CH 67

Sadogashima-san is pretty cute, isn’t she?”

After today’s training was successfully completed, Yamashiro Hirokatsu, who had relieved his physical fatigue to some extent with the magic he had granted himself, buried his bathed body in bed, while tapping  the dead screen of his mobile phone as a mirror, and played with his wet fringes with a hand comb.

While combing his hair, he glances at his friend, Sho Shiratori and lets out a troublesome sigh.

His cheeks are slightly tinted and he breathes hot air lazily, and his wet hair and worn-out school uniform give him a strange boyish glamour.

The chest plate peeking out from the white shirt is well-muscled and sweaty from the daily combat training.

“…….it’s my bed, and I don’t want you to lie in it after your bath. It would be torture to spend the night in a bed with a man’s smell and body heat.”

“I wouldn’t mind spending the night in a bed with Sh’s lingering scent and body heat. If I was asked to spend the night in a bed with Sho’s lingering scent and body heat, I wouldn’t feel bad about it.”

“If that’s what you really think, then I probably won’t be able to see you as a friend.”

After brushing away his delicate long hair, Shiratori pulls his friend down from the bed.

He grabbed him by the shirt and yanked him down, revealing his abs and navel, which was pretty for a boy, but he didn’t care. Hirokatsu did not show any sign of resistance to Sho’s relentless action, and fell off his back with a thud.

Perhaps it hurt more than he thought, As he rubbed the back of his head, which had hit the floor, Hirokatsu had a playful expression and an innocent smile on his face.

He has a slightly younger and cuter face than the average high school boy. He wiped his eyes with his fingertips, his eyes dripping with tears because of the pain.

Looking at such a boy,Shiratori sighs as if he were tired.

Unlike Hirokatsu Yamashiro, who gives the impression of being gentle and calm, Sho Shiratori is a boy who gives the impression of being good-looking and cool.

His fringes are cut short, but behind his collar are left long till it reaches his thighs. It’s not like he’s letting his hair grow long and shaggy like some of the guys in the Otaku group, including Tsubasa Ryuzaki, but he’s keeping his hair in an exquisite style that gives it a clean look at first glance.

There is not much difference in facial deviation between the three, including Haruto Tanaka, but the roles are somehow divided between Haruto, who is serious and clean, Hirokatsu, who is kind and gentle, and Shiratori, who is cool and handsome. So what’s the point?

“So, what did you say?”

“Don’t you think Sadogashima-san is pretty?　She’s like a pure, untainted literary girl. Actually, I’ve been thinking about her a lot lately.”

“Did he ever think about someone he loves?”

Shiratori stroked his chin thoughtfully as he looked over at his friend with a shy smile on his face.

Sadogashima Sayaka. To be honest, she doesn’t give the impression of being an untainted virgin that Shiratori had in mind.

It’s not that Hirokatsu thinks she’s a secret bitch or a sexually uninhibited high school girl who does surprising things.

But he can’t help but get the impression from Shiratori that the girl, Sayaka Sadogashima, is a devilish or evil woman who dumped his friend, Haruto Tanaka.

They are high school boys at the height of puberty, thus they also have pride and shame. They want to look good, and they don’t want to show their vulnerable side to their classmates.

In the beginning, Haruto Tanaka hid the shameful truth that Sayaka dumped him after one night, and he went out with another girl, but seeing Sayaka’s breasts were smaller than he expected and he felt depressed, so Haruto didn’t even try to take her back. After having an affair with Nyanya, a kemomimi maid who came to visit me at night, he seemed to have gotten over his bitter memories of Sayaka, and was complaining about the truth about Sayaka by bad-mouthing his former girlfriend.

There are some things that Hirokatsu and Shiratori  just can’t imagine from her, like Sayaka being a whore who sleeps with everyone and a lascivious bitch who smells like semen.

After all, mental manipulation can be quite effective. For some reason, Shiratori feels that he doesn’t want to get too involved with Sayaka Sadogashima.

Still, when it came to the fact that Haruto was dumped overnight, it seemed to be an unvarnished fact.

“What? Is it a little bit different from what you like? It’s a good thing you have fewer rivals.”

“How do I say…Harunto’s story is too bias and vague on certain parts….”

“Oh, you know. He’s just complaining about some things to make up for being dumped, right? He lost his virginity with the maids and I think he was a little bit on the chossy side.”

It’s a bit like a sarcastic remark, but when Hirokatsu says it, it sounds like he’s just teasing.

