Chapter 34: There he comes again, the hero who hides his face.

“So how do you spend your time?”

“Perhaps by having Netflix & Chill time with the sisters?” [1]

“…Shut up!”

I was being ridiculed by my friends at a certain coffee shop.

It’s been a while since I’ve spent time with my friends after school since I’ve been hanging out with Arisa and Aina a lot lately… The topic of our conversation is mostly how the sister’s spend their time. Well, if I were in the same position, I’d be curious to know…

“So, are you being harassed in any way?”

“Oh, that was on my mind too.”

“I’m not. Though I’m ready to face it, there hasn’t been anything in particular.”

I haven’t told anyone that I’m dating either of them. But lately we often talk to each other when we meet, and one of the juniors even saw me holding hands with them at lunchtime today… but nothing had happened yet.

“Tell me if you ever need anything, okay?”

“Yeah, I know you’re a Riaju-sonovabetch, but I’m here to help you.”

“Yeah. Thanks.”

They’re really good friends that I can count on.

“So? How are you spending your time?”

“Yeah, can you at least tell us that?”

Is that still what you want to hear?

While sipping my orange juice I pondered about what I could tell them. If you were to ask me… I might be able to say, in a nutshell, every day is an exciting day.

“I love you, Hayato-kun.”

“I love you too, Hayato-kun.”

“I love you so much, Hayato-kun.”

Every day that Arisa, Aina, and Sakuna-san tell me how much they love me… Such a sweet sugary everyday life I live.

“All I can say is… I’m truly happy.”

“Of course! You should be!”

I was tapped on the shoulder and told that it was obvious.

“If you had told us that spending your days with those beautiful sisters wasn’t enough, you would’ve been killed by now.”

“That’s right. I’m happy for you as a friend that you’re happy, but! Do you know how many boys will shed tears of blood when they see you sandwiched between those two’s oversized t**s?!”

You’re loud… but I think I do stand out a lot.

I do not want to stand out, but that doesn’t mean I want to reject the favors of those two girls because I’m embarrassed.

I chuckle at my friends as they clench their fists in frustration, and onto sip my juice again.

“So, did you have… s*x or something?”

“G-Goho!”

Don’t ask me that out of the blue!

That was a surprise attack when I was completely distracted, I almost spewed out my juice unintentionally. The two of them seemed to have guessed by my reaction just now.

“So our friend is living a happy and erotic life, huh?”

“You’ve come a long way, haven’t you?”

I wonder what would happen if it was known that not only Arisa and Aina but also Sakuna-san was also a part of it… I’m a little scared.

Then we parted and I headed to the bookstore since I wanted to buy a few things.

“… Ah, there it is.”

It’s the latest edition of a manga I’ve been following for a while.

It’s one of those manga that my friends and I often talk about because we like the same ones. I thought it was too popular to have anything left to buy by now but I’m glad they had it in stock.

I picked up the book, paid the bill, and left the store heading home.

I wonder if Arisa and Aina are already at home. I’m sure they’re probably there, so I’ll go home early.

“… Hehe.”

I naturally smiled when I thought of the girls waiting for me at home.

It may be a normal thing now, but it still makes me happy to know that the lights are on when I get home. It’s not the case when we go home together, but the peace of mind that comes from being able to hear “Welcome home” when I return is something that really touches my heart.

“Then, guess I’ll hurry up home.”

I was in a hurry to get home, and as I was thinking that, I saw a girl being harassed by a guy who looked like some kind of a playboy. I noticed that she was wearing a uniform from a nearby girls’ high school.

“… They’re pretending as if nothing is happening, huh?”

Even though it was obvious from behind that the girl was in trouble, no one was willing to help her, pretending not to see her. I let out a small sigh, and then briefly glanced out of the corner of my eye and picked up something.

“Excuse me. What is going on?”

[The girl’s side]

“Um, please stop.”

“What’s wrong with that? You’re a student at that high school, right? I wanted to get to know you because you’re all so beautiful.”

The guy kept touching the girl, who clearly didn’t want to.

She wanted to run away, but she couldn’t because his hand was on her shoulder. She turned her eyes for help from a passerby, but they passed by looking away from the scene.

(… Why isn’t anyone helping me?)

The girl didn’t like men, and the passersby had no way of knowing that.

She hasn’t had that many opportunities to interact with men outside of her family for a long time, and now that she goes to an all-girls high school, she has too little tolerance for men.

This was a disaster because she was in town to buy a present for her mother’s upcoming birthday.

“Please let me go!”

She let out a little stronger voice and the man removed his hand from her shoulder.

But it didn’t seem he was going to let go of her that easily. The man clicked his tongue and she could see the anger on his face. The fear of possibly being roughed up struck the girl.

“You b***h…!”

“No!”

The girl turned her face to look away as he raised his arm. But strangely enough, nothing touched her body.

—What in the world, she wondered. And when she looked up she saw a big back there.

“She doesn’t like it. So get the fu*k out of here.”

“W-who the h**l are you? With that stupid thing on your face!”

The girl was stunned by the big back, but she understood intuitively that this man was protecting her. He grabbed the man’s hand and squeezed it with all his strength, and the man’s face contorted in pain.

“Come on, get the f**k out of here. You don’t want to make a scene, do you?”

“… You s**t. You’ll pay for that, you f*****g weirdo.”

The man turned his back and walked away, swearing.

“Isn’t he being a weirdo himself? Apologize to the girl.”

“U-um…”

The owner of that back turned when she called out to him.

However, the girl immediately looked at him absent mindedly. The reason for this was that the man had a Sentai mask on his face. [2]

“… Mask?”

“Haha… well never mind. More importantly, are you unharmed?”

~Are you unharmed? His voice is filled with tenderness for the girl.

The girl let out a small breath of relief that she was safe, although she was puzzled by the masked man who appeared.

“Yes… I’m fine. Thanks to you.”

She waved her hand and thanked him with a bow.

“I’ll take my leave then. You should go home before dark, okay?”

“Ah…”

Saying so the man ran away.

Having no idea why, the girl tilted her head at her own hand, which she quickly extended and turned at the sky. And when she put her hand on her chest, she felt her heart beating loudly with a thump.

“I wonder who is… that man?”

She doesn’t know his name of course, only that he’s a man wearing a strange mask.

The girl stared in the direction the man had left from, but then started to walk away to heed his warning about leaving early.

On the girl’s chest, her name was embroidered,

In which Kanade “Doumoto” was written.

[Postscript]

She is not a heroine. We will go with this for now.(E/N: NANI?!!)

TLN-

[1] S*x

[2] Power ranger helmets

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