I, Who Longs To Be A Dependent, Have Decided To Be Owned By A Yandere - Chapter 50

The End of a Date, the beginning of a Yandere

Maria Kinugasa, standing in the park enveloped in orange, was thinking about the man she despised, who must be engaged in a life-or-death game inside the Ferris wheel.

“Something… feels overlooked…”

While watching the tired children leaving, Maria stared at Akira’s phone, which had finished its role.

“…Ah!”

It’s the phone, the phone–Maria stood up abruptly.

“This is bad… I just remembered, Yura-senpai said she would call me at this time…!”

The verbal promise she made with Yura when she handed over the forged bus timetable – “I’ll call you once around the time the date ends, around 5:10 pm”.

“But if that jerk has my phone… Yura-senpai always keeps her promises… regardless if he’s in the Ferris wheel, she’ll definitely call…!”

The time had already passed 5:10 pm.

The sound would echo well inside the Ferris wheel, so there’s no doubt that he couldn’t hide the vibrating sound of the phone.

“If I say that I “borrowed” my phone… But we’ve exchanged so much in the amusement park, the excuse “I didn’t have my phone” won’t work… Somehow, I have to make him misunderstand that he “had his phone”…”

While walking around and thinking, Maria had a “flash” of inspiration and started running towards the “Broadcast Club” in the high school she attended.

***

“Eh? I just need to read according to this script?”

“Yes! Please!”

“A lost item announcement? I just need to say that Kiriyama Akira-sama’s phone was reported as a lost item?”

In the script Maria prepared for her friend in the Broadcast Club, there were lines mimicking a “park management staff”.

“Read it as naturally as possible! Think of yourself as an amusement park management staff!”

“Eh~ But I’m not in the drama club…”

Maria had planned to portray that Akira had “lost” his phone just before boarding the Ferris wheel. Dressed as a staff member who tried to inform the owner about it through Yura, she intended to make everyone in the Ferris wheel misunderstand that “Akira had his phone”.

If he didn’t bring my phone to the Ferris wheel, that’s fine. The problem is if he did bring my phone to the Ferris wheel. In that case, I don’t want him to be cornered because of my mistake.

I don’t want to owe anything to that Akira.

–Great! Maria-chan, you’re adorable!!

“…I don’t particularly want to be praised.”

“Eh? What?”

“No, it’s nothing! So, please!”

“Okay, I’ll make the call~”

At this point, Maria had no idea that she was inadvertently sabotaging the man she despised.

“Should I answer the phone?”

If you do, it’s game over for your life!!

After making them misunderstand that I had my phone using Minatsuki-san’s phone, there’s no way I can say “I didn’t really have it, te-hee!” now.

I don’t know what Maria is thinking, but if it comes to light now that “I didn’t have my phone,” it’s over.

Then, I have no choice but to deceive with all my might!!

“Hey, have you guys ever played with a string telephone?”

With a lively BGM as background chorus and my voice (ringtone) declaring “I like girls who look like they have money” echoing around, I gently brought it up.

“N-no, I… I’ve never played with one…”

“That’s what I’m talking about.”

“Eh?”

I said it with a serious expression on my face.

“That’s… what I’m talking about…”

To buy time until the call ends, I glanced out of the window with a sorrowful expression and let out a deep sigh.

In an instant, Sumire began chanting at high speed with a smile on her face, Mizunatsuki gazed at a single point in the void with a blank expression, and raised her hand sharply in a beautiful posture.

“Yes, I understand.”

1871 A.D. Postal system initiated

1900 A.D. Paris Exposition held

2018 A.D.

Before I knew it, the hand-raising system was introduced.

“Akira-kun, you’re trying to save the world with your charm, aren’t you?”

Is there no oxygen reaching her brain?

“I see… I get it… As expected of Mizunatsuki-senpai…”

Is anaerobic exercise becoming popular?

“Akira-sama… how merciful… for someone like me, who has never experienced a string telephone… you tried to let me have a simulated experience by making a call…!”

“That’s right!! That’s exactly it!!”

Why do you two have such astonished expressions on your faces?

The ringtone finally ended, and I was relieved that I had somehow managed to deceive them. But the phone kept ringing persistently. Pretending to be indifferent, I said something plausible and continued to wear down the yanderes’ spirits…

“Good job.”

I noticed that the Ferris wheel had completed one rotation.

“Is it over?”

“So, that theory was rejected from Akira-kun’s third statement, right? Sumire-chan, you’re surprisingly not paying much attention to Akira-kun, are you?”

“Ahaha, don’t make me laugh. Even though you got all the answers wrong.”

“J-judging from the response rate… I believe… I, I am the one who understands Akira-sama the most… I mean, there’s no one else but me…”

Leaving the three of them engaged in a heated debate, I staggered out and headed for the exit gate.