If the same thing was said by Sho or Haruto, they would definitely be blamed for complaining with malicious intent.

The sound of his voice, the atmosphere and his normal behaviour are all important things, Hirokatsu realises now.

“Even before the transition, Haruto said, ‘I can feel Sayaka’s eyes on me a lot during breaks and classes. She likes me, doesn’t she? It’s decided’ but it looks like Haruto was mistaken. He just dreamed it up and made a fuss since he was ‘betrayed’. I think that Sadogashima-san is not a bad girl as he says.”

“…What do you mean?”

“Sadogashima-san’s eyes were not on Haruto, but someone else. Haruto might have just misunderstood that the way she was looking was at him since you,him and I are sitting together, right?”

“Ah..I see..”

That being said, Shiratori Sho is not interested or have any curiosity in Sayaka as a member of the opposite sex.

In addition, there was a time when Hirokatsu was a little bit concerned about Sayaka (not in a good way) after Haruto told him, but there was no scene where Hirokatsu felt a doubt on Sayaka.

“When I think about it, you know,I’m a boy too, and sometimes I just want to do it myself. I used it secretly a few times and before I knew it, I fell in love with it”

“Oh…”

Hirokatsu has a gentle and calm atmosphere, but surprisingly, he is the type of person who likes to talk about high school boys.

When Sho went to Hirokatsu’s room, he told me that he had found a sexy actress who looked just like one of his classmates, and he showed me a video of her (which is actually illegal, since we are high school students).

But the truth is that Sho didn’t want to hear what his friend was masturbating to.

If it’s something like, “I’ve got a lot of sperm,” or “I had sex yesterday,” that’s fine.

When Hirokatsu couldn’t take it anymore and processed his fantasies about the girls in his class, and also revealed that this had caused him to become interested in them as the opposite sex, there was nothing Sho could do about it.

“There’s something wrong about you.”

“No, no, no, no. It’s a natural desire for high school boys. I mean, think about it. There is no internet, no comics, no novels, no magazines, and the most graphic female body is right next to you. I was a bit reserved at first. But when you’re wearing those exciting training clothes and you’re training with men and women, you can’t help but get excited, can you?”

Hirokatsu scratches his cheeks when the story goes awry.

“I think I really like her, Sadogashima-san. Of course I’m interested in her in an erotic way, but lately I’ve been desperately looking for her, and when she smiles happily, it makes me happy too. Just hearing her voice makes me shiver in my ears. It’s like I’m completely in love with her”

“Well, I know how you feel.”

He is a high school boy in the throes of puberty. Sho has had a love affair or two.

In fact, Sho also had a crush on Sayaka but he didn’t dare to tell Hirokatsu or Haruto. He understood that love can’t come true no matter how he struggles, so he is still in the realm of admiration.

“But didn’t you say before that if you were to go out with someone, you’d definitely want a girl with big tits?”

Sho knows that he is not in a position to criticize the growth of someone else’s breasts. But still, the size of Sayaka’s breasts is, what can he say.

It’s not a big tits from any angle.

“Sho-chan is so sweet. It’s as sweet as real Austrian Wiener Melange”

“Have you ever drank it?”

After brilliantly passing through Sho, Hirokatsu tried to sit on the bed with Dokari, and after a short crawl, he eventually sat down on the floor of the room.

(TL:Dokari=falling heavily)

It seems that he remembered that Sho told him to stop because his body temperature remained.

Mr. Sadogashima looks like small breasts at first glance, but I think that’s probably just because she’s a skinny girl.She’s got glasses, pigtails and a literary girl – how can she not have big tits? Think about it. It’s impossible. Don’t you think so? Sho-chan”

“You can’t say that about……. In fact, my sister has glasses, braids and is an indoor person, but she has tiny boobs.”

“Wasn’t Sho-chan’s sister carrying a school bag the last time we met?”

“Yes. If she’s still the same, she’ll be in the fourth grade.”

It reminds Sho of his beloved sister, who wears her mother’s humble clothes without complaint, as if she has not yet developed a taste for fashion.

Sho heard that girl crimes have been on the rise lately, and as a brother, he’s a little worried about her wandering around in flashy, provocative outfits, so he is really hoping that she’ll stick to her humble ways.

When Sho went to a fast food restaurant with Hirokatsu and his friends, he overheard a group of otaku-like people sitting behind them talking about how “that potato-like look is good”

What has happened to the house since her brother went missing? Sho wonders if his sister, Narumi, is able to lead the same life as before.

