My Online Friends Turned Out To Be the Ultra-Beautiful Girls in My Class and They Were Yandere - 26

Chapter 26: Hara Kamitsuru’s Bad Reputation

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Beep beep beep. I woke up to the sound of my alarm. It was six o’clock. It felt like I had a very pleasant dream. I see. So that shell in the photo frame had that kind of meaning.

“Good morning, Haa-kun.”

“Morning, Muna, Haruna.”

When I looked around, Muna and Haruna were staring at me with bright smiles. They definitely saw my sleeping face. Seriously, what time did they wake up?

Come to think of it, Rin-nee isn’t here. Where did she go?

“You looked like you were sleeping really comfortably. Did you have a nice dream?”

“Yeah. Just a bit of an old dream. Huh, Rin-nee… Rin, where is she?”

“Rin-san is downstairs making breakfast.”

Right then, a really sweet smell drifted up from below. Rin-nee’s cooking… 

This is bad, my appetite kicked in the moment I woke up…

“Haa-kun, can I ask you a little about your dream?”

“I don’t mind, but why?”

“Hakkun, you looked really happy. So I was wondering what kind of dream you had. We were just talking about it, Muna-chan and I.”

Was I really making that happy of a face? Also, what were these two talking about while watching me sleep? Should I tell them? Well, I was certain they were my childhood friend. Rin-nee said so, after all. That meant the two in that dream really were Haruna and Muna. But there was the possibility they’d suddenly change like Rin-nee… no, they were acting like usual. 

Alright, I’ll tell them.

“Muna. Haruna. We were childhood friends, right?”

“!?”

“Huh?”

“I don’t know when it was. But I had a dream where the three of us went to the sea. A dream about the shell in that photo frame.”

They didn’t suddenly change. I didn’t even need to wait for an answer. Just by seeing the tears running down their cheeks, I knew it was true. It was still just a tiny fragment of my memories. But those tears definitely made me want to remember more. I wanted to know more about everyone.

“You remembered… Haa-kun?”

“That’s right. We’ve known each other for a long time.”

Now wasn’t the time to be thinking about that though. This was bad. If Rin-nee saw this, it would be the start of battlefield round two.

“Breakfast is ready… wait. What’s going on here?”

“H-Hakkun, he remembered. About me and Muna-chan.”

I knew she’d come at this timing, damn it. Well, it seemed the gods really understood timing. But thanks to Haruna covering for me right away, that helped.

“It’s only part of it so far. I still don’t remember things like what we talked about back then.”

“That’s good, isn’t it? Hehe, I’m happy too.”

“You seem pretty calm about it, Rin-chan?”

“Of course. I already had him remember everything about me. Anyway, that aside. Breakfast is ready. Let’s eat.”

Just as Rin-nee said, we went downstairs and ate the sandwiches on the table. They were simply delicious. I thought this must be what people meant when they said food was so good your cheeks could fall off. While we were eating, for some reason, Muna and Haruna kept glaring at Rin-nee the whole time. Even so, they still fed me bites like usual. Before long, everyone finished eating. Then we washed our faces, changed clothes, and got ready. Time to head to school.

“By the way, the student council is planning a school event right now. Do you three have anything you’d like to do?”

“Let’s see. I think I’d like to play dodgeball. Of course, boys versus girls.”

“I’m not really good at sports, so maybe something like karuta or card games!”

I was clearly the odd one out here. The Ice Queen. The cheerful class mood-maker. The student council president. And standing next to them was just a plain, unremarkable guy. Probably because Rin-nee was with us, the killing intent directed at me on the way to school was on a completely different level than before. I should seriously be careful at night. I might get stabbed.

For now, I should quietly put some distance between us. 

Yeah. If I’m going to be envied just for being with them, it might actually be better to become a stalker instead. It’s for self-preservation. Self-preservation.

“Hara-kun, you mustn’t walk away. We don’t know what might happen.”

“Haruna is right. Come on, let’s hold hands as we walk.”

“Ah! You two are unfair! I want to hold Haa-kun’s hand too!!”

Of course, there was no way these three would let me get away. If anything, they made things even worse.

This is bad. I’ve already been killed hundreds of times over just from the looks people are giving me.

And while all that was happening, we arrived at school. I parted with Rin-nee right away, and the three of us headed to the classroom. That was when I noticed it. The whispers, the murmurs, and the stares gathering on me.

“…”

“…Hara-kun, are you okay?”

“This is nothing. I’m fine.”

Even if I didn’t want to, I could tell. These weren’t looks of jealousy. They were filled with malice. Contempt, disgust, hatred. These were the same looks I had been showered with endlessly back in middle school. In other words, my trauma. I strained my ears. No, they strained themselves on their own. And then I heard it. Voices talking about me.

“That’s Kamitsuru from Class 2, right? The one who called Tanaka out, beat him senseless, then threatened Tanatsuki-san and forced her to become his girl.”

“He did something like that too? I heard he threatened Misono-san the same way with violence and made it so she couldn’t leave his side.”

“And on top of that, didn’t he mess around with girls back in middle school and brag about it?”

Why? Why hasn’t it disappeared? Why is it increasing? None of these rumors are true. I beat up Tanaka? It’s the opposite, I was the one who got beaten. I threatened Muna and Haruna and made them mine? No. It’s because we’ve known each other for so long.

This is bad. I feel sick. I’m going to throw up. My vision is blurring. It hurts. It’s painful. No, I never did any of that–

“!? Hara-kun!”

“Haa-kun!? Haa-kun!!”

“Muna, hurry to the infirmary!”

“Yeah! I know!”

My vision went completely dark.

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