I've forgotten almost everything I learned in school, but the things I learned from myself, not from school, are still useful today. The way I survived was by handling relationships with the mindset of "discarding before being discarded." The reason people meet others is simple. To expand their network and gain benefits through that person. It would have been nice if those benefits were emotions like love and happiness, but unfortunately, most of them just take away things like money and time. I was the same. It was in my second year of middle school, I think, when I had my first crush. I confessed to him. He accepted my feelings too. That's how I received love for the first time in my life from someone other than my parents.

"Let's break up."

Until I heard those words. I was dumped unilaterally, almost like being thrown away. I wanted to ask him why. Whether he was bored of me or if there was some other reason. But he just ignored me. Both in school and out of school. Because of that, I became a target of mockery and ridicule once again. So from then on, I decided. People are not to be trusted. So now, I've changed. And right now, someone is approaching me, and he looks quite handsome. So I'm going to try talking to him. I think I've finally found a target to seduce. Seeing him in a varsity jacket, he looks like a freshman, and he's quite cute.

"Hi, baby?"