“Ayanokouji-san, is that girl your little sister?”
Inside Class 1-A’s classroom, Ayanokouji Ren’s desk was surrounded so tightly that no water could leak through.
“She’s so cute.
Ayanokouji, I don’t care what your relationship is.
Give us her contact info!”
That was what the boys said.
Ren swept his eyes over them and spoke coldly.
“Get lost.”
“Uh…”
The air went silent, as if a bucket of cold water had suddenly been poured over everyone.
The boys did not react much and awkwardly scattered one after another, because Ren had always been like this.
It really is hard to get along with Ayanokouji.
Are we not supposed to act too familiar with him?
Quite a few boys were confused.
But Ren was also extremely confused.
Not even one [Anger] or [Disgust]?
His words had already been very rude.
And it was not just this time.
Ever since he had obtained the system, for over a full week, he had always been this rude.
It had to be because he had not kicked the desk.
Ren began thinking about how to kick a desk in the loudest way possible.
“Ayanokouji-san, is that girl your little sister?”
There was still one girl left.
Ren raised his head.
The girl in front of him was named Hayasaka Ai.
Like him, she also had blond hair.
But unlike Ren, whose clothes were worn very neatly, her uniform jacket was casually draped over her shoulders.
The top two buttons of the shirt underneath were undone, revealing the delicate lines of her collarbone.
Her nails were painted in bright colors, and small earrings hung from her earlobes, swaying gently with her movements.
In short, no matter how one looked at her, she was a gyaru.
Although his memories were a little blurry, Ren had watched the anime in his previous life, and since she was someone close to the main cast, he still knew this much.
This girl was dressed like this on purpose.
Her true identity was actually Shinomiya Kaguya’s personal maid.
She only dressed this way to hide the relationship between them and better gather information for her mistress.
So why did Shinomiya Kaguya want to know about this?
Did the Shinomiya family not know?
Ren knew that as the arranged marriage partner of the Shijou family, the sworn enemy of the Shinomiya family, the Ayanokouji family’s information was constantly being watched by them.
Besides, the Shinomiya family often fought against the Ayanokouji family in the stock market too.
They simply never won.
Because of that, Ren had no good impression of the Shinomiya family.
Likewise, he had no interest in the current cold and distant Shinomiya Kaguya.
Hayasaka Ai was no exception.
“Get lost.”
He continued speaking calmly.
Hayasaka Ai’s expression clearly stiffened, but she instantly adjusted back into her gyaru persona.
Her tone became somewhat weak.
“Ayanokouji-san, I just wanted to get to know you…”
This was one of the best ways to deal with boys.
But the answer Hayasaka Ai received was still…
“Get lost.”
The smile on Hayasaka Ai’s face completely froze.
As Shinomiya Kaguya’s personal maid, Hayasaka Ai had to promptly collect any information that might be useful around her mistress and report it back for her mistress to judge.
So Hayasaka Ai was very skilled at moving smoothly through all kinds of situations.
Whether it was dealing with troublesome young nobles or extracting information from gossiping girls, she could always perfectly play the role of “gyaru Hayasaka.”
With a sweet smile and just the right amount of pretending to be clueless, she could make the other party lower their guard.
But at this moment, Ren’s golden eyes did not even shift.
She felt as if he were looking at a roadside stone.
As if no one else was in his eyes at all.
More importantly, this was the first time she had been mercilessly told to “get lost” by a boy.
She had clearly said she wanted to “get to know him.”
For Hayasaka Ai, who believed her beauty was a weapon, this felt extremely humiliating.
“Ayanokouji, you big baka!
I only wanted to get to know you, and you…
you…”
Hayasaka Ai covered her face and began crying loudly.
Her sobs shook the heavens, and she choked so hard she could barely speak.
She instantly drew the attention of everyone in the class.
“Hey, hey…
Did Ayanokouji make Hayasaka-san cry?”
“That gyaru Hayasaka, who smiles at everyone?”
Whispers spread through the classroom.
