My Fiancée is a Cool-Headed, Peerless Angel - Chapter 49
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Chapter 49: The Man of Zero
TL: lime
ED: Spynine01
I arrived at school in the morning just as usual, when I was thwarted at the sight in the classroom.
Two of my male classmates had already received chocolates from someone.
The look on their faces is like they were saying, “Well If you want it, you can have it.” Something like that! What’s with that superciliousness?
I was so angry.
If you got some, you should have reacted accordingly!
Why are you acting like you deserve it so much!
Damn it! Did you swap that chocolate for curry roux!? Ah?!
I was so angry, but then I sat down and thought――maybe――maybe? What if there is one? So I quietly looked at my desk.
It’s not there at first glance, but maybe, you know? Maybe it’s in the back, maybe it’s stuck in a textbook? It might be in there――.
“There’s no way it’s in there.”
I turned around at the sound of a cold-hearted voice blurting out some cold-hearted words from behind me, and found Shiori reading with her headphones on as usual.
You never change your character at all, do you!? Give some to me! Give me some chocolate!
――I wanted to say something in retaliation, but I couldn’t, so I sat down at the desk quietly.
That’s right.
I calmed down a little and realized that what Shiori said was right.
I’ve seen what happens to people who get chocolates in elementary school and middle school, so I know.
No one ever had chocolate on their desk after that.
―― I know――I know, but I really want some… Thinking about a chance like this is just…
While lamenting about my misfortune, Valentine’s Day’s morning slowly passed by.
♢
The conversation that takes place every break, “Hey. How many chocolates did you get?”
The boys in the class began to argue and say “One” or “Three”, as if those chocolates were just a score, and that the more the merrier.
Aaahー! How miserable they areー! What a bunch of puny people, arguing with each other over something like chocolateー!? Hahaー! They’re like trash. No! They’re no better than garbage! I can already smell it on them. If I stay here like this, the smell will spread and I’ll begin to rot! Ahー! No, no!
That’s when I made the mistake of going to the bathroom.
In the bathroom, a group of guys were standing in front of the mirror saying, “Isn’t it boring after school?,” “Well, that’s fine, as long as you can eat some chocolate,” “Your face is not so bad,” “Even if your face is good, your skills are not.” They were talking about another dimension, and I felt as if I had entered the bathroom and been transported to another world entirely.
These charlatans are not bad people. I’ve talked to them many times. So I don’t think anything of it――.
“Ah, Shiki. Ciao. Did you get any chocolate?”
“If it was Shiki, would he have gotten ten or something?”
“As one would expect, ten is pretty big. It’s probably a five!”
――This was the only time I thought about giving them a good beating.
I was like, “Zero! You charlatans! Why don’t you shave off all that hair and introduce yourself to the monks? Huh!?”――But I couldn’t say that, so I just smiled bitterly and returned back from the other world.
♢
It’s probably not my imagination that the sound of the chimes ringing sounded especially cruel to me.
Normally, this chime announcing the end of the school day would sound like a gift from God to give me some wings of freedom, but that’s not the case today.
Jealousy――Hatred――Rage――.
Every year… Every year, these emotions swirl around me like a dark shadow.
At the end of the day. I got up at the end of HR on the way home and turned around for the last chunk of the day.
“There’s no more huh…”
The only one I can count on, Shiori, has already disappeared.
Ahー, it’s impossible. Is it zero this year too? Even though I became a highschool student, it was still zero in the end――.
Just when I was about to give up――.
“Isshiki-kun.”
An angel… The Angel of Affection and Elegance called out to me.
Shijo’s appearance today was just as her title implies, an Angel of Affection and Elegance――No! She looked like the Goddess of Affection and Elegance.
This air, this atmosphere, this feeling――.
No, I know. I know I’m not the one you actually like.
But it’s good. It’s okay if it’s just chocolate as the name would imply.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a chi○ chocolate, a half of a k○t-k○t, a handful of p○cky, or whatever――. [ED: I assume these are all chocolate brands, first one being kit-kat and the other being pocky.]
If you can be the Jeanne that puts an end to my disgraceful black history of “the number of chocolates in my life――zero”.
“I have no club activities today, so I’m heading home early.”
“――A-ah.”
I stared at Shijo. The heat in my eyes slowly began to affect me.
Then she tilted her head and asked cutely, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing…”
“Then, see you tomorrow.”
――There’s no God or Buddha in this world…
♢
As if to express my resigned mind, the lights in the house were turned off.
“I thought she went home first..”.
When I got home, there was no sign of Shiori being back at all.
When I checked the mailbox at home, while telling myself, “No, no, no, no” I found that it was not filled with any hopes and dreams, but only with advertisements. It was as if I were finally confronting reality.
There was an ad for a delicatessen with the words “Valentine’s Day Special” on it, and with the last bit of strength I could muster, I tore it up.
That’s why my HP was currently at zero. No chocolates today either.
“Haha… I’ve never hated the word “Zero” in my life as much as I do today…”
I laid down on the bed in my uniform with a thud and began to slowly escape reality.
A/N:
I’m sorry. This story is also partly non-fiction lol.