Chapter 57: Final Chapter
The smear campaign making it seem like Natsume Kano was behind the bullying against Sakurada Nagisa, along with the engagement scandal between Kuzuryuu Souma and Fuyunagi Shizuku—over a year has passed since those incidents. Now in their third year of high school, Fuyunagi Shizuku and Majima Takuma are approaching the end of that chapter.
That is to say, graduation is drawing near.
They were heading together toward a specific place.
Confirming the results for their university entrance exams…
In recent years, the number of universities that announce exam results on bulletin boards inside the campus has decreased nationwide, with online announcements becoming the norm.
However, this university, which is affiliated with the Kuzuryuu Group, still insists on the old-fashioned methods of the past. And so, Majima and Fuyunagi are currently swaying along on the train like this.
“Haah… I’m getting nervous.”
“There’s no need to worry. For the past year and a half, you’ve really worked incredibly hard.”
“It’s all thanks to you, Fuyunagi-san… everything, including getting this far… If you hadn’t been here, I might not have even attempted the university entrance exams, and the fact that I’m riding this train now is all thanks to you, Fuyunagi-san.”
“That’s not true… to me, this all feels like a dream, too.”
“A dream?”
I quietly peered into her face.
She seemed to be looking far away,
Not at the current scenery but somewhere distant.
Looking at her again now, I can’t help but feel how beautiful she truly is.
“In the past, I used to think that as long as I was fine, nothing else mattered… I didn’t even have the mindset to consider other people at all.”
“Yeah… Back then, Fuyunagi-san really did put up walls between herself and everyone.”
It was back then… specifically, ever since that confession, that I started a connection with her.
Elegant, impartial, beautiful, graceful… the untouchable flower on the highest peak.
But that was a disguise to hide the real her. In reality, she was cunning, distrustful, and very quick to sort people into categories.
Her personality was shaped through her years in elementary and middle school.
With her beauty that far surpassed everyone else, people constantly pushed her onto a pedestal, lifting her up, worshiping her.
She was admired, envied, resented, and idolized—all without her doing anything.
Boys would always fall for her on their own, enchanted by her and flocking to her, driven by their lust.
The girls would always be jealous of her, accumulating resentment and bitterness, and attacking her.
Eventually, she came to view relationships with other people as worthless and spat them out of her life, creating a public façade while hiding her true self deep inside.
And the result of that was the elegant and beautiful, untouchable flower, Fuyunagi-san.
“I’ve really been blessed with good people this past year and a half… Nagisa, Natsume-san, Katou-kun, Sado-kun… I can truly think of them as dear friends now.”
“Isn’t that proof that you worked hard, Fuyunagi-san?”
“Hehe, I didn’t do anything special… It’s because everyone is such a good person that things turned out this way. When I think about it… I really do feel it. I was terribly cruel to Sado-kun back then…”
“There’s no point digging that up now. Sado forgave you ages ago, and he’s having fun with Sakurada-san these days. If you apologized now, I think it’d just make things awkward for him.”
“…You’re right.”
Compared to most people, the way we met was a little unusual.
The one who confessed was Fuyunagi-san, and back then, I never would’ve imagined that she of all people would confess to me.
I was so thrilled by a confession from the school’s number one beauty that I practically jumped for joy… only to have those feelings plummet into the abyss when she immediately presented me with three unexpected conditions.
One of those conditions was acknowledging Sado as her “official” boyfriend—a ridiculous condition.
And yet, back then, I accepted it.
A big part of it was that, deep down, I’d already braced myself for the possibility of a fake confession.
So when I heard the conditions, I thought, Ah… so that’s what this really is, and felt that familiar disappointment.
But someone like me getting to date the school’s top beauty… I wasn’t in any position to complain.
So I decided to go along with it.
However, she truly prioritized me over Sado.
At the time, I had no idea what she was thinking, and it really gave me a hard time.
Even so, someone gloomy and a borderline loner like me couldn’t bear the thought of giving up a daily life where I was dating the school’s number one beauty who stood at the very center of the class.
It’s also true that we treated Sado terribly, and we have to carry that sense of guilt.
Most likely, the reason Fuyunagi-san worked behind the scenes to help with Sakurada-san’s bullying issue was because that guilt pushed her to act.
“I used to hate other people… I honestly wondered why the world even needed them…”
“………”
“I always wanted those who cornered and rejected me to disappear. But when I actually looked at people properly… interacting with others isn’t so bad after all.”
“You’ve always been good at dealing with people, Fuyunagi-san. It’s natural things would go well.”
“All of that is something you gave me… something you brought into my life.”
“That’s an exaggeration…”
“It’s not exaggerated or overstated at all. If I hadn’t been with you, the person I am now wouldn’t exist.”
“Fuyunagi-san…”
“Thank you… for being my boyfriend, Taku-chan.”
