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Not the front! At least do it from the back…
As the two of them arrived at Yuuya’s class, with the haunted house attraction, they ran into the Torii & Yukina pair.
“Ugh! So you two also went to the haunted house?! Is this your last?”
“Yeah! After giving you the win, we progressed even quicker than before, so we’ll be clearing it before you guys now! Now, Kiritani-senpai! Cling to my arm as much as you want, please!”
Torii held out his hand towards Yukina, but she just walked on ahead, with a pocket light in her hand.
“Wah, Kiritani-senpai! I told you I’d hold the light! You just cling to my arm, and…”
“It’s okay. I’m not scared of this stuff at all. I’m used to the real deal.”
“N-No way…My hopes…and dreams…” Torii crouched down on that stop, muttering words of despair to himself.
You’re not gonna retort on the fact she’s seen the real deal, huh…
Yuuya had a wry smile on his face because of Torii again, as Yukina stopped her feet, turning towards Mitsuki.
“Mitsuki-chan? Did something happen?”
“Yukina-san…” Tears started to dwell up in the corners of her eyes. “Well, a bit…”
Watching Mitsuki honestly nod along to Yukina’s question, he felt a bit gloomy.
So she’s this honest towards Yuki-nee, huh…
“Hiyori-chan also looked a bit sad, so I was wondering.”
“It’s because he was tormenting Hiyori-chan…and things turned weird…” Mitsuki turned her expression downwards as she glared at Yuuya with a pout.
“Ah? Yuki-nee, you also know this Hiyori girl?”
“Yup, I sure do. So you were able to see her?”
“Eh? Um…I guess?”
Yuuya felt like they were talking past each other, but he just decided that see meant meet.
“But, it seems like she’s fine now. She’s easy to take a fight, but sure relaxes quickly again.”
“…I’m really sorry about her…”
Since Yuuya could not see Hiyori, nor understood that she was a ghost, he did not understand one fragment of their conversation. All he knew was they shared a secret that he didn’t know.
“No, it’s fine. It seems to be all okay now. Anyway, we’ll be going on ahead.”
Yukina waved her hand at Mitsuki and Yuuya, heading inside the haunted house, as Torii hurriedly chased after her.
“—Mitsuki, you often ask Yuki-nee for advice, huh.”
“…Eh?” Mitsuki was a bit perplexed at Yuuya’s words at first. “I mean, she’s reliable, almost like a real Onee-san.”
“………” Yuuya swallowed his words. “Well sorry…for not being reliable…” He muttered, but these words didn’t reach Mitsuki.
*
“—Listen, Mitsuki. This is a rough layout of the haunted house. This small sketch perfectly shows where each ghost is. Once we know of all of this, it’s not scary at all anymore, right?”
Yuuya handed Mitsuki a previously hand-drawn sketch of the haunted house layout. It was built up as a rather simple labyrinth. With a pale expression, Mitsuki nodded towards Yuuya, but her knees were shaking furiously.
“It’ll be fine, okay. You don’t have to be so scared. They might look totally real, but we all made these costumes.
“I-I’m totally fine…I wouldn’t be scared even if they were real!” Mitsuki looked up at the ceiling, making excuses to herself.
“Then, let’s clear this as quickly as we can. We have no more time left.”
“Y-Yeah…”
Thus, Mitsuki and Yuuya entered the haunted house. The second they did, they were wrapped in absolute darkness. All they had was a rather weak handheld light, held by Yuuya who was acting as the scout, Mitsuki slowly following him, as she tightly held onto the hem of Yuuya’s uniform.
“What is this…it feels so soft and flabby at my feet…” Mitsuki staggered, clinging tight to Yuuya’s arm.
A soft and warm sensation hit his elbow, making Yuuya’s heart skip a beat, but in order for things not to escalate even further, he quickly separated his arm from Mitsuki’s chest.
“This area continues for a bit, and then there follows a freshly severed head—”
At the same time as Yuuya gave an explanation, a severed head rolled towards their legs, the hair ruffled, blood leaking out of its mouth.
“!!!” Mitsuki jumped up out of shock.
She pulled on Yuuya’s clothes, about to rip them off even.
“It’s totally fine, this is just a mannequin.”
Yuuya directed the light downwards to show the head in greater detail, but Mitsuki just shook her head from left to right, grabbing the light and directing it elsewhere.
“L-Late! S-S-Say that earlier!”
“I did tell you before we entered, didn’t I?”
“E-Even if I know that…it still surprised me!”
