Vol 1 Chapter 1.4 (1/2)

Yata took action on just once. He had thought of nothing but of what had happened.

“Hey, what is this?!”

He asked the three members of the Yata-team the following day and shoved his PDA at them.

When the three saw the screen they acted shocked and shamelessly asked in return: “Eh, what is this? Isn’t that kinda rude?”

“Don’t play dumb! Did you think I wouldn’t figure out anything? This is «jungle»’s group message!”

Last night Yata had tested out many things with the installed app and vaguely understood how to use it. However, the problem was that the moment he had received the messages Yata had just installed the app and had yet to do the user registration. Of course he had also not joined the group set up by his friends yet. Despite this, Yata’s PDA had received the messages.

“If there’s something you want to say to me, don’t talk about it behind my back like this, it’s better if you say it properly!”

“……when we say something you’ll get angry”

“I can’t hear you! I told you to say it properly!”

Because the reb.u.t.tal had been whispered, Yata immediately yelled and his friends cringed.

“Ah……”

Even though he had told himself since yesterday night that he would not yell and calmly listen to the conversation, in the end he ha carelessly yelled anyway.

It was right before morning cla.s.s, the time their cla.s.smates were one by one coming to school. While everybody said a cheerful “Good morning—” as they walked into the cla.s.sroom, Yata breathed in the air by the window, let his gaze wander and slowly placed his bag on his desk. Fus.h.i.+mi’s seat was still not occupied.

Taking a step back, Yata breathed in deeply “I won’t get angry…….. If there is anything bothering you about me, say it directly. Because I’ll listen.”

The three close to the window looked at each others faces and seemingly unintentionally burst simultaneously into laughter.

“You’ll listen……..shouldn’t you be saying ”Please tell me”, Yata-kun?“

”Ah!? Try saying that one more time!”

Yelling after all, Yata grabbed the friend who had said that by his collar and punched him with his fist. The friend let out a pitiful whimper and the two other boys got ready to run away. From the surrounding cla.s.smates who were watching also came a small shriek. The friend covered his head in desperation and turned away his face. Yata was not very tall, but he was holding up his friend who had fallen down by his collar.

Even though I didn’t want to fight……..Yata looked down on his friend with disdainful eyes. Although they made an idiot out of somebody and laughed in their messages, when they’re punched they’re already half crying or what.

“A-and also about the thing with the cheating, you made yourself do something for us and jumped on the lie, in the end, you didn’t want to be left out, right, Yata-kun?”

“I covered for you, didn’t I!”

“You wanted to cover for us, right? You wanted our grat.i.tude, right?”

“Wha…..?!”

The words Fus.h.i.+mi had said yesterday became heavy in his mind.