NOVEL WEB Chapter 5: Popular?
Yuto released a tired sigh and began walking to the dorms with one hand in his pocket and gripping his phone on the other.
[Hello? Are you done Kazuki-kun?]
"Yea.."
[Alright, I'll sent you the location. Be here in 15 mins.]
"Ok."
With that, Horikita cut to call. Yuto was flustered, "I didn't know what to say! Damnation! Am I becoming like Ayanokoji?!" Yuto buried his face in his hands, teeth gritted, imaginary tears streaming down his cheeks. He thought to himself, 'Maybe I should buy eyedrops...'
Suddenly, a notification chimed on his phone, drawing his attention. With a sheepish grin, he muttered, "Well, would you look at that! Talk about timing!"
In the blink of an eye, he thought of 246 gifts he could buy Horikita but doubted if she would like any. He snickered thinking about what all he can buy, but one stood out the most.
He took a deep breath, raised his fist into the air and bellowed "First priority! I gotta buy a giant teddy bear!" resulting in everyone around him to stare at him with weird faces. Realizing his predicament, he awkwardly started to walk faster with his face looking at the ground when suddenly..
*Thud*
He crashed into someone! He looked at the unforunate soul who had the luck to encounter him. It was a girl with long pinkish-beige hair, big purple-blue eyes and an undeinably beautiful face.
'Cute..' Yuto thought before immeditely shaking his head vigorously. Clenching his palm and bringing it towards his chest, 'My loyalty lies towards Horikita-chan!' The girl let out a pained moan, pulling Yuto out of his reverie.
"Here" he said, offering his hand to the girl that fell down.
The girl took it gratefully and picked herself up before saying "Thanks." with a cheerful smile.
"Don't be! I'm the one who is supposed to be sorry for crashing into you."
"It's fine really! I also wasn't looking forward as I was waving at my friend" she said as she eyed behind her. Yuto threw a glance at the direction she was pointing at to see something very unexpected.
"Kiyo-chan and that's Kushida-san? What a strange couple..." he murmured
"Oh you know her?" the girl exclaimed.
"Kushida-san? Yea I guess... She is my classmate afterall, though we aren't that well acquainted."
"You're in Class D? What's your name again?"
"Kazuki Yuto."
"Ohhhh... Your the super hot guy everyone was talking about!" she exclaimed, flabberghasting Yuto on how direct she was. "WHAT!" he shrieked, gaining the attention of Kushida and Ayanokoji.
"Ohh Kazuki-kun! I was searching for you all day. I had something to ask you but ended up asking Ayanokoji-kun instead." Kushida pouted.
"Didn't you hear the speaker?" Ayanokoji asked her.
She shook her head. "Anyway! I didn't know you and Ichinose-san were acquainted!"
"Now we are!" Ichinose beamed. Meanwhile Yuto looked confused, "Ichinose who?"
"Oh! How rude of me not to introduce myself, I'm Honami Ichinose from Class 1-B!"
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10 mins later, Yuto stood in front of an all girl's cafe. Or that's how it seemed by the looks of it, at least. Only girls walked in and out, making it seem like there was a huge imaginary 'NO BOYS ALLOWED' sign in front of the door.
He frowned and walked in, only to be meet by the gazes of numerous women. The entire cafe seemed still for a moment. No sound. Nothing. All of a sudden, countless women surrounded Yuto, who was overwhelmed.
'Crap... seems like Ichinose was telling the truth after all.'
The girls started to bombared Yuto with questions.
"Hey! Hey! Are you free tonight?"
"Kazuki-san! Are you willing to come to karaoke with us now?
"Yuto-chan!~~ Pheraps you wanna hang out with me~?"
Yuto politely declined all of them with wry smile and made his way over to a certain indifferent black-haired girl. "You are late." she stated matter-of-factly.
"I'm sorry, I had an unexpected encounter. By the way, why are you here anyway? I didn't expect you to be the type to surround themselves with constant noise."
"I'm not. Ayanokoji just invited me here."
One of Yuto's veins popped on his forehead when he heard Horikita mention Ayanokoji, as Horikita continued. "Turns out, it was just a set up done by Kushida, who tried to convince me into becoming her friend. Of course I rejected, and since you were just done by then, I simply decided to call you here."
"Well that explains a lot... and can we leave this cafe and talk elsewhere? I'm not sure I feel comfortable here." Yuto said, pointing at the horde of girls throwing death stares at Horikita, causing her to shiver.
"I share your opinion.."
They exited the café and settled onto a bench overlooking the sea, Yuto couldn't shake the tremble in his limbs. 'Isn't this simply... a date?' he considered.
'Wait! This is suspicious. Like, why would you she be curious about the student council? It just looks like a scheme to spend time with me...'
Suddenly Yuto's eyes widened, 'Does she secertly like me?!' He couldn't think straight and decided to speak his mind
"Horikita-chan, D-Do you like me?"
Horikita, still looking at the sea, answered in an indifferent voice, "No. Why would I?"
Yuto turned to stone, as his weak heart shattered into a million peices. He replied in a weeping voice, "You know, apparently I'm popular, and handsome and-"
"A perverted idiot" Horikita cut him off.
Yuto sholders dropped, as he looked at the ground and sniffled, "Kill me..."
Horikita looked around to check if there were any cameras and asked "Can you finally tell me why you went to the student council room."
"Sure, but I have a question."
Horikita frowned and asked, "What is it?"
"Do you know the student council president?"
Horikita had a pensive face as she replied, "he is my brother."
'A lot makes sense now...'
Yuto looked at Horikita with a wry smile and said in a straight voice, "Horikita-chan, you have a brother complex, don't you?"
Horikita slowly turned to Yuto, with a slightly red deadpan look and pinched him on the side before exclaiming, "Can we get back to business."
Yuto, who was in pain, gave her a funny look and smirked, "Sure, the reason they called is different to my reasons for going there. Horkita raised a brow and ask, "Oh.. What might your reason be?" Yuto gently pulled out his phone from his pocket and showed the screen to Horikita.
Her icey façade broke for the first time as she was taken aback. Dumbfounded. "How..." she mumbled. Her gaze was fixated to a number, reading it over and over again, making sure it was real. "3.8 million points..." she uttered.
Of course she was shocked, it was only the second day of school after all. Even if they actually continue to get 100,000 points every month, at the end of 3 years. It will only amount to 3.2 million and Yuto as surpassed that amount in the second day! It almost made Horikita reconsider if Yuto was actually a idiot. Almost.
Yuto shrugged and said, "Turns out that, 3rd years are actually loaded"
"What did you do?"
"I would rather not tell, instead you can say that... I educated some 3rd years."