Classroom of the Elite - Revenge [Cote X OC]

Vol. 5 Chapter 11: New Enemy?

A/N: I forgot to upload the chapters here so I will upload all 5 I've written since then.

Yeah, anyway, I don't have much to say in the author notes, so that's all, I guess. 

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[3rd February, Wednesday]

[Kurushima Pov]

"I'm in love with you. Please go out with me, Kurushima-kun."

"Thank you," I said gently, pausing a moment long. "I appreciate your feelings for me. I truly do. But I'm sorry, I don't feel the same way. We can't be together."

"I see... I figured out as much. Still... Thank you for listening to me nonetheless, Kurushima-kun..."

The girl who confessed to me just now to her hearts content nervously, smiled faintly with a pained smile on her face until tears dwelled up on her face till she ran away.

Rejecting someone was never easy, especially, if the person in charge held genuine feelings for you.

From the twelve girls who confessed to me today I could tell that only three of them had genuine affection for me while the rest felt attracted to me but that was it.

As for whether it was due to my appearance or my wealth I could not very much say what it was but it didn't really matter to me.

What's strange in this instance is, the confessions included both second and third-year students as well.

I wasn't used to receive confessions from each year within one single day.

But it seems like a couple of people had a change of mind about me.

Due to the news articles being released the thought of my behavior now might have made sense for some people as it was fairly reasonable given my childhood trauma.

And I guess it's in some way the truth so I have no reason to refute it.

But that my trauma has resurfaced because of the breakup with Hiyori was not the case as some people like to portray.

This is just how I really was.

I didn't even know where they had gotten that idea but it seems like they can't erase the previous self of me from their minds.

It's not like it bothered me much. If nothing happened back then I might have truly developed to a person like that so it's not like I don't understand them.

Perhaps because of how I 'could be' I didn't mind how everyone saw me. I suppose that's it. But even I didn't know the precise reason exactly.

No... I knew it exactly, but to admit it, was something I wasn't going to do.

Well, this didn't matter much anyway. I should head back to my room and then call Aoki.

Now that the last confession was over I had the respective amount of time for that. But I'm also quite hungry...

I barely made it to each confession in time and had no chance to eat my prepared homemade bento so far...

"You're quite heartless, my dear kouhai."

Just as I was immersed in my thoughts I heard a voice from behind disrupting me. I tried to recall from where I have ever heard the voice but nothing popped up in my mind.

So I turned around looking at the female who spoke with an arrogant tone in her voice.

"And you are...?"

I asked the girl, who had long silver hair and reminded me of a certain person for a glimpse of a moment.

But I immediately shrugged all these countless of thoughts I had off and looked at the girl, awaiting for her answer.