I Got Dumped by My Childhood Friend Fiancée Who I Didn’t Even Like, I Thought I Could Finally Have a Peaceful School Life… But Then I Got Targeted by SS-Class Beautiful Young Ladies - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: [Caught by the Weak Spot!?] The Laid-Back Heiress Forces Me Into Her Unreasonable Diet

“…Phew. I got my clothes on properly now… You can turn around whenever~?”

I’d turned my back—kinda half-assed—just to give Azusa some privacy while she changed after I handed her the uniform. When I heard her voice, I slowly turned back around.

Sure enough, she was wearing clothes like she said—but not the uniform I’d given her.

She had on the gym clothes we usually use for PE class. No idea where she pulled those from.

“Why… gym clothes…?”

“Hmm~? ‘Cause we’re about to work out, duh.”

I almost asked why the hell she’d be the first one here in the clubroom if she was planning to exercise… but digging into that sounded like it’d just be a pain, so I let it slide.

More importantly, I had something I needed to say. Her underwear shock had wiped it from my brain for a minute, but the whole reason I came to this clubroom was to throw my complaint right in their faces—

“Anyway!! What the heck was that thing this morning!?”

“…That thing?”

“The arrow letter! The arrow letter!!”

“…………Ohhh! That!”

She had to think for a second to remember, so yeah, she really had forgotten.

Once it clicked, Azusa’s face lit up with this huge bright smile.

“A surprise from us! So? Were you happy?”

Not even a hint of guilt—she actually puffed her chest out like she was proud of it.

For a few seconds I just stared at this totally bizarre heiress in front of me, genuinely lost for words…

“Of course I wasn’t happy!!”

…It just burst out before I could stop it.

“An arrow flew into the classroom first thing in the morning! That’s straight-up an incident, y’know!?”

“Ehh~? But the tip had a sponge on it, right?”

“That’s not the point!!”

I was being pretty serious, but Azusa just shrugged lightly and kept laughing.

—Our values are on completely different planets… Well, in a way, that’s super on-brand for her…

I was frozen, hit hard by this unbreakable wall of morals and ethics, when she puffed her cheeks out like she was sulking a little.

“Muu… You don’t have to get so mad. I thought it’d be a good way for us to get closer… It was my idea and everything…”

“You thought it’d help us get closer…? Hold up, wasn’t the condition that we don’t interact more than necessary at school?”

I said it flat and calm, basically grilling her while her lips poked out in a pout.

But when she heard that, Azusa narrowed her eyes a bit and dropped her voice tone like she was getting serious.

“Yoichi-kun… Changing the terms halfway through is no good.”

“…! I didn’t chan—”

“—The condition was ‘no more talking than necessary’… right? That’s exactly why we used the arrow letter…?”

She cut me off and laid the words out in the air like she was blocking any escape route.

Yeah… damn, she’s sharp. Totally spot-on, no wiggling out of it. I really wish she’d stop pulling out genius-level stuff only when it’s convenient…

I was stuck, couldn’t even make a sound at that perfect comeback, when she lifted the corners of her mouth and put on this super carefree expression.

“Come on, come on. Don’t sweat the small stuff, okay? More importantly…”

Azusa paused there for just a beat. Then, with that soft smile and gentle tone, she spoke like she was soothing me.

“Yoichi-kun… you actually showed up properly, didn’t you?”

She murmured it quietly.

For some reason her way of saying it was wrapped in this weirdly misplaced kindness. It was enough to throw my whole rhythm off.

“That’s just… ’cause I didn’t really have the option of not coming…”
“…Hmm?”

I tried to sound pretty cold, but Azusa still narrowed her eyes like she was a tiny bit happy about it.

—What even is this person…

I couldn’t remember ever meeting someone who messed with my wavelength this badly.

She kept staring at me with that grin, and I kept looking away to avoid her gaze.

The air in the room started getting super weird, but Azusa clapped her hands together like she was cutting through it.

“So, Yoichi-kun.”

“…Yeah.”

“Now that we’ve gotten a little closer…”

“…………Yeah?”

“I’ve got a request right away. Will you help me with my diet…?”

“…Huh?”

The request came so far out of left field I let out this dumb noise without thinking.

“No no no. Why me…?”

“‘Cause~ I just said it, didn’t I? We’re about to work out.”

Apparently when she said “about to” earlier, she really meant right this second.

But even so, I had zero obligation to help her with it.

“Yeah, I heard that part… but that doesn’t mean I have any reason to help, right?”

I figured that was a perfectly reasonable answer.

But Azusa frowned a little, clearly getting annoyed, and opened her mouth.

“Ugh, seriously! Yoichi-kun, you’re no fun at all. When a club member is in trouble, isn’t helping them what a club is for?”

“This is the Polishing Research Society, right? It’s supposed to be for personal improvement, isn’t it?”

“Ugh…! Always got a comeback! Yoichi-kun, you little shrimp!”

“Say whatever you want. But in exchange, do your diet by yourself.”

It was basically the softest version of tit-for-tat.

I thought for sure my point had landed this time, but Azusa turned her head away with a huff, pursing her healthy-looking lips.

“If you’re not gonna help… then I’m telling Rei-chan and Charlotte-chan about what happened earlier.”

“Huh!? I got the question right earlier, didn’t I!?”

“N-No! That just proved you’re a perv! It wasn’t the answer I was thinking of!”

The way she threw her tantrum like a little kid made my brain freeze for a second.

I still had no idea why she wanted me to help with her diet specifically—but thinking about it probably wouldn’t get me anywhere.

Her face looked stiff, the kind of expression someone makes when they’ve got zero intention of backing down.

“…Isn’t this way too unfair?”

“Right?”

I tried to pack as much sarcasm as I could into it, but she answered instantly like it was nothing.

Then she tilted her head all fake-innocent.

“But like… I’m not the one who’s gonna be in trouble here?”

“…!”

So unfair. Way too unfair.

The fact that I really did see her in her underwear meant I had literally zero way to push back hard.

Azusa took my silence as agreement, and her face bloomed into a bright smile like flowers opening.

“Okay, it’s settled then! I’m gonna grab the stuff, so wait just a sec!”

With that, she walked quickly toward one of the three doors in the room.

While I waited, I just zoned out staring out the window. Obviously, right?

There was no way I could’ve known back then that what was coming next was some super close-contact couple’s diet—Yoga edition…