"Ms. Kouhai" Turns Out To Be "Ms. Cheeky"

I, Kazuhiko Kazushi, had once again collapsed on the rooftop. An underclassman had just asked me to "take responsibility" and be her boyfriend. I'd expected something like this to happen again, but to think she attended the same school as me! What luck I had.

Here I was, greeted by the familiar white light above and the familiar ceiling. Definitely not dead yet. I was in the infirmary once again. As I was enjoying the quiet, a voice broke the silence.

"Oh, Senpai! You're awake now! I'm glad." It was a girl's voice, Kisara Mihashi, if I remembered correctly from her earlier introduction.

The moment Mihashi saw I was awake, Furumi also came to check on me. Her face seemed relieved and even happy, for some reason, though her words were anything but. "Hmph. So you're awake now, huh? You collapsed again earlier, and we took you here. You should be grateful, you pathetic person. Hmph!"

As always, she never changed. Still a tsundere.

"What are you saying, Furumizawa-senpai?! You shouldn't say those things to him when he just collapsed..." Mihashi interjected, defending me. She then turned to me, holding a spoon full of food. "...Well, Kazuhiko-senpai, here, say ahhh."

Furumi, startled, immediately objected. "What are you doing?! You can't do that!" She clearly didn't want Mihashi feeding me.

But Mihashi, with a cheeky grin, replied, "Why, though? Is he your boyfriend, Sen-pai?"

Furumi blushed, clearly flustered. I doubted she'd use our fake relationship here. But to my surprise, she actually did.

"Yes! He is my boyfriend! And what about you asking him to take responsibility, huh?! I don't get you! Explain yourself," Furumi declared confidently. She wasn't really my girlfriend, of course, but if she wanted to go along with it, that was fine by me.

Though, I had a bad feeling she shouldn't know why this underclassman was asking me to "take responsibility," or I'd be dead for sure.

But Mihashi, my underclassman, spilled the beans. "Well, he took my first kiss! Remember, Kazuhiko-senpai?! At the library, you bumped into me and lost your balance! You kissed me! That's why, Furumizawa-senpai." She answered exactly what Furumi wanted to know.

And just like that, Furumi was fuming with anger. A palpable killing intent radiated from her. This was definitely bad.

"So... You've done it again, huh?! Get ready, Kazuhiko Kazushi!" she seethed.

Not long after, she punched me in the stomach. It hurt so much! Why did I have to suffer like this?!

Afterward, Furumi became honest with Mihashi about our circumstances, about what had happened to us.

"Oh... So you're the same, Furumizawa-senpai..." Mihashi said.

"Yeah, that's why you should stop! I'll make sure he'll take responsibility for me," Furumi declared confidently, placing her hands on her chest.

"But that means..." Mihashi gulped. "He's not your boyfriend then?!"

Furumi, shocked, asked, "What do you mean...?"

Then Mihashi, my underclassman, said something outrageous. "Well, I won't give him up to you then, Senpai! Kazuhiko-senpai will be mine! I'll love him more than you do!" She declared this as if waging war against Furumi.

"Huhhh?!! What do you mean?! You can't just do that! He's MY Kazuhiko!" Furumi exclaimed, as if to genuinely claim me as hers.

But wait... I'm not yours, okay?! I'm no one's property! We weren't even dating, yet she was saying such a thing.

"Well, unfortunately for you, Furumizawa-senpai, you have an archenemy now, and that is..." Before she could finish, Mihashi ran toward me and hugged my arm, her breasts pressing against me. "...That is, ME! Kisara Mihashi! I'll make sure to make Kazuhiko-senpai all for me!"

She had definitively declared war against Furumi. But what was this situation?! It wasn't like Furumi and I were actually dating, but Furumi wasn't backing down.

"Then let's see about that, Cheeky Kouhai! Let's see who's the best!" Furumi exclaimed, accepting Mihashi's declaration of war.

There... I found myself in a difficult situation that I doubted I'd be able to escape. This was truly spiraling out of control. However, I couldn't just stop them, or their anger would definitely turn on me.

All I could do... was sigh in silence.

Why was this happening to me?!

Here, in front of me, facing each other, were "Ms. Tsundere" and "Ms. Kouhai," who had turned out to be quite cheeky. I'd definitely be calling her "Ms. Cheeky" from now on. A cheeky girl wasn't so bad anyway, so why not? Hehe. But this was definitely a high-pressure situation.

I wondered what would happen to me from now on. It was so tiring to think about the future right now. Though I didn't know anything, this was another big step... for me, in getting my memories back.