Got Myself a Girlfriend!? Part 2! (4k)

Then Hachiman said.

"I heard from Chabashira-sensei that this school's admissions aren't open to just anyone; it's based on school recommendations. Each school has a certain number of spots and recommends students, who then undergo review before being accepted. However, these recommendations aren't always from students who are excellent in every aspect. It's like the barrel principle—you have to make up for each other's weaknesses. So there will definitely be some students who are uneven in ability. Some might be very poor, while others might be very special, or even... you could say they're there to supplement the school's diversity..."

"And the students in our class were treated as the weakest link in the barrel theory."

"But being selected is a specific process, and each student has a unique experience, which is why they were chosen to come here... So Karuizawa, you..."

"No, don't say it..." At this moment, Karuizawa threw her schoolbag on the ground and squatted down, covering her head. "No, don't make me think about those things again... don't mention my old school again..."

Her body was trembling.

"..." Hachiman.

In fact, he had no idea what Karuizawa's fear was, but he mentioned her past school, and her fear of it was obviously something that happened at school.

And yet, they were so afraid.

In other words...

Hachiman picked up Suzune Horikita's water glass, filled it with water, hesitated for a moment, and then splashed the entire glass of water directly onto Karuizawa's head.

Warm water slid down her cheeks, wetting her clothes.

This is absolutely not a joke; it's outrageous bullying.

It will make people furious.

Suddenly splashed with water, she didn't get angry; instead, she burst into tears. "No, don't touch me, I... I was wrong. I'll definitely change..."

It was a complete pleading game.

This was a completely begging-for-surrender mode that Hachiman had never seen before.

She lacks any of the commanding presence of a leader in a small group, or perhaps that's her true nature.

Helpless, weak, and afraid.

"Besides being splashed with water, what else has been done to you?"

Hachiman approached Karuizawa and looked down at her.

"..." But she remained silent.

"Speak!" Hachiman's tone suddenly turned fierce; in fact, his deadpan eyes came in handy at this moment.

However, Karuizawa's heart had already broken down.

"Putting thumbtacks in shoes, writing 'bitch' on desks, writing 'slutty' on school uniforms, being beaten in the toilet, being doused with buckets of cold water—any kind of bullying you can think of..."

"No, don't make me say it... I don't want to remember anything at all."

Karuizawa's tears fell in large drops.

Hachiman also understood what information about Karuizawa Hirata referring to.

It's likely that Karuizawa asked him for help.

Hirata's past is related to the 80s, and people of the same kind are easy to identify.

So.

To avoid being bullied again, Kei Karuizawa asked Hirata for help.

She was a victim of bullying.

And Hirata.

Hachiman began to consider Hirata's sincerity.

Because this is a problem that Hirata himself encountered, and now it's being pushed out for him to solve.

What kind of novel solution is this?

After thinking it over.

Hachiman arrived at the doorway.

"Can I borrow your towel?" Hachiman asked.

"?"

Suzune Horikita. "What did you do in my room?"

"It's something a little extreme, but you can think of it as something like therapy," Hachiman said.

"..." Suzune Horikita.

So I couldn't understand it at all.

"Whatever," Suzune Horikita said. "But you have to wash it clean and return it to me afterwards."

Is that so?

Thank you then.

Hachiman realized once again that Suzune Horikita was different from ordinary girls, because he was the one borrowing something from her, and she didn't show any disgust or embarrassment.

How should I put it? Do I think she's noble and virtuous, or do I feel a little conflicted because she didn't recognize me as a man?

Only.

With a thud.

After obtaining permission from Suzune Horikita, Hachiman closed the door again.

Then he draped the towel over Karuizawa's body.

However, she seemed to still be in fear, so Hachiman had no choice but to wait for her reply.

Finally.

It took her about 20 minutes to come to her senses.

In this way.

Karuizawa recounted his past.

It's not a good thing.

Rather, it's more accurate to say...

Karuizawa's dark history, her secret, is the fact that she was bullied for nine years from elementary school to junior high school. However, telling her parents only made them worse, and telling the school made them pretend they didn't know.

She did resist, and even nearly died because of it.

Just when she was feeling hopeless and even contemplating suicide, her junior high school offered her a recommendation to come to their school for a three-year closed program. The school assured her that she was the only student they could get a spot in, so she came here.

I hope to give her a new life.

She changed her image, even dyeing her hair blonde, and dressed up as a glamorous girl. She was learning from the people who bullied her, and in order to consolidate her position, she asked Hirata for help.

Or perhaps she knew Hirata- kun's secret, so it was a deal.

This is the ability of people of the same type to recognize each other.

It's probably similar to Sakura's sixth sense.

Hachiman thought of it.

But.

"So what is Hirata- kun's secret?" Hachiman asked deliberately.

"..." Karuizawa remained silent.

It seems alright.

She was emotionally broken, yet she still managed to keep other people's secrets.

But this means that although she told herself about her past as a child born in the 1980s, there were other things she didn't mention.

That point might be the reason why Sakura and Suzune Horikita pointed out that they didn't change clothes with everyone.

So.

"You've been injured, haven't you?" Hachiman said calmly. "Even a terrifying injury, and although your body is fine now, the scars are still there, right?"

"What, what are you saying—"

However, Karuizawa's expression began to waver.

It wasn't like when he was recounting his past, answering all his questions without reservation.

"..."

Hachiman didn't speak, but simply watched her. He watched her eyes; the more someone tries to hide something, the more easily their eyes betray them.

She lowered her head, not to avoid his gaze, but to look down, and then quickly looked away.

But it's too late to hide it anymore.

Just as Hachiman seemed about to walk over, Karuizawa burst into tears.

"Yes, yes, I was injured, I almost died..."

"I'm so scared... I don't want to be bullied anymore..."

At this point, Hachiman understood why she acted so arrogantly in class.

At the same time, why does he always act tough in front of his friends, even making it seem like he's going to bully Rika?

Because she always felt insecure, she could only protect herself by pretending to be a hot girl leader.

At the same time, they are also afraid of having their true nature discovered.

Therefore, I have always been filled with fear and anxiety.

She is very pitiful.

Chapter 76 Getting a Girlfriend!? Part 2! (4k)

Karuizawa is pitiful.

What she had been hiding was an injury to her abdomen.

Between the fair skin was an extremely long scar, as if it had been cut by a sharp knife—an ugly scar.

But everyone knows that this injury... once threatened her life.

This must be what she meant by almost dying while resisting.

Revealing this injury will inevitably lead to questions, which will likely remind her of the bullying she suffered in the past.

That's why I'm so... afraid.

At the entrance to Suzune Horikita's dormitory.

"Suddenly I feel..." Hachiman said. "My junior high school was pretty good."

He already knew about her past from Karuizawa.

This also confirmed that she had indeed been injured.

And it was a fatal wound.

If the fact that she was able to go out and attend high school after years of suffering and even life-threatening despair already shows how strong her heart is, then now, at the school she thought she would be saved, she has been exposed to her weakness. For her, this is despair.

So Karuizawa is currently sorting out her feelings.

Then, Hachiman had already inquired with Suzune Horikita and obtained the right to take a shower temporarily from Suzune Horikita.

After all, this is a girls' dormitory, and Karuizawa was suddenly soaking wet after he splashed water on Suzune Horikita. It wouldn't be good if someone found out.

In this way.

Karuizawa is taking a shower in Suzune Horikita's room.

But.

He stood with Hachiman at the dormitory entrance.

"Junior high school?" Suzune Horikita asked. "Speaking of junior high school, although I've been studying all this time, I don't have many friends."

"But I think I heard that something big happened in junior high school."