Chapter: 2. The Unilateral Crush Girl Who Fell into Defeat
Today is the entrance ceremony for new students.
So the campus is buzzing more than usual this early morning.
In the boys’ dormitory.
The alarm on the phone startled a boy out of his beautiful dream.
First, he habitually reached for his phone by the pillow, only to realize that this wasn’t his phone alarm.
Feeling puzzled, he leaned out from the edge of the bed, curiously looking at the boy in the lower bunk.
“Eh, Tsukimi, you’re still in the dorm? That’s rare~”
“Ah, sorry, Uemon, did I wake you?”
“Not really, I usually get up around this time anyway…”
The boy called Uemon has the full name “Ōmae Suzaku Uemon.”
He is a second-year student in the “Special Class” of Ark Academy.
At that moment, he was staring fixedly at his black-haired lower bunk mate as if he had seen something incomprehensible.
After a moment of thought, Uemon seemed to understand something: “I got it! Tsukimi, you’ve finally given up on that meaningless exercise and decided to join our plump group, right?”
“Who would join a group that sounds so suspicious just by the name?!”
“Not suspicious at all! It’s just praising all kinds of plump figures!”
“That’s what makes it suspicious!”
Uemon looked at his black-haired mate and asked his question.
“If you’re not trying to join our plump group to become a chubby person, then why didn’t you go for your morning exercise today like usual?”
“Do you think it requires a huge resolution to occasionally skip a day?”
The boy in the lower bunk, named “Tsukimi Kanade,” had been getting up early to exercise every morning since he became Uemon’s roommate this past year.
Even on rainy days, he would discipline himself to work out in the dorm.
So Uemon didn’t quite believe the explanation of a “rare” lazy day.
Although Uemon often persuaded him to join his “plump group,” it must be mentioned that neither of them were chubby.
Uemon is a high school boy whose interest is “obesity,” fetish is “obesity,” and dream is “obesity.”
Unfortunately, his physique is special, and no matter how much he eats, he maintains a slim figure.
As for his roommate who has been persistently persuaded by Uemon, he is quite slender.
His muscles are well-toned beneath his clothing, combined with his tall and thin stature, and he has quite a handsome face.
It could be said that he’s a good-looking guy.
Both of them are quite popular among the girls on campus.
But unfortunately, Uemon only likes chubby girls, and for some reason, his roommate seems completely uninterested in girls.
This often leads Uemon to suspect that he might have that kind of orientation, and that he could be his target.
After all, when it comes to “Tsukimi Kanade,” one cannot avoid mentioning his childhood friend with platinum hair or the beautiful daughter of a wealthy family, who is quite close to him.
Sandwiched between these two top beauties, he is still single.
And he has never shown any interest in other girls.
It’s no wonder Uemon would have such thoughts.
……
“The reason is that today is the entrance ceremony for new students!” Kanade seemed to read Uemon’s mind and explained proactively.
“Come to think of it, that is indeed the case~” Uemon finally remembered.
“My younger sister is coming to participate in the entrance ceremony today as a new student, and she asked me to pick her up, so I’m taking it a bit easy today.”
Kanade, after a long time, got up under the sunlight, and while speaking, he walked into the bathroom to tidy up his messy hair in front of the mirror.
At that moment, Uemon’s voice came from outside the bathroom.
“Your sister?! Tsukimi, you have a younger sister?! She’s not also a beautiful girl in the Special Class, is she?”
“No, she’s in the Elite Class.” Kanade denied Uemon’s assumption.
Tsukimi Yukino will be joining Ark Academy as a first-year student today.
And Kanade had already been asked by her a few days ago to be sure to come pick her up.
She even issued a “death threat.”
Because after parting ways in middle school, Kanade had not returned to Kawano City even once during the past two and a half years on the routine “disembarkation day.”
Each time, he faced various unexpected events that prevented him from leaving as planned.
Unknowingly, he had accumulated a lot of resentment from Yukino.
