Dungeon Streaming in a Chastity-Reversed World with 1:99 Male-to-Female Ratio! I Might Be a Rare Man, But I’ll Risk My Life to Find a Wife! - 70

Chapter 70: The Man Who Is Pursued and the Woman Who Pursues

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“…Um, what exactly do you mean by that?”

Ittou tilted his head and asked with clear eyes. Maru peered into Ittou’s eyes, whose eyes were  filled with such pure curiosity, and gave him a wide grin.

“Itsukushima-kun, are you able to love everything right now!!? Love is ‘matching’!! In simple terms, it’s contact. Are you properly touching, feeling, clashing, trying to understand each other? You’re not just watching from afar and pretending you understand, are you?”

Ittou felt Maru’s words pierce straight into his chest. That sensation washed over him. Maru’s eyes were direct. Not transparent, just straight, looking only at Ittou, trying to know him.

Everything about him.

(I want I want I want I want I want I want I want I want I want!!!!!!!!!!)

Her eyes looked like a wide, gaping mouth to Ittou. And while her eyes seemed ready to devour him, her real mouth hurled words at him.

“It’s no good…!! People say romance is ‘to beg,’ but if you just wait, it’ll change right away and fall apart. That’s why a maiden doesn’t wait. She crashes, gives, demands, destroys, creates!! That’s the world you’re in. Well, basically, what I’m trying to say is…!!”

A blazing red flame. Ittou finally understood a little about her essence. She was fire. A vivid, vivid red fire. A wild and beautiful flame that tried to burn her impulses, desires, and passion until nothing remained. A momentary brilliance that believed she could give even more love than the burns she might inflict.

“If something is really important, don’t make excuses, and don’t chicken out…!! Use everything you can and grab what’s precious to you!! Change? You’ll change it? Of course! Humans have time, have a lifespan, and are forced to constantly change. A student’s lifespan is even shorter!! It ends so fast!! So you have to love, love, and love until you burn it out…!! Regret not doing something? No way! Doing it and going hyahhoo is way better!!”

What the heck. 

Ittou thought that. But more than that, when he saw Maru’s eyes as she said the words “regret not doing,” he felt “death.” He became acutely aware that with every passing second, his body accumulated death, and sweat burst from him. His hands trembled. 

Maybe my steadily approaching lifespan is scarier than the fear of death in the dungeon…

Ittou thought to himself.

In that case…

“I’ll… I will try…!”

He would do everything he could now. With that new resolve, Ittou realized his whole body was heating up. That was because Maru’s heat, the heat of “living in the present,” had struck him. Certain that her message had gotten through, Maru laughed and took Ittou’s hand.

“Looks like my message got through you!!”

“Yes… Um, thank you very much.”

“Yep, great!! Okay then, go ahead and squeeze my chest!!”

“‘…Huh?’”

Shinobu and Ittou’s voices overlapped. At the same time, Ittou’s right hand, the one Maru held, ended up pressed against Maru’s right breast.

Ah… Soft. I thought her body was small but just like she said, she actually has a chest…No, wait, no no no nooooo!!

“What—what are you doing!?” “Hey, what are you doing, Maru!?”

Their voices overlapped again, but Maru didn’t care. She guided Ittou’s hand with both of hers, making him squeeze her chest while smiling blissfully.

“Eh~? Well, I wanted you to squeeze them!! And I thought if I want that, I need to do something first… If you want something, give first!! So, as payment for giving some advice to my cute Kouhai-kun, I’m having you squeeze my chest!! Is that weird?”

It is weird!

Ittou thought so, yet for some reason he couldn’t argue and clamped his mouth shut. She might have skipped over a lot of boundaries, but there was no doubtMaru had shown him the direction he needed. And her straight gaze overwhelmed him. And on top of that, just a little bit of wicked desire. A teenage boy like Ittou couldn’t run from the precious experience of being allowed to touch a girl’s chest. But Shinobu wasn’t having it. She couldn’t accept it.

(Even I’ve never had mine squeezed yet!)

She couldn’t say that, so she desperately struggled for words. And the result she squeezed out was—

“I-Ikitsushima-kun doesn’t like it and…!”

“Eeh~!! Then if he hates it he can pull away. But if he feels even a little gratitude toward me, can’t he let me feel his hand a bit longer?”

Maru hit him with the perfect excuse. He felt embarrassed, but he didn’t dislike it, and he didn’t want to hurt Maru. And he did feel grateful. Ittou looked at Shinobu’s troubled, frustrated face, and groaned. He lifted his eyes to the sky, and stared through the small hole in the ceiling to the sky above, squeezing out his voice.

“……………! I-I don’t… I don’t dislike it…!”

It was incredibly embarrassing. But he couldn’t refuse. Ittou was very much a boy after all. Hearing that, Shinobu trembled and pressed a hand to her own chest.

“Uuu… That… That’s exactly why they can’t put her in a class with boys no matter how strong she is…! She’s the strongest bomb of a girl, purest of pure in terms of desire…!”

Ittou heard Shinobu’s voice, and in his heart he fully understood. This kind of girl existed “in this world,” here. She was different from the people in the countryside. Ittou didn’t know what the girls in his class had been fantasizing about. And not only fantasizing. Maru was the kind of girl who went straight forward, fiercely, aggressively.

Maru Mamonaka. The academy’s strongest girl was pressing Ittou’s hand into her chest, rubbing his hand with both of hers like she was going to devour it whole, all the while wearing a beaming smile.

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