Chapter 19
The next day, I was in front of a karaoke bar.
After returning home from Toramasa's house yesterday, I received a text message from Hanamiya on my cell phone.
The message said that she wanted me to come to this karaoke bar tomorrow because she wanted to talk to me, but I didn't know what she meant by “talk,” and I couldn't calm my nerves.
I took a few deep breaths and waited for Hanamiya-san. I turned my head in that direction.
Then I closed my mouth and stopped moving. I closed my mouth and stopped moving.
Behind Mr. Hanamiya, there was that Endo-senpai.
Not only that, there were three girls walking behind her as if they were following her.
When Hanamiya-san saw my reaction, she kept her right hand raised toward me and said, “Oh,” as if she had noticed something.
Then, Hanamiya-san ran to me, grabbed both my hands, and said, “No! We are all friends!” and looked me in the eyes with seriousness.
I learned the meaning of the word “friends” when we entered a private karaoke room.
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I'm Shiori Honda, a second-year student, and a serious mobster who guesses Ao-sama. Please take care of me from now on.”
A beautiful girl with wavy black hair that reached down to her waist bowed deeply and introduced herself.
I'm Ai Suzuki, a third-year student and a member of the shy mob who is a fan of Natsuki-kun. I'm a third-year student, and I look forward to working with you.”
A girl with bobbed brown hair cut at her shoulders bowed her head and introduced herself.
I'm Yayoi Tanaka, a third-year student, and I'm the sports-girl type of mob girl who likes Momo-kun. Nice to meet you.”
A tall girl with short-cut black hair introduces herself, showing her white teeth.
She said, “I'm Reika Endo, 3rd year, a gal-type mobster who is Yukarin, a.k.a. Murasaki-sensei! I heard from Mashiro-chan, but seriously, I'm sorry for making you feel uneasy because of us.”
Endo-senpai, who had been arguing with Toraga in the hallway, introduces himself and then strikes an apologetic pose with his hands in mine.
'I'm Hanamiya Shinbaku, a second-year student, a mob heroine who guesses Huangya-kun! Jade-Yoru-kun guess Nana-san couldn't come because she's working today!”
The heroine, Hanamiya-san, cheerfully raises her right hand and introduces herself.
Somehow I felt I had to follow this trend, so I also raised my right hand and opened my mouth.
I'm Mariko Takahashi, a sophomore from the mob-oriented mob of Toraga-supporting people. I look forward to working with you.”
When I said that, everyone except me clapped their hands.
What, wait, what kind of situation is this…?
I mean, I can't get Hanamiya-san's mob heroine out of my head, and there's also Jade-san's guess, eh, wait, what is this?
Could it be that all of you… have previous lives?”
I said as I looked around at everyone's faces, and everyone present mouthed their thoughts and shook their heads.
Seeing this scene, I leaned against the back of the chair I was sitting in and slid down to the floor.
As I fell to the floor, Hanamiya-san hurriedly explained to me that I was in a state of shock.
It seems that Hanamiya-san and the others had remembered their previous lives almost exactly as I had remembered mine, and were involved with their own guesses….
The first to realize they had a previous life were Endo-senpai and Momo-kun guesser Tanaka-senpai, who had bumped into me at Momo-kun's house with Murasaki-sensei. When Endo-senpai whispered “Kimiharu” to Tanaka-senpai as a test, he got a reaction and realized they had the same previous life.
After that, Hanamiya-san and Jade-san guess Nana-san met and realized they had a previous life, and then Suzuki-san and Honda-san noticed each other and …… their heads got mixed up …… I mean, everyone here except me! They all realized early on that they had a previous life besides their own and discovered it early on and kept in touch with each other.
I'm the one who guessed Koyo-kun, right? So I wanted to find him as soon as possible because he would have been worried if there was a girl who guessed Toraga-kun, but there was no sign of a girl at school…”
Hanamiya-san explains impatiently, and Endo-senpai joins in after her explanation.
I was desperate to find a girl who would be interested in Toramasa,” he said. I'm really sorry that I made you feel uneasy!
Endo, who was sitting next to me, repeatedly clasped her hands together and bowed her head.
The actual “I'm not a fan of the newest technology,” said the woman, “but I'm not a fan of the newest technology, either.
