CH 52

Tokia’s Point of View

”Hey, Rem. It’s almost that time of year again.”

”Yes, Tokia. That time of the year when public morals are going to be disturbed.”

It’s going to be a very bad time.

It is no exaggeration to say that it is the most irritating period of the year for me, Tokia Jinguuji.

Specifically, the school festival. No, especially before the contest’s entry, the number of couples in this school increases without exception for one reason or another.

From morning till after school, men and women confess and confessed by one another…

The worst time for s*xual promiscuity is coming.

Trash like that Todo will surely become noisy.

It is the season when the unfairness of human beings and the fact that we are not all equal are once again exposed.

In fact, the men in the classrooms are becoming, if not a little bit, nicer to the women.

Their ulterior motives are obvious. I can only say that they are idiots.

What is it with schools and amusement park tickets as prizes for the winners? Idiots. They should give a year’s worth of homework to the contest winner. No, expel them. Have you thought about our feelings? What’s the point of having a school festival if everyone can’t have fun?

”Hey, Tokia. Look at that place. I wonder why that guy is so popular… Women are so stupid.”　

”Ah?　Oh, yeah. That’s him. I agree with Rem. “

That’s true.

Todo. Why would women like that surround a guy with a face and no other substance?

School’s out, right? If you don’t have club activities, go home early, you stupid girls…

If we all had the same face, me, Rem, and Sota would be 100 times more popular than him. No, a thousand times more.

Are we more what’s inside than what’s on our faces? Don’t be a fool. Especially women who say such things are not to be trusted.

Then why aren’t we men of good character popular? It’s all about face. We’re all about our faces. It’s been said on TV before. In the end, people with good faces are favoured to get jobs. So what are we supposed to do? There’s nothing we can do. Are you saying we’re doomed from birth?　Yeah?

Ah, I’m really pissed off. What’s with this destructive impulse?

It’s starting to piss me off, but that moment was pretty awesome. It still makes me laugh when I think about it. It’s hilarious.

Especially that day when Todo was rejected by the most beautiful girls in this school twice in a row.

I remember the food I had that day was the best I’ve ever tasted. I could have eaten three bowls of white rice without any side dish.

But what’s this? Where’s Sota? Working part-time? Has he gone home already? He was gone before I knew it.

Normally, the three of us are supposed to go home while having this kind of conversation.

Well, he may have Harukaze-san with him, but if they have been together for so long and nothing has happened, the case is probably the same.

Sota is a member of the same team as Rem, me, and others.

It’s just that, looking back, there are times when I feel uncomfortable with him…

He seems to have come back looking neat and clean for someone who has been shut in for a long time, or he seems to have come back with an air of dignity.

He hasn’t changed, but I can’t help but feel that he has… Something has definitely changed.

Tsk-

I can understand Rem’s tongue-lashing. That Todo is still annoying.

What’s up with those bitches who give him flirtatious looks? And what the heck is that bastard who lightly deals with those bitches as if it’s a matter of course? Is he pretending to be an idol? Even though he was rejected by Karen Otsuka, even though Sayaka Saionji beat him up, he still wants to pretend to be an idol?　

I can’t even remember the last time a woman talked to me.

Switch places with me once, especially before I enter the contest. Make me get a lifetime’s worth of confessions from women. I’ll end up with a hundred girlfriends and a whole lot of happy trouble.

And you’ll learn how hard it is to live as me, and you’ll reflect on all the stupid things you’ve done.

What? How do I do that? Fall down the stairs with him like in the cartoons? Get in an accident with him?　

If I could do that, I’d have found a hot guy and swapped places with him by now.

What? Is this stupidity the reason I’m not popular? Shut up, idiot.

(Idk who he’s talking to lol)

Blah, blah, blah, blah in an unfair society. Why did we start off on the wrong foot? Why is there a category “fugly”, and I’m in that position when I could have been a handsome guy at least? It’s too weird!

”Hey, hey, you guys out there?”

?

”Huh?”

What? Why?

”You guys are Kazama’s friends, right? Did Kazama go home already?’

Why’s Erika Hirose smiling so much at us?

”Hey, are you listening?”

Uh?

”Eh, aa, um, t-that…”

”Umm, uh, that, no, uh….”

Uh, no.

”Hm? What’s wrong with you two? Hey.”