The reality of not being close enough to protect her is so frustrating.

“What’s the matter?　Sho-chan, it seems to have suddenly become dark.” ‘

When Hiroshatsu looks into his face with concern, Sho puts on a fake smile and tries to stay calm.

It’s not just Sho who misses his family and friends outside of class.  He was sure he’s not the only one who shed a silent tear or two at night.

“I don’t want to be the only one who feels weak.”

Sho hides his face with false emotion and tells Hirokatsu it’s nothing

Hirokatsu looked at Sho with an anxious face for a while, but he sensed something from Sho’s expression, and didn’t say anything more about Sho’s clouded face.

“”I mean, if she’s in fourth grade, it’s not too late for her to be flat. When she grow up, she might grow up to be a big-boobed girl like Otomezaki-san.”

“If Narumi grows up to be a glamorous woman with big boobs, I will never let you do it with her.”

Sho passes off Hirokatsu’s light-hearted joke with a joke as well.

Perhaps Hirokatsu was trying to cheer up Sho, who had become depressed, by cracking a joke.

“So, Hirokatsu, are you thinking about confessing to Sadogashima-san?”

If boys starts to talk about someone they like and they want to go out with them, it is inevitable that such a question would come up.

If a girl is dating a guy like Sho, where the girl you like already has a boyfriend and you can’t compete with Sho no matter what you do – there is no such thing as pillage – you might not do anything unnecessary and just end up secretly thinking about him. In fact, this was the case with Sho.

Like Sho, the person he likes already has a boyfriend, and there’s nothing he can do about it – including stealing her away. Sho could only end up doing nothing and could only secretly think about her.

It’s true that Haruto said that Sayaka had a new man.

There’s nothing definitive to back up that statement, and Hirokatsu never saw Sayaka have any excessive contact with anyone in her class or with the knights of the Kingsguard on the training field that would make Hirokatsu suspect that she was in a relationship with someone else.

Hirokatsu heard that a young man (or woman) who has his first experience of sex can be transformed in many ways. Sayaka has no such signs.

So Sho’s question was not wrong.

In this situation, if such a question was asked, the person who was asked would surely nod in affirmation, although showing signs of embarrassment.

But….

“I tried to tell her in a roundabout way before, but she just ducked it. So I thought I’d try a bit harder next time”

Putting on his usual soft and friendly expression, Hiroshatsu poked at the void with his fingertips.

(TL: i have no idea what ‘void’ author meant)

“It’s not like she didn’t like me, and I think if we play our cards right, we can go beyond just dating.”

“Beyond that? It’s too early to tell, isn’t it?”

Even Sho is not an expert on the sexual situation of high school students in Japan today.

Sho thinks it’s a bit hasty to want a physical relationship before they’ve even started dating.

Or is it just that Sho is not familiar with such things, and the equation of dating and having sex is common knowledge among high school students today?

In his mind, the image of the girl he has a crush on comes to mind.

Her bobbed black hair swayed softly and she smiled like an angel, showing her double teeth.

He never thought of having sex with her.

He simply wanted to love her. He wanted to be with her. He had that feeling many times before.

He never had such an unhealthy fantasy of stripping her of her fleshy garments and making her the one to pour his lust into.

“Is it? In general, I think it’s a normal thing. Even Sho-chan wants to have sex with Nekoyama-san, right?”

(TL: so we got three ppl like neko: Ran,Sho and Torao)

The false image in Sho’s brain made a cute little meow.

The adorable creature rubbing up against Sho suddenly has a mature expression on its face and a sweet voice as it approaches him.

The Nekoyama Misuzu of Sho’s fantasy world just pursed her lips. He couldn’t bear to turn his face away.

“Come on…there’s no such thing…”

“Ah..I see..”

Seeing Sho’s reaction, Hirokatsu patted him on the head.

Feeling as if he was being treated like a child, Sho looked at Hirokatsu’s face in annoyance.

The expression on Hirokatsu’s face relaxes as he realises that his usual calm and gentle demeanour has been transformed into a chillingly cold one.

The look on his face is so different from the usual Hirokatsu that Sho feels more leaning towards fear than surprise.

Hirokatsu took one look at Sho, who was stiff with mixed emotions, and left Sho’s bedroom without saying a word.

A few seconds have passed since Hirokatsu left the room. When Sho finally regained his composure, he ruminated on what had just happened in his mind and tilted his head as if it did not make sense.

Why did Hirokatsu suddenly become angry? What kind of answer did he expect from Sho?

