(Side) Chapter 5.5

(A/N Notes: Remember those .5 chapters I used to make on the original version of this story? They will be here, but the contents will be much more different than in the original)

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~How Takeru got his haircut~

Some months ago

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"Hmmm… Should I call my special move as God-slaying meteor strike or as Meteor strike slayer of gods?"

"I like the first one"

"I prefer the second one"

The one who asked that very embarrassing question filled to the brim with chunnibiyou syndrome was Okamura Kenzo, while the other two who answered his question were Hasegawa Kazuo and Inaba Ky respectively, and yes, they were also suffering from chunnibyou syndrome, and together they called themselves as the Katastrophe lords (A/N Notes: Guhah! *Author-san takes critical cringe damage*)

As for what they were doing, they were in a hair salon waiting for their turn to have a haircut

"Hmmm… A tie, huh? What do you think, Slasher of the left golden eye?"

"…"

Kenzo turned his head towards a boy who was seating on a salon chair, but he didn't get an answer from the boy

"… Did Takkun fall asleep?"

" "Yup" "

Kazuo and Kyo answered at the same time

"As I thought, my knowledge knows no bounds"

Kenzo made a smug face as he acted as if he had predicted Takkun falling asleep but they all knew he would eventually fall asleep due to his black circles and tired from playing video games until late in the night, and by who was Takkun, that was Takeru's nickname that his family and friends called him by

Then a man entered the hair salon from the back door

"Sorry for the tardiness, it was my old man who is not capable of handling modern stuff ya know, so how will we do your hair?"

"Nn?… just make it short…"

When the hairstylist asked him, Takeru woke up for a brief moment and answered half-awake, before falling back asleep

"Short it is then"

"Sir, could you please leave his red hair untouched?"

But before the hairstylist could begin cutting Takeru's hair, Kenzo stopped him by saying that

"Hm? And you are?"

"Kukuku… Who I am?… I am, his Friend!"

Kenzo pointed his thumbs towards himself as he said that with confidence

"… Well… Sure, I can… Can you give me more details on how he likes his haircut?"

"Sure, so he likes his haircut like this… This… And this… While keeping his red hair untouched"

Kenzo gestured exactly how Takeru preferred his haircut, with the only lie being the part about Takeru's natural dark red-wine hair

"Alright, that will be easy to do"

And following Kenzo's instructions, the hairstylist cut Takeru's dark brown hair, making it shorter

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Some minutes later

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"Nnn… *Yawns* Whew…"

"Oh! You woke right on time, here give it a look and see if everything is all right"

The hairstylist held a mirror behind Takeru, allowing him to see what his hair was looking like, Takeru found the haircut to be exactly how he wanted it to be, but then he noticed one thing wrong with his haircut, and that was really eye-catching due to rest of his hair color, it was the long left sidetail made up entirely of his red hair

"… Why wasn't this part cut?"

"Your friend over there said that you liked that part to be left untouched"

The hairstylist pointed toward Kenzo who was seating on a salon chair at a small distance away from Takeru, and Kenzo looked at Takeru as he made a victory sign

"KENZOOOO!!!"

"I'll pay for your haircut if you leave like that"

"…"

When Takeru heard Kenzo's bribe, he contorted his face as he internally struggled on whether he would leave the sidetail like that just so that he wouldn't have to pay for the haircut, or cut the sidetail and pay for the haircut, and in the end he… Decided to leave the sidetail and not pay for the haircut

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Later

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With all of them getting their preferred haircuts, the boys were now making their way to a bookstore to buy new mangas

"I didn't think you would actually leave the sidetail"

"I can always have a new haircut some time later"

"Touché"

In the end, Takeru wouldn't visit another hair salon after that, because he found it too troublesome to go there, leaving him stuck with that sidetail of his

And as Takeru and his friends entered the bookstore, a certain silver-haired girl left that same bookstore from the other front door as she was accompanied by her two girl friends, the two groups missed each other even though they were passing by right beside each other

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~Yuriko's first and last experience witnessing that~

5 years ago,

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It was late into the night, and a 10-year-old Yuriko was returning from a visit to the bathroom. And on her way back, she noticed that her older brother's bedroom door was slightly open

"Hm? *Sigh* Onii-san, forgot his door open again"

Yuriko who was already very responsible at that age went to close the door of her older brother, but when she approached the door, she heard him making an unusual sound

"Uuuuuuuoooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

"Hm? What is he doing? !?!?!?"

