Lunchtime.

Please don’t blame me for that sudden announcement. I do know it’s a bit quick, however then once more… after all the wrestle, it is sensible lots of time has handed unbeknownst to all of us. Whereas spending time with the bookworm, I didn’t care how lengthy every part took. Kurokawa clearly didn’t care about it, both. She was too occupied with me, and I used to be too busy attempting to think about stuff to influence the bookworm to not bounce off the rooftop and kill herself.

Not till the varsity bell rang did we discover it had been so lengthy already. Coincidentally, its acquainted chime was the factor that woke me up from the imaginative and prescient of an ending scene with Kurokawa by my facet, saying her valuable marriage ceremony oaths.

Below a harmful thunderstorm and mud devils fabricated from corroded materials, my ring finger was wrapped by a skinny strip of white bandage to create a makeshift betrothal ring. Silly as I used to be, there have been hardly any fancy phrases I may use to explain it apart from the cutesy butterfly knot on high.

The white fabric ring was easy. It was low cost. It was one thing that anybody may do inside a number of seconds. And the fabric used was not one thing thought of extravagant.

But, to me, it was magical.

Though fabricated from nothing particular, its weight was greater than any gold and diamond may ever be. Even when introduced with cash and treasures equal to a whole planet, I might nonetheless not commerce the skinny cloth on my finger.

Albeit sudden, it…moved me.

No. “Transfer” was not the appropriate option to put it. It undoubtedly did one thing to my core and, on the identical time, shook me vehemently. That vivid picture of Kurokawa holding my hand with nothing besides happiness in her eyes touched me in methods I couldn’t but clarify.

Though every part round our bookworm was slowly turning into mud particles, flashes of achievement in her emerald inexperienced eyes and the light contact from her tender palms instructed me the story of a woman who discovered the that means of her life in the end. Her hand exuded a loving heat able to melting the coldest glacier. And her grasp, though mild, was extra influential than the strongest of binds.

At that place, and at the moment, clearly, Kurokawa had no regrets. Perhaps there was nonetheless a lingering fragment of it someplace in her coronary heart, however the valuable bookworm didn’t present it as soon as in entrance of me. She appeared to have achieved her most desired goal on this planet, and that alone was sufficient.

Sadly, the fluffy sensation inside my chest on account of Kurokawa’s contact was greater than my side-character mind may ever describe. It was so passionate but distant, so emotional but temporary. It was just like these lovely desires the place one would need to fall again into slumber to return to it however unable to take action regardless of how laborious they fight. Or, higher put…a fleeting comet that hardly grazed the earth’s environment, an impressive sight swiftly confirmed and disappeared into the good past as soon as extra.

Nevertheless, if I assumed too deeply about what I noticed after Kurokawa’s kiss proper now, it will take on a regular basis I had. Don’t get me flawed, I wished to take a seat idly to reminisce about that ending scene. There was only a tiny challenge.

The impact of it was monumental however ambiguous. Slightly than giving me solutions, these visions solely introduced me extra questions concerning the origins of these pictures. All of them made me need to discover out what actually occurred there. Due to this purpose, I made a decision to place it apart to attend till there was a ‘me’ time. Then, I might begin to think about that in depth.

Now. As for the opposite two…

“Hiya there!” Rachel smiled like a bit of satan after I opened the door behind me. She even waved her palms merrily with out guilt for being discovered listening in on our dialog.

“Hiya…” Laura tried to behave powerful by placing up her severe face, however the blush on her cheeks and ears betrayed her. Not like her different good friend, the category rep knew the character of what she did. She merely didn’t admit it.

“Generals! Is it me you are on the lookout for?” Trying on the two little devils, I sighed. I knew these women would discover methods to eavesdrop, however I might not have guessed Laura and Rachel would sit immediately behind us.

Properly…to be extra precise, I vaguely thought Blondie could be there, however not the category rep. It appeared somebody had been an affect between the 2.

“Ehehehe!!” Rachel squinted her eyes. “I introduced lunch!” The housewife then raised her ridiculously massive lunchbox up excessive with one arm. Despite the fact that I used to be used to such a sight, I nonetheless couldn’t assist however admire the superhuman capability inside her tiny physique. The field was nearly the scale of my torso, for goodness’ sake.

