Judging by Haruki reaction, there seemed to be something he didn’t want to be asked about.
(He’s such an easy person to read)
Even though he was trying to hide it, his thoughts were clearly visible on his face.
Even such an aspect of him was endearing in just the right way.
Koyuki’s smile grew wider.
“Thank you. Then, first of all, who is this ‘person you’re interested in’?”
“Lily… Machigane Lily-san.”
“…I see. Then, what about Machigane Lily-san interests you?”
“…I can’t say that.”
“…I understand.”
What followed was an interrogation disguised as questions, a necessary ritual for the plan she was about to execute.
“Let me change the question. When did you become close with her?”
“We’re not close at all. …She’s always disliked me.”
“Is that so? Then, another question. Do you dislike me, Haruki-kun?”
“I don’t dislike you. I think favorably of you as a person.”
“Really? I’m glad. I was worried you might hate me.”
Haruki answered smoothly without any suspicion.
Unaware that he was moving according to Koyuki’s intentions, he had come to the final point.
If Haruki said what Koyuki wanted to hear in response to the next question, it would be done.
Thump-thump, thump-thump.
Ignoring the unusually loud sound of her heartbeat, Koyuki posed the final question.
“…One last thing. If I said I needed help, would you help me again, Haruki-kun?”
“Yes, if someone like me can be of help.”
The result was a success, just as predicted.
With this, the slight guilt that had been holding Koyuki back disappeared, and ugly emotions surfaced.
“Thank you! Then, please help me by allowing yourself to be confined by me right away.”
Saying this, Koyuki approached Haruki and struck him with the stun gun she had been hiding behind her back.
“Ko, yuki, sen, pai. Wha, what’s going, on?”
He probably never imagined Koyuki would do something like this.
With his body paralyzed and barely able to move, he managed to convey his confusion with just his eyes.
“Oh my, didn’t you say it yourself, Haruki-kun? ‘If someone like me can be of help.’ You’ll help me, right? So, please stay by my side to help me. Stay with me until death and continue to quench this thirst. You’ll do it for me, won’t you, kind Haruki-kun?”
But this was Haruki’s own doing.
Koyuki had been trying to resist this sweet temptation until the very last moment.
Haruki had given her the excuse she needed to succumb to that temptation.
With deeply clouded eyes, Koyuki approached Haruki and lovingly stroked his hair.
Preciously, preciously.
Gently, as if not to damage a valuable treasure.
“Hic!? Gah!?”
At that moment, Haruki finally noticed the dark, stagnant look in Koyuki’s eyes and tried to scream, but Koyuki struck him with the stun gun once more, knocking him unconscious.
Now Haruki wouldn’t be able to move for a while.
Taking advantage of this, if she had him carried away by her family members disguised as spectators at the sports festival, this operation would be over.
Haruki would finally belong to Koyuki forever.
“Fufu, if I can just confine Haruki-kun, I can finally be happy.”
Imagining the future ahead, Koyuki’s face showed her delight as she took out her smartphone to call her family members. Just then, the door opened, accompanied by a voice saying, “Shirayuri-senpai. You won’t find happiness by doing something like this, you know?”
“Gh!?”
A familiar female voice, yet the one she least wanted to hear, quietly echoed through the warehouse.
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Koyuki’s shoulders jumped in surprise, and as she turned her gaze to the entrance, there stood Lily, backlit by the light from outside.
“Why… are you here?”
This area near the warehouse was supposed to be off-limits at this time.
So why was she here?
Koyuki flinched at Lily’s appearance, which was like that of a manga protagonist.
“I happened to see Shirayuri-senpai and Nishizono-kun enter the warehouse. I had a bad feeling about it, so I came to check, and what are you doing? Kidnapping and confinement are serious crimes, you know.”
With a voice full of disgust, Lily emphasized that it was a coincidence and admonished Koyuki.
However, right now, she was just like a heroine appearing in the hero’s moment of crisis.
It created the illusion that Lily and Haruki were destined for each other, as if the whole world was saying so, greatly irritating Koyuki.
“What I do has nothing to do with you, Machigane-san, right? After all, you and I have hardly spoken since we entered high school.”
Intending to intimidate her to stay out of this, Koyuki pointed the buzzing stun gun at Lily.
In response to Koyuki’s grim expression, Lily’s face suddenly bloomed into a smile.
“It does have something to do with me. After all, aren’t we friends who’ve spent two years of high school together? If my benefactor is making a mistake, isn’t it my duty to correct them? Moreover, you’re the one who taught me that ‘we should always repay the favors we receive,’ so all the more reason.”
“Gh! Lily… chan, what do you mean?”
The person she thought was unrelated turned out to be an old acquaintance.
At this impossible reunion, Koyuki’s body trembled, and she nearly dropped the stun gun.
“That’s right. I’m Lily Machigane, the weak and troublesome underclassman that my senior Koyuki knows.”
“Uah, ah!”
She thought no one knew her past self.
So unlike her past world, she acted freely, trying to live as she pleased. But in reality, there was someone who knew about her past self.
At this realization, a sense of shame ran through Koyuki’s core, but an even stronger hatred welled up inside her.
The root cause that pushed her into that hell.
Lily, the hateful enemy who stole Haruki away from Koyuki.
The kind Koyuki who once adored the cute and pitiful Lily had completely vanished, her eyes now harboring murderous intent.
“…Again? You’ve come to take him from me again! I won’t forgive it. I won’t, won’t, won’t, won’t forgive it! This time, just this once, Haruki is mine! You have no right, do you!? After all, in the past world, Lily, you had Haruki love you plenty!? Isn’t it fine for you to let me have him!?”
Her emotional defenses had completely collapsed.
Screaming out all she had hidden inside, claiming Haruki as her own.
Even if it meant becoming enemies with Lily.
She would take him by force, no matter what.
“I don’t care about that bastard, so do whatever you want.”
“…Eh!?”
Lily and Haruki were supposed to be in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.
After that, they were supposed to have gotten married and built a happy family, leaving the unhappy Koyuki behind.
Koyuki was completely convinced of this, freezing at Lily’s words.
-Why?
-How could this be?
As these two questions swirled in Koyuki’s mind, Lily continued speaking.
“But Koyuki, are you really happy this way? Are you satisfied being with this man like this? Is this truly what you want?”
“…That is…”
Lily’s kind appeal made Koyuki consider things she had been avoiding thinking about.
(Of course not…)
Deep down, she knew.
She knew that even doing this, Haruki would never truly love her.
Eventually, she would feel unsatisfied with his obligatory affection.
She knew.
But still….
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