Parents remarried. Now my lover starts referring to me as "Onii~chan" - Chapter 1 Part 8

Those words of love spoken by a completely naked Neneka… That triggered my shower handle to turn upwards.

“… Ugh.”

I moaned involuntarily and leaned forward.

“Huh? What’s wrong, Daiki? Are you okay?”

Sensing my unusual condition, Neneka called out to me in a concerned tone.

However, I was just preoccupied and struggled to hold down my handle from switching on.

Wait. For the love of God, could my handle switch wait? What was I going to do if it completely went up?

If my handle switch turned up, hot water would start flowing out of the hose, and then this hot water would splash out of the shower head.

In other words, this shower switch handle was the command center of the shower device. If this handle was allowed to do what it wanted, my worldly desires would start moving all at once.

Once it would start moving, it won’t stop! If this got out of hand, it would no longer be manageable!

And after these worldly desires flew out the hose, there was no way to stop it from going out of the shower head.

–I won’t let you my handle switch. I am not going to let this hose get any hotter, nor am I going to allow the shower head to be freed!

“Hey, Daiki! Are you feeling sick? It’s because you were in the bathtub for all that time, right? Do you feel dizzy? No way, heat stroke?”

Neneka anxiously pulled my arm. I suddenly felt something soft touching my arm.

–Ne—Neneka’s chest!?

I was in a pinch.

My will was all mixed up. If the water came out, so would that hot water.

In other words, no matter how calm I tried to be. I couldn’t stop my lust from taking control anyway…

I could no longer be picky about my means!

I prepared myself and told the situation to Neneka.

“Sorry!! My shower switch handle is about to turn up, so please go on ahead!”

“Daiki’s shower switch handle? Just what are you talking about!? Are you really okay!?”

Not only was that too indirect, but I made her worry even more.

The only way to talk about a man’s peculiar pinch was perhaps to be as straight-forward as possible.

That was right, how about “my son,” and a foolish son at that.

“So, you see my foolish son is… rising into power…”

“Your foolish son… rising into… power?”

Rather, even I was doubtful about my own word choice…

I couldn’t tell what was going on “as it was” and decided to use a proverb of a foolish son at that…

But well, you see, I wondered if any of my buddies could express themselves completely to their girlfriend in this situation, especially since it had only been two months into the relationship.

… No matter what anyone said, it was absolutely impossible for me.

Without turning around, I started to examine Neneka’s condition.

I saw Neneka mumbling and thinking “foolish son rising into power… foolish son rising into power…”

And then let out a small groan.

“Umm… Congratulations?”

As expected, all of this went over her head. Well, surely it would be a happy occasion if this foolish son could at last rise into power.

“… I’m really sorry, Daiki. Even though I don’t really understand what Daiki is saying, I’m sure you are just tired and feeling dizzy. I’ll get dressed right away so you can go to your room! Wait just a moment!”

Neneka started leaving in a hurry, and soon after, I heard the door close.

Even if my message flew over her head, Neneka left the bathroom… that was all that mattered. All’s well that ends well.

I slowly moved to the side and switched the temperature control handle of the actual shower and turned on the water. Then I took a vigorously cold shower to clear my head.

My heated body cooled down at once.

It may sound harsh, but I didn’t intend to praise my son for trying to make a name for itself in a place like this at such a time.

Rather… don’t give an atmosphere as if saying, “But dad, I worked hard to get your approval…” This damn son of mine.

–Honestly… What the hell was I seriously thinking about?

I guess getting too involved in trying to fight my worldly desires, I got myself in a funny tension.

The hot water switch of my desires or even my shower handle was also in itself a mystery to me.

And in the end, perhaps the conscience that I was trying to involve or rather involving Neneka in that mysterious worldview or hell.

–A-Ah, I showed her something disgusting…

For the past two months, my relationship with Neneka had been calm and laid back. We hadn’t even kissed yet, just shyly holding each other’s hands while feeling embarrassed.

But today, perhaps was the start of a sudden development.

We started living together even before we told our parents that we were dating. I suddenly saw Neneka naked, and I also showed her something I didn’t really want her to see.

I wondered what was going to happen from here on out if this was the first day of us living together.

–If I could wash my troubles away in the shower, I wouldn’t have any trouble at all…

Even if it was once gone, I could envision it coming back again.

The fountain of troubles for high school boys was bigger than the largest dam in Japan. It was unreasonable to ask them to live with a girl they liked and told them to keep a lid on it…

–But I didn’t really want to impose my own desires on Neneka, I should value Neneka’s own feelings above all else!

ME!

I told myself that strongly as I was drenched in cold water.

Even if I had something I wanted to do. I would never emphasize my own feelings over the feelings of the girl I loved and make her cry. There was a timing to everything, and there must be a suitable time for the relationship between Neneka and I to move forward. And when that time eventually befalls, I would definitely receive a revelation saying, “Now is the time!” Maybe.

And as I was putting forth the idea of winning in my waterfall purification state of mind. I heard Neneka’s voice.

“Daiki. I’ve changed my clothes, so I’m heading out, ok?”

“Yeah… got it.”

I listened and waited for the bathroom door to open and close. After confirming the sound, I shut off the shower.

It was a long bath.

I went into the changing room after Neneka had left, took a fresh towel and wiped myself down.

My body felt dull because I had suddenly cooled down after being hot for so long. I was as tired as I was during the summer vacation in junior high school when I played around in the public swimming pool with my friends.

“All right, all that’s left is to go back to my room safely and put on my clothes.”

I was sure Neneka was holding our parents in their tracks.

All I had to do was calm down and head to my room.

Wrapping the towel around my waist, I slipped quietly out of the bathroom.

–When I thought about it, perhaps when I switched places with Neneka in the bathroom earlier, shouldn’t it have been fine for the both of us to wrap the towels around our bodies…?

Once the atmosphere settled down, I noticed that there was another safer way.

Maybe I subconsciously thought that I shouldn’t bring in a bath towel in the bathroom, but since it was my own home bath and not a hot spring or public bath-house. We could have done exactly that without any worries.

Being too desperate, I couldn’t be calm, no matter what thought I was in.

–No, no, if I started thinking about it, I would just get even more depressed. Rather, I worked well and hard in an unexpected emergency situation such as that. Let’s call it good and move on…

I dragged my exhausted body as I walked towards my room.