So, could it be that what Ki-kun was saying was that he was looking for a friend from a previous life?
Does that mean I didn't have to worry about my anxiety until now?
I was so anxious…I thought I would be lynched by the group if they found me…”
Endo-senpai hugged me as I started to cry, saying what I had been anxious about all this time.
She smelled like a very nice woman.
I was so nervous because I knew he was definitely there because he stopped coming out at night and he stopped playing with girls. We really wanted to find them before then.
I stopped crying and looked at Endo-senpai, sniffling at the mention of a summer festival and a gymnastics festival.
Then Endo-senpai continued to explain.
'You know the summer festival has a love triangle event, right? I wanted to let you know that you can invite me to the Summer Festival because it has been nullified, and we wanted to create our own flag for the Sports Festival.”
It is true that I had no intention of inviting Toraga to the summer festival because of the love triangle event.
The sports festival is an important event where you realize you are in love. Hmm? Creating a flag…?
What does it mean to create a flag?
As I tilted my head and looked at Endo-senpai, Tanaka-senpai noticed this and explained.
The event of the gymnasium is a scavenger hunt.
Each of the contestants drew a subject as a borrowed object: “the person I love” or “my precious child.
If you don't get the heroine, you go into the tragic love route, and if you don't get the first place, you don't get the happy ending.
The game's specification is that the player must be able to borrow the heroine, and if she is not ranked first, she will not be able to have a true happy ending.
I can't tell you how many times in my previous life I greeted gymnastics festivals with excitement….
I stared at the game screen with a pounding heart until I really came in first place…. It's a fond memory.
This time, all but one of them are not heroines, so you never know what will happen, do you? So I figured we'd prepare the paper ahead of time and we'd each borrow someone we liked.”
When Tanaka-senpai said, “Except one,” I secretly watched as Hanamiya-san, who was sitting next to me opposite Endo-senpai, uttered, “Ugh,” and held her heart.
Oh, I see, so you're forcing a flag with that.”
'Maybe it won't make a difference if we borrow it…' Still, it's better to do it than to do nothing, right?”
Tanaka-senpai then smiled again, showing her white teeth.
I thought she was the one who smiled like a sports girl with a great sense of youth. She even called herself a sports girl.
I asked her, “So, does this mean that none of you have become lovers with your favorite character yet?”
When I asked that question, they all put their hands over their hearts, looked into the distance, looked down, and covered their faces.
Oh, so everyone is the same….
Somewhat relieved, I gently put my hand on my heart as well.
Everyone talked about their feelings toward their favorite characters, and before long, the topic of conversation turned to me and Toramasa.
Everyone seemed to know about the love lives of everyone except me, and they listened attentively to my story as a newcomer to the group.
I was embarrassed to talk about myself and Toramasa, but I couldn't talk to anyone like this, so I talked as if I was letting out my past feelings.
We talked for quite a while, and I was very happy that everyone listened to me so seriously. Everyone was sympathetic and listened to me because we had the same previous life. When I finished talking about what had happened yesterday, they all collapsed on the sofa, clutching their hearts again.
I was so happy to hear that.
What is that sadness…?
“It's painful because I know how you feel…”
“I'm jealous… you guys should hook up…”
It's so hard… everything is so hard…
I wish I could tell my guesser that I love her…”
Time flew by as I finished listening to each person's thoughts, and I also listened to everyone's situation with their guesses.
Even though they were all mob members, they all had strong characters.
The one who surprised me the most was Ms. Hanamiya. I had imagined her as a game heroine, but the Hanamiya-san I remembered from my previous life was completely different. She loved to talk down to me, and her behavior was so outrageous….
She said she hid her behavior in front of Ki-kun, but she was seen practicing Voypa in secret, or playing Witch's Delivery Service on a broomstick…….
Everyone said that Ms. Hanamiya was a pervert in the skin of a heroine. I was told that I would find out in time, but I can already tell enough just by listening to her talk…. Oh, is it even more amazing than this? I can't imagine it just yet.
Other than that, when Endo-senpai met Dr. Murasaki, his first words were “Please have sex with me! Mr. Aoi's favorite, Mr. Honda, fainted the moment he saw him. I heard that Mr. Hanamiya was body touching with a straight face….
— my sobbing confession is familiar here.
I felt unexpectedly comforted.
