Chapter 762 - 762: The Traitorous Bestie, the gyaru’s Worry

"I know I was wrong now... I really know I was wrong..."

Her sweet voice slowly started to choke up, and her fingertips trembled slightly.

"Honestly, I didn't want to be that stubborn back then either..."

"It's just... my life's already so boring... I don't have any other way to have fun or blow off stress..."

"If I can't have fun by myself... I really can't think of anything else in my life that's fun..."

"And... I know you meant well, Hikari-kun..."

"I'm just... I just feel so inferior..."

"You found out my secret... and I felt so embarrassed in front of you..."

"So... so that's why I talked back to you..."

She sniffled, tears sliding from the corners of her eyes onto Hikari's chest.

"Actually... actually I... I kind of like you..."

"You're the first guy at school who talked to me on his own... and you're good-looking... and you're so kind, too..."

"You knew who I was... and you didn't use it to threaten me..."

"And when I was in danger... you were the one who came to save me..."

"I like you... I really like you..."

"Just like the girls in manga... I didn't want the person I like to look down on me..."

"That's why back then I... I was so stubborn..."

"Waaah... I'm sorry..."

Hearing Nonohara Yuzuka pour her heart out in a confession like that under the drug's influence, Hikari had no temper left at all. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Truth was, he'd never taken Nonohara Yuzuka's stubbornness to heart in the first place. After all, he could wrap her around his finger anytime he wanted.

He just hadn't expected this girl, whose bosom was so generous and big enough to hold anything, to be this sensitive inside, quietly hiding so many little thoughts without a word.

And after that bold confession, Nonohara Yuzuka, her head hot and dizzy, already couldn't hold back.

She wrapped herself around Hikari like an octopus.

Her tone was humble and urgent. "Hikari-kun... just grant my wish, say yes to me..."

"Pwetty please... Yuzuka feels really awful right now..."

Nonohara Yuzuka used every trick she had, rubbing against him and tugging at him, while she humbly begged Hikari.

And seeing her beg so earnestly, Hikari did find it a bit hard to say no.

"You sure you want me to help you directly?" Hikari looked down at her heart-filled pupils and confirmed one last time.

Nonohara Yuzuka nodded hard right away, her head rubbing against his chin so it tickled, and said quickly in a soft, urgent voice, "Yes, yes!"

"I really, really want it right now... please, Hikari... just help me out..."

"Waaah... Yuzuka will agree to anything you want, pwomise, just help me out this one time..."

Hearing her plead so humbly, Hikari, who was always happy to help people, nodded slightly and agreed.

First he raised a hand and loosely closed it toward the door that had been kicked off. Invisible telekinesis instantly lifted the door and set it firmly back into the frame, completely blocking the view from outside.

Right after that, he reached out and slipped his arm around the girl's slender waist, small enough to fit in one hand, his fingertips feeling its smooth softness.

With a little effort, he lifted her soft, curvy body right up...

What happened after that was pretty cliché, so let's not get into it.

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Meanwhile.

The fat, bespectacled otaku Hiki Tsuyoshi, who'd been given the hypnotic command, was leaving the clubroom building alone, dazedly heading for the nearest police headquarters to turn himself in.

Because the command had already been planted in his brain, Hiki Tsuyoshi's eyes were vacant and his thinking was sluggish, and he could barely do anything but walk in a straight line.

So when he was almost at the school gate, he didn't care at all that three gyarus were walking side by side in front of him, and kept striding straight ahead.

Just as Hiki Tsuyoshi was about to crash into the three gyarus with their different hair colors, one of them noticed him and hurriedly tugged at her friends.

The three gyarus dodged aside, only just escaping Hiki Tsuyoshi's mindless body-slam.

"Hey! Are you f*cking blind, you punk?!" One of the gyarus, who'd almost been bumped into by Hiki Tsuyoshi before her friend pulled her away, loudly cursed Hiki Tsuyoshi out.

