I Was Confessed To And Got Dumped, So I Devoted Myself To My Hobbies, But Things Somehow Got Out Of

Chapter 3: The “it’s me” scamming best friend’s invasion

On a certain internet image board.

[it came out again, another account calling themself “Haru” lololol]

[Again?lololol how many times has this happened by now? In the end it’s another fake, yeah?]

[But this link goes to the novel though?]

[That kinda thing, any schmuck can just copy the link off the internet, you know?]

[Take a load of this, isn’t this a default profile picture? It’s obviously a fake.lololol]

[What are you gonna do if this is the real thing?]

[Ha! The followers are in the 2 digits, there’s no way it’s the real thing lololol]

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“Let’s play a game…”

After I finished my lunch I went and grabbed my game console in the living room.

Only the living room has a television.

I don’t really watch tv, but I use it to play games.

“Let’s play on the switch.”

I play a certain RPG’s continuation.

By the way, I am part of the V faction.(I have no idea what this is a reference to, would be appreciated if someone can point it out in the comments, my guess is on Dragon Quest V)

“Ok, ok, with this… I’ve beaten the mid-boss!!”

Like this, I played for about 2 hours.

“It’s still 3pm, huh?”

While I was thinking about what to do next, my home telephone rang.

“Hello?”

[Yo-! It’s me, you know, me!]

“I’m sorry, may I know who I am speaking to?”

[It’s me dad, did you forget?]

“I’m sorry, I don’t have a son though?”

[Don’t you have your prided son attached down there?]

“Ah, actually this thing automatically records conversations”

[I seriously apologize for my actions!]

“So, what’s the matter, Tenrai-kun?”

[If you’re free, wanna go out and play somewhere?]

“OK. where should we go-*DING DONG!!*”

While I was talking on the phone, the doorbell rang.

“What’s up! It’s me!”

“Tenrai-kun, isn’t it time you stop coming over without notice?”

It was Tenrai-kun at the door.

It’s always like this so I already got used to it.

[Dumbass, it’s because I know I’ll be forgiven by Haruto that I do this. Anyways it’s hot outside, so can you open up?]

“Roger that.”

After I ended the call, I went to the door.

When I opened the door a refreshing good looking guy was out there dripping with sweat,

“It’s the cool me!”

“Please go home.”

“Haven’t you been kind of mean lately!?”

The good looking guy grabbed the door knob of the closing door with a surprised face.

“Well then come in.”

“Yup, I’ll be barging in.”

“You smell like sweat!”

“It can’t be helped, you know. There’s a heatwave after all. With this heat anyone would be beat.”

This good looking guy is my best friend Kagari Tenrai-kun. At 180cm and with defined muscles standing out, he’s a self-proclaimed refreshing good looking guy.

In actuality, I’m jealous that he’s good looking and popular.

We’ve been in the same class since elementary school.

“But really, to think that it’s like this after just walking for 20 minutes, what a bother.”

“Here, some barley tea.”

“Thank you! Ohh, I can feel it soak into me!”

Him drinking it heartily getting filtered by him being good looking is somehow pissing me off.

“So what happened with Hiiragi-san?”

。

Having finished his drink, Tenrai-kun suddenly gouged out my wound.

“I was dumped.”

“Hm?”

“I was dumped.”

“Hey wait a minute. Just to confirm, the one who got confessed to, was you, right?”

“That’s right, and then a message saying [I don’t like you after all] came.”

“Haha, that’s what you get lolololol”

“Fun-!”

“Guhe-!?”

“Have you prepared yourself?”

“Your character suddenly changed, and you’ve already punched me once in the stomach though!?”

“Stop bringing up that wound. I’m actually pretty hurt by it.”

“Well let’s get along as comrades, ok?”

“I’m different from you, didn’t Tenrai-kun confess himself?”

That’s right, Tenrai-kun confessed to Hiiragi-san even before 1 week has passed since we started highschool.

The result was an honorable defeat.

“No.”

He was rejected with that one word.

Although Tenrai-kun is a good looking guy, he’s a disappointing one.

His face is good, but he likes women too much and has confessed to a lot of them already.

And his reasons are things like “cute” or “love at first sight”.

“I already gave up on Hiiragi-san a long time ago. Right now I’m just staying quiet.”

“You moved on already? Can you really forget about it that fast?”

“There’s no way I can do that. Don’t I always tell you? To immerse yourself in your hobbies or look for another woman. In actuality, isn’t Haruto devoting himself to his hobby right now?”

“You know me well.”

“Well no one’s ever confessed to you after all.”

“That’s mean!”

Well, it is true though!?

“… So it really was like that, huh.”

“You had some idea about it?”

“Yeah, I’ve heard some stuff about Hiiragi-san. With her good looking face she hunts for men. Just a while ago I saw her with Sanjou-senpai after all.”

“She told me she was gonna go out with Sanjou-senpai. It seems he confessed to her himself.”

“Then that means Haruto is at a disadvantage.”

“Yeah, but normally, someone who’d confessed wouldn’t just suddenly say [actually it’s impossible], right?”

“Yeah, that is weird. But really, Hiiragi-san is also an idiot.”

“Why?”

“If you actually set your hair, you’re quite good looking, you know. You always keep your bangs down and keep wearing jeans and a parker so you look lame.”

“It’s because I don’t go out much after all.”

“Well, I won’t force you so let’s go out sometime when you want to.”

“Thanks.”

“But hey, I’ve been sending you messages on LIME since a while ago, you know?”

“Ah, I left my phone in my room.”

“So it was like that! I couldn’t contact you so I went all the way to your house.”

“Sorry, sorry, I was playing V.”

“Shit, so you were playing games, huh. Let’s watch some anime instead!”

He took out a cable from his bag and connected it to the tv.

Tenrai-kun is actually a pretty hardcore otaku.

The reason I got into vocaloid and novels is probably due to Tenrai-kun’s influence on me.

“Hey, do you know the writer [Haru]?”

Tenrai-kun said as we watched anime.

My heart suddenly thumped, but without letting it show on my face I said “Nah?”.

“If you don’t know, then I’ll tell you. Hiiragi-san told me about, but it seems he’s a famous author on an online novel upload site. He makes some absurdly good works.”

That’s me though…

“The amazing part is that even though he hasn’t been active for 2 years he’s still in 1st place. Isn’t that amazing?”

That’s me though…

“Moreover, he posted for the first time in a while yesterday, and immediately got 1st place on the daily rankings.”

That’s me though…

“Crazy isn’t it!?”

“O,Oh, it is…”

“Isn’t it!? I sent you a link on LIME, so you absolutely need to go take a look!”

“I,I got it.”

His pressure is overwhelming.

However, Hiiragi-san also knew about my work, huh?

That kinda makes me happy.

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“Well then, I think it’s about time I head back home. Let’s play together again some time.”

“Sure, it was fun.”

We watched anime until 7pm and Tenrai-kun headed towards the door.

“So, Haruto, did you start feeling a little better?”

“Yeah, thanks.”

“No Problem!”

Tenrai-kun left for home.

As expected he came over to cheer me up.

If he showed this side of himself more, he wouldn’t be called a [disappointing good looking guy]. 

“Ok, let’s go eat dinner then.”

I made dinner, ate it, relaxed in the bath, lied in bed, and went to sleep just like that.