The Villain Who Got Pinned Down Until He Ran Out Of Stamina ~ This Time I Raised The Protagonist's Affection Too Much And Everyone Fell For Me~

“Stop getting in our way when we’re desperately trying to interact with everyone on equal terms!!!”

He wasn’t shouting like that just for my sake. He was simply expressing his honest feelings.

Even though I understood this in my mind… my chest became unbearably hot, and I was deeply moved.

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“There, that should do it…”

Since I obviously couldn’t leave her unconscious on the floor, I laid Tajima’s girlfriend on the bed.

I had done what I had wanted to do. If I sent a message to Yuito saying it was over, he would probably relay it to everyone.

It was when I was leaving the room while checking my phone that I finally noticed a certain someone.

“Whoa!? You startled me…!”

A strange voice escaped me involuntarily. Leaning against the wall right next to the room was Riina.

“Here.”

“Huh?”

She was holding something out to me. Looking at it… it was a sweet bun. Perfect timing for me as I was hungry, but…

“Uh, what is this? Consolation?”

“Just something extra.”

Looking at Riina more carefully, she was holding two bottles of drinks in her hand.

“You can think of it as payback for treating me to a drink yesterday.”

“I see. Then I won’t hold back… Thanks for the food.”

“Huh, you’re eating it already?”

Being genuinely hungry, I immediately opened the sweet bun package and bit into it.

“Mm! Delicious!”

“I’m glad.”

I finished the sweet bun in just four bites. Now then…

“Riina-san. You were actually listening, weren’t you?”

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been waiting outside the room deliberately.

“… I couldn’t hear anything at all. Although I did hear the last part.”

“Well, it would be pretty bad if conversations inside were completely audible through the door. Oh, the last part. Yeah, when I shouted from the bottom of my stomach.”

“…Why was your final statement… that?”

“Stop getting in our way when we’re desperately trying to interact with everyone on equal terms!!!”

Ah, that…

Though part of it was because I was really pissed off about being bad-mouthed without any attempt to understand what it was like to be misjudged by appearance…

“I thought that if I had yelled ‘Don’t judge people by their appearance!’ there… it wouldn’t have been convincing at all.”

Confining a girl in a room, yelling at her… my actions were not only far from praiseworthy, but certain to be criticized—exactly what one would expect from my appearance.

“So I decided to just speak my honest feelings. Besides, didn’t you say it yourself last night, Riina-san?”

“Could it be… you’re looking for a solution from me?”

“I’m not.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Asking for a solution from someone like you who doesn’t fit in with the class… that wouldn’t work…”

“True, even if I came up with a solution, it wouldn’t be convincing! So you just wanted me to listen to you?”

“Yeah… Even if you usually hold it in, there are times when you just… want to let it all out…”

“I can’t resolve things peacefully. Because no matter what solution I come up with, it would have zero credibility… But I still took action because… I’m just a simple-minded guy who’s trying to make things go as smoothly as possible afterward by scaring her with this intimidating face of mine and words.”

When I grinned while showing my teeth… Riina turned her face away with a pout.

“That last statement…”

“Hm?”

“It pissed me off but also felt a bit refreshing.”

“Which is it?”

“I was kind of annoyed when Kasajima came up with that plan on his own, but when you yelled, it felt a bit refreshing.”

“Nobody asked for details!!”

“You’re loud.”

“I’m not loud!”

“…”

“Pfft.”

“Fufu.”

“Hehe… hahaha!”

“Fufu, ahahaha!”

As we bantered back and forth… when we looked at each other’s faces, laughter just spilled out.

Riina, who was called a little devil and who said she was playing a role herself… At that moment, she was laughing heartily, showing her teeth. Through the game screen, and now, it was the first time I had seen such an expression on Riina’s face.

After Tajima’s girlfriend regained consciousness, I let Tajima and Riina into the room one at a time. I was there as a sort of guardian.

First was Tajima, who was at the root of all this.

“You… cheater!!!”

“Buheeee!!“

He was being slapped hard by his girlfriend. Well, he was a jerk who fell for another girl and talked about breaking up. It was a deserved punishment.

And as for Riina…

“I didn’t flirt with your boyfriend. But… if you took it that way because of my appearance and behavior, I’m sorry. But if that’s the case, you’re partly to blame as well.”

She spoke her mind clearly.

Tajima’s girlfriend seemed uneasy throughout in front of Riina, but…

“…I’m sorry.”

In the end, she apologized sincerely.

After that, she returned to her own room. Whether she would complain to her friends or spread rumors based on the premise that she did nothing wrong… that was unknown. But she would probably stay quiet for a while.

And so the case of the missing gift money was, at least on the surface, temporarily resolved.

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“Alright, get on the bus!”

After saying goodbye to the facility staff who had taken care of us, we got on the bus as instructed by our homeroom teacher, Takebayashi-sensei.

“The school trip is ending, huh.”

“Yeah.”

“It went by so quickly.”

“It was fun.”

“Yeah!”

Despite the incident with the gift money, it really was fun. This was thanks to Yuito being friendly with me…

“Thanks, Yuito.”

“? Yeah.”

The protagonist really was a good guy…

“Hey, Kasajima! Comfort me~”

Tajima, who was sitting in front of them, stuck his head out from his seat with a tearful face.

“Huh? No way. You should seriously reflect on what you did.”

“Come on~ You were so reliable back then~”

“That’s a different matter.”

If only Tajima hadn’t talked about breaking up with his girlfriend, none of this trouble would have happened.

When I glanced toward the beautiful sisters, Riina was sleeping, probably tired. Mahiro next to her was glued to her smartphone. It was probably the photos of Yuito I had sent that she was looking at.

After a while, our homeroom teacher raised his voice and said,

“Listen up, everyone! The school trip isn’t over until you get home!”