How I, a Hated Person, Ended Up Staying With Three Beautiful Sisters
As evening fell, I returned to the apartment building with my shopping bags and suddenly felt something was off.
Someone was crouching in front of the automatic lock.
At first, I thought it was a passerby, but I recognized the figure.
They were wearing gray sweatpants and a nice wine-red bob. Their shoulders were shaking slightly.
At first, I thought about ignoring them.
But then I remembered that I couldn’t enter the apartment building by myself.
“Senpai?”
I quickened my pace and ran over to her.
“What’s wrong? Did you forget your key card? But I don’t have one either, so I can’t help you.”
When I jokingly spoke to her, she slowly raised her face.
Her eyes were red from crying.
Without saying a word, Senpai stared at me.
When our eyes met, she bit her lip and stood up.
Without saying a word, she took out her smartphone and showed me the screen.
It was a LINE chat screen.
I scanned it and immediately understood the content.
[Segawa Akane is a really dangerous woman. She used to date me, but she was secretly flirting with Arata Kojiro from the second year. When I broke up with her yesterday, she flew into a rage and it was awful.]
The sender’s name was Katsuyama.
I felt like cursing.
Below that was a screenshot of a group chat called [Third-year Class A Boys’ Group (18).]
Taking advantage of Katsuyama’s revelation, several people were spreading rumors in a teasing manner.
[Is that true? I heard rumors that you were rejected, but was it actually the other way around?]
[Of course. You guys know I’m popular. We’d been dating for about half a year.]
[Was Segawa san difficult to get along with?]
[She seemed like the type who only acted innocent on the outside.]
[Wait, Arata Kojiro is that executioner guy, right? Why was he flirting with Segawa san? Was she cheating on you?]
And the final blow was this.
[So I asked the executioner directly. I asked him if he had a relationship with Segawa san. He said there was no special relationship. They’re complete strangers, so he said I could do whatever I wanted. He even invited me to hook up with her. wwwwwww]
It was a baseless lie.
But I know from experience that rumors like this spread faster than the truth.
“What is this?”
When I asked quietly, Akane senpai lowered her eyes and answered in a trembling voice.
“…I don’t know. Last night, Katsuyama kun suddenly sent me this screenshot…everything was happening without my knowledge…”
Her fingertips gripped the edge of her smartphone tightly. It wasn’t just her shoulders that were trembling. Her fingers, her lips, her voice—everything was trembling.
“Akane senpai…”
“When I woke up this morning, it had already spread, and I’ve been getting weird messages from all my friends. Eventually, rumors started spreading that I was doing sugar daddy stuff or that I’d been seen at a nightclub, even though none of it was true…”
Akane senpai lowered her head, bit her lips tightly, and remained silent for a while with tears in her eyes.
I quietly knelt down beside her.
I couldn’t force myself to say comforting words.
If I chose my words carelessly, it would only make the pain worse.
However,
“At least I know the truth. Because I saw it with my own eyes. It was Akane senpai who rejected the confession, and it was Katsuyama senpai who was rejected. That fact won’t change. Well…I’ll leave it to your imagination what kind of conversation Katsuyama senpai and I had.”
Those words just came out naturally.
Akane senpai blinked and looked up at me.
A tear fell from her eyes onto the knee of her sweatshirt.
“Kojiro kun…are you the same kind of person as Katsuyama san?”
“I don’t know. But don’t worry. This is my responsibility too, so I’ll take care of it.”
I don’t know if that decision was the right one.
But Akane senpai took a deep breath, shrugged her shoulders, and finally let out a single word.
“Why is it your responsibility, Kojiro kun? It’s Katsuyama kun’s fault, isn’t it?”
“No…I think you already know this, but I had a talk with Katsuyama senpai on the rooftop. At that time, I clearly said, ‘To me, Akane senpai is a complete stranger.’”
“!”
To be honest, Akane senpai’s eyes widened and she held her breath.
“I’m sorry. But it’s the truth. I’ve only been staying here for two or three days. Depending on Maho’s mood, it’s only a matter of time before I get kicked out. Besides, Akane senpai, you’re afraid of me, aren’t you? Even if you try to smile nicely, the other person can tell.”
“……”
“But I decided to help you if something like this happened. I don’t like that senior, so don’t worry. It’ll be okay. I’ll figure something out by Monday.”
Akane senpai’s shoulders trembled slightly. I don’t know if it was from relief or because tears were welling up again.
But she did nod her head slightly.
“I understand…I’m sorry…I couldn’t trust you, even though you were trying your best for me.”
“It’s my ego, so don’t worry about it. Well, now that we’ve talked, let’s go back.”
“I’m sorry for causing trouble.”
“No, I don’t think it’s a trouble at all. Just give me that screenshot later.”
“Got it.”
We walked through the entrance of the apartment building and quietly got into the elevator.
I ended up getting the LINE ID of Akari-senpai, the most popular girl in our school, but I didn’t have time to celebrate.
This can’t end like this.
Katsuyama senpai can say whatever he wants, but this is too much.
Enough is enough, something inside me was quietly burning.
Regardless of Maho’s orders, I had to take action on Monday.
There was no time for studying. Well, I could study, but there were more important things to do now.
“I guess I’ll prepare seriously tomorrow…I have plenty of time on Sunday.”
The way to protect Akane senpai. It’s simple. I can handle it.
I’ll use the bad rumors surrounding me to my advantage.
Maigetsu