Why Is the Prettiest Girl in School Trying to Talk to a Loner Like Me during Lunch Break?

Chapter 141 – Dojo Breaking

“My turn! I summon ‘Silver’ to ‘6-1’!

This is checkmate!”

“Kuh… N-not yet! I summon ‘King’ to ‘5-1’ and set it in defense position— T-this way you still can’t checkmate me—”

“Heh… Are you sure about that?”

“What! C-could it be—”

“Destiny Draw! I draw ‘Gold’ from my captured pieces and special summon it to ‘5-2’! This is ‘checkmate’! Take this, Stream of Destruction—Loner Stream!”

“Gyaaaaaaaa!

I-I lose…”

“That’s enough! Winner, Andou-kun! According to our prior agreement, the shogi club will pledge their support to us. Understood?”

“Yes, a shogi player never goes back on his word… We, the shogi club, promise to support you for student council president…”

“Very good!”

“Ah, Class Rep… I’ll wait in the hallway, okay?”

(What am I doing…? When Class Rep said ‘We’re doing dojo breaking!’ I thought it was some kind of metaphor, but she literally dragged me to the shogi club—

‘I challenge the shogi club to a duel! If Andou-kun loses, we’ll do whatever you say. But in exchange… if Andou-kun wins, you must support him!

How about it, will you accept this match?’

—is what she said…

Oh, Class Rep is coming back.) (Andou)

“It’s settled. Andou-kun, let’s go to the next club!”

“Eh! Class Rep, we’re continuing this ridiculous dojo breaking!?”

“Of course. For the current Andou-kun, this brute force method is the most efficient way to raise support rates.”

“But it’s too brute force… And why the shogi club?”

“Because Andou-kun is good at shogi, right? I remember you playing against Yoshida-kun in the classroom before.”

“Oh, that… But what if I lost? Saying something dangerous like ‘we’ll do whatever you say’…”

“Eh, dangerous? What’s dangerous?”

“No no, what do you mean ‘what’… You’re still a girl, Class Rep, so have some sense of danger—”

“Andou-kun, you seem to misunderstand—when I said ‘do whatever you say,’ the target was Andou-kun.”

“I was the target of doing what they say!?”

“Obviously. Why would I become a sacrifice for Andou-kun’s match? You’re the one participating, betting, and benefiting from winning support, so it only makes sense that you’d be the one taking the risk too, right?”

“Well, that’s true but… Don’t make such dangerous promises without my consent!”

“Eh, it’s not dangerous at all. The promise was only to ‘listen to what they say,’ not ‘obey.’ In other words, we just need to ‘hear’ what they have to say.”

“This person is a demon!?”

“Oh my, how rude. Calling a comrade a ‘demon’… I’d prefer to be called an excellent ‘strategist’!”

“Excellent ‘strategist’ huh… Hard to believe from someone making promises like ‘support me if I win’ that are barely within election rules.”

“Eh, I’m following election rules. The student council rule prohibits ‘forcing votes through betting or threats,’ but what I made them promise was only to ‘support Andou-kun,’ right? So… if they ‘support Andou-kun’ and then through their own ‘free will’ choose ‘whoever’ to vote for, I won’t complain. And if they happen to vote for ‘Andou-kun,’ that’s their ‘free will’ so it can’t be called breaking the rules~”

“Wow…”

(Class Rep really has a nasty personality…) (Andou)

“But I didn’t think you’d actually beat the shogi club president.

Where did you learn shogi, Andou-kun?”

“Actually there’s this shogi light novel called ‘Gold and King’s Work’—”

“Ah, I get it, never mind.”

(Of course. It’s Andou-kun, so it has to be ‘light novels.’) (Class Rep)

“Wait, you thought I’d lose? Why make me do ‘dojo breaking’ if losing means no support…”

“Because even losing achieves our goal.”

“Huh?”

“Listen, the ‘promise’ from winning dojo breaking is just a bonus. Our real goal is ‘promoting Andou-kun to third-years’!”

“Appealing me to third-years?”

“Right, the current problem is the student council president spreading Andou-kun’s bad image among third-years, preventing support from rising. And the president has been focusing election activities on sports clubs. So we’ll do dojo breaking at culture clubs with many third-years to rewrite Andou-kun’s image! Winning is great, but even losing, the image of an underclassman challenging upperclassmen on their own turf is good, right? If we lose, we can escape the promise with some excuse, and the opponent will be in a good mood after winning, so our image won’t drop much. Rather, changing from ‘that terrible loner underclassman’ to ‘that cocky loner underclassman’ is still a plus for us, right?”

“Changing from minus 100 to minus 50 seems like a meaningless plus though…”

“Anyway, you won earlier so it’s fine! Really… This is why Andou-kun has become such a twisted loner.”

“No no no… I don’t want to hear about being twisted from you, Class Rep. You might not realize it, but from my perspective, Class Rep is plenty twisted too!”

“Whaaat!? What did you say! I don’t want to hear that from a ‘twisted light novel loner man’!”

“Whaaat!? What! I don’t want to hear it from a ‘scheming big-breasted hidden beauty’ like Class Rep!”

“S-schem— wait, ‘beauty’?”

[Next Episode Preview]

“Everyone, thanks for always supporting us! It’s the Class Rep.

Now then, what’s in store for next time on ‘Nazekanno’?”

“Andou-kun, what did you just… W-wait, I’m a beauty!?”

“Well, I think it’s normal?”

“Hmph! F-for Andou-kun, that’s quite something to say…”

“Good grief, I wish I knew defeat.”

Next time on Nazekanno: “Second Place” – Please look forward to it!

“Next time includes a bonus story too♪”

* Next episode preview may be a fake preview.

[Translation Notes]

– Dojo breaking (道場破り) – Traditional Japanese martial arts practice where challengers visit established dojos to duel masters and students to prove their skill and gain recognition.

– Shogi moves mixed with Yu-Gi-Oh terminology (summon, special summon, etc.)

– Hidden beauty (隠れ美少女) – Someone who doesn’t realize they’re attractive