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~

“Huh? Kasajima Yuji? Ha. Who’s that? I don’t know him!”

Well, I didn’t know you either.

A blonde man suddenly appeared and glared at me. I wasn’t acquainted with him, but…

“Hibari-chan, it’s been a while!”

Since he called Hibari by her name with the familiar “-chan” suffix, he might have been acquainted with her. If he was just talking to an acquaintance, I had no intention of interrupting and getting in the way.

“…”

When I glanced back, however, Hibari maintained her usual expressionless face. Not even an eyebrow twitched. Furthermore, rather than seeming happy to meet an acquaintance, she appeared to harbor negative emotions, as if she found him bothersome.

That’s why I appeared in front of Hibari.

“Hey, don’t just show up out of nowhere and get in the way!”

The blonde man grabbed my shirt collar with force, but my body didn’t budge an inch. That was because I was bigger than him in both height and build.

“…”

“Guh…”

When I looked down at him silently, the blonde man’s shoulders trembled. Though he had gotten involved impulsively, he seemed intimidated by my appearance.

Since this was an aquarium, I wanted to settle things as peacefully as possible…

“This person is with me, so I’d appreciate it if you’d stop hitting on her…”

I hoped he would give up with those words. However… it didn’t seem like things would go that smoothly.

“Huh? There’s no way someone as rough-looking as you would be with Hibari-chan!”

The blonde man pointed at me and said this with a slight laugh in his voice.

I sighed, thinking he wouldn’t give up easily after all…

And somehow, this overlapped with a familiar scene.

“Hey, Saeki. Why are you with the beautiful sisters?”

In the game, Kasajima Yuji used to pester the protagonist like this. He didn’t care about others and always prioritized his own desires.

He thought his position as the son of a major manufacturer meant he could control everything with money. He would surround himself with women using money and thought nothing of hurling insults at people.

I might have become such a person too.

But now it was different. Even if I was Kasajima Yuji, my inner self was different.

So I would proceed in my own way.

“Sorry for looking rough. I was born with this appearance. But today, I’m the one who gets to be by Hibari’s side.”

I said this decisively.

“That’s impossible… with someone like this…”

The blonde man’s face contorted as if he had bitten into something bitter. Then, he suddenly looked behind me at Hibari…

“Hibari-chan… you have terrible taste. Choosing someone like this, you’re weird too, Hibari-chan. No wonder you were always alone in high school.”

“…What?”

A threatening voice involuntarily escaped me.

This guy… just because things didn’t go his way, he insulted Hibari—

“Kasajima… Yuji… K-Kasajima Yuji!?”

Suddenly, the man standing behind the blonde man looked at me and began trembling.

“Huh? Do you know this guy?”

“Know him? If it’s Kasajima, that’s one of our major business partners! And with that full name and intimidating face… The person in front of us… no, the person before us is the only son of the Kasajima Group!”

Come to think of it, this Kasajima Yuji guy was also a rich kid from a big corporation. That meant my face was well-known, huh. Since people always focused on my intimidating face, I had almost forgotten about that.

“Isn’t this kind of bad…?”

“Are we picking a fight with the son of an important person right now…?”

“…Ah, hello there.”

I was getting attention from the two women as well, so I bowed lightly.

“I-I’m going home! Please excuse us!”

The man bowed deeply and left. The two women with him also gave me strained smiles before quickly walking away from the scene.

With all his companions gone, the blonde man stood there dumbfounded.

“Wh-what!? Those guys left me behind. And after all the fun they had thanks to me…”

He seemed to come to his senses, but the three of them had already become small figures in the distance.

…One more push should do it.

This time, I approached the blonde man myself.

“Are you going to continue? Or do I need to say this for you to understand?”

I took a shallow breath.

“…Are you planning to lay a hand on my woman?”

I made my voice as low as possible and sharpened my gaze as I said this.

“Guh… D-damn it, I’ll remember this!!”

With a frightened expression and a parting threat, the blonde man left.

“Phew. Finally over… My intimidating face played an unexpectedly useful role this time.”

I never expected this intimidating face to be remembered as the son of a major corporation’s president… I’d have to be a bit more careful about how I behaved in public from now on.

“Hibari, are you okay— Ow!?”

The moment I turned toward Hibari, my cheek was suddenly pinched. Then it was pulled left and right.

“Wh-what what!? It hurts!? You’re angry about me saying ‘my woman’, right!? I’m sorry! But I thought saying that would make him give up! You didn’t like it, right!? I’m really sorry!!”

“… sigh.”

Perhaps because I’d apologized immediately, Hibari released her hand that had been pinching my cheek.

“So were those people actually acquaintances of yours, Hibari?”

“They were classmates from high school. However, it wasn’t much different from being hit on.”

Then I was right to intervene.

“Did that guy… or rather, did those four people say something to you?”

“Why do you think that?”

“Because your face looked a bit sad.”

While Hibari was basically expressionless, she had looked sad until just before I had intervened.

“Besides, if it was just ordinary pickup artists, you could have easily driven them away, right, Hibari?”

“That’s…”

“That’s?”

Was there some other reason she didn’t immediately drive away that blonde man?

“N-no. It’s nothing.”

“I see. If you say so, Hibari, I won’t press you. But what rude people, I almost ended up punching them. Well, I know lots of good things about Hibari, so serves them right.”

“I think you’re using ‘serves them right’ incorrectly.”

“Really? But I thought they were missing out by not getting to know Hibari properly.”

I showed my teeth in a grin.

“… Yuji-sama. Please don’t act so obliviously. I can’t look you in the eye.”

“You mean it’s too painful to watch!?”

That ‘my woman’ comment from earlier must have really bothered her!

“I’ll try to improve… B-but!”