Ore wo Suki nano wa Omae dake ka yo - Chapter 7 Part 1

T/N: This is a short one, but the next part is like 18 pages long because there is no good point to cut it, that’s why I had to cut this one short instead, or else it will be 20+ pages long. I knew it because I’ve finished translating it, I just haven’t edited it yet. Also, sorry for a few days of inactivity, translating 20+ pages at once is quite hard and I’ve also been busy farming honkai players’ tears.

Chapter 7 – The Biggest Shock of My Life

A week had passed since then.

I had lost everything. Everyone’s trust, my dear friends, everything.

There was something that I failed to realize during the day it all happened. A girl happened to visit the library.

And the girl overheard the entire contents of our conversation.

She managed to find out about everything, including my sh*tty personality.

That was enough as a trigger.

Rumors spread out quickly. In no time, I became the public enemy at my school. Teachers, students, everyone hated me.

In short, my situation was grim, no, outright disastrous.

Every day, my indoor shoes were covered in fancy graffiti and became unusable. I’d always find a chrysanthemum flower sitting on my desk. Whenever I went to the toilet, rain would suddenly pour down on me. (T/N: Chrysanthemum flower is a flower you’d usually bring to a funeral. Putting it on your classmate’s desk is a way of bullying.)

This outcome was inevitable. After all, in everyone’s eyes, I was the scumbag who tried to manipulate the baseball club’s ace and the two idols of the school.

There was only one place that kind of person belonged to.

The very bottom of the school caste.

My school life was practically finished. I expected that I would receive some kind of backlash, but I didn’t expect that things would go on this far.

Nothing I could do about it anymore…

Haah… Should I just change schools? Transferring would be better than receiving this kind of treatment.

I should go far away… To someplace where no one knew about me…

After feeling this heartbroken, I finally understand why people went north whenever they felt like running away.

Somehow I had the urge to go north. Maybe because Mother Nature was there? (T/N: I don’t get this reference. There is a song that mentions this called Kita no Daichi by Kitajima Saburo, maybe it’s a reference to that.)

By the way, they kicked me out of the student council.

I heard that they already found a replacement for me. Cosmos’ work efficiency never ceased to amaze me.

Since I had no desire to go there anymore, I didn’t mind this outcome at all. Also, she sent me a text, saying, ‘You don’t need to come here anymore,’ in which I replied with a ‘Yes,’ but the reply didn’t go through. She blocked me right after she sent that text.

And so, I became completely isolated in school. No one tried to talk with me anymore.

Well, except for Pansy, the very person who threw me into this.

The very next day after the events in the library, she sent me a message.

According to her, Cosmos and Himawari invited her to join the council and tennis club respectively, but she rejected both of them.

They probably did it because of Sun-chan. Who cares about that, though.

Also, I heard that Sun-chan had already confessed his feelings to Pansy.

‘I’ve fallen in love with you at first sight! It’s true love!’

But that Shakespearean confession was turned down by Pansy. (T/N: Sorry, I don’t have enough braincells to actually write a Shakespearean confession here.)

What a shame. Sun-chan was a good guy, Pansy, why did you reject him?

Also, there was no reason for me to go to the library anymore. In my place, it was Sun-chan who went there everyday.

It seemed like Cosmos and Himawari told him to get to know Pansy better before doing anything else or something along the line and he had been following their advice…

Well, it wasn’t my business anyway. Being able to talk to the person that he liked everyday, he seemed to be happy about it.

I was touched by his willpower though. He didn’t give up even after he got rejected once.

Do your best, Sun-chan. I’m cheering you on from the bottom of the school caste.

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One day.

I was by myself in the classroom, idly reading my textbook that was covered in artful doodles when I received a text from Pansy.

[Come to the library on lunch. I’ll tell you my true feelings.]

Let me say this. I had no intention of going there.

Why would I bother seeing her after what she had done to me?

Even a human trash like me had clear likes and dislikes.

She was the one who made me like this, my feelings toward her should be clear.

I had no interest in knowing about her true feelings or whatnot.

[Come, or else I’ll do something really terrible to you.]

Alright, for today’s lunch, let’s have a nice one in the library!

[Come in fifteen minutes after lunch starts.]

That meant she didn’t want me to eat there.

Ah, whatever. I’ll go over to give her a piece of my mind.

TL: Iyo

ED: Iyo

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