The students passing by looked up.

When they saw it was a girl with blonde hair in shoulder-length twin-tails, sweet-looking but with a vicious look on her face, they all lowered their heads and hurried off.

Because a lot of them recognized her.

The girl with the blonde twin-tails was named Nishizono Ria. She was the leader of a well-known little gyaru clique, and anyone who crossed her basically had nothing good coming.

On top of that, she had two more gyaru friends with her right now, so she was naturally even less someone to mess with.

But Hiki Tsuyoshi had already been hypnotized, so of course he didn't react to any of it, and quickly walked out the school gate.

Seeing this, gyaru leader Nishizono Ria swore a few more times, and then had no choice but to turn back around.

"That fat, bloated guy is so gross! He nearly runs into someone, and then he just walks off without a word, can't even say sorry!" Nishizono Ria turned and complained to her two besties beside her, Kuroda Hikaru and Miyashita Kanon.

Miyashita Kanon was a fashionably dressed girl with long, straight hair dyed pink. She giggled and chimed in with Nishizono Ria, "Right? The guys at school are all like that. Except for paying tribute, handing over their living allowance so I can buy bubble tea and get my nails done, they're totally worthless~"

Hearing Miyashita Kanon chime in, Nishizono Ria nodded, satisfied, and turned to look at Kuroda Hikaru beside her, who had long, straight black hair and was always expressionless.

Kuroda Hikaru usually had a frigid look about her, and there was almost never any expression on her face, but in the gyaru clique, especially among the few of them who were like sisters, she could still read the room.

But today, for some reason, Nishizono Ria waited and waited and didn't get any response.

She had no choice but to call out first. "Kuroda-chan?"

"Huh?" Hearing Nishizono Ria call her name, Kuroda Hikaru, who seemed to have been spacing out, only then snapped out of it.

"Wasn't that four-eyed fatass otaku just now super gross? He almost crashed right into us! And he didn't even say sorry!" Nishizono Ria looked at the dazed Kuroda Hikaru and had no choice but to repeat herself.

"Ah, yeah." Kuroda Hikaru nodded expressionlessly and chimed in at just the right moment.

But that hollow tone made it sound a bit half-hearted.

Seeing this, Nishizono Ria was a little annoyed inside.

But she just figured her good bestie was in a bad mood today, or maybe it was her time of the month, making her even colder than her already emotionless self.

Without thinking too much about it, Nishizono Ria switched to a new topic and said eagerly to her two besties, "Oh, right! I heard a new mall just opened over in Shinjuku. Wanna go check it out together today?"

Miyashita Kanon agreed right away. "Sure! I was actually wanting a new bag anyway, and I could get my nails done while I'm at it or something~"

As gyarus, Nishizono Ria and Miyashita Kanon were obviously really into shopping and hanging out after school.

After that quick back-and-forth, they both looked at Kuroda Hikaru, who still hadn't answered.

Facing her two gyaru besties' hopeful looks, Kuroda Hikaru hesitated for a split second, then shook her head anyway. "Um... I'll pass. You two go."

"Huh?" Nishizono Ria hadn't expected Kuroda Hikaru to actually say no, and looked surprised.

"Why?" Miyashita Kanon found it really strange too.

But Kuroda Hikaru didn't explain much.

She just tossed out a 'got stuff to do.'

Then she walked out the school gate alone, heading off in the complete opposite direction from them.

Seeing this, Nishizono Ria's face soured, and she couldn't hold back a sigh. "Sigh, what's up with Kuroda-chan lately? Whenever she hangs out with us, she's always somewhere else."

"And she used to always go shopping and get bubble tea and stuff with us after school, right? How come she keeps going home alone lately..."

Listening to Nishizono Ria complain, Miyashita Kanon nodded too, though she seemed more curious than annoyed:

"Kuroda-chan really has been weird lately. She's actually choosing to go home alone."

"Hey... you think maybe she's dating someone?"

