Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo - Chapter 3 Part 4

Chapter 3 Part 4

 

Standing in front of a first year’s class, Cosmos opened her note.

 

“Then, let us talk to the girl in the third rank if she’s interested in participating in the Kabuten.”

 

Cosmos was still using her samurai accent. Her eyes looked as sharp as a katana.

 

It really felt like she was about to slash down her enemy with her sword.

 

“Understood. Will you be the one who’s talking to her, Prez?”

“No, you are better suited to do the task than I am, Kisaragi-dono. Your age is closer to hers and my position as the student council president would only intimidate her.”

 

Regardless of that, it would be better for me to talk to her instead of you in your current state.

 

“Prez really trusts you, huh, Joro?”

Asunaro-me… How could you ignore the core of our conversation and pick up the subtleties instead?

 

Besides, this was a natural conversation between friends.

 

“Over there. She’s the schoolgirl we’re looking for.”

 

Calling her ‘schoolgirl’ really felt out of place, but whatever.

 

Let’s ignore this samurai and focus on the task at hand.

 

Unlike her, I was confident that I could get by with my acting.

 

“Understood! I’ll go talk to her right away!”

 

In any case, as expected of one of the chosen candidates for the Kabuten, this girl was pretty.

 

Her bob cut and the flower ribbon that decorated it suited her well.

 

From her appearance, she looked kind and gentle. In other words, this would be an easy job for me!

“Hello, do you have a minute?”

“Hii! W-What?”

 

I just called out to her, why was she trembling so much?

 

“U-Um… My name is Kisaragi, a second year. You can call me Joro.”

“I am… Kamata… A first year and the manager of the baseball club…”

 

When I introduced myself, the girl looked especially scared as she introduced herself.

 

Maybe she was just a really shy person?

Hmm… I had the feeling that she’d just refuse even if I were to ask her. But, if she was the manager of the baseball club, she should know Sun-chan. Since Sun-chan and I were best friends, this might work out!

“So, you’ve been selected to participate in the Kabuten. I got selected too, but that’s irrelevant. Do you mind if you—”

“N-No! I will never participate!”
“Huh?”

 

Why did she reject the idea so strongly?

 

“W-Why– Whoa!”

 

What the hell was she doing?! She suddenly grabbed my collar and pulled me closer to her!

 

She placed her mouth closer to my ear. At this rate—!

 

“Really, Joro?! I’ve never thought that you’d attack a first year that you’ve met for the first time!”

 

Yeah, this would happen! What the hell, why did she always paint me as the bad guy?!

 

“I’m going to assist you, Kisaragi-dono!”

 

STOP! Just stay in your place and think about bushido or something!

 

“I mean, the President and Himawari-senpai will participate in the Kabuten this year! I can’t hold a candle to both of them! I’ll look miserable right next to them!”

 

She said those words in a small voice. Honestly, I could understand her concern.

 

If that was the reason why she refused to participate, it made a lot of sense.

 

Himawari and Cosmos were like the prettiest girls at school. This girl was pretty too, but compared to them? Nah. I could understand if she felt out of place if she were to stand on the stage with those two girls.

 

“Heya! A-Are you okay?”

 

Cosmos came at the perfect timing as she grabbed my arm. Somehow, she managed to separate me from the girl.

 

“Prez got jealous when she saw Joro with another girl, huh?”

 

But, she made Asunaro’s misunderstanding escalate instead! D*mmit! This was why I told her to not help me!

“B-Besides, I don’t want to dance with you, Kisaragi-senpai!”

 

As soon as we got separated, the girl dropped another bombshell. Honestly, I got a bad feeling about this…

 

“Kisaragi-senpai, you used to deceive two girls at the same time, right? I’d rather die than make physical contact with a nasty person like you!”

 

There you go, of course it would come up in this situation!

 

Come to think of it, people from other grades still hated me!

But, she literally just made physical contact with me ten seconds ago!

 

Seriously, I was human too! My feelings could get hurt too!

“T-That’s just a misunderstanding. I was—”

“Besides, if according to the legend, won’t I need to date you? Death is more preferable to that!”

 

Why the hell did she assume that I would ever want to go out with her?

 

“I-I mean, that’s just a legend. Besides, there are two other girls aside from you…”

“There’s no way someone like you would catch the attention of the President and Himawari-senpai! Have you taken a look at yourself in the mirror?! Stop dreaming and face reality!”

