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"Let's go home from school together."
"They even stayed together after class."
"..."
Chapter 113 School Rumors
"..."
Sawako Seki's words silenced Hayakawa and the other two.
"Let's go to school together."
Although not every day, it happens frequently.
"Let's have lunch together."
We've been together almost every day, and it's become a habit.
"Let's study together."
There isn't a single day that I don't study.
"Let's go home from school together."
Unable to refute...
They even stayed together after class...
"..."
Hayakawa remained silent with a gloomy face. He couldn't refute Sekijo Sawako's words, but that wasn't what angered him the most. What infuriated him the most was Sekijo's words.
"I know this person..."
"Because he is Rizu Ogata's boyfriend."
Because I'm Rizu Ogata's boyfriend, that's how she found out about me...
I... I, Lord Hayakawa, am only widely known because I'm involved with someone else?
what is this? !
Hayakawa's eyes were bloodshot, and he felt waves of tearing pain coming from the bottom of his heart, as if a knife was stabbing into his heart and tearing it apart.
Do you know how hard I work to improve?
I have never been distracted by anything other than studying, I have never slacked off in my studies for a single day, and I have never gone to bed before 1 a.m....
Even with a fever of 45℃, he continued to study as if nothing was wrong. Even when he was so weak from a cold, he treated it all as psychological and forced himself to sit at his desk and look at the test papers.
"Woo..."
Hayakawa's eyes welled up with tears; he was moved to tears by his own passionate outburst.
But despite all my hard work, I don't get recognition from others. All that sweat, exhaustion, and fatigue only earn me a superficial comment.
"Because he's Rizu Ogata's boyfriend..."
Hayakawa felt as if his entire chest cavity was blocked. His arms hung down by his legs, his fists slowly clenched and then weakly relaxed.
He recalled countless lists of science exam results, how he couldn't beat Ogata Rizu, and later Natsukawa Masuzu. He was also far behind Umaru, who transferred to his school afterward. It seemed that anyone could be stronger than him, and at one point he could only rank fourth.
In such a pitiful position, in this state of being, even if I tell others that I'm working very, very hard, who cares?
It is difficult for people to understand each other. Even people of the same age can have completely different views on the same things.
Hayakawa deeply understands this point: effort is never meaningful; what is meaningful is the progress you make after you have worked hard. Only by standing at the highest position can you make others notice you and look up to you.
"..."
Hayakawa remained silent, standing some distance away from the girls, his expression gradually becoming wooden and cold.
He would never allow himself to be known as an appendage of a certain school celebrity.
So we need to keep working hard...we need to work even harder.
……
"What you're saying doesn't make much sense, Guan Cheng,"
After a brief argument, Fumino Furuhashi noticed a blind spot in Sawako Sekijo's words and questioned, "If what you say about boys and girls going to and from school together every day, eating together, and studying together means they're boyfriend and girlfriend..."
Fumino Furuhashi blushed slightly, but calmly retorted, "Rizu-chan does fit that description, but so do I. Does that mean Rizu-chan and I are both dating Hayakawa? How do you explain that?"
As Fumino Furuhashi spoke, a look of absolute confidence appeared on her face.
Sawako Sekijo turned her head to the other side, neither speaking nor leaving, simply avoiding Kohashi's gaze with a blank expression, yet her expression subtly revealed something strange.
"Guan... Guan Cheng, what's with that expression?"
Fumino Furuhashi's heart skipped a beat, a vague sense of foreboding creeping into her mind, but she managed to maintain a calm expression and asked, "Is there something wrong with what I said?"
Do I need to answer?
Sawako Seki said in a flat tone, "It's what you're thinking."
"what?"
Ogata Rizu looked utterly bewildered, while Furuhashi Fumino was already sweating profusely. Her eye twitched slightly, and she said stiffly, "Could it be..."
Sawa Sekijo nodded, then muttered, "Actually, I'm on the Ogata side, but there are a lot of people on the Furuhashi side at school, like the members of your Sleeping Beauty in the Forest of Literature fan club. But we also have Mechanical Thumb Girl here... cough cough, so let's say it's about 50/50 in terms of numbers."
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Fumino Furuhashi clutched her hair and let out a desperate scream.
My reputation, my reputation! All the elegant, gentle, and kind literary girl image I worked so hard to maintain at school is gone!!
"So noisy,"
Hayakawa was still criticizing himself when he was interrupted by Furuhashi's excited scream. He frowned and looked over, puzzled, and asked, "Why are you yelling for Furuhashi? What happened?"
"Ababa ababa..."
Fumino Furuhashi did not respond to Hayakawa. Her face was still ashen, and she looked utterly hopeless, only able to utter some inorganic murmurs, as if her soul had been taken away.
"What's wrong with this guy?"