It’s over; it’s finally over.

I took one step, then another, towards the light, aiming for the glory– but for some reason, my feet stopped, and I couldn’t take another step.

“Akira-kun, shall we go around one more time?”

The devilish yandere who grabbed my arm from behind smiled at me and said that.

“Onii-chan, I’ve introduced a point system! The person in first place can choose their favorite part of Onii-chan and monopolize it!”

“A-Akira-sama… I-I will win… because…”

These guys are having too much fun with my side shows, losing their hostility and suspicion towards the other two– I suddenly realized.

–The first rule of dating is “don’t let the other person get bored.”

As I remembered those words, I was taken aback and staggered.

–You have no choice but to be an entertainer right now.

“I see… Maria, I understand now…!”

Being dragged by the three of them, I laughed.

“So, this is what a date is like!”

For a moment, I hallucinated Maria’s smiling face, giving me a thumbs up in the twilight sky.

“Ah, how did it– eek!”

After finishing our amusement park date, I was called out to exchange cell phones. On seeing my face, Maria, who was holding two coffees, let out a scream.

“W-what’s with that rakshasa-like grimace… Don’t tell me, the triple booking… was it exposed?”

“… It’s four rounds.”

“Eh?”

I whispered with a smile.

“I went around the Ferris wheel four times, surrounded by the yanderes.”

“Eh, why, why did it come to that… W-why are you angry…?”

“Do you understand the trials and tribulations I went through to keep this triple booking from being exposed while keeping the three of them at the same points until they dispersed in the park…?”

“W-wait, what’s with that hand… S-stop…!”

After tormenting her in all possible ways, Maria was trembling on a park bench before I knew it.

“I’m sorry, I went too far.”

“I’ll… kill you… one of these days…”

She looks cool like a revenger!!

“Let’s call it even.

Let’s go eat some ramen. I’ll treat you.”

“… Why all of a sudden? You’re creepy.”

When I reached out my right hand, Maria, fixing the disorder of her clothes, grabbed my hand and stood up.

“By the way”

In the encroaching twilight, while drinking coffee and heading to a ramen shop, one of the few normal people walking beside me spoke.

“What happened to the Yandere Cultivation Project in the end?”

“It was a success.”

I asserted with a smile.

“Yura Yandere has become severe.”

“… I’ll treat you to the toppings.”

While aiming for a nearby ramen shop, we listed the failures of this date and had a heated discussion.

***

People, people, people… A beautiful girl with platinum blonde hair was strolling leisurely through the crowded airport.

She was wearing sunglasses over her blue eyes, a mini dress under her black coat, exposing her pure white thighs between her thigh-high boots… The ordinary people who were fussing over her, thinking she was a Hollywood actress, did not once get her attention.

Her overwhelming beauty– It was hard to believe that she was just a 17-year-old girl. If any part of her face was even slightly off, it would ruin the whole thing. She was like a perfect piece of art.

“Hi, Daddy. Yeah, I’ve arrived in Japan.”

Her sweet voice echoed in the spacious airport, and when a smile mixed in at the corner of her mouth, the face of a cute girl appeared all at once.

“Did you arrange that thing? Yeah, about “Kiriyama Akira Darling” ”

With every step the girl took, men who were enchanted by her blushed, and her high-quality hair, like golden thread extending to her shoulders, swayed.

“That’s right, yeah. I want you to “disappear from this world” all the girls who have approached Darling up until today.”

Her eyes, hidden behind her sunglasses, smiled– the Queen of the Night Aquamarine.

“Eh? You can’t get rid of that many?

Well, I’m just kidding, Daddy. Even Fee is no longer a child. It’s okay. I intend to have them quietly exit from Darling’s life.”

She hung up the call, took her smartphone in her hand, and started to slide the photos of Akira, taken every ten minutes, at high speed.

“Only Fee is necessary in Darling’s life… Nothing else is needed… Darling must think so too… Not needed… Not needed… Not needed… Not needed… This woman, this woman, this woman, this woman, this woman… Not needed, not needed, not needed, not needed, not needed…”

As the photos on the screen changed, women who had approached him “even once” within a radius of 5m (including passers-by) appeared in his life. Each time she slid her finger, the word “unnecessary” was displayed.

“Unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary… unnecessary…”

Her finger stopped– A close-up of a kindergarten teacher with a felt tag shaped like a peach, with “Momo” written on it, was wiping the mouth of Akira in his kindergarten days.

“Unnecessary.”

The image marked “Unnecessary” disappeared, and she raised her face.

“… Next is my turn to beat you.”

The yandere girl, who had finally returned to her homeland, was heading towards him, Akira.