 

I had the right to dream too! Stop telling me to face the harsh reality!

 

Besides, you should compliment me first before sh*tting on me! Say that my nose was sexy or something!

Wait, that was how Pansy would sh*t on me. I couldn’t believe I got used to her toxicity.

 

Anyway, I couldn’t lose my temper here. I needed to calm down—

 

“There’s no way I’m going to dance with someone as disgusting as Kisaragi-senpai!”

 

Enough. Time to go back to that mode again.

 

“Prepare yourself, you little piece of sh*t…”

“H-Hii! W-Why do you suddenly emanate the aura of someone petty and insignificant? A-Also, your eyes look like dumpling made out of horse sh*t…”

 

I really should teach her a lesson. Sure, I got it that she was surprised because of my change, but couldn’t she choose her words carefully?

 

She called my eyes were made out of horse sh*t! Horse sh*t!

 

“C-Calm down a little, Joro-kun!”

 

Perhaps seeing me dropping my act, Cosmos also dropped her samurai accent as she held me from behind in a great hurry.

 

“Let me go, Prez! I’m going to teach this piece of sh*t a lesson…!”

“No! We don’t enact violence here, Joro-kun! I won’t let you!”

 

However, something else happened here. Cosmos held me from behind. In a hugging position.

 

So, her magnificent D-cups were pressing against my back tightly!

“Oh, this is getting exciting!”

“H-Hii…”

Asunaro sounded happy, meanwhile the first year was so scared that she fell on her b*tt.

 

But, neither of them mattered! I had to focus on one thing and one thing only!

“Then, don’t you dare let me go, Prez! Who knows what’ll happen to her if you were to let me go!”

“G-Got it!”

 

Her D-cups were spreading to my back! I could feel them!

 

“That’s not enough! Put more strength into it!”

“Really? I thought I already… No, I’ll do my best! Is this enough?”

 

It was heaven! The whole heavens were on my back!

 

“Uooh! That’s it! Keep it going! Oi, you little piece of sh*t, don’t you dare run away from me! If you run away, Prez will leave my side! Also, Prez, can you position your chest better? Like, make your upper body— Huh?”

 

Eh? Why did Cosmos suddenly move away from me and walk toward the girl?

 

“Can you stand?”

 

Cosmos gently reached out to her.

 

…Seeing this scene cooled my head. And I realized how much I f**ked up.

 

“I-I’m fine.”

 

With Cosmos’ support, the girl stood up. Her legs were still shaking.

 

“Good, now go along. I need to have a word with this guy.”

“Y-Yes!”

 

She bowed to Cosmos before scurrying away, leaving me with the devil with an excited look in her face and the demon with an ice cold smile.

 

“Alright, Joro-kun. What were you doing just now?”

“I was trying to persuade the girl to participate in the Kabuten…”

“Yes, but you know I’m not talking about that.”

 

Scary. She was really scary! What should I do to get out of this situation?! Could I even get out of it?!

“Um… You see, even though there’s no scientific evidence of it, the softness of a girl’s chest could make people— mostly men, calm down. It’s that thing, you know? Everytime men got into contact with a woman’s chest, they’d remember their mother. After all, they were nurtured under the embrace of their mother’s love and bosom—”

“I need your answer in less than ten words.”

“I love breasts.”

 

When I properly put my answers in less than ten words, I could hear the sound of something cracking from Cosmos. What happened, exactly?

 

“That meant you told me to hold you so that you can satisfy your own perverted desires?”

“U-Um… I-I wouldn’t go that far to describe it…”

 

I tried to vaguely agree with her words so that she wouldn’t get too angry with me, but it didn’t work.

 

The gaze that was as sharp as a katana was back and she confronted me with it.

 

“Joro-kun. Kneel down.”

“Hahaha, that’s a good on—”

“Kneel down.”

 

So scary! She was as scary as an ex-military Russian mafia! She’d probably kill me if I were to disobey her! That was why I obediently knelt down in the hallway.

 

“I understand your feelings. You’re a boy and it’s normal for you to be interested in such things. But there’s time and place for everything. Do you think we are playing around right now? We have to persuade people to join the Kabuten before the deadline. We don’t have much time and yet you—”

 

For the next ten minutes, I was under the mercy of Cosmos’ scolding. She forced me to reflect on various things.

 

“In any case, watch what you’re doing from now on. Got it?”

