Chapter 82: The Hopeless Delusional Fool
#18ZenkouSeitoThe Hopeless Delusional Fool
Nakano Yuya’s Perspective
“…I don’t get it.”
A slow, simmering heat rises from deep within me.
“I’m just not in the mood today. Can you understand that?”
Manami-chan says it with a smile.
…But there’s no way I could possibly understand.
“Why? Why won’t you come to the hotel with me? ‘Not in the mood’? We’re dating, aren’t we? What reason could you possibly have to say no… seriously?”
The anger I’ve been holding back surges to the surface, impossible to contain.
The frustration I feel toward Manami-chan becomes unbearable.
“You’ve barely made time for me lately… and now, when we finally meet, you won’t even come with me? ‘Not in the mood’? That’s beyond selfish.”
Manami-chan listens to my words in silence.
That silence only fuels my irritation further.
“I’ll say it again—we’re going out, right? We’re lovers, right? And yet… this? Manami-chan, this is messed up. You’re the one who’s messed up. Seriously, what’s wrong with you?”
“…Yeah, I guess so.”
“Huh?! ‘Yeah, I guess so’?! Don’t just agree with me! What the hell is wrong with you?! I don’t get it at all!!”
I can’t hold back anymore.
I might as well say everything I’ve been keeping inside.
I’ll make this infuriating woman hear it all…!
“Don’t screw with me! Maybe you don’t care, but do you have any idea what I’ve been going through?! You’re my only girlfriend! The only one! And yet… you don’t even think about how I feel?! I’ve been compromising for you this whole time…! Do you even get that?!”
“…”
“Seriously, why have you been silent this whole time?! Say something! Make up some pathetic excuse like you always do! That’s who you are, isn’t it?! Ignoring your boyfriend, refusing to listen, selfishly deciding you’re ‘not in the mood’?! That’s just… that’s just what a terrible girlfriend does!!!”
Once the emotions start pouring out, there’s no stopping them.
“You can’t keep acting like this if you want this to work. I’m saying this because I care about you! So just shut up and listen to me—!”
I was about to lay my heart completely bare—when suddenly.
“Let’s break up.”
“…Huh?”
Manami-chan says it with a smile.
For a moment, my mind refuses to process the meaning behind her words.
But the weight of them crashes into me almost immediately.
“Huh?! B-Break up?! How the hell does this conversation lead to that?!”
“I mean, what? I don’t understand a single thing you’ve been saying, Nakano-kun. And honestly? If I had to sum up your whole rant, it’s basically just—‘Shut up and sleep with me,’ right?”
“—Huh!? T-That’s not…”
Manami-chan lets out a dry, hollow laugh.
“It’s fine, really. Honestly, I always figured you only fell for me because I flirted with you. And seeing how easily you fell for it, I knew you were only in it for the physical stuff. That never really bothered me. That’s just who you are.”
“W-Wait, Manami-chan—”
“But can you just break up with me already? I don’t like you anymore.”
“Y-You don’t… like me? I… I don’t understand what you’re saying…”
“I don’t like you, Nakano-kun. Actually, I never liked you that much to begin with. Haha.”
“…What?”
Manami-chan smirks.
That wicked grin—so far removed from the soft, dreamy image I had of her—looks almost demonic.
“You weren’t even good in bed. Honestly, it didn’t feel good at all. And those whispers—‘Are you feeling it?’ ‘Let me see your face’ ‘You don’t have to hold back your voice’—God, that was seriously gross. Haha.”
“Wha—…”
“Besides, Nakano-kun, you’re just not attractive to me anymore. You don’t even have any connection to Irara-san now.”
“…Huh?”
Why is she bringing up Akari’s name now…?
“Anyway, let’s break up. We’re done.”
“Wha—?! W-Wait! I still love you, Manami-chan…!”
“—But I don’t love you. Actually, I’m bored of you. Haha.”
“…Huh?”
“You’re useless to me now, Nakano-kun. So… fufu, bye-bye. Haha.”
“—Huh!!!”
The sneering smirk on her face sends white-hot rage through me.
What the hell is she saying…? She’s been spewing absolute nonsense this whole time…!
This isn’t funny. This isn’t funny at all…!
“Don’t screw with me!! I broke up with Akari for you, you know?! I chose you over her! I threw away Akari—just to be with you! So why…?!!”
But at my desperate outburst, Manami-chan merely lets out a light laugh and says,
“Then why don’t you just get back together with Irara-san? Haha.”
“—Huh!!!”
Her words hit me like a punch to the gut, and my knees give out. I collapse onto the ground.
Watching me crumble, Manami-chan lets out a cruel, mocking smile and says,
“—Goodbye.”
She turns her back on me and walks away.
As her figure disappears from sight, an indescribable, gut-wrenching emotion bursts from deep within me.
“Uwaaaaahhhh!!!”
I thought Manami-chan would always be on my side.
And yet… this… this is…
“…This is too cruel…”
Tears flood from my eyes.
Manami-chan is gone.
My Manami-chan is… gone.
“Aaaaaahhhh!!!”
—The delusional fool, crushed under the weight of despair.
With their own feelings locked inside, summer comes to an end.
And so begins a fateful new school term—