Translator: Lilo
Editor: Ryuubii

SEASON 1: Things You Can Do If You Just Ask

Chapter 5: Female Friend’s Cute Friend

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A few days passed without incident.

As usual, Hazuki comes to visit Minato’s house every day.

However, she only annoys Minato while he is playing Legendis, or waste food by challenging him to a cooking battle.

Unfortunately, there were no delicious developments like last time.

That said, that photo-shoot event was just too unusual.

And those pictures had already been deleted from Minato’s phone.

It would be bad after all, if a friend―a guy were to see it.

And above all, he doesn’t want other men to see it.

Minato found himself to be surprisingly possessive.

“Phew…”

Lunch break―Minato is standing by the window in the hallway, watching Legendis videos on his phone.

Nearby, his friends were engaged in unimportant chit-chat.

“Minato, you’re into that game, right? My little sister also plays that game.”

“Hm, well, I heard many girls also play this game.”

“My sister is introverted. Sheesh, all she does is play games.”

“Are you also calling me introverted in a roundabout manner?”

“Haha, but you’re not extroverted. Not that I’m one to speak. Because I’m different from them.”

His friend pointed at somewhere in the classroom.

At the end of his fingertips is a group of gorgeous girls.

At the center is, of course, Hazuki.

“Besides, even if you get along with Hazuki-san, you’re still not extroverted.”

“Hazuki just doesn’t care about details.”

Minato replies with a bitter smile.

I may be friends with Hazuki, but I can’t say I’m friends with the people in her group.

I hung out with those girls a few times over the summer, but I don’t think we got along.

“Really? But, Hazuki-san doesn’t have many male friends.”

“She probably has a boyfriend, right? I mean, look at her.”

“She has this feeling of dating an older guy.”

His friends are having a lot of fun talking about Hazuki.

Minato doesn’t mind, as it happens often.

Whether Hazuki has a boyfriend―Minato can’t say for sure, but she probably doesn’t have one.

If she had one, she wouldn’t be coming into Minato’s house day after day.

It was strange that she’s not dating anyone, given her good looks, outgoing personality, and wide circle of friends.

On the other hand, she would also show Minato her shameful appearance…

Even Minato, who decided not to desire many things, began to misunderstand.

“Um…”

“………”

Saying that she likes Minato is stretching it, but her bashfulness…

He still has the hope that perhaps they can continue with the last photo session.

“Um, um…”

“Hey, Minato. You’re being called.”

“Huh?”

A friend next to him tapped him on the shoulder.

When he look up from his phone―

“Um, excuse me, Minato-kun…”

“Eh? Yeah?”

A female student stood in front of Minato.

No, the distance is too large to be considered front.

She has long, straight black hair, fair skin, and a slender body.

Her navy blue blazer is neatly buttoned and her necktie is securely tied.

Her skirt is a mini-skirt, but slightly longer than most of the other girls, and she also wears black tights.

“Se-Serina-san?”

“He-hello…”

Minato’s classmate, Serina Ruka.

She’s an orthodox, neat beauty who’s secretly very popular.

The reason for this secrecy is that she has a somewhat “sacred and invulnerable” image, so it’s awkward to talk about her.

“Um, can I borrow you for a second?”

“Ah, yeah, sure.”

Even for Minato who has become somewhat accustomed to girls thanks to Hazuki, she’s quite difficult to talk to.

Perhaps it’s because of how she addresses her classmates with elegance, even when speaking in a polite language.

Anyway, Minato put away his phone and walked a bit down the hallway with Serina.

At the end of the hallway, in front of an empty classroom, they stopped and faced each other.

“Forgive me for interrupting you while you’re in the middle of conversation.”

“It’s nothing important, so it’s fine. More importantly, what’s wrong?”

“Minato-kun… you’re friends with Aoi-san, right?”

“Aoi? Oh, yeah. Hazuki.”

He didn’t recognize it for a moment because he usually calls her by her last name, “Hazuki.”

“If you ask me up front if we are friends, it’s kind of hard to answer. But, yeah, we’re friends. You’re friends with that guy too, right, Serina-san?”

As Minato asked, he remembered what Hazuki had said.

That Serina might want to take photos of Hazuki’s underwear.

It was hard to believe that this prim and proper, the ideal Japanese beauty, would want to do such a thing.

“Y-yes. We are getting along very well. Although, we rarely play together much, outside of school.”

“Hmm…”

When Hazuki is not at Minato’s house, she’s playing with her extroverted friends.

If so, when was she hanging out with Serina?

“Aoi-san often talks about you, like how you’re good at games.”

“Haha, I’m not that great though. I don’t really play on consoles because I mainly play on PC.”

“Ah, what’s your CPU, Ryzen? Considering cost-performance, it’s definitely Ryzen. However, you can’t downplay Intel’s power too, considering it has more compatibility with more apps. But recently, due to the increase of miners, there’s been a shortage of graphics cards, and I’d like to upgrade mine to the 30 SERIES, but as I was contemplating, I found myself in this situation―”

“………”

“…Ah. No, please forget what I just said.”

