Rooftop And Future Husband

Recently, my childhood friend and girlfriend, Ai Kohinata, had been acting strangely.

We had been …… strangely awkward with each other since we started high school, but recently the number of times she went to see her “friends” has increased dramatically.

Yesterday, too, we were actually supposed to go out together, but our plans changed when she suddenly said she was going to meet a friend.

I even made a reservation…..

When I ask her who he/she is, she rarely answers, and when I pursue the matter, she gets angry saying, “You don’t believe me!”.

According to my best friend, it’s pushing the limits of suspiciousness.

It was very reliable because it was the opinion of a guy who has been repeatedly cheating on his girlfriends and constantly changing them.

……I don’t trust humanity at all.

Anyway, I’m very suspicious of her right now.

By the way, this was on the bed in my room.

Ai, the suspect, carelessly left her phone on the bed and was taking a shower without it.

I was tempted by the devil, and picked up her smartphone.

Lovingly, the password of her smartphone was my birthday.

That just made me happy and guilty at the same time.

“I will only take a quick peek…”

I made an excuse to myself and opened the talk section of my LINE.

It will be alright, Ai is definitely a bit suspicious, but she would never cheat on me.

I soon realized how foolish I was to believe that …….

“….No way.”

In the talk history, there was a conversation with a man named Shiro Ryuyo.

The first thing I saw when I peeked inside was an image of Ai naked.

An image of Ai blushing with embarrassment and covering her eyes had been sent to her by Ryuyo.

I started to sweat profusely, and my head became dizzy.

I could still hear the shower.

In the bathroom, Ai was taking a shower, completely naked like the day she was born.

…..I was sure that I was the only one of the opposite sex who saw that appearance.

However, the reality seemed to be different, and I received a message that read, [Yesterday’s embarrassed Ai was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen.]

It seemed that Ai was also not completely indifferent and said, [We shouldn’t meet suddenly from now on because Yū-kun might find out.] But, she also replied, [I was very happy though.]

…… really made me want to throw up.

By the way, Yu-kun is me. I’m Yuto Tachibana, so Yu-kun.

Looking further revealed that the relationship had apparently been going on for quite a long time, and that she had been seeing this guy on the days I occasionally went out to meet with friends.

I was stunned, but I took a moment to clear the message field and send it to myself.

I’ve erased the history so I’m sure she won’t find out……. Probably.

After a few moments, the sound of the shower was stopped and Ai, dressed in her underwear, came out of the bathroom.

Her long brown hair was pulled back and her slit, slightly upturned eyes were very beautiful.

Even though I was used to seeing breasts that had grown slightly larger than average compared to when I was a child, I couldn’t help but notice them.

“Hey, Yu-kun, do you know where my smartphone is?”

“It was on the bed.”

Ai came running up to me.

“…you didn’t look right?”

Ai asked anxiously.

“Do you mind if I look?”

“It’s not like that, but I don’t like the idea of people looking through my phone.”

Liar, that’s not it.

I couldn’t say anything, so I handed over her phone for now.

“I didn’t look. I don’t even know the PIN to begin with.”

“Then it’s okay………, Yu-kun, are you not going to take a bath?”

She saw me not moving from the bed and asked me curiously.

Usually, as soon as Ai got out of the bath, I would take a bath and the night’s activity would begin, but honestly, I didn’t feel like I could do that right now.

“I think I’ll just go to bed today. I’m kind of tired.”

“What….I was in the mood for it today. If you neglect me too much, I might go to another man.”

“….Huh?”

……What is she talking about when she already has done it?

I was so shocked that I ended up glaring at her.

“W-What? It was a lie! I’m devoted to Yū-kun, so I would never give my body to someone else, okay?”

Ai gave excuses impatiently, sweat beading on her forehead.

Humans could lie with a face like this.

“Sorry, I was just teasing you. Come on, you better go to bed soon or it’ll affect you tomorrow.”

With that, I invited Ai to join me on the futon.

Ai got into the futon with a happy smile and came to hug me.

“……I might like the smell of your sweat.”

Ai murmured as she pressed her face against my chest.

