After Practicing S*x With My Childhood Friend I Don’t Even Like, I Started Becoming Popular With Beautiful Girls. However, for Some Reason, My Childhood Friend Starts Acting Cold

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Chapter 15 – That’s What’s Cute About You, Senpai

“So you’ll take on the role of my boyfriend, is that right?”

“Ah, yes. I don’t have any reason to refuse, but… Can I ask you something?”

“What is it?”

“Why did you want me to be your pretend boyfriend?”

It’s a question that has bothered me from the start.

Even if senpai isn’t interested in having a real boyfriend, it doesn’t mean that I have to be the one to play the role of her boyfriend.

The first thing that should’ve come to mind is to ask a classmate she’s been with for more than two years, not me, who she had just met.

“Could it be that, senpai, you like me?”

“No? I don’t think so.”

“Of course you don’t!”

I knew it! In the first place, if she really liked me, why did she ask me to be her pretend boyfriend!?

I know that, but still, it’s a bit depressing.

Perhaps noticing this, senpai’s face softened with a mature, gentle smile.

“You see, I was watching you. On the day of the entrance ceremony.”

“Huh?”

“You were helping Nekomura-san practice on her representative greeting.”

“Eh? You really saw that? Seriously?”

“Yes. I’m sorry, I laughed at first. It was a bit funny how desperate you were.”

Senpai showed a sneer as if recalling the scene she saw at the back of the school building during the entrance ceremony.

“Er, well, that was, you know…! Ah, Ko-Kohaku has nothing to do with it, you know? She’s… Ah yes, she’s the perfect angel. She never needs practice, and that wasn’t practice at all, but I just had a sudden urge to do the horizontal jump! In the meantime, Kohaku had no choice but to read the manuscript because she was bored, haha—Eh?”

Gently, a finger was placed on my lips to shut my mouth.

The finger felt warm.

“That’s it.”

“………?”

“I know you are a nice and kind person. That’s why I thought I’d ask you.”

“Sen…pai…”

Somehow, my heart felt fulfilled.

When senpai told me that I was a kind and nice person, I felt that what I had done to Kohaku was not a mistake.

I was actually thinking maybe she really doesn’t like me and got depressed, but maybe that’s not the case.

“But… You seem to be more lewd than I thought.”

“That’s, uh, how do I say it… Are you complimenting me?”

“It’s not a compliment.”

“Auch.”

I was hit on the head.

“Seriously, this boy…”

Hah… senpai sighed.

“Does that answer your question?”

“Ah, yes. Perfectly.”

“Then this is the last time. I’ll ask you again.”

Alone together in a dimly lit alleyway.

“Suzume-kun.”

Senpai reached out her supple, smooth hand towards me.

And she said,

“Would you like to be my pretend boyfriend?”

“If I can help senpai, I’m happy to.”

I answered immediately and I took her hand.

“Thank you.”

Thus, a strange lover’s contract with a senior student one year older than me was concluded.

Ah, come to think of it, I haven’t heard specifically what I should do as a boyfriend…

Well, even so, I still have no reason to refuse, but… Should I start an all-out war with senpai’s mother who leads the yakuza? No way…

So I asked senpai about my role as a boyfriend.

She said…

“What? Seriously? I just have to go on a date with senpai? Really? I don’t have to fight senpai’s mother wielding a cleaver?”

“Yes. If you go out with me regularly and let me take pictures as proof, I’m sure that I can convince them.”

What’s this delicious boyfriend role?

The world is a kinder place than I might think.

“You’ll have to fight with my mother after that.”

“I knew it!?”

Having the Yakuza under her command, just how terrifying of a mother she is…!

If they find out I’m just a pretend boyfriend, I won’t get killed, right…?

“Are-are you sure everything will be okay!?!?”

“I’m just saying that it might happen someday. For example, if they find out you’re just a pretend boyfriend, or if they want to meet you, or if they want us to get married quickly… But don’t worry. I’m not going to cause any more trouble for Suzume-kun. If that happens, I’ll get rid of the pretend boyfriend role.”

“Is-is… Is that so?”