Several girls had already stood up and walked over to comfort her.
The boys, meanwhile, stared at Ren with condemning eyes.
Although they had also been told to “get lost” earlier, making a girl cry was a completely different matter.
Besides, although they were only first-year high school students, many of them had attended Shuchiin since kindergarten.
They were known as pure academy students.
Because of that, most of this class had been classmates since middle school, and everyone was quite familiar with one another.
In contrast, Ren, who had only started attending Shuchiin in high school, belonged to the outsider category.
He was an external student.
And he had not apologized.
“Hey, Ayanokouji!
Isn’t that going too far?
Everyone only asked you a question, and you told us to get lost!”
“You’re just a stinking external student.
Why are you so arrogant?
You even made Hayasaka-san cry!”
A boy wearing glasses slammed the desk and stood up.
He was the class study committee member, and his family sold medicine.
He had been in the same class as Hayasaka Ai during middle school, and from the looks of it, he definitely had a secret crush on her.
“Exactly!
Hayasaka-san may be a gyaru, but she’s usually very gentle to everyone!”
A girl with long brown hair also stood up.
Her name was Karen, and as one of “gyaru Hayasaka’s” friends, she had just joined the Media Club.
“I’m going to expose you!
You don’t deserve to be on Shuchiin’s ranking of boys girls most want to date!”
Karen pointed at Ren angrily.
Similar dissatisfied voices rose one after another.
Several girls had already gathered around Hayasaka Ai.
Some handed her tissues, while others gently patted her back.
Hayasaka Ai lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly.
Her long blond hair fell down and covered her face.
But from Ren’s angle, he could clearly see that she was secretly laughing.
Although Hayasaka Ai did not know why Ren had been so angry or why he was always so rude to everyone like someone with no manners, that did not stop her from taking revenge.
And the method was very simple.
Do you see this, Ayanokouji-san?
This is the power of a woman’s tears.
Ren did indeed see it.
[Disgust] and [Anger] were floating above everyone’s heads.
There were even quite a few girls with [Sorrow] glowing above their heads.
He had no idea what they were sad about.
But Ren did not care.
On the contrary, he was in an extremely good mood.
With a casual grab, he collected so many emotions at once.
This was the first time something like this had happened.
It was all because Matsuzaka Satou had lowered his expectations over the past two days.
He had almost forgotten.
Collecting girls’ emotions was actually this simple.
Thank you, Hayasaka Ai.
[Shinomiya Kaguya, Anger +1]
[Shinomiya Kaguya, Disgust +1]
[Shinomiya Kaguya, Desire +1]
Oh?
There was even Desire?
Ren looked in Shinomiya Kaguya’s direction.
Shinomiya Kaguya was also in this class.
She was his classmate.
Only at this moment, she was lying on her desk, staring coldly at Ren.
She did not come over to comfort Hayasaka Ai either.
It seemed she did not want others to know that she and Hayasaka Ai were close.
“So where did that Desire come from?”
Ren was confused.
But now was not the time to think about that.
The matter was not over yet.
“Hayasaka-san, don’t bother with someone this uncultured.
I knew it.
The Ayanokouji family are just nouveau riche!”
That was said by the son of a company hostile to the Ayanokouji family.
“I’ve disliked him for ages.
It’s only been one week since school started, and how many times has he already acted like that?”
A rather handsome boy looked furious.
“Hey, Ayanokouji, don’t just stand there silently!”
A tall boy walked up to Ren’s desk, his fists cracking.
“Apologize to Hayasaka-san.”
This one was the PE committee member, and his family was involved with the underworld.
Ren looked at the faces of the boys and girls around him, recalling their family backgrounds one by one.
At the same time, he confirmed that no one nearby had overheard the details of the earlier exchange.
Then he turned his head toward Hayasaka Ai.
His tone was sincere, and he even bowed.
“I’m sorry, Hayasaka-san.
I failed to live up to your feelings.”
“It isn’t that I don’t want to accept your confession.”
“It’s just that…
I already have a fiancée.”
…