What If I Told Tomori-san, The Girl Who's Cold Only Towards Me, That I Knew Her Secret Account? - V1 Chapter 3.2

Vibrant Lunchtime 2

Chifuyu Kazami.

She was Tomori’s childhood friend and a girl unanimously recognized as the cutest in the class, if not the entire grade.

“Hey, say something.”

” …….. “

“Hey, I’ve been meaning to ask for a while now. Why do you avoid me? Do you hate me?”

“No, it’s not like that, but-“

“But?”

” …….. “

“Ugh, fine! If you don’t want to talk, then forget it!”

‘Just when I thought we could finally have a conversation!’ Chifuyu sighed.

“You want to talk?”

“Yes, Suzuka. Kagisaka is an otaku, right?”

“Ah, I see. So Chifuyu also likes anime?”

“No! I like everything, anime, manga, games, all of it!”

“I understand. But, excuse me for saying this, Chifuyu, but you have a gal-like style, and I think some people might not be comfortable with that kind of atmosphere.”

“Ha? So, you’re saying otaku dislike gal-like girls?”

‘Hahaha, no, not at all!’ Chifuyu confidently puffed her chest and said,

“It’s because the current trend is [Gal-Friendly Otaku.]”

“…it doesn’t mean you’re friendly, though.”

“Oh, come on! I’m friendly! Normally, I wouldn’t even care about a loner like him, but I thought we could talk about otaku stuff!”

” …….. “

“Hey, are you going to keep ignoring me?”

” …….. “

“…! The worst! I really do hate you! You’re completely opposite of what I like!”

Chifuyu was fuming with anger.

As you can see, Chifuyu, with her full-on gal appearance, loves 2D culture openly.

Being an open otaku in the Reiwa era isn’t particularly unusual.

(TN: Reiwa is the current era of Japan’s official calendar. It began on 1 May 2019.)

(Though it’s true, she does seem like someone I could have otaku conversations with.)

However, I have a reason why I can’t get close to her, much to Chifuyu’s disappointment.

It’s not that I dislike Chifuyu.

It’s just that it could potentially jeopardize one of my few friendships.

“Chifuyu, getting so angry might make your blood vessels burst.”

“Shut up, Azusa! Why did you bring Kagisaka along in the first place?”

“He’s been skipping too much, so I thought I’d let him help me with my work.”

“Huh? Work?”

“We’re going to teach Chifuyu during our free time at lunch later.”

“Uh, why? Azusa can teach me alone as usual…”

“Even if I teach you alone, your grades don’t improve easily, right?”

“Ugh… That’s…”

Probably because Chifuyu is too absorbed in her otaku activities and doesn’t have time to study at home.

I guess she couldn’t voice her true thoughts, so she said,

“But I can’t imagine Kagisaka helping you.”

“No, for now, he’s my servant. Right? Loner-kun.”

“Correct that. This treatment is closer to being a slave than a servant.”

I let out a sigh.

*****

[Kagisaka-kun, the other day in the library, you said, ‘130 yen is too cheap for an apology,’ right?]

A few minutes earlier, as lunch break began, I was suddenly attacked from the seat next to me.

[Wait. You also said ‘I’ll forgive you’ back then.]

[I changed my mind. I’ll forgive you this time, so can you help me with some work?]

[Rejected. I want to study alone during lunch break.]

[Oh, really? I was planning to do it alone after school today too, but I ended up getting roped into being an assistant for the tea ceremony club.]

[Gah!]

[Actually, I was supposed to help out the other day, but a certain vice president made me wait for 30 minutes, so it got postponed to today.]

[You really have a bad character. You create an atmosphere that makes it difficult for me to refuse!]

[Shouldn’t you thank me instead? I’ll let you experience an atmosphere that you, a loner like you, never experience.]

Tomori said those words, commanding me to attend the upper-class gathering.

(If it were my usual self, I would have suspected if there was something fishy.)

However, that wasn’t the case.

Although she had a poker face, Azusa Tomori’s plan was laid bare to me.

《★Today’s Plan: Operation Bento

① Invite K-kun to have lunch together using the library incident as an excuse.

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② Considering his past behavior, if he doesn’t go to the school cafeteria, K-kun’s lunch would mainly consist of bread bought from the school store.

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③ Nonchalantly lead the conversation by saying,

[That lunch looks tasteless. I can’t bear to see you eat something like that, so here, have some of my karaage.]

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④ [Delicious! You’re really good at cooking! I want to eat this every day!]

[Oh, if that’s the case, let’s have lunch together again! Next time, I’ll make a bento for K-kun!]

[Really? Then let me eat more!]

[Ah, that one is my half-eaten… um, it’s like an indirect kiss…]

[I don’t mind…Do you…hate it…?]

[――N-no! Not at all!]

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⑤ Tomochan great victoryyyyyyyy!!! 》

Those were the lovey-dovey strategy notes with embarrassing dialogue posted on her secret account.

My character was completely distorted…

I would never say such embarrassing lines, and exposing them on SNS is too defenseless…or so I thought.

(Well, it was quite a coincidence that I found her secret account, and I don’t think she thought I’d find it either.)

The [Everyone’s friend] homemade bento.

It’s like a treasure box that everyone in the academy envies, and I would never eat it.

My apologies to tomochan, but in order to maintain our distance, I’ll thoroughly crush this bento strategy or whatever it is.