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Wait, Aika. Please wait.

No! Stay away from me! You're being annoying!

You don't have to be so blunt like that.

If you weren't so annoying, I wouldn't be like that!

What!? Am I that annoying!?

You are being annoying. Stop it already!

What? I can't do that.

I'm the one who can't do this!

Oh!

Oh!

My name is Wataru Sajo. I'm an ordinary male high school student.

If I were to have a characteristic, it may be that I'm perceived as the sort-of stalker guy on campus.

Her name is Aika Natsukawa.

To me, she is the almighty perfect beautiful girl,

that Heaven has not only granted more than one gift, but two, and then three gifts.

I've got a crush on her.

That's exactly why I dream that someday, I'll be able to date her,

and why I never failed to approach her passionately on a regular basis.

Oh!

Oh!

H-hey... Are you okay!?

Y... Yeah...

That's what happens when you persistently stalk me.

Don't come near me anymore, okay!?

Hmpf!

You're right...

I'll do that.

The Dreaming Boy

is a Realist

I Like You. Please Go Out With Me

Yesterday's club activities...

Yeah, somehow...

Oh, Sajotchi. Mornin'!

Yeah, morning.

Huh?

Sajotchi, I hear you got divine punishment this morning, because of your everyday conduct?

Huh?

Divine punishment? Yeah...

Kei, let it go.

If you keep it up like that, Aichi is going to dislike you even more, you know?

Come on, Kei. That's enough!

Yeah... You're right... I think so too.

What?

Sajotchi... Do you have a fever or something?

No, not particularly...

What!? But-

Take your seats!

Oh my, Sajo-kun. It's unusual you would be calmly settled down in your seat.

Is that so?

That's right, because you're always just chasing after Natsukawa-san.

Oh, well...

Oh!

Hey! I said not to stalk me...

Oh, no, I just want to go to the restroom.

What!? O-okay...

What!?

Huh? What? What's up with him?

Whoa!

Sajo, what's going on!?

Did something happen between the two of you?

Did you have a fight or something?

Not especially. You know, us having fights is the usual thing.

Y-yeah... When you say it like that, I guess so.

But you know, usually it's just Natsukawa-san who's angry.

But you wouldn't mind that, and you'd still pester her, you know?

Well...

"Well..."!? C'mon, man...

You see, I'm not in like that usual mood. Something's wrong, you know...?

Oh!

Hey.

Huh?

Does it look like I like Aika?

What're you talking about!?

What!?

You're like madly in love with her, you know!?

I know, right? I like her to the point that I want to support and promote her.

Hey, c'mon. You're bragging about your love life at this time...?

"Support and promote"?

Oh! H-hey...

Huh? Did you call me?

Wh-what!? You probably misheard; you know?

Yeah... Figures.

Wh-where are you going!?

What? To the cafeteria concession stand, so...

Oh! What...?

Huh!?

Seriously?

What!?

Usually, you're like, "Aika, Aika! Let's eat together. Today's bento looks totally delicious again."

"What? By any chance, are you like maybe going to let me have a bite or something?"

And you'd go on like that being stupid flirty.

Oh! Uh...!

I-if you're going to go, then hurry up and go! You're going to run out of time!

Y-yeah...

Is he okay?

Did he like go crazy because he kept getting rejected, or something?

Whoa... Stay strong.

I wonder why...

Hey...

Whoa!

You're Sajo-kun, right?

Uh...

Y-you're probably mistaken me for someone else.

There's no way to mistake you.

Huh, well done on finding me out. As those in the know, know, I am Wataru Sajo.

As a reward for finding me out, I shall present you with some red pickled ginger.

What? I don't want that.

Oh...! So, who are you?

What!? Well, I guess you wouldn't know. I'm Rena Aizawa from the class next door.

Rena Aizawa-san... And why did you go out of your way to be where I am?

Why do you think?

Wow, what a pain.

Oh! That's harsh!

Sajo-kun, see ya.