Somehow, that makes me a little sad.

“Um, senpai…?”

Senpai softly placed her hand on my head.

“Don’t make that face. You really are a kind person, aren’t you? But still a pervert, though.”

“Thank you very much.”

“You’re still looking at my breasts, girls can tell, you know?”

“Thank you very much.”

Her breasts are really wonderful.

I want her to continue to nudge me on the head for the rest of my life.

As I was thinking that…

“I’ve found you, Young Miss——!!”

A group of gangsters appeared!

“Aaahh!! It appeared!?”

“What did you say, you brat!? You talked as if I was a ghost—!”

“Let’s run away, senpai! Quickly!”

I took senpai’s hand and ran to the back, but…

“Useless, it seems.”

But we’ve been surrounded!

Yakuza men lined up in the entrance of the narrow alleyway.

What do I do now!? We’ll get caught at this rate!!

Is it really going the doujinshi route!? Is this turning into a doujinshi plot!? Stuff like that should stay in the realm of two dimensions, damn it!

I won’t let them lay a hand on my (fake) girlfriend, even if it costs me my life!

As I was panicking, senpai took a step in front of me.

“Igarashi, listen to me.”

“Are you finally giving up, Young Miss?”

A large man called Igarashi, with a large claw-like scar over his left eye, came forward with a sigh of relief.

He appears to be the leader of the Yakuza.

“Yes, I won’t run away again. Because I don’t have to.”

“What? Young Miss?”

Senpai spread her hands towards me as if to attract the attention of the yakuza.

“This man is my boyfriend.”

“Huh? There’s no way I could believe that. How can he be a boyfriend if he doesn’t have a single manly thing going for him?”

“Yes, I guess that’s right. But I will prove to you now that he is really a boyfriend.”

“Young Miss…?” “Senpai…?”

Not just the yakuza, but I also tilted my head.

In the midst of all this, only senpai remained as dignified as she would be when standing in front of the students as student council president.

“So, after this, report it to my mother. Okay?”

“Hah…”

Igarashi replied half-heartedly as if he still didn’t understand what she meant, but senpai ignored him and turned to me.

“Sorry, Suzume-kun.”

“Eh…?”

Senpai’s foot took a step forward.

Both her hands warmly wrapped my cheeks.

And she tiptoed a little—

“……Chiyu~…”

She kissed me on the forehead while a lot of people were staring.

“……Eh………?”

My eyes crossed with Tachibana-senpai’s, and at the same time my heart pounded and my body started to heat up.

This is a fake relationship.

We’re both pretending.

Senpai got a convenient pretend boyfriend, and I fulfilled a little desire.

Maybe this is the same thing that Saiai was doing… No, there’s no way it’s the same.

After all, I’m imagining my future with Tachibana-senpai.

I sincerely hope that senpai and I get along well from now on.

Relationships between people are never something that disappears in a short period of time, but something that grows and develops.

There are many things in the world that are fake that can become real.

………

……

…

“Huh… Those yakuza went home after that…”

I casually murmured while walking home with senpai.

“Are you surprised?”

“I thought they wouldn’t believe us if we didn’t at least kiss on the lips.”

“I guess that’s what would happen normally.”

Senpai, with a lively spring in her step and her black hair swaying, stepped in front of me. The corners of her lips were lifted, showing that she was in a good mood.

“Those people are naive…”

“Haha. Is that so…”

“Yes. That’s right. They’re easy to handle and surprisingly cute, right?”

That description doesn’t suit their faces…

It seems that no matter what kind of bad ending we encountered, it didn’t lead to a doujinshi-like development.

And we lived happily ever after.

“Senpai is much cuter.”

“Fuee!? Wha-wha-wha… What are you on about!? I’m…I’m cute!?”

“Yes. So cute.”

“Wha-what’s with you suddenly…!? Ho-how am I cute…”

With a gaze that seemed to be probing my reaction, senpai casted an unsettled glance in my direction.

“Being told you’re cute makes your face turn bright red, and you don’t seem to be full of it. That’s what’s cute about you, senpai.”