Chapter 1 Cheating and False Accusation

Cheating and False Accusation

“Haah…”

My name is Aono Eiji. I’m an ordinary high school sophomore.

The sound of cicadas can be heard endlessly. Thanks to this year’s intense heat, I can’t stop sweating.

“Today was supposed to be my birthday date.”

August 28. Summer vacation will soon be over. My childhood friend, Amada Miyuki, and I confessed our feelings to each other last Christmas, and we finally became lovers. A rotten relationship since elementary school. I’m embarrassed to say it, but I wouldn’t have been able to talk to her, let alone date her if I hadn’t known her since childhood. I’m so shy that I can’t even kiss her even after six months.

I want to advance our relationship as soon as possible. Because of this impatience, I was in high spirits for today’s birthday date.

On the morning of our meeting, she suddenly sent me a message on LINE, “I’m sorry, Eiji. I had to do something I couldn’t miss,” and just like that she skipped my first birthday date since we became lovers.

Frankly, I was feeling depressed, so I ended up taking the train I was supposed to take and ended up coming to the prefectural capital city, which was a little far away. It’s hard to walk alone along the route you had planned to go to the movies or play at the game center with her.

“I look like an idiot.”

I felt like an idiot walking around for no reason, so I decided to go home. I decided to celebrate my birthday by stopping at one of the popular noodle shops around the station.

With melancholy middle-aged thoughts, I tried to return to the station. As is typical in rural prefectural capitals, not far from the big electronics stores and such, there was an adult entertainment district. Oh, that’s terrible. Maybe, I was unconsciously dragging my feet because I had checked out some adult places that might be memorable places to visit with her.

I feel really pathetic.

“eh?”

And then I saw someone who shouldn’t be here. Maybe I’m hallucinating because I missed her so much. So I rubbed my eyes and looked again. But it wasn’t an illusion.

I saw something I shouldn’t have seen. I desperately deny it in my head. The more I deny it, the more I feel a sense of hopelessness that it’s a reality being forced upon me.

Familiar long black hair. A slender model figure. Her favorite one-piece dress. But even when she meets me, she wears heavy makeup. I can tell she’s really into it, but this time more than usual.

“Ah.”

Miyuki notices me and freezes.

The man who was walking with her arms crossed had a suspicious look on his face, but when he noticed the direction of her gaze, his face crumpled in laughter.

“Why are you here?”

On the contrary. My childhood friend and I had the same reaction.

The guy next to her is Kondo-senpai. He’s the ace of the soccer team, a flirtatious, handsome guy who’s popular with girls. He’s a womanizer and I hear a lot of bad rumors about him. Miyuki is an honor student and he’s the complete opposite of her personality.

Why do you get along better with him than with me, your lover? That too on my birthday!!

“Hey, Miyuki.”

I unintentionally grabbed her left arm. I heard her say, “It hurts,’’ and I let go of her hand. Ah sorry, I put too much force into it.

“Sorry….”

Just as I was about to say the words of apology. I felt a strong shock on my left cheek. Then my whole body was blown away. After my body floated in the air, I realized that I had been hit.

“You violent man. What are you doing to my woman?!”

The words, which are filled with murderous intent, make the people around us begin to pay attention to us.

What… My woman….

The pain was so great that I could barely breathe as I stared at him with hatred.

“Huh? What are you—? Are you Miyuki’s stalker?”

What is this guy saying?

“Hey, Miyuki. You should say something to him as well. You’re always talking about him when you sleep next to me. He’s your childhood friend, so you couldn’t say no to him, so you went out with him, but you said he was boring. He’d hold your hand and you’d get all sweaty and uncomfortable.”

I heard the sound of my dignity being shattered.

Please, deny it. With this thought, I looked at my childhood friend and lover’s face as if to cling to it. Her face was pale and trembling.

“What’s the matter, Miyuki? If you like this guy so much, do what you want. You can end it right here. Break up with me or break up with him. Which will you choose?”

It made me feel like I was standing in front of a judge waiting for a verdict.

She grasped her partner’s flirtatious arm.

“No, don’t throw me away. Senpai abandoned me and I can’t live anymore.”

My eyes went blank.

“Then who is this guy? Say it out loud.”

I’m already beyond despair and my heart is dead.

“Eiji is the worst violent boyfriend I’ve ever had, he was my childhood friend, but he’s a… persistent, stalker-like, lousy, violent boyfriend.”

“Mi…yu…ki?”

I call with a voice like a mosquito. I guess that’s how our decade was. I’m just a….

“Then, tell this to this crazy stalker.”

The guy nudged her to send me the worst birthday present she had ever sent me.

“I’m sorry, Eiji. I can’t go out with you anymore. Don’t even talk to me at school.”

Thus, our relationship ended.

tl: This is my first project, so thanks for checking it out! Sorry if there are any translation mistakes—I’m still learning and doing my best! 😊