The Favorability rating of Akechi Hideyori
I mad dashed away from Irene-somethingsomething-san and arrived back at the swimsuit section in the department store.
By the time I arrived, everyone was already gathered in front.
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“Oi, Hideyori? Where have you been?”
“Haa, Haa, Haa……Haa, No-, Haa–where…….”
“What nowhere!? You practically just ran here right!?”
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I try to get my breathing under control.
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“Haa, that aside, gimme……some water…….”
“Ah, here! Hideyori-san.”
“Thanks.”
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I received a PET bottle from Takeru and immediately poured its content down my throat.
It was green tea so it was rather easy to drink.
“Awawa……”
Someone raised a flustered voice.
What’s wrong I wonder.
I was paranoid that some thief might come running again but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
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“Haa……that was good……sorry I drank it all, Takeru. I drank with my lips so sorry about that too.”
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Since my lips touched the bottle directly, it could be taken as an indirect kiss so I apologized to him.
“Ha? That’s not my tea you know?”
“Eh? Then whose was……IT!?”
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Eien-chan’s face was bright red.
Seeing that, I looked down at the bottle.
It’s a smallish one of only 350ml.
And Takeru always buys the 500ml ones.
Unlike the sweat I got from my earlier sprint, a different kind of sweat started to flow down my back.
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“Eien-chan! I’m so sorry!”
“No, uhh…..”
“I’m gonna buy you a juice no, 10 bottles of juice as an apology! “
“Ara? So an indirect kiss with Eien-chan only cost about a thousand yen for you huh?”
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Tsugaru’s words shocked me to the core.
An indirect kiss with Eien-chan only worth a thousand yen?
There’s no way that’s the case.
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“I’ll pay with my life. If you don’t need it then please sell off my organs for money!”
“Umm……, well……., it’s fine………it’s also my fault since I forgot that it might become an indirect kiss when I handed you the bottle……..”
“………”
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Eien-chan didn’t even look at my face.
This is……..it’s happening again…………
The same thing that happened with Emi the other day………
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I made someone hate me again…….
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“Don’t worry about it, Hideyori.”
“Sakuya……”
“Anyway, do you want my canned coffee?”
“Please, no………..”
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Don’t look at me like that…….
Damn you, Irene-somethingsomething-san…….
You won’t get off scot-free if I see you again……..
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“Are you okay? Towa-san?”
“I’m, I’m fine! Don’t worry about it, Risa.”
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Risa checked up on Eien-chan.
Seeing her try to comfort Eien-chan in front of me is too hurtful.
“I was just embarrassed……but I don’t hate it……..”
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Eien-chan muttered something while sneaking a peek at me.
She must be looking at me like I’m a scumbag……
The game’s correction force is too strong………
If the world is trying to make itself more convenient for Takeru then it would toss me into hell in the process.
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“……….”
Emi is staring at me.
I wondered what she wanted so I looked back.
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“Hideyori-kun is misunderstanding something.”
“Eh?”
“But I’m not going to correct it.”
“Are you some kind of demon……..”
“I mean, she’s my rival.”
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Recently, I think I have lost my understanding of Emi.
What rival?
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“How about you try dying again?”
“Tsugaru……keep on insulting me like this for the rest of my life please.”
“Now you just sound disgusting.”
“………….”
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I can clearly see that the favorability toward Hideyori of everyone here is Zero.
So a department store is where a heart comes to die huh.
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“Hideyori, do your best.”
“Treating it like it’s none of your business huh.”
“It’s actually not my business after all.”
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Among them, Takeru’s words sound the gentlest to me.
Seriously, at this rate, I might actually fall for him.
I’m so thankful that I almost want to apologize for calling him useless in the game.
Thanks to my indirect kiss blunder, the topic of ‘where I disappeared to’ seems to have slipped everyone’s mind.
The topic of a thief stealing a katana box is just so far removed from our peaceful daily life, if I want to keep them away from danger then I probably should be thankful for my blunder though.
I started thinking so.
TLN: Next up, Miyamura Towa’s Ending and the game’s backstory