I would have been honestly happy before I saw the phone, but now I’m wondering if she was comparing me to someone else? I could only wonder.

“…….Yu-kun’s heart is beating fast? The sound of your heart is amazing.”

No, it was because your infidelity had been exposed.

I couldn’t say that, so I turned my face away to deceive her, but misunderstanding this, Ai smirked.

“Yu-kun is so cute when he’s embarrassed.”

Those words made my heart beat even faster, reminding me of the messages from Ryuyo.

Nausea and disgust grew stronger too.

Even so……, I found myself feeling affectionate toward Ai.

My heart was going crazy with a mixture of hatred and love that I wanted to kill myself.

“…… let’s go to bed.”

“Yes, good night. …… I’ll stay with you all the way.”

Ai quietly prayed for a wish.

But that wish would surely not come true.

Unless I forget what I saw today and treat her the same as before, or if I blurted out everything that happened today and restarted the relationship again.

Perhaps that wish would come true.

But I was not going to be able to swallow these feelings.

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The sunset from the rooftop was so beautiful, and that’s why I felt it would give me the courage to take a step forward.

I have no parents. To be exact, my father abandoned me and my mother when I was very young.

My mother and I moved to the countryside and had a reasonably good life, but she died just as I was about to enter high school.

The only relatives I had left was my childhood friend Ai.

That Ai betrayed me and my heart seems to can’t take it anymore.

Just looking at her face made my heart crush into pieces and my heart beat faster.

Just by touching Ai’s smartphone, hatred and suspicions swirled in my heart, wondering if she’s contacting Ryuyo again.

I hated myself for being like that.

I couldn’t come to terms with myself for being jealous and still loving, even when she betrayed me and trampled upon feelings.”

I don’t have any relatives anymore. No one will be in sorrow when I die.

…..If that’s the case, then It should be fine to end it here.

“……..okay, let’s fly.”

The rooftop fence was low enough to climb over, perhaps because it was an old building and had not been renovated.

On the ground, the members of the sports club are frantically shouting and glistening with youth.

If I had such enthusiasm, maybe I wouldn’t have ended up here.

“But, I don’t have anything anymore…… That’s why, so it’s okay even if I die now.”

Muttering this, I stood behind the fence and took off my shoes.

To the father on the family register who abandoned me, to my half-brothers whose faces I have never seen, who may be there, please forgive me for the filial piety that preceded me.

Thanks for paying my rent and child support, even though I didn’t appreciate it at all.

…… Mom, I’m on my way to see you now.

Oh, if it’s suicide, I won’t see her because I’m going to hell.

I finished saying the goodbyes to my family and looked forward.

Just as I was about to gasp and decide to put my foot on the fence, the door to the rooftop opened with a bang.

I turned around, startled.

──────At the end of it stood a girl as beautiful as a goddess.

“St-Stop right there!”

A girl out of breath at the entrance to the rooftop looked at me and shouted.

Her black hair reaches down to her waist, and her thin body and jet-black eyes give her a somewhat cold atmosphere.

However, her face was flushed to the point of turning her fair skin red, conveying her desperation.

I thought I recognized that face.

“You, what are you trying to do?”

“I was thinking… about dying.”

The girl raised her eyebrows at my words.

She was out of breath, but her expression was devilishly serious.

“Why were you doing this……?”

“Because I have nothing.”

“Nothing…..?”

The girl tilted her head curiously.

She looked as if she was trying to say that couldn’t be true.

“Yeah, nothing. My family, my girlfriend, ……that’s why I want to end it now.”

I lost everything I cared about.

There was nothing for me.

I would rather die than live in solitude.

“…… If you’re going to die anyway, then give me your life.”

The girl reached out her hand.

Her small palms were trembling with fear, but her eyes, as if she had made up her mind to do something, gripped my heart.

“What do you mean by “give me your life ……”?　Do I have to fight some evil organization like some manga?”

The girl shook her head in exasperation.

Well, of course not.

“Then, what do you mean?”

“It’s simple.”

With that, she brushed back her waist-length, beautiful black hair.

“I want you to be my …… future husband.”

The goddess appeared on the rooftop and proposed to me with a determined look on her face.