Even Today, the Genius High School Programmer Cashes In on Day Trades, Completely Flustered by Beautiful Girls' Growing Affection. - Chapter 37: A Powerful Message of Love.

A Powerful Message of Love.

“Good morning, Yukina.”

The next morning.

I called out to her at the school entrance, near the shoe lockers.

“Ah, Kousuke-kun, good morning. Is your fever completely gone?”

“Yeah, I still feel a little lightheaded, but the fever’s dropped completely.”

“I’m glad. Um… sorry about yesterday. I ended up crying like that… I must have been a bother.”

Yukina spoke in a small voice, looking embarrassed.

“Not at all. If anything, thank you for yesterday.”

After that, Yukina had continued crying for a while longer. Eventually, she rested her face on the bed and fell asleep from exhaustion. The whole time, I kept gently stroking her hair.

When she woke up sometime later, she gasped, “It’s already this late!” and hurriedly sat up.

Then, looking a little shy, she said, “Um… if your fever comes back, I’ll worry, so… could you tell me your LINE ID?”

Come to think of it, we still hadn’t exchanged contact information.

Yukina scanned my QR code with her phone and smiled happily. Now, the second female high school student’s name was added to my address book.

“Well then, take care of yourself, okay?”

She left me with that bright smile, though her cheeks were still faintly flushed with embarrassment.

“That rolled omelette you made… I feel like it’s what cured my cold. Did you put some kind of energizing ingredient in it?”

I deliberately kept my tone light and teasing.

“Hmm… maybe love?”

Yukina tilted her head slightly and flashed a mischievous smile.

I was done for.

She was way too cute.

“Even as a joke, don’t say things like that. I might actually get a fever again.”

“Hehe~” Yukina wore the proud expression of someone who had just scored a point.

“But you really have to be careful. It’s going to get colder from now on—”

As Yukina opened her shoe locker, a white sheet of paper fluttered out and fell to the floor.

It was an A4 sheet folded in half. Printed on it in large font were the words:

‘Don’t get cocky, you fucking bitch!’

It was, without a doubt, an extremely powerful message of love.

Yukina crouched down and picked it up with a sad expression.

“Yukina… does this kind of thing happen often?”

“Hmm… it used to happen once in a while, but lately it’s been happening a bit more… I think.”

“I see.”

I glanced up at the ceiling. The security cameras were only installed near the main entrance of the shoe locker area. The section where the actual lockers stood was probably outside the camera coverage.

At that moment, I felt a sharp gaze on us.

When I looked toward the stairs, I saw three female students standing there. My eyes briefly met with the straight-haired girl with light brown hair in the center, but all three quickly turned and disappeared up the stairs.

“Don’t pay it too much mind. It’s just jealousy.”

“Yeah… you’re right.”

At the time, I had only thought of it as the usual “price of fame.”