Chapter 157

"Don't you feel disgusted when you're with him?"

Kanda Sorata's face flushed with a hint of urgency as he spoke haphazardly.

"Kanda Sorata, you jerk, get lost."

"Kitakami-kun isn't disgusting at all. You're the disgusting one, you're the one who's disgusting!"

"On the contrary, I think he's actually quite a good person... You're the one who's ugly!"

Aoyama Nanami's face turned red with indignation as she glared fiercely at Kanda Sorata.

She spoke up loudly to defend and stand up for her friend, Kitakami Yoru.

She was truly fed up and furious.

She found it completely unacceptable that Kanda Sorata would speak ill of Kitakami Yoru and deny that she had pretended to be his girlfriend.

Seeming to want to continue scolding him back, she opened her mouth.

But it seemed that apart from "jerk," she couldn't come up with any other insults.

While they were arguing selflessly on this side, the small group of girls on the other side was exceptionally lively.

"No way, is Aoyama Nanami really friends with that Kitakami Yoru? Is she sick? Isn't it disgusting?"

"It seems Kanda-kun saw her with Kitakami Yoru and went to check on her, only to get scolded head-on?"

"Would a normal person be with that dead otaku? Is there some hidden story?"

"Could it be that Aoyama Nanami is engaging in compensated dating with Kitakami Yoru, and Kanda-kun just happened to see it, so she used being friends with Kitakami Yoru as an excuse?"

"Wow... no way? Compensated dating?"

"Aoyama-san does look like she's very short on money; I've always seen her working part-time before... could it really be compensated dating?"

The discussion among the girls reached the ears of the boys.

Adolescent boys don't use their brains when they are impulsive.

Especially when it's explosive news like a female classmate engaging in compensated dating!

"Oh, oh, I remember now, during the final exams, I saw Aoyama Nanami walking with Kitakami Yoru..."

"At the time, I thought they were just walking close to each other."

"No way, did she really go for compensated dating?"

"I heard Aoyama-san is from Osaka; people there are vain, and the sex workers in Ikebukuro are basically all from Kansai..."

"Did she really go for compensated dating? Is she that poor? She's receiving the tuition reduction subsidy from Shuchiin, right?"

"How could that fat pig even bring himself to do it? Isn't it disgusting? The object of the compensated dating is too ugly..."

At this very moment, the rumors about Aoyama Nanami engaging in compensated dating with Kitakami Yoru.

Swept through the entire classroom in just a minute or two.

Only then did Aoyama Nanami come back to her senses, her face gradually turning pale, her expression nervous and flustered.

How did her argument with Kanda Sorata suddenly turn into this?

Kitakami Yoru had actually anticipated this long ago.

At the beginning, when he met Gabriel, he had worried that people at school would see Gabriel walking with him and gossip about her in a bad way.

But Gabriel didn't care.

Unexpectedly, Kitakami Yoru's worry didn't come true for Gabriel, but instead fell upon Aoyama Nanami.

Although they had been classmates for a semester, Aoyama Nanami, who lived a life of working and going to school, was in the eyes of her classmates.

Not held in much affection, and was instead vaguely excluded.

She didn't fit in.

Furthermore, this was an aristocratic school with clear class distinctions.

Tokyoites look down on Japanese people from outside Tokyo.

Even within Tokyo, there is a hierarchy of contempt!

Because she was a girl with excellent grades and good looks, no one usually bullied her.

Now it was different.

Aoyama Nanami seemed to have become a stray dog.

Now some people were just bored and stirring up trouble.

"Aoyama-san, I... you..."

Kanda Sorata realized that things seemed to be out of his control.

How did it inexplicably turn into Aoyama Nanami engaging in compensated dating with Kitakami Yoru?

And, as he followed the students' train of thought, he even developed such notions and ideas, his expression becoming increasingly strange.

Many busybodies gathered around and saw Kanda Sorata's expression.

"Aoyama-san... you wouldn't... really go and engage in compensated dating with Kitakami Yoru..."

If the person he secretly liked was really into money and doing compensated dating, Kanda Sorata felt so aggrieved he wanted to die.

"No... I didn't..."

"I didn't engage in compensated dating! I just have a friendship with Kitakami-kun..."

"What are you all talking about?!"

With countless suspicious gazes cast upon her, the simple-minded Aoyama Nanami was filled with unease and panic.

The more she explained, the bigger the reaction.

In the eyes of the people here, it was all the more the truth!

If arguing loudly were useful, Kitakami Yoru wouldn't have faced near-expulsion back then.

"Huh? Could it really be compensated dating?"

"For money, at least pick a better target for compensated dating, wouldn't she be crushed to death?"

"Stop talking, you guys, I'm disgusted to the point of vomiting, the face of that disgusting dead otaku..."

"Kanda-kun, did you fall for a compensated dating girl?"

Basically all the students in the classroom had gathered around.

They surrounded Aoyama Nanami in the middle, discussing it one after another, with a thick sense of contempt.

Kanda Sorata's mind was in a mess, and he took the opportunity to back out of the crowd, his expression awkward and ugly.

Seeing his reaction, everyone became even more certain of the fact that Aoyama Nanami was engaging in compensated dating with Kitakami Yoru.

No one went to verify it; they purely and completely believed what someone else had said, relying entirely on their own imagination...

"No... that's not it at all..."

"How did it turn out like this?"

"You guys, don't talk nonsense, Kitakami-kun and I are just friends, I'm not doing compensated dating..."

"You need evidence to speak... don't talk nonsense..."

"Besides, besides, I think Kitakami-kun looks very handsome, not ugly or disgusting at all..."

Aoyama Nanami's face completely lost its color, and she waved her hands in panic, not knowing where to put them.

Actually, she was right!

Kitakami Yoru was really handsome, incredibly good-looking!

The key was that Kitakami Yoru was not at school right now, and these people hadn't seen his slimmed-down image.

It is estimated that if the girls present saw the slimmed-down Kitakami Yoru appear before their eyes...

Kitakami Yoru would only need to smile slightly, and they would all shyly lower their heads or scream loudly!

Wishing they could just pounce on him...

But now...

Kitakami Yoru was not there.

The malicious words and gazes were like sharp arrows, piercing deeply into the simple and defenseless.

Aoyama Nanami, who had fallen out with her family, came to Tokyo alone to pursue her dream of being a voice actor.

Living an incredibly frugal life, occasionally having no money to eat, gritting her teeth and persisting, secretly crying in her quilt in the middle of the night, and still maintaining excellent academic grades.

The grievances she suffered, the hardships she ate, and the efforts she made were countless times more than her peers!

"Aha? Aoyama Nanami, have you gone crazy?"

"You actually said that disgusting dead otaku looks handsome and is not bad?"

"It's over, it's over, a compensated dating girl is really disgusting..."