“Really~? I don’t think it’s scary if you know what’s going to happen.” Yuuya tilted his head in confusion, slowly moving forward.
Mitsuki’s legs slowly moved after him, clinging to Yuuya’s arm as if her life depended on it. Feeling like she finally depended on him, Yuuya felt motivated. Moving forward, they arrived at a cemetery area. Rather, the most prominent set in a haunted house, and it seemed to work perfectly, as Mitsuki started to shiver. With overflowing mood, bluish purple disembodied souls in the form of fireballs approached Yuuya and Mitsuki.
“No! Not those! I’m not gonna listen to them!”
“Weird…we didn’t plan on using actual fire…what is this?”
Yuuya’s words didn’t help Mitsuki at all, as all blood drained from her face.
“H-Hold on a second…so these all are…real…?” Mitsuki started shivering more furiously, unable to move from the spot she stood on.
“No that can’t be it. This is just a haunted house after all…”
“B-B-But…I saw this before on TV…that the real things could even nest at haunted houses and so on…”
“Ehhh?! S-Seriously?! Also, why do you watch that program if you’re scared…”
“I-I’m not scared at all! It just happened to be on as I visited Ayaka!”
It happened right when Mitsuki started weeping with tears in her eyes. Something wet, lukewarm licked Mitsuki’s neck.
“Kyaaa?! What was that?! Something…something licked meeeee?!”
“Hmm? There’s nothing though.” Yuuya pointed the light behind Mitsuki, but couldn’t find anything.
However, during that time, the attack on Mitsuki continued. Tenaciously, all sorts of parts of her body started to feel warm and damp.
“Lies! Look, again! Ahh…Ahh, it’s getting moist, everywhere! Stop it! This feels disgusting! Noooo…”
“…Why is it only attacking you? As if they could see all of you in this darkness.”
“UUuuuu, why should I care! Ahhnn…Noooo!!” For a second, Mitsuki let out quite the horrendous shriek, so Yuuya pointed the light towards her.
“N-No…D-Don’t look!”
“W-What happened?! I can’t see anything like this!”
“You…can’t…look! Everything…is okay…!”
“This really doesn’t feel that way. What’s wrong?”
“Uuuuuu…Nothing at all! Nothing. At. All!”
“…Why are you always like this?” Yuuya let out a sigh.
Mitsuki wouldn’t neither apologize for her screaming, nor clear up what was going on either. Hence, Yuuya continued.
“You can just rely on me, okay? We don’t have any more time, you know. No time to hold back.”
“?!”
Yuuya closed in on Mitsuki with a serious expression. Being driven into a corner like that, Mitsuki was forced to give an explanation.
“…Well…something lukewarm and wet is hitting me all over…My clothes are all wet now as well…and it feels something went inside my clothes…”
“?! Seriously! This is bad…I don’t know of any trap like this…When did they change it…Or is it because we’re doing the Love Quest…But, this is clearly going too far…”
Was this Neko’s doing again? Yuuya put one hand on his chin, wondering how to get out of this predicament.
“I can’t leave looking like this…And I don’t have any gym clothes I could wear instead…We don’t have any more time either, so let’s just withdraw from the competition…”
“No, that we can’t do. I’ll do something about it…For now, I’ll try to get out this thing that entered your clothes!”
Mitsuki was shocked at Yuuya’s sudden approach and pushiness.
“…?! I’m okay…I’ll get it myself…!”
“No, we don’t have time for that. Where did that wet, slippery thing enter from?”
“F-From the front…Around my belly…But…something is weird. I-It’s twitching…it feels awful…”
“I got it. Hold the light for a second.”
Yuuya stood facing Mitsuki, moving on to take off a button of her blouse, as she quickly turned around.
“Not up front! At least…f-from the back!”
“Alright, I got it.”
Wrapping his hands around Mitsuki’s back, Yuuya moved his fingers, shaking in tension, to loosen the necktie of her. Following that, he slowly opened up button after button of her blouse. After doing that for the upper four, he carefully put his fingers inside. Feeling her soft, damp skin, his blood began to boil
“…A-Around here…?”
“Y-Yeah…Ahh…there…No…Ahhhh!”
As his fingers ran along her slender chest, Mitsuki couldn’t hold back a soft moan. Just by hearing that moan, Yuuya could feel his own excitement and stimulation rising up.
“S-Sorry…I can’t tell that much from behind.”
“W-Whatever…just hurry!”
“Okay—”
As Yuuya’s breathing himself grew irregular, he touched Mitsuki’s chest even further. The lively feeling of her drenched skin accelerated his heart beat. The exact time his fingers ran across a soft hill, his hand swiftly stopped, and moved further downwards.