The Dreaming Boy

is a Realist

Sajo!

You bastard!

I give up! I give up! I give up!

Wh-what's up with that? You know, I already get enough of playing pro wrestling with my big sis.

You've got company! A visitor! She says she's waiting for you.

Mornin'! Sajo-kun!

Oh, from yesterday... Was it, Aizawa-san? With the weird easygoing vibe.

That's harsh! Are you saying you didn't like that?

It's not that I didn't like that. I'm in shock that a cute girl would suddenly come up to talk to me.

Why, you...! And, while you have a woman called Natsukawa!?

Well, Natsukawa is a goddess.

In that case, what is this girl to you!?

What? Um, what are you?

Who knows? I wonder what I am.

You bastard!

H-hey...!

Hey! Sajotchi!

Oh, my bad...

U-um... Aika-san?

What?

Oh, no, it's nothing...

I'm today's class helper, so...

Lucky you, Sajotchi.

Ugh!

I'm going to go help Aichi.

Oops. Did I like give her the wrong idea? Maybe?

Hey, Aizawa-san?

It's okay to call me Rena.

What!?

So, what's up?

Got it!

Take that!

Yay! Way to go! Nice receiving!

Oh!

Hmpf!

Ow!

Sajo! Headed your way!

Huh!?

Hey Sajo! What the hell are you doing!?

S-sorry! My bad!

Wow...

You're being like a total lame-o.

Huh?

Oh, it's you, Ashida. What do you want?

I'm just here saying hi to a cheating womanizer.

A "womanizer"...?

You've being doing quite a bit of looking elsewhere.

Oh no, that's-

Well, the recipient is that Aizawa-san, after all. I guess even you, Sajotchi, would be tempted by her.

"That"?

Aizawa-san is famous as the girl who's been lovey-dovey forever with her boyfriend, who's a 2nd-year.

Based on my intel network, they've been going out since around when she was a 1st-year in middle school.

I-intel network? You know, you're like suddenly scary.

Oh, but you seem like being a spy or something would suit you.

Chop!

He's one grade above us in 2nd-year. In Class B, I think.

With short hair and kind of slender. Relatively good-looking.

In the first place, why were you taking photos...?

For sure, it'd be Shinomiya-senpai. I want to be scolded by her!

I get you! I either want to be totally chewed out or be silently glared at.

By the way, the vice president is in the same category.

Ah, a fellow comrade!

And you, Arimura?

For me...

Maybe Natsukawa in 1st-year.

Oh!

What're you pondering about while scowling?

Well, that there are all kinds of people in the world.

I agree.

Why did you sympathize with me while looking at my face?

Well, there's a special kind, right in front of me, so.

Stop that.

Oh...

You know, Sajotchi, there's something off about you...

What?

I got it. You're concerned about Aizawa-san, aren't you?

Ugh... Y-you... Well, that's true, but...

Oh...

Hey, I've got a question for the two of you.

Huh?

What is it?

A question...?

Sajo-kun!

Oh...

Oh! By any chance, were you in the middle of something? Sorry.

Um, what is it? What's up?

Huh? I was thinking I wanted to talk with you, Sajo-kun.

So, you don't particularly have any business with him?

Oh, well, I guess not.

Then, let's talk. Aizawa-san, tell us the reason why you broke up with your ex-bf.

Wh-what? How do you know about that?

Or rather, you'd actually ask me something like that out of the blue?

Kei, c'mon...

Come on, it's okay. Besides right now, it's Sajotchi for you, right?

Huh?

Uh... Well... That's because I had a not so good trait about me, after all, maybe?

You're kidding! That's admirable!

Aizawa-san, the ex-bf you broke up with is a poor judge of character, after all.

Oh...

But you'll be okay now since there's Sajotchi. It was the right choice to break up with an ex-bf like that.

Kei! What're you saying!?

Because that's how it is.

To a good girl like Aizawa-san. Honestly, I can't believe it. He sucks!

Could you not...

What?

