After breaking up, my ex asked me to win her back-Chapter 246 - 245 The Human-Faced Dog

For Kohinata Motoyo, Kagura Hikaru was both admired and feared. She maintained a careful distance, daring not to get too close nor too far, for fear that he might pull some troublesome stunt on her again.

Originally, he thought that as long as he kept a rejecting attitude, Kohinata Motoyo would gradually reduce her dependence on him and leave on her own.

She was a girl with dignity, after all, and wouldn’t keep hanging on one man indefinitely.

But given the current trend, Kagura Hikaru couldn’t shake the feeling that even after they graduated from high school, Kohinata Motoyo would still continue to follow him everywhere.

He hoped that this premonition would not come true.

The trio walked into the school.

After parting ways with Ai Cheng Hua Lian in the corridor, they walked into the doorway of classroom 2-A.

When Kagura Hikaru entered, there was a moment when the classroom’s noisy chatter dimmed, only to quickly return to its previous level.

Everyone was stealing glances at him and at Ayakoji Chiyoko, who was talking to others without as much as a sideways glance in his direction.

Kagura Hikaru was indifferent, placed his bag and guitar down, shot a complicated look their way, then, as usual, picked up a light novel to read.

The atmosphere in the classroom became somewhat weird.

As Kiryu Hina stood up and walked towards Kagura Hikaru, the odd atmosphere intensified.

"Mister Hikaru, may I take a little bit of your time?" Kiryu Hina asked as she came to his desk.

The response was silence.

Kagura Hikaru calmly turned the pages.

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"Just give her some attention, it looks too pitiful this way," Kohinata Motoyo also came over and said with a smile.

Kagura Hikaru snapped the novel shut with a thud.

"Motoyo, please tell the class president that I won’t be attending the first period."

He stood up, picked up his shoulder bag and guitar case, and left through the back door.

"I’ll pass on the message~~" Kohinata Motoyo called out to his retreating figure and then turned to a dejected Kiryu Hina with a helpless look, "You need to change your approach, Hina."

"...I don’t need you to remind me."

Kiryu Hina shot her a glare, turned, and walked back to her seat, the silhouette of her back filled with defeat and resentment.

"Ah, it’s getting complicated," Kohinata Motoyo muttered, glanced down at Kagura Hikaru’s empty seat, then looked towards Kiryu Hina and Ayakoji Chiyoko, touching her face in vexation, uncertain about what to do.

On the other side, Kagura Hikaru.

With his bag and guitar, he walked along the corridor in the courtyard.

He passed by his former secret base from a distance.

After looking that way for a moment, Kagura Hikaru continued walking forward.

That place, he did not plan to go there again.

A secret base that had been touched by too many people could no longer be considered ’secret’.

When the bell for classes rang, he just happened to step into the doorway of the old school building.

Since it was class time, the students were all on the teaching building side, and the old schoolhouse, which normally served as a societal gathering place, was now eerily quiet and empty, without a sound.

Kagura Hikaru made his way up the stairs in the quiet corridor of the old schoolhouse, heading upwards.

Until he reached the top floor of the old school building and saw a locked door.

Behind the door was the rooftop of the old schoolhouse, which was rumored to have been appropriated by the Astronomy Club members, something the teachers were still in the dark about.

He had to thank Ai Cheng Hua Lian for telling him about this place; otherwise, Kagura Hikaru wouldn’t have known where to go.

But now the door was locked, and without a key, how was he to get in?

This difficulty was not enough to defeat him.

Kagura Hikaru dug around in his backpack and took out two paperclips, bent the tips, and started fiddling with the lock.

The rooftop door lock was not a modern anti-theft lock but rather an old-fashioned type, so it only took Kagura Hikaru three seconds to pry it open.

He placed the lock and chain on the ground, opened the door, and walked onto the rooftop.

The vast blue sky he saw from up here was refreshing to the soul.

He put his guitar case down, climbed up to the top of the staircase, which was the highest point of the old school building’s rooftop, and in that tiny area where he had once had lunch with Ai Cheng Hua Lian, he lay down facing up, using his backpack as a pillow, his hands cushioned beneath his head, gazing at the blue sky and white clouds above.

Skipping class to sleep on the rooftop was something delinquents would do.

But now, this was the only sanctuary he had left, as the atmosphere in the classroom was too uncomfortable to even immerse himself in a novel.

Guilt by own doing... those words couldn’t be more true.

Kagura Hikaru did not feel he had the right to face Ayakoji Chiyoko, nor could he think of anything that could compensate her.

She lacked for neither money nor power.

So Kagura Hikaru naturally chose to distance himself; after all, she definitely did not want to see his face.

Leaving the Student Council, changing seats, it was all for that reason.

Beyond that, Kagura Hikaru did not know what else he could do.

He had burnt all his bridges; it was too late for regrets now—not that he would have done anything differently if given another chance.

If he used a false love to deceive Ayakoji Chiyoko, letting her continue to give to him, wouldn’t he just be a leech?

He closed his eyes, and under the sunlight, Kagura Hikaru grew drowsy and gradually fell asleep.

The hound in his dream once again lunged at him.

This time he saw the hound’s face.

It was a ’human face,’ but not entirely, because that face was made up of many faces joined together.

Father, mother, stepmother, Ayakoji Chiyoko, Kiryu Hina, Kohinata Motoyo... They were all reduced to lifeless facial skins, pieced together on the hound’s head, displaying a twisted expression.

In the next moment, as his throat was being torn apart, Kagura Hikaru abruptly opened his eyes.

In front of him was still the boundless blue sky.

Surprised for an instant, he then remembered he was on the rooftop.

Kagura Hikaru sat up, his forehead and back slick with cold sweat.

He touched his feverish eyes.

The shadow of the human-headed hound kept reappearing in front of him, haunting his mind.

Was he to be chased by this hound every time he closed his eyes?

Kagura Hikaru had the ability to diagnose himself, and he understood that this condition indicated his psychic pressure had built up to a considerable extent; this was not something that could be cured with medication alone.

To be completely cured, the best way would be to leave the high-pressure environment, in other words, to depart from existing relationships and live alone somewhere else, preferably with a beloved pet, and heal slowly.

But given the current situation, this was nearly impossible to achieve.

Not to mention explaining it to his parents, Kagura Hikaru himself was not eager to leave.

Although he was in a period of confusion and neglect, he had not yet completely given up on Ayakoji Chiyoko, and he had to find a way to explain things to her eventually.

...It looks like he needed to find time to see a psychologist.

The more knowledge he had, the more he understood the fragility of the human psyche, and Kagura Hikaru did not want to become a lunatic with a mental disorder.

Ring ring ring ring...

It must be the bell for the second period.

Kagura Hikaru picked up his backpack and the guitar case he’d left below, and quickly left the rooftop, making sure to lock the door behind him.

As expected, when he returned to the classroom, the teacher gave him a good scolding.