I Was Reincarnated as a Stepping-Stone Character in an Eroge, and by Breaking the Heroines’ NTR Flags in Place of the Protagonist, They Ended Up Falling for Me - Chapter 47 - Confession on the Rooftop
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Chapter 47 – Confession on the Rooftop
The last day of school.
The day that Ishibashi Tsuyoshi will meet his ruin…or worse, die.
On the rooftop under the sunset, the protagonist Sasaki Yuuma, the heroine Tsukishima Reika, and for some reason, the throwaway character, me, Ishibashi Tsuyoshi, are standing in silence.
Why am I here?
Seriously, the more I think about it… I’m unnecessary, aren’t I? I’m just getting in the way.
“Hey, wouldn’t it be better if I just stepped out?”
I whispered to Reika, who stood next to me.
“Huh? What are you talking about? I need you to stay here, Ishibashi.”
“…Why?”
“Well… um… because we’re best friends… and kind of inseparable… so, you know… yeah.”
I see. So, there’s no deep reason behind it.
“…It wouldn’t be fair to Sasaki if I stayed.”
“I don’t know, but… I have a bad feeling about this. Stay with me. Please.”
Reika’s uncharacteristically meek demeanor made my chest tighten a little. Today is the day of my ruin. Maybe it’s not just me that something will happen to.
“…Okay, I’ll stay.”
Reika looked relieved when I agreed.
Just seeing her like that was enough to make my presence here worthwhile.
“Sasaki-kun, what is it you want to talk about?”
“Um, well! I… I…! I like you, Tsukishima-san! Please go out with me!”
Just as I expected, Sasaki wanted to confess his feelings to Tsukishima Reika.
How would Reika, the heroine, respond to the feelings of the protagonist, Sasaki?
Will she accept them?
Will she reject them?
“I’m sorry.”
Reika bowed deeply to Sasaki.
I thought there would be a moment of silence, but Reika’s reply was almost immediate.
“…Tsukishima-san, can I ask why?”
“It’s not that I have any complaints about you, Sasaki-kun. I really respect you, and I think you’re an amazing person. But I don’t think the feelings I have for you are the same as love. And I thought accepting your confession when I felt this way would be unfair to you.”
“I see…”
“Besides… I want to be with someone I truly love. Not just someone I think is nice or someone convenient, but someone I’m genuinely in love with.”
That was Reika’s answer.
“I… really, really liked you.”
Sasaki looked down and trembling, repeatedly pouring out his feelings.
“…Thank you for really liking me, Sasaki-kun.”
“I don’t care anymore.”
“…Eh?”
“Tsukishima-san…it’s your fault… I really liked you…but you rejected me. So I don’t care anymore. Nothing matters anymore.”
Muttering like that, Sasaki took something out of his pocket.
“S-Sasaki-kun? That… what is that?”
“Can’t you see? It’s a knife.”
What he held was no toy. It was a real knife, its sharp blade glinting in the fading light.
“I was really hurt… I confessed to you with all my heart… and yet, you rejected me. So this is your fault… If you hadn’t turned me down, I wouldn’t have even thought of doing something like this.”
Reika was shaken by his accusatory words that seemed to say that she had brought about this outcome.
“That’s how much I loved you.”
Finally, he gave me a malicious smile and slowly raised his right hand, which was holding the knife.
In that moment, I ran towards Sasaki.
The knife blade was not aimed at me, nor at Reika.
It was aimed at Sasaki himself.
“?!!”
Realizing his intent, I seized his arm before he could act. Pouring my weight into the motion, I forced his hand down, knocking the knife from his grip.
“Guh?!”
He hadn’t expected this. His face twisted in shock, his composure shattered. Seizing the opportunity, I pinned him down.
“Call Yarita-sensei.”
“Eh, but…”
“Just go, now!”
“O-okay…!”
Confused, Reika nodded and left the roof.
Everything should be fine, Chiaki should be waiting at the bottom of the stairs in case anything happened.
As long as Reika is with her, she’d be fine.
But for now…
“Damnit…! It hurts! I’m not going to do anything, so let go! You bastard!”
Sasaki Yuuma was raging.
He had intended to hurt himself after being rejected by Reika, in order to make her feel guilty.
Rejected by the girl he loved, he wanted to make her feel responsible for his despair and suffering.
That’s why he kept repeating “I really loved you,” “I was hurt,” and “It’s your fault.”
From an outsider’s perspective, it was a selfish, childish act of resentment.
But for Reika, the person involved, it was a little different.
The fact that the person she rejected harmed themself in front of her would remain as a bad memory for the rest of her life.
“Arrghh! Nothing ever goes right!! And it’s all your fault, Ishibashi!! If only you weren’t here! I’d be able to happily enjoy the protagonist’s life! I’d have all the heroines at my side and do whatever I wanted!”
Apparently, this guy is also a reincarnated person.
To be honest, I’m not all that surprised because there’s Chiaki too.
Sasaki glared at me as if he was vendettaing his parents.
“You stole my heroines! You took away my place in this world!”
“What’s wrong with taking the heroines away from a piece of shit like you?”
“!! You bastard!! You’re just a throwaway character!! Just a stepping stone for me!! How dare you look down on——!!!”
“——Shut up. Enough already.”
I covered Sasaki’s mouth with the palm of my left hand.
“Now, I’m going to hit you for real. Just once.”
“Huh?!”
Sasaki’s face went pale, as if his earlier anger had been a lie.
This guy had done the worst thing he could do.
“MMMPH!! MMMPH!!”
To the thrashing protagonist, whose face was pale and pleading, I said,
“You’re the protagonist, so don’t try to hurt the heroines.”
I raised my right fist high, clenched it tightly, and swung it down, straight towards Sasaki’s pale, terrified face.
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