“Ahahaha…” And Laura laughed wryly. However after a fast second, she straightened her again. “I am right here to investigate cross-check my boyfriend. I believe I’ve the appropriate to that as your one and solely girlfriend. However, each Rachel and Kurokawa don’t have any purpose to be subsequent to you.”

There was nothing I may say after that. The category rep activated the girlfriend-rights entice card, and I had nothing in my hand to counter such a robust impact. If something, I used to be within the flawed for letting another person kiss me once more…

And since they have been already there, there was no must name them. Thus, we determined to spend our lunchtime collectively as a bunch. In fact, Han was not allowed to be amongst us. He was in all probability despatched to his friends: A and B.

Truthfully, I felt just like the protagonist has been showing much less and fewer… It began with simply our class rep being attentive to me quite than Han, and I critically thought that was the tip of the unusual circumstances of this iteration. Nonetheless, with the scenario going bonkers, Han’s function because the one and solely main character has been stripped away slowly…by me…

Han was cucked.

Wait! Maintain on! This world was not that sort of eroge!

Sorry, good friend… I didn’t know what else to do. It was not like I used to be actively attempting to get nearer to those individuals. They have been those who acquired near ME!

Then once more, I did attempt to do issues for them, too.

Hmmm…

Maybe I ought to take fifty % of the blame. The remaining might be divided equally amongst all the three women.

Not going to lie, however I used to be considerably ashamed of stealing the person’s highlight. This world was speculated to be his, in any case. He was the savior of everybody, the man with women’ luck, a candy poison contemplating the character of the ladies. But because of a goddamn miracle that ought to not have existed within the first place, the pedestal was underneath my toes.

Regardless, that must be sufficient for a background test and continuity’s sake. It’s about time I get again to the current.

So, in case you are nonetheless there, guess the place we’re at the moment? Did you say the rooftop? Then you definitely could be technically right. One of the best sort of right.

“Thanks for ready.” I greet Rachel and Laura after coming again up right here. Kurokawa and I simply acquired downstairs to be within the infirmary for a bit of bit.

Subsequent to me, the bookworm is in significantly better form than earlier than. At the start, Kurokawa has had the prospect to scrub up her face. Secondly, her wounded arm has been patched properly with bandages.

“Hello, Rachel. Hello, Laura.” The bookworm intentionally waves her bandage-covered arm quite than her good one.

After so a few years of struggling to maintain myself and others alive, I’ve perfected the artwork of bandage-wrapping. On her hand, every medical cloth half precisely covers half the size of its prior half, creating an X form sample round her thumb. And close to her wrist, a cutesy butterfly knot was added. At first, I didn’t need to do something unordinary for her arm. However she wished a particular contact on it, and in some way the marriage ring in my imaginative and prescient abruptly popped up.

I swear it didn’t imply something bizarre. I solely wished to make Kurokawa comfortable. Critical! I swear on my mum’s life!

“That is what C made. Cute, proper? Our boyfriend positively has some hidden crafting expertise!”

“Our boyfriend-what-now?” I blurt out instantly. If I had eyes, they’d have popped out of the sockets at lightning velocity. “When? How? Why? I do not bear in mind a factor!?”

“You are not denying it, C.” As an alternative of answering my flurry of questions concerning her peculiar assertion, the bookworm’s lips curve barely upward.

…

It’s true…

I didn’t deny it.

Why, although? I ought to have denied it immediately. Why may I not say these phrases?

“Excuse me?!”

Upon listening to Kurokawa’s bombing phrases, Laura’s temples twitch violently. Because the hair on her head stands up, her glares seem to have the flexibility to kill somebody on this occasion. Fortuitously for me, that killing stare is directed towards Kurokawa. Nonetheless, even when I’m solely the collateral harm, the chills on my backbone are nothing to be taken evenly.

“Ah! I like some good oolong tea earlier than a meal. The chilly temperature round us positive makes second to drink one thing heat!”

Nevertheless, opposite to our class consultant’s response, Rachel sips a container with each palms whereas smiling fortunately. The stress Laura releases means nothing to her. In truth, she seems to be like she is having fun with it. “What are you two ready for? Come! Sit down with us! Don’t be concerned concerning the class rep. She doesn’t suggest something dangerous. She’s solely a bit of cranky since you, Kurokawa, kissed C.”