I am lonely...

Jeanne, Shizuno, and Satsuki had changed their uniforms and they were waiting for Haru.

"He's so late!" Satsuki complained.

"If you're in a hurry, why don't you go first?" Shizuno said lazily.

Satsuki shut her mouth and didn't say anything since she didn't want to stay alone.

"He's coming," Jeanne said.

"Hmm?"

Satsuki and Shizuno were dumbfounded when they saw Haru, who was surrounded by all of his classmates. They could pretty much tell that he was the leader among them which made them confused since they knew that each of them didn't know each other very well, but when he left them to change his uniform suddenly he would be friends with everyone which made them dumbfounded.

Satsuki, who looked at this scene, somehow felt a bit envious, watching how easy it was for him to create a friend.

Shizuno, on the other hand, was also surprised at Haru's EQ and when she thought about the information about his power, she felt that he was even more terrible than she had thought.

When Haru saw Jeanne, Shizuno, and Satsuki, he then said goodbye to his classmates since he didn't have a hobby of walking with a group of men.

Watching how Haru left them without hesitation for three cute girls, they couldn't help but curse him and understood the sentence of "hoes before bros". They looked at each other and cried together, and at the same time, their resolve to become stronger became even stronger so they could get a girlfriend.

Haru didn't care what they were thinking and walked toward Jeanne, Satsuki, and Shizuno.

"Sorry to make you wait, how about we go now?"

They nodded and also walked toward the training ground together.

When they were walking, Haru noticed the expression of Satsuki was a bit wrong.

"What's wrong, Ranjou? Is your aunt flow coming?"

"Aunt flow? Who's that?" Ranjou was confused.

"He means whether you're on your period or not," Shizino said.

"What?!"

Satsuki blushed and complained. "Pervert!!!"

"....."

Haru was speechless and said, "Then what's wrong? Your expression is as if you have constipation."

"....."

Satsuki lowered her head and said, "Kasugano, you're very good at making friends..."

"What? Are you jealous?"

"I am not jealous!"

Haru looked at Satsuki, who seemed to be furious, and said gently, "Ranjou, in truth, I don't even think of them as a friend."

"????"

It wasn't Satsuki, who asked the question, but Shizuno.

"Then what do you think of them?"

"Subordinates, minions, classmates, but they're definitely not friends," Haru said freely.

"..."

Satsuki and Shizuno didn't expect that Haru would be this kind of person.

"You might be disappointed, but I want to become a leader after all so making them have a good impression of me is important," Haru said.

"Why do you want to become a leader?"

Shizuno asked, but in truth, she also wanted to ask why Haru wanted to become Rank S Savior that much since she knew once someone became one, they would be shackled and be ordered to hunt down a lot of dangerous metaphysical so she didn't think that there was something good to become Rank S Savior.

"I don't want my life to be controlled by others and I want to control my own destiny," Haru said calmly.

Shizuno was in shock when she heard this answer. "...To control my own destiny..." She said those words in a low voice, then looked at him, and his image on her head started to change...

But then...

"Haru... are we... are we not a friend?" Satsuki asked this question in a low voice. She sounded very depressed when she thought that she wasn't his friend and he thought of her as his minion which made her hurt.

"Ranjou, you're stupid."

"What?!"

Satsuki was almost mad, but then she saw his serious expression.

"I have thought of you as my friend and it hurts me when you doubt me like that," Haru said with a sigh.

"Sor.. Sorry!!!"

Satsuki quickly apologized, but at the same time, she felt very happy that they were really friends.

"....."

Looking at Satsuki, Haru thought that this girl was really simple.

"Ranjou, I need to tell you rather than having a hundred or a thousand friends, it is better for me to have one true friend," Haru said.

"True friend?"

Not only Satsuki but Shizuno and Jeanne were also attracted by Haru's words.

"A true friend is someone who will stay with you during your hardest time and they'll also scold you whenever you have done something wrong without sugarcoating anything." Haru smiled and said, "And even though our relationship hasn't reached that stage, I hope that we can be like that in the future."

"True... A true friend..." Satsuki's eyes seemed to be brightened, but...

"But I guess it is impossible for a male and female to become a true friend," Haru said.

"Huh? Why is that? Why is it impossible?" Satsuki seemed to be unable to accept this fact since she hoped that Haru could become her true friend too.

"Because if the relationship between a male and a female becomes very close to each other, they won't become a true friend, but rather a lover." Haru looked at Satsuki and asked, "So do you want to become my lover?"

"LO - LOVER?!"

Satsuki was dumbfounded and blushed. She didn't have any experience with love whether it was present life or previous lives. In the previous lives, the only person that she was close with was her brother, and in this present lives, she was a loner, and at the same time, there was no male that had tried to aggressively chase after her so when this bad guy suddenly asked whether she wanted to become his lover, she became flustered, shy, and panicked since she didn't expect the situation would escalate to this stage too soon!

Haru smiled and said, "I was just kidding. I have Jeanne after all so it is impossible for me to date you."

"That's... that's true!" Satsuki patted her non-existence chest and sighed in relief, but at the same time, there was a sense of loss in her heart even though she didn't know the reason.

Jeanne glared at Haru and rolled her eyes, thinking that this guy was really...

'But...'

Jeanne had to admit that this guy was really amazing at deceiving a girl.

Shizuno also looked at Haru and in her mind, she also added a womanizer as one of his traits.

"Since I have a lover, then it isn't impossible for us to become a true friend, Ranjou," Haru said.

"Yes! That's true!" Ranjou nodded excitedly.

"....."

Haru looked at Ranjou and thought that this girl was dumb and cute. "Then can I call you by your first name?"

"My... My first name?!" Satsuki flustered once again.

"Yes, you can call me Haru, then I will call you Satsuki, is that alright?" Haru asked.

"Um..." Satsuki nodded shyly.

"Then Satsuki, try to call my name," Haru said.

Satsuki didn't dare to look at him and felt a bit shy when she thought that this guy would take her for the first time.

"Ha - Haru..."

"Satsuki."

"Haru."

"That's great." Haru smiled and said, "Then how about you call both Jeanne and Urushibara too, both of them might become true friends too."

"Eh?"

Satsuki didn't expect that happiness would fall down so suddenly and quickly looked at Jeanne and Shizuno expectantly.

Jeanne nodded with a smile and called out Satsuki's name. "Satsuki."

Satsuki was very happy and nodded, then looked at Shizuno reluctantly, but it couldn't hide the expectation in her eyes.

Shizuno seemed to be very weak against this kind of gaze and she let out a sigh before saying, "I am sorry."

"....."

"I was joking, Satsuki."

"Hmph!"

Satsuki folded her arms and pouted in annoyance. "I won't forgive you so easily, Shizuno!"

"It's alright, I don't ask for your forgiveness either, Satsuki," Shizuno said lazily.

Satsuki couldn't handle it anymore and raised her small fist. "Let's bring it outside, Shizuno!"

Jeanne looked at Haru with a smile, wondering whether it was his plan to make both Satsuki and Shizuno become friends with each other.

If Haru knew what Jeanne was thinking then he could only say that she was thinking too much since it was his habit to flirt with a girl so he did it subconsciously.

When the four of them talked to each other happily, Haimura also came out from the changing room and saw the four of them. He saw Satsuki, who was smiling happily and wanted to call her out somehow, but he stopped and felt that he didn't have a place between them.

'What am I thinking?'

Haimura shook his head and thought that it was better to think about getting a part-time job rather than this kind of thing.