Chastity Reversed: Part-Time Life by the All-Girls High School - Chapter 85: I Think So Too!

I Think So Too!

“Haaah…”

“R-Rika-san…”

“It’s absolutely impossible…”

The share house felt as reassuring as coming home. There, Rika-san was lying on the floor, lamenting.

She had been like this ever since I told her everything.

– About today’s mixer.

– About Sora-san helping me.

– And about what had happened in his room.

“Don’t fall in love just because he kissed you! Are you some heroine from a shounen manga?!”

“I-I’m not! I only realized it!!”

“Haa. Really?”

“Yes…”

“Well, either way, that doesn’t change anything. Confessing to a friend with benefits is definitely impossible… Ah, my stomach hurts…”

“Why are you the one getting like that, Rika-san…?”

She writhed in agony.

No, I knew. I knew Rika-san was the type to empathize to a dangerous degree. She usually cried at manga and movies too. But… this was the first time she had gone this far.

“Do you understand what’ll happen if you fail?”

“…We won’t be able to have the same relationship as before.”

“He won’t let you do it with him anymore, you know? You might not even be able to see him anymore, you know?”

“Ugh… Even so.”

“…I see. Then isn’t that fine?”

“Huh?”

Unlike a moment ago, Rika-san said it with a dignified expression.

“You’ve changed. At first, Yuuka, you were saying anyone would do.”

“…”

“If you already feel that strongly about him, it’d be easier to just spit it out already.”

“…Yes.”

“But – sorry. I have to say just this.”

Rika-san took a deep breath and turned toward me.

“He’s pretty ‘heavy.'”

“…”

“He’s living alone for some reason even though he has parents. At his age, nobody knows how many people he’s slept with. The fact that he hasn’t broken down is what’s abnormal.”

“Yes.”

“Sometimes he has this incredibly distant look in his eyes. I’m sure he’s carrying all kinds of things. Like a bottomless swamp.”

“…Even so.”

I knew that. That was exactly why I wanted to carry it with him.

Because.

Maybe.

[- ‘Akari makes five.’ ‘My first time?’ That’s laughable! -]

I was his –

“Yuuka.”

“Ngh.”

“I’m partly at fault for putting the idea in your head, but that still isn’t confirmed.”

“…I’ll make that clear tomorrow too.”

“I see. Ahh, my stomach hurts… Well, do your best.”

“Yes!”

I bowed my head to Rika-san as she headed to the bathroom.

I would confess.

We would go on a date, and at the end, while looking at the night view…!

“Ugh. Now even my stomach’s starting to hurt.”

As I faced the coming moment, I ended up clutching my stomach.

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It had already been several days since that mixer.

In the end, Yuuka did not get a boyfriend… Too bad. She’s a good girl, though.

[- “Um. Uh, again…” -]

When I said I wanted to do it, she said we shouldn’t. Even as we parted, that strange girl stayed on my mind until the very end. I did not know if practicing kissing had been the right thing to do either.

Well, worrying too much was no good. It would interfere with work.

“Hokuto-senpai, you seem like you’d be popular.”

“You seem like you’d be popular too, Sato.”

Well, it was boring as hell, though!

After school, I was working the night shift. In other words, it was chatting time.

As usual, the only customers were salarywomen with dead faces coming in to buy food and cigarettes. Thank you for your hard work!

“Hokuto-senpai, you’re the type that’ll be popular your whole life, right?”

“If anything, doesn’t Sato hit his prime after he gets older?”

“I don’t really wanna imagine what I’ll be like as an old guy.”

“Oh, that sounded super high school boy-ish just now.”

“Seriously? Yay.”

Apparently, I had gotten pretty used to this world.

I had finally gotten used to going home and finding no one there too.

Humans were creatures that adapted.

“‘Yay,’ huh? That loses you high school boy points.”

“Ehh.”

“Well, I guess that’s one of your good points too.”

“Whoa, as expected. That’s how you’ve played around with all kinds of men…”

“That’s not it! I meant it!”

“Hahaha.”

Too bad. Apparently I was still a girly guy after all.

Ring ring ring!

“Huh. A phone’s ringing.”

“Yeah. Isn’t it yours, Sato?”

It was put away in my locker. The ringtone sounded distant. Well, I could just check it later.

“We’re free anyway, so you can go answer it.”

“Thanks.”

Or so I thought, but then I got unexpected permission.

Answering the phone during work made me feel guilty. Believe it or not, I was serious about my job.

“…Yuuka?”

That was the name I saw on the incoming call.

Huh, another mixer? No, if it was for her sake, I would totally go. If there was a good guy there, I would absolutely set them up.

“Hel-“

“Ah, um, are you free right now?!”

“(Eardrum collapse.)”

“Aaaah, I’m sorry!!”

“You got a boyfriend? Congratulations.”

“Sato-san, your ear…!”

I pressed down on my ringing ear. With this feeling, it seemed pretty urgent.

“So? I’m at work right now, so keep it short, okay?”

“I-I’m sorry. Um, are you free next Saturday or Sunday?”

“Sure. Is it the next mixer?”

“Ah… Ahh, y-yes! The venue is an aquarium… How does that sound?”

A mixer at an aquarium?

That was new… The fish might get stimulated and start breeding too.

“Sure. (Whatever.)”

“! Thank you very much. Um, I’ll contact you again…”

“…Yuuka? You’ve always been a little weird, but are you okay?”

“Y-yes!!! Excuse me!!”

“(Eardrum destruction.)”

I hung up while pressing down on my ringing ear.

Yeah, Yuuka really was acting strange.

…Time to get back to work.

“Sorry, I’m back.”

“There are zero customers, so no problem. So what was it? If it’s urgent, you can clock out.”

“I’m okay. Just filling numbers for a mixer.”

“Seriously?”

“Apparently the venue’s an aquarium.”

“Huh? Wait, mixers nowadays have advanced that far?”

I think so too!