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Chapter 20: They Are Prepared to Kill Me Rather Than Be Abandoned

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The reason I woke up from my fainting spell was that a stark-naked Nanami was shaking me by the collar and screaming.

“Ryosuke-san! Hey, Ryosuke-san, who is Yuna? Who is she?!”

(Wait, why does Nanami know about Yuna…? There shouldn’t be a single person who knows about my relationship with her. No, maybe Yuna told someone, but she said it would be bad if Aida-san found out, so that’s unlikely.)

“Nanami, do you know about Yuna?”

“I don’t! You fainted and kept moaning in your sleep, saying ‘I’m breaking up with Yuna… I can’t’ over and over again, so I wanted to ask you!”

“I see…”

Hearing that, memories began to trickle back. I had suddenly fallen asleep several times before. What had I been thinking about back then?

“Nanami, I said ‘I’m breaking up with Yuna,’ didn’t I? …I see.”

I remembered! The last time I fainted was when I felt self-loathing for betraying Nanami and had resolved to break up with Yuna. I definitely had a headache then, just like this time. After that, I had become unable to even consider breaking up with Yuna. My sense of guilt had vanished, even though I was composedly doing the most despicable things.

I decided to confess everything to Nanami.

“Nanami, there’s something I have to tell you. You can hate me for it, or despise me. But if you can still forgive me, I want you to help me.”

Along the way, I was plagued by a throbbing headache, but I laid everything bare. Nanami listened seriously from start to finish. Then, she spoke her first words.

“I see. So, Ryosuke-san, you were being mind-controlled and manipulated by that total nymphomaniac piece of trash who was fully trained in perversion by that super-pervert old man.”

“Mind control?”

“Yes, there’s no mistake. Ryosuke-san, right now, reject all calls and emails from that trash woman and block her on LINE. Then delete her from your address book. No, let’s just buy a new smartphone while we’re at it.”

(Nanami is actually a little scary.)

“Right, I get it. I’ll do it right away. I’ll change my phone too. But is mind control even possible?”

Nanami said it was the only explanation. Come to think of it, Yuna said she studied psychology at university. Perhaps she used that knowledge to brainwash me. So, deciding to see a specialist, we used every connection we had to get a doctor’s referral.

“Let’s start moving tomorrow. Once we move out your immediate belongings and important items, you must not return to that apartment. We’ll prepare a shelter somewhere. You’re escaping from that perverted trash woman. We’ll also check with EEG and CT scans to see if anything was implanted in your brain. Then, we’ll remove the suggestions at a psychosomatic clinic.”

“I… I see, you’re right.”

“And while we’re at it, let’s have them give you a suggestion to love only me from now on. If suggestions don’t work, is a lobotomy okay?”

She spoke with a laugh, but her eyes didn’t look like they were laughing at all. Nanami had started making some terrifying jokes.

“We’ll be busy starting tomorrow. First, we have to find an apartment for the two of us to live in, and you should put the apartment you’re living in now up for sale. To ensure the movers don’t leave a trail, let’s put the furniture in a storage room for now, and we need to handle the address change at the city office so a private investigator can’t find us.”

(Wait, an apartment for the two of us?)

“It’s obvious, isn’t it? How long do you intend to let me live in that dangerous apartment? If I’m attacked by a stalker, I’ll commit suicide. Neither I nor Ryosuke-san can live in peace unless it’s a building with much stricter security.”

“No, living together… it’s impossible unless we talk to your mother and get her permission first.”

“What are you saying? We’re not just living together. We’re going to properly file a marriage registration. We can have the ceremony after I graduate from university, but anyway, I can’t take care of you, Ryosuke-san, unless we live together.”

“No, no. I definitely can’t get married until I’ve greeted your mother and gotten her proper permission.”

“Ryosuke-san, you aren’t saying that because you hate the idea of marrying me, right? If that’s the case, please die with me. That way, you’ll be mine forever.”

Her eyes were dead serious.

“No, if I’m getting married, it’s only you, Nanami. That’s the truth.”

I had no choice but to say it with desperate conviction.

“Yes, I knew that. You aren’t the kind of person to hit and run, Ryosuke-san. And we promised never to be apart.”

Nanami gave me a bright smile.

“For now, let’s have sex just one more time today and go to sleep. We’ll be busy tomorrow, so we have to save our energy.”

