The World Becomes a World Where Chastity Is Reversed?! - 14

Chapter 14: How Others View Uegami-kun (Amagi’s POV)

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One morning.

Scrible scrible……

I went to school early as usual and studied in the classroom. Or rather, regardless of whether it was morning or not, I was always studying. There was a reason why I studied hard every single day. It was to study and get into a famous, top-tier university. Ever since I was a child, my parents had raised me telling me that getting into a good university was the most important condition for becoming a respectable adult. I believed those words, and up until today, I had worked hard and studied every day. I studied a lot every day so I could get into a good university that my parents would approve of. But I was the only one who studied properly every day like that, and my classmates around me were completely different—none of them even tried to study.

“Ahaha, look at this picture! I went to take purikura with my boyfriend yesterday!”

“Whoa, nice! A kiss purikura? You two are super lovey-dovey! Maybe I’ll try it next time too!”

“Ahaha, you should, you should! Hana, you go do it too!”

And today as well, the cheerful voices of the girls excitedly talking filled the classroom. Most of the girls in my class were idiots who got boyfriends and spent their days just playing around. From the voices around me, I constantly heard vulgar stories like going out with their boyfriends or picking up guys in town and hanging out with them.

Haah, really… Doing nothing but that while still students is just so stupid.

Looking down on those foolish girls, I continued studying. After all, a student’s duty was obviously to study, and inappropriate relationships between boys and girls were supposed to be prohibited by the school rules. Even so, to break school rules and date boys, or pick up guys in town and go out at night… I could only think of it as utterly foolish.

Hmph, honestly…If they can’t even follow such simple rules while they’re still students, they’ll definitely struggle once they’re adults in the future.

Girls who dated boys or fooled around picking up guys were surely going to have a hard time with entrance exams or job hunting. And someone like me, who studied properly while looking ahead to the future, would ultimately become the winner in life. Imagining myself as that future winner, I quietly continued my studying alone.

“Oh, right! By the way, did you hear about Uegami-kun?”

“…”

But at that moment…My pen suddenly stopped moving. Because the girls in my class suddenly started talking about Uegami-kun. Uegami-kun was a boy who had recently transferred to our school, and he sat next to me. Up until now, I had always focused on studying at school every day, so I never had a single friend who talked to me, but Uegami-kun was the only one who always talked to me whenever something happened. So even though he was a transfer student, he was the boy I talked to the most… Well, sort of like a friend. But because I had spent my whole life without any tolerance for boys, whenever I saw a boy’s face, my own face turned red, so I couldn’t really look Uegami-kun in the eyes when talking to him. That was something I wanted to fix little by little…

Anyway, back to the point: when my classmates started talking about Uegami-kun, who was basically my friend, I ended up getting curious and my pen stopped moving.

“Oh, I heard, I heard! When a third-year senpai was carrying heavy notebooks, Uegami-kun helped her, right? He’s so nice!”

“I heard that too! And I also heard he helped out a first-year girl! Uegami-kun is seriously too nice!”

“Eh? I didn’t know that! Tell me, tell me!”

“Well, you know, a little while ago, a first-year girl who had morning practice for her club got dizzy and collapsed in the hallway, but Uegami-kun rushed over and helped her! And even though she was all sweaty after practice, he didn’t make a single unpleasant face and supported her all the way to the nurse’s office!”

“Whaaat!? Amazing! He’s kind, strong, gentlemanly, and with that looks!? He’s a real prince!”

…Huh, so that happened. A real prince, huh… I guess if you heard stories like that, you might think so.

Listening to the girls talk, I thought that. Sure, about him… Well, I did think he was a good-looking boy.

Ah, b-but it’s not like I have any feelings for him beyond that! I’m busy studying! So yes, he’s good-looking, but I don’t have any feelings beyond that, okay!?

“Yeah, yeah, he really is like a prince! And he talks to us girls so casually, and he always has that gentle smile, so he’s super charming! He totally feels like the ultimate prince ever!”

“Ahaha, totally! Oh, and did you know this? The lunch Uegami-kun eats every day… Apparently he makes it himself!”

Eh… The lunch he eats is all homemade!?

Hearing that completely shocked me. I had glanced at his lunch a few times during breaks, and it always looked really delicious. To think that amazing lunch was all made by him… His boy-skill level was way too high!

Ah, speaking of which… I haven’t eaten anything my parents cooked in ages…

My mother was always busy with work, and my father went off to hang out with his younger wife, so my dinners were always convenience-store bento or bread. Today’s lunch was, as usual, convenience-store bread. So I had always envied Uegami-kun’s lunch, but who would’ve thought it was his own homemade lunch…

“Wow, he’s good at cooking too!? He really is a perfect prince! Aah, I want to date a boy like Uegami-kun… He’s not dating anyone right now, right? Maybe I’ll confess to him when I break up with my current boyfriend!”

“Yeah, apparently he’s not dating anyone right now. But you know, I heard he’s been confessed to a lot of times already, but he rejected every single one.”

…Huh, really?

Hearing that surprised me a little. Usually boys tended to date girls who confessed to them, but Uegami-kun wasn’t dating anyone.

“Eh? Really!? But why? He said he wanted a girlfriend, didn’t he?”

“Yeah, right? And yet he doesn’t date anyone. It’s super weird. That’s why lately, people have been calling him ‘the Unconquerable Prince.’”

“Heeey, really!? Whoa, I wanna be the first one to conquer that Unconquerable Prince!”

“Ahaha, Hana, you have a boyfriend right now, so that’s impossible. Even Uegami-kun wouldn’t date a girl who already has a boyfriend.”

“Ahaha, well, that’s true. Oh! Speaking of my boyfriend—”

And the girls went back to getting excited about their boyfriends again. So I stopped listening to their conversation……Wait, oh no. I stopped studying without noticing… Because I had been listening so closely to my classmates talking about Uegami-kun, my hands had completely stopped. This wasn’t the time to be doing something like that…What was I doing…? So I pulled myself together and hurried back to my studies.

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