Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway Vol.3 Part 2 by Shimesaba & booota

Author:Shimesaba & booota [Shimesaba & booota]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KADOKAWA

"It's not as if either of us is dating Yoshida. All we can do is let him act as he pleases."

"If you act like that, then Ms. Kanda really will end up stealing him away, don't you think?"

"Mm-hmph-hmph!"

My brow furrowed at Ms. Goto's unexpected laughter.

"What is it?"

"Nothing!"

She fell silent for a time, then locked eyes with me.

"What happens, happens. Right?"

"Uh..."

I had no words to respond to that. In the midst of all her aimless misdirecting questions, she suddenly spoke something that felt like a bit of her honest feeling. It reverberated vibrantly within my mind, like taking a sudden punch directly to the face.

"We can pry at a person's feelings all we like, but we can't control them."

"But that's..."

"You can interfere, shape things to some unnatural end, and get the results you want, but..."

She poked her chopsticks into her salad, where she kept her eyes focused. I waited with bated breath for her to continue speaking, as if her words were hands causing the tight gripping sensation in my heart now.

"How long will that result last, I wonder?"

"Th-that's—"

I barely managed to speak past my constricted voice to ask Ms. Goto the next question.

"So what, it doesn't matter what we do, no matter how hard we try?"

She lowered her gaze and shook her head in response.

"I didn't say it doesn't matter. But..."

Her eyes remained cast downward while she continued.

"We can twist things from how they are supposed to be, but they always go back to normal in time."

The one thing I knew for certain was that she was speaking from her heart on this matter.

Ms. Goto's true feelings—which were always impossible to read—being laid bare so plainly with our conversation took me completely by surprise. My heart was the first part of me that had shaken.

And yet...

The next feeling that arose within me was discomfort.

"What're you talking about...?"

I spoke before realizing my words.

Ms. Goto lifted her eyes to look at me.

"All that means is that you're scared."

She said nothing in reply. Little by little, I started to understand her.

"That's just you thinking that even though you work so hard to get something, you'll lose it someday, so it's best to wait and let things be the way they are instead."

With those words, I saw Ms. Goto's eyebrows perk up for the first time.

I was not sure myself what I was so angry at—was it at this woman, who loved Yoshida-sempai yet didn't act on it, or at myself for feeling like I was losing to a woman like that?

Either way, I was enraged. The words wouldn't stop coming from me.

"I'm more scared about losing the things that I could've gotten if I'd done something. What is the 'way things are supposed to be'? Who decides what that's supposed to be, huh?"

"Ms. Mishima."

"You have so many things that other people wish they had, and yet you stand there and just take it all in, waiting for someone to come and pick you with that relaxed smile on your face. How far up your own ass are you? Is that the 'way things are supposed to be'?!"

"Ms.

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