I Joined the Sentai Heroes Who Were Beautiful Girls Other Than Me but the Heroines Were All Yanderangers

8. The Girl Named Sekichou Momo

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At 6:44 PM, Sora-senpai exits the used bookstore “Shiundo”.

At the same time, Sora-senpai starts walking towards the station, holding hands with the depressed Yellow.

“Momo was right after all…”

At 6:50 PM, she slows down her pace to match Yellow’s smaller steps.

At 6:58 PM, she brings up the topic of her favorite sweets. She responds to Yellow’s answer of cheesecake, but quickly ends the conversation about her own preferences.

“Why doesn’t that brat listen more to Sora-senpai? She just stays silent and gives the bare minimum responses. It must be boring for senpai… Well, Momo doesn’t need to ask questions, she knows everything about senpai anyway.”

Sora-senpai’s favorite sweets are Japanese confectionery. Her top choice is strawberry daifuku, but she likes all kinds of sweets with red bean paste. She prefers smooth red bean paste to chunky red bean paste, but she enjoys both and once felt awkward for not being able to fully agree with the views of a radical smooth red bean paste enthusiast. She eats taiyaki from the tail because she believes the sweet taste of the red bean paste lingers more pleasantly at the end. Lately, she’s been curious about grape daifuku, but she hasn’t fully embraced it yet because she believes that the sweet and sour taste of strawberries complements the sweetness of daifuku the best.

At 7:02 PM, they arrive at the family restaurant in front of the station. Momo enters the restaurant a little later to avoid being seen. Sora-senpai and Yellow are guided to a secluded booth near the restrooms.

At 7:11 PM, Sora-senpai notices Yellow hesitating between the chocolate banana parfait and the strawberry parfait. She suggests ordering both and sharing them. It seems that senpai had originally intended to order the anmitsu set. She infants the apologetic Yellow, saying , “I wanted to try it too, so don’t worry about it.”

“Oh my… Senpai is so perfect. He’s definitely Momo’s ideal boyfriend.”

I, Sekichou Momo, met Sora-senpai for the first time yesterday. And the moment I saw him, I realized that he was the perfect boyfriend for Momo.

Actually, I had been searching for him, the man who would be the ideal lover for Momo. This ideal lover is not someone who is handsome, intelligent, or promising. It’s low-level for a woman to choose a partner based on such superficial reasons. And it’s foolish to look for someone you can talk to or feel comfortable with. Those are just excuses to be satisfied with a man who meets your own specifications. In the first place, Momo doesn’t understand choosing a lover based on the other person at all.

“You have to choose who you like based on yourself.”

In that sense, Momo is right. She decides who to fall in love with based on ‘who makes her look the cutest’.

“Senpai is the lover who will make Momo shine the brightest.”

Momo is Philance Pink, who fights with ‘self-love’. The more adorable she is, the stronger her power of love becomes. Momo, who loves cute things the most, can become stronger and with her love for herself. And she realized that girls who are in love are cute. A wonderful romance is absolutely necessary for Momo to become even cuter.

There’s this thing where a beautiful actress’s favorable impression goes up a little when she’s in a passionate relationship with an unattractive comedian, but I think that’s going too far. It’s too obvious, and some people even accuse them of doing it for publicity. Basically, the comedian has to be above a certain level of attractiveness, but not too attractive. He has to be someone who gives off a good impression, someone who makes people think, “If this person is in love with her, she must be a good person.” Finding the right balance is very difficult, but Momo has thought a lot about the kind of boyfriend she needs to become cuter, so she knew right away when she saw senpai.

“And most importantly, he’s the person that Akane-san likes.”

That day, I had a hunch when I saw Akane-san, who had come to inform me about joining Philance Blue.

“Pink, I have a message for you.”

“Oh? Akane-san, that’s unusual.”

“A new member will be joining Philance Blue. The doctor is making her suit right now. She’ll be here soon, so you should greet her.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

My first sense of disobedience was that Akane-san, who usually hardly talks to anyone other than the doctor, was unusually talkative. I’ve only been in the group for three months, but my image of Akane-san is that of a Yankee (delinquent) or a lone wolf.

