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Episode 16 : Do you perhaps wish to drown.

“Ah, Yuugao-kun. Over here.”

“Ah, I’m sorry. I made you wait.”

I was meeting up with Sakuragi-san to go back home from school.

Well, since I had something to give her as well.

“Sakuragi-san, I’m sorry I couldn’t go home with you yesterday.”

“Eh, no, umm, it’s okay. Don’t worry about it, Really.”

She waves her hand as if showing that it was really fine.

“But I feel really sorry. So, will you accept this?”

“Eh, is it okay for me too?”

“Yep, please do.”

When I handed her the stuffed toy I got from yesterday’s crane game from my bag, Her eyes lit up while she received it. Seeing that, I felt my cheeks relax.

“Ah, so cute.”

“I’m glad that you liked it.”

“I will cherish it for the rest of my life!!”

She hugged that tightly and smiled very happily.

“Oh, you see. Yuugao-kun.”

“Is something wrong?”

“Ah, that is — I also wanted to thank you. So do you have this weekend open?

“I think I’m free.”

“Eh, really? I’m glad. Then, can we go somewhere together?”

“Sure”

“Yay!! Ah, since it’s my thanks, I’ll pay all the money for the enjoyment, okay?”

“Huh? No, that’s fine. I’ll pay for it. I feel reluctant so.”

“Nope”

Uuu~n, what do I do now?

“Because I’m happy just to be able to go somewhere with Sakuragi-san. That by itself is something that is more than enough as gratitude for me, and if I let you pay for that on top of it, I will be branded as the worst kind of boy, you know?”

“Eh, ah, uh, lie! Y–you are happy to hang out with me?”

“Yes”

Well, there’s probably no boy who wouldn’t be happy to go out with a friend, especially a girl.

“I — I understand. But I’ll pay the higher amount, as much as possible!!”

“Yea-yea”

Well, I sensed that she would not back down from there and nodded reluctantly.

Well, when we arrive there, I won’t let you pay nevertheless.

After that, we parted after talking trivially about what we would be doing when hanging out together and then talking about our daily classes.

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(POV: Sakuragi-san)

Ah, so that stuffed animal was kept for me.

Suppressing my sloppy face from appearing, I headed back home.

… But you know, I know something else too?

Yugao-kun, you got yourself another one, didn’t you?

To whom did you give that?

A girl in your class, or a girl from another school altogether? 

…or was it to that little sister?

Well, whatever, I guess?

Yugao-kun must have thought of me first and got this stuffed animal. That’s the truth, wasn’t it?

Because Yuuga-kun did say that he was happy to hang out with me after all.

I was so happy that I could handle myself somehow.

After all, no woman wouldn’t be happy to hear such words from someone she likes.

It’s even more in a case like mine. Since I love you.

Thinking about that, I unintentionally hugged the stuffed animal tightly that Yuugao-kun gave me.

Ah, it would be so much better if this was Yuugao-kun himself. Well, if that happens, I will probably lose my sense of reason hump on Yuugao-kun without anyone to stop.

I got home, changed out of my uniform, and jumped into bed with my stuffed animal.

I opened the photo folder and saw Yuuga-kun’s perfect, calm, and beautiful face like a work of art. Holding the stuffed animal tightly with one hand and extending the other hand slowly somewhere it shouldn’t.

“unn~… Ha~a”

Before I knew it, it had already become a daily routine.

However, this time, I also had the stuffed animal toy I got from Yuuga-kun with me, so it made things even more destructive.

Even when I thought it was time to take a bath, and even when it was the time for dinner, I just couldn’t stop. The photo of Yugao, a smile that makes your body twitch just by remembering it, and the small amount of Yuugao’s scent wafting from that stuffed toy.

Yugao-kun is such a bad person, isn’t he?

To make a girl react in such a way towards you. It’s going to drive me crazy. But that’s fine. I want to be drowned in you completely.

I’m really looking forward to us hanging out together.

The strength I put on holding the stuffed animal and the swing of my fingers became even terrible.

End Of Chapter