After a while, we exchanged contact information with everyone and we broke up.
As I was leaving, Hanamiya-san and Endo-senpai stopped me, and the three of us ended up talking outside the karaoke bar.
Endo-senpai looked scary on the outside, but he was a kind person and apologized to me many times.
I told him not to worry about it, but he kept apologizing to me. I was sorry for hiding all the time.
Hanamiya-san was also apologizing to me while sobbing, so it became a chaotic situation where I didn't know what was going on anymore, and finally we laughed at each other when we didn't know what we were apologizing for.
The last thing Hanamiya-san apologized for was that she was sorry for imagining something obscene when she heard “wiener coffee. Yeah, I don't know what that means. It made me a little nervous about Hanamiya-san's future.
Marilyn, don't you want to see Toraga at night?
“Oh, Toraga-san at night? What a charming sound, but wait, Marilyn is me?
Marilyn is Mariko, so Marilyn it is, right? I'll show you.
I couldn't keep up with Endo-senpai who suddenly started talking to me, and I put a question mark on my head.
“Are you going to do that, Rei-sensei?
I'm going to do it. Let's show off our skills.
They were talking, but I had no idea what they were talking about.
What are you going to do? Tell me, tell me, tell me.
I raised my hand and asked for a detailed explanation, and they said, “Before that,” and I was taken to a place by Endo-senpai and Hanamiya-san.
The place we arrived at was Endo-senpai's house, and I was made to go up to the house without any questions and taken to Endo-senpai's room.
As I had expected, Endo's room was like a gal's room, with many leopard prints, shocking pinks, zebra prints, and so on.
In Endo-senpai's room, I was given a detailed explanation by the two of them, and I rolled my eyes in amazement at what they had to say.
Showing Toramasa at night meant showing Toramasa at “RED,” a restaurant that Toramasa used to frequent before.
The name of the restaurant was one that had been mentioned briefly in the game, and when I asked back, “What, that RED? to which Endo-senpai replied “yes.
It is a store that is like a hangout for delinquents at night in the game, an existence that only lightly came out of Ki-kun's mouth.
I never thought it really existed….
I said, “Of course they are! Endo-senpai replied.
My brother's friend runs that store, and we're good friends with him.
A shocking new fact. What a shocking revelation.
Right? That's why we know Toraga because we met there.
I was so happy to see him, and I was so happy to see him,” she said.
I was so excited that Endo-senpai said, “If you are a Toramasa fan, I would like to see you like that.
I want to see him so badly. I want to see a bad version of Toramasa so badly. Really? Are you sure?
When I told him that, he winked at me and said, “I apologize for making you uneasy until now.” He winked at me. If I were a man, I would be in love with Endo-senpai.
But I said, “But…” and opened my mouth.
After what happened yesterday, it would be awkward to see Toraga…and he would get angry if I went there…”
Endo-senpai responded to my worries by saying, “It's okay as long as they don't find out…” and signing a peace sign across his face. He made a peace sign next to his face and stuck out his tongue.
However, when I asked him how he was going to see me without being noticed by Toraga, Mr. Hanamiya said, “That's where Rei-sensei's plastic make-up comes in! and he hummed the music of 3-minute crooning.
She said, “We're so dull without makeup, so we've been working hard on our makeup. When I put on makeup, you'd think I was a different person. That's what we're going to do to Marilyn.
“Oh, you mean you're going to give me gal makeup?”
Yes, yes, I'll show you my technique.
What's with that line, handsome guy…? When are you going to do it?
“What? It's today, of course.
I asked back to him. I asked back.
However, Endo-senpai and Hanamiya-san were nodding at each other, “It's a good day when you have an idea, isn't it? I was surprised to see them nodding at each other.
So, let's go to RED tonight! Yes!
Yay!
“Yeah, yeah, tonight? Are you ready?
I'll call my brother and have him call Toraga! Yeah!
Yeah!
I'm scared. I'm scared for both of you.
It seems that my veto power was not here either. Sadly, sadly.
I was still excited to see a different Toramasa than usual, even though I was lightly pulled back by their strange tension. I was excited to see a different Toramasa.
I was still not comfortable with Toramasa because of yesterday's incident, and my heart still couldn't catch up with him, but I felt that I would be able to return to my normal self if I could see him for a little while.
