TS reincarnated in Harem text

Chapter 4: Past



Soon, the bell began to ring out loud as its signal informed students that they had to come back to their respective class.

Suiri took out her bookmark to save her process reading. Then, she prepared her pen, note, and related-subject textbook. Her class was still noisy as they talked excitedly with each other. Whether the movie they watched last night, or some animes, mangas were released recently, or new fashionable clothes in the new magazine, new perfume,...etc. It was all everything about daily life. 

It should've been normal thing as a human being. They associated with each other, and hated being alone. They shared their stories, experiences in the past for others to find some comforts, some connections, as their existence being recognized in human social society. In school, this place was just a mini social society, where was less tainted by money, status, social pressure, as they were still children being overprotected by social laws and parents.

Suiri just listened silently to their stories as she remembered her past life, when 'she' was high school boy. She also always brought out her experience to talk to her 'best friend'. It was whether funny, happy, sorrow, jealous or sad. Everything she had shared with those people were out of her serious sincerity. It made her nostalgia, but painful at the same time.

She felt betrayed by them as she closed her heart and didn't want a single person to open it again. It was a hole that wouldn't be filled no matter what. Being spoiled by her parents and older sister in this life just increased the guilt hiding deeply in her heart. She shouldn't have had her prejudice for her family in this life. She knew she was wrong as she questioned and convinced herself until now. Maybe...Maybe they would be different....

Because they were just fictional characters with that loving and spoiling setting for her....But.

She, herself, was a villainess in this novel. She knew that she just did nothing wrong, then she wouldn't be afraid of the plot. She was scared and insecure. Who knew that when she really opened her heart with them again. The force plot would activate and steal her things away again... She couldn't forget the uncomfortable feeling like an arrow piercing her heart when she was being framed in last life by the person she trusted the most when she did nothing wrong.

That was why she never let her emotion out, and kept minimized distance with everyone including her family in this life. She worn for herself an emotionless mask so that she could easily communicate with both outsiders and her family in this life. In addition, it could protect herself. 

If she got second chance in normal world, she might give a try. Unluckily, this place was harem novel.

She also had her saving in case of unexpected emergency. If they disowned her in the future, she could have a way to save herself.

The downside of her way was that she had completely killed her emotion as she forgot how to smile again with others, and how to display angry, crying, surprised, regretful expressions. Her parents got her to the hospital for treatment, but the doctor didn't know the exact reason. He made a hypothesis that her facial muscle didn't work. However, he was right.

Certainly, it was because of her trauma from the past life, her brain subconsciously ordered her neuron controlling facial muscle to retire its work due to the kick-in of self-protective mechanism of human's brain. You didn't need to work anymore as you were fired. She, herself, knew that and thought it was good.

She couldn't help but feel lonely when listening to the conversation of class. Fortunately, she had gotten used to it.

There were two things that she wholeheartedly believed. That was herself, and music. Unlike human, music had its spirit. As long as she gave her sincerity and love for them, they would reply to her. Simply speaking, they would never betray her. In her last life, she was disposed of by her 'best friend' because she relied on music's spirit to regain her justice.

When she almost succeeded in cleaning her 'plagiarist' label, she didn't expect that 'best friend' was so cruel as her blood was soaked by his hands.

The class quieted down as the step of someone approaching the classroom.

The class monitor shouted:

"Stand up!"

The door of her classroom was opened. The short figure stepped in. According to her knowledge, she was an Omega teacher in charge of English Class. Her name was Shimori Akane, also her legal loli homeroom teacher. Her students often teased her as 'Aka-chan'. Her height was just 1m42cm, which was quite pitiful. A canon folder, who was willing to support and protect the male protagonist from the bullying of 'Suiri', had her sister as one of harem member. It was just that heroine haven't applied in this Academy yet.

"Good morning, Aka-chan-sensei"

"Hoorah, respect to your teacher, omit 'chan', call me Akane-sensei!!!"

One male student expressed.

"Aka-chan-sensei you shouldn't yell like that, you will get wrinkle and become Oba-san soon"

"Gru...gu...gu...gu"

"You little brat, I will increase your homework double today!!!"

"Don't abuse your authority!!"

"You deserve it"

The class laughed as loli teacher signaled to them.

"All right, Class, sit down"

The whole class sat down obediently, as they didn't have any intention to tease Aka-chan.

