The End of the Road for the Harem Protagonist
–I thought this exchange would go on forever.
As my classmates looked on, the mudslinging between me and Ryuzaki continued.
The battle is only a one-sided attack on my part, but for those who are watching ……, it would not have been very interesting.
They don’t know the details of the situation.
They can probably only understand half of the conversation between me and Ryuzaki.
However, there is one thing that even they can understand.
It was that a girl named Shiho Shimotsuki was crying.
They probably understood that I was trying my best to protect her from being hurt.
Maybe that’s why they’re watching over us without saying anything.
I’m grateful. I hope they’ll continue to watch me until the end.
And I hope they understand Ryuzaki’s abnormality.
Hopefully, his harem members will please wake up.
Ryuzaki is not worth sacrificing everything for.
Please don’t devote your life to a trivial person who is only popular with women.
Hoping for such a thing, I finally decided to make a decision.
“Ryuzaki, your feelings will not be rewarded. Let’s end this now……. Hey, Shimotsuki. Have you calmed down by now? Have you stopped crying? Did you wipe the runny nose properly?”
Then, I turn my attention to Shimotsuki, who has probably calmed down over time.
…… I really don’t want to take advantage of her, though.
However, I really need Shimotsuki’s help to settle this situation.
I have to make a clean break with the protagonist who refuses to give up.
I have to end his story by confessing my feelings and ending up with Shimotsuki.
So I faced Shimotsuki.
“………… Hmm.”
Perhaps it was because she had carefully rubbed her nose and eyes, but Shimotsuki’s face was even more swollen than usual. However, she wasn’t as distraught as before. She seems to have calmed down somehow, so she’s probably fine now.
All that was left was for me to confess.
With this, I can finally save Shimotsuki.
With that thought, I tried to finish everything.
“Shimotsuki. Listen, …… I think you’re…”
….. But the girl Shimotsuki Shiho, unlike Ryoma Ryuzaki, is a fine main heroine.
It’s not just a weak girl who can be saved.
As soon as she realized what I was going to say, she suddenly changed her color.
“No!”
She shook her head and stared at me with swollen eyes, as if in anger.
She is a shy girl, sensitive to the presence of others, and basically a clumsy girl, but she is also a shy person who is strong only in front of those who …… she has forgiven.
So the girl next to me was …… very strong.
“Nakayama-kun, …… I’m fine now. So don’t push yourself any further, okay? You don’t have to get hurt anymore……. Thank you for helping me. I have more courage. So let’s talk about it later, okay?”
–I won’t forgive you.
–I don’t want you to confess now.
I felt as if I was being told that, and I choked up.
“…… Oh, is that so? Then yeah. Okay, but ……”
Are you sure you’re okay?
I was worried about Shimotsuki, but she seemed to be fine, just like she said she would be.
“Ryuzaki-kun. I understand how you feel. I’m sorry that I misled you……. So, I’m sorry. I’ll apologize to you first. After that, please listen to me?”
Shimotsuki is facing Ryuzaki.
For the first time in this story, perhaps, the main heroine’s true feelings were about to be told to the protagonist.
“Sh, Shiho, ……?”
Ryuzaki was scared.
However, he is looking at Shimotsuki with somewhat expectant eyes.
She has yet to say anything to him.
So, there is a slight possibility of a major upset, as if to say so.
However, there is no way that the outcast heroine, Shimotsuki, would approve of such a development in the story.
“I’ve never been very good at you. I’m sorry I haven’t told you before……. I haven’t liked you much for a long time. Yeah, so …… Ryuzaki-kun. I can’t reciprocate your feelings.”
She puts an end to it with her own hands.
It was a slightly different ending than the one I had envisioned.
What I had envisioned was that I would confess and go out with Shimotsuki to end Ryoma Ryuzaki’s love, but …… she cut off Ryuzaki’s feelings with her own words.
“—-!”
If he were told, Ryuzaki would have no choice but to accept it.
His love ended without any reward.
The story of Ryoma Ryuzaki came to an end without producing anything.
That it ended not with a happy ending, but with a bad ending.
