When I, a streamer with some more than 10 registered subscribers, announced my retirement with a face-reveal; as all my viewers were the Madonnas of the school, I ended up losing my current place at school all in all. - 51_ My 1st lecture given by Kageno-san ②

51_ My 1st lecture given by Kageno-san ②

Suddenly, as usual, I thought I saw a shadowy appeal from a powerful person, and for some reason, Kageno-san, standing in front of me, turned her head down with her cheeks bright red.

I don’t know why she was reacting like that.

It’s cannot be that she suddenly became embarrassed to call herself the Eminence in the Shadows all of a sudden now.

After all, she had been calling herself that so many times till now, like an idiot after all. Starting to feel ashamed of it after all this time is just plain impossible now.

If she would have felt that, she would have felt it a long time ago.

At any rate, I must thank her again for the help she’s given me today.

“Umm, Kageno-san?”

“Haah, sorry for that! I must have lost my cool there.”

As I thought. It was just a little bit of confusion in her mind. However, I still don’t understand why that confusion would even occur.

“I-I-I-I’m Oto-to-to-toha Kage-ge-geno, str-str-striving to be an Eminence in the shadows, or something like that. Nice to meet you.”

As I expected, today’s Kageno-san is obviously acting strangely.

Somehow she is greeting me as if she is meeting me for the first time. Hmmm, I wonder if I should here for today.

She’s biting her tongue a lot.

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“You’re looking quite in pain even right now, aren’t you? I’m sorry about this morning. I’m sorry for what happened this morning, and I hope we’ll have a good day.”

I guess now. There’s nothing wrong huh, moreover she has got a good observation as well.

To be honest, there was a part of me that was looking at her oddly, but she seems to be all right now, so I guess I can ask her to help me with that now.

“Yes, I’ll be in your care!”

I bowed deeply.

“So, Hiroto, I received a message from you today saying that you wanted to cheer up, but I don’t understand what it was all about. Care to explain?”

Well, obviously that’s impossible to understand.

If in the morning I suddenly receive a message saying, ‘I want to cheer up,’ right at the morning, even I, myself would not be confident to what to think about that kind of situation.

Apparently, it’s necessary to tell her in detail. I don’t know if Kageno-san will understand it well though.

If she doesn’t understand, then I won’t be able to ask her with the help as well after all. So, if I tell her everything regarding the situation I was at, that should be good enough, right?

“I see, so that’s the case. Since you know, I have a gloomy personality, don’t I? I’m not good at conversing as well.”

“Really?”

Yes,……, Nn, did she just say that question implying denial of the assessment of myself just now.

I do have a gloomy personality, don’t I? And I’m not a good communicator as well.

Eh, eh. I’m not wrong now, am I?

“I don’t think you have a gloomy character, nor bad at communicating, though?”

“No, no. I don’t have any friends as well.”

“Isn’t that because you’re not trying to make any. I have no friends as well. Because I don’t try to make any after all.”

“Eh, you don’t have any?!”

I was sure you at least have friends. Even though coming from someone who doesn’t have any friends, Kageno-san feels like a character that would likely to be popular in some way or another, and she is a pretty girl in addition to that. I thought she had a best friend or two.

“Un. I don’t have any.”

“Eh?”

“What do you mean by ‘eh’! And what’s with those eyes. Even Hiroto doesn’t have any, don’t you.”

“No, well, what you say is true, but, I thought that if it was Kageno-san then—-.”

“I don’t need any friends you know. I’m going to be an eminence in shadows. If I had friends, it would hinder my activities.”

A question suddenly popped into my head. Yes, Kageno-san is a pretty girl. Even though she is a little strange on the inside, she is not a bad person at all.

I don’t think it would be surprising if she had become someone popular, but I wonder if she’s ever been confessed to till now.

Obviously she have been normally right, in the 2-D world, beautiful girls are confessed to almost every single day.

If it was the same for the 3-D world as well, it is possible that they would be troubled by the daily rush of confessions they would go through after all.

“Can I ask you a small question?”

“Nn, ah, sure.”

“Have you ever been confessed to before, Kageno-san?”