“…Yes. I’m sorry.”

 

Probably thinking that she had scolded me enough, Cosmos wrote something in her note, slammed it shut and sent me another glare as I stood up.

 

“I hope that you didn’t plan to do something similar during the dance. Like, if you were to do something like this to Himawari-san or—”

“No! I swear I don’t have any intention of doing something like that!”

 

I straightened my back as I denied her words strongly. Even I knew doing that would be going too far.

 

“Good. Alright, that girl is a bust, so let’s move on to the next one.”

“Sir, yes sir!”

 

After that we went to recruit the rest of the girls who were among the top ten most voted girls.

 

And to avoid further misunderstandings, I deleted all entries involving ‘b*obs, dance, accident and touch’ from my browser history.

 

“Mhm. They were hugging each other then it was followed by a lover’s quarrel. This just proves that you’re truly the enemy of women, Joro!”

 

Honestly, these days, I’d appreciate having someone who was on my side. Who cares if I was being called the enemy of women.

 

*   *   *

 

The time was 6.30 pm. We were on our way home.

 

Only Cosmos and I were walking home together. Asunaro left to put on the data she had gathered for the Hyakka Festival.

 

At least she didn’t witness this romcom cliche of Cosmos and I walking home together.

 

“Haah… In the end, everyone turned us down.”

“…Right.”

 

Being rejected by everyone she tried to persuade must have been weighing down on her.

 

She trudged along beside me, looking depressed.

 

“I didn’t expect them to be so busy on the day the festival would be held… Maybe there are other reasons why they refused to participate and they just didn’t tell me?”

“That, I don’t know…”

 

I replied as such, but I knew that Cosmos was right.

 

Normally, everyone would kill to participate on the Kabuten, but this time was the complete opposite, none of them wanted to.

 

The reason was Himawari and Cosmos’ participation this year. It seemed like there was a rumor going around that if they were to participate in the Kabuten, they’d be compared to both of them and they’d end up looking miserable next to those two. This made not only the selected candidates, but even the other girls reluctant to participate

 

Then there was also their reluctance to be paired with me, but that wasn’t too big of a problem.

 

They were more afraid to be compared to the two beauties than anything.

 

But, it was still weird. The rumor about them participating was spread around too quickly. The members of the Kabuten were only announced to the public after everything had already been decided, in other words, they weren’t supposed to know that those two would participate. Guessing that those two would be among the candidates was one thing, but guessing that they would participate was another thing…

 

“There’s no need to reject the idea so much… Their answers surprised me…”

 

I understood the reason why they were acting like that, so this didn’t come as much of a shock for me, but it wasn’t the case for Cosmos. Everyone rejected her strongly without her knowing the reason why. Cosmos wasn’t someone who’d easily complain about things, but the experience shocked her so much that she let out a word of complaint.

 

“Well, it’s okay, don’t worry about it. If all the candidates reject the position, we can just look for someone else to fill in the position. Let’s do our best to look for someone who’s willing to participate tomorrow. I swear I won’t do anything weird again.”

“…Huh? You’ll be helping me tomorrow too?”

 

What the hell was she on about? Wasn’t it obvious?

 

If I were to let her go by herself, who knows what kind of rumor she’d give birth to. Besides, it was better for us to work together and tread carefully so we wouldn’t create any misunderstandings than letting her work alone, creating all kinds of misunderstandings by herself.

 

“Of course. What, you don’t want me to help you?”

“I-It isn’t like that! O-Of course I’d appreciate your help! Y-You can help me as much as you like!”

 

Cosmos denied my words with all her might as she shook her head strongly.

 

After that, she seemed to be in an extremely good mood, to my surprise. It was obvious from the way she started skipping her steps.

 

“…Time goes by quickly when we’re having fun. We’re at the station already, huh?”

“Yeah.”

“T-Then, thank you for today, Joro-kun! I really appreciate your help!”

With those words, she let out a maiden-like smile as she squeezed my hands.

 

Thank God Asunaro wasn’t here to witness her maiden-like act.

 

“See you tomorrow. Let’s do our best tomorrow too!”
“Yes! See you!”

 

She pulled her hands away and waved at me as she headed toward the station.

 

Now, time to go home and make a plan for tomorrow. Firstly, I should list out suitable girls as new candidates.

 

TL: Iyo

ED: Iyo

 

 

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