My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As Expected

No one knew how happy she was when she received this news. She had to force herself to hold back, lest her excitement get the better of her and she do something foolish.

But still, she was so, so happy.

"That's great, everyone, everyone finally realized Yukino is a good kid. Everyone will like Yukino..."

Her voice began to tremble as she spoke.

Yukino originally wanted to say that no matter how outstanding an individual was, they couldn't possibly gain everyone's praise and affection.

But she still nodded obediently, "Mhm, that's great."

Miura was silent for a moment. She lowered her head and let out a sob, her head gently resting on Yukino's shoulder.

"I'm not crying..."

Her voice, thick with tears, said so.

Yukino was a little taken aback, but she still reached out and gently patted Miura's back.

Miura is truly a child who loves to act spoiled.

"Yuki..."

Yui Yuigahama, who had just arrived near the classroom entrance carrying three schoolbags, stopped in her tracks when she looked up and saw this scene.

Her voice quickly dissipated into the wind.

In the shadow behind the teaching building, the two figures leaning against each other looked so intimate.

And Yui Yuigahama, standing there dumbfounded, felt as if a vast, distant Milky Way had separated her from them.

Kasumigaoka: [Yukino, do you remember that cat downstairs from the apartment building?]

Kasumigaoka: [I posted notices downstairs for several days, but no one claimed it. It must have really been abandoned.]

Kasumigaoka: [I adopted it!]

Kasumigaoka: [How is it, isn't it cute!]

Kasumigaoka: [Image.jpg]

As soon as class ended, her phone immediately received many messages. Ninety-nine percent of them were from Miss Kasumigaoka, and the rest were spam advertisements.

Along with Kasumigaoka's Line message came a photo. In the photo, a kitten lay on its back on the bed, exposing its soft belly obediently. It looked at the camera with a well-behaved and slightly dazed expression.

Damn it.

Faced with such a cute kitten, she couldn't bring herself to say it wasn't cute.

Miss Kasumigaoka, you're so despicable!

Yukino: [...You can't even take care of yourself, and you want to keep a cat?]

Yukino had an inexplicable fondness for kittens since childhood, but conversely, cats seemed to dislike her from a young age.

Almost all cats would instantly puff up their fur, crouch low, and arch their backs when Yukino approached, looking ready for battle at any moment.

Miss Kasumigaoka: [Better than you, Yukino, who cats don't even like, hehehe.]

Yukino: [...]

Where did Miss Kasumigaoka learn to be so sarcastic?

Miss Kasumigaoka: [I don't want to go out this week, so how about we switch our tutoring session this week? You come over to my place instead?]

Yukino: [Scram.]

Miss Kasumigaoka: [I'll let you pet cute, obedient kittens that won't resist~]

Yukino: [...I'll consider it.]

Yukino was basically offline during class. Sometimes, she wouldn't even turn on her phone until she got home after school, opening the search page to look up information.

Because before, besides Haruno, who occasionally bickered with her...

--she really didn't have many people looking for her (:з"∠)

But now it was different. In this bizarre and absurd world, she had, for the first time, made friends.

Miura, who would screenshot and share any interesting or fun things she encountered, was undoubtedly the first friend she had made in her life.

Miss Kasumigaoka, who always seemed lazy and indifferent, yet seemed to carry a hidden loneliness in her heart, who was already sharp-tongued before and still occasionally jabbed at her now.

Too much!

Why aren't you so harsh to others!

And finally, Yui, the kind-hearted person who could never refuse anyone, who was willing to show kindness even to someone like herself.

"Yui, Yui, please, help me, I have a stomach ache and need to take leave today~"

The class's sports representative grabbed Yui's hand with teary eyes, looking as if she wouldn't let go unless Yui agreed.

Yui stood there, flustered, and forced a smile, "Ah, this matter of assigning the competition roster, I don't understand it either..."

Yukino saw another task for Yui pop up on the light screen before her. She lowered her gaze and ignored it, sending another message to Miss Kasumigaoka with her finger.

[Have you named this cat yet?]

When Yukino Yukinoshita first met Kasumigaoka, she found her to be mean and awful. But after getting to know her under the premise of barely scraping by with points, she actually thought the woman was alright.

Well, to be fair, Yukino was quite lenient with point-farming leeks.

Meanwhile, Yui Yuigahama was still in a dilemma.

Aoba, who drew the short straw for Sports Representative this year, seemed to be feigning illness.

The Sports Festival was less than ten days away, and all classes and groups were starting their preparations. For the sports representatives of each class, the most troublesome task was assigning participants to the events.

Everyone was either a weakling who was practically a shut-in, or a pretty young lady concerned about her image. They all wanted to pick the easiest and simplest activities, showing little interest in the Sports Festival or simply wanting to slack off and not participate.

Thus, being a Sports Representative was a terrible title.

The teacher wouldn't approve if the list of participants wasn't complete, but forcing assignments would earn the dislike of their classmates, potentially leading to ostracization.

This wasn't an exaggerated guess. Japan was an old hand at school bullying, and people could be ostracized for the most nonsensical reasons.

Everyone lived cautiously.

And Yui Yuigahama was perhaps too cautious.

