Isekai Shoukan Chat 1 part 3
I left school with Iori as usual. At that time, I asked Iori, If I was annoying to him, gloomy, and If I was being obstructive. I asked him with such unfair words.
I didn't want to be rejected by Iori. Therefore I...... I used unfair and biased words.
Iori responded with a smile, "It's my everyday pleasure that Kaede comes to my classroom and I never thought of you as a nuisance."
Without the countenance of forcing a fake smile which would have been a problem nor a slight hesitation. I was happy and thought that I don't need to be separated from Iori, It's fine if everything stays the same.
One month after that conversation happened, I was called by several girls to a classroom after school. The girls who called out to me were from different grades. One of them was in the same grade as me, while the other two were an upperclassman and an underclassman.
At the same time as I arrived at the appointed classroom, one of the girls who called me opened her mouth.
"Hey, Mochizuki-san. Can you stop following Saginomiya-san?"
"Follow? Iori said that he was having a great time being with me. For someone who knows nothing about it shouldn't say something like that."
I tried to deny her words though I got irritated a little.
"....Then did you hear him say that you're a pain to deal with or a troublemaker or gloomy? It's not like Saginomiya-san would say and admit that you're a disturbance to him."
The one who responded was a different girl this time and her facial expression was awfully disgusted.
“......No, he didn't, but why?“
I answered the question with another question.
"....Somehow you're getting on my nerves, were you always this irritating? Even if I'm not Saginomiya-san I can tell that he hates you and he doesn't even need to admit it. Just for your information, I will say this. You're pitiful!" A different girl joins the conversation by storming in with a loud voice.
“............”
'I'm not following him.' Is what I wanted to say, however, since I'm always heading to the place where Iori is. You can assume that I am following him everywhere.... no, Iori said that it was fun being with me.
Because whether such a thing was considered to be a good feedback. I merely remained standing in silence without uttering a single word.
"Hah, can't even answer back? So, she fell silent.... well good. I'll say this one more time Mochizuki-senpai, listen to me loud and clear, you're an eyesore. So why don't you just stop following Saginomiya-san, do we have an agreement?"
Firstly the girl who issued words is cold-blooded while paying more attention, she said it in a dark way. And the girl who issued words to me continued talking.
The girl who issued those words to me in a dark and cold-blooded way. She continued talking.
"Do you know that there are a lot of kids and classmates who wants to become friends with Saginomiya-san? However, every time, whenever you're always close to him, it hinders others from approaching. Although I thought that you were his lover, though that isn't an issue anymore... do you know what they call you? Well, I doubt that you'll know anyway since you're alone even in your class..... Huhuhuu, yes, it does describe your actions very well to the extent that, I'd like to praise the person who suggested that."
"..........."
"They call you a stalker. Saginomiya-san's stalker."
“......Stalker?”
"That's right, everyone can tell that you are just a stalker and you didn't even know about it. Were you not isolated in your class? Moreover, your presence is thin and your appearance only adds up to you as an ordinary dark woman without getting tired of the cool boy whose gentle to anyone impartially. You stick to him every day like glue, doesn't the word stalker fits you perfectly?" The girls burst out of laughter.
“N-No, I being with Iori"
It was hard to talk after hearing that statement, I couldn't even talk, the words wouldn't come out of my mouth. Before I could even finish talking, I was interrupted.
"Well, you get the point right? That's all of the things that we wanted to say. So stalker-san can you stop stalking Saginomiya-san?"
The girls who said so have parted from me, should I return soon too? And I decided to get some distance from Iori.
However, a week after the incident, Iori asked me. "Why didn't you come and visit me anymore? Did I.... did I do something wrong?" with an expression describing his loneliness.
I was very happy when he said that he was lonely. I couldn't say the reason as for to why I didn't come anymore. So as always, I went to Iori's classroom again and invited him to have lunch together.
And on the next day when I removed the distance between me and Iori――――――the dampish bullying started.