Until My Spirit Was Destroyed By My Super Yandere Childhood Friend And I Fell Into Darkness - Chapter 7 (Kaito, I'm really sorry)

Kaito, I’m Really Sorry

I was more nervous than ever before when the regular test finally arrived after a long night.

I was worried about my test, but more than that, I was worried about Minase-san.

“…… No, I had worked hard in the library every lunch break for the past three weeks to teach her how to study.”

Minase-san had improved so much compared to three weeks ago, so she should be okay.

I told myself that as I took my seat.

I glanced at Minase-san and she noticed my gaze and gave me a thumbs up, smiling.

“What, I thought you were nervous, but you don’t seem nervous. That’s a relief.”

I was worried that the tension would prevent Minase-san from showing her true ability, but it seemed that I didn’t have to worry about that.

While I was thinking about this, the time for the short morning homeroom arrived.

“Good morning, everyone. Today is the day of the long-awaited regular exam, and your teachers are cheering you on, so do your best. I’ll be in touch…….”

As the short homeroom began, the homeroom chemistry teacher, Chika Himemiya, began to talk about the transmittal.

Himemiya-sensei was a young teacher who just graduated from college and was the youngest teacher in this school.

With short black hair, red glasses, and a white coat, Himemiya-sensei is extremely beautiful and is very popular among the male students.

After listening to the instructions, students moved to their seats in order of attendance number and waited for the test to start.

After a while, the test started and I concentrated on solving the problems.

I was feeling that I would have almost a perfect score on Math II in the first period.

The following two hours, World History B and Basic Biology, also presented the expected questions, so there were no problems at all.

It probably went well for Minase-san, too, as she was talking with her friends in high spirits during the break after the test.

“I’m really glad. If I feel like this, I’ll probably be fine for the next three days of testing.”

After today’s test was over, I left the classroom with such a feeling of excitement in my heart.

Incidentally, regular tests at our school are divided into four days, and since they end in the morning, we can go home much earlier than usual.

Then as I was walking down the hallway to the shoeboxes, I saw a boy I recognized from before walking up to me, and my excitement dropped all at once.

There is only one male student in this school who can greatly lower my spirits just by coming into view.

That person is my childhood friend, Alan, who has made everyone I’ve ever cared about or liked fall in love with him without fail.

Alan looked like he wanted to say something when he noticed my presence, but I was going to ignore and walk past him.

We were reasonably close until middle school, but now our relationship has taken a turn for the worse since the girlfriend I dated last year fell in love with Alan.

I knew in my mind that the girlfriend I was dating at the time fell for Alan because I wasn’t attractive enough, but my heart wasn’t convinced.

So I’ve been ignoring Alan since that day and probably will continue to do so.

“Kaito, I’m really sorry.”

Alan said this to me in a whisper that only I could hear as we passed each other.

I almost stopped in my tracks because of it, but I didn’t know what kind of abusive language I would be spouting if I talked to Alan, so I just walked on by.

“…… Speaking of which, the direction Alan walked in is toward my classroom, right? But Saeki-san should be gone by now.”

Miho Saeki, a girl in my class that I had been interested in until recently and Alan’s current girlfriend, had disappeared from the classroom soon after the test.

So if he goes to my classroom, he won’t see Saeki-san.

“Perhaps he doesn’t know that Saeki-san is no longer in the classroom?”

Since the use of smartphones was completely banned on campus, and communication was not freely available, it isn’t surprising that he did not know that Saeki-san wasn’t in the classroom.

If we had remained close in middle school, I would have gone after Alan to tell him that, but with our current relationship, I had no desire to go out of my way to do that.

I walked down the hallway toward the shoebox with these thoughts in my mind, but what was this strange uneasiness?

I don’t know why, but I had a bad feeling, and I stopped and started to think about whether I should go back to the classroom.

“…… No, it’s probably just my imagination. Besides, it’s bad to keep Ellen waiting, so let’s get going.”

I was not sure what to do for a while, but I didn’t want to go back to the classroom because I would be in the same space as Alan, so I unilaterally decided that it was just my imagination.

Then I started walking towards the shoebox where Ellen and I always meet up.

At that time, I didn’t know that I would deeply regret not stopping and returning to the classroom, thinking that such an outcome could have been avoided.