The Pain of an Inferior: A Blistering Love Comedy That Begins After a Broken Heart - Chapter 78

Chapter 78 – Pure White Carpet

Things had settled down in the Obi household, which recently had been undergoing drastic changes.

Miyako and Ria, who have been staying in the house as a matter of course, were relaxing in the living room today.

Ria was lying on the sofa reading a novel.

Miyako was sitting between Haruka’s legs, who was leaning under the sofa, and was editing a video.

“The video that featured Miyako’s sloppy boss fight the other day is currently trending with thirteen million views, isn’t it?”

“Oh, I saw that too.”

“Don’t look at it!”

Miyako yelled in shame.

Miyako gradually regained her compusure since Haruka stroke the side of her head while saying sorry.

“By the way, how is the drama club going, Haruka?”

“It’s all right. I’m having a lot of fun acting.”

“It’s rare to see you interested in something, isn’t it, Haru-kun? You weren’t interested in anything at all back in elementary school.”

“That’s partly because I was so busy studying for the A-10 entrance exam. I wanted to go to same school with you.”

Miyako moaned inaudibly. There was neither malice nor sarcasm in Haruka’s words, but it only stimulated Miyako’s guilty conscience.

“Your classmate from elementary school is currently teaching you the ropes, right?”

“Yeah. I only ask her to spend thirty minutes per session with me since she’s pretty busy.”

Thirty minutes was not much, but inside the virtual world it can be as long as two hours.

From time to time, Haruka was given beginner’s training by Yuuku.

Miyako listened to Haruka and Ria with a puzzled look on her face.

Miyako can only think of one classmate from elementary school that was involved in theater.

“Which classmate from elementary?”

“It’s Yuuku. Do you remember her?”

“Huh? Yuuku? Didn’t Haru-kun block her?”

“I did, but we ran into each other recently, and I ended up unblocking her.”

“WHY?!”

Miyako screeched as she glared at Haruka right above her.

“Because I didn’t really dislike her.”

Haruka had nothing but bad memories in elementary school, which ended up with him blocking everyone except for his childhood friends.

Yuuku herself didn’t gave Haruka much of a bad impression. Though he found it annoying that Yuuku often talked about Shun.

“E-everything’s fine right? I’m worried because you’ve been getting along with a lot of girls lately, Haru-kun.”

“Nothing’s wrong. Yuuku’s just teaching me how to act.”

“…Then it’s fine.”

Haruka contemplated about what to do with Sumireko and Tsuyuri.

In the end, Haruka doesn’t know how to talk to Miyako about it.

When Haruka was in the elementary school, he couldn’t choose between Yuzurika and Miyako.

And now, Haruka hadn’t been able to give up on Sumireko and Tsuyuri, whom he should have turned down in the first place. His indecisiveness was apparent.

Haruka stared up the ceiling with a feeling of resignation, thinking that a bum was still a bum no matter how much the environment had changed.

Better yet, he was fine being a bum. Haruka wanted to surrender to his desires.

Reason prevented Haruka from doing so, but he had a feeling that he will reach his limits soon.

While thinking about what to do, Haruka groped Miyako’s chest from behind.

“Nn…. Haru-kun…”

With that, Miyako let out a sensual moan and stopped working.

Haruka squeezed her gently, and Miyako flinched.

Haruka buried his face in the back of Miyako’s head and breathed in, soaking in Miyako’s scent.

“Haru-kun, you pervert…”

“Miyako is quite the pervert, too. You’re probably the only one who can get off with just your mouth.”

“Shut up, Ria!”

Miyako was embarrassed from Ria pointing out her lascivious behavior, and shut her down.

Ria smiled softly while remembering the time when Yuzurika outed Miyako’s tendencies.

“HA-RUKA!”

Ria got off the sofa and slid over to Haruka’s side.

Ria leaned on Haruka’s shoulder, he responded by hugging Ria with one arm and rubbed her cheek against Ria’s fluffy hair.

“I miss talking to you in class.” (Ria)

“Yeah… I miss you too. I want to skip class and be with you all the time.”