“What’s Blue-san like? Is she older than Momo?”

“…Yeah, she’s nineteen.”

Akane-san, who refers to members by their color names and doesn’t bother to remember their real names, answered the newcomer’s age without hesitation. This means something’s up, right?

“So you’re Peach’s senior. Oh, but in terms of being a hero, you’re her junior! It’s my first time having a junior, so I’m a little excited.”

When Peach gave her a cute smile, Akane-san’s face turned pale and anxious. I could only think of one reason why a woman would feel anxious when looking at the cute Peach, so I was almost certain, but I decided to confirm it.

“By any chance, are you a man, Blue-san?”

“…!”

It was the first time I had ever seen Akane-san’s face stiffen. She usually has a sullen expression on her face, making it difficult to tell what she’s thinking. But ever since this topic came up, she’s been as expressive as a normal girl .

“Akane-san?”

“Y-yes”

“Is that right! A man, huh? Is he handsome?”

“…Who knows”

I thought about teasing her a little, like ‘If he’s your type, why don’t you ask him to be your boyfriend?’, but I decided against it because she might actually kill me. Either way, the mere fact that Akane- san treats him specially piques my interest. For our heroes, that added value is more important than anything else.

The power of love is like a creed for heroes. A large pillar that stands firmly in the heart. I think Peach and the other heroes are the only ones who know the humiliation of being compared to someone who is smaller or weaker than them when it comes to something that is usually invisible to everyone else. Peach’s self-love energy is weaker than Akane-san’s. She doesn’t want to admit that her love for the world’s cutest Peach is inferior to anything else. The world’s cutest Peach deserves to be blessed with the world’s greatest love, and if that brings peace to the world, then someday the whole world will be filled with Peach’s cuteness.

That’s why Peach has to be the cutest of all.

“Nice to meet you, Asagiso Sora. Are you from Sonobe High School?”

Asagiso Sora, a refreshing name. He’s average-looking, but if he polishes himself up a bit, he’ll be above average. A boyfriend who becomes stylish and cool after you start dating him is quite a catch. He’s my senior from high school and three years older than me. After all, it’s better to fall in love with someone older. I can sense a gentlemanly kindness in his speech, but it seems like he’s not very used to girls. He seems innocent and devoted, the type who wouldn’t be able to cheat.

“She doesn’t have a boyfriend or anyone she likes either… I don’t think there’s any girl who would want to date a guy like me.”

As expected, it seems like he hasn’t noticed Akane-san’s feelings. If I can overcome the violent and powerful obstacle of the jealous and rough Philance Red, who can’t be honest with her feelings, and get together with my senior, then Peach would be the heroine. A happy ending is in sight. By overcoming the evil that is Akane-san, Peach can become more charming than anyone else. Besides, it would be wonderful for two righteous heroes to be lovers. They would share their secrets and cooperate with each other, becoming the ideal couple.

I’m going to make this person Peach’s boyfriend. Sora-senpai is Peach’s ideal lover.

At 7:50 pm, my senior, who had finished his parfait, laughed and said, “I won’t be able to eat dinner.”

I feel like the plan to go out for parfaits at this time of day was a bit unreasonable, to begin with. I wonder if something happened with Yellow. Did she unreasonable cry and drag my senior along? That brat is a bit selfish , so it’s not impossible. If that’s the case, maybe I should have acted like a good girl and not given in. But in the end, I was able to lower that Gaki’s favorability, so I guess it’s okay.

Of course, a senior who doesn’t know anything about me and can’t even show me any consideration is better than an female who knows everything about my senior, from his favorite foods to his type of woman, and caters to his every whim. Yesterday, as soon as I got home, I looked up all of my senior’s SNS, even the ones from so long ago that he doesn’t remember, and found out everything I could about him. There’s no other girl who would do this much for my senior. There’s no doubt that Peach is cute, but the more my senior learns about her, the more he’ll like her, and then he’ll definitely confess to her.