“O-okay.”

Minato is frightened by the stories that come out of her prim and proper appearance.

“Nevermind that―I’ve been having a hard time understanding what Aoi-san said the other day. But I don’t want to talk to Aoi-san’s other friends…”

“Ah, I get you.”

The friends that Hazuki usually hangs out with are all extroverted.

It would be difficult for the quiet Serina to talk to them.

However, in terms of school caste, Serina, an honor student and a beauty, is in the same standing as those girls.

Her status is different from that of Minato, who once sank to the bottom of the sea.

“Ah, it’s not that I don’t like Aoi-san’s friends. Everyone is really nice to me, it’s just…”

“Well, you can’t vibe with them, right? I got dragged along with those girls during the summer vacation, it’s kinda tiring, right?”

“Wasn’t it?”

“Was it?”

“Eh? When we played during the summer vacation, you were also there, about three times…”

“Oh, really?”

Minato had forgotten.

No, there’s a lot of pressure going out with Hazuki’s group, and Minato didn’t even get a good look at their faces.

“No, I just didn’t stand out…”

“I don’t think that’s true.”

How agitated was he to not even notice her beauty?

Minato felt astonished.

“So… what’s the thing you can’t even ask Hazuki’s friends about?”

“Um, Aoi-san suddenly said something weird… um, how should I put it? About underwear or something along those lines…”

“………”

Did that idiot seriously ask such a thing to her?

Minato now felt lightheaded.

“She quickly laughed and covered it up, but her eyes looked serious… Is there something wrong with her head… No, is there something wrong with her?”

“W-well, I’ll ask her about it. But I don’t think she meant it literally, it’s probably just a game that extroverts do.”

What in the world am I talking about?

Minato, who wasn’t great at covering things up.

“I see. Of course it is. Taking photos of your own―underwear, sounds so much fu…No, very much embarrassing.”

It looks like Serina is also strange.

Somehow, her true feelings are spilling out.

“Then, Minato-kun… Can I leave it to you…?”

“What are you leaving me to do?”

“Gasp”

Suddenly, I thought I heard a strange voice, and I saw Serina’s skirt flipped up.

Snow-white thighs and black underwear on top of those thighs―

“Kyah, kyah! Wh-what are you doing?”

“Ahaha, that’s my line, so what are you guys doing?

The skirt falls, pulled by gravity.

However, Minato clearly saw inside Serina’s skirt.

“A-Aoi-san… What is that all of the sudden!”

“It’s fine. You’re wearing shorts, right?”

Hazuki, who had been standing behind Serina, lined up beside her while laughing.

“Eh? You’re wearing one, right?”

“What, you’re not?!”

Hazuki looked startled and widened her eyes.

“S-Serina… even if your skirt is long, having no underwear is problematic.”

“No, underwear…?! I’m wearing one! What I’m not wearing is shorts, right, Minato-kun?”

“Y-yeah.”

Minato realizes that he slipped his tongue and is mortified.

Serina didn’t appear to be wearing any sort of flashy underwear.

“I see, if a person sees it, it would look like underwear. You know, bloomers.”

“Bloomers…?”

Minato mumbles, then realizes.

He heard of it before.

The sportswear that girls used to wear during physical education at school in the old days.

They are black or navy blue, shaped like underwear, and the thighs are bare.

Why would they have that kind of thing?

“I didn’t feel comfortable wearing spats or shorts, so I looked for something else… so I got them.”

“I’m surprised they sell those things.”

“I think some schools still use it. This one feels right, but it’s not for… people to see!”

“Minato loves underpants, so he’s overjoyed.”

“I don’t wear them to please boys.”

“My bad… I accidentally looked at it.”

“You’re not to blame… No, that’s enough. I’m used to Aoi-chan’s shenanigans.”

“Shall I flip it again then?”

“No thank you.”

Serina glares at Hazuki.

The only person who benefited from the current exchange would be Minato.

Whether it was bloomers or not, he was too lucky to be able to see inside the skirt of a beautiful girl like Serina.

“Ahaha, don’t be mad. You’re so cute, Serina. Chuu♡”

“A-Aoi-san…”

Hazuki grabbed Serina’s shoulder and lightly kissed her on the cheek.

Two beautiful girls of different types being playful with each other―a scene that was both soothing and strangely erotic.

“So, you two, what were you talking about?”

“………?”

For a moment, Hazuki glared at Minato with sharp eyes. 

It was really only for a moment, but he could even feel her killing intent.

“I-it’s nothing. I just thought that Aoi-san and Minato-kun are getting along especially well these days.”

“Hmm… then how about this?”

Hazuki softly holds Serina’s collar.

At the same time, she also held Minato’s collar and pulled him closer.

“Let’s hang out, the three of us together today. Friends of friends are friends, so Minato and Serina can get to know each other!”

“Eh…?”

“H-hey, Hazuki…”

Minato involuntarily protested, but Hazuki didn’t care and pulled him even tighter.

It seems neither Minato nor Serina can refuse.