Motokano Sensei (Ex-girlfriend Teachers Want to Nurture Love by Making Slightly Naughty Visits to Your Home) - Volume 1 Chapter 4 Part 2

Translated by White Fanatic

Edited by Idlemousse 

“… How is it?”

“It’s really delicious! Shirasawa-san, perhaps you have a talent for cooking, don’t you think?”

Oops. Maybe I exaggerated the praise a little too much. It would’ve been better if I had just praised her normally, perhaps…

I was worried that I sounded like I was putting up an act right there, but Shirasawa-san’s face lit up right after hearing that.

“It’s my first time hearing someone compliment me on my cooking. You comforted me on the phone the other day as well… Nijino-kun, you’re really kind. You were quite popular at your previous school, weren’t you?”

“Me?! Popular?! That’s absolutely not true at all! Let alone be popular, I don’t even have any friends!”

That was me, in complete denial right then.

Love banners were too dangerous. I had to somehow get off-topic. Otherwise, if she started to dig deep, she would start to take notice of my ex-girlfriend.

If Shirasawa-san, who had the qualities of a detective, found out about that, she could easily find out the true identity of her sister’s ex-boyfriend on her own.

And so on, I was somehow feeling anxious, when――

“Nijino-kun, you don’t have any friends, huh? Then I’ll be your friend.”

I had just landed in an unexpected spot.

“Shirasawa-san, you want to be my friend?”

“Hey, what? Do you have any objections?”

“No, I don’t, no, I don’t! I’ll be glad to have you as my friend!”

They weren’t words with lies or double meanings, rather they were the complete truth.

After all, I’ve spent half a year at this school and had no friends. If I went on like this, I’d end up living a lonely school life and would have to resign to the fate of graduating as a loner.

“Now that we have become friends, shall we call each other by our first name from now on?”

“That will be nice. From now on, I’ll call you Mashiro-san.”

“You went and called me like that so readily. I thought you would be a little more shy. Nijino-kun… no, Touma-kun, aren’t you used to hanging out with girls?”

“Me? Being used to girls!? Impossible! It can never be! Mashiro-san is my first female friend! Rather, I feel hungry right now! Can I eat?!”

“Yeah, go ahead. You can eat as much as you like.” As I diverted the topic, Mashiro-san said that with a rather sweet smile on her face.

… Her smiling face had such a striking resemblance to Kohaku’s, that I unconsciously felt my heart leap out of my chest for a moment there.

After that, having finished our lunch, we headed to the stage.

“Many came out here, huh?”

Mashiro-san started looking at the students that came out in huge numbers from the stage while I looked sideways and secretly sent a mind-link to Kohaku. “The monitoring has started. You can come out now.”

“What are the two of you doing together?”

「「……!」」

Suddenly, a voice called out from behind us and we trembled in fear.

When I turned around, Akari was standing there.

Why did she call out to me when Mashiro-san was here?! I remembered sending a warning message to Akari yesterday too though!

“Don’t tell me, are you both on a date? I have to say that’s youth for you.”

It may look like a date from the outside, but the real purpose was to monitor Kohaku.

I should’ve told Akari about that as well, but…

“It’s not a date, all right?”

“Yes. I just wanted to hang out at Cosmoland for the first time in a long time, but I heard that there were people who picked up women here, so I asked Touma-kun to join me here.”

Akari’s eyebrows twitched upon hearing that.

“Heh, is that so…”

She stared straight at Mashiro-san with a slit for eyes. Those eyes had the same glaring looks that she always gave Kohaku. It couldn’t be, was this girl really jealous of Mashiro-san over here?

“There’s a lot of hitting on women, huh? This is the first time I’m hearing of this. If that’s really so, can I also accompany you guys here?”

“Isn’t that strange?”

“I wonder what’s strange about it at all?”

“Normally, teachers don’t join students who have come to play. However, Akamine-sensei was about to go out with Touma-kun yesterday too… I can’t help but wonder if the two of you have a special relationship?”

What are you doing, Akari?! You’re already getting her really suspicious of us!

“As you put it correctly, Touma and I don’t have a normal teacher-and-student relationship.”

Instead of deceiving her, she straight up admitted that I was in a special relationship with her. Please don’t go and expose that you were my ex-girlfriend…

“What kind of relationship do you have?”

“Relatives. He’s my cousin.”

I see, so that’s it. Certainly, it wouldn’t appear strange if we told Mashior-san we were related.

On the contrary, even if she was witnessed entering my room, there would be no suspicion of dating whatsoever.

She must have revealed this to Mashiro-san so that she could get closer to me before Kohaku made things impossible for her.

But, the problem was whether Mashiro-san would believe her story in the first place though…

“So, that’s what it was.”

That was good. It really seemed like she believed her.

Well, it was more credible than her revealing the story that Akari and I used to date. There was a five-year age difference, and on top of that, we were the beauty and the beast.

“I’m sorry that I kept it a secret from you for this long.”

“No, that’s a given. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t tell anyone either. If the students knew about it, there would be people who would try to find out your contact information as well. Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone, so —”

Mashiro-san suddenly fell silent. Following her gaze, I saw Kohaku had just emerged from the stage.

“Would you like to play over there together?” Mashiro-san said. Even though she readily accepted Akari joining us, she didn’t bother to reveal her original purpose to Akari.

Well, it was a perfectly natural decision. Mashiro-san was here to keep an eye on Kohaku. If too many people knew about it, our mission might be exposed. 

I and Akari, of course, knowing about the situation, nodded our heads, keeping a distance of about 50 meters, and chased after Kohaku――

“You must be kidding…”

Mashiro-san’s face twitched as blood pooled into her face.

As a matter of fact, it was indeed not the sight of Kohaku meeting up with a man.

What Mashiro-san saw was Kohaku lining up in a queue — Kohaku was waiting in line to get on a Jet roller coaster.