"Hu~mu, Let open your textbook to page 42"


Soon, the bell once again announced that it was time for lunch time.

"It's finally over!!!!"

"I can't believe who arranged timetable in Friday that we will have full English courses in the whole morning"

"However, it's good, this afternoon, we will have homeroom meeting after midterm test"

"Oh, you're right. The whole day, we will spend time with Aka-chan"

"Ah, You wanna see it, our ranking?"

"Haah, what's the use? we can't be top at all. Our class are full of monsters"

"You aren't curious about the bet between Ice Queen and Rose Princess"

"No need, in the name, I already knew who would win"

"Queen is obviously larger than Princess"

The classmates continued their talk as they headed to cafeteria.

When Suiri was just finished cleaning her desk, the blonde hair mix race had already blocked her escape.

"My Rivaaaaal~"

"It's time for our fateful matchhhhhhh"

Then, the tall short blob red hair also arrived at the class.

"Oujou-sama, it's time for lunch"

"Um, I will arrive later after seeing my ranking"

"Let me escort you, Oujo-sama"

Suiri emotionlessly looked at Charlotte, then stood up while shortly said to her.

"Let go"

"Ouhohohoho~ I appreciate your courage without running away"

After a while, in bulleting board in the first floor, many students had crowded in front of it.

Suiri, Charlotte went together under the escort of Sasaki.

When they noticed Ice Queen and Rose Princess in their Academy, they were in tactic and opened the way for two of them.

Suiri was puzzled as she didn't get this treatment in her previous life because she once had to mix in desperately to know the result.

She was in confusion.

But in the eyes of others, she was still an emotionless iceberg Omega beauty.

Suiri took a look at the ranking.

[MIDTERM RANKING OF FIRST SEMESTER-GRADE 6]

[No.1 Hoshiyuki Suiri 1000 pst]

[No.2 Shinonawa Charlotte 992 pst]

[No.3....950 pst

....]

Apparently, she got perfect scores in every subjects. Luckily, in midterm, literature subject was in multiple-choice platform, so that she could achieve this perfect score.

"Congratulation, Oujou-sama, you got perfect score"

Sasaki was proud in her mind. She couldn't help but be happy for her master.

Charlotte on the hand was still calm although she just lost the bet? Suiri observed her expression strangely... There must have been something wrong with the original plot. Suiri thought so.

"As expected of my Rivaaaal~"

"This time I has lost to youuuu~"

"There won't be next time~"

"As a bet, I'm willing to listen to your order as long as it's in my abilityyyyy~"

Suiri thought of how to cut off this girl. Since she gave her chance, then she wouldn't waste her kindness.

"Then, stay a...."

Her icy cold just sounded but....

"No!"

Charlotte resolutely refused as she had expected Suiri's answer.

Her often cheerful face began to turn serious as it wasn't joke.

Suiri right now didn't know this girl brain circuit having any problem. She hadn't finished her order yet, but this girl cut off her word.

"But that's our ru..."

"No and Nooooo~"

"..."

Suiri, who had lost her communicative ability for 12 years, couldn't find a single word to speak out.

"If you wanted me not to get involved in you, then I won't accept that order, as you, my rival!"

"I refuse that order!!!"

Suiri saw her determined and unbent will in Charlotte's blue eyes. She knew it wouldn't be easy to make her step down. She could feel this girl's purpose as Charlotte wanted to break each of her ice barrier layer to enter her heart...

Suiri didn't know what to do...What order could she use?

Other students brought out popcorn to watch the drama unfolding in front of them. It seemed that Rose Princess wanted to chase after Ice Queen. Although Charlotte haven't differentiated, she fell for Ice Queen was easy to understand.

The next moment, the black hair beauty of mix race ran toward Ice Queen as she hugged Suiri tightly.

"Sui-channnnnnnnnn~~~~~~~~"

"You got perfect scores~"

Due to the different height between Maria and Suiri, Maria had to bend down to hug her little sister as she took a deep breath and sniffed Suiri's strawberry scent. So sweet~. Maria could feel that she could ascend to the heaven, while Suiri could feel that she would die again because of lacking oxygen due to D-Cup breasts of her sister.

"Onee-sama, hard..to breathe...."

"Sorry, sorry, let your beloved sister lead you to Salon"

Maria took a glance of Charlotte as she had watched the situation before approaching.

