I was Rejected 10,000 times by My Childhood Friend, but After I Gave Up, I Suddenly Started Getting Popular? - Ch. 0 - Prologue p7
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- I was Rejected 10,000 times by My Childhood Friend, but After I Gave Up, I Suddenly Started Getting Popular?
- Ch. 0 - Prologue p7 - The Childhood Friend’s Mind Ghosting Phenomenon
After returning home, I dove into my bed, wearing my uniform.
I thought to myself, “My uniform is going to get crumpled,” but then shrugged it off with a “Oh well.” This is a pretty stupid internal conversation.
“Hah…”
A sigh spills out of my mouth.
There was no particular meaning behind my sigh. I just felt like it.
But if I had to pinpoint on one thing, it would be that my relationship with Karen has gotten much worse ever since I gave up on her.
“I wonder if I’ve really messed up this time…”
I’ve always felt that I’m normally the one with the tsun from tsundere… but today, I felt like there was an awful lot more tsun from the people surrounding me.
Hmm… that’s pretty insensitive of me, but I wonder if it’s just that kind of day.
… Thinking again, that really was too insensitive. Gotta repent now.
“Well, I guess I’ll have dinner now.”
I slipped out of bed and changed into my casual clothes. I say casual clothes, but it was just my jersey from junior high school.
It’s actually quite a versatile junior high jersey. But I can’t really praise the design.
Suddenly, my mind thinks of a silly fantasy of what would happen if junior high school jerseys became the fashion trend of these times.
Scramble crossing in Shibuya. Harajuku. At Takeshita Street.
Bright and young people wearing junior high jerseys, snapping selfies.
… it’s so dumb that it’s funny!!!
I went to the living room after realizing that my thoughts were stupid.
I took out a cup of noodles from the cupboard. Up until now, I’ve always eaten at Karen’s house, so I don’t have the cooking skills to cook for myself. By the way, no one can beat me at cooking games. And yes, I know it doesn’t matter.
Ding-dong.
As I was setting up the electronic pot, the doorbell rang and the intercom started up.
I have no idea who would’ve ordered a delivery. What could it be?
“Who is it?”
“Me.”
Could this be the recently trending Mary-san or something? But luckily, that wasn’t the case, as I saw my pouting childhood friend through the intercom.
(TL: Mary-san is a Japanese urban legend. It’s about a girl who keeps getting creepy phone calls from the doll she abandoned.)
She was also wearing her junior high school jersey. On her jersey, it read “Autumn Colors”. The combination of my childhood friend’s appearance and my earlier idle fantasies caused an incomprehensible feeling to well up in my chest.
It’s regrettable to say this, but that line of thought just proves how stupid I am.
“W-What’s up?”
“J-Just open it up…”
“O-Okay.”
I replied and went to open the door.
It’s not unusual for Karen to come to my house, but given the current situation, it’s a little odd.
No. Even though I gave up, we are still childhood friends, so I don’t think our relationship will be much different from what we had before.
Well, either way, I figured I should ask Karen why she came over, so I opened the door.
“What’s up?”
“N-nothing, it’s just that… Okaa-san said to come over… and Okaa-san said to give you this.”
“You don’t have to emphasize that your mom told you to do this! I know already. So, what’s that…”
Karen, dressed in her junior high school jersey, was holding some kind of pot.
Hmm… has she finally tried to poison me…? This gave me the wild delusion that she’s a childhood friend of the Great Demon King, but that’s probably untrue.
“This is curry. It’s for dinner tonight. Okaa-san is worried about you. Ritsu can’t cook at all, right?”
“Ah, that’s true.”
In fact, I was planning on trying to make do with cup noodles.
“So hurry up and let me in the house. The pot’s heavy, so carry it.
“O-Oh okay.”
I took the pot from Karen and went into the house.
Normally, she would stroll in with an unconcerned look on her face, but this time, her eyes have been glued to the ground, so we haven’t made eye contact at all.
It’s true that I feel awkward too, but I can imagine that Karen feels even more so.
I couldn’t stand the mood, so I tried to talk about a topic.
“So, Karen, you’re wearing your junior high jersey today.”
“I-It looks that bad?”
“No, not at all. It’s just that I’m also wearing my junior high jersey right now… It’s like we’re a matching pair―”
The moment I said that, my childhood friend turned red and angry.
She’s finally become a Fiery Fiend… she sure does have a lot of characters…
“That’s totally not true! This was an… accident! I didn’t dress this way on purpose!”
“So after the incident… you hate being a matching pair with me…!”
“Of course I hate it!”
So, an instant answer…
But I have to admit that my topic was a bit weird to talk about.
Well, I guess, I’m still a little upset about the situation.
“How should I put it… did you have to come into my house?”
“…”
She could’ve just handed me the pot at the door, but Karen came into the living room.
I wondered what kind of wind was blowing around today.
Oh, and by the way, no money or anything like that!!
(TL: Honestly, idk what you’re talking about bud.)
“No, it’s because…”
“Hm?”
What is it that Karen wants to say? What’s making her so shy and embarrassed about it?
This is the first time in my life, as her childhood friend, that I’ve ever seen Rare Karen appear. And her rarity is SSR.
However, since I am determined to fully give up on Karen, I kept my ulterior motives weighted down and submerged in the ocean of my mind.
Then Karen said as if she were just trying to blow it off.
“I-I’ll eat with you!!”
“…Huh?”
Dear today’s childhood friend, I have no idea what your intentions are.
(TL: we is back on it even though i haven’t finished my important stuff yet. Also tbh idk what the title refers to at all lol)
DenvermAtupito
i respect the TLer, but I’d have to drop this, honestly just retarded and overall a garbage dump, and hey I’m not trying to insult japanese tastes, it’s just the way it is.
dmnttt
That’s fine, I love it though!
mclovin
I think he meant compensated dating for the money part
Quertzy
… uhuh
Rakkun
Ughhh this is giving me complicated feelings.
Thanks for the chapter~!!