I Was Reincarnated Into a Romantic Comedy World, so I Tried My Best to Make My Favorite Heroine Win, but for Some Reason, All the Flags Point To Me Instead! - Chapter 29 - Momozono-San Wants to Cross-Dress

Chapter 29 – Momozono-San Wants to Cross-Dress

Momozono-san wants to play the role of a Maharaja?

Huh?! Why?! Why?!!

I spoke calmly to hide my agitation.

“That’s right. Actually, I thought that Momozono-san would be good for the role of the Beauty, but why do you want to play the Maharaja?”

Momozono-san was silent for a moment, then spoke as if she had made up her mind.

“The truth is, my family is a bit strict, and my parents always raised me to be a well-behaved daughter.”

Yes, I know that.

Momozono-san is the daughter of the Momozono conglomerate family and had a good upbringing, but that was actually stressful for her. She’s a deep character who wants to break out of her shell.

Momozono-san’s face became even more serious as she continued.

“I’ve always loved drama and acting, where I can change myself, become a different person. At some point, my dream for the future became to become an actor!”

Eh?

Wait a minute!?

Isn’t it supposed to be Takanashi that Momozono-san confides her future dreams to?

Why are you telling me your dream for the future?!!

“That’s why I want to play the role of a Maharaja, which is different from my real self!”

“I-I see…”

I’m in trouble. The situation is more serious than I thought.

The fact that Momozono-san told me about her dream for the future and not Takanashi is proof that their relationship hasn’t deepened.

Not only is Takanashi’s love gauge for Momozono-san low, but Momozono-san’s love gauge for Takanashi is also low.

What should I do?

How do I turn things around from here?

How can I make a romantic event happen between the two of them!?

Think. Think…!

“…Takeda-kun?”

Momozono-san looked at me worriedly.

“Is it… no good?”

“Huh?”

Momozono-san looked down with an apologetic look on her face.

“I guess it’s no good after all. With male club members here, it wouldn’t be right for me to just take on the Maharaja role——”

At that moment, a brilliant idea popped into my head.

That’s it. That’s an option!

“No, it’s okay.”

When I grabbed Momozono-san’s shoulders, she flinched in surprise.

“Really?”

“Yeah. Momozono-san could play the Maharaja. But we’d have a boy play the Beauty. We’d reverse the genders.”

“I see. That sounds interesting.”

Momozono-san’s eyes light up.

That’s right. If it’s impossible to make Momozono-san the Beauty and Takanashi the beast, then we could just reverse their roles.

Luckily, there were several scenes in the Momogaku story where Takanashi cross-dressed, and he looked pretty cute so he was secretly popular. People even started calling him “Nashiko” nickname.

In a popularity poll, Nashiko even got more votes than Momozono-san.

So there’s nothing wrong with Takanashi cross-dressing.

In fact, I’d like to see it.

But then the question is how to convince Takanashi.

The Beauty role is like the main character, appearing from beginning to end.

Would Takanashi, who refused the role of the Maharaja because he would be busy writing the script, accept the role?

Alright, if that’s the case…

I decided to take a gamble.

“Takanashi!”

I called out to Takanashi as he returned from the bathroom.

“What’s wrong, Takeda-kun?”

“You see, I actually came up with a great idea for the play script——”

“Eh?”

I looked Takanashi straight in the face.

“I want to try writing the script too. Let’s each write a version, and we’ll let everyone decide which one to go with.”

Yes, my plan is to take over the scriptwriting.

That way, Takanashi could focus on playing the beauty, and it should deepen his relationship with Momozono-san.

The look in Takanashi’s eyes changed.

“So… Takeda-kun and I… We’ll be competing with our scripts.”

I said in a strong tone.

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“That’s great, sounds interesting. Let’s do it.”

And so, Takanashi and I decided to have a script competition in a week.

But there was no way we could write a two-hour play script in just a week, so we made a rough outline, plot, and a list of characters and then gave a presentation.

My goal is to get Momozono-san and Takanashi together, so I sacrificed sleep while thinking up the setting.

And then, the day of the script competition finally came…

Takanashi, visibly nervous, finished his presentation.

The content wasn’t much different from what he had told me.

And then, it was my turn.

The script I came up with, to put it simply, reversed the roles of the genders and made it more comedic.

The ending is also a little different.

At the end, the prince returns to his original handsome form, but he only takes on a human form when he is out in public performing official duties. I decided that the rest of the time, he remains in his elephant form.

I mean, if the story’s about not judging by appearances, it feels off if he just reverts to being a handsome guy in the end. Well, this is just just my own little obsession.

“So, who prefers Takanashi-kun’s script?”

Rinko-senpai asked, standing in front of the blackboard with a piece of chalk in her hand.

I gulped.

However, no one raised their hand.

“ANd who prefers Takeda-kun’s script?”

Everyone raised their hands.

“Well then, for the culture festival play, we’ll use Takeda-kun’s script.”

And so, it was decided that I would write the script for the culture festival play.

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T/N: Yeah, those good looking guys be damned!