“Next stop—◯◯ University.”
“Next stop—◯◯ University.”
The train announcement echoed through the cramped carriage.
We were almost at our destination.
“Alright! Let’s go!”
“Yeah…”
Hand in hand, the two of us stepped off the train.
What would we look like to those watching us?
Would we look like a couple?
Or… would we look like something else entirely?
It doesn’t matter.
She acknowledges me.
The girl I love acknowledges me.
Then I should have confidence.
There will no doubt be many hardships waiting for us ahead.
But as long as she stays by my side, I know I’ll be alright.
The two of us will walk forward together.
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TN: I always feel a little empty inside whenever I finish a novel, but that was pretty fun. I hope you enjoyed it as well.
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Character Summary (non-official)
- Majima Takuma / Taku (真島 拓真 / タク) — Taku is an utterly average high school boy in both appearance and ability. His hair and uniform are always neat but unremarkable, giving him the classic “background character” characteristic.
- Fuyunagi Shizuku (冬柳 雫) — Fuyunagi Shizuku is a stunning black-haired high school beauty with a mature, graceful aura. Her long, silky hair, elegant posture, pure and innocent atmosphere, and impressive figure—including her large chest—give her an appearance so gentle and comforting that a tired working adult might instinctively want to cling to her and call her “Mama.” Her looks alone make her feel like a UR-rarity heroine. At school, she’s admired as a pure, wholesome, and almost ideal girl—popular among girls, constantly confessed to by boys, and always at the center of her class. In private, however, Shizuku reveals a selfish, bratty, and emotionally unstable side. She’s clingy, easily upset, mentally fragile, and relies heavily on her boyfriend for emotional support while demanding secrecy and setting controlling conditions in their relationship.
- Sakurada Nagisa (桜田 凪咲) — Sakurada Nagisa is a gyaru and one of the central members of Fuyunagi-san’s friend group. With light-brown hair, piercings, and perfectly applied bold eye makeup, she has a flashy style but is undeniably beautiful—cute enough to stand out even among the popular girls. Sado Kengo’s current girlfriend.
- Natsume Kano (夏芽 華乃) — The class president. A dignified, serious beauty whose pure appearance gives her a charm distinct from Fuyunagi-san. She prioritizes efficiency, logic, and rationality above all else, resulting in a rigid, no-nonsense personality that makes her unpopular with most classmates.
Sado Kengo (佐渡 健吾) — A high-spec soccer club member who once acted as Shizuku’s fake public boyfriend. He is now Sakurada Nagisa’s actual boyfriend.
- Katou Susumu (加藤 進) — The textbook “protagonist’s best friend” character. He’s a founding member of the self-proclaimed “Unpopular Men’s Club”. Although he’s extremely jealous of Takuma for landing a girlfriend like Fuyunagi—thus “betraying” the Unpopular Men’s Club (a group Takuma never actually agreed to join)—Kato remains loyal to him despite both his jealousy and the negative public opinion surrounding Takuma.
- Fuyunagi Reiko (冬柳 澪子) — Fuyunagi Shizuku’s mother. She is, in every sense, the woman Shizuku was shaped from—from their breathtaking beauty to the way they view men and even their underlying desires all mirror one another. Beneath that elegant, doll-like exterior lies a strict and controlling parent fixated on restoring the Fuyunagi family’s former prestige. Unlike Shizuku—who directs her warped affection toward someone she genuinely chose—Reiko tries to force her ambitions onto her daughter, believing that arranging Shizuku’s marriage is the key to reclaiming the family’s lost glory.
- Fuyunagi Kanemasa (冬柳 兼政) — Fuyunagi Shizuku’s father. A highly capable and successful man who even took the Fuyunagi family name in order to marry Reiko. Despite the family’s rigid traditions, Kanemasa is the one person who genuinely supports Shizuku, encouraging her to live freely and choose her own path—including whom she loves. The only reason Shizuku’s mother and grandfather don’t openly oppose his stance is because his success and value to the family make him too important to antagonize.
- Kuzuryuu Shiori (久豆流 詩織) — Souma’s younger sister—a beautiful, sharp-tongued genius with strikingly foreign features. Despite her Japanese-sounding name, she is a natural blonde with radiant golden hair, inherited from their great-grandmother, and possesses elegant looks that stand out strongly against Souma’s more traditionally Japanese appearance. Cold, dismissive, and brutally honest toward her brother, she seems to harbor open disdain for him, even though she once adored him as a child. Academically, she is a prodigy who skipped grades at fifteen, now attending university with multiple acclaimed research papers to her name. Her intelligence creates a stark contrast to Souma, fueling his inferiority complex and twisted sister-obsessed longing.
- Kuzuryuu Souma (久豆流 創真) — Fuyunagi Shizuku’s arranged marriage partner.