“Your manners are appalling.” Kanae scowled. Yuichi snorted at Kanae’s remark. “Whatever. Manners really aren’t my thing.” Noting the angry expression on the guy’s face, Yuichi darted a foul look back at Kanae.

“What?!”

“Yuichi, do you know what poetic justice is?”

Yuichi was looking progressively more upset with Kanae’s every word. In any case, it looked like Kanae had managed to wake him up.

Yuichi was good-looking, tall, fashionable. He also had a fair amount of money and a car. Yuichi had everything a college student needed to be popular, and yet there was one thing that stood in the way of a privileged social life.

He had the worst personality.

Well, to be more specific, the problem was the way he handled the opposite sex. Since he started college, Yuichi had, according to the gossip, had more women than you could count on both hands.

“In freshman year the girls were lining up to date me.”

“Sophomore year there weren’t so many, huh?”

Yuichi frowned at Kanae’s quick comeback.

“I had a steady supply of girls all throughout sophomore year, but I haven’t had a girlfriend for two months now. Damn, my life totally sucks!”

If an unpopular guy overheard this, he’d probably want to beat Yuichi to a pulp. But for Yuichi, whose longest period of time without a girlfriend had been a week up until now, this was quite a serious situation.

“Maybe they all got their eyes checked?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?!” Yuichi looked up dejectedly, but Kanae just shrugged. In middle school and high school, being popular had nothing to do with personality, just looks. On the other hand, in college, many of the girls had more dating experience and had developed a taste in men which valued what was on the inside more than what was on the outside. There were few girls now who wanted to be involved with a guy as notorious as Yuichi, but there was no use in saying that to him. Yuichi simply wouldn’t understand.

“Tried going to a singles’ night?”

“I don’t even get invited to those nowadays.”

“Yeah, I heard that rumors about you have reached other colleges as well.”

Hearing this, Yuichi grew even more displeased.

“Did I really do anything that bad?”

“Yes. Really now, Yuichi…you’ve done some pretty awful things. You got a girl pregnant and then told her that you didn’t care whether she had the baby or got rid of it, because you weren’t going to give her any money. Then you told her that you didn’t even think it was your kid to begin with. Don’t you think that’s a little, oh, inconsiderate?”

It eventually became a legend on campus. When she had miscarried due to emotional stress, he had come out with the unthinkable, saying that it was “a good thing, because now she can save on the abortion costs.”

“What? There was no guarantee that I was the only guy she was sleeping with. And I did use protection, so it’s not like I could’ve gotten her pregnant.”