I, Who Am Somehow Only Liked by Yanderes, Tried Transferring into a Class Full of Yandere Girls - Chapter 37: Search

Afterward, Hanazono-san remained out of sight.

That in itself should have been a good thing.

Yet—

My suspicion only grew deeper day by day.

Given Hanazono-san’s personality, I can’t imagine she’d give up on me once she’s fixated. She’d use any means necessary to find me, even if it meant going to extremes.

The fact that she knows even what school uniform I wear…

It wouldn’t be difficult for her to pinpoint me.

Despite that, the reason she hasn’t made contact yet could be because Hanazono-san doesn’t exist?

According to what Kageyama-san said, Tsukimiya-san may be masquerading as Hanazono-san. Given Tsukimiya-san’s constant presence by my side, Hanazono-san has no opportunity to show herself.

But for what purpose?

To make me dependent on Tsukimiya-san by instilling fear of Hanazono-san’s presence, making me believe I can’t live without Tsukimiya-san.

…That’s probably overthinking it.

I try to shake off the bad thoughts from my mind.

To dispel the doubts, I decided to take a certain action.

Night.

After Tsukimiya-san left, I took something out of my school bag.

It was a detector.

Given to me by Kageyama-san when she left.

“…If Tsukimiya-san is entering and exiting your room, there’s a possibility she could have planted a listening device somewhere.”

“Her obsession is abnormal. It even eclipses mine. She’d do anything to grasp what you say and do.”

I tried to laugh it off as unlikely.

But I couldn’t.

It had always been nagging at the back of my mind.

In my conversations with Tsukimiya-san, she mentioned information about me that she shouldn’t have known.

Could it be—?

To verify the truth, I decided to use the detector.

Shaped like a long magnifying glass.

The tip was ring-shaped, with a switch on the handle. It seems to beep when it detects the frequency of a listening device.

With resolve, I turned on the switch.

The next moment.

Beep-beep-beep.

The detector started to emit sound.

This means—

A listening device is actively responding within the room.

A bad premonition came true, and sweat formed on my palms.

Holding the detector, I narrowed down the search area. After scanning the room, the listening device seemed planted in the electrical outlet.

…I can’t believe it was there.

Even at this moment, the audio could be leaking.

The moment I thought that, I reflexively unplugged the outlet.

Would that have stopped the listening device?

…Just as Kageyama-san said, a listening device was planted in the room.

But it’s not necessarily done by Tsukimiya-san.

Yokawa-san and Usuki-san have also been in and out of my room.

However, the likelihood of Yokawa-san doing it feels extremely low. We’re often connected by phone for long periods, so she does not need to eavesdrop.

That leaves Usuki-san…

—If it bothers me, I should just ask directly.

I walked to the corner of the room and flung open the closet door.

An action the real me would never take.

Being cornered must have pushed my thoughts to extremes.

On the left side of the door—next to the chest of drawers—sat Usuki-san, hugging her knees and nibbling on what seemed to be a snack of melon bread.

Our eyes met.

“…!?”

Usuki-san choked on the melon bread in surprise.

“…Ugh!? Cough Cough”

Usuki-san was curled up, coughing violently as if in agony.

“Are you okay? Here, have some water first.”

I filled a cup with water and handed it to her, which she drank in one gulp.

“…Phew. Thank you.”

Usuki-san seemed to regain her composure for a moment. However, she quickly realized her situation and started to explain herself with gestures.

“Ah, Aiji-kun, this is, how do I put it… just a whim, or maybe the devil got into me…”

“Yet, it seems you’ve made yourself quite at home.”

There was a reading lamp, and the pile of books had grown. Moreover, choosing melon bread, which easily leaves traces, as a snack meant she was completely letting her guard down, or rather, taking things too lightly.

“I might as well say it now, but I’ve known about this all along.”

“Uhyaa!?”

Usuki-san was visibly shaken, almost jumping in surprise.

“Does this mean you’ve run out of patience with me…? Is it finally time for me to pay the piper… Uh hehe.”

Why does she seem somewhat pleased?

“I’m not trying to blame you. I don’t think it’s something good, but I have something I want to ask Usuki-san today.”

“Something you want to ask… me?”

Usuki-san looked puzzled, and I began to explain.

About the listening device planted in the room.

And asked if it was Usuki-san who had done it.

“…No, it wasn’t me.”

Usuki-san denied it.

Everything was out in the open now.

If she had planted the listening device, I felt she would have confessed honestly.

“…I believe it was Tsukimiya-san who planted the listening device.”

“Eh?”

“…The reason I ended up living in Aiji-kun’s closet was originally because of Tsukimiya-san.”

Usuki-san started to recount the story.

She wanted to know more about me and engaged in a so-called surveillance campaign that was essentially stalking.

During this, she discovered that Tsukimiya-san had planted a listening device.

To remove it, she used a spare key to enter my house and managed to take it out, but when I returned home, she hid in the closet to avoid being found.

Surprisingly, I found it quite comfortable and ended up making it my dwelling.

And that’s how things led to this situation.

“…I think Tsukimiya-san noticed the listening device was removed and waited for another chance to install it again.”

Usuki-san said with a frightened look.

“…I saw her guiding Fujisawa Sensei. That person is dangerous. You should not get involved with her.”

She, too, echoed Kageyama-san’s words.

Given that a burglar like Kageyama-san and a stalker-like Usuki-san said as much, Tsukimiya-san’s stature must be quite something.

Hearing Usuki-san’s story, I was convinced.

Tsukimiya-san was the one who planted the listening device.

That’s when it happened.

The sound of the front door being opened.