Chapter 51: Reptile girl
TL: This kinda a side story. Weird chapter.
[Anya Shakado PoV]
I, Anya Shakado, am a gloomy person.
I’ve been gloomy for 16 years now. It’s already an old shade, a lineage that didn’t exist when it didn’t.…… hihihi. (TL: I have no idea what she is talking about, just a weird monologue like Yukito)
“Hihi, I brought you some food. Here you go little girl. Eat up.……” (Shakado)
Feeding my chameleon Chi-chan in her cage. Her long tongue stretches out as she snaps. I smiled…… at the scene. No, it’s not that cute. I was watching with a grin on my face. Hihihi…….
Today Chi-chan’s skin has a nice glow. Wow, you’re so different from me.……. I’ve been working hard on my skin care lately, too. I’ve been trying to talk to her, but she’s just going along with her normal routine. You are a tsundere.……
I, Anya Shakado, am a reptilian girl.
I’ve always loved reptiles. I try to share their cuteness with others, but they never agree with me at all. It was sad, but it didn’t take long for me to realize that this was an unusual preference for a girl.
Maybe that’s why I didn’t have many friends in elementary and junior high school, let alone in kindergarten when I don’t remember much. I was the girl who sat alone in a corner of the classroom, unable to join the girlish conversations of my classmates and uninvolved in any romantic affairs. Well, that’s just the negative side…….
No classmate would ever want to get close to me, with my shaggy hair, hunched back, and lopsided smile. The day I was told to form a pair or a group of people I liked, was the day I was done. It was always the teacher who was in trouble and forced me to join another group.
Fortunately, I was never bullied. Rather, no one would approach me because they felt uncomfortable. If I hadn’t told them, they wouldn’t have known that I liked reptiles, but the aura that I gave off kept my classmates away. Before I knew it, my presence was assimilated into the air, and I was treated as if I had never existed. Wow, maybe I’m turning into a colorless and transparent person.
I remember when I was in elementary school and I told a girl who was my classmate and I talked to a lot, that I liked reptiles. She said, “You’re weird”. It wasn’t until she stopped talking to me that I realized that it was a kind word wrapped in an ode. Even though I am not familiar with her, I can tell when she is being blunt. You’re weird. I feel uncomfortable about it. I cried when I realized that such feelings were lurking in her heart.
I, Anya Shakado, am different.
It was natural for me to think so.
Gradually, I stopped talking to my classmates, and my rejection was naturally conveyed to them. My isolation was getting worse and worse, and I was kept alone in the cage of the classroom as the colorless and transparent Anya Shakado, always vaguely invisible to everyone.
Mom and Dad are worried that I, their only daughter, don’t have any friends, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do anything about it. There’s nothing I can do about it. I don’t even know how to make friends.…… It’s hard to talk to them. It’s too difficult for a shady person. Strangely enough, it is more difficult to communicate with people than with Chi-chan. The world is so unreasonable.
“Aren’t you lonely, Chi-chan……?” (Shakado)
How does Chi-chan feel when she’s alone? I don’t know even if I think about it. It’s not possible to get an answer to such a question, but it’s still part of my routine to talk like this. I don’t want to go to school. I just want to play with my pets. For me, school is just something I do because I have to. I don’t want to worry my family any more than I already have.…… Hihi.
I’m sure my days will continue like this in high school. As if nothing had changed from elementary school to junior high school, I was treated as if I were invisible, as if I didn’t exist. Boring, colorless life. That’s what I thought.
–Until I entered high school.
But then I met someone.
God. There was a God in this world…….
I used to think I was different. But maybe I was mistaken. The words I was told in elementary school were not true. The perceptions I had in my mind were shattered. I was a frog in a well, and there was a vast ocean in front of me.
The kind of person who doesn’t care about anything.
To him, I was ordinary. Overwhelmingly normal. I am embarrassed and horrified by my mistake. In front of him, who is so impossibly dazzling and so intense, no one would think that I am different. They don’t think about me. They don’t even care.
Y-yeah. Yes, He has gloomy charisma. It’s a gloomisma…… (TL: Combination of gloomy and charisma)
Thanks to him, I am now totally just a classmate.
He made me go from special to normal.
An ordinary Anya Shakado, nothing special.
It brought about a big change in me, to the point where I could enjoy school, which had been such a chore in elementary and junior high school.
This summer vacation, I felt so sad that I couldn’t go to school.
Now, for the first time, I am able to enjoy school life without being isolated.
However, perhaps because I have been so used to living in the shadows, I am at a loss as to how to communicate with others. Clearly, I didn’t have enough experience.
Still, no one would reject me. My classmates accepted my love for reptiles as a part of my personality. Which is surprising. There is a much stronger personality than mine right in front of me. My personality is insignificant.
I was remembering the day my love for reptiles was exposed. Shortly after I entered the school, I was looking at my collection of Chi-chan in the classroom when he suddenly passed by and saw that Chi-chan was a panther chameleon at a glance. He had been considering getting one as a pet. Unexpectedly, he was very knowledgeable about it and I got carried away and talked about it, but he took it in without paying me any mind.
And then it happened. I don’t know what changed my mind, but I began to feel embarrassed that my hair was still shaggy, and I began to pay a little more attention to my appearance than before. But it didn’t go so well, probably because I had been so careless. When I went to ask my mom what I should do, she was very pleased. Hihi……I’m sorry to trouble you.