"It's simple!" Aoba said with a pitiable expression, as if begging for help. "Just help me register the participants and their events for the Sports Festival. You don't need to worry about anything else, Yui!"

Miura had gone to the Disciplinary Committee meeting today, and Ono and Kamizawa were busy with Club Activities. Otherwise, she wouldn't have felt comfortable asking Yui.

Yui forced a smile. "Alright, then..."

What an idiot. How could it be that simple?

As expected, by the end of the second class that morning, only a few students had proactively approached Yui to register. If this continued, Class 2-F would surely be the last to complete the list.

At that point, Teacher Hiratsuka would undoubtedly fly into a rage and forcibly assign participants until the list was full.

Yui had no choice. After school, she stood up and said, "The Sports Festival starts in two weeks. If anyone wants to participate, come and register with me!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the classroom erupted in laughter.

"Who wants to participate? It's too tiring."

"Yui is too honest. That Aoba girl actually ran away, hahaha."

"Yeah, yeah. Yui, just ignore it. The teacher will just assign people directly later."

"I absolutely don't want to do the long-distance run. Please spare me from that, Yui QAQ."

"Yui, you're so nice. You won't force me, right? Wuwuwu."

After she said one sentence, the rest were all drowned out.

Yui Yuigahama froze awkwardly in place, her entire body feeling as if it had been cemented into a wall.

She wanted to sit down but felt unwilling, wanting to say something but unable to speak, only feeling that everyone in the classroom was laughing carelessly, those subtle sounds pressing down on her heart like muffled thunder.

Yui Yuigahama was indeed, very bad at forcing others.

Kasumigaoka's message finally replied.

[Stars, I'll call her Stars... Um, what do you think of this name?]

Yukino Yukinoshita, a true fan of the Love Metronome, immediately thought of a line from the teacher's work.

[There are countless stars in the sky, so don't cry, because even the worst child can get a star that belongs to her.]

---Tsk, what a coincidence.

Thinking this, Yukino Yukinoshita could no longer stand watching what was happening in the classroom.

She sighed and looked up.

Faster than Yukino Yukinoshita to stand up was Hachiman Hikigaya.

Hikigaya was a very special person in the class. His humanities scores were often in the top three in the grade, and his appearance could be considered handsome, but his pair of Dead Fish Eyes looked particularly terrifying. There were even rumors in the class that he was a delinquent outside of school.

However, thanks to such rumors, even though Hikigaya was a loner, he had never experienced any terrible bullying.

At this moment, he knocked on the table, looking quite fierce, "If you don't sign up soon, and Teacher Hiratsuka comes to assign you forcibly, not only will everyone be worse off, but you'll also implicate more people."

Hikigaya, a god of self-destruction.

As expected, as soon as he said this, he immediately drew a lot of Hatred, and the Atmosphere around Yui Yuigahama instantly disappeared.

"What does Hikigaya mean by that? Do you think we're still elementary school students who are terrified when we see the teacher?"

"If the teacher gets angry, she gets angry, but she might not assign it to me, hee hee."

"If Teacher Hiratsuka's temper is still this big, she'll really never get married!"

"No wonder Hikigaya isn't popular, he really speaks without thinking!"

They were all proud Young Men. Even if they truly considered the consequences and felt regret, how could they admit defeat in front of their peers?

Yukino Yukinoshita rubbed her forehead as she listened.

She hadn't spoken earlier because she had wanted to see if Yui Yuigahama could become a little tougher.

But now, it seemed like it was time to give up.

Yukino stood up and walked to Yui Yuigahama. "Register."

Yukino stepping forward surprised everyone in the classroom.

Sobu High School's renowned Yukino Yukinoshita, formerly the school's troublemaker, now the Ice Queen, was accomplished in both academics and athletics, beautiful, from a wealthy family, and possessed a powerful aura. Furthermore, she had a good relationship with Hayato Hayama and Yumiko Miura, the two most popular students on campus.

And unlike Yui Yuigahama, who was often held hostage by her own kindness, or Hikigaya, who was either self-destructing or on the verge of it.

Yukino rarely spoke, but recently, more and more people had come to believe that she held significant influence within the class and the school.

The moment she stood up, the strange atmosphere in the classroom, which had been filled with laughter and arguments, immediately subsided.

Yui Yuigahama was a bit slow to react. "Eh?"

What "eh"? You kind-hearted fool, you'll be swindled out of your money and your virtue sooner or later, losing everything.

Yukino stated concisely, "Competition registration."

Yui Yuigahama just stared blankly at Yukino as she approached.

Hikigaya stepping forward wouldn't have surprised her; after all, they were barely considered friends. But Yukino...

She bit her lower lip lightly and sat back down. "Ah... Yukino Yukinoshita, what competition do you want to participate in?"

Yukino deliberately raised her voice slightly. "What are the easiest and simplest events?"

Yui Yuigahama softly hummed and looked at the list of events. "Two-person three-legged race, and..."

Yukino didn't wait for her to finish. "Sign me up for the easiest and simplest ones."

She then added, with a serious expression, "This is the correct way to utilize the authority of a sports representative, isn't it?"