How I, a Completely Ordinary Guy with No Special Traits, Risked My Life to Save Beautiful Twin Sisters, Only to Make Both of Them, Who Turned Out to Be Yandere, Fall Madly in Love with Me (REMAKE) - 7

Chapter 7: I’ll Think About It

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“I’m heading to the staff room, then.”

“Okay, see you later.”

“Ryouya , take care!”

After parting ways with Reona and Riona at the shoe lockers, I started heading toward the staff room. It had been a while since I last came to school, but nothing seemed to have changed.

Well, it’s not like I’ve been gone for years. Just a little over two weeks wouldn’t change anything much anyway.

While thinking about that, I arrived at the staff room, where my homeroom teacher gave me various updates. If I had been out for several months, it might’ve affected my attendance, but apparently, two weeks wasn’t a big deal.

After all, if every time you caught the flu and had to miss two weeks of school was enough to risk getting you held back by a year, nobody would make it through school. After listening to all the necessary updates, I left the staff room and headed to my classroom. The moment I stepped inside, my classmates’ gazes briefly turned toward me. But unfortunately, no one made any effort to talk to me.

“…Figures.”

I had expected this outcome, being a loner with no friends, but actually experiencing it firsthand felt surprisingly depressing. Anyway, I took my seat and laid my head down on the desk. My sleep schedule had been completely messed up from my time in the hospital, and I was just insanely tired. As I started dozing off with my head on the desk, I heard a familiar voice coming from the entrance.

“So, Riona just insisted she had to be with her big sister no matter what.”

“Yeah, yeah, we all know you love your little sister, Reona.”

The voice belonged to my classmate Reona. Technically, it could’ve been Riona, since they sounded exactly the same, but judging by the topic and energy of the conversation, it had to be Reona.

Back when I first met them, I used to get totally confused whenever Reona and Riona spoke at the same time since their voices were identical, but lately, I’d started to be able to tell them apart. Reona wasn’t in the classroom when I arrived earlier, so she must’ve been out for something. For the record, Reona belonged to the top of the school caste. She was part of the popular crowd, which was made up of outgoing guys and girls.

She was a quarter, as tall as I was, and undeniably beautiful. Add in her incredible social skills, and it was obvious she’d be the queen bee in any class she was in. Considering that, of course an introvert with no friend like me shouldn’t have any interactions with someone like her. I was the bottom of the barrel, a background character that no one could care less about. 

As I thought about how pathetic that all was and started drifting off again, I heard footsteps approaching my desk. They stopped right in front of me, and before I could react, the person suddenly blew a sharp puff of air into my ear.

“Whoa!?”

Startled, I jumped up with a loud yell. Standing there with a mischievous grin, like a kid who just pulled off a prank, was Reona.

“Aha~ I knew you were awake, Ryouya -kun.”

“W-What the hell was that for?!”

“Sorry, sorry! You looked so defenseless, I couldn’t help myself. I just had to tease you a little.”

Reona said it without the slightest hint of guilt. I was about to protest, but I noticed all the eyes on us and held myself back.

Looking around, I saw the entire class staring at me and Reona. We were drawing way too much attention. I’d probably yelled like an idiot just now, which didn’t help. My classmates were watching us with curiosity, some even with outright jealousy.

And of course, it was only natural that some of them wouldn’t be thrilled to see the class idol Reona chatting so casually with a loner like me.

“…We’re standing out way too much and it feels seriously embarrassing. Could you let me off the hook already?”

“Aww, fine. I’ll let you off just this once.”

“I’d be really happy if you didn’t do it again at all, actually.”

“I’ll think about it.”

“That’s exactly what someone says when they have no intention of considering it at all.”

I spoke softly so only Reona could hear, and she responded in kind, catching on to the mood. After that, she returned to her seat like nothing had happened. Soon enough, her group members were asking her what that was all about, but it looked like she just brushed it off casually.

As for me, I felt incredibly out of place, as usual. So I plugged in my earphones. I shut myself out from the world and kept my head down on the desk until the first period began.

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