Game Gyaru

Chapter 48: Fanboy

As Hakuta followed along Iruka as she directed him towards where the other girls were. He felt himself gaining more anxiety. It had nothing to do with her grip on his hand leading him like he was some kind of children out in public. The problem came from the last time he spoke with Ninka. Which was a lot longer ago than what one might expect considering they had been together up until the group broke up.

Admittedly Hakuta felt bad about what he had said to her. It was mostly just to get her to stop pestering him with this strange flirting business. This wasn't the time for him to want to deal with it and the boy always figured she was simply not serious on the matter. However her reaction to his somewhat harsh words seemed a bit extreme.

Thinking on it now, this wasn't much different compared to Iruka crying when he said he didn't want to be friends. These gals always seemed to get way too emotional or overreact to things. Which was funny seeing as Iruka herself had said guys like him react in comedic fashion whenever she would throw in a tease like she had done earlier.

But on the matter with Ninka, he couldn't tell why she would be so upset about him telling her she was bad at flirting. First off, Hakuta couldn't deny that he was completely honest in his feelings. So it would be a challenge to say that he simply didn't mean what he had said.

That said, even he didn't think his opinion would hold much weight. Shiuka told him how strange it was for someone like him, who had absolutely no dating experience, to act like he knew better. Hakuta would agree, but that didn't mean he couldn't or didn't have any opinions when it happened to him.

Isn't the whole point in flirting to try and get someone's attention? Specially in a positive and romantic way. While the boy couldn't deny that she did get his heart racing a few times. That didn't mean he was falling for her or would've wanted to start being a couple. It wasn't how he viewed being with a girl at all.

Maybe he was the one who didn't understand people at all. Not like Hakuta ever bragged about being in the know when it came to these things.

"There they are!" Rouko spotted the pair and waved to them. "Yoohoo, we're over here." Iruka heard and spotted her from a long ways away. This got her to run over, with Hakuta having to give chase as she had yet to release her tight grip on him. If he hadn't chased that masked figure halfway through the convention, then Hakuta would've not felt absolutely exhausted from needing to sprint just to keep up.

"Hi!" Iruka gave them all an energetic greeting when the two groups reunited. "You should've seen it, we got to be in this cool VR thingy." She told them about the immersive experience. Though she did keep out important details such as the part where he got a bit too handsy with her. There was no telling how they'd react.

"That's fun." Rouko replied, but quickly stopped caring to point out something more important in her eyes. "But anyway, looks there's some popular streamers hanging out here." She pointed them to one of the booths which had gained a fair number of people gathering around.

"Wait a second." Hakuta's eyes lit up when he scanned along to see who was there greeting the guests and signing some autographs. Most of the people there he didn't care about, but one did catch his eye. "No way, is that Eclipse?"

"Who's that?" Asked Shiuka. The girls did know some of the other popular people here. They were more fitting in terms of gaining an audience that the gyarus would care about.

"He's only one of the best shooter players out there." He told her, moving himself forward towards the booth. "The dude's aim is incredibly insane. Some people swear it's like using aimbot."

"I don't understand half the things you just said." She looked at him with a bit of disappointment as she witnessed him getting caught up in the hype and moving in to talk to the man.