I Accidentally Sent a Love Letter to the School's Most Prestigious Young Lady Instead of My Childhood Friend, and Now She's Bowing to Me, Asking, "Please Date Me—On the Premise of Marriage!" - 37

“Since Yuu-sama and I are already in a physical relationship.”

Shion-san declared this with a perfectly calm face. She was composed, without even a ripple of disturbance.

In contrast, Haru reacted instantly.

“That’s a lie!”

“It is not a lie.”

Shion-san immediately denied it in a tone that brooked no argument.

“There were rumors that Yuu-sama and I were dating near the station, weren’t there?”

At Shion-san’s words, Haru’s complexion changed.

“And stories circulated about him coming home late, or being seen entering a hotel, right?”

“…No way…”

“Yes. At that time, Yuu-sama simply accepted my invitation lightly… but the two of us became intimate.”

Shion-san sent a loving gaze toward me. Right in front of Haru’s watching eyes.

“And this is something I intended to share only if Yuu-sama chose me. If he had chosen Haru-san instead, I planned to keep it a secret from Yuu-sama forever…”

After a deliberate pause, with powerful dramatic effect, Shion-san declared:

“I am pregnant.”

…The room froze.

What?

Shion-san, what did you just… say?

Then Shion-san stroked her stomach. Wearing an expression filled with love and affection.

“During our date, we didn’t particularly use contraception. Yuu-sama is just an ordinary virgin high school boy with no experience with women. He probably didn’t think anything special of it. But when a man and woman engage in intimate acts, there can be consequences.”

“…That can’t be…”

“Yes. I am pregnant.”

The room fell silent, everyone froze, and time in the world stopped.

Then, Shion-san declared to us:

“Even if Yuu-sama were to choose Haru-san, the proof of the love between Yuu-sama and I exists. It’s precious… my and Yuu-sama’s precious treasure.”

Shion-san smiled. With love for me, and love for that child. It appeared as a maternal, intense smile—so much so it seemed filled with madness.

“Yuu!!”

Haru screamed.

“What is the meaning of this!!”

While screaming, she turned a demonic expression toward me, but just like when Haru had made her “we did it” statement earlier, I deliberately didn’t deny it.

And simply maintaining my silence—

“It is the crystallization of our loving act with Yuu-sama.”

While making a gesture of holding her stomach, Shion-san smiled softly again. With an expression of compassion and tenderness, like a holy mother.

Haru clenched her teeth tightly, balled her fists, and wore an expression of enduring something. Then, as if squeezing it out, she uttered:

“I believed in you!!”

“…………”

This time too, I deliberately didn’t answer. Instead, I kept watching Haru’s behavior. “How will Haru react?” I wondered.

Then Haru, with the same furious expression, hurled more words:

“You traitor!! Even though you didn’t do it with me!!”

“…Wait, didn’t you just say you did it with me while I was asleep?”

“Whether we did it or not doesn’t matter! You slept with another woman besides me, and on top of that, you did it raw, you bastard!!”

Haru, carried by her momentum, turned back toward Shion-san.

“You thieving cat!! After saying you wouldn’t make a sneak attack!!”

Shion-san remained standing coolly and silently. So, I had no choice but to be the one to retort.

“Weren’t all tactics allowed, and the winner is justice?”

“Shut up shut up shut up!! I’m the one who’s the rules, justice, and the winner!!”

Haru in full-blown tantrum mode was like a monster complainer. Flailing her arms and legs, she rapid-fired selfish lines.

“Me and Yuu dating is social justice, while Shion and Yuu dating is a crime!!”

“What Yuu and I have is pure love, while what Shion and Yuu have is adultery!!”

“Liking someone is free, but doing it with Yuu is punishable by execution!!”

Somehow, it felt like a losing heroine going full hysterical rampage. She seemed like she didn’t even know what she was saying anymore, and I felt a little sorry for her.

“Well, honestly, I understand how you feel, but that’s too much of a double standard, to put it mildly.”

“Shut up shut up shut uuuuuuup!!!!!! Cheating with another woman besides me!! I’m just a cuckolded wife!!”

“You’re already assuming Haru and I are together, but just looking at the situation, it seems like Shion-san and I had a relationship first, right? Though being told I got her pregnant has a strong impact, that’s just what Shion-san is saying—I haven’t confirmed anything.”

“So it was just a fling for fun, huh?! Even though you whispered love in my ear!!”

“So listen to what I’m saying. I didn’t sleep with you in the first place, right?”

“You whispered love!! Why?! Because you whispered love!!”

…At this point, I could only hold my head and look up at the sky, wondering how to respond.

Haru, grumbling “huhuhu,” clenched her fists and looked up at the sky screaming, like a manga explosion panel.

“I’m breaking up with Yuu!! You got cuckolded, you beastly hypocrite traitor!!!!!!”

Then, Haru, still completely naked and teary-eyed, dashed out of the room.

“May you both get trampled by horses and fall into hell!!!!!!”

Leaving behind that screaming loser’s line, she fled down the hallway while Shion-san and I stood frozen in the room.