were a huge number of girls there.

Looking closely, they were from the same class as him.

“Pardon the intrusion.”

“Long time no see.”

“This classroom’s tiny!”

The number of people in one classroom had increased by one and a half times.

My classmates were startled, wondering what was going on.

And amid all that, Sato-kun stood in the center of the platform, as if he were leading them.

“Ahh. Sorry for barging in so suddenly.”

“And sorry this is sudden too! Today at lunch break, would your class like to play dodgeball against our class?”

“Gather the second the bell rings, and let’s eat after we’re done! Well then, we’ll be waiting in the gym!”

Bathed in countless gazes, he said that in a loud voice.

The boys in class were confused.

But the girls were different.

…I understood.

I loved events like this too.

But I…

“Ah. Kanatan’s coming too.”

“””UOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!”””

“You can’t touch him with your hands, but maybe you can touch him with a ball.”

“””Hitting Kanatan with a ball is a little…”””

“Ah. Then maybe he’ll hit you instead. With the ball.” *mutter*

“””””OOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!”””””

Behind the boys bursting into cheers, I lowered my gaze.

“–Natsuki.”

“!!”

“The rest is up to you.”

And that was all he said to me before leaving the classroom.

–“You’re going, right?”

–“Obviously. Sato really is a god.”

–“I’ll be able to show Kanatan my secret underhand throw…!”

The girls were visibly excited.

Apparently “that” Kanata-kun was coming too, so of course they were.

…I wanted to go. But…

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Ding-dong-dang…

And while my hesitation still hadn’t cleared, the moment the bell rang, the sound of chairs being pulled back synchronized.

–“Hey, let’s go!”

–“Lunch, lunch.”

–“Crap, I’m getting nervous. Wait for me, Kanatan!”

The classroom’s noise vanished cleanly.

About half of my classmates, or rather, every girl except me, departed.

“Kamiji-san! Do you want to eat together today too?”

“Girls are seriously stupid. Every single one of them left just because that ‘Kanata’ is coming.”

As I sat there unable to stand, the boys from yesterday came over to my seat.

Not only that, more boys besides the two of them were heading toward me.

Maybe because all the girls were gone, it was as if they were surrounding me.

–“Ah, we’ll eat with you too!”

–“No fair, you guys!”

Depending on how you looked at it, people might think this was enviable.

A situation where there were zero other girls, and boys were surrounding me.

“…”

…Hey, Sato-kun. You said it, didn’t you?

《–“Tomorrow, I’ll take you out of there, Natsuki.”–》

You aren’t coming for me at all.

“…”

…No. I realized how truly pathetic I was as a “woman.”

If things stayed like this, I would be like this forever.

Weak forever.

Unable for my whole life to go to the place where I “wanted to be.”

“Sorry. I want to go ‘over there’ too.”

“””!!”””

“See you.”

I stood from my seat.

I slipped past the faces that looked as if they couldn’t believe it.

Then, when I opened the classroom door…

“Took you long enough.”

“! Sato-kun!”

“Yo. You’re done with the ‘harem’ now, huh?”

He was smiling.

He had the air of a mischievous kid.

…Ahh, you really were kind.

“Yeah!!”