I Became a Supporting Character in an N*R Manga

8 – Heart Lunchbox

“Eri sister… ?”

“Haru-chan, are you okay?”

Eri looked at Haruna with a worried look.

Only then did I grasp the current situation.

Haruna, with tears welling up in her eyes, is being held by her male student’s wrist in a secluded place.

It is a situation that is enough for anyone to misunderstand.

“You… Sophomore year? It’s the same class as Haru-chan.”

Eri and I met eyes.

How did you know we were in the same class?

“…… I already heard about you.”

Eri said in a clear voice.

After letting go of Haruna, she slowly approached and stood in front of me.

Did you hear about me?

I wasn’t as famous as Eri Takase.

She is the ace of the athletics club. As the cartoon’s setting, she was an up-and-comer who won and medaled in several track and field events.

On the other hand, I am a nameless supporting character.

I had never met Eri before. Today was also the first time we had a conversation.

There was no way she knew about me.

“Hmm… ….”

Before I knew it, I was holding her by the wrist.

Right in front of her is her face.

When I saw him from afar, I could mistake him for a handsome man with neutral beauty because of his tall height, bobbed hair above his shoulders, and low-pitched voice….

“You… ….”

I was able to tell when I saw them up close.

Long eyelashes, big eyes, slim waist and a straight body.

Eri Takase was an undeniably beautiful girl.

“Something strange.”

“……… What?”

I grabbed her wrist right in front of her and watched her face closely, but I fell in love with her for a moment and asked without coming to my senses.

“You can tell by looking into their eyes. You’re not a bad kid.”

“……… That’s right.”

No.

I’m just a little sullen and dark, but not a toxic person.

“Then what was the story I heard?”

“……… What… Did you hear?”

She waved her wrist, which caught her.

“Oops. Before that, I have something to ask you.”

The more I did, the more Takase Eri grabbed my wrist with her stronger grip and didn’t let go.

As if I were a pitiful heroine, I shook my gripped wrist. I couldn’t let it go at all. It wasn’t called the ace of the athletics club for nothing, it was a great grip.

“Some… Please let go of this.”

I couldn’t help but tried to resist with words.

Takase Eri was sending deep eyes as if trying to see through me. When she received the handsome man’s gaze from the front, her heart was pounding involuntarily.

“What were you trying to do to our Haru-chan?”

I don’t think now is the time to be so excited.

“What are you doing… I didn’t do anything.”

“Huh? You were holding her wrist tight earlier. Like this.”

She raises her grasped wrist to her.

That was the image of me grabbing Haruna’s wrist as she was crying earlier.

“Lift up… Pushing her head in….”

She slowly lowers her body. The long eyelashes, clear eyes, and sculpture-like appearance stare at me right in front of me.

That alone made my body stiff.

“What… You were shouting loudly… ? Am i wrong? Juniors.”

“Ah… uh….”

She must be interrogating me.

Why am I feeling different from him?

She felt as if she had become a woman being seduced by a handsome man.

“Can you tell me? What were you saying to my sweet little brother?”

“That… ….”

Her low voice echoes in her ears. With just that, she was already in a daze like listening to asmr.

“Haruna told me….”

It was the moment when I tried to tell the truth as it is, forgetting my situation and position.

“Really… ! Sister, stop!”

Out of nowhere, Haruna was embraced by Eri. She pulls back and distances herself from me.

“Don’t do that to Minsu! That kind of bad thing that sister thinks… No….”

“Huh? No?”

Eri looked at Haruna with a puzzled look.

“Yes. So don’t do that to Minsu….”

“……… Hmm.”

If you don’t….

Yes, I was misunderstood by Eri.

She thought I was harming Haruna.

I felt like I was being seduced by her.

It feels like the prince character in a female-oriented drama is flirting with an insignificant heroine.

Stop getting out of your fantasy.

“It wasn’t really a dangerous situation, was it?”

“Sister~~! Really… It’s not.”

Haruna was working hard to explain that that was not the case.

