My Yandere Girlfriend Is Obsessed With Me For Some Reason - Chapter 26

Even though I tried really hard, Ibuki-kun didn’t look at me.

Why…? Am I not attractive enough? Am I not cute? Why does he look so displeased…? I really don’t understand. I wanted to ask him about that, but in the end, I parted ways with Ibuki-kun without asking.

Am I just not good enough?

“Hey, Kyoko-chan. Can I ask you something?”

“Huh? What is it?”

On the way home, Yuna-chan walked beside me and sighed.

“Why are you hanging out with Haruto Yuuki? You’ve already broken up with him, right?”

“Well… Haruto-kun is friends with Ibuki-kun. And if Haruto-kun hadn’t invited Ibuki-kun, we wouldn’t have been able to watch a movie together like today. Even though we broke up, we’re still on good terms. It can’t be helped.”

That’s true, but I still thought it was too early for others to see us together, especially since Haruto-kun knows a lot about Ibuki-kun. It was Haruto-kun who told me that Ibuki-kun’s crush was Sensei. Haruto-kun has a lot of information that I don’t know.

I wanted that.

I wanted to know more about Ibuki-kun.

“Hmm. But still, I think it’s weird.”

“What do you mean?”

“That guy… before, he seemed very interested in girls who got close to Ibuki-kun, but now he doesn’t seem like that at all. Rather, it looks like he’s seriously supporting you, Kyoko-chan. It’s kind of strange.”

“Huh? What do you mean? I don’t get it.”

“This is what a friend who transferred schools told me, but to cut to the chase, Haruto Yuuki has dated girls who liked Ibuki-kun. I don’t know what happened. But one thing is certain: most of the girls didn’t end up with Ibuki-kun, and for some reason, they ended up dating Haruto instead, Kyoko-chan.”

Come to think of it, what did Haruto-kun tell me?

Suddenly, I remember last year.

When I first met Ibuki-kun, he was the type to quietly study in the corner of the classroom. A character who doesn’t stand out, there’s always one in the class. Even though I spoke to him, he only said “yeah,” so Ibuki-kun was the only one who stood out in the class.

But I don’t know if everyone knows, Ibuki-kun was quite cool since his freshman year.

When he picked up the eraser that fell on the floor, I fell in love at first sight.

When I met Ibuki-kun up close and our eyes met, my heart was racing.

And when I was worrying about what to do, Haruto-kun spoke to me.

He was a friend who often talked to Ibuki-kun, so I thought he might know a lot about him. That’s what I thought. This was a chance.

In freshman year, two or three girls said they liked Ibuki-kun, but none of them worked out, and I wanted to know why. Then Haruto-kun said, “That guy Ibuki is afraid of girls, you know? When a girl talks to him, he gets scared right away.” I never thought there was such a thing as being afraid of girls. But he always answered with a trembling voice, “Yeah,” or avoided eye contact, so I decided to believe that story.

That’s how, without realizing it, I gradually became friends with Haruto-kun until now.

“The fact that girls who liked Ibuki-kun ended up dating Haruto Yuuki somehow… it’s kind of strange, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, it is strange, isn’t it?”

“Come to think of it…”

“Huh?”

“Oh! N-Nothing.”

Suddenly, I remember what Sensei told me.

Certainly, “Have you ever doubted the person right next to you? Do you think everything you’re saying to yourself is true?” That’s what she said, right? At the time, I didn’t really understand what she meant by that. But… what if everything Haruto-kun said was a lie?

Haruto-kun has been telling me all along, “Let’s wait and see.”

And he also said, “I still like you”… I don’t understand.

I started dating Haruto-kun for a few months because Ibuki-kun ignored me and I was so sad. Honestly, I wasn’t interested in Haruto-kun at all, but he always listened to me and comforted me when I consulted him, so I might have developed a little interest in him.

Hmm, could it be…?

“And, just when I thought I finally broke up with him… For some reason, we ended up going to the movies together… If it were just Ibuki-kun, it would be fine, but bringing him along too… But, I guess it can’t be helped.”

“Haha… But, Haruto-kun surprisingly supported us actively… When we took purikura and when we went to the movies.”

“That’s what bothers me! Haruto Yuuki isn’t the type to do something like that, so why suddenly…”

“Why does Yuna-chan dislike Haruto-kun so much?”

“Because his methods are dirty…”

“Methods…”

“Yeah. It just seems to me like he’s using Ibuki-kun somehow, so I don’t like him.”

“I see…”

Yuna-chan’s words seem to make some sense to me.

Certainly, since I became close with Haruto-kun, I started talking about Ibuki-kun a lot… But because I spent most of my time at school with Haruto-kun, I never had a chance to talk to Ibuki-kun. And what started as an effort to become friends with Ibuki-kun somehow ended up with me dating Haruto-kun.

It feels like it wasn’t just a coincidence.

Sensei also told me that, and I still don’t know which story is true, but there are a lot of strange things, so… it bothers me.

“Ibuki-kun is a pure guy, but he’s not. He might just be pretending to be friends in front of Ibuki-kun. Well, that’s just my opinion. If you really want to be with Ibuki-kun, you should probably cut ties with him.”

“Yeah. Thanks, Yuna-chan.”

“Alright then, let’s hang out together again sometime.”

“Yeah. Take care on your way home.”

“Okay.”

I… I wonder if I’ve been fooled. By Haruto-kun.

To confirm this, I tried calling him, but Haruto-kun didn’t answer.

“…Usually, he’d answer right away. Huh.”