“Uuu…Ah…T-This…is…tickling…me…”
Yuuya’s hands must have been scorching hot as they ran across her skin, as Mitsuki was writhing her body in agony, moaning without restraint. Watching this reaction, Yuuya felt something impure become more apparent inside his chest. It must be because of Neko’s hypnotism. Continue, touch her more—the devil whispered in his ears.
“…Oh, I found it. This is…”
Around Mitsuki’s belly, Yuuya finally got hold of the thing that invaded Mitsuki’s clothes. It was thinly sliced konjac jelly. When Yuuya tried to grab hold of these, his fingers slipped, and enabled them to escape.
*
“Kyaaa?! Nooo! N-No way?!”
As a result, they slipped down inside her the waist part of her skirt, only to fall even deeper, most likely into her underwear.
“Ah…No…No no no noooo?!”
Feeling these foreign objects about to even enter through the gaps of the TST, panic started to enwrap Mitsuki.
This is definitely weird! Is this Hiyori’s doing?!
“I-Idiot?! You’re going too far! S-Stop! Stop I say!”
“Sorry…my fingers…slipped…wait, where did it go?!” Having taken Mitsuki’s words directed at him instead of Hiyori, Yuuya apologized.
“I wasn’t talking to you…A-Also, I can’t really say where it went…” Mitsuki rubbed her thighs together, as she had problems answering.
However, as she was hesitating, the slippery thing tried to enter even deeper of the TST.
Ah?! N-No…You can’t enter that place…!
Mitsuki grew teary-eyed, as she bit her lip.
“…D-Don’t tell me…even further down…?”
“Uuuuuu! D-Don’t say it like that! Idiot!”
“So inside your panties…?”
“! That’s even worse! What are you thinking about?! Idiot, idiot! Sexual harassment! Pervert!” Out of bashfulness, Mitsuki let loose a storm of insults.
“Uuuu…you said you’d…take it out…”
“Sorry. I’ll get it right now!”
Panicking, Yuuya went about to put his hand into Mitsuki’s skirt.
“Kyaaa! N-Noo! You can’t! You definitely can’t! Y-You don’t have to take it anymore! So…stop…” Mitsuki pushed up her skirt, blocking Yuuya’s hands.
“But you can’t stay like this, right?!”
“I-It’s okay…I’ll do it myself! That’s why…d-don’t touch me there…Ahhhnnn?!”
Yuuya’s scorching hot hand didn’t let up, as he moved them down her thighs, and that was enough to make Mitsuki’s shoulders twitch in pleasure. At the same time, the slippery thing finally managed to enter through the gap of the TST.
“Kyaa?! Ahhh?! Nooooooo?!”
Unable to stand that, Mitsuki sunk down on that place, as all strength left her body.
“Mitsuki?! You okay?!”
“Haaa…Haa…I’m not…okay…D-Don’t move…not even there…nooo…” Mitsuki shook her head left and right as she was writhing in agony.
“Mitsuki, put up with it for a second. I’ll definitely get it—”
“N-No…don’t do that…if you do…”
You’ll find out…
About the part that she was wearing the TST beneath under underwear, that her thighs were already drenched from the slippery wet thing, everything. However, she couldn’t allow the thing to enter more deeply. But, before Mitsuki could make up her mind, Yuuya made up his own resolve, and yet again put his hand into her skirt.
“Ah…I said…you can’t…”
“It’ll be over soon, so put up with it.”
Yuuya’s voice sounded different from usual, more rough and energetic, and Mitsuki caught on to that.
Isn’t he…more bold than usual?! Is this also because of Neko-senpai’s hypnotism? G-Going this far…we might end up…unable to stop…
Mitsuki saw a future of her own body falling victim to Yuuya, as he transformed into a beast.
No…you can’t! Definitely!
Mitsuki clung to Yuuya’s arms as she shook her head left and right. However, his fingers wouldn’t move as they moved even further towards the leader at her thighs.
“?! Ahhhh! S-Stooop…!”
Finally, a watery sound ran out as the slippery thing entered deep inside, as Mitsuki shook furiously. She saw red flickering up behind her eyelids, and feeling the greatest ecstasy she ever had, Mitsuki’s consciousness was swallowed up.
“Ahhh…aaaaah…”
At the same time, Yuuya raised his voice.
“Alright! I got it!”
“………”
Hearing Yuuya’s distant voice, Mitsuki just hanged her head.
