Game Gyaru

Chapter 85: Her Feelings

"W-w-well we're not talking about me right now." Shiuka immediately went into a panic to quickly attempt to turn the conversation back on Rouko. However the latter was an expert when it came to controlling and taking advantage of other's emotions for the sake of a good tease. Though this time she did so for a slightly different reason.

"Well, I'm not sure why you're the one getting mad at me." She countered with a coy smile. "You're the one hiding something from everyone else." The girl made a reasonable point. They wouldn't be in this situation if Shiuka hadn't attempted to prevent them from realizing the truth about her and Hakuta.

"And you're the one who went and... Did stuff with him in his room... All by yourselves." When Shiuka was considering the circumstances of how she failed to see her friend then. "Wait, were you..."

"I definitely would never consider NTRing my best friend of all people." She crossed her arms with slight giggles. It was absurd to think she might've considered the possibility, but her actions spoke quite loudly. "And sure, if I was fooling around while you were in the room, that would be one thing. But last time I checked, he's not your boyfriend." And she had never told them about her interest in the boy. So therefore he wasn't someone who was considered off-limits.

"Sure, he's not." She got all flustered and averted her gaze in an attempt to remain focused. "This still doesn't forgive you from going into my house with him."

"He was trying to protect you." Rouko finally admitted the real reason for her visit. "I was being stupid, thinking he was trying to hurt you and Ninka." She told her about the attempted blackmail she had done to the poor boy. How he had felt so backed into a corner that he didn't know what else to do but to tell the secret he had kept for so long.

"That's... That's so crazy." She was at a loss for words at this revelation, but this story was also so insane that it bordered on the line of imagination. "How can I believe you?"

"Because I still have the picture I was going to use to blackmail him." Rouko had lied to the boy about her deleting the image on her phone. While she did so in front of him, she had also kept a backup on her cloud storage. Initially that was a mistake, as she had forgotten about this feature and only saw so later down the line. However, there was a level of mistrust she had gained after he told her about holding back on telling the truth. So she ended up saving it for later as a 'just in case'.

"Wow." She took the phone from her friend's hand to take a closer look at the image. It definitely looked as though she was dating the boy at a nice cafe. Were she to get this image sent to her out of the blue, she would be angry at the apparent deception Hakuta had done to her by trying to date all her friends. Even if it didn't make any sense after all the complaining he had done about gyarus, but he could've always been a tsundere for them.

However, taking a closer look at the image showed her all the hallmarks of her friend faking it. She always had on a certain joker face that she had learned to get used to whenever Rouko had wanted to be a bit of a trickster. It helped her avoid being fooled, but she still fell for things from time to time.

"We were going to tell you after this trip, I promise." Rouko said again. "But I just want you to know that he was just trying to do the best for you and him." When she had listened in on that conversation shared in his bedroom. She could tell how much he deeply cared for her friend, his housemate. "That boy's done some real stupid things, but his heart's in the right place."

"Rouko..." Shiuka took a short pause to take in all this new information. "I believe you." It took a bit of convincing, but she finally came to take her word for things. While things seemed nearly unbelievable, they had already been through too many unbelievable circumstances for her to suddenly become skeptical. "But I still need to talk to that boy."