But looking at the beautiful girl's touching, rosy-cheeked face, Hikari felt not the slightest tenderness.
He only bent forward slightly and moved close to the girl's ear, keeping his voice very low, but with an icy, overwhelming pressure in it.
"Yuzuka-san, you don't want the whole school to find out you're an adult streamer online, do you?"
Each word, along with his warm breath, struck Nonohara Yuzuka's heart.
"Ah!", Nonohara Yuzuka jumped back a big step as if she'd been burned.
Scared by Hikari's act as a cuckolding villain, her pretty face was pale as paper, and at last her eyes couldn't hold the tears any longer, and little pearls fell pitter-patter.
"What... what do you want me to do?", The twin-tailed beauty's soft, panicked voice carried a hint of a sob, and she looked extremely wronged and pitiful.
Hikari straightened up without any expression, and the deliberately built-up pressure gradually faded.
Looking at Nonohara Yuzuka, no longer stubborn, he spoke slowly, "I'm not using this to threaten you into doing anything."
"I just wanted to tell you that if you keep streaming, sooner or later someone will use this same weak spot to threaten you."
"And when that time comes, what will you do?"
"Cry and sniffle and let them do whatever they want with you, like today?"
"If you don't want that to happen, you'd better stop that hobby of entertaining yourself on stream as soon as you can."
Hearing all this from Hikari, the tight knot in Nonohara Yuzuka's heart loosened a little, but the tears in her eyes fell even harder, and her vision blurred into a haze.
She looked at the boy before her, her lips moved, but she couldn't say anything.
And Hikari, seeing her teary, pitiful look, said no more.
He only left her with a line, "Watch what you do," and turned and left the rooftop first.
The cool wind kept blowing around her, chilling Nonohara Yuzuka to the bone.
She raised a hand and wiped at the pearls streaming down her face for a good while.
She felt both wronged and angry.
'What's it got to do with you, Hikari!'
'Streaming is obviously my freedom!'
'What a busybody!'
Watching Hikari's back disappear, Nonohara Yuzuka's nose stung, and she couldn't stop herself from cursing him a few more times in her heart.
Just before coming up here, she'd been fantasizing about a scene of him confessing to her, and had even imagined quite a few sweet everyday moments.
But Hikari had exposed her streamer identity right away and torn open the wound.
This huge gap between reality and imagination made Nonohara Yuzuka feel awful.
It was like a loser who fantasizes about a goddess while jerking off and gets walked in on by that very goddess: embarrassed and unwilling to accept it.
Right now Nonohara Yuzuka was like a loser trying to turn the tables on a lofty goddess. She wanted to turn the tables on Hikari too and make him fall at her feet.
But that obviously wasn't very likely.
Something like that could only happen in the delusions she'd have tonight while entertaining herself.
And when it came down to it, Hikari was a good person.
Nonohara Yuzuka knew very well that after discovering her hidden identity as a streamer, Hikari could have used it to hold power over her.
But not only had he not used the secret to threaten her into anything, he'd even kindly warned her. He really was a very rare, kind person.
But that made Nonohara Yuzuka feel even worse, because by comparison, the dark thoughts in her head right now seemed all the more despicable.
In the end she could only wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, let her shoulders droop, and slowly trudge out of the rooftop like a kitten caught in the rain.
Before leaving, the girl looked up at the sky.
She sighed without a sound.
She'd thought it was the start of a romance.
She hadn't expected a lecture.
'Mangas really do lie.'
"Sigh~"
———
[Ding! The Host has issued a serious warning to the Underworld girl Nonohara Yuzuka about her high-risk behavior, successfully promoting the spirit of pure love!]
[Reward obtained: Pure Love Points +50!]
Not long after he got back to the classroom, the Pure Love System's notification sounded in Hikari's mind.
He looked back toward Nonohara Yuzuka's seat.
He saw that Nonohara Yuzuka was back too, her eyes a little red, her face slightly dejected.
She even seemed to be sneaking looks over at him now and then.
But when she noticed Hikari's gaze, Nonohara Yuzuka quickly looked away, not daring to meet his eyes.
Hikari, having gotten his reward, didn't bother with her any further and turned back around, ready to continue with class.
And after the little episode with Nonohara Yuzuka, the Pure Love Radar didn't pick up anything more.
Hikari quietly sat through several classes.
Until the bell rang for the end of class.
Hikari stood up, ready to go to the bathroom.
But he'd barely stepped out of the classroom when three figures closed in on him from front and back and surrounded him.
"Hikari, come with us for a bit!"
Seeing this scene, the other students nearby scattered in all directions, afraid of getting caught in the crossfire.
And when Hikari looked up, he found that the gyaru trio, led by Nogami Izumi, were surrounding him with wicked grins.
"What do you three want this time?", Hikari looked resigned.
They wouldn't even let him go to the bathroom in peace. Could it be that today he had to treat them as toilets again?
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