Chapter 3 | Their Revenge, and Her Love

I’m Shinji Ueda.

My ex-girlfriend betrayed me and my classmates made fun of me…

I’m in a love hotel with a gal, Matsumoto-san.

“Matsumoto-san’s… lover?”

We are sitting on a bed in a love hotel.

“Yeah, lover.”

“T, the punishment game?”

She said earlier.

My classmates are planning to use this to bully me further.

They are planning to make a girl in class confess her feelings to me and later tell me that it was a joke…

“Don’t get me wrong. I’m not bullying you, okay? This is revenge.”

“Revenge?”

“Yeah. You don’t like her, don’t you? That b***h.”

“You mean Imoko?”

Matsumoto-san nodded.

“I hate that woman. She pretends to be an honor student, but she cheats on you with another man and dumped you flat… I can’t forgive her!”

Ding! Matsumoto-san hit the bed.

“Why are you angry for me?”

“Bah, idiot! Don’t get me wrong! It’s not like I’m doing it for you at all!”

“Are you a tsundere?”

“Arrr? I’m gonna blow you away!

“Ow!”

Yes, that’s right…

My girlfriend, who is a tough gal, doesn’t like me, does she?

“Then why are you helping me? For revenge?”

“I’m simply disgusted. That woman. She’s disgusting.”

What is this about?

Matsumoto-san said bad things about Imoko…

I felt a little relieved.

“I’m not going to let something like this make me feel better. Revenge is just beginning.”

“What exactly are you going to do?”

“First, you and I will go out together, and then we will continue our fake relationship. Then we’ll make love in front of her.”

“Lovey-dovey…”

Kaa… and Matsumoto-san blushes.

“That’s why! Fake! Because we are lovers! If you’re in love with someone, even if it’s fake, it’s going to make her angry, too.”

“I wonder if that’s how… it works.”

“Normally, you’d want the person you dumped to be in shock, right? But it turns out that he’s not. And he’s dating a new girl.”

“That will piss me off.”

“Right?”

I see what you mean…

“And if we’re going to get revenge, let’s be thorough.”

“What do you mean?”

“I, here, will become a beautiful woman who will make you look at me differently.”

Matsumoto-san puts her hand on her chest and smiles.

“What are you talking about? Matsumoto-san is pretty enough.”

“Nyah…!”

Kaa…! Matsumoto-san’s face turned red.

What? What?

“Ba-ba-ba-baka! Don’t talk nonsense! Don’t interrupt me, you pervert!”

“Yeah, yeah…”

Why is she snapping at me?

Emotional…

“Anyway. I’m all kinds of messy right now, you know? Makeup, hair, etc.”

“Well, I don’t know. I think you’re normally beautiful. I don’t think you’re ugly, what’s the matter?”

“What’s wrong with me? I’ll kill you!”

Scary!

“And anyway… Even if you pretend to be dating me right now, she won’t be upset either. So, it would be even more frustrating if you dated me, who had become a beautiful woman! Don’t you think so?”

“Yes, that’s true… I guess.”

If I were dating a woman who was more beautiful than her, she might feel even more frustrated…?

“You will go out with me, and we will make love. And I’ll be beautiful in the meantime. And then  I’m going to tell that b***h to go f**k herself!”

She chuckles.

How can she be so cheerful when she says we are going to take revenge together? She looks rather happy.

“The best part of this strategy is that the whole class thinks it’s a punishment game.”

“Oh, I see. So everyone doesn’t know that Matsumoto-san and I are working together.”

“Yes, that’s right. That’s why if you and I were going out, they wouldn’t say anything. In fact, everyone is laughing at you. They think you’re an idiot.”

My classmates, who don’t know that I’m colluding behind their backs, think that I’ve been tricked into going out with Matsumoto-san.

“The deadline is until the third semester when the first year is over. Until then, we will be together, making love and …… will unveil our relationship on the last day of the school year. I’ll be beautiful, you’ll kiss me, and we’ll be together for real.”

“I see…! And, yeah, yeah, yeah! Kissing!”

I can’t believe you kissed me like that!

I can’t believe she would kiss me like that!

“Don’t get me wrong! This is just a plan! It’s a revenge mission!”

“I see… that’s right.”

Yes, it’s an act.

Of course, a shy guy like me can’t go out with a nice gal like her.

“So, what do you think, Ueda? Do you want to get revenge…?”

Before…I would have refused.

But…!

To be honest, I can’t forgive her this time!

“Let’s do it, revenge. Let’s do it!”

“Oh, that’s the spirit!”

She holds out her hand.

I take her hand.

“Let’s get revenge, shall we?”

“Yeah! Take care of me!”

Thus, I decided to become a fake lover with Matsumoto-san in order to take revenge on my ex-girlfriend and classmates.


[Rika’s PoV]

Shinji Ueda and I are going to have a fake lover relationship.

Rika Matsumoto says…

“I can go out with Shinji! I can go out with Shinji!”

Rika comes home, collapses on her bed, flops down on her bed, and flops around! 

“Hehehe~♡ Yay ♡ Shin-chan and I are lovers ♡ Ehehe~♡ Yaaaa~♡♡♡♡”

Rika has changed from the strong face she was showing earlier.

She is smiling happily and squishily.

“I’m sorry, Shin-chan… I know it was hard for you… but… it’s going to be okay, okay?”

Rika looks at a photo on her study desk.

There is a picture of Ueda as a child and a girl next to him.

She is a very lame, plain-looking girl.

Her bangs cover her face, her clothes are plain, and she is hiding behind Shinji.

Plain and withdrawn…

[My Former Self]

“Shin-chan’s lover… lover, huh… fufu ♡ fufufufufu ♡”

Rika jumped up and down on the bed.

“I’ll take advantage of you at best, Nakatsugawa… damn classmates, and damn cheating assholes.”

In an instant, she changes from girl mode to tough-looking-gal mode.

“I’m going to be so beautiful, and I’m going to make love with Shin-chan. And I’m going to make you regret it from the bottom of your heart.”

Rika glares at her ex-girlfriend… Nakatsugawa Imoko, who is not here.

“I’m not going to let you get in the way of my relationship with Shin-chan. I’m going to make Shin-chan into a sweetheart, and I’m going to make love to him so much… that there’s no room for you to come in!”

Thus, with their respective agendas, he and she began their revenge.