It's a Chastity-Reversed World, But It's Different From What I Imagined? - 27

Chapter 27: Together With Me

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The night after we’d gone to cheer for the soccer match, I was thinking over what Seiya had told me. I’d always assumed Seiya would be the protagonist in this world, that the girls would unconditionally choose Seiya, and that Seiya would love a whole harem of girls in return.

But Seiya’s worry was probably the worry of every boy living in this chastity-reversed world. I had said what I wanted to say. Whether that had been the right thing, I went to sleep without an answer.

“Yoru, good morning. And thanks for listening to my worries this weekend.”

When we got to school, Seiya greeted me like that.

“Morning. Don’t sweat it.”

Seiya’s face looked brighter than it had at the weekend.

“Also, shouting out loud like that felt really good.”

When I’d been cheering, Seiya had started shouting loudly with me to support the soccer team. Letting off steam by shouting when you were troubled was a good thing. I was glad Seiya’s mood had cleared up.

“See? Cheering for someone feels good, you know.”

“Yeah. I never knew about that. Until now I thought I just had to be cheerful and go along with everyone. But that was just forcing myself to fit in because I didn’t know the other person well.”

Seiya seemed to have come to his own answer.

“Hey, Yoru. I was thinking about something.”

“Oh, what a coincidence. I was thinking about something too.”

I still hadn’t decided on an answer for Seiya during the night. But a different answer had come to me. We both smiled at each other.

“Yoru. Do you want to create a club with me? I haven’t decided what to do, but I think doing something with you would be fun.”

“What a coincidence. I was thinking of starting a club too. Wanna do it together?”

I had planned to consult Seiya about creating a club. Seiya had been worried about how to deal with girls. We needed a way to solve both our problems.

When I was cheering at the soccer match yesterday, something occurred to me. Since coming to this chastity-reversed world, I’d lost count of how many times things had gone differently than I’d expected.

The kicker was that Seiya—the person I’d thought was the protagonist of this world—didn’t set up a harem or get a girlfriend. No. In fact, he’d said he was scared of girls. This chastity-reversed world was nothing like I’d imagined. This was the reality. The worries of the people living in this world were real. 

“Yoru, have you decided what you want to do?”

“Yeah. I’ve decided.”

“What is it? Tell me.”

Seiya wanted to get to know girls and as for me, girls didn’t come to me even though they were supposed to be the aggressive ones. So we should go to them to learn about them.

“A boys’ cheering squad.”

“A cheering squad?”

Seiya didn’t seem to get it at first.

“Yeah. Membership would be boys only. We’d research girls and cheer for them. Like the other day, we’d go to soccer matches and shout loudly to support them.”

We’d create manly gakuran uniforms and cheer.

“Like a cheerleading club?”

The girls’ cheerleading club appeared when sports teams went to national tournaments. But the girls’ cheerleading club also had competitions, and they couldn’t attend every event.

“Sort of, but a bit different. There aren’t many boys, so we can’t possibly cheer for every girl. So it’ll be strictly by reservation only. We’ll pick and choose who to cheer ourselves.”

“Strict reservation and selection?”

“Yeah. We’d choose who we’d cheer for. We’d pick who could reserve our support.”

Seiya, stunned by my declaration, burst out laughing as he realized what I meant.

“Aha… Ahahaha. What’s that? That’s so selfish.”

Seiya had been frightened by girls, groped, and made to feel awful. If someone did something nasty and made you scared, there was no reason to go out of your way to cheer for them.

“Right? I’d always wondered. Why do we have to read girls’ moods? Girls work hard to be chosen by boys. If they aren’t chosen, they attack men. That scares guys into being herbivore types. Men aren’t weak or timid. I want to show that.”

I stood up and struck a pose. A few girls who’d come early looked over and blushed when I posed. They tried to look away because they knew they shouldn’t stare, but they couldn’t.

That was it. We’d make appeals from our side so they couldn’t look away.

“You really are never boring to be around, Yoru. Okay. I’ll join the cheering squad you make.”

“Alright. The cheering squad’s motto is to be manly. But first, how do we actually create a club?”

Seiya gave me a face like “you don’t even know that?” and sighed at my words, seemingly exasperated.

“You were going to start a club without even knowing that? Ha…. Yoru, you really need me, don’t you?”

The energy had returned to Seiya’s face.

“Yeah. There’s a lot I don’t know. Seiya, be my strategist and teach me things.”

I no longer thought of Seiya as the protagonist of this world. This world wasn’t a storybook. This was the world I lived in. To be precise, this was the chastity-reversed world I wanted to live in. Then I would absolutely make myself into the center of attention—a harem where I was adored.

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