(One more time…? I’ve already finished twice.)

I was led dejectedly by the hand to the bed by Nanami.

Since Yuna was strong at night but weak in the morning, I left the hotel at 6:00 AM and headed to the apartment. Intending never to return there, I planned to leave the apartment with all the important things, such as a change of clothes for the time being, my computer, and my bankbooks. Nanami and I packed them into trunks, Boston bags, and an attaché case as quietly as possible. I also changed the room’s pin code. 

With that, Yuna wouldn’t be able to enter my room. We successfully escaped the apartment without Yuna noticing. Afterward, I grabbed Nanami’s things and we moved to a hotel in West Shinjuku, finally settling in. I planned to spend a week with Nanami at that hotel. Nanami seemed to want to rent a room and move in as soon as possible.

“Ah, this morning was so hectic I couldn’t wake you up with a blowjob, Ryosuke-san. Please forgive me. Starting tomorrow morning, I’ll definitely wake you up with a blowjob. You mustn’t get up until I give you one.”

She said this with such an incredibly cute smile that I couldn’t refuse. 

(No, there probably isn’t a man in the galaxy who could refuse. If there’s a guy who could say no to a beautiful girl who looks just like Megumi Kato and just turned eighteen, I’d like to see him.)

“Right, I get it, but straddle my face when you do it. I want to wake up while looking at a magnificent view.”

“Geez, you really are a pervert. It’s so embarrassing. Well, if you insist, Ryosuke-san… I’ll take off my panties and straddle you.”

The sight of Nanami being bashful was truly cute.

For the time being, both of us started calling everyone we knew, from university friends to others. Several of them said, “I’ll introduce you to a psychosomatic medicine doctor.” Since today was Sunday, we would make an appointment by phone tomorrow.

“Then let’s go to the real estate agent today.”

At the real estate agent:

“I’d like to rent two rooms in the same building. 1 LDK apartments are fine.”

“What are you talking about? One room is enough. Make it a 3 LDK, please.”

After a great deal of arguing, I calmed Nanami down by telling her to think of her mother, and we made a provisional contract for two rooms. We chose adjacent rooms on the sixth floor. It was a brand-new rental apartment with solid security. The rent was 300,000 yen per room—around 400,000 yen including management fees and utilities. It was located in Bunkyo Ward, a ten-minute walk to Nanami’s university. It was decided we could move in after three days.

“Then, room 602 will be Ryosuke-san’s office and my study room, okay? Let’s make room 601 our base of operations. Our room. Hehehe.”

Nanami was in an exceptionally good mood.

(But once we start living together, won’t we start seeing each other’s flaws?)

When I said that to Nanami.

“I have the confidence to love even your flaws, Ryosuke-san. It’s fine. More importantly, what should we do about furniture and appliances?”

She lightly brushed it off. Since we were going to be living there for at least three years, I decided we should get everything. I was going to leave the other apartment as it was for a while. Once I had broken up with Yuna, I planned to tell a contractor to dispose of the furniture and sell the apartment.

“Well, for starters, we need a double bed. And bedding. As long as we have that, we’re okay. After that, let’s slowly buy things we like. It’s fun, like being newlyweds.”

That was how it was decided. From the next day, I began going to the hospital for counseling. Actually, I didn’t believe at all that I was being mind-controlled, but since Nanami insisted, I went.

“Around when did you meet the woman named Yuna-san?”

Starting with that, I was asked various questions.

“Why did you think you had to break up with Yuna-san?”

After answering that question, I fainted.

“There are indeed multiple layers of suggestions placed on him. Because Tawara-san himself is rejecting the very thought of breaking up with Yuna-san, his brain triggers a rejection response and he faints. This can be called an extremely dangerous state. It’s at a level that requires hospitalization.”

The psychosomatic doctor named Kagawa stated this flatly. It seemed Nanami consulted with Dr. Kagawa and drew up a treatment plan for me. Then I was hospitalized and underwent a treatment called hypnotherapy. After being hospitalized for a few weeks, Dr. Kagawa told me the treatment was over.

“I judge that the dangerous suggestions placed on you have been broken. I heard from Yuna Aida-san that she used hypnosis to place suggestions on you. You are free to file a lawsuit against Yuna Aida-san. If you want me to testify, I will stand on the witness stand. However, please consider Yuna-san’s feelings too. You must still love her even now, Tawara-san. I understood that painfully well during this treatment.”

