The night had already grown deep.
All things sank into silence, darkness, and loneliness.
Only the rustling of tree branches blown by the cold wind brought a tiny bit of vitality to this black world… No, it seemed there were still some other sounds.
“I’m! I’m not trash! I’m! I’m not a soft egg! I’m! Not some useless garbage who can’t even beat a worthless man!”
“Ah? What did you say is… worthless!?”
“Ahhhhhhh!!!”
Inside a room filled with decorations of violent aesthetics, “Ahhhhhhhhh!!!”, the girl whose face was covered in acne pits suddenly shot up from the bed and sat upright.
“Haa~~ Haa~~”
The moment she opened her eyes, what appeared before her was not that sandbag-sized fist, but the familiar place of peace she had long grown used to.
“What the… so it was just a dream… Haha.”
……Ha……Ha!?
Han Shengdou suddenly found it a little hard to believe.
Was I… was I actually feeling lucky that it was only a dream?
Me! Was I feeling lucky that I didn’t have to face that man again?!
A sense of shame surged up to her forehead along with her blood, making that pockmarked face of hers look like a tomato of extremely poor appearance that had been eaten through by insects.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Embarrassed and furious with nowhere to vent, she could only continuously pound the bedboard to slightly release this heart-devouring hatred.
Although she made a great deal of noise, outside the room it remained as quiet as always.
“Damn it! Damn it! It was just one stinking man! He actually! He actually dared to look down on me!”
Before yesterday, she had never once imagined that she would be defeated by a man, and with just one punch! One punch!
She was the Number Two of Momoi High School! Number Two!
Even in Momoi, which was full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers, there were only a dozen or so Number Twos!
The Number Two who stood only beneath Momoi’s eternal king and the seven Number Ones!
…………..But so what?
Hadn’t she still been knocked down by that man named Siji with a single punch?
Han Shengdou suddenly lost all her strength and collapsed limply.
Siji, haha, it was even a name that only appeared in those novels.
It even sounded nice when you said it.
Unlike herself— Han— Sheng— Dou! What kind of broken bird name was that! It was precisely because she had been given this broken name that she could only fight like some rotten girl.
Lying on the bed and thinking about Zhong Siji’s name and her own, Han Shengdou’s thoughts couldn’t help drifting further and further.
That woman named Runhui should be his girlfriend, right?
His dad’s, not a single bit of taste.
That woman was not only a useless coward, her chest was also exaggeratedly large.
Had that man’s brain been kicked by a donkey?
If she had to force out an advantage, it would only be that her face was still fairly clean and fair………. It couldn’t be that he took a liking to her just because of that, right?
The anger that had just been extinguished once again ignited from within Han Shengdou’s heart. If she had to say it, in what way was she inferior to that Runhui?
She had feminine dignity where feminine dignity was needed, she had muscles where muscles were needed, her chest was small and full of charm, and as for looks…….. she also had feminine dignity.
It was just that her appearance was only a tiny bit worse than that woman’s.
Why did she get to have such a good-looking partner! Why?!
Han Shengdou angrily got up from the bed again, turned on the light in the room, and sat down in front of the vanity mirror.
This enormous mirror was also the reason she never brought her little sisters (her underlings) into her room.
How could something that only appeared in a man’s room appear in the room of someone as full of feminine dignity as her?
The clear mirror surface reflected her ugly face thoroughly and without a single place to hide.
She had originally been very resistant to looking in mirrors, because to her every mirror was a demon-revealing mirror that could expose this monster of hers with nowhere to hide.
But it seemed someone had once said something like this before.
“Haha, Xiao Dou, if you didn’t have these pimples on your face, you’d actually be pretty handsome.”
Who was it?
She could no longer quite remember.
She only remembered that at the time she had given that idiot who dared to mock her a thorough beating.
But ever since then she would always look in the mirror from time to time, fantasizing about what she would look like without these acne pits, and whether she would really be as handsome as he had said.
Only today she discovered……… that even without these acne pits, she still didn’t look handsome at all………..
Crash!!! A tremendous sound of shattering rang out in this silent night.
“His dad’s! Liars! Liars!!! All of them are liars! Does the ‘lunar surface’ of Momoi need your pity! Need your comfort?!”
“His dad’s! Her dad’s! Runhui…… Siji……. Don’t think you’ve won like this. Don’t think the two of you can just be happy like this. Last time it was only because his dad’s I was unprepared. Even that eternal king would pass out if he got hit squarely in the face while unprepared.”
She lowered her head and looked at the fragments of the enormous vanity mirror that should have been sitting properly on the table.
In the refraction of the broken mirror surface, she seemed to see an ugly, ferocious beast.
“Haha…….. Hahahahahaha.” She laughed out loud without any restraint, until she could no longer laugh.
She changed her clothes and made a phone call to her two little sisters.
As expected, neither of them had gone to sleep. “Let’s go to the internet café to kill some time. My treat!” Of course they had no reason to refuse.
Bang! Bang! With two tremendous sounds from the room door and the house door, the entire house returned once more to the silence of the beginning.
Although Han Shengdou had made a great deal of noise, aside from her there was not a single other sound.
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“Onee-chan, you’re saying that guy is going to make you a bento to eat!? For real? You’re not having a hysteria episode and messing with this humble one here, are you?”
Faced with her little sister Xu Runmin’s questioning, Xu Runhui merely raised her neck high and looked down at the ugly face that was slandering her out of jealousy from a contemptuous angle.
“That’s why middle-schoolers are still so green. I’m already not a person of the same world as you, so it’s perfectly normal that you can’t understand.”
“Ha? It’s only been a few weeks since you entered high school. What exactly do you have to be so proud of, Onee-chan?”
“That doesn’t make sense. Can a short, big-chested woman like Onee-chan actually be liked by a man of that level? Could it be that heavy tastes are popular nowadays?”
“……..Although your mouth has never had a filter, isn’t saying that about your own older sister going a bit too far? I’m really going to hit you, you know.”
Yet Xu Runmin completely ignored her older sister’s threat.
As if she had been enlightened by a sudden realization, she began clapping her hands.
“Wait! That guy asked you how to make bentos this morning, and tomorrow he’s going to bring you a bento to eat. In other words, Onee-chan, you’re the taste-tester for the bentos, right?!”
Struck right on the mark, Xu Runhui’s face flushed red.
“So what if I am? At least I get to eat a boy’s bento!”
“I almost got fooled by you, Onee-chan. In other words, the person that guy truly wants to make bentos for is someone else, right? Onee-chan, don’t you find it bitter eating that bento?”
“Although he didn’t say it outright, I think he probably wants to make them for his little sister.”
Little…… sister? Xu Runmin’s heart stirred. She pretended not to care at all as she asked, “Eh~~ Then he’s really a good older brother. What’s his name?”
“Zhong Siji.”
Both surnamed Zhong, huh.
The surname Zhong is so rare, and we just happened to run into the same thing……… Hehe~~
Xu Runmin gave a fake cough.
“Then, Onee-chan, did you do what I told you this morning and propose that you want to make bentos together with him and improve together?”
“I didn’t, actually. After all, I’m a girl, you know? Things like love bentos are a boy’s job, aren’t they?”
“What era is this still? Onee-chan, you’re still this big of a female-supremacist. Didn’t I say that this way you can get even closer to him? Who knows, you might even be able to use this as an excuse to propose going to his house to study together~~”
“Go….. to Classmate Siji’s….. house!?”
Xu Runmin looked at Xu Runhui the way a fishing granny looked at a fish that had taken the bait.
“Doesn’t Onee-chan really want to see…… his casual clothes~~~?”