Chapter 45

“Kazu-kun.”

“Rei-chan…”

Is she… going to save me?

Kazuhiko tries to cling to a hope that feels like nothing more than a fleeting bubble.

“Do you really not want to? To suckle on Moeka’s breasts.”

“Guh!?“

It was a question where he couldn’t tell if it offered hope or despair.

But Reika looked entirely serious.

“I don’t mind, you know. If you want to do it, Kazu-kun, then do it. Moeka wants it, and I’ve given my permission. But if you absolutely refuse, then I’ll make Moeka hold back. After all, I am your girlfriend.”

“Rei-chan…”

He had wanted to hear those words much sooner.

…No, it was surely because it was now that they carried such weight.

In a situation where he could no longer escape, she threw out words that he hallucinated as a “spider’s thread” to salvation, forcing Kazuhiko to choose for himself. What a woman.

“I-I…”

When Kazuhiko looked at Moeka, her eyes were wavering anxiously.

“…W-Why… why go that far for me…?” Kazuhiko asked.

Moeka answered him.

“I don’t even know myself~.”

“Eh?”

When Kazuhiko asked for clarification, Moeka was smiling with a gentle face.

“I don’t know, but… somehow, I felt like I wanted to make Kazuhiko-chan my child… No, I felt like Kazuhiko-chan is my child.”

It was the kind of statement that made one want to follow it with: “According to the suspect’s testimony…”

However, she hadn’t been swallowed by madness. It seemed she was perfectly self-aware.

“…Yeah, I know. I know it’s weird, even to me. But I felt that way, so what can I do? And Kazuhiko-chan, you didn’t push me away, either.”

“Nguuh!?“

That was it. Kazuhiko claimed Reika was important, that he wanted to be sincere because he was Rei-chan’s boyfriend—yet, in the end, he had never truly rejected Moeka.

This led the girls to believe their fetishes were recognized and accepted; a “Yandere Route” of his own making, a case of “reaping what he sowed.”

If Reika and the others didn’t know each other, and if their interactions weren’t shared, Kazuhiko would have undoubtedly ended up on a “boat to nowhere” (regardless of whether he actually laid a hand on anyone but Reika).

Then, Rei-chan delivered the killing blow.

“Kazu-kun, kindness and sincerity are sometimes incompatible.”

“————!”

“Besides, it wasn’t just kindness that stopped you from rejecting them, was it?”

“!!!”

“Fufufu…”

Reika was smiling bewitchingly, but she was saying something terrifying.

In short: Kazuhiko had also been enjoying this situation and the sense of superiority it brought.

He said Reika was important, telling himself that even as he tried not to lean toward Moeka and the others. It was true that he was bewildered and toyed with by their fetishes.

But, at the end of the day, Moeka and the others were beautiful girls.

As a man, he couldn’t help but feel a sense of superiority.

And, despite his complaints, the time spent with them was comfortable—in fact, wasn’t the biggest factor in realizing he liked Reika the fact that spending time with her was comfortable?

“…………”

“…Heh.“

Reika laughed—no, she sneered. She looked delighted.

“Kazu-kun, I think you’ve finally realized it, haven’t you?”

“…………”

Yes, that was it.

If he had realized he liked Reika because the time with her was comfortable—then…

—I’m the worst…

Kazuhiko was aghast. While wanting to be sincere, his actual conduct was the polar opposite.

To the devastated Kazuhiko, Reika laughed. She sneered, and sneered.

“In that case, Kazu-kun, don’t you think you have to take responsibility?”

“Responsibility…”

“Yes. By becoming Moeka’s child…”

When Kazuhiko looked at Moeka upon hearing those words, she had already bared her upper body.

She was truly overflowing with a “motherhood” that made one want to depend on her.

“A-Ah… Moeka… Mama…”

“There, there~ Come here~ Kazuhiko-chan~”

“Moeka Mamaaa!”

Kazuhiko lunged into her soft, all-encompassing chest.

And then—

“Fufu, fufufufufu.”

“Ooh—I want to throw money at this too… It’s wholesome because it’s supporting my oshi!”

The sneering Reika and the enlightened Tachibana.

Before the eyes of those two, a “Statue of the Madonna and Child of Depravity” was being erected…

Author’s Note:

Wait, isn’t Kazuhiko trusting Reika way too much? Isn’t Reika’s logical progression just a bit too convenient for her? By the way, was the hypnosis really just an act?

Reika-san, don’t you have brainwashing skills rather than just hypnosis?

Ah, so that’s why Reika let Kazuhiko suckle her first. …Kazuhiko, you’re getting way too tangled in Reika’s threads!

There is no one to point this out, and no one to stop them.

This is the true horror: a world where the “straight man” is absent.