Chapter 25 | Ex-girlfriend Regrets Part 3

The previous chapter mentioned Takahara Kogen, but that was a mistake I didn’t realize until now. His name is supposed to be Kogen Kaida (Shinji’s grandfather). If you forgot about him you can read chapter 14 here.

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Shinji Ueda left school in a helicopter.

Immediately after that.

In the schoolyard.

“Helicopters are awesome…” “Oh, I’ve never seen a helicopter before…”

Classmates gathered on the school ground.

The topic of conversation was exclusively Shinji.

“I mean, Ueda…who is he?”

“I know, right? Did you see him at lunchtime today? There was a black-suited assistant.”

“Yes! And he had a very fancy lunch box!”

Saburo’s visit to the classroom during lunchtime was also a topic of conversation among his classmates.

“The best part was the helicopter… right?”

“A private helicopter?”

“He even has his own private helicopter driver! Amazing…”

Then, among everyone, a theory was born.

“Could it be that Ueda is… super rich?”

They could only think so.

“Wow! Seriously~…Ueda…he’s a rich guy?

“Damn it…I should have been friends with him…”

“I wonder if it’s not too late. You should get along with Ueda-kun.”

“I mean, isn’t Nakatsugawa-san really rich…?

“Shhh…! Baka…”

The eyes of the classmates turn to a certain person.

It is Shinji’s ex-girlfriend…Imoko Nakatsugawa.

“…………”

Imoko’s shoulders are shaking with anger and humiliation.

“I had the impression that Nakatsugawa-san was rich, but compared to Ueda-kun…”

“…You started getting carried away in the third semester, didn’t you? Are you annoyed by the appeal that he’s rich?”

“But compared to Ueda, she’s really nothing.”

The girls talk about her behind her back…or rather, they talk about her so that she can hear them.

The girls had bad feelings towards her in the first place.

This was due, in part, to the fact that Imoko had a monopoly on Kisogawa Kasuji, who was immensely popular with the girls in her class.

At that point, she was not well-liked, but come the third semester, she was acting like a queen.

The girls’ dissatisfaction had reached its peak.

“…What is it?”

Hearing the girls’ snide comments, Imoko turns to them and crowds them in.

“Nothing. Oh, you’re just nothing, aren’t you? Even for a young lady!”

With a clunk, Imoko gets mad and grabs the girl.

“What? Nothing much?”

“Because, you know, Ueda-kun has a helicopter. What about you? Do you have a helicopter? Are you the daughter of a big company?”

The girls in the class laughed at her as if she were an idiot.

Imoko gritted her teeth in frustration.

“Ueda is amazing, isn’t it? The private helicopter, a rich man with servants! So? What about you? Do you have a helicopter? And servants? How rich are you, you braggart?”

“Uh-uh, shut up!”

Don! And she pushes the girl away.

But on the contrary, she hit her on the shoulder! 

With a thud, Imoko fell to the ground, which was slushy with snow! and the girl falls to the snow-slushy ground.

“Kyaa!… What are you doing!?”

But the girls laughed like they were making fun of me.

“Don’t act like a queen, a*****e.”

“You’re just a bum with a face.”

“Oh, I envy you, Matsumoto-san. She got a rich boyfriend!”

The girls leave Imoko behind.

The boys look puzzled.

“It’s okay…Imoko-sama…”

One of the boys held out his hand.

But Imoko brushes his hand away.

“What are you feeling sorry for, you common people!”

Imoko was mentally weak.

He has yet to recover from the shock of being shown the true difference in rank by Shinji.

“I am not a low-ranked existence to be pitied by someone of your caliber, though!”

…She didn’t know, because her head was racing.

Now, what Imoko said…how did it affect the boys?

“Oh, I’m tired. Let’s go.”

Some of the boys who were teasing their younger sister left.

“Hey, where are you going?!”

She tries to stop her cronies.

But… they don’t stop.

“I thought Nakatsugawa was beautiful and rich, but she’s nothing.”

“No matter how good she looks, she has an ugly personality.”

“And her money, too, seems to be nothing.”

“Ueda is really rich, isn’t she? It’s never too late to make friends with him.”

…They made fun of not only her personality but also her family background.

Her father’s publishing company, TAKANAWA, is a huge corporation.

Imoko is certainly classified as wealthy.

Shinji, however, is just so much richer than that.

She is shunned and abandoned by the girls and boys in her class…

“What…what…what…what!”

Gradually! said Imoko, getting up on the ground.

“I’m amazing too, aren’t I! Shinji-kun isn’t the only one who’s amazing!”

She was absolutely right.

But unlike Imoko, Shinji is not boasting about his family or his money.

On the other hand, Imoko was enjoying the attention of her classmates by pretending to be powerful.

Shinji is more amazing.

When that happened, Imoko’s value dropped.

Originally, all of her arrogance was forgiven simply because she was a beautiful woman whose parents had money.

But the fact that she is below Shinji in the rank of rich people, and above all, her current terrible attitude…

The skin of the monster has been peeled off in this case.

If Imoko had maintained a humble attitude like Shinji…

At least she wouldn’t have been laughed at by the whole class.

I’ll be picked up by car on my way home today if you guys want to come along for the ride.

If only she had been more humble…

In short, it is her own fault that she thought she had the power and behaved arrogantly.

It was her own fault.

“Hey, what! This can’t be true!”

With her body covered in snow and tears of frustration streaming from her eyes, Imoko stomped her feet.

“It’s a hoax! I didn’t know Shinji-kun was that rich! You never told me!”

She had guessed that Shinji was wealthy.

But even so, she still thought she was better than him.

She thought she was the daughter of the president of TAKANAWA and that she was of a higher rank than Shinji…

“I won’t admit it…I won’t admit it!”

Imoko pulls out her phone and calls her father.

“Hello, Daddy! You haven’t picked me up yet!”

She yells at her father.

The father tells Seiko that the road is congested.

“No helicopter! Hey, come pick me up in your private helicopter!”

He said he can’t afford such an expensive one and he doesn’t have one.

“Why! Shinji-kun has one! Why…!”

He hangs up the phone, saying he’s busy right now.

Imoko tries to call him back, but the phone is turned off…

Even for her father, a private helicopter is expensive.

It was confirmed. Shinji has more money than her father.

“Are you saying I’m lower than you…?”

That’s right.

Imoko is lower than him.

TAKANAWA is just one Japanese company after all.

Ueda’s family, on the other hand, is a very large company, the Kaida Group, which is based on a former zaibatsu.

Moreover, Ueda is the favored child of the group’s head and general manager, Kogen Kaida.

There is no way that she is of the same rank as a mere daughter of one company.

Moreover, he is not a good opponent to make a fool of.

“………”

I abandoned Shinji.

I was like… a blind idiot.

“…………”

Seiko gritted her teeth and stomped her feet on the ground.

Shinji Ueda is the son of the president of a large corporation and a kind and caring man.

The woman who looked down on him as a simple, boring, low-life and discarded him…Imook Nakatsugawa.

With time, it will eventually become a rumor.

That she is a stupid woman who cheated on her ex-boyfriend without realizing his value.

Eventually…no, people will surely think so.

For the proud Imoko, that would be unforgivable.

“What the hell, what the hell!!!!!”

Impatience, regret, inferiority complex. And many other things.

Her head was a mess with feelings that had nowhere else to go, and she had no choice but to wail in the cold air.

With tears streaking her face, she sobbed.

In the end, she had to walk home that day, and coupled with the fact that she was soaking wet, she collapsed with a high fever.

Needless to say, no one in the class was worried about her.

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