Chapter 22: Chapter 22

“!! Seriously… aren’t you getting better than this last time?”

“The same goes for you, Natsuko-san, you’re amazing.”

Even though there were people in the store, me and Natsuko-san still sneaked out and sought each other intensely.

We couldn’t keep the customers waiting, so me and Natsuko-san did it with all the power we could muster.

Natsuko-san was leaning against the cardboard in the dimly lit warehouse, her body shaking slightly. Her blonde hair also shakes in reaction, filling the room with her pheromones.

I thought as I looked at Natsuko-san, who was breathing heavily.

That Rino might be a distraction to me.

Soon after, I left the restaurant after exchanging a passionate kiss with Natsuko-san.

Me walking down the street at night, illuminated by the street lights.

Every time I interacted with these two mature ladies, I felt like I was growing up.

And I’m also going to be at Ayane’s house on Saturday.

“I guess you could call it youth.”

I said to myself in an unexpected direction. Then someone called me out from behind.

“What are you talking about, Kudo?”

“!!!”

I turned around in surprise and there was Yuna Hiragi in her school uniform staring at me.

“Hiragi…”

“Why is Kudo here?”

“Is it bad that I’m here?”

“… isn’t bad, though.”

As I recomposed myself, Hiragi looked away.

There are a lot of liquor stores here. In fact, there are already drunks and pick-up men roaming around town, so the fact that a high school girl in uniform is here probably means that…

“Don’t hang around here, it’s not safe. See you at school.”

And as I moved my feet, brushed her off without a care in the world, she grabbed my sleeve.

“Hmm?”

“Do you have a minute?”

“… Not exactly but why?”

“I need you to hang out with me.”

Now you’ve said it right this time.

So Hiragi and I went into a nearby family restaurant.

“I see. You mean you were waiting for your mother to finish work.”

“Yeah. The pick-up dudes were a real pain though.”

“I bet.”

She may not have the best personality, but she sure is as good as Rino when it comes to looks. But I don’t really like her.

“So, what do you want?”

“… Oh, I just wanted to apologize.”

“Apologize?”

And as I looked at her with a strange look on my face, Hiragi made her mouth squirm in embarrassment.

“You helped me the other day, and I said bad things to you…”

“Oh, that.”

Well, it was pretty hard at the time.

But you really never know in this world when you get an apology from Hiragi, who is famous for her pride.

“I thought you were one of those beasts who, after a little help, would come on to me for my body.”

There’s people like that.

I think it’s similar to people who are plotting bad things, doing volunteer activities or making donations to show that they’re good people.

“So that’s how it was. Then it can’t be helped. But it was really hard at the time.”

“… sorry.”

“Well… it’s fine. I’m sorry.”

“I knew it. You’re weird.”

“Am I the weird one?”

Suddenly being treated like a freak made me wrinkle my brow and urge her to continue with a look.

“You’re not like the other guys. And you don’t even treat me like I’m special.”

“That’s right, because Hiragi is Hiragi, right?”

“… I knew it.”

“?”

She blushed a little and turned over. But she eventually looked up and turned to me.

“Then you can stop being my servant and be my boyfriend.”

“Hah?”

“I’m asking you to go out with me.”

“Weren’t you just in the middle of something…”

I was suddenly confessed to by the most beautiful gal in school.

Is this really a confession though?

I think it was just a one-sided declaration.

“That’s why virgins are so bad. You’re so bad at listening.”

“You’re making assumptions like that again.”

”Hmm~ that way of talking makes you a virgin, doesn’t it?”

“Why are you asking me that? You’re kinda out of your mind.”

“……”

“If you don’t need me, I’ll be on my way.”

I said and I made a gesture to stand up and Hiragi said as if she was in dire need of help.

“I don’t understand…!”

“?”

“I come from a single-mother family, and my father ended up having an affair with another woman and ended up dying of an illness…I really don’t know what to do!”

“……”

I don’t know why she’s telling me about her own family affairs.

But…

She must have been living with a tangled feeling in her heart.

It’s like it just exploded.

I don’t know much about her, but I tell her as she looks at me anxiously and sadly.

“I’m from a single mother family, too.”

“What?”

“Well, sure, the Hiragi’s dad who cheated all over the place might be a bit of a thing, but what’s important is now, pondering it won’t give you the answer.”

“……”

“Well, I’m a big guy myself, but I’m still not a decent person to hold onto the fact that I was dumped.”

“What? Did someone dump you, Kudo?”

“Yeah.”

Oh, no.

Thanks to Hiragi’s openness about the situation at home, I told her my embarrassing story too. Well, but it’s nothing to hide about. Most of the guys from the same class as me a year ago knew about it after all.

“It was from Rino Uchida…”

“Are you serious?”

I nodded with a dark expression, and Hiragi suddenly giggled.

“Thank you, Kudo. I’m having so much fun.”

“You’re a fast switcher, aren’t you?”

She’s the kind of girl that’s hard to grasp.

X X X

Yuna side

Yuna went to the bar where her mother works after talking a lot with Kenichi and exchanging contacts.

On the way there, some pick-up guys annoyingly bothered her, but she shook them all off and came to the front of the bar.

But also.

“Oh! The prettiest JK I’ve ever seen. The most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen, this uncle will give you a lot of money, so why don’t we go somewhere and play with us?”

An old man who looked to be in his forties approached her with a snort.

“Oh, it’s so depressing.”

He came up to her excitedly, not caring about Yuna’s fed up feelings.

“Uhihihi!”

And then…

“What are you doing to my daughter?”

“Uwa!”

Natsuko came out from inside and kicked the old man in his forties. The old man passed out as it was.

“That’s rare. For you to came all the way out here.”

“… is it bad if I’m here?”

“Fufu, Yuna is my daughter, so of course it’s fine.”

“… Un.”

“I’m about to close, so just wait inside.”

“Okay.”

Yuna unusually helped Natsuko with her work.

Then they closed the shop and the two, mother and daughter, headed home.

“Yuna.”

“What?”

“What kind of man was it?”

“Huh?”

“Man, I’m talking about the man? What else is there?”

“……”

“Well, you don’t have to say anything if you don’t want to.”

“… A boy from the same school, a bit older in the face, but he’s kind and doesn’t treat me any differently.”

“That’s great.”

“Right?”

And when Yuna deflects her big b*****s with pride, Natsuko smiles with satisfaction and hugs Yuna’s shapely shoulders and pulls them up to hers.

“Mama?”

“Then you must not miss it.”

“!!”

Yuna was overwhelmed by the mighty appearance of her own mother.

At the same time.

A familiar smell tickled her nostrils.

“I know. I’ll never miss it again.”

Recalling her earlier exchange with Kenichi, Yuna rubs her stomach.

[Postscript]

How long will this relationship last?