*
“My hands are all slippery… it really was konjac…but, why would it move like that…just what was going on?”
Yuuya finally held onto the mystery of the invading object, as he lit the light on his hands. Thinly sliced konjac, not moving an inch anymore. Like it’s lively actions from before were nothing but a fantasy.
—Still, that just now was highly dangerous. He managed to hold barely hold back. If he let himself relax just a bit, he would have entered his fingers even more deeply. If that happened, even Yuuya wouldn’t be able to confidently say he could have held back against his little sister in his hands. Even the sensation on his hands was as lively as before, and the enticing smell lingering in his nose.
Resisting his dwelling desires to the best of his ability, he managed to make it through this dangerous situation, but he could only think of it as a miracle. He could only sigh in relief.
“Idiot idiot idiot! You’re the worst! I kept telling you to stop! I kept saying I’d pick it myself! Why would you just do something unnecessary like that?!”
“You were panicking that much, so how could I leave you alone like that! Why are you always like that, Mitsuki?!”
Unable to keep quiet at Mitsuki’s furious insults, Yuuya countered equally harsh. Because of the sudden event, Mitsuki’s body jolted up, covering in fright. Watching Mitsuki like this, still in his arms, Yuuya came back to his senses.
“………”
She didn’t show any signs of trying to escape, just softly shivering in his arms, as if she was spacing out.
“Mitsuki?”
Even as he called out to her, Mitsuki showed no response, making Yuuya feel that something was off.
What happened now…?
“…Sorry. I said too much.”
“………” Mitsuki’s expression stiffened up after hearing Yuuya’s words, casting her face downwards. “…Not really…I was just a bit surprised…” Mitsuki’s tongue sounded sharper than before.
“That just now wasn’t a bit, right? It was really weird…”
“Doesn’t have anything to do with you.” With cold words, Mitsuki turned her back towards Yuuya.
“……”
Whatever he said, he wouldn’t get through to her. She holed herself up in her shell, distancing himself from Yuuya, leaving him unable to find any words to return. An awkward atmosphere followed. Before he realized it, he embraced Mitsuki from behind, softly muttering.
“…Sorry I’m not reliable at all…unlike Yuki-nee…”
“………” Mitsuki showed no response, just continuing to look away from Yuuya.
Ahh, for crying out loud…why would I bring up Yuki-nee here…
Realizing that things didn’t have to end like this, Yuuya grit his teeth. All he said and did had the opposite effect. The awkward atmosphere grew more and more heavy and oppressing, Yuuya not knowing what he should do. He really tried his best for her sake, so maybe Mitsuki herself knew that ignoring him any further would truly hurt him.
“…Why would you compare yourself to Yuki-nee?”
“…No, but, you’re pretty close to Yuki-nee, right?”
“And, what about it?”
“Well, the thing is…”
Unable to say he was a bit jealous of Yukina, Yuuya swallowed his words.
“Weird. She’s a girl like me, so comparing yourself is just…”
Yuuya’s eyes opened wide.
“I see…that makes sense…” He felt his strength in his shoulders relax.
“W-What?”
Feeling that his grip on her softened, she glared at him over her shoulders.
“No, it’s just as you said. It would be weird to compare myself. Things I can’t do, I can’t do. That’s only natural.”
“What…are you…?”
“—Even if it doesn’t work out, even if my efforts are fruitless, all I have to do is work hard enough so I don’t regret anything later.” Yuuya continued with a grin, taking off the upper garment of his uniform, making Mitsuki wear that.
“Eh?” Mitsuki’s eyes opened wide.
“For now, I’ll do everything I can!”
Yuuya nimbly lifted up Mitsuki to carry her in his arms—the so-called princess carry—and dashed right towards the goal of the haunted house.
“No! L-Let me down, this is embarrassing!” Mitsuki tried rebelling in Yuuya’s arms, but afraid that they might fall onto the ground of she kept going, she just clung to his neck.
“Mitsuki, hold on tight!”
With these words, Yuuya ran past classmates, disguised as ghosts, not even realizing that a true ghost in the form of Hiyori was with them, all with the goal of making it through the haunted house in mind.
*
As they made it to the exit, Torii and Yukina were already waiting for them.
“Yuu-kun! Mitsuki-chan! I was worried because it took you so long! We can still barely make it in time, so hurry!”
“Ohhhh! A princess carry, not bad, Yuuya!”
“A lot happened…Also, didn’t the contents of the haunted house change?”
“Huh? I don’t think so?”
