Stealing Spree

“What are you waiting for? Aren’t you going to say yes?”

With my lack of reaction to what he just asked from me, the delusional guy’s nice guy mask immediately fell off as hints of irritation appeared on his annoying face.

“No. Of course, I will never say that. I seem to remember it's your fist you used to hit the table not your head. Why does it look like you got hit in the head and had a few screws loosened? Is your brain inside that fist of yours?” I pointed at his swollen fist that was still shaking.

He’s clenching it tight to calm it down. However, he’s unsuccessful.

Upon hearing my words, Ogawa’s whole body seemingly shook from the rage he felt as he instantly fumed from where he was.

And along with a stomp of his foot, he shouted.

“Onoda!”

Ah. It’s too easy to get this guy to drop all the niceties he tried to put on.

Anyway, that’s not niceties at all anyway. It’s part of his delusion thinking it would work if he asked nicely.

In the end, this guy kept on denying the fact that Nami would never be his again. True, I stole her due to my desire at first but… I truly ended up falling in love with her. I was even slightly rebuking myself for allowing this guy to hold my Nami’s hand to keep the act at that time. Should I break his hand to get even?

Ah no… Let’s not be violent for now. They would still worry if this guy showed up in their clubroom with his handsome face banged up.

“Can you stop shouting my name? It’s not soothing to my ears if it's not Nami or the other girls calling my name like that.” I put on an annoyed face and acted as if I was clearing my left ear with my pinky finger. “Anyway, have you gone senile? Nami already told you the truth, right? I’m sorry but what I told you before? That’s the truth. Nami is mine now. It was never an act, for your information.”

There’s no point going around in circles with this guy. The more straightforward I was, the easier it was to break his delusion.

However, there’s a possibility that I was underestimating this guy’s fantasy. His fantasy endured Nami’s truth and what we showed him before following him here. And now the words from the guy who stole his beloved from him. He’s more likely to not believe me. That’s why I told Nami to follow us after 10 minutes. If that time passed and nothing was getting through to his skull. We had no choice but to give him a front-seat viewing of how much Nami and I love each other.

“What are you talking about? Don’t spout out your fantasies on me! Nanami is my girlfriend, I confessed to her and she accepted it happily!”

This guy… Look at how adamant he was. Should I just hit his head a few times? Spout out my fantasy, huh?

“We like each other ever since middle school! How can Nanami love you when you both only met each other for a month. Stop joking, Onoda. Besides, what will you do to Hina? Don’t you ever hurt my friend!”

And the guy continued with his rage-filled delusion-fueled blabbering.

Alright. Let’s humor this guy.

As much as I want to hit his head a few times or put him down and kick him while he’s writhing on the ground, I had to patiently restrain myself.

This is for Nami. The cleaner I break his delusion, the easier it will be to make this guy function like a human being again, not the guy who is submerged in his fantasy that everything is fine.

“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of Hina for you as well. You don’t want her, right? She’s in good hands. If you want, I can also take Izumi-senpai, what do you think?”

“You…!” Ogawa raised his hand and pointed it at me. If what’s happening in anime was real, this guy would’ve been already spewing out steam from his nose and his face would’ve been too red as if all his blood went on his head and was boiling.

Nonetheless, no matter how much he raged, I kept a straight face and a calm demeanor. He’s not a threat to me at this point. Even if he lost it and attacked me, I could easily block or even counter him.

“There you go again. Can’t you converse normally with me? I’m stating facts here but you... you can’t take and accept it.”

Perhaps it's a miracle, my words somehow reached him after a few minutes as his rage cooled down and the guy lowered his hand that was pointing at me.

Although he’s still shaking from where he was standing, the rage from earlier had changed to… extreme grief.

After a while, his shoulders drooped down as I began hearing quiet sobs from him. He then raised his arm to try and prevent his tears from falling out.

However, it only made his arm wet.

As his sobs grew louder, Ogawa slowly knelt down on the ground, his visage oozing out the despair he was feeling at the moment.

Hell, even the sky seemed to be syncing with his feelings as it suddenly turned dark with rolling thunder arriving from the distance.

“...Why? Onoda, why are you doing this to me? Did I do anything wrong to you? Did I do anything to deserve this?”

Amidst his sobbing, Ogawa directed his tear-spilling eyes to me. He looked too pitiful at the moment but… it’s not moving me. He could cry his heart out to me but that wouldn’t evoke sympathy from me. I was the reason why he’s like this and I was aware of that. Back then, I never really thought about the ex of the girls nor did I have that much contact with them. There’s only that Haruko’s ex that was in the same Student Council or that popular ex of Yua. Besides, they never found out that I was the reason why their girlfriends turned cold to them. Though there were few instances that they would suspect us or even see our closeness, only a few knew about how their girls were stolen by someone else. Like that ‘shield’ of Mizuki.

However, this time, Kenji, Sakuma, Nobuo and Ogawa knew that I was the reason why the girls changed. That’s why the situations I had this time were entirely different than in middle school.

This guy didn’t do anything wrong to me but he well-deserved what’s happening to him right now. But that’s just my conjecture after knowing Hina and Izumi-senpai’s story.

There’s a great chance that this guy would still confess to Nami even without my interference or Nami’s plan to corner him. But that would be perhaps a year or two from now where they were about to graduate and walk among different paths of life.

Their circle would continue being close tight. Hina and Izumi-senpai might be depressed but they would surely not show it for the sake of their friendships.

But that’s impossible to happen now when no one can turn back the time. Whether this guy liked it or not, he already lost Nami to me. And Hina.

If he still doesn’t wake up then he will also lose Izumi-senpai. He can still salvage that situation and beat me to her but if he continues this useless clinging on his fantasy, there will be no one left for him.