19: I Got My Confession Rejected by Yukinoshita Right Out of the Gate!
[19] 19: I Got My Confession Rejected by Yukinoshita Right Out of the Gate!
[19] “WHAAAAAAAAAT?!” “W-When was that?” At last, after a few frozen seconds, the two of them finally reacted, each blurting out a different question.
“Just a little while after school started.” “No way…
Tadayanan really is…
a l-lesbian?” Yuigahama said, face flushing and heart pounding.
She had never imagined this pretty, cool girl would turn out to be a lesbian.
The term itself was too unfamiliar to her.
None of her friends had ever had that kind of niche orientation before.
The closest thing was probably Hina Ebina’s fujoshi hobby of being into boys’ love stuff.
But being into two guys was completely different from being into two girls.
Besides, Ebina only liked watching from the sidelines, while Tadayana was actually in it—really one of the two people involved.
It was hard to believe.
This was downright explosive news for her social circle.
“Yes, that did happen.
You two didn’t know?
About how Tadayana-san might be a lesbian?
Then does that mean I’m the only one she’s confessed to?” Yukinoshita said.
She had assumed Tadayana might be desperate enough to make a move on every girl she knew, but apparently, in a certain sense, she was special.
So far, Tadayana had only confessed to her.
“Hey, that’s completely different from this.
Tadayana, what is going on?
I need an explanation.” Isshiki said abruptly, like she still hadn’t recovered and was reacting on pure stress.
“Yeah, seriously…
how can that be…?
Tadayanan’s actually a lesbian…?
How did that even happen??” “What explanation do I need to give?
Why?
If I like someone, I like them.” Tadayana didn’t think much of it.
Did anyone here really need an explanation?
They were acting like someone had actually agreed to be with her and then been betrayed.
She remembered very clearly that Isshiki rejected her all the time, friend-zoning her in a different way every day.
The other two had shut her down from the start.
One of them seemed like she had something for the gloomy guy, and the other had rejected her right away.
“Okay, then.” After thinking it over, Isshiki realized Tadayana hadn’t actually succeeded, which meant Yukinoshita had rejected her.
In that case, there really wasn’t much to say.
Thank goodness…
For some reason, she let out a breath of relief.
None of the roller-coaster emotions inside her showed much on her face.
That was how Iroha Isshiki managed her expressions.
“Back then, the moment I first saw Yukinoshita-senpai, I was deeply attracted to her, so I just went with it and confessed on the spot.” “Mm-hm.
It’s a shame you got rejected, but Tadayana, I believe you still have a chance of finding someone even better than Yukinoshita-senpai.” Isshiki said that in her usual bright, energetic voice.
“Really?
Someone even more outstanding than Yukinoshita?” Leaving aside whether such a person even existed, Tadayana couldn’t quite understand why Isshiki would say that right in front of the person herself.
Someone as outstanding as Yukino Yukinoshita tended to have a contrarian streak.
Saying that to her face could easily be taken as a challenge.
“Someone more outstanding than me, as the girl you’d date?
Interesting.
I’m looking forward to seeing you find her too, Tadayana-san.
If you do, tell me immediately.
If she truly is more outstanding than I am, then I’ll apologize to you.” “…Apologize?
For what?” Tadayana asked in confusion.
“Because if you can find someone more outstanding than me, then the fact that you confessed to me back then would mean I was the lucky one.
So I would apologize for not accepting your confession.” Yukinoshita said it with complete confidence.
When it came to being outstanding, Yukinoshita wouldn’t go so far as to claim she was number one—but as far as she knew, there were very few girls better than she was.
And on top of that, it wouldn’t be enough for that girl to be more outstanding than her.
She would also have to be a lesbian and happen to like Tadayana.
To Yukinoshita, that sounded more than a little fantastical.
“Then I give up.” Tadayana raised her hands in surrender without the slightest hesitation.
“Why?” Now it was Yukinoshita’s turn to be dumbfounded.
“Because there’s no way I could ever find a girl more outstanding than you, Yukino Yukinoshita.
You’re probably the most outstanding girl I’ll ever meet in this lifetime.” The moment Tadayana said that, with a kind of easy acceptance, the other three all froze.
“…Thank you.” Yukinoshita said, face flushing red, while an emotional storm kicked up inside her head.
She had never expected anyone to acknowledge her excellence so…
so straightforwardly.
After all, in the past, those girls had all been dying to tear her down.
Well…
of course she knew herself that she was outstanding. The source of this chapter is g.com.
It was just that hearing it from someone her own age was rare.
And someone praising her with such wholehearted conviction?
This was the first time she had ever met anyone like that.
Isshiki, meanwhile, turned to stone on the spot.
She had never expected what was supposed to be just one of her routine polite lines to leave her with the feeling that she had lost.
Compared to Yukinoshita-senpai, she knew she had plenty of shortcomings.
But even so, hearing the person she liked admit it out loud still felt awful.
Yuigahama was the most removed from the situation out of everyone there.
She had absolutely no idea why the changes in everyone’s expressions were so subtle and strange.
Even for someone like her, who was always used to reading the room before speaking, this atmosphere felt way too bizarre.
She couldn’t make heads or tails of it at all!
Still, one thing she did know now: their underclassman really was a lesbian.
And with that in mind, she genuinely had no idea how she was supposed to face Tadayana anymore.
If she wasn’t careful, Tadayana might accidentally confess to her with the same kind of feelings that existed between a man and a woman.
Then…
could they still be friends?
Thus, each of them harboring thoughts they couldn’t quite say aloud, they finished the last stretch of the walk and then split off in different directions.
Throughout the rest of the day, Tadayana noticed, unusually, that Isshiki was especially quiet.
When Tadayana asked, she only said that her stomach hurt today and she didn’t feel like talking.
Tadayana had only seen Isshiki act like this a few times.
The last time might have been when she graduated from elementary school.
How strange.
She had completely lost track of what that girl was thinking now.
…
When Isshiki got home and opened the door, the miserable face she could no longer keep smiling through crumpled at once.
She collapsed by the bed and began to sniffle and whine.
She simply could not understand how Yukino Yukinoshita—that upperclassman who had come out of nowhere—could, just from a single meeting, with that so-called love at first sight, beat out all the feelings Isshiki had built up over the many years she had spent by Tadayana’s side.
“Why…
why did I keep rejecting her before…?
Next time…
I’ve decided…
the next time Tadayana confesses to me, I’m not turning her down again…” — T/N: I KNEW ISSHIKI WAS GAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!