"Tch...Another pest"

She murmured in low voice. Her instinct and intuition told her that this girl was about to be differentiated into the same kind with her.

Alpha.

Who could blame her little angel so seductive that she could attract this premature Alpha?

Maria wondered if she looked wrong. She saw in Sasaki's eyes having some lustful feeling mixed it toward her little sister. She hoped it was not the case. Or she just overthought.

Mizuno family wouldn't let their children serve until they could control their nature instinct if you were Alpha.

Maria led Suiri to the Stardust Salon and ordered her little angel's favorite dishes. Charlotte also used her thick-skin and followed behind to their private room.

"Why are you still following? This private room is only for Hoshiyuki family"

"Even though you come from the first family Shinonawa, it doesn't mean you can enter other's"

Charlotte just smiled slightly. 

"I have to follow Sui-chan because she hasn't ordered me according to the bet yet"

Maria frowned. "Sui-chan???"

Suiri could only think of the past. What did she do that Charlotte wanted to entangle with her?

Charlotte also noticed the gaze of the Saint Maria. It seemed that you'd realized her true intention.

As everyone assumed, she indeed chased after Suiri under the disguise of Rival's relationship.

She knew that she, herself, would differentiate into Alpha. When the news Suiri turned into Omega, she began to lose her patience.

Charlotte could only speed up her attack and hurriedly take down those ice barriers. She has wanted to build a good relationship with Suiri before she turned into Alpha. She has loved this Hoshiyuki Suiri two years ago. If both of them turned into Alpha, she would still love her as gay couple.

The news Suiri being Omega was too good for her as she had dreamed about it for 2 years. 

As for the reason she has loved her, you needed to turn back in time about that fateful day of 2 years ago....

--Charlotte's POV--

2 years ago.

My name was Shinonawa Charlotte. I came from Shinonawa family, the richest family in Japan country.

How could I say? People said that from the moment I was born that I had already had golden spoon, and lived comfortably as I wanted. Yeah, they were right, I had everything, but no family's love...

My French 'mother' has been strict with me, as the encountered times with my dad alpha could be counted by hands. 

However, they always expected me to be the FIRST in everything as their family's position, but it was not easy at all. From morning to afternoon, I attended in school, then going home. There was no rest for me as my parents arranged some extra course in piano, dance, art,... in the evening. I could only sleep and rest until 11:30PM.

I realized that I would be broken....completely broken by this dense schedule. My weekend days were filled with advanced study. 

I spent all of my efforts. To be my surprised, I finally could meet my parents' requirement. BUT....

Even a single compliment sentence I didn't get at all...

I thought that if I could continue like this, I would get their love and praise. They would pay more attention to me. The reality was really cruel.

'What's the point of trying so hard?' I thought.

"Charlotte, let get ready for the Final of Piano Competition"

"Yes dad"

I wonder if I could be first in this competition, because my dad handed me the profile of 2 consecutive champion.

Hoshiyuki Suiri. An emotionless woman with the same age as me. She had caused many uproars in music industry and had many viral videos of her performance. 

Could I defeat her? If I defeated her, what's next? It was just my 'first' would expand to piano's field.

Right now, we were waiting for the manager of this competition calling out for me.

I wonder if my appearance was affected by fatigue.

In the final, there would be 6 candidates to compete with each other

"No. 05, Shinonawa Charlotte"

"Yes, sir"

It was my turn to perform. I stepped out to the stage and greeted the audience.

*clap clap*

I sat down the piano seat and placed my hand on it. I breathed in and out to calm myself down.

I used full of my concentration and played full piece of Fur Elise of Beethoven. I was extremely cautious and each note must be corrected.

My hand moved quickly and hit each key perfectly as the melodies and tunes were in harmony.

Good. I thought that my performance was excellent. The first position wouldn't go out of my palm.

I finished the piece and bent down to greet the audience. Then, I came to the audience's seat to watch other candidate performing.

Until Hoshiyuki Suiri came up the stage, I was curious about this little champion. However, I knew one thing that she didn't play the classic piece like me and others. She composed her piece by herself and uploaded into the social media, as she got herself followed by 541 millions users. If I weren't coming from Shinonawa family, I'd be afraid that I wouldn't have a reserved seat to wait at all.

Everyone came here because of Suiri, not her family, nor my family. They came here because of her performance. Many cameras aimed at the stage as recording live performance of a little genius musician.

