V1C2 Part5

Translated by KuroNeko (TheDepressedLemon) Edited by KuroNeko (TheDepressedLemon)

After school.

I still have some time until my meeting with the Discipline Committee’s chairwoman. So I decided to continue with my student council work till then.

Then——Mitsuki and Yukina went off to the staff room and the office, respectively.

So it’s just Taiga and me in the student council room now, crunching paperwork——

“——Yuuya. This has nothing to do with the business, but I had a thought.”

“… What?”

Somehow, I thought this sounds interesting, so I decided to not stop him.

“There’s an expression for mens who are bad with women, ‘You’re gonna get stabbed someday.’”

“… Well, there is.”

As expected, it didn’t appear to be a particularly meaningful topic, so I responded with a half-hearted reply as I went about my work.

“On the other hand—in novels and anime, another world harem stories are all popular, aren’t they?”

“… Well, you’re right.”

“I think ‘You’re gonna get stabbed someday’ works in that world, too——”

“… Well, I guess there’s such a thing as ‘madly in love’ in any world.”

I mean, what am I really trying to say is——

“In that case, should I assume that getting ‘stabbed’ means killed or wounded by any egregious weapon such as a spear?”

“I don’t know.”

“Also, in this world, the standard for striking with blunt weapons is something like a ‘crowbar-like object,’ but over there, you should expect a mace or warhammer as tall as you are.”

I told him to listen to people. I mean, is the ‘crowbar-like object’ standard?

“But, it is a heavy weapon that is the size of your body. It would take a lot of muscle power to defend against it. Your arms will ring…!”

Why posing? I mean, are you going to go to another world? You’re not gonna wake me up, are you?

I know it’s pointless to say anything to Taiga, who for some reason has started practicing cross-legged catches, but I still thought I should say something.

“… At any rate, I know you have a harem desire——”

“I’m back.”

“I’m back Taiga… So, what do you wish for, Taiga-kun?”

““……””

The girls came back.

Mitsuki is fine, but… Yukina-san, are you missing an iris in your eye?

Taiga’s expression stopped changing. The blood drained out of his veins and he started to sweat like crazy.

“… Hey Taiga-kun, what are you talking about?”

Yukina walks up to Taiga with a very pretty smile on her face, except for her eyes.

Taiga, on the other hand, remained motionless like a frog stared at by a snake——

“N-no——I was just talking about the common man’s desires and the consequences of going for it… On a side note, I don’t think you have any desire to go the other way, do you——”

“No, I don’t?”

He tried to talk his way out of it, but Yukina responded immediately… Her eyes looked to have no iris, no light to the point where I wanted to ask her, “Is this a black hole?”

Taiga also seemed to notice the look in her eyes, which increased the pallor of his face and the amount of nasty sweat running down his cheeks.

“… I’m sorry, I don’t have the time or desire to look at other women, I was simply talking about a hypothetical situation like that, so please forgive me.”

… Taiga said it in one breath, as if it were a Buddhist prayer to ward off evil spirits.

Yukina smiled and laughed in response——but the light in her eyes was still gone.

“Yeah, I know——But, if you change your mind, I’ll know right away, okay? Even if you hide it, I’ll find it, okay? And once you’re in the view of a security camera somewhere, if you use an electronic device to communicate, whether it’s a phone, email, or social networking site, I’ll know, okay? You know that, right?”

“…… ( Thump Thump Thump! )”

Taiga-kun shook his head in a desperate affirmation, as if his brain was about to turn into a cocktail.

——I hope you understand.

A girl named Sawatari Yukina, who is usually a quiet, irascible character who is our conscience.

However, when it comes to love, she is a very deep “yamikei.”

She is also a gifted student, and her specialty is “Information Processing.”

If I were to say that my father, who is the chairman of a global group of companies, occasionally asks her to help him, you might be able to guess what she is capable of.

… To put it bluntly, the person who will have the least trouble getting a job in the future out of all of us is definitely Yukina, not me or Mitsuki.

Yukina’s father said, “She’s such a quick learner, it’s fun to teach her!” As for us, we sincerely think, “What have we done?”

… Yandere and a super advanced information processing skill… is the worst combination in modern times.

“Yukina, when it comes to Taiga-kun, she gets heated easily. How cute~♪”

“… Cute?”

Regardless of the motive, I think it’s unfashionable in many ways, don’t you?

“So, Yuuya’s there too? Harem desires?”

“… I like it as a fictional story, and I think it’s an imaginary stew, but——”

She didn’t seem to care about my behavior or that of her two childhood friends. Mizuki asked me teasingly, and I thought for a moment before answering.

“——In real life, I think it’d have too much for even one person, so I’d rather not have more than two.”

“F~un. Well, let’s just leave it at that ♪”

… I somehow looked away from Mitsuki, who responded happily. I looked at my childhood friends again——it seemed that Taiga had regained his composure and was starting to fight back.

“My heart’s muscle is fixed on one person, and that’s Yukina. There’s no room for other women to get on board, let alone be aware of them.”

“Eh…? U-um… thank you. I, too, can only have Taiga-kun, you know?”

… The two of them seemed to have solved the problem easily. That’s all very well, but——

“Yukina, you’re a little too good for your own good, aren’t you?”

“… That’s one thing, but there’s a lot more to it than that.”

Taiga’s “What’s heart’s muscle,” and “So, in short, Yukina is heavy in many ways?” and so on.

However, the scene of the intelligent and handsome Taiga approaching Yukina with a serious look on his face is a scene that could only be found in a shojo manga.

“Yukina and Taiga-kun really make a great picture when they’re like that, don’t they?”

“… If you add speech balloons and put in some dialogues, though, sometimes it becomes a gag manga.”

Mitsuki and I were in a dumbfounded state, completely on the sidelines, when there was a knock at the door.

“Excuse me. I’m the chairman of the Public Moral Community, Sayama Mina. I’m here to talk to you about the other day——um, what the hell is this situation…?”

The chairperson of the Discipline Committee arrived just in time for the appointment, and when she saw Taiga and Yukina in their own world, and me and Mitsuki on the sidelines with dumbfounded faces, she voiced her confusion.

In response, Mitsuki and I looked at each other and thought for a moment——

““… Former-fighting scene””

“H-huh…?”

The chairperson of the committee tilted her head, and like the rest of us, stood there like a bystander.

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