As I Know Anything About You, I'll Be The One To Your Girlfriend, Aren't I? - Volume 1 Chapter 3.3

Leave That Culture in the Heisei Era 3

Kujo’s PoV

──Still, on that day, I ended up talking so much up close. When I almost fell and he helped me… I even got hugged by him!

I still remember well the sensation of his hand around my waist.

At that time, should I have paid him? After having such a good experience, maybe I should have offered like thirty thousand yen?

I’m always looking for a way to make in-app purchases for Miyashiro-kun.

“Hmm…”

While thinking about that, I noticed the heart rate displayed on the app screen gradually decreasing. He might have finished exercising.

By the way, this “Heart Rate” is taken from his smartwatch.

And of course, that smartwatch, before it reached his hands, was specially prepared by me with spyware inserted.

From the information extracted from his smartphone, I knew he started looking for a smartwatch on a flea market app, so I listed the one I had prepared in advance.

It would have been over if it was reset, but it was lucky he started using it as is, believing the phrase I included in the description, “It’s already initialized, so you can use it immediately.”

This smoothly executed procedure is, of course, a crime too.

…No, well, supposedly, the main reason why I recommended the smartwatch was for him to use it for health management. I’m saying this myself, but it’s completely unbelievable…

Sigh…

I sigh at my own wickedness. It feels like it’s become a habit.

They say you sigh a lot when you’re in love, but maybe everyone is thinking about their criminal history due to love…?

…That can’t be right.

Even as I’m dumbfounded by myself, on the other hand, my hand never lets go of my smartphone.

Because, while displaying Miyashiro-kun’s “Heart Rate,”──my smartphone vibrates in real-time to his heartbeat, tottotto…

It’s as if I’m holding his very heart in this hand… (tln : …)

────The best~~~~~~!!!!!

…No, really, I think you won’t understand unless you actually experience it! But!

Being able to feel the heartbeat of the person you love in your hand anytime is an amazing experience! It’s incredible!

Talking to each other, being in the same place, it’s a different thing. It’s like touching the very source of the loved one’s life… So, in other words, there’s a special kind of danger! I could die of reverence. Oh no, I’m running out of vocabulary.

Thinking that many humans will go on without experiencing this excitement makes me even sad. Humanity, before going on dates, first feel the heartbeat.

That’s where the “answer” is…

“Yukko, Ruu-chan, gather up! …Miyashiro-kun isn’t here, right, good good.”

“Ah, what?”

“What’s up with Miyashiro?”

…What? I can’t help but eavesdrop on the conversation I heard.

Excluding my family, humans other than Miyashiro Kuuya are quite unimportant to me, so I usually don’t care about conversations happening around me.

But if it’s about Miyashiro-kun, that’s different.

The conversation is among three girls in the class who are particularly lively (I think, I don’t remember well).

“About a week ago in HR, Miyashiro-kun became a committee member for the upcoming ball game tournament, remember?” (TLN : HR = Homeroom class)

“…Was that so?”

“I remember, I remember, that’s when Hatsuse nominated himself and invited Miyashiro to join him, right?”

Yes, that’s right, I nod to myself as I listen to their conversation. If it’s related to Miyashiro-kun, I remember it accurately.

Also, for the ball game tournament, two boys and two girls from each class, totaling four, become committee members.

When Miyashiro-kun was decided as a committee member, the slots for girls were still open, but thinking “then I should…” was impossible for me.

“Right. And, …actually, I told Hatsuse-kun beforehand that he should nominate himself.  I Told him “It seems your crush from another class has become a committee member too,” ”

“That’s super kind, hilarious. What’s with that? That’s not like you.”

“No, Aki is quite kind.”

The girl who made a jesting comment gets retorted by another girl. By the way, I don’t remember their names. What were they…? No, I have no idea.

Temporarily, let’s just call them Girl α, Girl β, and Girl γ in the order they spoke. (tln : Alpha, beta, Gamma)

Girl α says.

“Nfufu, just as Ruuchan says, I’m kind. …You know, a friend from another class──ah, you both know her. Sacchan from class 7. …She likes Miyashiro-kun!”

“Oh~!”

“Oh~”

I freeze at the sudden explosion of a bomb.

“Then~, she came to consult with me! How to get closer to Miyashiro-kun! So, first, I had Sacchan become a committee member…”

“Ah, I see. So, you used Hatsuse, who’s close to Miyashiro, to make sure Miyashiro would also become a committee member? Smart~”

I blink hard five times and take three deep breaths to regain my normal thinking capacity.

And I think.

──Normies must die!!!!!!!!

What’s that, what’s with that plan! Is that, that, unfair, Ah, is it not unfair?

Where do you learn such things…? In a cram school…? No way, in Benes…?

I mean, you’re manipulating people! Is that allowed!

Isn’t that against human ethics!

“…”

I have no right to say such things. After all, I’m a genuine criminal.

“Hehehe, and today’s the sixth period is a long homeroom, right? We have self-study time, but the committee members are gathering in the multipurpose room on the third floor for a meeting. You know what i mean right?”

“Yeah. Ruuchan and I are on the committee.”

“It’s like, if you become a committee member for the ball game tournament, you don’t have to do it for the cultural festival and stuff.”

It seems β and γ are committee members for the ball game tournament from this class, just like Miyashiro-kun. I totally didn’t remember that.

“Can you two help Sacchan and Miyashiro-kun get along? Like, making them in charge of the same sport!”

“Hmm, okay~. I’ll do what I can~”

“I don’t know if it’ll work, but the committee members for the ball game tournament seem to work in teams by grade, so there should be plenty of chances to talk, right?”

The more I listen, the more I hear things I don’t want to hear.

I feel the blood draining from my face.

“Thanks~! But Miyashiro-kun, he’s not super popular, but he’s somewhat popular, right?”

“I get it~. He’s kind of my type.”

Girl β, licking a candy, nonchalantly says such a thing. What…

“Huh, Yukko, really? Surprising. I thought you liked more flashy guys…”

“Hmm… Miyashiro-kun has an atmosphere, you know. It’s like, he sees things differently from us. Like he has his own world. I like that kind of thing~”

Girl β responds to Girl α. She continues in her serious yet ambiguous tone.