Acceptance

It's been a week since Shinomiya and Fujiwara tutored Ishigami.

The tutoring will be over after 30 minutes every Wednesday after school because rather than tutoring, they just helping him to recap the lessons he forgot.

During these 30 minutes, even though this is just the second time, Ishigami notices their rivalry for his attention.

Whenever Fujiwara taught him, she always got close to him and her chest always touched his body while Shinomiya did the same but because of her pitiful chest, he didn't feel anything.

However, because of this, he thought to himself how cute she was.

Still, there was a rivalry between them despite having confusion in their hearts.

Then… what would happen if they realize and accept their feelings for him?

Meanwhile, Ishigami is still contemplating about himself.

No matter how he adjusts himself, he still can't separate the Fujiwara he knows in his past world and now, Kaguya, the main heroine of the story also falls in love with him.

Both anime characters he loves fall for him in real life.

Some might treat this as a feast but he couldn't.

Unless he separates his view of them as anime characters and as his friends, he wouldn't touch them.

He knows how disgustingly womanizer he is but he wants to change.

All the women he had in his past world didn't mean anything to his life since those women knew that they were just playing.

No serious feelings happened between him and those women.

That's why in his second life if he opens a relationship with someone, he wants to say "I love you" or "I like you" to a girl without lying or any guilt.

He doesn't want to make a relationship half-heartedly in this life.

His womanizing might not be cured but as long as he is honest everything will be alright.

That's what he told himself and believing in himself is the first step he wanted to take.

'I wanted to know them. Learn more that I didn't know about them. Let me fall in love.'

That's what he wished.

Despite using his <Best Actor> title for his daily use, he wanted them to break his barrier and let himself fall for them.

'I see… so that's how it is.'

At this moment, his view of them is starting to change.

He realized that cherishing those people around him was a sign of a big change.

Be it an anime character or not, it doesn't matter.

Acceptance is a must.

This world came from an anime and they are anime characters however, they are also his friends and family.

'Why I'm trying to complicate my life? Trying to separate my view from them isn't the real solution. Instead, fused them.'

What he means is fusing his view of them as anime characters and as his friends.

That's what he concluded.

Picking is not everything.

Sometimes you need to be greedy and take everything as long as you can handle it.

…

Lunchbreak in the Academy.

Ishigami is currently at the rooftop as always, eating by himself… is something that always happens but today he is with someone.

"Mmm!! As always, your cook is delicious!"

A girl is currently sharing food with him.

"I'm grateful for your compliment but being humble is not a good character sometimes, Nakiri-san."

Today, one of the four girls who kissed him, suddenly transferred to the academy.

"Like I said, Just call me Alice."

"Okay… Then Alice, what are you doing here?"

"Doing here what? I'm studying so it's not that weird right?"

He didn't believe but he decided to let her go and instead, asked the critical question.

"Why did you kiss me at that ti—"

Unexpectedly, she snatched another kiss from him.

This time, Ishigami blushed a bit since his guard was very low.

"It's a secret… for now."

And she continues to eat his food.

(A/N: I'm reading some harem romance manga recently just to pick a route on how I would enter Alice into the story.)