“I’d like that, but Yunika always sends me scolding messages when I skip class…”

Ria and Miyako were sitting right next to each other in class, but they don’t communicate much. In the discriminatory and meritocractic society where people like Ria, a rank E citizen, and Miyako, who has the potential to get the highest rank in the future, might get into trouble if they get involved in each other. They kept their distance for their mutual benefit.

Because of this, Ria was alone most of the time. That was why Haruka always went to Ria during recess and made her skip class and fool around together.

However, Yunika always gave them a hard time when they skip classes, so the two of them haven’t been able to skip class recently.

“I’m lonely too. I want to talk with Haru-kun more… But Haru-kun says I can’t…”

“As I explained before, people will give us a hard time if they find out that a vanilla like me and Miyako were dating, so please bear with it a little longer.”

“I know that.. but~”

Haruka rubbed her chest as if she was trying to soothe her. Miyako let out a small cry.

It was impossible for Haruka to match Miyako’s status. Haruka thought that it would be very difficult to announce his relationship with her unless he had at least one good achievement to show off.

It was fine for Haruka if he was the only one spoken ill off, but Miyako’s reputation would be tarnished if people find out that they were dating. There was a considerable number of female students who hate Miyako, and it will get worse if Miyako got cast aside by her fellow upper caste students. Haruka didn’t want to leave any openings.

“If I can make some appearances and achieve good results, people will have a better impression of me.”

The timing of Haruka joining the drama club was good, they are currently in the process of commissioning a script from the Literature club.

The club was going to challenge several competitions in the summer with three scripts: one completely outsourced script using the club’s budget, one script commissioned from the Literature club, and one script commissioned from Sayaka’s friend.

Ruriko told Haruka that the scripts were allowed to be rewritten to a certain extent, and if possible, Haruka can be included in the script even if it was a minor role.

If Haruka does well in the competition, even a minor role can be a great achievement.

One or two of these won’t be much, but if Haruka kept at it for a year or two, it will reflect favorably to his stauts.

Until then, Haruka felt sorry to Miyako for making her endure.

“I have Yuuku’s guidance today, too. I will try my best for Miyako’s sake.”

“I wonder if meeting other women is really for my sake..”

While Miyako was complaining, Haruka’s lips were on Ria’s while he kept on squeezing Miyako’s chest.

“Hmph, You’re so quick to leave me alone and do things like that.”

Humans were creatures who quickly adapt, for better or worse. The King said as such, so it was probably true.

In fact, Miyako was no longer tormented by murky feelings when she saw Ria or Yuzurika kissing Haruka.

Although she can’t shake off a little regret, she was sure that it was easier than before.

One might say that her love for Haruka diminished since she got used to seeing other women get intimate with him. But it was the opposite, her love for Haruka swelled to the point that she felt depressed everytime she’s separated from him at school.

For better or worse, she was sure that she will get along with everyone.

That’s because Haruka gave her a lot of love everyday.

“Haru-kun, me too…”

Miyako looked up at waited, soon she was kissed by Haruka.

“Chuu… Nnn… Nn… Fuaa, wuv…”

Their lips met again and again, and when the blur of ecstasy began to haze her thoughts, Miyako leaned against Haruka and closed her eyes.

It was this moment of deep euphoria that Miyako felt the happiest.

“Nn?, Chuu… by the way, Haruka. What kind of practice do you do with this Yuuku-san?” (Ria)

“I usually play a part where I improvise the role without relying on a script. Last time I played a villager who guided the hero that came to town.”

For example, Yuuku, who played the role of a hero, would ask where the inn was, and Haruka would play the role of a villager and show her around, and so on.

Basically, Yuuku, who was used to roleplaying, would lead the conversation, while Haruka would be conscious not to deviate from his role.

If something wasn’t right, Yuuku would point it out to Haruka later and gave him advice.

“You seem to be having fun.”

“It’s quite fun. Last time I also did a scene in which Yuuku was a female knight and I played a bandit, which ended up with me beating her to a pulp. It was refreshing to play a bandit.”

“-WHAT?!”

Miyako jumped up with a bounce, rousing herself from her foggy thoughts.

Fan art of last scene shared by the author on his twitter.