Dullard Buddy-kun: Heading Reluctantly to School Again Today - Episode 25

I wonder why.

For the past few days, my best friend, Saya Yamamoto, has been clearly acting strange…

A devilish seductress who ensnares and manipulates countless men as easily as breathing.

That was her, Sayaka Yamamoto… right?

In fact, all the boys who are spoken to by Saya immediately become infatuated with her. Her sweet, cat-like voice and body touches are the ultimate weapons that have led countless boys to misunderstand and fall for her.
As a classmate of Saya since elementary school, I have witnessed her being confessed to by various boys many times. It wasn’t uncommon for her to receive confessions from students from other schools as well. I have even seen her being scouted by major talent agencies.

That girl just suddenly…

Not really, if you ask whether Saya was always that shameless, it’s not like that at all. But, due to family issues or various things, maybe it started around that time.

The reason she stopped smiling genuinely in front of the boys…

Using my weapon of cuteness, I ended up becoming a woman who plays with boys…

The reason I became a girl who is disliked by other girls…

I know that the real Saya wasn’t like that.

The real Saya is simply a girl with a kind heart. Knowing that, I’ve always been with Saya since long ago.

But lately, Sayaka’s behavior has clearly been strange.

Yeah. In a good way, she hasn’t been at all scheming these past few days.

As her best friend, it’s strange to say, but for some reason, the cunning that was her weapon and gave her life, which she used to turn countless men to her side, has disappeared.

Even today, even when Sakaki and Moriya, who are popular in class, talk to me, it feels so incredibly ordinary, or rather, I don’t know how to put it…Rather, it’s almost curt?

Where on earth has the girl who used to pout and look up at them with a cute voice gone?

I couldn’t go because I had other commitments, but I wonder if it was because of that incident. I stopped responding to Sakaki and the others’ invitations to those sparkling places altogether.

What really happened to you?

But after observing Saya for the past few days, I made some new discoveries.

Yeah. To give a particularly notable example, recently she’s been glancing at a certain guy for some reason every time something happens.

Even during class, when I happen to look at her, she often has her gaze directed at that boy.

However, that boy is an unexpectedly surprising person.

Yeah. That guy is Mamiya-kun, the loner in this class.

He is the complete opposite of the so-called popular girl.

Who could have imagined her repeatedly giving him such looks?

No matter how you think about it, this is a scene that was unimaginable before.
That scene is one where Saya, with her cheeks flushed, is staring intently at Mamiya-kun from a distance without realizing it.

I wonder how long it has been since I last saw her with such a naturally girlish expression.

But, the other person is that Mamiya-kun. I normally thought that couldn’t be the case.

Even during the homeroom time earlier…

That Saya, looking shy and fidgety, tugged at my sleeve and whispered in my ear, “I want to be in the same group as those kids.” So, I turned my gaze in the direction she was looking.

To my surprise, the two people there were Mamiya-kun and Tanaka.

Without thinking, I let out a “Huh?”

But seriously, what the heck…

After that, when I actually ended up in the same group as them, Saya’s expression while talking to Mamiya-kun was so demure. Her cheeks were slightly flushed, and she had a natural smile.

No, that’s just too cute.

In a way, it’s more brazen than before. That’s it.

Really, Sayaka right now. Even from the perspective of her close friend and fellow woman, she’s just too cute.

Really interesting.

I don’t even know if the person themselves is aware of it.

Before I knew it, I was staring at Mamiya-kun again…

However, since I sit at the very back of the classroom, I can tell…

Speaking of gazes, there is another person who frequently directs their gaze at Mamiya-kun.

For some reason, Tanaka is also openly staring at Mamiya-kun.

Tanaka. The first name… I forgot.

Just so you know, I went to the same middle school as him, so I know a bit about him.

I don’t think he’s a bad guy. He was in the same group as Mamiya-kun earlier and helped him out, so he’s not a bad guy.

I just think he’s a bit of a weird guy.

For example, surprisingly, he has been active as a YouTuber since around the second year of middle school.
However, despite having only a minuscule number of subscribers and views, they are a rare and somewhat strange presence, continuing to update every single day without fail. And they do it on camera.

Thanks to that, my editing skills have been improving rapidly, but it’s created a disturbing situation where the content itself is incredibly boring.

Why do you think I know such things?

Recently, one of Tanaka’s videos has quietly grown to a level incomparable to other videos, and even though I don’t remember it, I happened to see it because I had followed the channel in the past.

Yeah. The title of that video is “We Reveal the Truth About Influencer Tom’s Arrest,” and it’s an exposé-type video.

That said, it wasn’t an extraordinary increase, but it was a video that had an exceptionally high number of views compared to Tanaka’s other videos.

Of course, Saya’s name was kept confidential, and all personal and company names were also hidden, but the story goes that a girl was about to be attacked by Tom and his gang of semi-gangsters when a man wearing a helmet and a hamburger chain uniform appeared heroically to help her. He beat them up with unbelievable strength and disappeared like the wind.

In fact, that video alone had become a topic of conversation in certain circles, and its view count had increased.

Yeah. Just that video, after all.

Actually, if I check his channel now, the latest video uploaded last night. Uh, “Reviewing the New Products from DocuMald” has 18 views…

Well, as you can see.

Wait, hold on a second….

Could it be that the man in the helmet who appeared to help Saya…

No way, no way. There’s no way that’s true.

Because the image is too far off. That’s not it.

But… what exactly is Mamiya-kun?

Speaking of which, I think I was talking to that Shibuya Arisa from the next class the other day…

But, if you say that, for some reason. Tanaka also seemed to have been talked to by Shibuya-san in the hallway recently… I think it was just around the day after this video was uploaded…

Well, whatever.

Hehe, if I can watch the funny and cute Saya next to me, anything is fine.