Therefore, in such trivial matters, Kanade could only indulge her capriciousness.
“Tsukimi, you seem to have not denied the fact that your sister is beautiful…” Uemon keenly caught a slight detail.
Kanade felt it was a bit hard to comment on Uemon’s question.
From an objective perspective, Yukino’s appearance is indeed that of a genuine beauty.
But unfortunately, they hadn’t seen each other in many years and had only communicated through ordinary texts or phone calls; Kanade didn’t know what she looked like now.
“Tsukimi… I just noticed, did you go to a hair salon to do your hair?” Uemon came down to the bathroom door and said to Kanade.
“…Is there a problem?” Kanade replied a bit sheepishly.
“You… Do you perhaps have feelings for your sister…?”
“Is that all you ever think about?” Kanade turned back to look at Uemon with an expression of disbelief.
“Naive, when it comes to high school boys, their minds are always filled with ecchi and romance.”
“Apologize to all high school boys worldwide.”
“Then why did this old-fashioned guy suddenly go to a hair salon!? When meeting Hinata and Tennōin, I’ve never seen you care so much about your appearance!!!” Sigh, seems like Nishikawa has found a rival, Uemon finally mumbled.
“Nishikawa? What’s up with Classmate Fuko?”
“No, it’s nothing, why are you so observant at a time like this?” Uemon sighed heavily.
As for why Kanade suddenly started caring about his appearance, that was naturally something he couldn’t tell Uemon.
If he told him that besides his sister, another childhood friend would also come to Ark Academy today, things would definitely get more complicated.
After Kanade tidied up his appearance and changed into the Ark Academy uniform, he didn’t wait for Uemon and instead left the boys’ dorm first.
At the entrance of the dorm, he saw a familiar figure as usual.
“Good morning, Classmate Fuko.” Kanade greeted the girl standing at the dormitory’s entrance.
The girl named “Nishikawa Fuko,” upon seeing Kanade walk out from the dorm, instantly brightened her eyes.
“G-Good morning, Tsukimi-kun…” Fuko’s cheeks immediately flushed a light pink as she shyly greeted him while playing with the tips of her brown short hair.
Other students passing by the two couldn’t help but smile wryly.
“(Today Fuko-chan is still as enthusiastic as ever in courting the wooden boy~)”
“(He’s not interested in either the queen or the princess, nor does he show any signs of interest in Fuko; could it be that Tsukimi-kun really has no interest in girls?)”
……
The whispers of passersby reached Fuko’s ears, making her even more shy.
Nishikawa Fuko, like Kanade, is a second-year student in the “Special Class.”
She transferred to Ark Academy at the same time as Kanade in the second year of middle school and was attracted to the gentle and kind boy from back then.
As the two and a half years went by.
That shy and awkward boy has now become a tall and handsome guy, although he remains unaware of it.
But Fuko, as a girl, could clearly sense an increasing number of female gazes directed at him.
This made Fuko anxious.
If Kanade gets taken away by another woman…
So since starting high school, she has been coming to the dormitory entrance at a fixed time every day to wait for Kanade.
Even though typically the “Queen” Hinata Mana comes along too, she had to leave temporarily today.
—So today is a good opportunity!
Fuko thought to herself.
To confess to Kanade, whom she has always cared about, in the new semester!
And the opportunity is simple.
Because Kanade texted her last night.
He planned to discuss some matters with her on the way to school today.
—The fact that Kanade, who doesn’t seem to have feelings even in the face of his childhood friend who is a mixed-race beauty or the daughter of a wealthy family, suggests he doesn’t like them at all!
—Her chances are quite big!
—Perhaps she and Kanade actually share mutual feelings!
So maybe he’s hoping to take this opportunity in the new semester to confess to her—
“Actually, I have a childhood friend I’ve always liked; she transferred to Ark Academy today… I want to ask Classmate Fuko, what do you think of me in this state…?”
“…I think it’s pretty good…”
