“Still, I’m constantly amazed by your keen insight, Satoshi-san. I didn’t think there would be someone with intelligence and wisdom surpassing mine in my same grade.”
“You’re overestimating me. I’ve never even beaten you on tests. In that sense, Sano is amazing.”
“Fufu, please don’t mention that name. It makes me want to kill.”
“A-ah, yes.”
It Seems Sano-kun Has Been Hated by All the Heroines
It seems he chased not two but four rabbits and ended up catching nothing. How unfortunate.
Shino entered our ordinary high school to find friends. Apparently, there’s no one in the upper class who can match her level. She’s a regular at the top of the national rankings in mock exams even without studying.
So she deliberately enrolled in a normal high school. It seems she expected that changing her environment might lead her to interesting people.
And among them, she found Sano-kun. Lucky you, right?
Shino has a habit of testing people. The business-related conversation from earlier was one example. It seems her hobby is determining whether someone is worthy of talking to her.
I apparently passed Shino’s filter. Thanks to that, I can enjoy conversations with her.
“I don’t know your motives, but you must have held back on the test. They say a capable hawk hides its talons, but I think not standing out is wise for living a long, peaceful life.”
She smiled meaningfully, as if saying “I know what you’re up to.”
No, I seriously went for first place in the grade…
Due to the world’s corrective force, my grades were constantly kept at an average level.
Let me explain about [The World’s Corrective Force] here.
This world is the world of a galge called [LoD]. In other words, there’s a scenario. When you make moves to change it, corrections begin in the world to maintain consistency.
For example, I knew that Shino was seeking someone with wisdom equal to her own.
So, as a mob character wanting to interact with a heroine, I got perfect scores in all subjects—or so I thought.
The scores that came back were disastrous. More specifically, correct answers were marked wrong, and I was heavily penalized. No matter how many times I protested, it was always “No, you’re wrong.” Everyone I asked said my answers were incorrect. When I thought maybe I really was wrong, the guy next to me had the same answer marked correct.
At first, I didn’t understand, but it didn’t take long to realize this was a correction from [LoD]. Shino had the setting of being a genius who maintained first place in the grade until she fell in love with Sano. Since I broke that, the world corrected it.
Getting zero points despite correct answers is like one of Nobita’s test results.
Actually experiencing it made me quite angry. I seriously tried to get results in sports and mock exams to interfere with the scenario, but I was continually obstructed by the world’s corrective force.
When I tried to take first place in the 50-meter dash, I fell. When I tried to score points on a mock exam, I got zero because my name supposedly wasn’t written.
Around this time, I learned my place. No matter how hard I tried, a mob is a mob. The scenario was absolute, and I had no choice but to follow it.
In the first place, if I could change the scenario, I wouldn’t think about sacrificing my life to save the heroines.
“Satoshi-san, I’d like you to use that brain of yours for the Shinonome Zaibatsu.”
“Please stop…”
The Hoshinet matter from earlier—I’m actually using knowledge from my previous life. This world closely resembles the real world I was in, and the timeline is in the past relative to when I was there. Naturally, not everything is exactly the same, but most things were.
I knew how Hoshinet ended in my previous world. I just combined that with the logic I learned in this world to make a plausible inference.
Incidentally, my familiarity with stocks and FX is related to my previous life. As a useless NEET, I felt guilty toward my family and thought about a way to turn things around. That was stocks and FX.
I seriously studied to make my meager capital balloon all at once. The result: I lost all my money and was left with nothing but guilt.
Anyway, I thought I’d earn money while I could before surpassing the year I lived in my previous life, since I’d become incompetent after that, but thanks to that bastard, I’ve almost lost all my money…
Cheating is about to stop working, so things are seriously bad.
“I’m truly glad Satoshi-san didn’t die…!”
“Eh?”
As I was worrying about my future, Shino jumped into my chest. Then I heard a voice mixed with sobs.
“When I think about you dying there for my sake, it’s so frightening… The days when Satoshi-sama wouldn’t wake up, I couldn’t sleep at all. If the worst happened, I intended to follow you…”
Ehhh!? That’s too heavy!
I was relieved from the bottom of my heart that we wouldn’t be reunited in hell after I went to the trouble of saving her.
“Shino, I’m alive, so you don’t need to think about such things.”
“But because of me…”
When Shino pulled away from my chest, she glanced at my right arm.
“This injury to my right arm is a badge of honor. Empty as I am, I became the savior of a cute girl like Shino. That alone is something I can be proud of for life. So please don’t say anything more that degrades yourself.”
