Chapter 75 – Episode 75. Evidence (3)
It was mid-September, and the intense sunlight was gradually weakening.
At an elementary school playground in Miyagi Prefecture, a man was roaring.
Siuuuuuuuu-!!!!
The man’s name was Mori Takuya.
He was currently the god of the elementary school soccer field.
“That’s, that’s unfair!”
“Ugh! If only my height was about 20cm taller!”
“The spiritual pressure! The spiritual pressure is too strong!”
‘Did these kids take some kind of drug?’
Well, that was half a joke. It was just a physical education class where I, a physically gifted elementary school student, joined in on a lunchtime soccer game with the kids.
“Oh? A student with such talent?”
Though it didn’t seem that way to some.
Anyway, this Mori Takuya, or rather, I, had completely crushed the opposing team in the lunchtime soccer game. I was cooling off, preparing for the next class.
“U-um, excuse me!”
“Hm?”
I was puzzled as Momiji approached, hiding something behind her back. She blushed and handed me something.
And that something was a towel, which I really needed right now.
“H-here’s a towel!”
“Oh, Momiji. Thanks.”
I wiped my sweat with the towel instead of my shirt.
After wiping off the sweat, I felt bad for giving Momiji the sweaty towel, so I said I would wash it and return it.
But Momiji shook her head at my words.
“N-no! I’m lending it to you because I want to!”
“No, still…”
“W-well, I do all the laundry anyway, so it doesn’t matter… Here!”
She even took the used towel and ran away when I tried to say something again.
And an old man (the principal) who happened to be passing by saw this and said,
“Ah, youth~”
Hearing that muttering, I grumbled inwardly, “What is this, a shoujo manga?”
“Takuya! Class is about to start. Hurry up!”
“Ah! I’ll be right there! Momiji, you come in quickly too!”
After wiping off his sweat, Takuya shouted for Momiji to return to class and then went inside.
And while Takuya went back to class, Momiji was far away, in a place where the kids didn’t usually go…
“Hehe, hehe. Takuya’s scent… I love it…”
She was doing something creepy that would have shocked Takuya beyond surprise if he had seen it.
“Sniff♥ Haa…♥ Takuya♥ Takuya♥”
Of course, she had no idea she was doing it.
Momiji spent a long time smelling the towel that had Takuya’s sweat on it before barely making it back to class.
***
A few days had passed.
There weren’t any particular changes in my daily life, but it seemed different for others.
I watched Haru chatter beside me while drinking a juice.
Her stories were mostly about Hiro.
“So, Hiro said…”
Wait, weren’t they not on good terms until recently?
That was already a few days ago. I had no idea what had happened in those few days, but from Haru’s words, Hiro had become the sweetest guy ever.
And that was naturally good for me.
No, more than good.
‘Just as planned.’
Everything was going according to my plan.
You might suddenly ask what plan I’m talking about, but surprisingly, this was my strategy.
I stimulated Hiro’s jealousy to instill a normal way of thinking in him.
Of course, this method wasn’t very effective with just one or two tries.
There’s a saying, isn’t there? The first and second times are coincidences, but the third time is inevitable.
So, to make it seem inevitable to Hiro, I had Haru go to various places.
And I didn’t forget the meticulousness of planning the route that Hiro usually took so that he could see this process.
Am I a human trash?
No. This was all for Hiro’s sake.
What I’ve learned in my life is that humans are never creatures that change with just one or two tries.
Like the saying, “Old habits die hard,” a person’s thoughts and beliefs don’t change so easily.
If they did change easily, it would either be something too shallow or a case where they hit their head and became half a different person.
That’s why I continuously stimulated Hiro to create an environment where he couldn’t help but change, and now the two of them had developed a relationship that wasn’t bad.
‘Honestly, haven’t I done everything for them?’
In fact, the scenario’s progress was quite good.
