After school, once we stepped into the class where we agreed to meet, we noticed that Class D’s rep Hiraga-kun and Shimizu-san were already sitting on the chairs, waiting for us.
“Sorry for letting you guys wait.”
We pretend not to be sincerely apologizing, and simply let it pass with a ‘sorry’. We asked them out to ‘apologize’, but our actual aim is to provoke them. If we fail to provoke them, then asking them out is just a waste of time.
With these objective, we intended to show them more of our rude attitudes, but –
“Onee-sama! Miharu really misses you!”
“Miharu, wait! It’s stuffy, stop hugging me!”
But, our target ignored out presence completely as she tackled Minami straight on. It seems that other than Minami, everyone else is nothing in her eyes.
“Onee-sama, you've agreed to be alone with Miharu in an empty classroom……Onee-sama treats Miharu—
“Where, where are you touching?! And aren’t you looking at the people around you?”
“Ahah……onee-sama’s breasts are just too good……That’s right, just like a calm sea……”
Although Shimizu-san described it in a poetic way, but it’s still the same, it’s still means ‘like a horizontal washing board’.
“Onee-sama……Miharu really loves onee-sama from the bottom of her heart…….”
“Don’t, don’t be like this! I’m not interested in that!”
“There’s three hundred and sixty days in a year, and there’s not a day that Miharu isn’t thinking of onee-sama……”
I think she forgot to add in New Year’s Day and Obon[2].
“Just let go of me!”
Minami used all her strength to get Shimizu-san, who was hugging her tightly, off her.
Why does it seem that the enemy just scored the first point? Can we really piss Shimizu-san off like this?
“Shimizu, I really think that you should stop. Shimada is Akihisa’s lover, you must not simply touch Akihisa’s girlfriend.”
Hideyoshi threw the first blow. If she doesn’t really care about our apology, it’ll be best if we mention this.
Once Hideyoshi finished speaking, Shimizu-san changed her facial expression as if finally noticed that Minami’s not the only one here.
“Are you joking? Just by looking at onee-sama’s attitude, I know that she has no relationship with that swine.”
From her words, it seems she knows everything about this. After all, they just need to gather some intel, and then they’ll find out that Minami and me in a relationship is fake.
“……That’s……”
Minami didn’t react to Miharu’s reply.
She’s still angry with me, and wants to deny the fact that I’m her boyfriend, but for Class F, she has to play along. Will she deny it or just play along? I think Minami must be busy thinking about which choice to make.
“As I was saying, that swine doesn’t suit onee-sama in any way.”
Shimizu pointed at me when she was saying that.
--Doesn’t suit her?
“You are right, I know my homework sucks, and I don’t participate in any co-curriculum activities, but……”
“Homework? Co-curriculum activities? I don’t think you understand! What Miharu meant wasn’t that, it’s something more basic.”
Interrupting my sentence, Shimizu-san stared at me condescendingly and said: “Miharu has always observed both of you, and noticed that this swine’s attitude really sucks.”
My attitude really sucks? Uu…..there are too many possible reason I can think of.
“The way you treat Himeji-san and onee-sama is too different.”
As Shimizu-san was saying this, Minami jerked a little.
“You treat Himeji-san like as if you are treating a princess, but what is your attitude towards onee-sama? Not only you don’t care about her, but you don’t even give her the basic respect you should give to someone of opposite gender.”
Minami bit her lips. She looks like she is going to cry, giving a pitiful and helpless vibe.
“I’ll make it clearer, that swine doesn’t notice onee-sama’s charm, doesn’t care about onee-sama, just treats her as if she’s just another of his male friends, and is a really huge idiot. Compared with homework and looks, your basic attitude is a bigger problem, and yet, you still dare to say that you suit onee-sama. Besides…..”
As if she’s about to deal me the finishing blow, Shimizu-san smirked, and then says each word slowly.
“Even if it’s just an act, when onee-sama said ‘I like you’, you dumped her, and then went to chase Himeji-san. A normal person wouldn’t have done this. You actually see onee-sama as a guy, right?”
“Uu!”
I don’t know whether Minami finished hearing what Shimizu-san said as she had already lowered her head and rushed out of the classroom.
“Minami?”
She looks rather weird. I should chase her down quickly!
“So what if you chased her? You’ll treat her as a guy, and say something vicious to her? You still want to hurt onee-sama?”
Miharu’s scolding stopped me on my track.
“Akihisa, leave Shimada to me. Even if you go and chase her now, it won’t do any good.”
Hideyoshi tapped my shoulder, and then left the classroom to chase after Minami.
Suddenly there were so few people left, and what's left was an atmosphere hard to describe around the classroom.
“……I don’t know what's happening, but may I take my leave? I don’t think now’s a time for apology.”
Hiraga-kun, the class rep of Class D who was waiting silently, stood up awkwardly, and then makes his way out of the classroom. Maybe he couldn’t stand this atmosphere.
Finally, there’s only Shimizu-san and me left.
“Miharu doesn’t know how this conversation benefits you all, but Miharu doesn’t think of you as a love rival anymore. To be jealous of someone who can’t understand onee-sama’s charm, and a swine that treats her like a guy, it's just wasting Miharu’s time……After all, Miharu is the only one who understands onee-sama’s charm, and that’s enough.”
Shimizu-san finished and got up from her chair.
It seems that this negotiation is a failure. I guess Class D won’t be declaring war on us anytime soon.
But, I don’t care whether they declare war on us or not, the Summoner Test War doesn’t matter now. There’s something that’s more important than the Summoning War, something that I can’t back off on. I must make this clear.
“Shimizu-san, please wait.”
“……For what? Do you still have anything to say to Miharu?”
[2] Obon （お盆） is a japanese festival to commemorate deceased ancestors.
