After deciding to give up, I became popular

“Heh, who told someone to be such a scaredy-cat, daring to think but not to do? I'm just kindly demonstrating for her.”

“You you you… anything is better than you, you thick-skinned cow monster!”

“Cow monster!” Utaha Kasumigaoka frowned slightly, just preparing to retort when she suddenly thought of a better way.

“Oh my, so Sawamura-san cares so much about that aspect? If you say some nice things to me, I might tell you how to make them bigger, okay?”

“I don’t care about you, they’ll sag sooner or later anyway!” Eriri Spencer Sawamura said sourly.

She wouldn’t submit to this fat woman Kasumigaoka, just a couple of useless lumps of fat, she wasn’t jealous at all!

“Sagging…”

This time, Utaha Kasumigaoka completely lost it.

Did she know that this was a major taboo for big-breasted girls?! Something they absolutely couldn’t bear to hear!

“You pathetic blonde loser!”

“Cow monster!”

……

“President, is it okay to leave those two alone?”

“Huh? Oh, those two are friends, it's fine.” Kanade Natsukawa suddenly realized that this “President” was calling him.

Although he had resigned, it hadn't been announced publicly among the students yet, so it was normal that not many people knew.

But this side… it’s a scene he never tires of, Kanade Natsukawa thought.

Two girls arguing, and two very cute and beautiful girls at that, probably anyone would stop and watch, right?

The familiar scene reappearing reminded Kanade Natsukawa of the happy times he had in the club activities, but sadly, they would never return.

After both of them had exhausted almost all of their energy, they finally chose to cease hostilities at the same time.

“Cough… th-this time… I’ll let you off for now…”

“Y-you’re the one who can’t go on anymore, right?!”

“You, you can try again if you want…”

“I…”

“Alright, alright, you two, if you keep bickering, lunchtime will be over, you don’t want to continue with your afternoon classes on an empty stomach, do you?”

Seeing that the battle between the two was about to start again, Kanade Natsukawa quickly stepped forward to dissuade them.

“Honestly, you're both high school students, you should at least think about your stomachs, right?”

And his stomach, Kanade Natsukawa thought.

He was forced to stay here and watch the two of them argue back and forth.

Although it was quite interesting, it was also true that he was getting hungry.

“Sorry, junior, you had to see that…”

Compared to the homebody Eriri, Utaha Kasumigaoka's stamina was obviously better, and she had almost recovered by now.

“If you don’t mind…”

“Don’t you dare steal…”

“Shut up, you idiot loser who can’t even win an argument!”

“Guh…”

“Junior, if you’re free, have lunch with me…” Utaha's pretty face was flushed, and her forehead was covered with a trace of sweat from the fierce battle just now.

In her heart, she had already begun to imagine the wonderful scene of the two of them having lunch together, preferably taking the opportunity to repair their relationship, and then doing this and that together…

“Sorry, I’m afraid that’s not possible.”

As expected, junior is so gentle… huh? Wait?

“Junior… what does that mean?” Utaha suddenly froze.

What was going on? Why was he rejecting her? Wasn’t he supposed to be in a “single” state after being rejected by someone else? Then he shouldn’t reject her request, right? Could it be… that Katou had lied to them?

“Then, would you mind telling me why?”

“Why? Hmm… I should say I want to be alone for a while?” Kanade Natsukawa thought for a moment and replied.

Playing someone else was too tiring, from now on he wanted to be himself.

The first step was to learn to eat alone!

Kanade Natsukawa inexplicably felt a little ashamed, this way of saying it made it seem like he was a child who had just learned to eat by himself…

“Alone… not going to be with some girl?”

“……” Kanade Natsukawa frowned slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Did his life have nothing else to do other than being with girls?

But thinking about it carefully, it seemed that he had always been like this before… cough cough, anyway, people change! And he was now in the period of changing!

“Uh, that’s all in the past…” Kanade Natsukawa touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.

Seeing that Utaha Kasumigaoka still hadn’t responded, he opened his mouth again: “If there’s nothing else, senior, I’ll leave first?”

“……”

Kasumigaoka still didn't respond, so Kanade Natsukawa stopped waiting, decisively stepped forward, and left straight away.

“Hey, Kasumigaoka, what’s going on, why did Kanade suddenly leave by himself?”

Eriri, who had recovered her strength on the side, saw that the conversation between the two had ended, and came over to ask.

Just now, because she was afraid of hearing Kanade Natsukawa agree to Kasumigaoka with her own ears, she had been hiding on the side, thinking that she must follow the two of them together regardless of face, and she couldn't let the fat woman be alone with Kanade.

Anyway, Kanade would definitely forgive her, as for Kasumigaoka… the shameless cat who steals food wasn't qualified to comment on her!

“Eriri, I think something big has happened…”

Eriri: “…… Huh?”

008. Hachiman in Action

When a person rejects your confession but is still willing to be close to you, it is certainly not because they regret rejecting you, but because they have felt enough benefits from you and are happy to continue enjoying such preferential treatment.

This is the case in most cases, with few exceptions.

And for people like Kasumigaoka and Eriri… perhaps because they lack the love of true friends, they will cherish the hard-won friendship even more—that is, they regard Kanade Natsukawa as a very good friend and do not want to lose this friend.

But no matter what they think, Kanade Natsukawa has the right to refuse, he doesn’t need to feel guilty or uneasy about it, just like Katou said that day, he should also learn to pay attention to his emotions and learn to be willful, instead of living carefully every day, living in other people’s worlds.

