Chapter 42: My Fiancée and Helping.

TL: lime
ED: Spynine01

“Both of you! I’m Sorry! But I need your help!”

In the morning――I arrived at school as usual, sat down in my seat as usual, put my bag down as usual, when Shijo, who was sitting next to me, stood between us, put her hands together, and asked for our help.

Shiori, who was wearing her headphones, seemed to have noticed something was off, so she took them off and put them around her neck.

“What’s wrong? All of a sudden?”

I asked, and she started to explain, “You see…”

“Now, we’re making a video for the club’s new student guide, but we’re totally understaffed…”

“Ah. You were filming at the fountain before winter break.”

“That’s right. We haven’t finished filming yet… And I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make it in time with editing and the rest at this rate…”

“Please!” The Angel of Affection and Elegance bowed her head with her hands clasped together even further.

I naturally looked behind me and saw Shiori, and she said, “Alright, I will..” She accepted with a few simple words.

“Really!? Nanasegawa-san!”

“I don’t mind.”

“Uwah…! Thank you!!”

Shijo took Shiori’s hand and jumped up and down to express her joy.

Shiori――was probably embarrassed at that.

“So, Isshiki-kun, you’re good too, right?”

“I didn’t say I’m good yet, though, did I?”

“Eh? Why not?”

I scratched my head and said with a wry smile, “No, my part-time job――,”

To which Shijo responded with,

“You found one!? What kind of job did you take?”

“It’s not that――”

“You’re looking for one――right?”

When Shiori said this, Shijo said, “What.” sounding like they were very out of sync.

“That’s good then, isn’t it?”

“I’m busy looking for one.”

When I said that, Shiori slashed my words instantly and said, “Lies”.

“You’re just moping around at home.”

“Eh?ー What’s thatー… ――Why does Nananasegawa-san know about that?”

When Shijo tilted her head and asked Shiori, “Ah…” her natural voice leaked out due to the shock.

Shiori, who just slashed me so violently, was about to get slashed by Shijo as well.

She glanced at me, as if she were asking me for help.

I shook my head and said, Don’t say it!, through telekinesis.

Seeing me like this, Shiori said with a slightly impatient expression.

“It looks like he’s moping around.”

When she rephrased it with as little expression as possible, Shijo followed in, saying, “I understand”.

Apparently, Shijo didn’t feel any different looking at me…

“Isshiki, you planned and studied hard before the tests, but other than that, you seem to just mope around, don’t you?”

“What? What’s with that very specific prediction?”

“AHAHA. I don’t know.”

As Shijo laughs, the handsome Touma arrives at school, calling out “Sumire”.

Touma looked at us as if he were comparing us and then asked Shijo.

“Did you ask them about it?”

“Yes. Nanasegawa-san is okay. ――but…”

Shijo looked at me, and Touma caught up and looked at me.

“Hmm…”

When Touma adjusted his glasses and before he said something, I asked him, “W-What is it?” he smiled at me.

“I don’t know what will happen when the rumor of your engagement floats around campus. I guess you didn’t look at those fan club members hard enough before.”

“Ah! You! That’s dirty!”

“Dirty?”

When he said that, Touuma called out, “Nanasegawa-san.”

“It’s not a problem if I tell everyone about it, is it?”

“No problem.”

“――I heard that.”

The voice that said to me with a smug look on his face and adjusted his glasses was so refreshing――.

“Why are you colluding with them!?”

When I asked Shiori, she denied it, saying, “I’m not colluding with them at all”.

“In the first place, I don’t care what they say about me anyways.”

“I’m not okay with it though. ――I mean, why is Shiori okay with being told off so easily?”

When I asked her that, she got a little flustered and said, “Well, that’s…”.

――Maybe… are you trying to get people to talk about me more? About me――.

“If people hear that I have a fiance, no one would come near me anymore.”

“Ah… it’s for some kind of evil reason after all.”

I was foolish to expect even a little bit coming from her.

“O-Other than that… No other reason.”

“I understand. There’s nothing else then.”

When I said that, Shiori looked a little pissed off and said to me,

“If word gets out that I’m your fiancée, Kojiro would get punished, right? That’s the best reward for an M like Kojiro.”

“No, I don’t think that’s something that an M would like…”

“So you admit you’re an M then?”

“No, I didn’t!”

When will the misunderstanding of me being a masochist get cleared up…?

“――Um… you two.”

Shijo calls out to us with a furtive glance.

“No more lovers’ quarrels please.”

Touma looked at me with his glasses and said.

“In any case, come to the clubroom after school today.”

It’s not confirmed that I’ll be there though. Well, it doesn’t matter…

“All right.”

“Okay. I’ll explain the details in the clubroom. ――Don’t run away, okay?”

“I won’t run away.”

He laughed and said, “Maybe you’d get rewarded for running away,” he blurted out from behind me.

“I’m not an M!”