Chapter 8: Thirty Students (1/2)

「Miyagi-san」

「Miyagi-san? 」

Miyagi didn’t respond to her name being called via words, instead all she did was turn to the person whom spoke to her which was Kotone and looked at her with absentminded eyes.

「Yes, Miyagi Aoba-san, was one of my classmates back in the day」 (Kotone speaking)

「Is that so? umm……Miyagi-san?」(Taiyou speaking)

Taiyou called out towards Miyagi in an inquisitive voice. Thereupon her wrath filled gaze, was raised by one level in intensity.

What was she so angry about I wonder?, Taiyou thought that, he shouldn’t have done even a single thing to offend her in the slightest, however, in the next instant he recalled the words spoken by Aoba and he formulated some sort of understanding “ahh so that’s what this is about”.

——-Out of the three Hayakawa-san’s, which do you like the most?

Yesterday, the three sisters were talking quite intimately with him in the classroom.

From the get go, they were asking Taiyou questions about the games he was playing, and the crowd could somehow accept the fact that they were asking advice from Taiyou considering his special knowledge in the matter, however, the fact that the three sisters were all vying for his attentionswas something everyone felt was weird/unusual/ridiculous.

Simply put, the three sisters were practically swooning all over him. The fact that the three sisters merely used the game as a pretext for approaching Taiyou….. Was so blatantly apparent that even a natural airhead would be able to figure that out.

The fact that the three sisters, no longer saw Taiyou as just a regular classmate became so wide spread that the entire school heard the rumours before school even finished.

Three famous sisters, the identical triplets.

Within the school, the sisters were existences accepted as some sort of a celebrity personality. Consequently, the rumour spread like wildfire.

“The three were making some moves on a single man.”

In order to extract the truth from those words, a certain person game to interrogate him.

(Even so, her hostility is so fierce I can almost feel it on my skin………Oh well, let’s leave it at that)

「I’ll ask you once again, you, which of the three sisters do you like the most? 」

Aoba repeated her words a second time, without hiding any of the indignation she felt towards Taiyou.

「Rather than who I like the most, it’s more like…….」

「You won’t say you like them all equally right? 」

「If I may be bold/daring that is what I meant to say……」

This was his true opinions.

For now he hadn’t know the girls long enough to find a distinctive component which could clearly differentiate which girl he liked the most. The three girls had the same face, and the amount of time he spent with each individual is about the same. If a favourability/likability factor was converted into numericals, Taiyou predicted that they would all be the same number.

That’s why he answered in that manner, however, it would seem it did not meet up to Aoba’s standards.

「You’re the worst! 」

「Eh? 」

「You are that kind of guy aren’t you? You are just fooling around with their feelings and trying to have an affair with them!!」

「No, I haven’t done anything to them…..」

「Hayakawa-san! 」

「Eh? Yes? 」

「Are you ok with that? As you just heard, this is the kind of man he is」

Hearing Aoba’s question, Kotone looks unblinkingly at Taiyou.

「Are we really, all liked equally? 」

「Yeah, that’s how it is」

「Thank you, this is why we like you」

「ehhhhhh? 」

Aoba raised her voice in a bewildered shriek.

「Are you insane? That guy, he’s clearly just playing around with the three of you? 」

「No, in my case, I’m not just playing around」

「What did you just say? 」

Aoba gave Taiyou a stern look. However, Taiyou was indifferent towards Aoba’s reaction, and he looked towards Kotone and began to talk to her.

「From the previous talk we just had, I’d like to clarify, due to your circumstances, is there even such a thing like “differential treatment”? 」

「What do you mean? 」

「What I mean is, do you guys think of yourselves as one entity? Or three separated individualistic entities? 」

「Ummmm…..」

Kotone tilted her neck and was trying to think.

Apparently, this question was never considered by her before, and this is the main reason that it would be impossible to give and answer and choose a single one of them especially at this early point in time.

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Whilst in the middle of class, Taiyou was turning over his 1 yen coin above his opened text book. When he was using his smart phone to level his characters in the game, it was not possible to play his games during class and it made him slightly unsatisfied.

But now he didn’t need to worry, and he was happy with the fact that he could continue accumulate experience points. This is because all he was really doing was just flipping the coin from heads to tails over and over, it wasn’t anything overly fancy and even the teachers can’t really make out a complaint.

Even other students would do similar type of actions, it was like the steady action of spinning pens in class.

Whilst doing this action, Taiyou was looking around inside his classroom.

Kotone, Suzune and Kazane.

The three of them were lacking in uniformity and each of them were absentmindedly staring into space It was the kind of situation where, they had their textbook’s out and notes open, but even so the sharp pen’s in their hands stopped moving and they weren’t listening to the lecture. It was clear that they were thinking deeply about something.