The beautiful silver hair with some blue color attracted my gaze. Her chest was quite big for 10 years old child. Her gesture and manner were pleasing to the eyes. Elegant, and noble. Her temperament was as cold as North Pole. 

"How gorgeous"

I muttered as let my thought slip through my lips.

But...when she sat down on the piano seat, I could sense her icy aura changing greatly as if she had two personalities. Now, she put her hand on the piano, her atmosphere became gentler and more loving as she began to play her brand new arrangement.

It was begun with A note? Soon, the audience at the scene immersed themselves in her performance. With that brand new tunes and melodies, which were fast and had some playful string notes, but beautiful.

Now, I had a feeling that my first position soon would be snatched away.

Her song could be said to be perfect? Was there a perfect piece in music industry? I was listening to as her performance brought listeners to immerse in it. 

Her arrangement was so good. 

'Fueh?' 

It could be called perfection. What did you do just now? Were you trying to ruin it? Not only me, but also other audience showed confused look. I thought the next note should be D#, but she used E minor. However, in the next moment, I finally understood her intention.

She sped up her hand and stepped on the shortened pedal as a string chord highlighted for this beautiful piece.

So clever. It confused her and many professional audiences as well. I thought it was flaw but no.

As if I had my eyes seeing wrong, her smile....? She was once known as expressionless girl...So beautiful...She just smiled despite just being in 3 seconds??? Her atmosphere and her smile, what could I say? Gentle, soft, warm, and extremely attractive.

My heart was beating so fast...

I thought I was sick...

Was it called love?

She also began to finish her piece perfectly. The atmosphere, which was gentle and lovely, disappeared immediately when she let her hand off the piano. Her icy cold aura started returning as loud applause almost caused my ears deaf.

"Hoshiyuki-san, what a clever and beautiful arrangement"

"Could you share more info about this piece just now?"

The 3 examiners excitedly asked like fan interviewing their idol. This treatment, I didn't get at all.

"It's called 'Nobody's perfect'"

She replied emotionlessly. Just a title as it said the whole thing.

I suddenly got goosebumps as I remembered that intentional flaw.

Everyone at the scene began to analyze wildly as they could feel her hint in that piece.

There is no one being perfect. They have weakness, but that weakness make them more unique.

The purposeful flaw itself was represented for weakness of human being, and the highlight impressed section was unique because it started from 'flaw'. Somehow it mixed perfectly with each other.

I understood now. She deserved the first place, when I just performed with the fear of mistake, as I pursued the perfection. I took a peek of my dad. He must have known the result already.

As a result, Hoshiyuki Suiri had gotten the first place as the audience had already expected from the beginning. I got the second position.

"You didn't get the first place, let go home practice more"

Right now, my fatigue was built up almost reaching limit. 

If I confessed to my parents like her hint, would it make me more unique and change her parents' way?

"Dad"

"..."

"Dad..."

"What?"

"I'm sorry, I can't be first in everything..."

"I just want you to recognize my effort, praise me and love me like other ordinary parents loving their child"

"I have been trying so hard to..."

My tears began to flow out as my suppressed emotions exploded.

"For you to...to recognize my existence....hic...hic"

Dad froze his face surprisingly.

"Char...."

I sobbed.

"I wonder if my efforts are really worth it..."

Ah. So comfortable. I had let out all of my thought in this time. The fatigue, which was suppressed by me, had kicked in. As my vision turned dark. I fainted.

"Char!!!"

"Charlotte"

"Honey!! Do you hear me?!!"

I closed my eyes and passed out.

The next day, my parents also admitted their mistake to my surprise.

"Char...We're sorry, We're such failure of parents"

"We let our child exceed their limit without knowing it"

"Your health is more important. What's the point of first position?"

"Our family doesn't lack anything but wealth couldn't buy health"

"We have only one Charlotte"

"Yesterday, we thought we lost you..."

"..."

"I have opened my eyes. Sorry Char"

"We could only beg for your forgiveness"

My eyes felt moist. Was this a dream? Her 'unique' had changed her parents....

I had always acted as perfect child in their eyes to receive their compliments...Now...

"Woo hoo, hoo"

I cried as I hug both of them.

Hoshiyuki Suiri.

Thank you, you're my savior. You had opened my eyes. My weakness, which I hid desperately, has turned their attention to me.

If I could meet you again, I would want to know you better.

You were my only Goddess.


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