The Pain of an Inferior: A Blistering Love Comedy That Begins After a Broken Heart - Chapter 86

Chapter 86 – Laevatein

Sixth period in the afternoon, Haruka, Ria, and Miyako were attending a class online from an empty classroom.

If the AI determined that they were attending class, they would receive attendance points regardless of their presence in the classroom.

Aside from Ria and Miyako, whose brains were beyond common sense, Haruka wanted to collect attendance points as much as possible.

It would be best for Haruka to go back to the classroom and take classes as usual, but he decided to not show up there for a while due to the incident.

Haruka planned to go back to class normally the week after, where things would hopefully be a little calmer. At least for the current week, Haruka thought that it wasn’t bad to attend online classes with Ria and Miyako.

Whenever he would get stuck on answering a problem, Haruka’s lovers are at his side to help him out in an easy to understand manner. Haruka thought that it was an incredibly blessed learning environment.

“-Try your best to remember this formula. This is how it works. You’ll use it a lot.”

“Thank you, Ria.”

“How about a kiss~?”

Ria asked for a kiss, Haruka gladly obliged and lightly touched her lips with his.

“I’ll teach you the next problem, Haru-kun!”

“Thanks, Miyako.”

When Haruka put her hand on Miyako’s cheek and rubbed it, Miyako smiled with a bright expression. She showed off her adorable kitten-like figure in an unguarded manner.

While attending the class, Haruka felt a mysterious sense of discomfort.

He had been talking with Miyako and Ria quite often, and even though they were indulging in skinship a lot, Haruka was able to absorb the contents of the lesson properly.

Ria and Miyako explained the lesson in a concise and to the point manner, and at the same time, they were able to sense unconsciously when Haruka’s concentration was about to wane and tried to recover it by breaking the ice and flirt with him.

Realizing this, Haruka was reminded again on how extraordinary the two of them are.

“Since I’m separated from Haruka by a few seats, maybe it’s better to just stay here and participate online.”

“I agree. With this I’ll be able to spend time with Haru-kun at school.”

“Hm.. that’s one option.”

Haruka held the both of them close while focusing his eyes on a floating screen.

“Ahh.. But with this we won’t get to spend time with Yunika…”

Ria said in a sleepy manner.

“Hm. Maybe she’ll come if we call her.”

“She might.”

The both of them glanced at each other and laughed.

“She’s still flooding me with messages…”

Haruka briefly replied to Yunika with [I’ll explain later]. But Yunika immediately responded with [Where are you? I want to ask you about Shinku right now.] Yunika’s messages kept flying in.

“Are you going to call her after school and tell her everything?”

Asked by Miyako, Haruka looked up at the ceiling.

With a somewhat cheerful smile on his face, Haruka responded.

“For now, I guess I’ll start with Shinku.”

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The time goes back during lunch break.

Yunika, with a serious expression on her face, invited Shinku to the cafeteria.

Yunika was a rather straightforward person, she was very interested in the current matter. Yunika asked Shinku more questions than she expected.

Shinku was afraid to tell Yunika honestly that she had committed a crime out of her sexual desire, curiosity, and fondness, and all she could do was to defend Haruka in a abrupt manner.

Having changed her sensitivity a little since she fell in love with Haruka, Shinku finally understood that her best friend also had feelings for him, judging from Yunika’s persistent pursuit and her desperate attitude.

By the time she realized it, it was already too late. The situation was quite bad.

Not only did she slept with Haruka before her, Shinku was now trying to save her own skin by making Yunika’s favorite Haruka the bad guy.

If word of it got out, Yunika would likely despise Shinku and cut ties with her.

Though Shinku had many friends, she doesn’t want to lose Yunika.

She doesn’t want to lose Haruka either.

Shinku had reached a point where she no longer cared about her own honor, but she was still not ready to give up everything.

The two of them, Shinku and Yunika, sat down at a vacant table in the not so crowded part of the cafeteria and sent their orders from the menus.

Watching the timer for the food to be prepared, Shinku shrunk back from the uncomfortable atmosphere.

Her usual confident demeanor was gone, she looked like a different person as she leaned forward a little and was slightly frightened.

“Hey… Why won’t Shinku and Obi say anything?”

“That’s because… Later… I will tell desu wa.”

“If it’s a misunderstanding, why don’t you just clear it up?”

“Yes, T-that’s right… I will desu wa.”

“It’s a misunderstanding, isn’t it?!”

“Aa.. Yes.. It’s a misunderstanding, desu wa…”

“Then, why don’t you explain it to everyone!”

Yunika thought that Shinku was not making any sense. Her frustration grew. Her voice was getting louder and louder.

Since long ago, Yunika knew that Shinku had a habit of staying silent or becoming brusque when she got asked inconvenient questions. Her facial expressions said it all.

“… I can’t, explain yet…”

“Then, why…”

Yunika’s eyes began to water from the anger and sadness.

The timer rang, indicating that their order was finished.

“The food is ready. Shall we go get it?”

“… Okay.”

Yunika stood up with a gloomy expression and walked to the counter.

Shinku followed behind her with a comparable expression on her face.

After receiving their food and returning to their original seats, they join hands and ate their meals.

The space was quiet and dark, as if the air had stopped.

Neither of them could taste the food they were eating.

“This seat is free, right?”

Even from a distance, The students could tell that their table had a tense atmosphere, but someone approached Yunika and Shinku despite that.

“… Tsuyuri.”

“Shirogane-san…”

Shirogane Tsuyuri was looking at them from above with bread in her hand.

As usual, she was a girl of little emotion, and it was hard to tell what she was thinking.

Without waiting for a reply, Tsuyuri sat down next to Yunika, facing Shinku.

She opened the bread’s packaging and took a small piece.

Tsuyuri’s presence didn’t change anything, Yunika and Shinku continued to eat with their chopsticks in an awkward manner.

After eating her bread and drinking water, Tsuyuri took a deep breath and stared at Shinku.

Shinku, who also felt guilty to Tsuyuri, couldn’t look straight into Tsuyuri’s eyes.

“Um, what is it?”

“…. Why don’t you tell everyone? That you’re going out with Haruka.”

“Eh? Aa, that’s-”

Although a human being’s field of vision was supposed to be 180 degrees, Shinku’s field of vision had narrowed down to about 30 degrees. She could only stare at Tsuyuri, she couldn’t see Yunika’s expression or reaction. She could not see. She didn’t dare to look.

Shinku was too surprised to deny what Tsuyuri said.

“… Well, let’s leave it at that… I have a favor to ask Shinku.”

“A favor…?”

Shinku had a bad feeling.

Her spine tingled, and her heart throbbed to an abnormal degree.

Sweat broke out on her face, Shinku clutched her hand on her chest to protect it from something.

“You know… I also love Haruka… I want to be his lover… Will you accept me…?”