The last day of school before summer vacation.
It was a sunny day that made me forget about yesterday's gloomy day.
This morning, Miyu was acting the same as usual, silently eating the food I made for her, sometimes speaking and sometimes not, and then leaving the house with a voice saying, 'I'm going.'
The good thing about her is that she doesn't draw attention to anything other than her boobs.
I've been exhausted at my desk since this morning due to fatigue and the heat.
Takanami, who had been mysteriously hostile to me on Friday, still seemed to be in a bad mood, and didn't greet me when I entered the classroom.
I don't know what I did.
It wouldn't matter if Takanami was just having a mood, but today I feel like the eyes of the entire classroom are on me.
There was no way I could enjoy summer vacation with such emotional baggage, so right before homeroom started, I plucked up the courage to ask Onozaki, who was sitting next to me.
"Onozaki, can I have a moment?"
I've talked to Onozaki several times.
I'm sure she doesn't think I'm bad, and if she knew, she would probably tell me something.
"What?"
Onozaki turns towards me while adjusting her glasses.
First, a normal reaction.
"I don't know what to say, but… have there been any bad rumors about me?"
"Ehh!? Ahh, yeah. I wonder what it is. I don't know."
No matter how I thought about it, it wasn't an incomprehensible reaction.
I can't believe even Onozaki is dodging me.
Is it okay to continue digging into this?
"Hey, could it be that, um. Everyone hates me?"
"Y-yeah..."
Onozaki looks around, as if it's hard to answer.
"I don't hate you, but... Maybe the boys are a little surprised...?"
What does she mean by surprise.
The only thing that people can be surprised about me by is my little sister.
No way, is that it?
Did they find out that I laid my hands on junior high school students?
No no.
That just.
That just can't happen.
"What's the reason you can't tell me directly?"
"I haven't confirmed with the person themselves... maybe?"
"The person themselves? The person is me, right?"
"That's true too, I guess."
It was like wandering into a strange world.
I thought I was catching up with the conversation properly, but I couldn't understand a single word.
"I don't know if it's okay for me to tell you. I think Sotomichi-kun should ask Takanami-kun."
Onozaki wiped her glasses and looked at the homeroom teacher who came through the door.
Time's up, huh.
The reason why everyone is silent is because of Takanami.
He won't tell me until I figure it out myself.
In that case, I have no choice but to ask Suzuhara.
After homeroom, whenever there was a break at the end of the class, I tried to find a good time to talk to Suzuhara.
Lately, Suzuhara has been talking more and more with the girls in his class, and it's hard to talk to him.
Perhaps the sudden change in behaviour that followed his makeover was successful, and even those who ridiculed him at first began to recognise the refreshing Suzuhara as his true character.
"Hey, Suzuhara."
It was after the last class that I was able to call out to Suzuhara.
I catch up with Suzuhara as he returns from the mobile classroom and walk next to him.
"Did I do something?"
I don't remember anything at all though.
There's also the possibility that I caused trouble to someone in a roundabout way, like when I was scolded by Miyu about Yuka.
"What is it, Sotomichi? Are you still planning to hide it?"
Suzuhara rubbed his finger between his eyebrows, trying to raise his glasses, which were supposed to be gone.
"I'm not hiding anything. What kind of doubts are swirling around me..."
"Nn. If you really don't know, I think it's better if you don't know."
"What's up with that."
"It's hard for me to say. Well, today's the last day. I'll tell you after school."
That's how Suzuhara avoided me.
When it comes to things that are difficult for Suzuhara to say, the only thing that comes to mind is related to Yamamoto-san.
Speaking of which, Yamamoto-san has been wanting me to be indebted to her lately.
I wonder if it has something to do with that?
"Hey, you over there!!"
A harsh voice came from behind me.
It's a voice I don't recognise, but feeling like that yell is calling me, I turn around.
"Yes...?"
There was a man with a spiky head staring at me.
I responded reflexively, but I immediately regretted it, wishing I had pretended not to notice and ignored him.
While that Suzuhara cold-heartedly climbed the stairs quickly without any concern for me.
"Are you Sotomichi!? I thought I was fooled because I didn't see your name on the class list..."
There was a man coming towards me, stomping on the floor.
A huge body with lean muscles.
The type of guy who went from athletic to delinquent club.
"Let's go somewhere unobtrusive."
Faced with a crisis for the first time in my life, I couldn't wrap my head around it and could only obediently obey.
I was taken to a space under the stairs and faced the man with my back against the wall.
It was the same place where Yamamoto-san did erotic things to me for the first time.
"My name's Sonoda. Minor details are fine. You know Kanade Yamamoto, right? The pinnacle of beauty and the goddess of the earth."
I'm well aware.
Because I had exactly the same impression.
As I muttered that joking in my head to calm myself down, Sonoda suddenly scrunched up his face and became teary-eyed.
"So why's Kanade Yamamoto going out with youu!? Why was I... rejected...!!"