At some point, I noticed that more and more people naturally started to talk to me. Maybe I was the one who was rejecting them, keeping them away. In other words, the negative aura is like a barrier. I have learned that if I can make even the slightest effort to approach people, there are people who will respond to me.
For the first time, the transparent me, who was supposed to be invisible to everyone, got some color.
My phone beeped with a notification.
“Who is it……? Eli-chan…?” (Shakado)
I looked at the screen and saw that I had received a text message from Eli-chan.
An invitation to play. Eli-chan is Kana Sakurai.
The opposite of me, a negative caste, is a positive caste girl. She is at the top of a caste that I normally would not have gotten along with her. God calls her Elizabeth, so I call her “Eli” out of respect, but I’m the one who can’t call her that in front of him. He is still a god, as he proudly calls her Elizabeth. (ED: To her Yuki = a god)
When I received a text message from Eli-chan, my whole body began to tremble.
“P-p-pool!? Is that what a pool is, Chi-chan? Is it the kind where you swim in a bathing suit?” (Shakado)
Not only was I invited to play, but the destination was a swimming pool.
It’s a bit too much for the negative person. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat am I going to do?! I can’t stay like this. I slammed out of the room and headed for the living room.
“Mama…. Whaaaaa, what should I do! I’m invited by a friend to go to the pool, but I wondered if it was okay to wear a school swimsuit.” (Shakado)
My mom’s eyes widened and tears began to fall from her eyes.
“I’m so glad you finally have a friend An-chan, …….I’m so happy for you! But An-chan, I don’t think a school swimsuit is okay. Let’s go shopping for a cute one together.” (Mother)
“Hihi…..Is that so. I’m glad I asked. Thank you very much” (Shakado)
My mom is in a very good mood. She always looks happy these days.
The loneliness I had felt one day was nowhere to be found.
I hope we don’t have to change classes until we graduate.
In the past, I wouldn’t have thought of such a thing.
He causes a commotion every day, and creates a commotion in my boring daily life as well. Every day changes at a dizzying pace. But it is inexplicably fun and comfortable.
My name is Anya Shakado.
I’m a gloomy but normal girl and a devoted follower of God.
That’s right, the man who is unknowingly worshipped by his classmates, is Yukito Kokonoe.
libertariancicero
July 18, 2021 at 12:10 amOh oh, I sense the arrival of a new member of the harem, and one who is similar to Yukito, but probably as insane as the rest of them when it comes to him.
sense-san
July 18, 2021 at 12:47 amSadly she is just a background character as the MC didnt have any interaction with her. Remember that any female the MC meets either helped or harmed him in some way.
makotosenpaii
July 21, 2021 at 6:13 pmMaybe something will happen at the pool
some mob
July 18, 2021 at 12:42 am………………………eh……e-eh……w-well i guess since her life it’s getting better there is nothing wrong with it….i guess?…….Still i’m hell sure Yukito is going to be holding his head if he finds out he is being revered as a god….or maybe not?….since he could think that he can finally with Souma(godess) senpai without issue….hard to know…..
No continuation on Yukito’s sad life…..ah, no, i mean in Yukito’s attempts to fix his current life and the women who don’t want to let him do so.
Well it was a bit of a fresh air…….
Yochan
July 18, 2021 at 2:47 amShe has a potential to cure our MC’s broken heart
Heimlich Manure
July 18, 2021 at 4:48 amHoho…she has the potential to be the winning heroine
Horizon
July 18, 2021 at 6:21 amA woman who just watched from a far with admiration without any intention of hurting. Well, from other people’s pov, maybe they would call it a stalker. But this is one type of woman that fits Yukito very well I guess
The Burned Man
July 18, 2021 at 8:47 amSo she’s buying a swimsuit. Yuki and his family were going to buy swimsuits for their vacation too. Gonna go out on a limb and say his worshiper decides to do that at the same time and place him and his family do and harem hijinks ensue.
Enkiros
July 20, 2021 at 6:14 amsurprisingly wholesome
makotosenpaii
July 20, 2021 at 2:23 pmMan, i really love this thanks for translating this
Strawberry Milkshake
September 1, 2021 at 3:01 pmJust one chapter and I totally like this girl already!
I Eat Life For Breakfast! (@OarangeKnight)
November 6, 2021 at 10:36 pmGod damn, look what you’ve done to my heart. I am now 100% hoping our Reptile Girl gets with Yuki.
Garen
November 12, 2021 at 11:53 amShe’s like a genderbent version of Mikami when he first saw Light.
Glad to see some pros out of Yukito destroying any semblance of a class hierarchy with his mere presence.
AMan
November 22, 2021 at 2:31 amthank you author, after receiving multiple bites in the heart you give me this, I feel that I have purified myself and I can endure the end of the story
youre cruel but fair
nika77722
January 3, 2022 at 2:25 amFinally something positive for our boy, I almost died from laughter when she started worshipping him as a god :D
Akirei
November 24, 2022 at 12:08 amKokonoe Yukito, I must say this: you finally messed up the heroine collection. From all the types, you managed to get a zealot heroine. I just hope that she is not a radical believer, or else, you will have very harsh problems in the future.
Healer
December 9, 2022 at 4:53 pmShe has potential author san is this new heroine
ranpha
March 20, 2023 at 1:02 amWow, must be MC’s future wife.