The Heroines Want to Confess.

Chapter 112: From Today On, Becoming a Scumbag in Tokyo

If choosing would end up hurting someone, then just choose everyone.

No matter how difficult it was, Sakurai Saki didn't want Fujiwara Chika to be heartbroken. If she gave up, then Sakurai Saki would give up as well.

But the words Chika said afterward left him with a very complicated feeling.

"I don't think Hayasaka and I will break up," Sakurai Saki said honestly as he looked down at Chika, who was currently resting her head on his lap.

Even if Hayasaka Ai were the one to break up in the future, Sakurai Saki still wouldn't let her go.

A selfish person with a superpower like him wasn't going to let her leave.

Fujiwara Chika didn't want to hear any of that right now. She stared straight at his face.

"Why did you tell me? Aren't people with superpowers supposed to keep their identity secret?"

"Maybe… because I wanted you to know that the guy you like is actually more amazing than you thought." Sakurai Saki thought for a moment, then answered.

It was also to prove that he had the power to break conventional rules.

"Saki-kun is already amazing," Chika still hadn't fully processed everything.

Whether it was his grades or his personality, she liked it all.

What she liked most was how, even when unwilling, he was always gentle with her.

But… he already had a girlfriend.

At the very least… at the very least, she had no more chance now.

Outside the window, dark clouds began to gather once again.

Rain poured down once more, as if everything that had just happened was merely an illusionary bubble.

"Looks like even a superpower can't hold off the dark clouds," Sakurai Saki glanced outside and joked, "Call it superpower, but in the end, it's not that impressive."

"Can't even manage to love two girls at once."

Hearing that, Chika chuckled softly.

"Eh~ Is Saki-kun hinting at something? But I won't accept being the other woman, so give up on that early!"

At least for now, Chika couldn't accept the idea of sharing Sakurai Saki with someone else.

Hayasaka-san probably couldn't either. No girl would want to share something—or someone—they love.

Chika thought that if her confession had succeeded, she definitely wouldn't let Sakurai Saki be taken by any other girl.

"That's really a shame then." Sakurai Saki hadn't expected her to agree so easily anyway.

A flustered look crossed Fujiwara Chika's face, and she added:

"If… of course, this is just if… If Saki-kun could truly make me fall for you all over again…"

Sakurai Saki cut her off.

"...You don't have to force yourself. Just keeping the relationship we have now is enough."

"Mm." Chika responded softly.

"Then, from now on… can I still ask you to play games with me?"

Sakurai Saki looked at her, confused: "What kind of dumb question is that? Of course you can."

"Then… what about holding hands?"

"That's fine."

"What about hugging?" Chika asked in a quiet voice.

"If it's just a friendly hug."

"And… kissing?" Chika asked, her face blushing.

"No. That crosses the line." Sakurai Saki rejected.

Chika tried testing the waters: "Then… can I just be your second girlfriend only when kissing?"

Whack — Sakurai Saki lightly chopped her on the head with his hand.

"Ow~" Chika grimaced in pain.

"That's what you get for saying nonsense like that."

This girl… what the hell was she even talking about?

Trying to cheat the rules?

Only be a girlfriend during kisses? That was even crazier than being a rental girlfriend.

"Saki-kun~ can you do that thing again?" Chika suddenly got excited.

She sprang up from Sakurai Saki's lap, and under his embarrassed gaze, she mimicked his earlier motion: "Right now, by my name, Sakurai Saki, the sky will clear~"

Chika: ꉂ (≧ヮ≦)

Having recovered from the earlier shock, Secretary Fujiwara had now fully entered a curious state about the supernatural world!

"Superpowers aren't toys, and I didn't say anything like that!" Sakurai Saki just wanted to crawl into a hole right now.

"Ehh! But I really wanna see it~"

(இ﹏இ`｡)

A few minutes later.

Once again, all the students of Shuchiin witnessed a miracle.

Fujiwara Chika pressed her face against the floor-to-ceiling glass, staring up at the sky where a hole had opened amidst the clouds.

"Superpowers… are awesome!" Secretary Fujiwara couldn't find any better words to describe it.

With her poor vocabulary, the only word she could come up with was "awesome."

"I'm the first one to know about this, right?"

Now, she was starting to care about that detail.

"Umu, in Shuchiin, you're the first to know," Sakurai Saki answered.

That reply made Chika-chan very satisfied.

That meant, even Saki-kun's current girlfriend, Hayasaka-san, didn't know.

"What about President Shirogane?"

"Why would I tell him?"

"You two seem pretty close though." Chika's jealousy was written all over her face.

She had always found the relationship between Sakurai Saki and Shirogane Miyuki oddly close.

"Superpowers are dangerous. The fewer people know, the better." Sakurai Saki's expression turned serious.

"Then why did you tell me?" Chika made a face like she'd just caught someone in a lie—but it still looked kinda cute.

"Because you were going to find out eventually. If I want you to accept me, better to tell you early than late."

Having decided to become a scumbag, Sakurai Saki didn't plan on hiding anything anymore.

And as for Hayasaka Ai, he'd find the right time to tell her too. The future was long—he could hide it for a while, but not forever.

"I'm not going to let you two-time me!" Chika reminded him again.

"..." Sakurai Saki felt incredibly awkward.

How did those harem protagonists in anime manage to form harems with ten girls in just ten chapters?

Was this the difference between fantasy and reality? So brutal!

"Hurry up! The dark clouds are coming back!" Chika looked at the fading sunlight with disappointment.

"Whatever. Saki-kun, do you have any other superpowers?"

As she said that, Chika glanced at the UNO cards scattered on the floor from earlier when she cried.

Suspicion filled her small face,

"Saki-kun, you beat me so many times—did you use your superpower?"

Chika: (✿ ≖ᴗ≖)

"Ehm… well… that's hard to say." Sakurai Saki dodged the topic.

"Ehhh!! You cheated! And…"

"You cheated too, didn't you?"

"But I still couldn't win even with cheating!" Chika shouted!

Chika: (｡•̀ ⤙ •́ ｡ꐦ) !!!

That was the one thing she couldn't accept! She clearly cheated, yet she still lost!

"You did win," Sakurai Saki countered.

"Hmm? I did? Why don't I remember that?" Chika put a finger to her chin, trying to recall.

Did I really win once?

"One year ago, you beat me once," Sakurai Saki said softly.

If falling for someone counted as losing, then he had already lost completely in this game called love.

"Umu?" Chika-chan blinked in confusion, full of question marks.

∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ?

"Entrance ceremony day…"

"We met on the entrance ceremony day?"

"Knew it—you forgot everything." Sakurai Saki said helplessly.

This girl didn't even remember the first time they met. Maybe back then, he really was nothing special in her eyes.

"Eh! Don't just drop hints like that~ Come on, tell me!" Chika pouted as she shook Sakurai Saki by the shoulders.

In her memory, Sakurai Saki was the one who talked to her first, during the second week after the school year started—right when she had just joined the Tabletop Game Club.

"What's this? Even the 'Love Detective Chika-chan' needs spoilers now?" Sakurai Saki teased.

"Then forget it!" Chika huffed. She took that self-proclaimed "Love Detective" title very seriously.

Sakurai Saki took out his phone and checked the time.

"Hm? It's already this late?"

"Then let's head back."

Because of all the chaos earlier, the rain had eased up quite a bit.

The two of them cleaned up the student council room, then left the school building together.