……

There were not many people in the cafeteria, the students of Shuchiin Academy seemed to prefer to bring lunch to school, and then gather in groups of three or five somewhere, talking about topics of mutual interest.

Some sharp-eyed people saw Kanade Natsukawa, and couldn't help but wonder why this student council president was suddenly interested in strolling around the cafeteria alone, and speculated whether there were any new policies to be implemented, so he came to scout the place.

However, although they were curious, no one came up to say hello.

The image of majesty that he had created on weekdays had worked.

“So what should I eat today?”

Looking at the menu on the vending machine, Kanade Natsukawa fell into deep thought.

From the beginning of human birth, they have been plagued by the three ultimate problems—what to eat today?

And what to eat tomorrow? And what to eat the day after tomorrow?

The chefs of Shuchiin Academy are all specially hired top chefs, and they know too many kinds of dishes.

In the past, when preparing lunch, he always considered what his heroines liked to eat, and he always ignored his own feelings. Now, letting him choose according to his own wishes was difficult for him for a while.

“If you really don’t know what to eat, choose a simple grilled meat set meal.”

The suggestion that suddenly appeared in his ear attracted Kanade Natsukawa's attention, he turned his head to look, but found a completely unexpected person.

“Hikigaya… Hachiman?”

The decadent boy, known as “Sensei” with dead fish eyes and a useless appearance, but a handsome man as long as his eyes are covered, suddenly appeared.

“Hey hey, don’t look at me like that, okay? It will make me feel like I have meddled in other people’s business…”

“No, how could that be, I should say you helped a lot.” Kanade Natsukawa smiled.

Since quitting the service club, the two of them had basically never seen each other again.

Perhaps they had bumped into each other inadvertently, but most of the time he walked in a hurry and didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, so there was almost no such close contact.

“Good afternoon, Hachiman.”

“Umm… what, what? Why are you suddenly smiling so maliciously…”

“I’m just saying hello, don’t be so vigilant about your former club friend, right?”

Facing Hachiman Hikigaya's dislike, Kanade Natsukawa was not annoyed, he knew without thinking that the other party was shy because he was called by his name, after all, he knew Hikigaya too well.

“……” Hikigaya did not refute, but the look in Kanade Natsukawa's eyes was more or less resentful.

Since this guy quit the club, that “absolutely correct” Yukinoshita had obviously become wrong, not to mention the frequency of her poisonous tongue had exploded, and her way of doing things had become more extreme, and he and Yuihama had suffered a lot because of it.

However, Kanade Natsukawa could just leave, but he couldn't, so he lived in fear under the power of President Yukinoshita every day, and he didn't even dare to speak loudly now!

“I think you should compensate me! At least… at least buy me a cup of coffee!”

“Compensate?” Kanade Natsukawa was stunned, although he didn’t know what Hikigaya was talking about, but he had no problem treating him to something, “Coffee… I remember you like MAX, right? What do you want for lunch?”

“Lunch? I was planning to eat a grilled meat set meal…”

No wonder he recommended him a grilled meat set meal as soon as he came up, Kanade Natsukawa thought.

“Okay, then two grilled meat set meals.” Without giving Hikigaya a chance to refuse, Kanade Natsukawa quickly ordered on the vending machine, and then took out two meal tickets and handed them to Hikigaya.

“Go get the food first, I’ll go buy coffee.”

“Eh? I didn’t say I wanted lunch too…”

“If you refuse again, there won’t be time for lunch, you don’t want to be late for class in the afternoon, do you? How about you take it as my compensation?” Kanade Natsukawa applied what he had learned.

He always had a set of ways to deal with Hikigaya.

“Umm…” This time Hikigaya didn’t say anything.

But he was muttering in his heart, damn riajuu man, after not seeing him for a while, this human-shaped self-propelled charm machine’s personality hasn’t changed at all, it’s even strengthened a lot!

This made it impossible for him to complain with peace of mind! A despicable man!

However, Kanade Natsukawa had already gone far away and could no longer feel Hikigaya's resentful emotions.

Before long, the two of them gathered together with their meals and drinks, found a relatively remote empty seat and sat down, and began to chat.

“Is the club developing smoothly?” Kanade Natsukawa considered again and again, really not knowing what to say, thinking that the two of them had been in the same club after all, so it would be better to start a topic from this aspect.

“……” Hikigaya was speechless for a moment, thinking that he shouldn’t directly ask Yukinoshita about this? He was just a small member, what could he know?

“It should be going smoothly, right? The school has even approved activity funds…”

Saying that, Hikigaya glanced at Kanade Natsukawa.

Without thinking, he knew that this must be the other party’s masterpiece, after all, their club was actually not formal, including the original Kanade Natsukawa, there were only 4 people, which did not meet the standard for establishing a club.

Being able to continue to exist and get club activity funds, Kanade Natsukawa must have put in a lot of effort behind the scenes.

As an “introvert”, Hikigaya actually hated the interactions with riajuu, but he was not repulsed by Kanade Natsukawa, and could even say that he admired him a little.

Easy to talk to, hardworking, high EQ, and a little handsome, enthusiastic without disturbing others too much… Ugh! Damn human-shaped self-propelled charm emitting machine!

“I feel like you’re saying bad things about me in your heart?” Kanade Natsukawa sighed.

The full of resentful emotions were about to overflow the screen, he didn't remember doing anything that would make Hikigaya become like this?

“Your illusion.” Of course Hikigaya wouldn’t admit it, could he say “Because after you quit the club, I was forced to become the bullying target for Yukinoshita to vent her emotions”?

Just like maliciously matching the two of them and giving them assists, he never participated in this kind of thing, it should be said by the person concerned.