Without an answer, Sho quietly looks at the door of the bedroom where Hirokatsu left.

◇◇◇

After leaving his friend’s bedroom, Hirokatsu turned his gaze to Sayaka’s back – a hungry predator’s gaze, unimaginable from his normal self, to the end of the dark corridor.

“Is Sho Shiratori – that gregarious hypocrite – okay with it?”

“Do you really think that I accept this life that consumes my youth, which is only three years of my long life, in such poor conditions?”

“Doesn’t it make you feel uncomfortable that you are spending your reproductive years, when your interest and curiosity in the opposite sex is endlessly aroused, in this way only to increase your own muscle strength and magical power?”

It’s not as simple as wanting to have sex or make out with a girl.

They are brought into an unusual situation that they do not want to be in, and are forced to live in an ascetic and – if they are lucky enough to get a night maid, she will take care of them quickly and efficiently without changing her expression (or, if this is not allowed, the saints would have gone mad earlier). However, they have no means of relieving their stress and are forced to live in a poor environment where even their daily entertainment is taken away.

“I’m at the end of my rope.”

“I can’t see my parents, I can’t see my friends except for your classmates, I can’t use the internet, I can’t even have a moment of peace, it’s a painful reality. I’m going to kill the demon king. Then they should’ve sent us back to our world, but they said that they hadn’t received instructions from the top yet. I’m not sure if it’s because I haven’t fully mastered my particular magic skills yet, or for some other reason.”

Thanks to Nekoyama Misuzu’s reinforcing and restoring [Schwartz Energy], which is administered every night after training and every morning in a drowsy state, it seems that no saint has yet suffered irreversible damage to their mental health.

It’s like being pricked with soft needles all over his body. This situation, where no visible scars are carved, but exquisite stimulation is given to the body, which is definitely unpleasant, has clearly distorted the thought process of Hirokatsu, who should have had ordinary values, in an abnormal direction.

While Haruto and his adorable kemomimi maids are having a kunzu-harmony, they have yet to experience such an experience.

Hirokatsu is just an ordinary high school boy. When he sees a girl his own age, he can’t help but fall in love with her, and of course, when you’re dealing with someone who’s physically attractive in their own right, you can’t help but feel a genuine desire to reproduce.

Hirokatsu  want a place where he can be at home, where he can seek and support the opposite sex.

“I can do my best with this girl. Let’s encourage each other and get through the hard times together.”

Hirokatsu wants to have a partner who he can think like that with.

Even if there is no obvious standard like a boy’s testicles, it is impossible for a high school girl of her age not to feel any sexual desire for the opposite sex.

In this closed society, where they are the only friends, it is not strange that they choose Hirokatsu as their object.

“I thought you were like me, Sho.”

As a friend, I would have asked him out first, but I had no choice.

Hirokatsu was going to ask him first as a friend, but there was nothing he could do, because there was no way he could actually defile and rape someone he couldn’t even defile in his imagination.

“If he doesn’t change his mind, it’s no use. I’ll stick with Ryuzaki.”

After breaking away from the bottom-tier otaku group around the time of the Onegane Eiichi made a fuss, he follows Hirokatsu and his friends around like a goldfish thing – Ryuzaki Tsubasa.

At first, Hirokatsu  was happy to accept him, because he was a member of a group of geeks who didn’t even comb their hair, but he was also careful about dressing up and knew how to seduce women.

The way he half-heartedly presented his self-serving, unsupported knowledge (which came from erotic games and anime), and then impatiently threw in vulgar topics and complaints when the conversation was interrupted. He’s a bottom-feeder with no communicative ability, and Hirokatsu, Sho, and Haruto (especially Haruto, who completely disrespected Ryuzaki after he got involved with Nyanya) have come to treat him like crap.

“But I’m sure he’ll come with me if I ask him. He’s not bad to look at and he won’t get in the way”

Although the content of his words was very insulting to his classmates, Hirokatsu spoke in a unique way that did not hide any unpleasant feelings.

He looks out of the window at the silvery moon, and his face, which has been distorted like that of a lascivious beast, is transformed into his usual gentle smile. No matter how good the plan is, it will be less attractive if the proposer’s face is covered with lust and has a vulgar smile on it.

It’s hard to believe that Ryuzaki, a genuine otaku boy – and undoubtedly a night dweller – would be asleep at this hour.

Sharpening the evil idea in his mind, Hirokatsu went to Ryuzaki’s bedroom.

The lascivious malice had already disappeared from his face.