Even if she said that, I wasn’t like her. I couldn’t just say whatever I was thinking out loud so easily. It had taken a lot of courage just to ask her to stop talking while reading.
“Seriously, it’s nothing…”
I turned my face away as I said this, but Koyanagi wasn’t giving up.
“It’s not convincing when you say that while avoiding eye contact~. If you’ve got nothing to hide, look me in the eye and say it.”
Her taunting tone irked me, and I turned back to face her with mild irritation. Why did she always have to talk like this?
Seeing my annoyance, she laughed even more gleefully, exaggeratedly crossing her legs and resting her elbow on the back of the chair.
“Well, well~. If you’ve got something to say, just spit it out, will you?”
At that moment… something snapped inside me.
“Close your legs! Your underwear’s been flashing this whole time!!”
“Huh? Wha—?”
I stood up, pointing sharply at her skirt as I shouted. Koyanagi blinked in shock, her face showing she was completely taken aback.
“It might not be a big deal to you, and you might not care if people see it, but it’s a big deal to me! So close your legs!!”
“O-Okay…”
“And your collar! You’ve loosened it so much that I can see your bra through the gaps in your buttons! Fix that too!!”
“O-Okay…”
“Besides! Guys like me, who have no connection to girls, are simple-minded enough that when a girl talks to us normally, we think, ‘Huh, does she like me?’ We get the wrong idea! If a cute girl like you smiles at us, we can’t help but like her! We fall for her, no matter how sad that is!!”
“C-cute? Like? Huh?”
“And on top of that, when we catch glimpses of panties or bras, we start thinking, ‘Is she trying to seduce me? Do I have a chance if I confess?’ Our hearts start racing, but at the same time, we feel down thinking, ‘She’s probably showing other guys too…’ Our disgusting possessiveness kicks in and we feel awful! How gross, right?! But these gross feelings are all because you’re so careless, so maybe you could think about that for a second, huh?!”
“Uh… sorry?”
After pouring out everything I had wanted to say, I panted heavily. Koyanagi, meanwhile, sat with her legs tightly together, holding down her skirt with both hands, shoulders hunched as if she had shrunk into herself. Honestly, she looked so small you could almost imagine a sound effect like “plop” accompanying her movement.
“Uh, well… I think I’ll go home now.”
“…Yeah.”
Avoiding eye contact, she grabbed her bag and hurriedly left the clubroom.
Watching her leave, I collapsed into my chair and let out a deep sigh.
“…I feel like I just said something really crazy.”
I had spoken so fast, letting my mouth run on autopilot, that even I wasn’t sure what I’d said exactly. I had a vague sense that I’d said a lot of unnecessary things, but my instincts were warning me, “Don’t think too hard about it,” so I decided not to dwell on it.
“Well… I feel kind of refreshed, though.”
Sometimes it’s good to say what’s on your mind. Hopefully, Koyanagi will start paying a bit more attention to how she dresses from now on…
＊ ＊ ＊ ＊ ＊ ＊ ＊
…Or so I thought.
“Hey, Prez, what do you think of this?”
“Bwah!?”
The very next day after school, as soon as I walked into the clubroom, Koyanagi leaned forward, bra fully on display.
“I got a new showy bra. Got anything to say about it—?”
“Girls should not be showing their skin so carelessly!!”
Closing the door behind me, I shouted at the top of my lungs.
“I mean, thank you! It’s very nice, it looks great, thank you very much!! But I told you, stuff like this makes my heart race and then immediately drop into despair! Didn’t I say that!?”
“Uh, yeah… hmm~.”
“…What’s with that face?”
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