(Un) Fortunately the Yandere is Not After Me

Resolve

"So you tell me to meet you in the library and then what?" Yuriko asked as they sat alone at one of the tables. "What kind of favor is this supposed to be?"

"Look, I know you know that me and Ichiri are kind of on thin ice right now."

"I think it's more like it's already been melted." She responded. "Why are you even bothering with her? The girl's an idiot for trying to run for student council president." It was even worse for her, since he literally did this right after she kind of confessed to him as well. Though at this point, she wasn't aware of the other girls feelings for him. That didn't meant she didn't have her suspicions.

"She's still my friend either way." Compared to the other stuff that people put him through, she was fairly light on irritating him. "And if she continues to act like that." He pointed over to the girl in question, who was sitting all by herself at a table. Since Ichiri didn't have any other friends, she turned to studying as hard as she could to pass the time. Perhaps they might even allow her to skip the third year so she could end her misery. "The rest of her time in high school is going to be very lonely."

"Fine, but why ask me?" Arata had plenty of other friends that would be willing to help. "I don't see how I'm so special with her."

"Because..." He had kept that a secret from her until they finally met up in the library during school. "You used to be friends with Yurime, and well... I figured we could kill two birds with one stone?"

"Really?" She gave him a disappointed glare. "Look, we used to be friends but... I just don't have time when you think about everyone else." Indeed, they had different friend groups. She had the main gang, while Yurime was with both the journalism club and library committee. "And I don't know why she wants to hang with me again. I kind of abandoned her back when we were kids." Along with the rest of her regrettable actions as a ten year old.

"Look, I'm just saying. Maybe this is the time to finally bury the hatchet and move on from that time." Even though he had forgiven her for beating him up back in the day, there were still some lingering demons from her past. If Yuriko could move on fully, then she'd be able to figure out her true feelings.

There was another important factor as to why Arata just had to help out Ichiri get out of this funk. He knew that he could no longer continue to delay finding out his own feelings for the girls. Someone among them had to have captured his heart and he intended to return those feelings back to them. But he couldn't do it with that girl sulking about, especially knowing how she felt about him. "I know we kind of hung out on Sunday, but do you think we can set something up with everyone here for the weekend?"

"You're lucky when I turned over a new leaf, that also meant I take care of all my homework before the weekend." She accepted and now it was time to set their plan into motion.

"Hello Yurime, Hifumi." Arata came up to the only members of the library committee. "Are you two busy?"

"Yes, very." Hifumi replied in a rushed manner. "Ever since Ichiri quit, we've been stacked with all the work." She was irritated since it was partially Arata's fault about things. Her tone also came from hearing her grandma informing her that he went on an apparent date with Akiba. Even with all that, she found it difficult to truly get angry with him since despite her feelings, the two weren't a couple. Hopefully she could find a way to remedy that.

"If there's anything you two need, can you make it quick?" Yurime also had a lot of work to do since she also had her responsibilities with the journalism gig.

"Just wanted to ask you two if you wanted to hang out after school on Friday." Said Yuriko. Immediately, the other two knew that this was Arata's idea.