Curiosity got the better of her, and so Yuriko peeked inside but when she saw what her older brother was doing, she froze on the spot with shocked wide-open eyes, as she saw her brother moving his hand up and down really fast on his hardened stick gun located in the lower half of his body

And soon after, her older brother shot a white load that was already loaded in his hardened stick gun, as she witnessed everything happening before her eyes

"Whew! That was great! Time for another one"

Creaaaaak

When Hayato, Yuriko's brother, heard his bedroom door slowly creaking open, he instinctively looked at it, making him finally notice that his younger sister was standing there in silence with a shocked face. When he saw Yuriko there, Hayato also froze up with wide-open eyes

"…"

"…"

They both stared at each other with shocked eyes in silence. Then Yuriko's face slowly started to move as she began making a crying face filled with fear

"?! Y-Yu-chan! I can explain!"

"Uwaaaaaahhhhh!!!"

And Yuriko fled back to her room while crying

"WAAAAAIIIIIIT!!!"

BANG

Hayato tried to stop her, but he was too slow and Yuriko slammed her bedroom door closed. Because of all the ruckus, they both caused, their parents woke up confused and annoyed by the situation

"… I'm in danger"

That was all Hayato could say before being subject to the most embarrassing situation in his entire life as he tried to explain what had just happened to his parents. After that, Yuriko became fearful of her brother for almost an entire year, and would always avoid him, hurting her older brother's feelings and dignity, because she ended up telling her friends what she witnessed, and her friends spread that around

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Meanwhile, a similar event but in the Tanaka household

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"Uuuuuuuooooooooooooohhhhhhhh!!!"

" "…" "

"Hm? ?!"

Takeru and his older sister, Tanaka Akari, had just witnessed their older brother shoot a white thing out of his erected thing as he watched a hen-tai. When he noticed the two, Tanaka Hideo, almost fell from his chair as he made a shocked face

While Tanaka and Akari were both making disgusted faces as if they were looking at a gross pile of trash, then Akari opened her mouth

"You're a disgrace to this family"

"Yeah"

Takeru agreed to his sister's words, then they both left and went back into their bedrooms

"… What?"

And Hideo was left alone in his bedroom in utter confusion at what just happened

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~Daichi's progress last year~

Spring after the start of the first days of school

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Daichi and a girl had volunteered to become class representatives, and luckily for the boy he had managed to win the lottery against the other boys who also had volunteered to become class representatives, now he and the girl were taking some documents to the student council room

"…"

"…"

And there was just silence between the two, the girl carrying some of the documents was also a new student at Yama high just like him, and he like many others in the school fell in love with her at first sight, and now he had the privileged position of working close to her… … … But he was too much of a cowardly coward to actually to take the initiative. Heh

"Here are the documents you requested, president"

"Thanks. Oh! You even organized them for me, thank you very much"

"You're welcome, president"

"…"

The girl handled the entire talk with the student council president, with Daichi only standing there in silence, like a statue. Once the girl finished the talks they both left the student council room

"…"

"Thank you for the help, Yamamoto-san"

"?! Huh? Me?"

"Yes, is there anyone else here who brought the documents with me, aside from you?"

"No…"

"Then it's you, I look forward to working with you from now on. Ah! And you can call me Nanami as well, see you"

"S-See you…"

And Yuriko walked away, once she was out of sight and a few minutes had passed

"YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! I can call her by her surname!"

"No shouting in the damn corridors!!!"

The student council president put her head outside of the room and shouted toward Daichi

"S-sorry!"

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Early winter

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Most of the year had already passed, and Daichi's relationship with Yuriko hasn't moved an inch ever since that day. But by now, they were both scouted to the student council, and right now they were both tending to some documents the president handed over to them and some other scouted students

"…"

"…"

Daichi was making a troubled face as he looked at the documents having difficulty organizing them

"Need some help with your documents, Daichi-san?"

"Eh? N-no, it's fine"

"Are you sure? You still have a big pile with you"

"I'm fine really"

"…"

Yuriko then simply picked half of Daichi's remaining documents to herself

"N-Nanami-san!? I said you didn't need to do it!"

"Yuriko"

"Huh?"

"My given name is Yuriko, and we have worked together for almost an entire year now, shouldn't we be both dressing each other by our given names at this point?"

"Well… Maybe?"

"Then do as such"

"Nanami-san, could you please return those documents?"

"…"

Yuriko ignored him

"…N-Nanami-san didn't you hear my request?"

"…"

Yuriko continued to ignore him

"… N-Nanami-san?"

"…"

Yuriko still continued to ignore him

"… … … Y… Yu… Y-Yuriko-san…"

"Yes, Daichi-san?"

Yuriko was making a gentle smile as she looked at Daichi

"C-can… You give those… Documents back?"

"… Hmmm… Nope!"

Yuriko denied Daichi's request with a smile, seeing that Daichi simply resigned to finish the documents Yuriko still left with him with a dejected look… But inside her was screaming with happiness

<YES! I can finally call her by her given name!>

Just some months later, a new student would achieve the same in around a week

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(A/N Notes: ANd just now, I got an idea for one of those reincarnated as a villainess story, I might try to write it as a one-shot or something because I quite liked the idea I came up with)