“Hah. Never thought you’d suddenly become this insane at physical testing.”
Inside the office, Shizuka Hiratsuka stared at Ethan’s test results in disbelief.
😲
Every single one of his scores had shattered the school records.
Even the PE teacher had been completely stunned.
And through the entire thing, Ethan hadn’t even broken a sweat.
That was why the moment class ended, the teacher immediately came to Teacher Hiratsuka and suggested Ethan transfer into the athletics special program.
“So? What do you think?” Hiratsuka asked as she set the report sheet down.
“Want to join the special class?”
She knew it wasn’t her place to decide for someone else.
The choice was his alone.
Besides, his academic grades weren’t bad either.
Not top-tier, but definitely solid.
“Not interested.”
Ethan rejected it without hesitation.
A special athletics class?
The only word he had for it was boring.
Honestly, if it weren’t for cute girls, he probably wouldn’t even bother coming to school.
“Tch. Knew you’d say that.”
Hiratsuka didn’t sound surprised at all.
She waved a hand dismissively.
“Fine, fine. Go already. I’ll deal with the PE teacher.”
“Then I’ll leave it to you, Teacher Hiratsuka.”
…
Lunch break.
Miura Yumiko climbed the stairs to the rooftop with uneasy steps and a heavy heart.
After hesitating for a moment, she finally pushed open the door.
Ethan was already there waiting for her.
Slowly, he turned around.
A faint smile curved at his lips.
“You came. Then let me show you who I really am.”
Crack.
An icy wind burst across the rooftop.
“!!!”
Yumiko’s eyes widened little by little.
Behind Ethan, a pair of magnificent wings made from crystalline blue ice slowly unfolded.
❄️
“This… is the real me.”
…
Silence stretched between them for a long time.
“What… was that?” Yumiko finally asked after calming herself down a little, staring at the now-normal-looking Ethan.
“Just what you saw,” he replied.
“A supernatural power.”
He raised a hand.
Then a delicate rose sculpted from ice appeared before her.
“…”
Yumiko accepted the frozen rose.
The chill against her fingertips reminded her this wasn’t a dream.
Only now did she realize—
She barely knew anything about Ethan at all.
“There’s a selfish reason I showed you this,” he suddenly said.
“I don’t want you judging me by normal standards… because I don’t want to miss my chance with you.”
Yumiko’s heart trembled.
She pressed her dry lips together.
“Then… can you tell me about those people you mentioned before…?”
“Of course.”
[Ding! You have been personally selected by Ethan, leader of the Anime Dimension Trading Chat Group! You have obtained the Sub-Group System!] 📱
“What…?”
The notification echoing in her mind, along with the flood of information pouring into her head, shocked Yumiko all over again.
“Different worlds… trading…”
She muttered absentmindedly before looking back up at him with a complicated expression.
“So you even have an identity like this…”
A faint smile lingered on Ethan’s face.
“Now you understand me a little better.”
“So tell me… after seeing what I’m really like, do you still like me?”
“…”
Yumiko had already seen the transaction records involving physical relationships.
She now understood that when he said he’d “done those things,” he meant it literally.
🔞
But instead of answering, she asked him something herself.
“What about you?”
“You did those things with them… are you going to take responsibility?”
“You said you like a lot of people. Are they included too? And… do you like me?”
“Looks like I need to answer that seriously.”
Ethan’s expression turned earnest.
“If they want me to, then yes, I’ll take responsibility.”
“But if they don’t…” His gaze darkened slightly.
“Then I’ll make it impossible for them to leave me. I’m a very possessive person.”
“There are a lot of people I’m interested in. That includes girls at school too. Like Yui Yuigahama, the girl I met today.” 💔
“Yui?!”
Yumiko had been listening quietly up until that point.
But that finally broke her composure.
How had Yui become one of his targets too?!
“You heard me right. I’m basically the kind of person who falls for someone the moment they catch my eye.”
Ethan understood himself perfectly.
He didn’t use words like love or romance.
He simply said “catch my eye.”
And what exactly caught his eye?
Nice figures.
Beautiful bodies.
To put it bluntly, he was just attracted to them physically.
🎯
“Of course, that includes you too, Miura Yumiko .”
He brought the topic back to her.
“Honestly, before today, I’d never looked at you that way. But what you showed me today really did move me.”
Yumiko twitched at the corners of her mouth.
“That’s not being moved. That’s just being a playboy!”
It was the first time she’d ever openly snapped back at him.
Ethan merely shrugged.
“Call it whatever you want.”
“But my heart tells me I want you. So I’m following what I want.” 🖤
“Ugh… d-don’t say stuff like that so directly…”
The intensity in his eyes made her flustered.
Her gaze darted away nervously.
“T-Then… could you only like me?”
“…”
The heat in Ethan’s eyes faded.
His voice became calm and cold.
“Sorry. I can’t do that.” ❄️
“…”
Even though she’d mentally prepared herself, Yumiko’s expression still dimmed at his immediate answer.
She understood.
Even if she didn’t care that he’d already slept with two women…
Someone like him was never the kind of person she could tie down.
The two of them weren’t even supposed to belong to the same world.
Honestly, their paths should never have crossed at all.
And yet…
Ethan could have hidden everything from her.
He could have easily tricked a lovestruck girl like her into bed and toyed with her however he wanted.
But he didn’t.
Instead, he showed her everything:
His abnormal side.
His womanizing nature.
Even the fact that he was fundamentally a scumbag.
🃏
He laid every card on the table and left the choice entirely up to her.
Yumiko had no right to complain.
All she had to do… was choose.
Reject him.
Or accept him.
⚖️
“…..”
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