Insensitive Bocchi-kun ~Reluctantly Heading to School Today~ [Dropped] - Chapter 93: Conflict with Mamiya

Chapter 93: Conflict with Mamiya

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Reflecting on my life since becoming a high school student, I realized that somehow, unnaturally cute girls had begun to gather around me.

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Lately, I had become somewhat desensitized, but whether it’s Yamamoto, Shibuya-san, Alice, Linlin, Hiragi-san, or Miki… these aren’t people I’d normally be involved with.

Under normal circumstances…

Setting Miki aside, Hiragi-san is an idol, for crying out loud. And yet, she’s taken quite an interest in me. 

No, Miki too.

Could this be for real?

My number of followers kept increasing.

Caught in the chaos, a sudden impulse urged me to create my own Twitter account.

I figured it wouldn’t matter much if someone like me started Twitter; I’d hardly gain any followers, and if I decided to delete the account after a day, it would be fine.

Tanaka-kun had also said that without my glasses, people like Sakaki wouldn’t even recognize me.

Come to think of it, during the school trip, I’d passed by them in that guise and they didn’t notice me. Even the first time Shibuya-san came to my part-time job, she hadn’t seemed to recognize me.

So, I felt pretty safe. For my profile picture, I took off my glasses and styled my hair with some wax I bought just to be safe.

In fact, without doing that, this whole endeavor would be meaningless.

And because I absolutely didn’t want to use my real name, I arbitrarily set my username as “Tanaka.”

It had nothing to do with Tanaka-kun; I simply chose it because I thought it was the most common surname.

Somehow, I thought this experiment would end without any fuss.

But… 2,000 followers in just one hour?

Is this a joke?

Is this… normal?

No, probably not…

After all, it took Tanaka-kun a year and a half to get… 12 followers.

And what’s with the number of direct messages?

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I was hesitant to open them, but my mailbox kept filling up, so I finally touched the screen.

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The messages read things like, “Too cool,” “I like you,” “Handsome,” “Contact me,” “Date me,” “Marry me,” “Love you, Tanaka-kun,” “Are you an actor?” and “I’m a fan.” The number of followers and messages continued to skyrocket even as I panicked.

And among these messages was one from a talent agency… It looked like a scouting offer no matter how I saw it.

That’s right… I was also scouted during the school trip. By Hiragi-san’s agency.

I had always thought it was a prank, but maybe that too…

Another message from a talent agency? You’ve got to be kidding me.

“I’ve just started.”

That’s the only tweet I’d posted so far.

Why are the retweets piling up so quickly?

“…”

And before I knew it, I’d received messages on LINE from Yamamoto, Shibuya-san, and even Hiragi-san just now.

Just like before, I couldn’t figure out why they were paying so much attention to me.

After all, whether it’s this me or the usual me, I’m still the same loner, aren’t I?

As I thought about it, the words Yamamoto and Tanaka-kun had said to me flashed back in my mind.

“Mamiya-kun, you’re really cool… Seriously cool.”

“Admit it, you are cool. If you think back on all the events that have happened so far, things will start to make sense, won’t they?”

Ugh…

But can I really believe those words?

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But when I think back on all the incidents with those girls, it’s really…

Even this Twitter situation…

“…”

And before I knew it, driven by impulse, I found myself stepping out of the house…