Including my previous life, I’d never been useful to anyone. And yet I was able to sacrifice myself to save someone. If it’s a heroine from [LoD], all the more so.
“…That way of putting it is unfair.”
Then, burying her face between my knees again, she spoke in a slightly sulky tone.
Shino really is something else.
Blaming herself any further would be blasphemy against me, who saved her life. There’s no way Shino, who values duty, could do such a thing. Shino, who understood my intention, is truly a fine woman.
…That’s all well and good, but this is taking quite a while.
“Shino?”
“I’m sorry. Just ten more minutes like this, haa haa.”
“Ah, okay.”
“Yes. I’m sorry. I can’t stop crying. Haa haa.”
Liar!
I can’t hear any sobbing at all, and if anything, she seems excited.
I can’t tell her this, but to add a bit more about Shino—she’s the most erotic of the [Four Beauties]. They say curious women are erotic, and this is especially prominent with Shino.
Still, it’s shocking.
I thought Shino only got erotic with someone she liked, but even someone like me makes her aroused. I’m worried about whether she’ll join a pickup artist club when she enters university.
As I was worrying about such things, Shino raised her face nonchalantly.
“I enjoyed myself a bit… I mean, I lost my composure.”
“If you feel better, that’s fine.”
Shino swept her jet-black hair with a flourish to cover up. I decided to pretend to be oblivious, but when I observed her, Shino’s complexion was better than when she arrived. I’m still worried.
“Phew… The pleasant time ends here. I have a dinner meeting after this…”
“As expected of a company president’s daughter. That must be tough.”
“Yes. It’s troublesome, but it can’t be helped for the sake of the family. I’ll come again.”
“Yeah, take care.”
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When Shino stood up from the chair and put her hand on the hospital room door, her hand stopped there.
“Satoshi-san…”
With her back still turned to me, she asked me a question.
“Hm? Did you forget something?”
“No, there’s just one thing I want to ask at the end.”
“Something you want to ask?”
“Yes. Satoshi-sama, is there no one you resent from the bottom of your heart…?”
“Eh?”
She released her hand from the door and turned toward me. Then a straightforward gaze was directed at me.
“For example, what do you think about the person who hit you with their car?”
Ah, that’s what this is about. From Shino’s perspective, the truck driver would be the cause of my current state.
“No, not at all. Resenting them is out of the question. If anything, I feel sorry for them.”
“Eh…?”
Actually, I talked with the person who hit me, and listening to their story, there was no logical consistency. This feeling was very similar to people who became strange due to the world’s corrective force. Thinking about it that way, I felt sympathy for them, a slave to this world’s scenario. That’s why I didn’t charge them for medical expenses.
“Satoshi-san is too kind…”
Shino looked at me with a troubled smile.
“No, no, that’s not true. I do have people I resent. Like the god who tried to kill you all.”
“—Eh?”
Silence dominated the space between Shino and me.
Oops… I overdid it trying to look cool with that meaningful line… That said, it’s true that I resent the creators. And Sano. I hope those guys spend their days in hell.
“Satoshi-sama is… No, it’s nothing. More importantly, Satoshi-san, could you hold out your right hand?”
“I’d like to, but sorry. It still won’t move at all.”
Even trying to move it, I can barely make my hand tremble.
“That’s right. Then—”
Shino turned around, came to my right side, and gently lifted my palm with both hands. Then she kissed the back of my hand like a knight would.
“Wh-what are you doing!?”
As I was flustered by this sudden action, Shino looked up at me with red cheeks.
“Satoshi-sama. I will never forget the debt I owe you for saving me.”
“Ah, yeah.”
“I will eliminate all sparks that fall upon you—just as you did for me.”
“Huh?”
Before I could ask Shino’s true meaning, she had already stood up and was walking briskly toward the hospital room exit.
“…Well then, farewell. I pray from the bottom of my heart for your swift recovery.”
“Ah, yeah.”
She closed the door without making a sound. That’s probably why she entered without sound earlier. Even the opening and closing of a door has technique to it.
More than that, what’s in my heart is a sense of discomfort. It’s not just Shino. I’d felt it from the other three as well. But I can’t put it into words.
“Well, whatever… My suspicions are probably just my imagination.”
I’ll be discharged soon. Once that happens, I probably won’t be involved with the heroines of [LoD] anymore.
Thinking about it that way, I feel a little regretful.
However, come April, it’ll be my first campus life, including my previous life. Thinking about it that way, the future seems bright.
Being positive really is important. Yeah.
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