At Miyashita Kanon's words, Nishizono Ria looked at her in surprise. "Kanon-chan, did you take the wrong meds or something? Someone as frigid as Kuroda-chan, dating a guy?"

"Sure, plenty of guys chase after her, but she's not some girl keeping a whole pond of fish like you. Kuroda-chan's never paid guys any attention, right?"

At Nishizono Ria's words, Miyashita Kanon got a little unhappy. "What do you mean, keeping a pond of fish? I just took some friendship fees those guys gave me on their own. It's not like I ever said I'd date them or anything."

"Besides, I give them emotional value too, okay?"

"Getting to be friends with a girl as pretty as me, even if it's just a couple of words, they're coming out ahead."

Nishizono Ria shook her head helplessly. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, Kanon-chan."

Nishizono Ria pretty much hated guys, so she didn't really approve of Miyashita Kanon stringing along a bunch of guys at once.

But Miyashita Kanon had always kept those guys like fish in a pond, always keeping them on the hook. As long as they paid tribute, she never said a word more than she had to, let alone let any of them take the slightest advantage of her, so she couldn't really say much either.

Still, compared to Miyashita Kanon's way of keeping fish and collecting tribute, she liked Kuroda Hikaru's way a bit more.

Miyashita Kanon knew what Nishizono Ria thought, too, so she wasn't too happy about it, and even had a fair number of complaints about Kuroda Hikaru.

After all, as cold as Kuroda Hikaru was, she was pretty, so lots of guys chased her too, but Kuroda Hikaru had never paid attention to a single one of them. She fit the image of the untouchable goddess way better.

Whereas she, Miyashita Kanon, turned no one away. She never agreed to date any guy either, but she didn't turn down their tribute, completely different from Kuroda Hikaru with her clear boundaries.

That led some people to call her a fake-innocent gold digger behind her back, and even compare her to Kuroda Hikaru, which had always left Miyashita Kanon vaguely annoyed with this bestie.

Not wanting to keep going on this topic, Miyashita Kanon changed the subject. "Forget it, forget it. Kuroda-chan probably really does have something to do. Let's just go shopping, the two of us."

"We'll take some cute pictures to show her and make her drool with envy!"

Nishizono Ria nodded. "Mm, okay!"

But even though she'd agreed out loud with Miyashita Kanon, deep down, Nishizono Ria still felt a little bothered by Kuroda Hikaru leaving.

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[Ding! Host successfully saved a Hidden World heroine, reversed Nonohara Yuzuka's fate, and effectively spread the spirit of pure love!]

[Reward received: Pure Love Points +100!]

In the Film Research Club, not long after Hikari had worked hard to help Nonohara Yuzuka clear out the drug's side effects, the Pure Love System's notification sounded in his head.

Looked like Hiki Tsuyoshi was about to be arrested, or already had been...

While Hikari was carefully going over the system reward info in his head, Nonohara Yuzuka, who'd been a bit overworked earlier and so worn out she could barely breathe, was gradually recovering too.

With the drug wearing off and her senses slowly coming back to normal, she opened her lovely eyes a little and gave Hikari, who was holding her in his arms, a complicated look.

Staring at that handsome, chiseled face, Nonohara Yuzuka's eyes held shyness, gratitude, guilt, excitement, adoration...

It was all very complicated, like a pie chart.

Right now, she had so many things she wanted to say to Hikari.

But before the words reached her mouth, she found she couldn't say them.

And her full chest, rising and falling unsteadily, quickly caught Hikari's attention too.

After he'd finished going over the system reward, Hikari looked down and found that, sure enough, the girl in his arms was completely clearheaded now.

Not minding Nonohara Yuzuka's evasive eyes, Hikari asked her straight out, "How do you feel now? You okay?"

Hearing Hikari's question, a shy blush rose on Nonohara Yuzuka's pretty face.

Her cherry lips parted, and she answered softly in a hoarse voice, "Mm, I... I'm good."

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