Since I’ve Entered the World of Romantic Comedy Manga, I’ll Do My Best to Make the Heroine Who Doesn’t Stick With the Hero Happy. - Chapter 59: The Night of The Party

“Fuu…”

I soaked in the bath and sighed at how good it felt.

I haven’t worked as hard as today for quite a while so this bath time was quite comfortable.

However, I probably exerted myself too much for today’s match alone. So I won’t be exerting myself so much any time soon.

We won the tournament so we had a class party afterwards.

For some reason, Tojoin-san, our closest competitor, rented out the restaurant for us, so it was a very grand party for just some high school students.

I often talked to other girls as well but I just hung out with Shiho most of the time.

It was a nice and fresh experience but I couldn’t help but be at edge during the whole party.

My boyfriend, Hisamura, was talking to a group of girls the entire time.

Moreover, some of them had said that they were going after Hisamura, so it was natural for me to be concerned with that.

But as far as the conversation goes… I recalled what Hisamura said and so I can’t help but blush at that.

“Ku… That guy… He’s not shy about telling others about that kind of stuff.”

I was a bit nervous when he said that he likes someone.

I thought he might say that we were dating.

But he didn’t tell them that, instead he made them realize that their love was unrequited.

I was so happy to hear that, that I had to fight off the grin coming onto my face.

I even had a secret rendezvous with him after the party. In a nearby park.

I was a little nervous contacting him to meet up through RINE.

It’s hard to imagine him refusing but he seems to be surrounded by girls and it looked like he was enjoying talking to them.

I wondered what would happen if he refused but my fears were unfounded.

He responded right away and said he would like to talk with me.

I saw the reply and resisted grinning instantly.

I want to congratulate myself for putting up with it so well at that time, because I’m grinning right now just thinking about it.

But if I had to voice a regret, it’s that I made Hisamura wait even though I invited him myself.

There was no excuse, the girls around me refused to let me leave.

I apologized profusely, but Hisamura didn’t seem the least bit concerned with that.

With that, the secret party started. With just the two of us this time round.

We started it off by talking about today’s tournament which then went on to the punishment game from Tojoin-san.

It was then when I confided in him what was worrying me the whole match.

Should we reveal our relationship to others or not?

I was more jealous than I expected when I saw Hisamura being wooed by another girl.

Tojoin-san had done a lot of things to keep women away from Shigemoto, and now I can understand a little of what she was feeling.

I was still worried, what if the person I liked was taken by another girl?

I probably wouldn’t feel like this if Hisamura talked to any other girl. But this girl was the one who declared that she was aiming for him.

That’s probably why I felt so jealous and insecure.

As for me, I want to keep my relationship with Hisamura a secret.

I want it to be a secret between us, to be a treasure of sorts.

However if I do that, other girls would make passes at him constantly.

I thought that if I was going to have such anxious thoughts, I might as well make it public.

When I told him everything. He took care of my feelings of wanting to hide our relationship and even offered suggestions to help alleviate my insecurities.

It’s true that if we both announced that we were dating someone and kept who it was a secret, it could stop us from being wooed by other people.

It was a simple solution that had never occurred to me.

He was extremely considerate to me and gave a very good solution in return.

He was kind, dependable… and cute…

“Ahhh…. I love you Tsukasa…”

As I soaked in the bath and relaxed my cheeks, my heart involuntarily spilled out those words.

If this had spilled out in front of Tsukasa, I probably would have been dyed red  and blurted out a bunch of excuses in return.

I’m not sure what excuse I can make for saying “I love you” out loud though.

But now I get to have my own alone time.

It doesn’t feel that bad to mutter about your boyfriend or rather, it feels quite nice…

“Mmm… Ah right, I must inform Tojoin-san about the Punishment game.”

I suddenly recalled that after going back to my room and looking at my phone.

When she and Tsukasa were having a chat, the topic came up and I asked Tsukasa what kind of punishment he would like to give her.

The entire match was just me trying my best not to be punished so I haven’t really thought of a punishment for her.

Tojoin-san was the one who proposed the punishment game so it would be impossible for me to come up with a punishment there and then.

So I consulted Tsukasa to come up with a punishment together.

With that, Tsukasa came up with a very good punishment.

Of course, ethics is out of question, it was a punishment that had her do something good.

But for Tojoin-san, it must be extremely humiliating.

I’ll have to RINE Tojoin-san to tell her that.

Tojoin-san and I had exchanged our RINE’s when we started eating lunch together.

But this will be the first message I actually sent to her, since we never necessarily had to message each other about anything.

I opened her contact and typed it in.

“Tojoin-san, Hello. I hope you haven’t forgotten about the punishment game, have you now? The punishment has been decided.”

I typed and sent it to her.

As expected I didn’t receive a reply right away, but it did say she was online 5 minutes ago.

“Of course I remember, so, what’s the punishment?”

I grimaced as I wrote down the details of the punishment.

I can already see Tojoin-san’s face in my mind.

“The punishment will either be on Saturday or Sunday.”

Sent, and read immediately.

It’s been a while since it’s been read and I finally got a response.

“I can’t believe you’re making me do that. You’re really good. I wonder if this is something you came up with on your own?”

“No, it was mostly Hisamura’s idea. As soon as he heard about the punishment game. He immediately came up with this.”

I’ll be honest here.

Hisamura’s first name is Tsukasa, but…

I’ll only call Tsukasa by his first name when it’s just the two of us, of course, just like when Tsukasa calls me “Sei-chan” when we’re alone together.

“I knew it. All right, can we do it on Saturday? I’ll clear my schedule.”

“Yes, have fun with your punishment game.”

“If I’m going to do this, I’ll do this for real.”

And that’s where our RINE ended.