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 29: [Girls at That Age] The Plain Gloomy Guy Me Is Apparently About to Show His Bare Upper Body to a Bunch of Mega-Wealthy Heiresses

It’s already been a good few dozen minutes since they came up with the polishing plan to mess around with me—Yoichi Kirishima.

At first the heiresses were huddled up having a little strategy meeting among themselves, but once they settled on some kind of plan, they’ve been rushing around nonstop ever since. Each of them’s been on their phone separately, contacting whoever, getting today’s activity ready step by step.

I kept watching them for a while, wondering why on earth they needed to make so many calls, but looking at the current state of the clubroom, I couldn’t help but get it.

These three are way too serious. They’re dead set on completely remaking me—no half-measures.

Normally this space only has four people max, so I’d always thought it felt kinda huge for how few of us there were… but not anymore.

No matter where I look in my field of vision, it’s just people, people, people.

Apparel staff, hairstylists, an optometrist, even a monk—of all things—there are pros from every field working away as far as the eye can see.

And a few of them are people I’ve seen at least once on SNS, videos, or TV. Pretty sure they called in the absolute top pros in each field.

The fact that they managed to round up this many people in just a few dozen minutes really hammered home again that I’d started to half-forget these eccentric girls are actually from some of the biggest conglomerate families in the country.

While I stood there totally thrown off by how insanely over-the-top the prep was, Rei-senpai let out a proud little huff through her nose.

“Fufun! So, Yoichi? Pretty amazing, right?!”

“Uh, yeah… I mean, sure. Amazing’s one word for it… but it also feels kinda excessive…”

“No way! This is the one and only rule of the club, remember? No matter what kind of polishing it is, when we do it, we go all out…”

They’re definitely going all out, but maybe in the completely wrong direction—wait, no, is it actually wrong…? Hanging out with these people lately has numbed my senses so much I can’t even judge what’s normal anymore…

“W-well… setting that aside for a sec… why is there a monk here? I feel like that has zero connection to this polishing…”

Even as I started feeling disgusted with myself for slowly building up immunity to the bizarre situations these heiresses create, a simple, honest question slipped out of my mouth.

The one who answered wasn’t Rei-senpai, but Charlotte, who was wearing the same smug little grin.

“I called those people!”

“…Why…?”

“Listen carefully, Yoichi-kun! Appearance and spirit are connected! To get a wonderful visual, you need a strong spirit! Face and heart are one and the same!!”

“…Uh-huh. Got it.”

Honestly I only understood about half of that, but this is just her operating normally. Arguing would be a total waste of time.

I gave up and nodded halfheartedly, then tilted my head to move things along.

“…So, uh. What am I supposed to do now?”

“From here it’s measurements for clothes, then a haircut and styling, and finally an eye exam so we can get you contacts!”

“…………”

“Oh! Don’t worry—we already prepared outfits we think will suit you, and we have contacts in every possible prescription!”

I wasn’t even worried about tiny details like that in the first place. I just… hadn’t expected this polishing to go into such insane detail. I was so shocked my voice wouldn’t come out.

But anyway, once they’ve decided to do it, there’s no stopping them. They stubbornly push through whatever’s been decided—that’s one thing—but more than that, they went this far out of their way for my sake. Brushing that off would feel kinda inhuman.

“…Okay. Got it. So first up is… clothes measurements, right? Just tell me who to go to. I’ll have them take me to another room so they can measure me there…”

“…Another room?”

“What’re you talking about…?”

“What do you mean by that, exactly?”

“…Huh?”

…Wait. Did I say something weird?

No way. That was the most perfectly normal thing anyone could say.

And yet… why do all three heiresses look so weirded out? It’s almost like I’m the one saying I should strip right here in front of everyone—

“Uh, no… I mean, come on? I can’t just take my clothes off in front of you three…”

I tried saying it lightly, half-joking, but they still weren’t messing around. All six eyes staring at me were completely serious.

“…Wait. You seriously want me to strip here?”

At my genuine question, the three of them exchanged quick glances for just a second, then all nodded slowly at the same time.

“Of course.”

“Obviously.”

“Yep yep.”

Yeah, this atmosphere where it feels like I’m the one being unreasonable—please spare me. Even if my senses are getting numb, this much I can tell for sure. On this particular misunderstanding, I’m definitely in the right.

“No no no no! Normally you’d do it in a separate room, right!? That’s how measurements work—”

I hurriedly tried to fix their apparently broken sense of ethics, but Azusa cut me off, and for some reason she looked smug too as she spoke up.

“You really think ‘normal’ exists in our club?”

Charlotte nodded repeatedly in agreement.

“Exactly! If this were a normal club, we wouldn’t be doing simulations where we fight Martians!”

“…Oh… so you are aware of that… I mean!! I’m saying there’s no reason for me to strip in front of everybody!!”

The yell that burst out of my throat sounded almost like a scream.

Rei-senpai showed a tiny moment of thinking at my desperate protest, then tilted her head with that usual blank look.

“It’s not like… we’re telling you to take everything off? We’re not that kind of perverts, come on~”

“…Huh? Then what…?”

“Just your upper body! We just wanna see Yoichi’s bare chest!”

“That’s still plenty perverted!?”

They kept firing off lines that sounded like jokes but were said with total seriousness. If I kept jumping in, I’d be out of breath just from talking.

“Haa… haa… anyway, why my upper body in the first place…”

“Because! We hardly ever get chances to see a guy our age shirtless! We’re high-school girls, y’know!? We’re at the age where we’re a little curious!!”

“No, turning it back on me like that… With your conglomerate power you could see as many as you wanted…”

“That sounds creepy, Yoichi… I don’t think that’s what power is for…”

Uh, wait, this person just said something super reasonable out of nowhere…

Still, they did go through all this prep for my sake, so I do feel some gratitude.

Plus, I’d been imagining something close to basically naked except underwear, but if it’s just upper body… that’s basically what happens in swim class anyway, so whatever.

Sure, if their curiosity veered off into some weird sexual exploitation direction and created a victim, that’d be a huge problem.

Hit with the super-interested stares of three heiresses right at that curious age, I let out one big sigh.

With the same clearly unenthusiastic expression anyone could read on my face, I put my fingers on the buttons of my uniform.

“Okay, okay… I’m really gonna take it off now. Don’t you dare say later that I harassed you or anything, got it?”

The three of them each gave quick little nods at my question.

After confirming they accepted the final warning, I just kept unbuttoning.