6 Main Heroines Who Absolutely Want to Monopolize Me - Volume 1 Chapter 6.1

Lovers in New York 1

“Why should Sakiho have to feel bad for being so cute?”

She told me one day that those words were the beginning. Sakiho and I lived in the same neighborhood and went to the same kindergarten, so we’ve known each other since then, but it was after that school trip that Sakiho started stalking me.

* * *

I went on a school trip in the spring of my sixth grade. The destination was Kyoto, a standard school trip.

During the free activities for sightseeing in the city, I was still embarrassed to be alone at that time, so I was looking for a spot where no one else seemed to go. I found a Starbucks along the Kamo River.

Starbucks was a very busy place, but for elementary school students, Starbucks was a very expensive place to go, so I figured that none of my classmates would come in there.

As a result, it was a success, and I did not run into any of my classmates, whom I had hoped to avoid.

The only miscalculation was the sight of a childhood friend sitting alone on the terrace, silently holding back tears.

“Sakiho, what are you doing all alone?”

Sakiho looked back at me in surprise, and then, perhaps feeling bad about being discovered, she said,

“Shinichi is alone, too. …”

She shows a calm demeanor.

“Well, that’s true… But Sakiho and I are different, aren’t we?”

“What’s the difference?”

“Sakiho has a friend, right? Wasn’t Imaguchi originally planning to go with you? Um, the girl with the vertical roll hairstyle…”

“Because it didn’t turn out that way, this is how it’s ended up… Uuuu…”

“Hey, don’t cry …!”

Sakiho began crying as we talked, but after I comforted her and listened to her story, she explained how things had become this way.

Her story was so simple and childish.

Last night, the most popular boy in our class confessed his feelings to Sakiho.

Sakiho, who did not particularly like him, turned him down.

The confession by the most popular boy in the class became a well-known fact overnight.

(I didn’t know about it, but …).

The leader of the group, the girl with vertical roll hair, who liked the boy, said to Sakiho,

“You’re getting carried away, aren’t you?”

She left Sakiko and the other girls who were supposed to go with her and left Sakiho for free activities time.

The other girls were supposed to go around with her, but they left Sakiho behind and went off on a free tour.

“…What the heck.”

I’ve come to realize that human relationships are just burdening.

“Maybe it would have been better if I hadn’t refused the confession…”

“That doesn’t make any sense at all. If the opponent the girl with vertical role hair, it’s still impossible.”

“Stop calling her vertical roll hair! That girl has a name, Chiyan and Tateno Maki.”

Despite being betrayed, Sakiho defended the vertical roll. Or rather, the name really reflects the personality—Tateno Maki.

“Either way, with someone as jealous as vertical ro-… Tateno? The relationship was destined to get complicated when that boy confessed”

“What should I have done then…? Ughhh…”

Trying to calm down Sakiho, who seemed on the verge of tears again, I hastily stood up.

“You don’t have to do anything about it. Those people should be the ones begging us. Sakiho, it’s not your fault.”

“Not my fault…? Isn’t it because of me?”

I nodded in return and said the same thing in an extremely eloquent manner–actually, now that I think about it, I wonder where a sixth-grader in elementary school would have the courage to say something like that so casually.

“It’s not Sakiho’s fault. Just because Sakiho is cute, why should she have to feel bad?”

Sakiho looked surprised.

“Me… cute?”

“You got confessed to because you’re cute, right? Well, maybe it’s because of your good personality, but… anyway, it’s because you’re charming, isn’t it?”

“As cute as someone you want to marry?”

“No, I’m just saying that in general…”

When I gently denied Sakiho’s leap in response, she once again filled her big eyes with tears.

“Forget it! I don’t matter anyway! You’re just trying to confuse me with fancy words like ‘general opinion’!”

“The fact that ‘confuse’ came out so naturally is impressive…” ( Sakiho using “煙に巻く)

“Nobody likes me anyway! Uwaaaa!”

Sakiho started crying again.

“No, I get it. You’re cute! As cute as someone you want to marry!”

That was the decisive moment when my words of encouragement reached her.

“Really…?”

“Yeah, really really.”

“Hehe, I see.”

As I watched Sakiho wipe away her tears and smile happily, I realized that I had already noticed something about her true nature.

“Sakiho is emotionally unstable and scary…”

* * *

Recalling such things, it seemed that her emotional instability hadn’t gotten better even after she became a high school student, and it is being exposed in front of my eyes all the time.

“Um, Sakiho-san…?”

“…What is it?”

The plane was flying at an altitude of about 10,000 meters.

Seated in a first-class pair seat that was quite extravagant for a pair of high schoolers, she glared at me.

Despite the rare opportunity for a one-on-one date, she had been like this the whole time.

To be precise, not just since the start of our one-on-one date, but ever since we returned from the group date in Nasu.

Initially, I thought it was just because she was tired or slightly annoyed, or maybe she just wanted to show an attitude towards the other potential brides (mainly Osaki).

However, it seemed like she was genuinely angry. This prolonged silent treatment was the second time it had happened in our long relationship—the first being when I started dating Osaki.

“I’ve asked multiple times, but are you angry about something?”

“I’ve told you many times that I’m not angry at you.”

Upon returning to Roppongi, I had thought that she might be intentionally keeping the reason for her anger a mystery, perhaps as a strategy to secure a one-on-one date.

TN: Hello, my name is Shieru. im newly recruited TL and im going to take over this series for now on.