Chapter 58: Presence of mind

Since the event happened in the park, Ren had been talking more than usual.

Wakaba also noticed the quirk, but decided to listen without saying anything.

It was getting dark around there, so they decided to go home.

“Let’s go out together next week?”

Ren said to her as she was leaving.

Wakaba refused, saying she had club activities to attend to.

“Let’s go out for a bit after club activities are over!”

He asked her more forcefully than usual.

Wakaba found it hard to say no.

“Just a moment is fine.”

After the club activities were over, they decided to go out.

On the way home, Ren offered to walk her home, but she refused, saying she had somewhere to go.

In the end, they decided to go home separately, and Wakaba started walking toward her house.

She went down a different street than usual because she had a place to stop.

She went to the café where she was meeting Chika.

It was the same café that she always uses for consultations, but it was a café that Ren would never go to, so she was sure that he would not know about it.

Chika was waiting for her, so she hurried inside the café and said

“Sorry I’m late. Forgive me for accompanying me.”

Wakaba apologized as soon as she entered.

“It’s totally fine. But Shiraishi-kun’s energy was so strong.”

Wakaba was thinking the same thing, but she was indeed exhausted.

“I’m a little tired. But it’s nice that he’s trying so hard to talk to me, but I have mixed feelings…”

Wakaba thought she was being rude to Ren.

She knew that, but she couldn’t help it.

“What are you going to do now?

Shiraishi, he doesn’t seem to be willing to give up, and his feelings for Wakaba are very understandable.

But he seems to know that Wakaba has realized how she feels about him.

He was appealing to Wakaba more desperately than usual.”

Chika, too, is in a difficult position.

After helping him to go out with her, there was no way she could force her to turn him down, so she thought about it.

Ren had also noticed that he was no longer asking Chika to do so.

“Now, I’ll think about it properly.

It would be disrespectful to Ren-kun, so I’m going to face it seriously.

I still love Daiki, but for now, I’ll do as Ren-kun told me to do and think seriously about his feelings before replying.”

Wakaba decided to seriously reexamine her feelings.

“I’m going to support you as much as I can.

Don’t hold on too much and rely on me, okay?”

Chika also decided to leave it to Wakaba.

“Thank you.”

After that, they continued to talk about their future plans.

At that time, Ren was thinking about how he could make Wakaba’s feelings for him completely change.

He was so much in love with Wakaba that even he did not know why he was so obsessed with her.

“If Wakaba stopped seeing Daiki, her feelings for Daiki would fade away, right?”

The moment he thought of it, he immediately took action.

“I have a favor to ask Daiki, is it okay?

I’m a little worried because I’ve started seeing Wakaba, so I want Daiki to refrain from seeing her or communicating with her!

I’m sorry for being jealous and feeling insecure.”

He sent a message with false information.

“Got it!”

Was his only reply.

Ren felt relieved that he could now keep Daiki away from Wakaba, but at the same time he felt guilty.

However, he wanted Wakaba to like him no matter what he had to do.

If he thought about it calmly, there was no way she would like him.

All he was doing was something that Wakaba would not like.

He only gave priority to his own feelings and did not consider Wakaba’s feelings.

Wakaba and Ren’s daily life became different from the previous one.

Ren became more aggressive than before and tried to be with Wakaba all the time.

Wakaba also became more honest about her feelings, but she was also more serious about Ren.

Everyone around them did not notice that the distance between them was slightly off.

They even seemed to be getting along well.

Only Chika felt a sense of danger.

She felt that Ren was becoming more and more impatient, even with Wakaba.

“Hopefully nothing will happen to her…”

She was worried, but there was nothing she could do about it.

She was always aware of the need to protect Wakaba in case something happened.

Chika was thinking of contacting Daiki, but was unsure of what to say to him.

She decided to tell him what she could, so she sent a simple message to Daiki, but he did not reply.

The next day, he wrote back.

“I’m sorry, I’m too busy right now to return your messages.”

Chika had also been avoided.

After that, the same thing happened again, sending a simple message about the current situation.

“I’ve heard it from Shiraishi, so I’m fine!”

The last thing he said.

She did not know what Ren said, but she could not communicate it well even to Daiki, and Chika became even more distressed.

Wakaba started to look at Ren more closely after she decided to be serious with him.

As Chika said, it is true that he does not seem to be as relaxed as before and always seems to be in a hurry.

He followed Wakaba everywhere she went so that he would never leave Wakaba’s side.

At school, Chika stays with her as much as possible, but after school, Ren waits for her and sometimes the two of them are alone.

She began to feel scared more and more.

After talking to Chika about it, she told her to spend time with everyone so as not to be alone with him.

When they went out after club activities, Ren would try to go to places where there were no people around.

Even Wakaba knew what he would do if there were no people around, so she desperately tried to be in places where there were people.

It was obvious to her that Ren had become impatient over the past week.

Ren had become so aggressive that she wondered if she could stand this.

Wakaba contacted Daiki only once since then.

However.

“You don’t have to contact me because Shiraishi will suspect you!”

She was told.

Daiki hates her.

Wakaba was so shocked at the thought that she couldn’t bear it, but since it was her own fault, she decided to face the situation properly, give him an answer, then tell Daiki how she felt about him.