It seems that all Ryuzaki could do was accept it.
“…………”
Without saying a word, he got off the stage.
He wandered off in the direction of nowhere.
There was no one left to chase after Ryuzaki.
Although Azusa chased after him earlier and encouraged him.
Even the other subheroines seemed to think that it would be difficult to save Ryoma Ryuzaki now.
This is the end of the road for harem protagonists. As a result of betraying his feelings, trampling on them, and pretending not to notice them, …… he lost all affection for him.
…… And so the romantic comedy of Ryoma Ryuzaki ended.
The harem romantic comedy closes with the result that it is a waste of time, with no catharsis at all.
My man accused him of putting her on the spot to immediately trying to do the same wtf. Authors of WNs I swear to GOD!
Almost fucked it up there. Really, laying into him more than necessary was already a f**k-up since Shiho’s involved in the spectacle that he made even bigger. He did help her out, but his intentions and some of his actions make him a hypocrite somewhat.
Good work by Kotarou overall though he stepped out of his shell at the right time, but forgot the assignment partway through.
I just hope he pay the harem members they’re consequences for just suddenly cutting him off like that.
why tf would he try to confess there????
I hope the f****** younger sister suffers if she doesn’t I am going to kill you author
oh goodness, why’d he have to do that.
you literally JUST SAID in the previous chapter that putting a girl like shiho on the spot in public was the worst thing a person could do.
and you were about to do the exact same thing in the same scene??
damn you character flaw building!
Hhahaha
Thank you for the chapter. I hope that the novel doesn’t go downhill from here…
Don’t think our MC is a self-absorbed brat like Ryuzaki? Think he was doing any of this for Shiho? Re-read it and count the number and use of I’s in this chapter:
I don’t want to take advantage (so he’s knows he is)
I need Shiho’s help
I need to make a clean break with the protagonist
Authot uses that to tell us everything we need to know about MC… once in the spotlight, he transformed into Ryuzaki 2.0 Interpreting everything to his liking and using Shiho as a prop in his plan to destroy Ryuzaki… That’s what he really wanted to destroy the protagonist, pretending to care about Shiho, to protect her to want to go out with her… Those were all just useful tools to take down the protagonist he hated.
There’s not a paper’s width of difference between the “real” Nakayama and the “real” Ryuzaki now and Shiho saw it unfold in front of the entire class. Both are brats.
It will be interesting to see where this goes now. Will subheroines flock back to Ryuzaki (actually once he recovers from the shock this will be their best chance) or are they going to pivot to the MC (if they do MC should reject them firmly) or just fade out into background (please do that – go away girls).
MC is in deep sh*t with Shiho and deservedly so but it’s kind of obvious from title that she has to forgive him and so want to see what she’ll make him go through to earn that.
Ironic you say reread, when this started because shiho ASKED him to help her.he did it for her but ALSO for himself to grow out of his shell.He did go overboard as he was going to confess but outside of that he didn’t do anything wrong
Glad Shimotsuki was able to reply. The alternate method would be painful. Now, what will happen to the other heroines. Hopefully they rekindle their relationships with MC, but without romantic feelings.
………………Hey Nakayama, i said you dropped my respect meme before…..don’t make me take it back……….*SIGH*……………
Why did you believe it was a good idea to confess to Shimotsuki-chan in that sort of situation? I guess your brain is still a fried potato. Shimotsuki-chan is already big girl she can properly chew and spit out the likes of Ryuzaki……although she certainly was in a true pinch when Ryuzaki call her to stage and was going to confess since she would have agree to it just to make him shut up.
It was going so well why did you have to make it that way author? Nakayama had just became a normal dude with a cool moment a few chapters ago……*sigh*……….
A shame Shimotsuki-chan didn’t tell him his mere voice alone fill her with disgust, that would have been a truly nice hit….damn it…
Let’s hope the sub-heroines(LOL) besides Azusa(very pitiful child) wake up and try to aim for a more normal dude(?).
hmm i just hope the next chapter is not the mob girls try to make up with the “villian” for all they did to him