I was puzzled by the nonsense I didn't understand.
I don't understand how I'm supposed to be dating Yamamoto-san.
Anyways, there are countless men who have been rejected by Yamamoto-san, so it's nothing to worry about you know.
"Umm, I'm not sure I understand."
Stay calm here.
Don't provoke the other person.
Let's be gentle.
"I'm not Yamamoto-san's boyfriend."
When I explained the situation in a pose of surrender, Sonoda froze, his mouth hanging open.
"As such, I have nothing to do with it..."
"Li-ike that's the casee! The person herself said it! That she's dating a guy named Sotomichi!"
Sonoda yells again.
That was unexpected.
If Sonoda is telling the truth, then Yamamoto-san is lying.
It seems like the number of confessions has increased abnormally recently.
Maybe she was trying to get them to give up by spreading the rumour that she had a boyfriend.
I'm sure there are many other people she's known for a long time though.
Why did she choose me?
"T-that so. The person herself..."
"Ahh that's right. There's no way she would have any reason to fall in love with a boring runt like you..."
Sonoda patted my arm with his hand, as if to check the thickness of my arm.
"I don't have much academic accomplishments, people don't want to look at me, and I'm just an average guy who worked hard. However, I once won first place in the country in kickboxing. In other words, I'm the strongest in this school. Women... they fall in love with a strong man. That’s what it is, isn’t it?"
After talking about that, Sonoda distanced himself from me and raised his fist.
"No way, you. Are you actually strong?"
"No no no no."
We never even had an argument to begin with.
I don't want to get into a fight.
How can I explain this to him and get him to leave?
While I was thinking about it, I heard the sound of hurried footsteps coming from the hallway.
"As I thought, Sonoda-kun! A kid in my class said that delinquents were running rampant, so I came to look for you...!"
Her chest bounces and slams upon braking.
The person herself finally arrived.
"Kanade Yamamoto...!? Hey! About this guy, Sotomichi! What's so good about such a weak ass guy!?"
Sonoda yelled at Yamamoto-san, pointing at me.
"Come on, so it was about this after all... Listen, okay? I did say that I had a boyfriend... maybe... but I didn't say he was Sotomichi-kun, right?"
"That's definitely what happened when I asked you out. That's why I got curious and asked some people in the same class as you, 'who is your boyfriend?'"
A conversation between two people who don't mesh perfectly.
Who created this situation?
“I heard from a girl in your class! She said your boyfriend is Sotomichi!”
"Uguh... I didn't expect that subtle hint to go so far...!"
In conclusion, Yamamoto-san was at fault.
Why did she say my name and tell such a lame lie?
"Why!? You've always been a pure person, so why did you suddenly get a boyfriend!? And you rejected my confession, and now you're going out with a guy who doesn't even have much of a presence!"
A question thrown by Sonoda.
There was probably some misunderstanding involved, but it didn't seem to make any difference that Yamamoto-san was advertising that I was her boyfriend behind my back.
I'm curious, too.
How did this happen?
"To be honest, I lied because people like Sonoda-kun are just a bother!!"
This woman was seriously frank.
"Wha-...! W-what do I lack!?"
"Lack, huh... Let's see..."
In an instant, Yamamoto-san's mood changed.
Sonoda must have sensed this as well, as he lowered his hips and took a stance against Yamamoto-san.
Gulping and swallowing.
The air suddenly became tense.
"Sonoda-kun is the best at what he does, so you told me you could match me in that regard."
Even though there was no wind, Yamamoto-san continued walking, her hair fluttering.
Her long hair fluttered behind her back like a cloak.
"Then-"
Yamamoto-san lowered her upper body with a jerk and charged at Sonoda.
Although Sonoda was perplexed by this unexpected action, he used his natural reflexes to adjust his posture and assume the position of laying on top of Yamamoto-san with his arms outstretched to hold her down from above.
Immediately after that, Yamamoto-san's action was to roll forward, acting as a surprise attack.
Sliding herself into a steep angle, Yamamoto-san disappears as if she had fallen into a hole, her long hair tucked into a tail and her head hidden in Sonoda's crotch.
When Sonoda judged this sequence of events to be a targetted attack towards his crotch and backstepped, Yamamoto-san's legs, which had jumped up from the floor in reaction to the inversion, thrust up, her heels hitting Sonoda clean on the chin.
"Guhooaaah?!"
Yamamoto-san, using the momentum of the forward roll, swung across Sonoda's head in a swift, horizontal roundhouse kick.
Like his head was cut off.
With those two strikes, the battle was over.
Sonoda lost awareness for several seconds, and when he regained consciousness, Yamamoto-san was standing upright and motionless, looking down at him.
"Sonoda-kun isn't the best in this school, so. My partner doesn't have to be me, the best in the school, right?
Sonoda couldn't say anything back.
He can't say he let his guard down either.
It was only a matter of fact that he lost, and there seemed to be no other answer he could give to what had happened other than to step aside.
