[Vol.2] Chapter 55.1: To sleep, or not to sleep. So I still have a chance?

Selecting the option on the imaginary floating window, I selected the choice [To Ignore] the ojou-sama in order to stay lowkey like a true side character.

As though the conversation concluded between Aria, the new transfer and I were just casual talk, classes resumed normally. However, that doesn't mean curiosity from everyone was gone, about Aria Tamami's sudden proposal and transfer that came like a storm without warning.

The bell rang and the time for recess arrived.

As soon as the bell rang and the teacher said their partings, I got up and started walking out of the classroom. Without making unnecessary interactions, I made my escape and disappeared, like the mystery of a character that I am.

Unavoidable, Mocha-san who was sitting at the desk beside mine witnessed me leaving the classroom, for she sat at the desk next to mine that I quite literally couldn't go anywhere without passing by her spot.

'Where is he going?' she wondered, then soon realized 'Ah, yeah. Recess…'

Aria-san also caught an eye of me leaving, her eyes fixated on me as I left.

Meanwhile, as I successfully got out of the classroom. 

"Mysterious character disappearance success."

I praised myself, patting myself on the back as I thought I had just planted a seed of suspicion to my classmate character in my own chuunibyou delusions.

Just like I stated previously, I want them to wonder where I've been going around all this time during free time, like some sort of foreshadowing to my secretly moving in the background vigilante of the shadows.

Plus, it would minimize my interaction with the transfer student, Aria Tamami-san. I decided to avoid unnecessary interactions with her to avoid standing out. Just what kind of side character would I be to associate myself with an ojou-sama? The person who's usually at the top of the hierarchy?

The ones who were hungry left the classroom to grab something to snack on, but mostly everyone stayed and crowded the back, curious about the new transfer student, Aria Tamami-san.

Crowding the back was usually the case for the past few days since school started, however, this time none of them crowded Mocha-san's spot. Instead, all the attention was directed at the newer transfer student, Aria Tamami-san who is a mega-rich Ojou-sama.

And Mocha-san, realizing this fact.

'Did I just lose my transfer student status…?' Mocha-san exclaimed, 'I've barely even been here for a week!'

She thought, thinking she had just lost her "transfer student buff", letting everyone initiate the conversation because she couldn't of how lacking her communication skills were.  

Practically invisible now, awkwardly sitting alone with no one to talk to, she got reminded of how much of a loner she actually is.

Hitomi got called to the faculty to deliver some papers, and her master, me left her behind without telling her where I was going.

She was all alone now with no one to talk to, sitting alone like an idiot like some kind of NPC.

'Should I just pretend to fall asleep…?'

She thought, as a defense mechanism, but refraining from doing so for

'No, that would just make me look even more of a loner.' she decided.

'I wonder if my old classmates actually believed I was sleeping back then?'

Remembering her past, and the possibility that her old classmates might know she was pretending sleeping, Mocha-san felt cringe all over her body

'Ugh, I feel like throwing up just thinking about it.'

She now has an upset stomach remembering her dark past.

Couldn't take it anymore, she got up and went out of the room in hopes of finding me if she were lucky. However, it was mostly just wanting to escape the classroom to escape her NPC state.

While I was gone, Aria-san took the opportunity to socialize with everyone and gather information from the flock of students crowding her spot.

"I see, so Yukiya-kun doesn't have a girlfriend. Huh."

As if glad by this newfound information, she grinned slightly, thinking that

'So I still have a chance.'

What could she possibly want to use this newfound information for?