Could you not bad-mouth my ex-bf so much?

Hey...!

Whoa!

Oh crap! You okay!?

No!

Oh... I-I'm sorry.

Uh-oh...

Sorry about that.

Oh!

Sajo-kun, why are you doing the apologizing?

When you put it like that, you're right, but...

I didn't expect she'd blurt out something that insensitive.

You know, Sajo-kun, when you're with me, you don't talk much about Natsukawa-san.

When I'm with a girl, I've learned through romantic experience that I shouldn't talk about other girls.

So, you're romantically involved.

I don't know about that. I don't have any experience of having accomplished that, so...

But you like her; Natsukawa-san. Right?

Oh!

Can you tell?

There's no one who doesn't know.

I know...

But it may already be time to move on.

Huh?

I feel like somewhere in my heart, there's a me who's cooled off, from being rejected too much.

I get it now...

So, that's what it was...

Huh?

And you, Aizawa? Have you been romantically-

M-my bad! Just as soon as I apologized, I'm asking about a sensitive topic.

"She's so my type."

Huh?

That's what he said. That's why I broke up with him.

Oh...

Ah...

Based on the nuance of his words, I knew he didn't "like her" that way, but I didn't like that.

Ah... Yeah.

That's why I'm going to make him suffer through the same experience.

Or that's what I'd been thinking, but... Misunderstandings and swings and misses. This sucks...

"Swings and misses," huh...?

You know, Aizawa.

Before I met Aika, I got brutally rejected by another person.

What? You, Sajo-kun?

Yeah, it's a story from when I was in middle school.

"A plain-looking guy like you." "Look who's talking." "With a face like that?"

Anyway, it was an awful way to reject me.

On top of all that, her boyfriend appeared, and he started trying to hit me.

As I got hit and went flying off, Aika was walking behind me, and my face rammed into her breasts.

What!?

Aika simultaneously screamed and slapped my face.

What!?

I fell for her.

Why!?

Aika straightened out the circumstances to us.

Then she said to mock a person for liking someone was the worst behavior as a human,

and she got angry at them. After that, I couldn't see anything but Aika.

I-I see...

Well, that's a lie, but...

Huh? What!?

But Aika would do something like that.

It may have been love at first sight at the beginning, but in the end, the reason why I became serious,

was because I couldn’t forget that kindness from that first time she held out her hand.

I see. So that's why.

That's why I became a fan of Aika.

Yeah... Huh? What? A fan?

Aika Natsukawa is the idol of all humankind. She is hope. A goddess!

That's why I've decided right now to support Aika!

Wait, hang on. Sajo-kun, didn't you want to go out with Natsukawa-san?

Any more than this and I'd be a nuisance, so...

But having said that, it's not as if this feeling is going to cool off.

If I can't go out with her, then there are ways of doing things without going out with her.

From here on, as one who has been rejected, I shall support her from afar and hope for her happiness.

That might be a little creepy in its own way, but...

It's a little creepy... Maybe.

I see... I guess there's that kind of way of doing things too.

I kind of feel a little cheered up. Although it didn't make any sense.

Okay.

I'll make a complaint to Ashida for you.

No, don't. I think Ashida-san was just protecting Natsukawa-san.

Protecting? For Natsukawa?

Yeah, she probably realized that I had an ulterior motive.

I won't do any more strange things.

Aizawa.

Huh?

You know, it's not just Arimura-senpai, men are all kind of like that.

I know that!

Hmm...

Mornin', Aichi!

Oh!

M-morning.

Look. Over there.

Huh?

Renachi and her boyfriend.

They got back together.

Looks like it.

Oh!

Aw, I feel sorry for him.

What?

Sajotchi. Not only did he get turned down by you, Aichi, but from Aizawa-san as well.

I guess so...

Well, it was a nice dream.

What's with that? You're fine if you were able to make some good memories?

It's because I knew she had some special circumstance.

That's why I figured I'd enjoy things before she gave herself away.

What's up with that?

