The World Becomes a World Where Chastity Is Reversed?! - 9

Chapter 9: So Tired…

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After several hours had passed since the morning homeroom ended, it was now lunchtime. So I was sitting at my desk, leisurely eating some prepared bread I had bought at the convenience store…

“Wow, Uegami-kun, you’re so cool! And your body is so slim and pretty!”

“Yeah, yeah, totally! Hey, did you do any sports or something?”

“Ah, thank you. Umm, well, at my old school I was in the track-and-field club the whole time.”

“Oh, so you were in track-and-field! Wow, so you were a sports guy! Nice, nice!”

“You’re this cool and you did sports? The ‘popular guy’ factor is way too strong! And yet, Uegami-kun, you seriously never had a girlfriend before??”

While I was quietly eating my prepared bread at my own desk, a bunch of girls from my class rushed over and bombarded me with questions. And every single one of them was the flashy, energetic gyaru-type. I was extremely shocked by the situation, but I still answered the flashy gyaru girls’ questions seriously.

“Y-yeah, the place I lived in was really rural, and since the school I went to until now was an all-boys school, there weren’t really many girls my age around me.”

“Hee, I see! Ah, then, do you have the desire to have a girlfriend or anything like that?”

“Eh!? N-no, well of course I do, but… I’m still going to be busy for a while just trying to get used to Tokyo, so I probably won’t think about having a girlfriend or anything for quite a while…”

“Ahh, true, Tokyo’s a big city, so it might take you a while to get used to it, Uegami-kun. Ah, I know! Then how about we go sightseeing around Tokyo together on the next day off??”

“Ah! No fair! I wanna go too!”

“Ah, ahaha… I really appreciate you saying that, but right now I’m still busy with unpacking the house and all sorts of other stuff. So I don’t think I’ll be able to go sightseeing around Tokyo for a while…”

“Ehh? Ah, well, yeah, I guess it is rough right after moving. Oh—”

Kiin koon kaan koon…

“Ah, the bell rang… Too bad. I wanted to talk with you more, Uegami-kun…”

“Yeah, seriously. Ah, then let’s talk again after school!”

“Y-yeah, okay.”

“Yep! It’s a promise! See you later!”

“See ya!”

“Y-yeah, see you…”

And just like that, I was finally freed from the nonstop questioning of the flashy gyaru girls. But I never expected to be surrounded and interrogated by so many flashy gyaru girls, so I was overwhelmed the whole time. Even now, I still felt a bit tired… And during the conversation with those gyaru girls, I realized something: in this chastity-reversed world, I apparently ranked pretty high in the male caste. According to the girls, doing sports also counted as a big popularity factor.

I mean, being popular itself was honestly nice, but having a whole group of aggressive gyaru girls come at me this hard was kind of scary… Also, like Narumi-neesan had said before, I guess the girls in this world really were all carnivorous wolf-girls. They were smiling while they talked, but their eyes looked totally predatory. So while I was thinking about that, I returned to eating my lunch now that the barrage of questions from the flashy gyaru group was finally over.

“Haa… But man, I’m really exhausted…”

“Mm, good job.”

“Eh? Oh—ah, yeah. Thanks, Amagi-san.”

As I sighed, Amagi-san, who sat at the desk next to mine, said that to me. Just like in the morning, she sat with perfect posture, quietly studying. And Amagi-san hadn’t joined the flashy gyaru group earlier. She had just kept studying alone. So I figured she was the type who hated being talked to and wanted to focus on studying, but since she spoke to me, that meant she did intend to talk with me, right? Thinking of it that way, I took it positively and tried talking to her myself.

“No, really, I’m totally worn out. I didn’t think I’d get asked that many questions.”

“Well, isn’t that normal? When the transfer student is a cool-looking guy, everyone in the class is bound to get excited and ask tons of questions.”

Amagi-san said that while continuing her studying. Well, yeah, in the real world too, if a cute girl transferred in, she would absolutely get surrounded and questioned by a group of flashy, extroverted boys. So I guess that made sense.

“Hmm… I guess you’re right… Wait, but if you say that, does that mean Amagi-san also thinks I’m cool?”

“…Who knows. I have zero interest in people’s facial structure. Besides, unlike the other girls, I have no desire at all for a boyfriend or anything like that. So I’m not interested in you.”

“Hee, is that so? Can I ask why?”

“I don’t mind telling you why. I’m aiming for a top national university. So I don’t have the time to be playing around by getting a boyfriend. If I have spare time, I need to spend even one more second studying.”

Amagi-san answered in a calm and flat tone while continuing to study. So the reason she was always studying was really to pass the entrance exams for a difficult university. Studying was the most important thing for her right now, so she had absolutely no interest in spending her youth flirting with boys. Yeah, yeah, I see.

“Haha, I see. Amagi-san, you’re really serious and hardworking. And I think it’s amazing that you’re already studying so hard for exams as a second-year high school student.”

“Hmph. A student’s main role is studying, so I’m not amazing at all. The girls around me who are busy flirting are the weird ones. I’m the one who’s just normal… ah—”

“Hm?”

Plop…

While we were talking, Amagi-san accidentally knocked her eraser off the desk with her arm. The eraser fell to the floor with a soft plop and rolled away. And the rolling eraser bumped into my foot and stopped, so I picked it up.

“Here, you dropped your eraser.”

“Eh… E-eh? Ah, um, th-thank you…”

“Yeah, no problem—wait, huh?”

At that moment, I finally made eye contact with Amagi-san for the first time today. Since she had been studying all morning, she hadn’t turned her face toward me even once. So now, finally, our eyes met…

Huh? Ah, Amagi-san… Her face is totally red!?

As soon as our eyes met, Amagi-san’s face went bright red, and she quickly looked away. And for some reason, she looked extremely nervous. Seeing her so red-faced and tense left me a bit bewildered, but I pulled myself together and handed the eraser to her.

“U-umm, okay, here.”

“Y-yeah, th-thank you…”

I handed the eraser to the blushing, nervous Amagi-san, and she thanked me while still looking away. And at that moment… I remembered something from long ago.

Ah, this… I’ve seen something like this back in elementary school.

My country friend Masatsugu and I had gone to the same school from elementary through high school, and when he was in elementary school, he had zero immunity when it came to talking to girls. He always got super nervous and couldn’t look them in the eye. And the reaction Amagi-san had just shown was exactly the same as how Masatsugu used to be as a nervous little kid. Which meant…

hh, I get it now. It’s not that Amagi-san isn’t interested in boys… She just doesn’t have any immunity to them, so she gets nervous and avoids eye contact entirely.

Realizing that suddenly made me feel a huge sense of closeness toward her.  Well, I mean, of course someone like her felt more familiar to me than the aggressive, carnivorous gyaru types. She was like a normal person, kind of like I was, or like Masatsugu. So even though this was a chastity-reversed world, it didn’t seem like everyone was a carnivorous girl. Well, I guess I would find out more about that as I learned more from here on.

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