"...It was my bad."
In the end, Sonoda apologised to me and Yamamoto-san.
He left showing his back as a loser.
It was a surprising event.
"Are you okay?"
Before I knew it, Yamamoto-san was in her usual relaxed atmosphere.
The same goes for Miyu, but girls are creatures that can become incredibly frightening at random moments.
"I can't say anything. Yamamoto-san was amazing."
"Ehehe. The self-defense techniques I learned to protect my little brothers were effective."
She pats her upper arm and laughs cheerfully.
It has now been revealed that she is on the level of a monster, including her athletic ability.
"So, can you explain it to me?"
The reason why I was targetted by Sonoda like this.
Originally, Yamamoto-san was spreading rumours about me as her boyfriend.
"Y-yes..."
Then, Yamamoto-san resigned herself and told me the end of the story.
As Yamamoto-san confessed her feelings many times, she began to lie about having a boyfriend.
Rumours like that started circulating in various places, and when Yamamoto-san was asked about her true intentions by a friend, she didn't deny it when asked if I was her boyfriend.
From there, rumours began to leak out further, and some of my classmates learned about it.
"I guess that's why that Takanami was being cold towards me."
"Maybe so. When Sotomichi-kun wasn't around, the people who remained in the class were confirmed by Takanami-kun. But I didn't directly say that we were dating either, so no one could give a good answer. At the end, I think he yelled, 'I won't speak until Sotomichi admits it!'"
Maybe that's why the people in the class didn't listen to me.
As far as I'm concerned, the only people in the whole school that I can call friends are Suzuhara and Takanami.
When they talked about who Yamamoto-san's boyfriend was, the reason my name came up first was because of our interactions over the past few months.
About us suddenly talking to each other.
About when she asked me to do some work in a place that had nothing to do with day duty.
And above all, the fact that there was a student who witnessed our pseudo-date at the shopping mall was enough to convince them that I was Yamamoto-san's boyfriend.
If we were just walking together, it's not inconceivable that we ran into each other by chance, but...
I even accompanied her to the changing room and helped her choose out clothes.
Although they probably didn't see me go inside, there was enough reason to suspect me.
"But, isn’t this just something Yamamoto-san should have denied?"
"I didn't expect the rumors to spread like this. But since it's just the right time, it's fine."
"But why..."
As Sonoda said, I'm a plain man of little presence.
However, I feel that the role of her boyfriend will sacrifice her reputation as an absolutely pure and beautiful girl.
"Because, look. Sotomichi-kun has never shown any interest in me, has he?"
It's not like I wasn't interested at all.
When we became in the same class and learned about each other's existence, at first I just thought she was a distant existence, so I just didn't care.
By the time I finally got to talk to Yamamoto-san after we were day duty buddies, I had already been infected by Miyu, a deadly poison that made my sexual nerves go crazy.
"So you chose me because you didn't have to worry about the rumoured boyfriend turning into your real boyfriend?"
"More or less, yeah."
"Is that why you kept wanting to lend me?"
"I wanted to sell my favour for a time like this..."
I see.
I guess it was put to good use.
"What should I do?"
"There's no guarantee that something like this won't happen in the future. I'll just pretend that I found someone I like instead of a boyfriend. Sotomichi-kun, if someone asks you, you can just say that we're not dating."
'Sorry, okay,' Yamamoto-san added at the end before beginning to return to the classroom.
"Ah, right."
She turned around once more and asked me.
"Do you want an apology?"
An apology from Yamamoto-san.
Considering the conversations we've had so far, I'm guessing she'll do something naughty with me.
Is it okay to take it so casually?
This might be the only chance for someone other than Miyu to help me bust a nut, so I'd like to ask her to do it.
"Is it really fine?"
"Yeah."
Yamamoto-san answers calmly.
I guess she has a lot of experience with men.
According to Suzuhara, it seems like she had men in the past as well.
If that's true, don't you have any concerns?
There are a lot of students like Sonoda who think that Yamamoto-san is a virgin, so I feel bad for them for making her apologise in such a naughty way.
"Then, it'll great if you can do it."
"Fufuu. Okay."
Yamamoto-san laughed cheerfully.
We tend to think that sex is a bad thing, but it's not evil in and of itself.
"Since it's Sotomichi-kun, I don't think it's a problem if I show you my room, but can we do it in a classroom somewhere after school just to be safe?"
Which one is actually more dangerous?
I feel like it would be safer if you just blindfolded me and led me into your room.
"It's more exciting that way, isn't it?"
It was a convincing crime.
I accepted the proposal, discussed how we would meet up, and then saw Yamamoto-san off as she climbed the stairs.
I can only get one shot out of it.
There's no rubber, so it won't proceed to the actual event.
However, the most important thing is to have Yamamoto-san make me ejaculate.
This is my last chance to confirm that I can have sex with someone other than my little sister in my future life.
I returned to the classroom with a double sense of nervousness in my chest.
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