After Escaping from a Black Company, I Ended Up Being Pampered by Sexy Beautiful Women - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: I Wanna Cherish This Time

“Um… Reina-san, you’re kinda dangerous, y’know?”

“Huh? Dangerous…!?”

“…If you keep hugging me like this forever, I feel like I’m gonna end up depending on you without any limits… Plus your embrace is so overwhelming that everything else starts feeling like it doesn’t even matter anymore.”

“…Come here.”

“Huh?”

“Come here♡”

Reina might seriously be some kind of devil woman when it comes to spoiling people.

She’s already way too attractive just by being beautiful and kind, but that hugging power of hers stands out so much it’s almost unfair.

“…In the end, I pretty much did nothing all day today.”

Besides talking with Reina, I basically just zoned out the whole time.

Whenever I sat still, this voice kept creeping into my ears like some hallucination—it was the voice of that shitty boss who’d been stressing me out forever.

Even when I tried to block my ears, that voice still echoed inside my head, and I hated myself for still being so hung up on it… but what I hated even more was worrying Reina every single time it happened.

“This isn’t good… I gotta get back to the old me soon.”

…The old me? What even was the old me like?

I was spacing out again thinking about stuff like that when someone tapped my shoulder—tap tap—so I turned around.

“Ah… Mina-san?”

“Hi♪ I’m home, Takuya-san!”

The person standing there when I looked back was Mina.

“…Welcome home, Mina-san.”

Oh right… it was already that time.

Reina had just left to go shopping a little while ago, and it looked like Mina came home right after she left.

“I hurried back because I knew Takuya-san was at the house.”

“Oh… really?”

“Even at school people were asking me stuff. Apparently I looked super fidgety the whole time… hehe, guess I’m in trouble.”

“…………”

“What were you up to today, Takuya-san?”

“Huh? Uh～…”

When she asked what I did, all I could really say was that I zoned out… so that’s exactly what I told her, straight up.

Mina heard that and didn’t lose her smile at all—in fact, she said this:

“Honestly I was kinda anxious… like, what if I came home and Takuya-san was gone? But being able to just empty your mind like that probably means this place feels really calming for you, right?”

“Ah… yeah, maybe that’s true.”

Huh… so there’s that way of looking at it too.

Still, the idea that she got anxious thinking I might disappear feels kinda weird… especially since I’ve spent so long being told nobody would care whether I was around or not.

“This place… is really nice. It’s only been one day, but I can already feel it super strongly… though it’s kinda lame coming from someone who just sat around spacing out.”

“That’s not true at all. The fact that you feel that way already means the vibe between me and Mom suits you perfectly♪”

“…………”

“So? You’re already starting to wanna stay here forever, aren’t you?”

Mina suddenly leaned in close and said that right to my face.

Caught off guard like that, I pulled back a little—but she just came even closer, which made me lose balance and fall backward.

“Mina-san!?”

“Kyaa!?”

Of course I was the one she fell onto, so she basically pinned me down.

“Ow…っ!?”

The pain in my back was no big deal.

But what really stole my attention was that when I tried to catch her, my right hand accidentally grabbed right onto her full, soft breast.

“S-sorryyy…”

Mina quickly tried to get up, but then she noticed where my hand was.

Instead of getting all embarrassed or anything, she actually smiled like she was trying to reassure me.

“It’s okay, I won’t get mad over something like this. So please don’t make that anxious face—it’s my fault anyway, and even if you did something like this on purpose, I wouldn’t hate it, y’know?”

“…Huh?”

“So even if something like this happens, don’t worry about me hating you or anything. While you’re here, just stay by our side without holding onto any anxiety at all, okay?”

…There it was again, that same feeling.

Just like with Reina, her voice slipped right into my heart so easily… and then what she did next was exactly the same too.

She pulled my body up and hugged me close.

“I… have one thing I need to apologize to you for, Takuya-san.”

“Huh?”

“Actually yesterday… I peeked into your room to check if you were sleeping okay.”

“…You don’t need to apologize for that.”

That much didn’t need an apology at all.

If anything, I even felt kinda happy that she cared enough to check on me at night… Mina let out a relieved breath like she was finally at ease and kept talking.

“Thank you… I’m really glad you said that. Um… so while I was there…”

“Yeah?”

“You… were having a nightmare, Takuya-san.”

“っ!?”

“The stuff you mumbled in your sleep was probably about work… I realized just how deeply those awful memories are carved into you. And at the same time, I figured out I hadn’t really understood it clearly before.”

“…Why go that far?”

“Isn’t it obvious? Because I don’t want to see you making that pained face, Takuya-san. I want to see you smile.”

…Seriously, I keep thinking about it over and over.

Why are Mina and Reina both so kind…? But that’s exactly why I need to get strong enough that they don’t have to worry about me anymore.

Then I can properly repay them and leave this place—.

“Takuya-san.”

“っ!?”

“You don’t need to think about leaving here yet, okay? Not at all. Taking it slow and feeling safe while you stay here—that’s what you need right now.”

“Ah, ahh…”

The thought of eventually leaving this place… even that idea got cut off, and this sweet-yet-kinda-scary kindness wrapped around me like temptation.

Mina kept hugging me tight and brought her face right up to my ear, whispering the final blow.

“That’s what Mom and I both want… so please, don’t make us sad, okay? Just not going anywhere—that alone is enough to make us happy.”

Wasn’t that basically her way of blocking any escape route?

But right now… no, even though I could leave whenever I wanted if I really tried, I just couldn’t bring myself to let go of Mina’s warmth for a while.

And that night, the meal we all ate together was nabe.

“Come on, let’s eat a ton!”

“Hehe, don’t hold back—eat as much as you want♪”

Warm food, warm conversation… it looked like yesterday’s repeat at first glance, but it felt totally different.

“…………”

Seeing a scene like this… if I kept watching it, my resolve was gonna waver.

Even so, I still wanted to keep looking… I couldn’t help wanting them to let me join that circle.

The two of them smiled at me so gently.

Being next to these two kind people calmed my heart down… in a way I couldn’t fight.

(What the heck… am I supposed to do?)

I asked myself that, but I forgot about it right away.

Because compared to the time I was spending with the two of them right in front of me, worries like that felt completely unnecessary.