Chapter 3 Part 1
Past (1) ~ Even though it’s spring ~
It was when Yuu was on his way home from his middle school graduation ceremony that the incident occurred.
Although in public the public middle schools in this world were co-educational, boys were placed in an almost isolated environment.
This was an unavoidable measure to protect the side that was significantly smaller in proportion, the boys, from the overwhelming majority, the girls, who were driven by the impulses and desires characteristic of youth, as the students were at the age of puberty.
Similarly, even at the graduation ceremony, boys and girls who lined up in the gymnasium were completely separated by what looked like a volleyball net – with finer weave to make it harder to see – suspended from the ceiling.
The girls could only see below the knees, but there was no end to the number of girls who stole fleeting glances at the boys during the ceremony.
Girls who happened to line up near the net would do things like using whatever reason to move to the vicinity of the boys and sniff their smells, or dropping something and pretending to pick it up to peek at them from below, so they were warned by the teachers standing near the net.
The climax of the ceremony.
One by one, the students were called by name to the podium to receive their graduation certificates.
For the girls, this was a rare and final opportunity to boldly revere the boys.
When the more than 200 third-year girls were finally finished, the third-year boys were called up next.
In an instant, the gymnasium was filled with a buzz that was not appropriate for such a solemn ceremony.
No matter how much the teachers called out, 「Quiet!」, it was to no avail.
It was on the level that even some of the teachers; ninety percent of them were women; especially those who had had no luck with the boys, were paying no mind to the girls and were looking at the boys thoroughly one by one, as if licking them.
When Hirose Yuu, the fifth in the order of the boys that numbered only as few as seven, stood on the stage, the volume of shrill cheering reached its peak.
「Yuu-kun!」
「Yuu-chan!」
「Hirose-senpai!」
「Look over here~」
「Kyaa, so cool~」
The treatment was as if he were some sort of an idol.
It was understandable.
Even among the boys, who were few in number to begin with, he sported a particularly handsome face, a slender body, as well as an ever-present cool expression on his face. And then a refreshing smile that he sometimes showed when talking with his friends of the same sex.
Throughout the three grades, it was no exaggeration to say that he was regarded as the number one in the list of boys I want to hold in my arms.
Girls who were charmed by good-looking boys formed private fan clubs on their own accord, but Yuu’s fan club boasted the largest influence, with more than 100 members in total throughout the three grades.
Though, among them, there seemed to be some who were pining for other boys as well.
After receiving his graduation certificate, Yuu bowed to the well-built principal.
Swiftly turning his gaze around, he took a glance at the female students from the podium.
The person in question was completely expressionless, but the girls’ kyaa-kyaa cries grew even louder.
「Just now, our eyes met!」
「So lovely! Let me hold you!」
「Ahn, if you look at me like such eyes, I’ll get wet!」
There were some girls who were so moved that their cheeks were flushed red, and there were even some who were screaming out his name.
Perhaps driven by fear, Yuu, his cheeks twitching, immediately left at a quick pace toward the stairs he had originally come from.
Once the graduation ceremony was over, they would be split into separate buildings by gender, so for the girls, the only chance for them to come in contact with the boys would be when they were on the move.
When the ceremony was over, the graduates left first.
On this occasion, they left through entrances separated by gender, but as soon as they stepped out of the gymnasium, all of the girls raced toward the entrance where the boys had left.
With a look of desperation in their faces, the way they rushed over and scrambled to get there first was akin to surging waves, and the homeroom teachers who tried to stop them were helpless in the face of their overwhelming number.
This was because a peculiar custom associated with graduation ceremonies had taken root among female middle and high school students.
That was to undo the buttons of their uniforms as close to their hearts as possible.
Pull out a strand of hair, dye it red by dipping it in their own blood, and then tie it tightly to the button in place of a thread.
And if they handed it to the boy they had feelings for and was accepted, the red hair would draw them toward each other and tie them together in the future.
It was a completely baseless good luck charm, but for girls who were in the midst of a highly competitive scramble for boys, they probably wished to hold onto something, even if it was a straw.
Though, for the boys who had it forcibly handed to them or crammed into the pocket of their uniforms, it was not something they could bear.
A button with hair dyed with blood tied to it, the only thought the boys had was to throw it away into the blue sky.
Housewives who rushed into department stores as soon as they opened on bargain day, or fans who were immersed in chasing after their idols.
If Yuu, who lived in a different world, had seen them, he might have recalled such scenes.
No, the girls were more desperate than those.
Many of them were set to go on to high schools with no ties to boys.
They ran as if they would regret it for the rest of their lives if they missed this opportunity.
By the time the swarm of third-year girls had made a half-circle of the gymnasium, the boys, sensing the danger, were rushing toward the boys’ school building, surrounded by teachers as well as security guards hired by the school.
As this was a regular event that occurred every year, the school was on high alert.
As soon as the boys safely entered the school building, the front door made of tempered glass was locked, and the throng of muscular security guards lined up in front of it.
「Kuh. This is as far as we go, huh….」
「How regretful!」
「Aah… I wish I could have at least seen his face up close….」
The girls, who had missed their greatest and last chance to come in contact with the boys, all collapsed on the spot.
After all, even when they left school, the boys went home by a car that picked them up one by one, amidst the encirclement of security guards.
And bypassing the guards to talk to the boys and give them something was deemed impossible.
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Among the graduates of the same grade as Yuu, there was a group of delinquents who were so famous that they were known even in other schools.
Let us call the three most central members of the group Girl A, B, and C.
Girl-A, making use of her sumo wrestler-like physique, boasted invincibility in fights and was a well-known gang leader even outside the city.
Girl-B had a black belt in karate, and had a promising future as a karate practitioner, but she had a ruthless personality that loved to torment others more than anything else, and ended up being excommunicated a year ago for sending a number of fellow dojo members and delinquents from other schools into the hospital.
Since then, she had been hanging out with Girl-A.
Girl-C was the type of person who employed craftiness, specialized in currying favor with the strong rather than using her own body.
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Reborn In A World of Chastity Reversal
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