Part 2
Shortly after pouring out her feelings, Horikita stopped crying.
However, because she had not yet recovered her strength, she was still sitting on the ground. I stood by her, quietly waiting for time to pass.
It was extremely fortunate that there was no one nearby, so no one else witnessed this scene.
That’s great.”
“What’s great about that. You seeing me like this, it’s extremely humiliating to me…”
Originally, I planned on comforting her a little, but that wouldn’t be so simple.
“Well, maybe so.”
That’s why she wanted to stay alone before. If I wasn’t here, then nobody would see her crying.
“Since you’ve already seen it, I’ll just face forward.”
“Face forward?”
“…You seeing me like this is a great thing. That’s what I’ve decided.”
Horikita felt relieved from the bottom of her heart and let out a sigh. This was not an expression that looked like she wanted other students to see it unnecessarily.
“So I’m going to share this scene with Keisei and the others then.”
I took out my phone and pointed my camera at her.
“Do you want me to kill you?”
After seeing the bright red eyes that were glaring at me, I immediately put my phone away.
“I’m just kidding.”
“Seeing that you made such a boring joke, I seem to need to teach you what TPO is.”
TL note: TPO states for “time, place, occasion.”
Seeing how she can still talk this much, there shouldn’t be a problem now.
“…This feels like, last year, a similar situation occurred.”
“Maybe it did.”
Although the location was different, I remembered a certain night when we had a conversation between the two of us. Horikita, who had just reunited with her brother, had sunk into a state of loss. Today’s situation was clearly the opposite, but there was an unexplainable sense of Deja Vu.
“I wonder why I always make blunders when I’m with you. I even sit next to you.”
She was saying that since the beginning of school, we had some sort of incredible predetermined relationship. It seems like no matter if that was the case, Horikita wasn’t too happy with it.
“Why not let me see you when you make blunders?”
Horikita lamented the unfairness of her fate.
“A blunder. Didn’t you see it already? I lost against Sakayanagi in our chess match.”
“That’s not a blunder, that’s just simple defeat.”.
It seemed like this wasn’t acceptable to her.
“Well, you should look forward to it after we become 2nd-year students.”
“It seems like that’s the only choice. I’ll carefully add it to my list of events I’m looking forward to in the future.”
It seemed that no matter what, she wanted to get revenge on me for seeing her cry today. But even so, it was still extremely shocking, thinking about how Horikita cut her hair short.
“If they saw you, everyone would be surprised.”
There would be students who wanted to slowly change their image, but they wouldn’t go as far as doing this.
“They can be as surprised as they want, I’m fine with it.”
Horikita said the opinions of other people didn’t matter, and there was no need to pay attention to it. Sudo will probably immediately be the first to talk about this. There were only a few days of the spring break left, and rumours would probably spread during this time… No, if there were witnesses already, it may have already spread.
“Talking about this might be a bit eh, but do you still remember the battle we decided on yesterday?”
“Of course.”
“About my request for you if I win, I’ve thought about it.”
“Hey… I thought you would bring this up later. To try to attack me mentally.”
“No, I didn’t think about it too much, I simply just hadn’t thought about it before.”
Horikita urged me to quickly tell her what I wanted, even though she was a little suspicious about it.
“If I win, you will join the student council.”
“… We’ve talked about this matter before.”
Previously, I had already asked Horikita if she was interested in joining the student council. Even though I had called the elder Horikita during then, he allowed me to make my own decisions. But in the end, she ended up refusing.
“Mhm. Will you accept my request?”
“Although I’m not interested in joining the student council….Fine. As long as I win, there’ll be no problem.”
Horikita said that if she won there would be no problems, and agreed on it.
“But I won’t guarantee that I’ll be allowed to join the student council, okay?”
“Don’t worry. Nagumo is the type to welcome anyone in.”
He was very different from Horikita Manabu, who rejected the overwhelming majority of applicants. In addition, since Suzune was Manabu’s sister, there is no way Nagumo would flat out refuse.
“Can you tell me why you want me to join the Student Council.”
“That’s a secret. I’ll wait until you lose.”
“This is making me uncomfortable, would it even matter if you told me now?”
“You’re thinking about what will happen when you lose again?”
“…Of course not. Because I’ll definitely win, I just wanted to ask in advance. And besides, you won’t tell me because you know you’ll lose.”
Deciding on the outcome of the battle, I didn’t tell the significance behind my reasoning.
“Your brother has been concerned about the matter of Nagumo. That’s why I’m doing it.”
“So you’re saying you want me to monitor the student council president?”
“Exactly.”
“So brother requested you to do this.”
Horikita looked at me with a bit of discontent.
“Because his relationship with you back then wasn’t so good, so he was forced to request it from me.”
If their relationship was good, he would have told Horikita this from the beginning.
“Don’t act modest. My brother paid the most attention to you out of anyone in this school. If it weren’t for that, he wouldn’t have called you here today when he set off on his new journey. Really… why is it always you?”
Horikita stood up slowly, complaining about this.
“I better not think about this. I’ll try to think about something else.”
If she didn’t do that, her body would be overwhelmed, so Horikita cast it to the corners of her mind.
“Horikita, there’s one last thing I wanted to confirm with you.”
“What else do you want, don’t tell me you’re going to say something strange again?”
“It’s about Kushida. Let me briefly explain my thoughts and the current situation.”
Hearing this kind of statement she didn’t know anything about, Horikita frowned, her face flabbergasted, eyebrows knit.
“Current situation?”
In order to prevent Kushida from going out of control, I signed a contract with her. The contents of the contract said that I had to give her half of the personal points I received each month to protect myself from her. That way, I’ll be able to remove myself as one of her targets.”
“Are…you stupid? Recklessly signing such a contract?”
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