Chapter 70: Afterstory & Prequel – 24: Happy End

Instead of showing any remorse at my completely justified anger, Maika puffed out her cheeks and—

“B-But… I knew that, okay!? I knew! But still! It pissed me off! I was the one who got to flirt with Kyugo the most! I knew Kyugo loved me the most! But I couldn’t even show it off, while a bunch of nobodies had the audacity to fawn all over him!? That’s so unfair! I felt guilty, I had regrets, but when I saw those girls acting all high and mighty, I just couldn’t help myself! I had to make sure everyone knew I was Kyugo’s wife! Because I am his wife! Kyugo’s! Wife!”

…You weren’t my wife back then. We were siblings. But I decided not to say it. Pouty Maika was just too damn cute. As expected of my wife. Pout-much. Puni-much.

So that was it. The rumor Nakano mentioned—the so-called fake news—was actually about me and Maika being together. But I thought she was talking about the uncircumcised rumor, so I ended up declaring, “It’s not fake.”

Which means… Nakano believed it. She thought I was outright confirming our relationship.

…Well, yeah, of course, she’d be horrified…! Of course, she’d be disgusted…! Of course, she’d chew me out like that…!

Nakano did nothing wrong.

“Wait, hold up. Don’t tell me… you were still pulling the same crap in high school? That’s why I was so unpopular even then…?”

“I wasn’t! I learned my lesson! I knew we couldn’t afford to have people thinking we were all lovey-dovey! I actually had a sense of crisis, okay!?”

“Yeah, well, I still got avoided by girls.”

“…Well, yeah? I didn’t spread rumors or anything, but I may have done a lot of ‘I’m too busy taking care of Kyugo’ performances.”

“So you were doing it.”

“…N-No! That’s just reality! I was spending most of my time looking after you, both in and out of practice! And you just let me! That alone was enough to get us labeled as a brocon and a siscon!”

“Fair point.”

“Besides, you were practically declaring yourself a siscon anyway. That was your sneaky little move. That’s why, in high school, people didn’t think we were actually together. Probably. Not too much, anyway.”

Ah, she means my tactic of playing up the “Haha, yeah, I’m a total siscon” angle to camouflage my real feelings. So that worked outside the baseball team, too? Even if we weren’t actually together, just being a blatant brocon and siscon was enough to keep girls away?

…Sad.

“Well, there were times when people from our middle school spread those rumors again, though. But Nakano was the one shutting them down.”

“Nakano…?”

That girl… After the way I supposedly rejected her, after how much she disapproved of me and Maika being together… she still made sure those rumors didn’t ruin us?

Nakano… was a damn good person. Even the whole uncircumcised hate thing was just my misunderstanding.

“Hah? What’s that look? What’s with that reaction? Why are you impressed by some other girl? Oh, and by the way, Nakano’s dating Obayashi now. She doesn’t have feelings for you anymore.”

“…Eh? HAAH!?”

“Well, I mean, that was before we reincarnated, but still. You do remember Obayashi checking in on you while you were holed up, right?”

“That bastard…! While I was suffering, he was out getting a girlfriend!? And then had the nerve to come rub it in my face?!”

“You chose to be a shut-in. Everyone else was just living their lives. And no, he wasn’t rubbing it in your face. He just casually mentioned, ‘Sana’s worried about you too,’ and I was like, huh? So I asked Rumiko-san when I ran into her at the supermarket. Apparently, Nakano fell for Obayashi’s manly side. Oh, and she also got into art school.”

“Guh… Urghh…!”

What is this feeling…? I barely even thought about Nakano anymore, and Obayashi finding happiness should be a good thing… but I can’t bring myself to be happy about it.

I was the one she fell for first…!

Damn it… so that’s it. It’s because he’s cut. Yeah, that’s gotta be it. Maybe I was wrong about Nakano hating uncut guys, but she did draw those kinds of pictures, after all. In the end, her ideal prince was a fully exposed one.

Nakano… you traitor.

“Damn it, so that’s it… In the end, you don’t stand a chance if you’re not cut. Ohtani, Darvish… hell, even Ohtanita and Garvish are probably all cut, no doubt about it. A guy like me, drowning in excess skin, doesn’t stand a chance in the pros…!”