【Status】
[Haru]
[Corruption: 10%]
[Lustfulness: 0%]
[Development Area▼]
[Capture Progress: 72%]
[Salvation Progress: 70%]
[Scenario Progress: 60%]
I thought that if things continued like this, I could easily reach 100%.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.
‘Is this the limit of salvation I can raise without any more events?’
In fact, all the salvation that could be raised had already been raised, and now it was stagnant.
In other words, a special event was needed to raise the salvation level.
And it had to be an event that would make almost half the class go crazy.
And I knew a good person who could create such a special event.
-Click.
That person was, of course.
[Ah. You’re asking if we’re not having meetings these days? Ah. It’s because the girl I was training ran away last time. I’ll be doing it again soon…]
It was that physical education teacher.
And that wasn’t all.
I smiled sinisterly while looking at his secret videos, diary, and belongings that I had taken from his house.
‘Now… what should I do?’
I wondered how to create the best event.
***
It was the time when the track and field team members were training hard.
Kumoto, who would normally be giving instructions to the students with a solemn expression and yawning, was acting very differently today.
-Shak shak shak.
He was anxiously shaking his legs, looking restless.
“Hey, hey. What’s that delinquent teacher doing?”
“I don’t know, I heard that those files were finally leaked?”
By the way, those files were the list of students that Kumoto had touched (only rumors existed).
-Glare.
Anyway, after those two students finished talking, they received a sharp glare from Kumoto and quietly started training again.
‘This guy and that guy are ignoring me!’
Kumoto, who had been watching the two people training for a while, started shaking his legs again and fell into thought.
‘Damn it, more than that, who took them? My collection and precious photos!’
The reason he was worried was not much different from what the students had just said.
It was the photos and lists of the girls he had used like toys, and a small collection he had obtained from them.
If it was just the collection that he had lost, it wouldn’t have mattered.
After all, he could always add to his collection.
But the photos and the list were different.
That was clearly Kumoto’s weakness.
And in this Japan, no, in this world, there was no human who was okay after their weakness was revealed.
Especially if that weakness could kill him instantly.
That’s why Kumoto couldn’t help but shake his legs and be anxious.
He was in a situation where he had not only revealed his weakness to the outside world, but it would be strange if he wasn’t stabbed in the chest at any moment.
‘Where the hell is it? There were definitely no signs of anyone entering the house!’
It wasn’t easy to track down the person who had obtained the data either.
It was like a ghost’s work, there were no signs of anyone entering anywhere.
Because of this situation, Kumoto’s mind was completely focused on his weakness.
Meanwhile, one person was running hard below Kumoto.
That person was, of course, Haru.
He was able to run in a fairly relaxed state thanks to his good friendships these days and Kumoto not bothering him. As a reward, his form had actually started to improve again.
Thanks to that, the eyes of the seniors who had been glaring at him had also softened.
So, Haru, who was satisfied with being able to run happily, suddenly thought.
All of this had happened after meeting a certain boy.
‘Come to think of it. Everything started to change after I met Takuya-kun.’
A mysterious child who disappeared quickly like a divine being but unexpectedly played like a normal child, that was Takuya-kun in Haru’s mind.
Of course, to be a little more honest, he was also a kid who knew how to say and do cool things that didn’t match his age?
Anyway, it felt like things had been going smoothly since he met that kid.
Perhaps that’s why. Haru smiled as he thought of Takuya and ran around the field.
Unfortunately, Kumoto saw that scene, and Kumoto was furious at Haru’s smiling face.
No. To be exact.
‘That girl! She’s laughing at me! How dare she… wait a minute, could it be?’
He was about to get angry.
It was also at this time that he felt a sense of doubt as he recalled what had happened so far.
In fact, if you thought about it a little, it didn’t make sense.
How could a student secretly go to a teacher’s house and steal things from inside?
Logically, it didn’t make sense, but.
‘That’s right! It has to be that girl!’
Kumoto, who was feeling fear in this shitty situation, didn’t have the time to think about it.