Hayakawa turned to Ogata with a blank expression.
Ogata Rizu looked at the two women blankly and shook her head: "I don't understand either. Fumino suddenly became like this."
"Besides myself and the members of the Literary Forest Club"
Seeing Furuhashi's expression, Sawako Sekijo said, "There are also a few that are double couples, you should understand what I mean."
"Don't tell me such a cruel reality..."
Fumino Furuhashi tilted her head, her face ashen, tears streaming down her face.
"Actually, there's more..."
Sawako Sekijo seemed to want to finish the job.
"No! Stop saying it!"
Fumino Furuhashi covered her ears and hid behind Ogata and Hayakawa, looking at Sawako Sekijo with the same fearful eyes one would have for a small animal.
"That's enough, what did we do to you by studying?"
Seeing this, Hayakawa rebuked, "Do you know how hard they work? Studying together doesn't seem to affect other people in the school, so it doesn't matter what other people say or what."
Hayakawa looked serious. Although he was indifferent to anything outside of studying, or even completely ignorant about it, he could at least see the effort and exhaustion of Furuhashi and Ogata Riju, which was even a quarter of his own effort.
Well… after all, I am extraordinary, and it is really unfair to compare myself with ordinary people like Furuhashi and Ogata, so being able to reach a quarter is already worthy of respect.
In short, Hayakawa would not allow Furuhashi Ogata to lose focus on her studies because of some inexplicable school rumors and gossip, causing their efforts to be wasted!
after all…
Furuhashi Ogata's restlessness = stagnant grades = giving up = relearning the original subject = ...
"What an adorable ranking!"
Hayakawa: "..."
I can't take it anymore, my heart can't take it.
Chapter 214 Clearing Up the Misunderstanding
no…
This must not be allowed to happen.
Hayakawa stared at Sawako Sekijo with a gloomy expression; his pride wouldn't allow him to suffer any humiliation.
"Such a strong reaction? Are you really not dating?"
Sawako Seki looked at Hayakawa in surprise, then frowned: "What happened just now?"
"What happened just now?"
Fumino Furuhashi was taken aback and asked in confusion, "What is it?"
"Ah, it was when I was trying on the bra earlier, I..."
Hayakawa was about to tell the whole story when Ogata Rizu quickly covered her mouth: "Mmm..."
"Do not say."
Ogata Riju blushed slightly and tightly covered Hayakawa's mouth.
"What's wrong, Ri-chan?"
Fumino Furuhashi looked at Riju Ogata, who was behaving strangely, with suspicion.
"nothing."
Rizu Ogata guiltily avoided Furuhashi's gaze, but didn't let go of his hand.
Although she didn't know why, she felt extremely ashamed whenever she thought about what had just happened, so she didn't want Fumino Furuhashi to know.
"Ok?"
Fumino Furuhashi was somewhat bewildered, but then it dawned on her.
That's it...
Furuhashi knew that Ogata Rizu had always been bothered by the fact that her breasts were too big, and that was probably why she was keeping quiet about it.
Fumino Furuhashi could understand Ogata's feelings, since girls often have things they find difficult to talk about, and Fumino herself often had them too.
But what does all this have to do with Hayakawa-san?
Fumino Furuhashi frowned slightly as she thought about this.
Hayakawa…Rizu.
Oppai... dating?
Fumino Furuhashi blinked: "..."
Suddenly I feel like asking the real questions again.
"That's just how it is. My relationship with Hayakawa isn't what you think. I'm very satisfied with my life now. I study hard every day, and my grades are improving. It's completely different from those hopeless days in the past. So don't bother me. I don't care about other people's rumors or how they see me. I just want to stay like this until graduation."
Riju Ogata stood on tiptoe and covered Hayakawa's mouth, then turned to Sawako Sekijo with a firm expression and said, "Sawako-san, I consider you a good friend, so please don't affect my studies."
"..."
Sawako Sekijo stared blankly at Rizu Ogata, remaining silent for a long time before murmuring, "You've always been like this..."
She seemed somewhat disappointed, but also somewhat relieved.
Rizu Ogata has always been someone she admires and looks up to, for a long time, so becoming friends with her is the happiest thing for Sawako Sekijo.
As Ogata's friend, it wouldn't hurt to inquire about her love life, would it?
In fact, Sekijo Sawako is not such a boring person. However, if Ogata Rizu or Hayakawa is not good enough, and if it is just a simple relationship between two people, then Sekijo would hold back her tears and support them even if she is jealous. But the rumors in the school are that Hayakawa has unclear relationships with two of her students, and even has other unclear relationships in the school.
In this situation, Sawako Sekijo couldn't sit still. She couldn't accept that her most important friend had been tricked into bed by a scumbag who was seeing multiple women, and that her genius would ultimately perish.
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