Chapter 191 - Biggest Challenge Yet (1/2)

Shun and his friends sat in Romio's room. Shikamaru, Hachiman, and Romio looked at Shun. Shun's elbows were resting on the table between them, and the fingers intertwined in front of his face.

He looked at his friends and began talking.

Shun: ”I have gathered you all here to gain some advice regarding the biggest challenge I am about to face in my life.”

He looked at Romio and thanked him.

Shun: ”Romio, thank you for hosting us today. It couldn't be at my home due to certain reasons.”

Romio was a little surprised by Shun's formal tone and could only say a few words in acknowledgment.

Romio: ”O-Oh, don't worry about it.”

Shun nodded and turned his head back so he could look at all three of his friends.

Shun: ”Now, let's get back to the topic.”

The three sat up straighter because of Shun's grave tone and waited for their friend to share his problem. Shun's eyes flashed with seriousness, and he began.

Shun: ”As I told you before, I have a girl I like, and I have decided to ask her out, so I need your advice regarding how to approach it. I know that you guys don't have any experience with girls. I mean, you guys have zero, nada, null, zilch experience with girls, but beggars can't be choosers, so you guys are my only option.”

Even though Shun had a previous life and had a girlfriend in that life, it was more than a decade and a half ago, and he couldn't even remember the people from his old life. So, Shun was nervous about how to ask out the girl he liked.

The three friends stared at Shun for a moment before pulling out the cushions from below them and began hitting him mercilessly. Shun raised his hands to shield himself.

Shun: ”He-Hey! St-Stop. What happened to you guys? Why are you hitting me? What did I say? Come on, tell me.”

They didn't answer and kept hitting him till they were satisfied. They returned their cushions to their place and sat back. Romio looked at Shun and scoffed.

Romio: ”You are lucky that we don't have slippers near us.”

Shun g.r.o.a.n.e.d as he corrected his clothes and hair, which got messed up from the beating. He cleared his throat and talked.

Shun: ”So, will you help me?”

Shikamaru clicked his tongue and remarked.

Shikamaru: ”It is not like we have a choice, so who is the girl.”

Romio shared the information about the girl he had chanced upon from Shun.

Romio: ”All I know is that she is not from our school, and you went on dates with her.”

Shun looked at his three friends, who he could see that were excited to know his crush but were putting up an indifferent front. Romio was failing spectacularly with his eye sparkling brightly. Shikamaru had his usual bored look on his face, but his body language said otherwise. Hachiman was leaning slightly towards Shun that indicated that he too wanted to know.

Shun: ”Her name is Momoi Satsuki, and she is my neighbor. I have known her since our first year. She is the same age as us.”

Shun stopped talking after that, so the other three took it upon themselves to extract more information from him.

Hachiman: ”What kind of person is she?”

Shun thought about how to describe and began speaking.

Shun: ”She has a bubbly personality, cheerful, bright. She is very out-going. She is smart, much smarter than me.

Satsuki becomes very serious and even a bit sly if you compete with her, and she looks cure when she is angry, and you know....”

Halfway through the description, a silly, goofy, happy smile made its way onto Shun's face as he rested his chin on the palm of his hand as he fondly reminisced.

The other three felt irritated seeing Shun like that, and Hachiman snapped his fingers in front of Shun's face to bring him out the pink state he was diving into.

Hachiman: ”Keep focus, lover boy.”

Shun: ”So, tell me, what should I do? How should I break the question?”

The three offered some ideas, ranging from Shikamaru's lame, lazy excuses from ideas. Romio's plans were all grand gestures and were not feasible, and to be honest, would definitely creep out a girl. Hachiman offered some sane, doable ideas, which Shun took note of.

In the end, Shun looked at Shikamaru and Romio and spoke.

Shun: ”You two are useless. I really pity Temari-san and Juliet-san, if you guys get together with them.”

Romio sputtered the juice that he had just drunk, and Shikamaru looked at Shun with an indescribable expression, which caused Shun to scoff.

Shun: ”Don't give me that look, I know you enjoy the president's company. Even though you complain about it every day, you still go to the student council room regularly, and your tenure with them was only until the school fest, which was almost a year ago, but you still go there, so yeah, you like her.”

Shikamaru mumbled something about that he shouldn't have come here. Shun turned to Romio and started to lay it on him.

Shun: ”And you, you rabid dog. You haven't studied seriously for the whole time I have known you, but now, you regularly ask teachers doubts.

Yeah, right! You are trying to get your grades up so that you could join the same school Juliet-san wants to join. Even a monkey could tell that you like her.”

Shun: ”Hachiman, if you are going to ask Orimoto Kaori out, then get over yourself and do it, but as I told you before, I think you shouldn't do it, she is totally not interested in you.”

Shun breathed a sigh of contentment as he finished speaking, and looked at his friends and uttered.

Shun: ”That was kind of freeing. Hey guys, we should do it regularly.”

The other three looked at their purple-eyed friend and then nodded to each other. Romio looked at Shun and said.