Chapter 117: During the Break (1/2)

The news of Amane and Mahiru officially dating immediately spread throughout the entire school.

It appeared everyone knew it was a fact and not a rumor, thanks to the classmates who liked to gossip for both good and bad reasons, and also because everyone had seen them attend school together.

Thanks to that, there was always discreet discussions whenever they had to swap classrooms or go to the corridor. Thus, Amane was really uncomfortable with it.

“The commotion will subside in a few days, I guess.”

Kuju commented as he stood some distance away from the ruckus. “Yeah.” Hiiragi too nodded.

“People aren’t going to keep talking about the same thing. Sooner or later, they’ll be discussing something else.”

“That’ll be great. I’ll have a headache if it keeps up every day.”

Even during lesson time, Amane could hear others muttering something. Truth be told, he did not feel so good.

On a side note, the boys in the class kept questioning him during the breaks, and his stamina had dropped by half. Luckily, there was no gym class.

“I think there’ll be fewer people asking you questions. People will be surrounding you for a different reason though.”

“Different reason?”

“Some might think you’re a good commodity to have.”

“Sorry that I’m sold out then.”

Amane had assigned his future to Mahiru, and he could not possibly look at anyone else even if he was ask to. Truth be told, even if there were other females better than Mahiru, there was no way Amane would choose anyone but Mahiru.

Amane would be troubled if anyone hoped that he would look elsewhere. He would be surprised and disappointed if anyone was to think of him as such a frivolous boy.

“Well, love is sometimes unreasonable.”

“Mm, that’s rare coming from you, Makoto.”

“How rude. But well, it’s impossible for anyone to stop liking someone , even if she’s already someone else’s girlfriend. Love is like an impulse after all.”

Of course, you can’t just turn impulse into action, Kuju quipped, and looked towards the chatting girls, sighing,

“For me, I don’t think anyone can butt in between you two.”

“Same here. The lovey-dovey show is also a mean to ward off everyone else. I never thought you two would actually do that in front of everyone…!”

“Forget about that…!”

Amane was overwhelmed with embarrassment as he recalled the conversation he had in the morning.

The intimate act was truly to fend others off, but patting her on the head was basically a confession, and he did sound like he was intending to propose to her. He did not intend for his classmates to know.

Luckily, Mahiru managed to misdirect them. Itsuki and Kuju however might have noticed something when they said dumbfoundedly, “That’s passionate.”

“Well, since everyone now knows that Shiina-san shows that look only to you, I think that’s a fair result, Fujimiya?”

“…You say that, but shameful things are shameful.”

“You’re saying that when you held hands while walking to school?”

“That’s different.”

There was a difference in shame between acts that were done intentionally, and acts that were done unwittingly.

“Just give up. Also, there are some grateful that you two are so lovey-dovey?”