CH 4

Then we came to a rather large shopping mole that was about 10 minutes’ away for lunch. You can find almost anything here.

「It’s like a date ♥」

「I, I told you we’re broken up….」

….If it weren’t for her jealousy when I get in contact with other girls, she’d be a perfect beauty.

「So? Where are we going?」

「Hmm, where do you want to go, Hatsune?」

「I don’t mind going to jail as long as you’re with me.」

「No, don’t do anything, okay?」

What a joke, I thought, as I was thinking about about where I wanted to go. Hmm, what do I want to eat…. Hmm, I feel like I want to eat anything. But what kind of restaurant is that convenient?

【Half price now! Buffet!】

「—–!!」

That’s… exactly what I was looking for right now!! But what about Hatsune? She’s a girl, and she might not be comfortable eating a lot.

「H, hey, Hatsune, i, is it okay if we go to a buffet……?」

「Yes! It’s totally fine! As long as you’re with me!」

She replied with an unclouded smile. We walked into the buffet, put our bags on our seats, and went to get our food.

A buffet is a place where meat dishes, noodle dishes, and even sweets are already prepared and you can eat as much or as little of it as you like. Of course, there is a time limit, but…

「Hmm, what should I eat?」

As I was wondering what to eat, a young female waiter came over to me.

「If you’re not sure which one to choose, I recommend this one/」

She was showing me a very novel food, a seasonal cake sushi.

「Thank you very much! I’ll try this one!!」

I said as I carried the sushi to my seat. Hatsune had already chosen her food and was waiting for her. She had already chosen her food and was waiting.

「Let’s eat! Itadaki—-」

「Wait.」

Hatsune said in a voice that sounded about 5,000 meters deep in the ocean floor.

「Um, what’s the matter?」

「You were talking to the waiter so happily, smiling so much, and you decided to eat the food she recommended. Why did you choose the dish she chose without hesitation? Don’t tell me you came to this restaurant to meet her? For what? Hey? What’s going on?」

I decided to apologize anyway, since she was saying something I didn’t quite understand.

「I’m sorry.」

「What do you mean, sorry? So you admit it? Are you admitting that you have some kind of relationship with that woman? Then what kind of relationship is that? Come on, tell me. Is it something you can’t tell me about?」

….I, I forgot! Apologizing was forbbiden when conversing with Hatsune! It would be like admitting that I am at fault, and it would add fuel to the fire.

….No, but wait. She wasn’t my girlfriend anymore, so there was no need to make excuses, right? Yes, we’re not together anymore, so there’s no need to make excuses! Then….

「I, it doesn’t matter…. Hatsune and I aren’t together anymore.」

You have to accept that we aren’t together anymore now.

「….Ah, right.」

「……」

Wh, what? Did I possibly add fuel to the fire? No, but it doesn’t matter! We’re not together anymore! If we were, we’d still be good friends.

I think it would be really nice to be friends with Hatsune. If we were friends, she wouldn’t be jealous of me and I wouldn’t be bound to her. In other words, all the bad things about Hatsune would disappear.

「You say that… Hee…」

「Y, yes, because it’s true…」

Yes, no matter how scared I am, I can’t back down now. Yes, I’m scared of Hatsune now. This is the kind of fear that should only exist in 2D and not in reality. If I were a junior high school student, I would have cried a long time ago…

「Haa, I guess I’ll just have to do that.」

「…That?」

「Hey, you know I have more money that most people, right?」

Yes, Hatsune is rich. Her parents have a lot of money, and Hatsune’s parents are also like her, but they are laissez-faire, so the amount of money they send her per month is twice the annual income of a normal salaryman.

But is it possible that she’s trying to catch me with money?

「If you want to get me with money, stop────」

「Ah, that’s wrong, that’s wrong, I’m thinking of moving in together with you ♥」

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「…Eh? What are you talking about? We’re still in high school, you know?」

「Yeah, but I’m sure there are high school students who live together, and we have plenty of money.」

No, no, that’s not the point! I couldn’t say that. Because if I did, it would really add fuel to the fire. What’s more…

「Why did you suddenly start talking about living together?」

「Because even if you don’t want to, you can’t admit that you’re going out with me.」

From my point of view, she isn’t accepting the fact that I broke up with her, but…

「Then maybe I should move in with you and lock you in.」

Ah, I see, if we live together, then she’ll know everything I do!?

「Haa!? What are you talking aabout!? Locking me up is a crime in the fullest sense of the word!」

Yes, that’s the weak point of these dangerous people in reality. If it were a two-dimensional world, people wouldn’t care about crimes and it would be a convenient situation for them, but unfortunately, everything doesn’t work out that way in reality.

If I had disappeared, the police would have come to my rescue through the school and the surveillance cameras in the city.

「Eh, you didn’t listen to me? The way I put it, it’s confinement, but in worldly terms, it’s ‘living together’ okay?」

「…Ha?」

So that’s what it is! So if she treats it as living together, she can do whatever she wants! But it’s not going to work!

「But by locking me up, you mean you’re not going to let me out of the house, right? What do you think the people at school would think if that happened? A transfer student not going to school must be a fact that the school doesn’t want to admit, even if they don’t want to! So there’s a hole in that plan!」

「H, he has excessive hay fever and is in no condition to come to school…」

「Wh….」

Hatsune said fragilely, her eyes moistening. In junior high school, Hatsune was a member of the drama club, and even in that club, she was the best performer. It seems… but…

「H, how can the teacher be convienced by acting alone—–」

「I realized something after I broke up with So-kun for a while, that the power of the people around you is also important, so I made a lot of friends after I moved to a new school, and I’m also playing the role of a honor student with excellent grade, of course it’s all a lie….」

What Hatsune is trying to say through this is that it’s okay because she’s convincing…

「So that’s why we should life together.」

Yes, but this cohabitation can only start if I agree to live together! Then I still have a chance!

「Do you think I’ll agree to that?」

「Un.」

And then Hatsune took out her phone.

「Th, that’s! If you want to reveal it, do it!」

It’s a small price to pay for my freedom.

「Are you sure?」

As she said that, she showed me a video…..

「Ahn♥ ah♥ ahn♥」

When I was a freshman in high school, I had borrowed an 18-bit erotic game from a friend and stopped playing it because I thought I wasn’t ready for it.

Hatsune is serious…