Even if she didn’t come forward, she tried to say it wasn’t me.

……… Ah.

Haru I don’t want her to be seen. That she confessed to me.

She said at the same time that she hadn’t been harmed by me, and she was making an excuse.

“That, so… I have a kid who is always hungry at lunchtime… ! I want to take care of him… !”

Haruna holds out the bundle in her hand to Eri as if showing off.

She stared at it and then reached her hand over Haruna’s head.

“I heard that Haru-chan is really kind.”

“Sister… ….”

As she strokes her hair, her day also calms down slowly.

Awesome man.

Just by appearing in this place, I grabbed Haruna, me, and everyone else.

I couldn’t properly explain her, because Haruna also got quiet while stroking her head to her.

“Then can I just hand over the lunch box?”

“……… Huh.”

Haruna hesitantly handed out a bundle to me.

I accepted the lunchbox that he said he would give it to me if I accepted his confession.

Haru also frowned at her as if she didn’t care about that, but before she could say anything else, she quickly took the lunchbox into her arms.

“Okay, shall we go then? I waited on the roof for a long time, but he didn’t come… I wondered what happened.”

“Oh, sorry… sister.”

Eri winked at me and waved her hand. Haruna also follows. Although he looked back at me and showed a sad expression, as if he was sorry for the answer he didn’t hear.

“……… It was a stormy time.”

Alone, I muttered as I felt the warmth of the bundle on my lap.

When I opened the package, the pink flower patterned lunch box inflated my expectations.

I was moved by that alone.

Even if you don’t eat it, just because you’ve already received it.

But I was also hungry.

When I opened the lid, there were sausages shaped like octopus legs, soft rolled omelets, beans and round fish cakes as side dishes.

But what caught my eye more than that was white rice.

There was a heart shape on the rice.

Is this Furikage?

In Japan, it is one of the common seasonings sprinkled over rice.

A heart shaped with that powder.

Did you mean to hand this lunchbox to him after he confessed?

I knew how she felt when he hesitated to give her a lunch box.

He gave me a heart lunch box without knowing whether I liked him or not. It would be something she couldn’t do.

“…… Yum.”

Well, things have already gone that way. Although I am eating the bento that she elaborately prepared.

“……… Ah.”

What does it taste like… You don’t have to express it.

“I’m glad you’re alive….”

To the extent that such self-talk comes out naturally. Impressed, I emptied my lunch box.

While I was having the most valuable time alone in the world, my head slowly cooled.

Close the lid of the empty lunch box and try to objectively grasp the situation.

Before, I couldn’t make a proper decision due to a series of embarrassments, but now things are slowly being sorted out.

I struggled to stop Haruna from being tricked by Sakai.

I had no choice but to admit that the method was wrong.

I tried to get him to go on a date with Yuuki, but the process wasn’t smooth either.

The actions I took, the words I said to Haruna.

It was all sincere, but if you wanted to connect Haruna and Yuuki, you couldn’t do that.

Haruna pushed Yuuki away and confessed to me.

I led her. And gave her room.

But now, if you reject Haruna’s confession… A guy like me can’t be a good or helper.

It’s just a troll. It’s a villain

“……… Stupid really.”

Without having to hear from Haruna many times. It was only then that I felt the weight of my actions.

I came to a conclusion as I returned to school with an empty lunch box.

I have no choice but to accept the confession.

It was not a human thing to push her away after eating her lunchbox like this.

That’s because she has nothing to say even if she is stoned.

“…… Oh.”

While she was so deep in thought and making a big decision alone, a group of female students passing in front bumped her shoulders.

“Sorry….”

I tried to apologize first, but I stopped talking.

Because their gaze was unusual.

Exchanging glances with each other, they act as if something big happened.

He hurried past me as if he had been caught by a dangerous person.

“……… What.”

I wasn’t the type to pay much attention to the people around me, but I gradually came to know about it through that strange reaction.

I was being watched by them.

It was only then that I realized the strange gazes around me.