Buying a Weeping Girl Under the Wintry Sky, and Making Her Too Happy. - Chapter 44: Temptation.

Temptation.

Anyway, it’s okay that Miyu came to my room following me, but …There is one problem. I usually sleep in the same room with Miyu, and since we started going out, we’ve been sleeping on the futon together, so I don’t have much resistance to sleeping with Miyu….

“Hey, Miyu. Why don’t you reconsider?”

“I don’t mind.”

“No, but, you see, there are other rooms available.”

“Kazuya-kun, you don’t like sleeping with me?”

“No, that’s not what I mean…”

“Let’s just sleep on the same bed okay?”

Yes. As Miyu says, when I was at my grandparent’ house, I slept on the bed instead of the futon. When I started living alone, I didn’t want a bed in my small room, so I started sleeping on a futon…

“I think it’s not a good idea to sleep in the same bed….”

“Why?”

“Why, you ask… Hmmm…”

Well, there’s no way I could say it’s not a high school boy thing to do. …What matters is how far my rational mind will go to do the job, and Miyu is now my girlfriend. I’m afraid I’m going to take it as meaningless when I say that I’m going to sleep in bed with Miyu alone…. No good….Don’t think about it any more….

“Kazuya-kun, let’s go to bed soon?”

Saying that, Miyu gets into bed and stuffs herself in the back to make room for me.

“….Yes.”

I had an idea to go to the other room, but it was too late to do so under the circumstances. If I told her I was going to the other room now, it would surely cause a tense atmosphere. I’m sure Miyu would follow me even if I went to the other room….

I then hurriedly went to bed, but I didn’t realize how uncomfortable beds were in this world. ….It was supposed to be a place where I would feel at home…. It was supposed to be my sanctuary……

“Hey, Kazuya-Kun?”

“Hmm?”

“Spring break is over, isn’t it?”

“I guess so.”

The spring break will be over in three days. Then, student life as a sophomore will begin.

“It would be nice if we could be in the same class in the second year.”

“I guess so.”

“Fufu~ I never thought the day would come when I would want to be with someone.”

“Miyu, you were a loner, that’s for sure.”

“…Kazuya-kun, you are a meanie.”

I said it in a teasing tone, and Miyu was understandably miffed… Cute.

“But, well, if we can’t be in the same class, we won’t be able to spend as much time together.”

“Are you a dere…?”

“What’s a dere….?”

“I never thought I would hear such words from you, Kazuya-kun. Thank you.”

“….Yeah.”

I didn’t really understand what she was thanking me for, but I was embarrassed for the moment, so I just faked an appropriate response, which also meant that I was dismissing the topic.

“I’m going to sleep now.”

“Yeah. But are you sure?”

“With that?”

“….I’m fine with it, you know…”

I’m not going to get into the wild stuff about what’s going on here. A man and a woman are on the bed together. I’m sure that’s what it’s all about. Miyu said from the beginning that she didn’t mind, but I guess Miyu was ready to accept me. Did that “I don’t mind” also mean that she didn’t care what I did to her?

“…I’m.”

“….I see.”

“But at least this much.”

With that said, I gently kiss Miyu’s forehead. Miyu felt heartless or a little lonely when I told her I wouldn’t. Well, I can’t see the facial expressions because the lights in the room are turned off …. I felt like that …

“I’m sorry, but this is about the best I can do right now…”

“Kazuya-kun, you really are a slacker, aren’t you?”

“I can’t say anything this time …”

“Fufu. I’m happy though. Kazuya-kun, you haven’t done anything to me since we started going out, so I was a little worried… I’m sorry for testing you, okay?”

Miyu was thinking about the fact that I hadn’t changed at all since even though we had started going out. ……. It’s true that nothing has changed except for the surprise I gave her about a week after we first started dating. ……. I think Miyu’s increased skinship toward me may have been a sign of this kind of sentiment.

“I’m sorry I’m the one who’s a loser….”

“Fufufu~. A Kazuya-kun who isn’t a slacker isn’t a Kazuya-kun.”

“I’m going to …I’m going to bed.”

“Don’t sulk.”

“…I’m not sulking.”

“Well, I’ll leave it at that.”

I am very reluctant to do so, but there is no way to argue with her, so I decide to really go to sleep. It’s an escape to the dream world.

“Kazuya-kun.”

“……”

“Good night.”

“…Good night.”

After a while, Miyu started to repeat breathing in a steady rhythm, so she must have really fallen asleep, but there was no way I could go back to sleep…

“I was really close to….”

I just kept waiting for the time to pass, trying to give up sleeping as a matter of course and just be mindless in my agony.