Vol 2 Chapter 4 (1/2)

Unexpected Turn of Events, Kamiki Kuji’s Hostility, Engagement

“Freed, what do you say I should do when I am hated by a girl, no, hated by a girl for unknown reason?”

‘Are you talking about that human girl called Kamiki?’

‘That’s right. I really don’t understand. How did I offend her?’ I have no idea how to react to that glare that Kamiki gave me. She had never looked me straight in the face before….

‘Perhaps she already hated the ‘you’ in the past?’

‘Why do you say that?’

‘The impression that you have of everyone now is from the memories of the other ‘you’, right?’

‘Err…’

‘Since you know what kind of person the you from this world was, then why hasn’t it occurred to you that it could be because ‘you’ didn’t notice her hostility when looking at you, and hence, caused you to have the misconception that she didn’t notice you in the first place?’

After listening to Freed’s words, it suddenly came to me. That’s right, ‘my’ senses were pretty bad. It should be a given that ‘I’ wouldn’t be able to sense people who secretly gave me looks, right? Just like how I noticed that someone was staring at me moments ago. If it wasn’t for my senses being five to six times the norm, I doubt I would be able to tell that it was Kamiki who had been staring at me.

“You should more or less understand this, right? Here’s what I think: ’You’ couldn’t have purposefully went and offended that human called Kamiki. So, it should either be an environmental or a human factor that had caused it. As for the specific reason, I’m not sure why. Look, she glanced at you again. From the look in her eyes, I think she wanted to talk to you about something.”

“Really?” Kamiki Kuji had something that she wanted to talk to me about? Did something happen between us?

“Ring ring ring.” The bell rang at the end of the cla.s.s, as if it’s congratulating me for not paying attention in cla.s.s again today.

“Hey, stupid Lin Xiang, what were you thinking about just now?” Satsuki showed off her usual busybody skills. I was starting to feel that this world’s Satsuki was getting more and more similar to the previous world’s Satsuki.

“I was only wondering why Satsuki is so beautiful today.” I replied as I looked past Satsuki’s head and stared at Kamiki Kuji’s back.

“Really? You noticed?” Satsuki said something I didn’t quite understand. Then, she pulled out a black hairpin from her hair and said:” I thought you wouldn’t notice, since it was such a small hairpin.”

“What mom said was really true.” Satsuki’s expression was filled with happiness.

“What did your mom say?” Sorry, Satsuki, I didn’t notice that hairpin. I was looking at Kamiki Kuji. If you hadn’t taken it out, I really wouldn’t have noticed….

“My mom said that if you’re able to notice this hairpin, then you’ll be worthy as my…”

“Worthy as your what?” Satsuki suddenly stopped, and her face turned beet red. This made me all the more curious about what her mom told her.

“She said… she said… that you would be worthy as my precious sister… and she also told me to never let go of you, my good sister….” Satsuki lowered her head.

“Is that so? Don’t worry, I’ll never leave you.” I did promise nerdy Lin Xiang that I would take good care of you and never let you be harmed.

“Really?” Satsuki lifted her head, her eyes were actually sparkling with tears. She suddenly hugged me, completely ignoring all the other cla.s.smates in the room. “I knew it! I know it, I knew that you actually felt it. As I thought, you actually knew this whole time, right? You’re so mean. You actually had me come out and say it. You’re too mean.”

Satsuki leaned on me. Her arms firmly hung around my neck and pressed my face tightly against her creamy neck. Faced with such an event, my brain just went “bang”, and short circuited itself. But quickly enough, the murderous glare from all the boys in the room had awakened me from my stupor.

“Um… Satsuki?? What are you doing? Quick… quickly, let go, people are looking at us.” Seeing no reaction from Satsuki, I quickly tapped at the arms that she had tightly around my neck. “You’re strangling me.”

After hearing this, Satsuki finally responded. She moved to sit on my thighs, but her arms still hung around my neck and her beautiful face was only centimeters away from mine. I could clearly feel her breath:” Sorry, I got a little too excited, so I just….. Hehe.”

Why is she so happy? Just because I would be a good sister and never leave her?

Just when I was about to say this, Freed stopped me. ‘Brat, if you say this in front of all these people, do you believe me that this human girl will ignore you forever?’

‘What’ I was shocked by Freed’s words. Satsuki would ignore me forever? I didn’t dare to imagine that.

“Afraid now? You’re such a dunce. You don’t understand a girl’s heart. Listen up and repeat after me.”

…….

“What? Your parents won the lottery? Isn’t this great? So they really won 100 billion yen?” I repeated the words exactly as they were said by Freed, and even followed his instructions to act all surprised.

Satsuki looked at me suspiciously. Then, after looking around her, Satsuki jumped up:” Aiya, seriously, I got a little too excited. It’s your fault. You’re clearly a good sister, so can’t you just let me hug for awhile? Why is your face so red?”

“…” Can you take a look at the mirror at yourself before talking about my face being red? “Ha~~ Even though I feel that 100 billion yen means nothing to your family, I’m only a commoner. To me, 100 billion yen is a lot, so I got too excited and, I don’t know why, but I just had the urge to want to hug you…..” Suddenly I felt like dying. Clearly, it was Satsuki who hugged me, but now I had to turn it around and say that I was the one who wanted Satsuki to hug me…..

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Unexpectedly, everyone accepted the rationale I gave. Although the girls had no reaction, the guys were giving me weird looks, with a mixture of hatred and relief. It seemed as though they were angry because Satsuki was on intimate terms with me. At the same time, they were also relieved because Satsuki only considered me as her good sister.

‘Whew! I’ll say, Freed, I really don’t understand girls. Why is it that they are so difficult to understand?’

‘I think it’s because you seldom interact with girls, and you pretty much dedicated half of your life to fighting, so that’s why you have such a low EQ.’

‘What does low EQ got to do with understanding girls?’

‘Forget it. If a human like yourself still don’t understand, I feel that I, as a dragon that has been dead for thousands of years without ever getting married, am ill qualified to teach you.’

‘I don’t understand what you’re saying. Anyway, what should I do now?’ When I saw the way Satsuki looked at me, and her elated expression, I couldn’t help but feel a deep and indescribable helplessness.

‘You can just think of it as that this human girl is happy because she has found her one and only good sister.’

‘Oh! So that’s it.’

‘……’ Freed was silent for a moment, then said, ‘Perhaps you haven’t noticed but when that human girl was hugging you, I noticed that happiness was written all over that human Kamiki’s face. It seemed as though that she really wanted you and Satsuki to get together. Then afterwards, she seemed to have thought of something and became angry again. The way she looked at you was even worse than usual.’

‘Oh? How come?’

‘How should I know? You think I’m G.o.d? Ack.. Even if I’m a dragon G.o.d, it’s not possible for me to know what people are thinking. Anyway, believe me, she’ll soon come and talk to you. Oh, the school bell rang, hey, look, she’s coming, get ready for a confrontation.’

‘Hey, what and what? I’m not ready yet.’

‘Then tell her yourself that you’re not ready.’

“Lin Xiang-kun, can you come with me for a bit?” Just as Freed had predicted, Kamiki Kuji really wanted to talk to me.

“Okay” I nodded. Even though I was not prepared, if I could figure out why she hated me, this would be an opportunity not to be missed.

Just like this, I left the cla.s.sroom with Kamiki as Satsuki glared at us with a gaze that brimmed with the smell of gunpowder…

———————— Rooftop

“You should know by now right?” Kamiki Kuji’s soft and tender hands were grabbing tightly onto the fence.