Chapter 19 | My Ex-girlfriend Makes Fun of Me, but I Shrug It Off
Imoko Nakatsugawa.
She is the daughter of the president of a large company, Takanawa.
Imoko is Shinji’s ex-girlfriend.
However, she dumps him and moves on to another man…
That man was a scumbag of the highest order.
Moreover, he even threatens her.
For a time, Imoko was depressed, but.
She is now “fully recovered”.
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In Shinji and his friends’ classroom in the third semester.
“Good morning…imo, Nakatsugawa…san.”
Shinji Ueda greets me with a scared look on his face.
He is really a gloomy guy, I snicker inwardly.
Well, I greet him back because he’s so kind.
“Good morning, Ueda-kun. And… Matsumoto-san.”
Next to Shinji is a blonde gal named Rika Matsumoto.
Rika’s appearance had changed a bit.
But…hmmm… I laugh mockingly.
“(What is this woman, she looks like a head pudding. I can’t believe it… I’m 1000 times cuter than her.)”
Although a thousand times exaggerated, Rika’s hair certainly looked like a Yankee who had failed to dye it.
Rika, who had always been difficult to approach, was now even more difficult to talk to.
“Hey, Ueda-kun. I heard a rumor that you and Matsumoto-san are dating.”
She wanted to confirm that first.
“Yes, we are dating!”
Shinji smiled happily.
Seeing that smile… Imoko giggles.
“(Baーーーーka)”
And.
“(You’ve been deceived so easily. That’s why shady people are easily fooled by women who are just a little bit nice to them.)”
This is how Imoko interprets the relationship between Shinji and the others.
First, Shinji.
Shinji is completely in love with Rika.
He was just heartbroken himself when a [so-so] cute girl, a classmate, came up to him.
Shinji is a shy guy, a nerd, and has no immunity to women.
Therefore, he fell for her right away. …and that’s what his Imoko thinks.
“Matsumoto-san, are you really going out with Ueda-kun?”
“Yes…I am.”
Seeing Rika answer bluntly, Imoko almost burst out laughing.
“(Oh, I knew it. No, no, you are dating, Matsumoto-san.)”
Imoko thinks back.
The other day, a conversation in a group LINE within the class.
[Hey, I’m looking for a girl to go out with Otaku-kun at school~?
[Nobody’s willing to~]
No one volunteered for a while.
“(I can see that Matsumoto-san has no intention of going out with Ueda-kun, if anything, she is still complaining about it.)”
Seeing the two in front of her, Imoko smiles wickedly.
That’s true.
Indeed, the plan to bully Shinji sounds interesting.
But the girl who would be the fake girlfriend would not be happy.
They had to go out with such a puny, shady, nerdy guy, even if it was fake.
None of the girls volunteered.
But after the last day of school…
Rika was sticking around with Shinji.
[Hey, hey, hey, Rika. Why were you being so lovey-dovey with Otaku-kun like that~?
[Imoko] made a comment like that in the group LINE.
[Volunteering right? Okay, I’ll do it.]
A reply from Rika is sent.
The girls in the class were relieved.
[Nobody seems to be willing to do it, so I have no choice but to do it.]
[Oh, sankyu! Kudos to kind and gentle Matsumoto-san for being Otaku-kun’s fake girlfriend~]
The girls send messages of “Hang in there,” “Kindness,” and other mindless things.
[But only for a limited time. I can’t do it forever. Can we stop after the third semester?]
Rika said.
[Of course! We’ll reveal the story at the end of the third semester, then. Until then, please bear with it!]
Everyone in the class got into the groove created by Imoko.
Rika made no further response.
…And now…
“(I can see that Matsumoto-san has no intention of going out with Ueda-kun, if anything, she is still complaining about it.)”
Seeing the two in front of her, Imoko smiles wickedly.
She chuckles, and she struggles to hold back her laughter.
“(Ueda-kun is also an idiot. He doesn’t even know that she has no intention to do so. Ueda-kun is really an idiot. Ignorance is scary!)”
…However, Imoko doesn’t know.
In fact, Shinji and Rika are in working with each other.
She doesn’t know that their scheme is completely exposed to Shinji.
It is Imoko who is ignorant…
“How was your winter vacation, anyway~?”
Imoko giggles and laughs.
“I’m sure it must have been a terrible vacation anyway. Because Matsumoto-san is reluctantly going out with Ueda-kun, right? Nothing happened, or he must have been treated like a slave.”
Imoko expected Shinji to have a dark look on his face.
But…
“I had a lot of fun during the winter vacation! Rika!”
“Yes, Shin-chan!”
I looked at their smiling faces and was surprised to see them both smiling.
“You had fun…?”
“Yes, it was! We went to a lot of places. I went to Comiket, and even went to Hatsumode!”
There is no shadow on Shinji’s face.
And Rika is also smiling and nodding.
“Heh, heh… well, yeah… that must have been tough.”
“No, it wasn’t. Oh, do you want to see the pictures?”
Shinji took out his phone and showed me the pictures.
There were a lot of two-shot photos taken.
“What?”
What’s going on…?
Rika was not forced to go out with Shinji, was she?
Despite that, the two of them look happy in the picture.
“(What’s going on…?)”
Imoko looks at the two of them with a look of disbelief.
Rika, on the other hand, smiles wickedly.
“What’s wrong~? Nakatsugawa-san?”
This is absolutely ridiculous.
Because, aside from Shinji, Rika doesn’t think anything of him…in fact, she should not like him at all.
“What is it? Shin-chan, you don’t have any pictures from when we stayed together at the beginning of the year, do you?”
“Oh, you see…you know. It’s embarrassing…”
“And you stayed over…?
I heard that Rika went to Shinji’s house on Christmas Eve.
But I didn’t hear that she stayed over, and at the beginning of the year?
“(You should dislike it…what’s with that…)”
She expected that Shinji was being pushed around by Rika.
Rika is only keeping him company as a punishment.
He was supposed to squeal at the thought that she must be having a hard time…
Beep, beep, beep, beep…
“Oh, it’s the bell.”
“Why don’t you sit down quickly, Nakatsugawa-san?”
Imoko gritted her teeth.
She sits down on her seat and takes a breath.
“I’m sure Ueda-kun will be the one crying about it later anyway.”
Those two are in a relationship until the third semester.
Rika will tell the truth, and Shinji will despair, because he should.
“(Yeah, just like [that guy]…he’s going to cry and beg me to please go back together again…)”
Kukuku, Imoko laughed evilly.
(Well, it’s too late for him to come crying to me by then, though! If you insist on getting down on your knees…well, I’ll keep you as my servant, okay?)
She was looking forward to it.
She had a bad character, to begin with, but after [what happened], she became even more arrogant.
She had the illusion that she had [power].
Now, let’s see.
The homeroom teacher enters the classroom.
“Happy New Year. The third semester is short, but don’t forget the lessons to come!”
The homeroom teacher greets the students.
Now let’s start homeroom. But first, I have some unfortunate news for you.
“”Unfortunate news?””
Imoko giggles.
Only she knew what her homeroom teacher was going to say.
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depressedBitch_55
March 26, 2023 at 10:51 pmthanks for the chapter
Palps
March 27, 2023 at 6:50 amHuh, I had thought that her scummy BF was going to try something against them but it turns out she’s the one to do it. I guess that makes sense. the guy doesn’t really have a reason to actually go against Shinji, he just saw an opportunity with Imeko and took it
Julian Robert
March 27, 2023 at 8:40 amThanks
Yorsh
March 27, 2023 at 8:59 pmThank you for the chapter.