Chapter 2 Unspoken Truths

Unspoken Truths

“Good morning.”

The next day after I broke up with Mia.

As I was walking to school, I saw my best friend Haruto walking alone in front of me, so I called out to him.

“Hey, what’s up? It’s unusual to see you walking to school alone.”

He’s a tall, handsome man of 185 cm with black hair. He’s a star member of the basketball team and is popular with the girls. He’s popular but loses to the protagonist.

The protagonist is bizarrely popular. Maybe this is called “the virtue of being a protagonist”.

I have been best friends with Haruto since the first grade of junior high school.

“I’m on my own from now on.”

“Oh? You finally broke up with her?”

Haruto says with an amused grin.

“What do you mean ‘finally’? Well, you’re right, I did break up with her.”

“…Eh?”

Haruto stops in surprise with a silly look on his face.

“Hey, what are you doing? Let’s go quickly.”

It’s annoying that he’s so handsome despite his stupid face.

“No, no, no, no, wait! What do you mean you broke up?”

Haruto approached me.

“Well, she told me yesterday that she broke up with me.”

“You got dumped?”

“Yeah.”

I nodded my head.

“I knew it.”

Haruto convinced himself.

“Hey, what do you mean, ‘I knew it’?”

Isn’t that a bit rude?

“Saeki-san next to you, she always looked so worried.”

“You’re lying. She always had a smile on her face.”

Mia is the kind of girl who always smiles and makes everyone around her smile.

She’s the heroine who was originally made that way.

“Not for you.”

“Huh?”

I don’t get it. I mean, what are you talking about, like you know something? Nobody knows more about Mia than I do.

“Well, if you don’t understand, that’s okay.”

For some reason, Haruto ended the conversation disrespectfully.

“You should have attacked her more. You get shy at the strangest times.”

Haruto sighed in dismay.

“… Well, I don’t want to taint her.”

One day I will be cuckolded.

If I do not erase this from my memory, I will never be able to face Mia.

Because I will be betrayed. In fact, I was rejected yesterday.

It’s not that I don’t like Mia.

So if Mia goes out with Kaito, I want her to be able to go out with him without hesitation.

“I don’t want Mia to feel guilty when she goes out with someone other than me.”

Haruto was silent.

… Huh? Is it getting a bit dark?

“… You think about it in your own way. But, hey, what do you think the reason you broke up?”

“… Ah, well, this is definitely unbalanced, isn’t it? She was the prettiest girl in our grade, remember?”

I can’t say it was set up that way.

I laughed and pretended.

“…yes?”

I felt someone behind me.

But when I turned around, no one was there.

Was it my imagination?