Chapter 76 Owari

Owari

——I was lucky.

I do not lose my cool in critical moments.

Thanks to that, I can still be a “victim”. This is the most important position.

Never be a perpetrator. If that happens, all my patience will be wasted.

Takeshi cuckolded my girlfriend.

He betrayed my trust.

He made fun of me…I had endured it all.

But I won’t let him hurt Hana-san and Ichika any more than he already has.

So for their sake…I will take it a little longer.

(I had intervened with the Itsumi family and presented my terms. The rest is up to…Hana-san and Ichika to come up with a reason to choose me——that’s all.)

Maybe you think it’s a long process.

There is no need to face Takeshi; that is certainly true. If Hana-san and Ichika run away from Takeshi, everything will be solved.

But I’m afraid of Takeshi after that.

I’m afraid he will hold a grudge against them, get angry, seek them out, and take revenge.

To prevent that future, I will break Takeshi’s heart here.

I have to make him think this way,

(I’m the one who deserves to be abandoned by my mother and Ichika.)

——and.

All I have to do is make one more move.

(I have to get Takeshi to beat me up.)

And when that happens, I will intentionally make a loud, loud noise. This is a signal to call Hana-san and Ichika, who should be waiting outside. From there, the plan is to get them involved and push Takeshi further into a corner.

Well, in the discussion before, I only told them that “Takeshi would just push me away a little”. So they didn’t think I would get hit.

However, if he hits me in the face…it will further strengthen my position as a victim.

So what I should do now is not get angry and hit him.

On the contrary, what I should do now is to play with Takeshi’s nerves.

“Heyy!? What’s going on? Why are you so quiet all of a sudden? Maybe you’re mad? Well, well, calm down. I just told you the truth, right? You are indeed an orphan, so don’t get mad at me, okay? Just go home and be quiet. Alone, of course.”

Takeshi still provokes me.

At his words, I spilled my breath…and then laughed at him.

“Haha. Yeah…I don’t have parents, so I’m jealous of you.”

What should I say to make this sc🬀🬀🬀ag angry?

What words should I choose? …It’s easy to think of something like that.

Because I’m his childhood friend.

“…Don’t laugh. What’s funny?”

He must be confused by the change in my face.

Takeshi’s grin disappeared. I’m doing well, which means I was able to break up Takeshi’s pace.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, I won’t let up in my pursuit.

“No, I mean…You, how can you say that when you’re not even related to anyone by blood?”

Just like Takeshi knows what I don’t want to be told,

I know what Takeshi doesn’t want me to say.

I’m sure he doesn’t want me to mention that.

“Hana-san told me you’re her ex-husband’s stepson. No wonder you don’t look like Hana-san or Chika-chan.”

“You b🬀🬀tard…!”

See, I knew it.

Takeshi’s expression changed drastically. His eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at me.

Seeing Takeshi like that, I piled on more words.

“That’s right. You’re like…Me, you don’t really have a family——but you have someone who became your family, so I can’t help but envy you.”

“Shut up!!”

“You’re lucky…to have such a kind mother and a cute little sister, even though you’re not related by blood. Oh, is that why——you’re both mom-con and sis-con?”

“…SHUT UP!!!”

“Oh my. You’re lucky to have a mother. You’re lucky to have a sister who loves you…You were abandoned by both your father and mother, but you have someone whose family…You’re lucky…even though you’re just a child abandoned by your own parents.”

“——I told you to shut up!!!!”

Finally, Takeshi became angry.

His face turned red, and he clenched his fists.

His fist, raised in a fit of emotion, struck me in the face.

Gotsu!

A dull sound is heard.

“Die, you son of a b🬀🬀ch!!!!!”

Another punch, and Takeshi gets on top of me as I fall to the ground and repeats the punch.

Three punches, four punches…after that, I don’t know how many more.

I kept getting hit in the face, and my senses were all messed up.

But strangely enough, there was no pain.

I just feel really good, thanks to the fact that my plan went well and I was able to say some things back.

“…hahaha.”

So I laughed.

Even though Takeshi hit me and I was bleeding…I still couldn’t stop laughing.

Takeshi, it’s over.

You’re done now——