“Just wait, Senior.”

I’m so excited for the future. When my senior becomes Peach’s boyfriend, Peach will become the cutest and strongest hero in the world.

“Oh, my senior is leaving the store… I have to follow him.”

I keep a good distance so that I don’t lose sight of him, but he doesn’t see me. Then, my phone in my pocket rings.

“Oops, it’s a dispatch order.”

The professor contacted me to tell me that there’s a fire in a building about twenty minutes away by car, so I have to go straight to the scene. I have an important job to do, which is to watch over my senior, but I can ‘t help it.

I go into the station restroom and take out my hero suit from my school bag. Peach’s pink suit is a mini-skirt and knee-high socks, making it cuter than the other heroes’ suits.

“No matter how cute I am, it doesn’t really matter if my face is covered.”

To prevent my identity from being revealed, my eyes are covered with a thin gray LCD mask. Because of this, the fact that Philance Pink is a beautiful girl is not known to the public. On the internet, there are often popularity polls for heroes , but while I’m not satisfied with the fact that Philance Red is the strongest and has the most experience, I’m especially dissatisfied with the fact that Green is so highly rated. Philance Green… Uguisu-san has been a hero for three years, so she’s a veteran, but her abilities are not much different from Peach’s. But she’s popular because of her unnecessarily large breasts. Even though she’s just a girl when she’s not wearing her suit, Peach is much, much cuter, but the idiots in the world who don’t know her real face don’t understand that.

“Transformation complete.”

As usual, I jump out the window and land on the roof of the family restaurant where I was just now. Let’s see, the fire is over there. Even though it’s a twenty-minute drive, it will take me less than a minute to get there on foot. In fact, the time it takes to change is longer. With all this technology, why don’t they invent something that can transform you into a hero in an instant? I’ll have to ask about it next time .

“Huh? It’s Sora-senpai.”

When I look down from the roof, I see Sora-senpai, who I thought I had lost sight of, coming out of Shiundoh. I see, he was dropping Yellow off at the base. This might be my chance.

“Sen-pai!”

“?”

“Up here, up here!”

I quickly move to the roof of Shiundoh and call out to him.

“Philance Pink!?”

“Eh, please call me Peach.”

“No, no, I can’t call you by your real name when you’re dressed like that…”

“Now that you mention it, maybe? Well, whatever. I’m about to head out, but would you like to see me work?”

When I met her yesterday, my senior mentioned that she admires heroes. Showing her how I work will definitely improve her opinion of me. If possible, I’d like to become her mentor and build a close relationship.

“Um, no, but…”

“Time is of the essence, so I’m just going to take you with me.”

I close my eyes and vividly picture myself. Momo putting on makeup while looking in a mirror, Momo in a sailor uniform, Momo trying on a swimsuit. I imagine it all in as much detail as possible, making myself look as cute as I can .

“…I think it’s good.”

As my mind fills with a vivid image of myself, the heart-shaped pattern on my chest glows faintly. I check that my fingertips are full of energy and take my senior’s hand.

“Come on, follow me, Momo.”

I firmly grasp my senior’s hesitant hand, and a light pink space appears around us. We jump high into the air and fly off in the direction of our destination.

“Huh? What is this?”

My bewildered senior is holding my hand tightly. She’s so cute.

“Momo is a hero with high mobility. When I do this, anyone holding my hand can fly with me.”

“Th-that’s amazing…”

So, if she lets go, she’ll fall straight down from the sky. Realizing this, my senior forgets her embarrassment and clings to my arm. I wonder if I should have made it so she had to kiss me to let go.

“You can hold on tighter, you know, senior?”

We arrive at our destination in no time. My senior has been clinging to my arm with her eyes closed the whole time.

“…”

“Senior?”

“Ah! S-sorry.”

She realizes there’s ground beneath her feet and hurriedly lets go of my hand. I’d like to tease her a little more, but I have to do my job properly.

“Well then, Momo is going to go help the good citizens, so please watch from over there, okay?”

I give her a wink and jump back into the sky with renewed vigor.