“Idiot!”

“Ow!”

I got slapped.

This pain… this situation… it feels familiar… Oh. Right. It’s exactly what happened the day I told Maika I was getting circumcision surgery.

“I’ll say it loud and clear now—if I have to live with inverted nipples, giant areolas, and a full-on jungle, then you don’t get to fix your tiny, extra-skin disaster! That’s just unfair!”

“So that’s how you really felt…?”

“Damn right! I mean, come on, it’s the truth! I’ve got plenty of insecurities, a ton of flaws, but knowing that you were also a hopeless case made it just barely acceptable for me to live with mine! Like, whatever, I don’t have to be my ideal self because Kyugo will still love me the most, right?”

“Of course.”

That, I could say with absolute certainty. I loved Maika just the way she was.

“Right? Same here. And now, Kyugo, you’re about to become everyone’s hero, aren’t you?”

“…Well, yeah.”

“Exactly. Once that happens, there’ll be times when you have to pretend to be perfect, act all cool and strong. But when you’re with me, you don’t have to. You can be your pathetic, wimpy, siscon self with all that extra skin and your hopelessly uncircumcised junk. I’ll take you in, with my unfortunate boobs and soft, pudgy tummy.”

“……M-Maika…! Why’d you have to mention ‘extra skin’ and ‘uncircumcised’?! That’s redundant slander…!”

As I lay there, completely bare, she stroked my freshly shaved head while I groaned. And then—

My fully erect, extra-skin burdened junk pressed against Maika’s soft, pudgy belly and… oh. Oh no. I twitched. And—

Splat.

Right onto her tummy.

I’d gone and made a mess on her pudgy belly.

How pathetic. How weak. How utterly siscon. How tragically extra-skinned and uncircumcised.

This side of me could never be seen by anyone but Maika.

But this was my real self.

Nakano would probably faint if she ever saw me like this.

—Someday, I have to become the perfect, ideal version of myself. The way Nakano once envisioned. The way the world will expect me to be.

No, I will become that man.

I’ll be a hero at Koshien, make it to the pros, and keep showing Riko the coolest version of me.

I’ll have to carry the weight of all the unrealistic expectations from the fans, too. That’s part of the job. And I’m not strong enough to ignore it completely. There will be days when the pressure and the gap between expectation and reality threaten to crush me.

And when that happens, having someone who accepts me just as I am—flaws and all—will be the only thing keeping me sane.

Most future stars never find that person. And they break under the pressure.

But miraculously, I have her.

She’s been by my side since the beginning, stuck with me even when I completely fell apart and became a shut-in, followed me across lifetimes without a second thought, and will always be right here, closest to me, forever.

She’ll be my wife. She’ll bear my children. She’ll be the best mother.

But when it’s just us, she can be my depraved, semen-loving, perverted wife and let loose all her messed-up desires. I want her to.

And she can also turn back into my helpless little sister, clinging to me and asking for affection. I want her to.

Because when I’m with her, I don’t need to be the perfect hero, or the perfect father.

I can just be a total perverted, degenerate, siscon freak who dotes on her endlessly!

With that resolve, I latched onto Maika’s massive areolas, sucking out her inverted nipples like my life depended on it.

After that, I absolutely railed her.

Splurt. Splurt. Splurt…! Splurt!! SPLURT!!!

She got super pregnant.

We got super happy.

Riko eventually figured out all the lies and got super pissed, but whatever, she’s all mochi-mochi happy now, playing with her adorable little niece and nephew.

Oh, and according to Mom, back in our previous world, even Miyashita and the others made it to Koshien after we left. Not only that, but they reached the best eight in their first-ever appearance.

…Koshien NTR.

It stung. So I made damn sure we won the championship this time.

After that, I got drafted into the pros straight out of high school, broke into the first team in my second year, and made a ton of money.

Wait.

I meant to say I made a ton of money.

Damn it, this typo’s all because I’m still thinking about circumcision.

Dad discovered QNTR and found a whole new world of happiness.

Everyone got their happy ending.

Splurt. Splurt. Splurt…! Splurt!! SPLURT!!!

—And so, we all lived happily ever after.