Someone like Aizawa, who seems kind of naughty at first glance,

but has a presence where friendliness and charm merges together, is a man's ideal.

To have the time to come in contact with that kind of girl is like a reward, you know?

Wow! Creepy!

It's fine since everything settled down where they should settle, right?

You... Are you okay with that?

Aside from being disliked or something, it's not like I was expecting anything to begin with.

I don't get it.

Well yeah, that's probably so.

What's happened to you, Sajotchi? You seem more off than usual, you know?

What was off about me was the way I was, up until now.

What's up, Sajo? You've got a gloomy look to you. Have you finally been truly disliked by Natsukawa?

Oh!

We're kind of in the middle of divorce proceedings right now, so be quiet.

"Divorce"...!?

What's up with that?

Is it a messy divorce?

Shut up!

Oh...

Don't you think it'd be okay to go out with me, about now?

What am I, an idiot? She's totally out of my league.

What!?

Please excuse the intrusion.

U-um, please sit there.

So, sorry this is so sudden.

Oh, yeah... I mean, how did you find me?

Some guys who had stayed around for club activities told me and...

You have something to talk about, right? You wouldn't suddenly show up for nothing, right?

Yeah...

The thing is, right now, no one else is home.

Huh!?

Oh! N-no! Of course, I didn't mean that in a weird way!

I know that.

O-okay.

Huh?

Did something happen to you?

What? Me? Was there something weird about me?

Weird is how you usually are, but... It's like you're being weird because you're not being weird...

What? What's up with that!?

Oh!

You're like usually totally unfazed, or rather, if anything, you come at me, or rather...

I-in any case, you're creepy, you know!?

You want me to agree?

But lately, you haven't been annoying at all, and you're not chasing me like before,

and it's like you've become too reasonable, or something!

U-um... Hey, Aika?

Wh-what?

I like you. Please go out with me.

Wh-what!? What're you saying!? You know there's no way I'd agree, given this timing!

Yeah, I knew that.

Huh!?

Oh!

I'm sorry, Natsukawa.

You say that now...? Huh? N... "Natsukawa"?

No matter how much you'd reject me or drive me off, I wouldn't become discouraged.

A guy who insistently chases after you. If one were to think normally, that is creepy.

What's with you all of a sudden?

Well-

I'm home!

Oh!

I'm seriously tired. Hey, can you get me a drink or-

Whoa! Wataru brought a girl home!?

Hang on, and she's super cute!

There's no way she's your girlfriend or something, right?

She's not. She just had some business with me and stopped by.

I'll walk you home.

"I'll walk you home"!?

Would you stop butting in every second!?

Um... You're the Student Council...?

That's right... Although it's a hassle.

I'm sorry someone like that is the vice president.

I didn't know.

Earlier...

Huh?

Earlier, what was coming after that "Well"?

What?

Earlier, before your older sister came home, the thing you started to say.

Well, I did harass you mercilessly up until now.

I wanted to say I'm not going to follow you around anymore.

So, from now on, I look forward to us being more or less classmates.

"I look forward"...?

That being said, Natsukawa, are there any girls among your friends or something,

who may be a good match for me?

What!?

Whoa!

H-huh...?

You suck!

Hey Natsukawa!

Shut up, you idiot!

Oh...

Natsukawa

Sajo

Ashida

Hey. Hey. Hey Sajotchi, your seat is now separated from Aichi's.

Sajo

Ashida

Shocked? Are you in shock?

Well, it is disappointing.

Don't let it get to you.

But, well, with this I'll manage not to bother Natsukawa.

What? "Natsukawa"...? "Bother"...?

Well, I had been thinking it was high time to move on.

So, I think in some sense, this is a good opportunity.

Huh, I get it.

In that case, at the very least, you've got to take responsibility.

What? Why?

Sajotchi, because you attached yourself to her,

there were a lot of girls who couldn't get close to Aichi, you know?

What...!?

Oh yeah, I should support and promote her.