For Some Reason, My Ex-girlfriend, Who Lost Interest in Me, and My Current Girlfriend, Whom I’ve Kno

Meanwhile, Takamine’s side.

Shizuku Natsukawa confidently says,

“–You’re going to tell Shota-kun everything after I start going out with him, aren’t you?”

(Huh?)

Takamine’s voice almost leaks out of her head at Natsukawa’s completely unexpected reasoning.

“Shota-kun assumed that Kengo and I were dating, even though I confided to Takamine-san that we were not real lovers. In other words, Takamine-san did not tell him the truth. Why didn’t you tell Shota-kun about my declaration of plundering him?”

(Why didn’t I tell him? Because if I don’t make him think that Natsukawa has a boyfriend, I won’t stand a chance! I thought that was all exposed, but ‘You’re going to tell Shota-kun everything after I start going out with him,’ you say? Are you some kind of alien in the skin of a beautiful girl? I seriously can’t understand you!)

Takamine looks exhausted by Natsukawa’s smug attitude.

In a sense, she is one of the people who have been victimized after meeting Natsukawa.

“The answer to that question is, as I said before, you’re going to tell Shota-kun everything after I start going out with him, right? Fufu, as expected of Takamine-san. I guess this is what they mean when they say you don’t get up just by falling down. In other words, you’re trying to get him to leave me by planting the idea that I’m an evil woman at the last minute, aren’t you? Just after I reach the heaven of lovers, you’re going to knock me down to the h**l of breakups. It’ll be like a roller coaster. I’m impressed.”

(Huh? HUH~? Don’t be so proud saying something so off the mark. If you want to show off your deductions, at least do it after falling asleep. Somebody get the tranquilizer gun! Get me the tranquilizer gun! Because I’m shutting this b***h up right now!)

“But I’m not so stupid to not notice it.”

(You’re a total asshat, you know that!?)

“I’m sorry Takamine-san, but I made it known to Shota-kun that things weren’t going well with Kengo. So what do you think he said to me?”

Natsukawa’s cheeks flushed. Takamine, seeing such a feminine figure…

(Eh, what’s this? What am I being shown right now? A charade? Is it a charade?)

“He said, ‘Would you like to be my friend?’”

(So what? That’s a pretty reasonable proposal.)

“I’m sorry, Takamine-san. I am not Shota-kun’s ex-girlfriend anymore. I am Shota-kun’s friend. So from now on we can have lunch together, go out somewhere, or do anything. Fufu, are you frustrated?” (T/N: Natsukawa so cute~)

(Ah, so frustrating! It’s frustrating that I have to compete to be Komori’s lover against a monster who openly confides these things to me! Ah, mou~. Damn it, just what am I supposed to do!? Why am I being pushed into a corner when I should be in an advantageous position!? This is crazy, this is absolutely crazy!)

This was the moment when Mayuka Takamine’s soul gem began to cloud over. (T/N: Madoka Magica reference.)