The Story Of How I, A Gloomy Guy, Ended Up Surrounded By the Top-Tier Beautiful Girls In Class After A Seat Change

Chapter 47:

After stopping by the candy store, Ryota Izumiya accompanied Airi Miyama to her house as she guided him.

“Is your house around here, Miyama?”

“Yeah. Just keep going along this road, and it’s the right turn.”

Oh, so Miyama used to attend the elementary and middle schools in the neighboring district.

Her district was west of my house, separated by some distance. Because of this, the elementary and middle schools were different.

“Do your classmates from middle school not go to the same high school?”

“Nope. Airi was the only one from her middle school to get into our high school. Plus, her middle school, Nishi Junior High School, had more troublemakers, so not many tried to get in.”

I see… So it’s Nishi Junior High School. Nishi Junior High School is known for having many troublesome students and a poor reputation for safety. My school, Chubu Junior High School, where Tanaka, Kuroki, and I attended, was quite normal, though.

It seems like very few students from there go to our high school each year… And Airi was one of them.

“Is Airi smart?”

“Not at all. But economically, those expensive private high schools around here were out of the question, so I just studied like crazy because public high school was the only option.”

“But still, getting in is impressive.”

“Do you think so? But I was dead last on the last regular test.”

“Dead last?”

Well, Airi seems busy with her part-time job… I guess it can’t be helped.

Could she be one of those who could do well if she tried?

“Wait, I’ve got it! If I’m dead last on the next final test, my homeroom teacher will ban me from my part-time job!”

“Huh? That’s super serious! It’s a matter of life and death.”

“Yeah yeah! So, Ryota, help me out!”

“H-Help you?”

“Ryota’s smart, right? So let’s have study sessions before the next test and you can help me out, okay?”

Airi said it flirtatiously, looking up at him.

E-Even if you say that…

I can’t take responsibility if something goes wrong…

(Is Airi relying on me?)

“W-Well… I guess I could teach you.”

“Yay! Then it’s a promise! I’ll rely on Ryota tons for the next test after the cultural festival!”

With a cute “hehe,” Airi suddenly picked up her pace and walked ahead.

“Thanks for walking me home, Ryota. My place is in that apartment.”

“I see.”

Airi climbed the stairs to the apartment building and waved back at him.

“See you tomorrow!”

“Y-Yeah.”

After seeing Airi got into her apartment, Ryota headed back home.

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Chapter 48:

After parting with Airi at the apartment building, the usual way home suddenly felt quiet and somewhat lonely.

Airi is natural and noisy, but she’s like a mascot character, always bright, so I feel somewhat calm when she’s around.

(Despite being an introvert, she’s kind to me. She really is a good kid.)

Lost in thoughts about Airi like that, I found myself back home without realizing it.

“I’m home!”

Entering the living room from the entrance, my older sister, lounging on the sofa in just a shirt and underwear, lazily greeted me.

Sigh… Compared to Airi, she’s lacking in the chest department.

“Oh, Ryota? I ate your ice cream for you.”

“Oh, come on! Seriously? I was really looking forward to that limited edition Harden flavor. Damn it! Stupid sister.”

“Oh, and…”

“What now?”

“Tanaka-chan came by earlier.”

Tanaka came here?

I wonder what for.

(Come to think of it, ever since that rooftop conversation with Tanaka, we haven’t talked even on Lime.)

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time with those three beautiful girls, and I haven’t had time to talk nerdy with Tanaka.

“She said she just ‘dropped by,’ but don’t you think she came all the way here because she had something to talk to you about?”

“Yeah, probably.”

“Ask her on Lime, okay?”

“Yeah, I got it.”

I sent Tanaka a Lime message asking, “Can we chat on the phone?” and then returned to my room. While waiting for Tanaka’s reply, I received a picture today from Kuroki.

“Whoa… She’s got twin tails today!?”

A picture arrived showing Kuroki in her school uniform with an under-twin-tail hairstyle, lying on her bed in a selfie.

“Kuroki: Doing my best for the play! Sending you a picture today too? You like this kind of thing, right, Ryota-kun?”

This girl… She really knows how to cater to my otaku habits.

Her beautiful face with twin tails is just unfairly cute. The gap moe is like a thousand times stronger when cute girls do it.

While I was saving Kuroki’s picture and thinking about it, Tanaka replied.

“Tanaka: Understood. I can talk on the phone now.”

I looked at her reply and called Tanaka.

“Long time no see, Tanaka.”

“Oh, Ryota-kun, it’s been a while.”

“She came by earlier, but did she have something to talk to me about?”

“Well, it’s not like she had a specific reason, but I heard some strange rumors about the cultural festival.”

“Strange rumors?”

I have a bad feeling about this…

“Well, something like Ryota-kun playing Snow White at the cultural festival, and Ichinose-san and Kuroki-san from the beautiful girl trio playing the prince or something.”

… Tanaka, that’s not a rumor. That’s the truth.

“Given the gender reversal, it’s weird, isn’t it?”

“…We’re doing it.”

“Huh?”

“I… I’m going to play Snow White. So what?”

“Isn’t that just… recently, Ryota-kun, you’ve been acting kind of weird.”

Tanaka’s voice of disbelief shattered my mental state.

(Stop it already, Tanaka! My life is at zero!)

“Are you really going to play Snow White? So, basically, you’re going to cross-dress?”

“Ah, shut up! I got stuck doing it! There’s nothing I can do about it!”

“I see. You got pushed into it by an extrovert.”

Tanaka understands introverts well, so she instantly grasped my situation.