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

Chapter 60 – Idiot, Honest

“Momo! How was my acting?” Ehhen!

“Ah, ahaha— yeah, it was really innovative—”

“You think so! Ehehe, oh stop it, it wasn’t that amazing~~”

“Ahaha—”

Everyone in class: “(…………)” Silence

“H-hey… Class Rep, what do we do about this? Asakura-san’s acting…”

“Even if you say that, no one else can play Juliet besides Asakura-san… We have no choice but to tell her the truth and have her practice.”

“Hey, Class Rep? You say we should tell Sakura the truth, but who exactly is going to tell Sakura ‘Your acting is bad, so please practice’?”

“That would be… Andou-kun?”

“Me!? No no no! And why me?”

“”Well… if Andou-kun can’t say it, then there’s no one in this class who can, right?””

“Class Rep and Momoi-san harmonized!? Eh, that much! Well, certainly… anyone who could tell Asakura-san her acting is bad in this class would be—”

“Wahahahaha! Asakura-san, that was seriously bad! Eh, Asakura-san, were you really that bad at acting!? Will you be okay as Juliet? Oh, I know! If you want, I could teach you acting hand-in-hand and foot-to-bird☆”

“Eh… Yamada-kun, what did you just…?”

YAMADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

“Hey, you idiot! You bastard! What the hell are you saying! You huge idiot!”

(Yamada… I’ve never been more grateful for your existence than today!)

“That’s right, Yamada-kun! There are things you should say and things that are hard to say! Really, you can’t read the atmosphere at all!”

(I never thought the day would come when Yamada’s stupidity would be useful)

“Geez, Yamada-kun really can’t read the atmosphere— being able to act without understanding your own role, you’re really such an idiot—”

(Thank goodness Yamada can’t read the atmosphere)

“Eh, what’s with everyone! Eh, did I say something that deserves this much blame!? I mean, it’s true that Asakura-san’s acting was bad!”

Everyone in class: Yamada! Just shut up already!

“Why meeeee!”

(But the real problem starts here… Asakura-san is a terrible actor probably because she can’t project herself into the role. She’s just memorizing the script and reading it aloud… To fix this, instead of reading memorized lines, she needs to speak from the heart with genuine feeling, but…)

“! …Hey, Class Rep. I have a good suggestion—”

“What is it, Momoi-san? Hmm hmm… That’s a good idea.” Grin

“Right?” Grin

(Ugh… what is this. I’m getting a really bad feeling) Shiver

“No way… Is my acting really that bad?”

【Bonus Story】”Points”

“Asakura-san, good morning. Fwah…”

“Andou-kun, good morning. Oh my, you look really sleepy. What happened?”

“Ah, do I really look that sleepy? Actually, I bought quite a lot of light novels on e-books yesterday… My backlog was piling up, so I stayed up late reading.”

“Geez, you shouldn’t stay up reading light novels until you’re sleep-deprived. By the way, you said you bought quite a lot of light novels… about how many?”

“Hmm, roughly ten thousand yen worth?”

“T-ten thousand yen worth!? Why did you buy so much at once? Was it some long series?”

“No no, actually. The e-book site I use gives you back a percentage of what you spend as points.”

“Oh, lots of places do that. You can use those points to buy things, right?”

“Yeah, one point equals one yen, but… actually, just yesterday they had a one-day limited campaign where points were multiplied by 90.”

“90 times!? T-that’s an incredible deal…”

“Yeah, but I only noticed the campaign at 11 PM last night…”

“Eh, but if it was just for yesterday, you had less than an hour!”

“Exactly! So I hurriedly listed up the light novels eligible for the campaign, and when I finished it was already 11:55! At that point… you just press the payment button without thinking.”

“So that’s how you bought ten thousand yen worth of light novels.”

“Yep.”

“But you must have accumulated quite a lot of points?”

“That’s right! Thanks to that, I got 9,000 points!”

“But is that really a good deal? Sure, you got nine thousand yen worth of points, but you actually spent ten thousand yen you weren’t planning to…”

“No no, Asakura-san. That’s actually not true.”

“What do you mean?”

“I always buy e-books by converting ten thousand yen to points at the beginning of each month instead of direct payment. And yesterday was the beginning of the month, so I was originally planning to buy ten thousand yen worth of points when I opened the site.”

“So… you were already planning to buy ten thousand yen worth of points yesterday?”

“Exactly! When you buy ten thousand yen worth of points, you get a thousand yen bonus, so for someone like me who spends about ten thousand yen monthly on e-books, it’s better to buy points in advance. So from my perspective, I was planning to get eleven thousand yen worth of points for ten thousand yen…”

“But in reality, you changed it to ten thousand yen worth of light novels and nine thousand yen worth of points for ten thousand yen…”

“That’s right! When you think about it that way, isn’t it a good deal? The amount I planned to spend was the same ten thousand yen, and while I got two thousand yen less in points…”

“You’ve already bought ten thousand yen worth of light novels…”

“Right! In other words, you could say I got nineteen thousand yen worth from yesterday’s campaign!”

(So basically, I may have impulse bought, but I didn’t do anything wrong—)

“Andou-kun… that’s probably the mindset of people who do microtransactions.”

“…Yes.”

“Also, what’s done is done, but… staying up late reading light novels and getting sleep-deprived is no good… A student’s duty is studying, so you should manage your daily life better.”

“Yes, sorry… I’ll be careful.”

(Yeah, I knew this logic had problems… Haah, I bought way too many light novels I don’t normally buy just because of the campaign!)

“…………”

(As Class Rep, I was watching what Asakura-san and Andou-kun were talking about from afar this morning… Andou-kun is surprisingly the type who’ll be under Asakura-san’s thumb in the future.)

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