The World Becomes a World Where Chastity Is Reversed?! - 17

Chapter 17: Enjoying a Fun Conversation With a Junior From My Club

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One day after school. I had joined the track and field club a little while ago. Since today was a club activity day, I changed into my exercise clothes and ran laps around the track.

“Phew, maybe I should take a short break…”

After running for a long time and feeling tired, I stopped and began taking a break. And at that moment…

“Senpaaai, good work—!”

“Hm? Oh, Ayase. Good work.”

It was Sayaka Ayase, a first-year girl and my junior in the track and field club, who called out to me. This club was co-ed, so there were tons of girls around me. Well, with only three boys in the whole club, it wouldn’t work unless it were co-ed. Or rather, in this world, the number of boys was overwhelmingly small, so all school clubs were co-ed by default. Because of that, I had felt a little embarrassed about joining a club, but I pushed through that embarrassment and decided to join the track and field club. And the reason I pushed through that embarrassment was because of the girl now standing in front of me—Sayaka Ayase, a first-year student.

Ayase had a slender build, probably somewhere in the upper 150 cm range. She was a very cute girl with clean, short black hair and big, sparkling eyes. And she was actually the same girl who had collapsed in the hallway a little while ago. Because I carried her to the infirmary that day, Ayase began talking to me more and more whenever she saw me. When I told her that I had been in the track club at my former all-boys school before transferring here, Ayase—who was also in the track club—invited me to join this club with her. I figured it must be fate or something, so I decided to join here as well.

And on the first day I joined, while I was running full-speed on the track despite feeling embarrassed, Ayase’s eyes sparkled as she said, “Senpai, your running form is so beautiful!” Getting praised so earnestly made me happy, so I began teaching her how to improve her running form and started looking after her. Because of that, Ayase and I grew closer very quickly. And besides, Ayase had so much charm when talking that she was just ridiculously cute… Ayase was always bright and friendly, and she approached others with a constant smile. She was a truly cheerful and innocent girl. In the original world, she’d absolutely have been insanely popular with boys.

“Wow, Senpai, you were really fast today! At this rate, I think you’ll get a great result at the prefectural meet!”

“Haha, I’d be happy if that happened. Ayase, your form keeps getting better too. I bet you’ll get a good result at the meet.”

“Eh!? Really!? I’m so happy to hear that from you, Senpai!”

“I see, I see. Phew… I’m getting a little tired though. Want to go sit on that bench over there and take a break?”

“Ah, yes, understood! Then I’ll join you for break time!”

“Sure thing.”

I suggested it, and the two of us walked over to the bench set up beside the track. We sat down, and I started drinking my sports drink as we rested.

“Gulp, gulp… ahh. I’m tired today too… Huh? Ayase, did you not bring a drink?”

“Eh? Ah, well… I actually left mine in the clubroom…”

“Oh, I see. That must be rough during break. Ah, then—do you want some of mine? Here.”

I said that and held out the sports drink I’d just been drinking. But the moment I did—

“Eh… W-wait, h-huh!?”

Ayase, who was usually all smiles and sunshine, suddenly turned bright red and let out a startled squeak. I only offered it because she must have been thirsty, but… I immediately understood her reaction.

Ah, right. Of course she’d get this embarrassed. This was a chastity-reversed world. So the things teenage boys thought in the original world were what teenage girls thought here. In other words, this situation in the original world would be like a friendly female senior handing me a sports drink she had just been drinking. Even I would freak out and blush like crazy. But Ayase was my one and only close junior, and I wanted to do things that would make her happy. That was what I thought. To me, Ayase was a junior I got along with extremely well. And I knew she genuinely looked up to me. Making a junior who looked up to me happy was part of a senpai’s duty. Ayase was a teenage girl living in this chastity-reversed world, and so, I said this to her. 

“Ah, sorry, sorry… Back at my old school, we’d pass drinks around between guys all the time, so I handed it to you without thinking. Sharing drinks must feel uncomfortable for you, right…?”

“Eh… W-wait, what!?”

I spoke with a slightly lonely expression, and Ayase began panicking.

“N-no! I-I’m not uncomfortable at all! W-we girls pass drinks around all the time! B-but Senpai, you’re a boy! S-so wouldn’t you feel uncomfortable sharing a drink with a girl like me…?”

“Hm? Oh no, I only share drinks with someone I’m close to. So Ayase is special. You’re my closest junior, after all.”

“F-fweh!? S-special!? N-no, that’s… geez, Senpai! You’re super popular with the girls, so e-even as a joke you shouldn’t say things like that! I—I won’t misunderstand anything, so I’m fine, but… y-you shouldn’t say stuff like that too often!”

Ayase, her face beet-red, flailed in embarrassment. She was always cute, but seeing her bright red and flustered made her look even cuter.

“Haha, sorry, sorry. I didn’t mean to confuse you. But if you got heatstroke or fainted again, I’d be worried… So I’d be happy if you just accepted it.”

“Eh? Ah… R-right. If I collapsed again, I’d trouble you again… Okay, understood. T-then, um… I’ll gratefully accept your sports drink…!”

“Yeah, here you go.”

“Th-thank you very much…!”

I handed the bottle to Ayase, who was still blushing but looking incredibly happy.

“There’s about half left inside, but you can drink all of it. Just relax and take your time.”

“Y-yes, thank you! T-then… gulp, gulp…”

Still bright red, Ayase pressed her lips to the bottle I’d just used and began drinking, looking absolutely delighted.

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