According to Dr. Kagawa, who claimed to have unraveled my deep subconscious, I was apparently the type of person who could love multiple women simultaneously without discrimination. Moreover, the women also supposedly desired that. It seemed Kagawa-shi had summoned Nanami, Yuna, and Riona during my treatment and put them under hypnotherapy too. He heard the women’s true feelings.

“I want him to love only me, but I’ll endure anything rather than be cast aside.”

That was the gist of it.

“What will you do? At this rate, it wouldn’t be surprising if you were stabbed by Riona Kanou-san or Yuna Aida-san at any moment. I can guarantee that. They are prepared to kill you rather than be cast aside.”

“Is there anything that can be done?”

“It’s impossible for me, for a start. You have no way to survive other than accepting them. They love you so much they’ve placed powerful self-suggestions on themselves. They completely reject any man other than you, to the point where they have a rejection response just by being touched. I couldn’t break this either. They will likely never leave you for the rest of their lives.”

“Sigh… Riona too?”

“Yes. Riona Kano-san was in a slightly depressive state due to regret and self-loathing. I hear she is currently receiving counseling at a hospital in her hometown. However, I believe her obsession with you will only grow stronger, not vanish. While keeping her distance from you, she continues to place self-suggestions while working toward a reconciliation. She is also in a state where her body rejects and cannot accept any man other than you.”

I have my thoughts regarding Riona, but I do love Nanami and Yuna. Besides, Riona should have time to reflect back home. It’s not like it’s happening right this second. But my life from here on… it’s terrifying to think about.

“I envy you, Tawara-san, for being loved so deeply by such beautiful women. Well, from here on, you just have to work hard so the women don’t fight with each other. Since you are loved that much, you have no choice but to love them fairly. I gained a valuable experience this time too. I’m grateful, but I’m a man too, so I grew to hate you enough to want to kill you. Even so, you are my patient, so with great reluctance, I’ll prescribe you some Viagra. Normally it’s a thousand yen a pill, but for you, how about ten thousand yen a pill? What do you say?”

“I’ll take the generic, please. But for now, I’m fine.”

“Tch.”

(This doctor… he just said “Tch.” I’m sure there are beautiful women among the nurses at this hospital too.)

“Thank you for everything.”

I thanked the grumpy Dr. Kagawa and left. As I was leaving the examination room at the end, I heard a voice say, “Go rot!”

Nanami attended university while I was hospitalized, but she quit her part-time job to stay by my side. Since it was a private room ward, Nanami eagerly handled my sexual needs. It was something like once a day with a blowjob and once with sex. In the end, we canceled the rental apartment. Nanami had been living in hotels since then. Of course, I gave her a million yen for immediate living expenses.

Nanami had heard everything from Dr. Kagawa, but she was surprisingly calm.

“Let’s go see Yuna Aida-san. It would be best if she broke up with you, Ryosuke-san, but according to Dr. Kagawa, that seems impossible, so we might end up sharing you. I won’t ever be able to leave you until I die no matter what, and it seems Yuna-san is the same.”

Her way of calling her changed from “trash woman” to “Aida-san.” I wonder if something happened.

“Nanami, have you met Yuna before?”

“…Yes. I met her once while you were hospitalized, Ryosuke-san. Dr. Kagawa arranged it. That’s when I understood her feelings too.”

“Yuna didn’t come to my hospital room, though.”

“That’s because the hospital staff stopped her. She really wanted to see you.”

Afterward, I reconciled with Yuna and exchanged a promise to continue our relationship as friends-with-benefits. However, I made her swear never again to use hypnosis to brainwash me. There was still a vacancy on the same floor of the apartment building, so I bought it and had Nanami live there. I was dating Nanami as my girlfriend and Yuna as a friend-with-benefits, with both of them officially recognizing each other. It seemed this was the only way I could do to ensure I could keep my life intact. Finally, I felt like my peaceful life had finally returned. 

Three years later, Riona would return, hoping she could become my girlfriend again and Yuna’s younger sister, Kaho, would ask to be  a friend-with-benefits, putting my life in danger once again—but that is a story for another time.

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