The Heroines Want to Fall in Love 26

The Heroines Want to Fall in Love 26

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Edited by: Tiny Fan Fiction

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Chapter 26 Every Family Has Its Own Difficulties

“She asked for my help, but only gave me a home address and nothing else. Hiratsuka-sensei really knows how to make me feel important.”

On the other side of the dinner table, Momo heard his complaint and became curious: “Did you run into some kind of trouble?”

“There’s a student in my class who hasn’t shown up for 2 days, and as the class representative, I got roped into helping out.” Asakura poked at the crystal-clear rice with his chopsticks and said: “The teacher went to the student’s home for a visit, but didn’t get any information out of them. The parents are always busy with work and weren’t even home, so the teacher didn’t get to meet them.”

What could be the reason behind her not coming to school, doing something like this?

Is it a family problem, or has something drastic changed in her relationships at school?

The former is more likely, since Saki Kawasaki always sits alone in class, giving off a ‘don’t come near me’ vibe, but because she has a bit of a delinquent air about her and dresses the part, nobody dares to bully her.

Generally speaking, the ones who get bullied in school are the weak-willed students.

Although it sounds like victim-blaming, flies don’t land on seamless eggs… Asakura has never met someone who’s practiced kendo or martial arts since they were young and gotten bullied.

“Asakura-sama, you said midterms are coming up soon, and now you’re going to help someone else?”

Asakura knew what she was worried about: “There’s still a week left, and tomorrow’s Friday, so I can use delivering handouts as an excuse to visit.”

For Asakura, when it comes to studying, his daily accumulation is enough.

Cramming at the last minute has limited benefits, and there’s no need to tense up his nerves at this point.

“Time-wise, it’s still manageable, but don’t you think it’s better to focus on reviewing at a time like this?”

“Rather than abandoning a classmate and studying alone to get good grades, don’t you think it’s more impressive to help a girl who’s on the verge of becoming a shut-in and bring her back from the brink?”

If you want to be the sun, just hanging high up in the air isn’t enough – you also need to warm others with your sunlight.

“Heroes who love to help others usually don’t have very good endings, you know.”

“But there are also heroes who get to marry princesses, right?”

“That’s just fairy tales, though. Nowadays, girls are more practical – just saving them isn’t enough to make them fall for you. They consider all sorts of things, like the hero’s family, personality, and even their mount.”

“Huh? Even the mount is a consideration?”

“A prince on a white horse is definitely more impressive than one without a horse, right?”

“I guess I have no counterargument.”

“The beautiful princesses might even find a dozen prince candidates and then pick from them. This one’s looks aren’t good enough, pass, this one’s family doesn’t have a big enough castle, pass, this one’s too short, pass.”

“Princesses are really scary, and the princes are so pitiful.”

“In fact, the princesses even hold private tea parties where they compare the princes who are pursuing them. ‘Huh? Your suitor only has one castle, isn’t that too few?’, or ‘I heard this prince is having an affair with a maid, his private life is corrupt.’, or ‘The prince pursuing me is too gentle, I don’t feel secure’.”

“Why don’t you feel secure? Isn’t a gentle man a good thing?”

“If he’s only gentle to one princess, then it’s not a problem. But this prince is gentle to all the princesses, so in this princess’s eyes, he’s not gentle to her.” Momo said with a hint of implication.

“Can the world get any worse? It’s full of oppression towards princes everywhere.”

Momo sighed: “So, a gentle prince just needs to be gentle to one person. Growing old together, a romantic love, doesn’t that sound great? In my opinion, that’s the perfect prince.”

The people of Deviluke don’t really mind their partners having multiple lovers, but who wouldn’t want to be the one and only for Yui?

Wanting to be his one and only, wanting to be with him forever, that’s every girl’s dream.

“What about the other princesses? They think they can be the prince’s one and only too, right?”

“Losers, of course, need to withdraw…” Momo said, biting the tip of her chopstick, lost in thought.

If she can’t be the one and only, what then?

Being the second best doesn’t seem so bad?

No, no!

I almost got persuaded by Asakura-sama!

Since the outcome hasn’t been decided yet, why give up so early?

No girl would easily give up on love!

“I won’t be gentle to just one girl, so I guess I won’t become the perfect prince you’re talking about. But I can be your knight and protect you.”

Because I don’t want to be someone’s moon, reflecting the sun’s light, I want to be the sun itself.

Momo didn’t say anything else, and started eating her meal in a bad mood.

The plan to make Asakura-sama into a pure love believer failed, but his words weren’t annoying.

[Momo Belia Deviluke’s affection level +3, points +3000]

The next day.

On the way to school.

Hachiman Hikigaya pushed his bike, and since the road to the school gate was crowded, it was dangerous to ride a bike, so he usually got off early.

Footsteps sounded from behind me.

“Hachiman.”

It’s him again!

Hachiman Hikigaya thought to himself, maybe he should change his wake-up time; he ran into this guy every day.

“Oh!”

Hachiman forced himself to perk up and greeted the enthusiastic, popular guy.

Weekend was just around the corner, Hachiman Hikigaya wanted to relax today.

“Are you free after school? Let’s go take care of something.”

“No time, Oyster, leave me alone,” Hachiman Hikigaya bluntly refused.

He wasn’t some class president who couldn’t say no, let alone to a guy.

“But, is there something you can’t solve?”

In Hachiman’s eyes, a perfect protagonist shouldn’t have weaknesses.

“How should I put this… Komachi refused to go out and just stayed home one day, it had something to do with family trouble…”

“…Komachi is such a good girl, she wouldn’t become a shut-in.”

Komachi Hikigaya is the best sister in the world, you all know it!

“Hypothetically, just hypothetically, I know Komachi is a good girl. Where were we? Ah, right, this has to do with family trouble, and then a strange man suddenly wants to enter the Hikigaya household, claiming he’s here to deliver handouts…”

“Damn it, break his legs!”

“Hey! I’m not done yet, why are you trying to break my legs?!”

“As expected, you’re going to deal with that Kawasaki guy. I should have guessed.”

“What do you think we should do about it?”

“Something you can’t solve, I can’t either.”

The righteous way won’t work, and the wicked way won’t work either.

Hachiman Hikigaya is good at solving problems from the root.

But this problem’s root was probably family related, and he couldn’t think of a good solution.

“You and Kawasaki-someone can only be considered strangers, no, it’s more suitable to say classmates, and this position is fundamentally insufficient to intervene.” Hachiman Hikigaya’s dead fish eyes had no sparkle, and his mouth gave out his solution: “So, rely on your charm and try to seduce Kawasaki-someone.”

“Sorry, Hachiman.”

Asakura Yu felt that this was not a good idea: “I have no plans to date a girl for the time being.”

How can he get points after dating?

“Then I can’t do anything.”

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