“Eh? But…the souls of the people…and the slippery konjac…”
“Slippery…konjac…?!” Torii’s eyes opened wide in shock. “Please do tell me more about that!”
Mitsuki’s expression stiffened up at Torii’s words of investigation.
“Well, Mitsuki’s uniform suddenly got drenched, so…”
“That’s all?! Nothing more erotic happened?! Tell me honestly! We’re good friends, right?!”
“Seriously nothing happened. Also, we have to hurry!”
As Yuuya let down Mitsuki on the ground, he tried to avoid going into detail with Torii, as he accepted the Love Quest sticker. However, the chime of the school-interior broadcast ran out.
This is the administration of the student council. A short notice for all the pairs of the Love Quest. The first five pairs have arrived at the goal, which ends the prelimination. Good work to everyone. The final round will begin on 3pm on the sports grounds outside. Everyone, thank you very much for joining us today.
“………” The Love Quest entry card swiftly fell off Yuuya’s hand.
Yukina picked that up, as she softly tapped Yuuya on the shoulder.
“If only you would have been a bit faster…Such a shame, Yuu-kun.”
“Well…yeah…”
“But, you did your best, right…?”
Accepting the card from her, he let out a deep sigh.
“Yuuya! Kiritani-senpai and I will make sure to take the win in your stead!”
Even the words of Torii as he flashed a wry smile didn’t reach Yuuya’s ears anymore. He tried his best, but nothing to change if it wasn’t enough. He didn’t regret anything, but it still made his chest feel empty at his vainless efforts. Next to Yuuya, his expression showing his frustration, Mitsuki gazed down at him, her expression mixed with relief, but also a faint glimmer of guilt.
“Mitsuki-chan, good work. Seems like you had some tough work in there. Are your clothes okay?”
“…I have to change.”
“If you want, I can lend you my gym uniform?”
“Eh, but…I can just get my own if I go back to the classroom…”
“I think you shouldn’t be walking around the school looking like that. I’ll go get mine, so wait in the girl’s toilet over there.”
“…Thank you very much.” With a truly relieved expression, Mitsuki lowered her head towards Yukina.
During that, she met eyes with Yuuya, and they both averted their gazes, still feeling awkward.
Splitting up with Yuuya, Mitsuki entered the girls’ bathroom, throwing a harsh glare towards the sky as she spoke up.
“…Hiyori, you’re there, right?! No need to hide! This was your doing just now, right?!”
“E-Ehehehe…so you knew? I thought I’d give you some nice service with those souls~”
Out of the blue, with a soft plopping sound, Hiyori appeared out of nowhere, floating above Mitsuki as she timidly spoke up.
“Konjac moving like that! As if that could have been anyone else but you, Hiyori! And I didn’t need any special service!”
“Seeing you all scared like that made me want to go a bit further~ Like, wanting to tease you even more~”
“Why!”
“Because you’re so cute when you’re close to breaking out in tears, ehehe~”
“I’m not happy about that at all!” Mitsuki crossed her arms, averting her eyes with a pout.
“Hey Mitsuki, don’t be so angry now~”
Hiyori flew into the toilet stall that Mitsuki rested in, embracing her from behind.
“………”
However, Mitsuki just had her expression cast downwards, not trying to make eye contact whatsoever.
“…Are you actually angry now, Mitsuki…?”
“………”
“…C-Come on now…say something…”
As Hiyori tried to get a better look on Mitsuki’s expression, she just coldly turned her head the other way. Realizing that she might have messed up big time now, Hiyori panicked.
“Uuu, I didn’t think you’d get this angry…”
“Of course I’d get angry at that. To think that he’d do something like that…”
Just remembering everything that happened made Mitsuki’s face burn it scorching hot. The lively feeling of his fingers as they ran across her slimy soft skin all came back.
“…I thought that we just can’t lose against Cow Tits…so that we had to seize victory right there…”
“Don’t make up excuses! You clearly went too far!”
“Uuu…Mitsuki is scary…”
“Thanks to that, it turned all awkward with him…Well, not like I really care about that, but still…”
“No, it’s not good at all! Sorry… Mitsuki, I didn’t mean for it to end up like that…I’m really sorry…” Hiyori apologized with tears in her eyes, as she embraced Mitsuki with all her might.
By doing so, Mitsuki’s stiff expression softened a bit, as she muttered.
“Promise you won’t ever do something selfish like that again…not even as a joke.”
“I wasn’t joking. I just got a bit too serious…”
But, these words didn’t help the situation at all, as they made a vein pop in Mitsuki’s head.
“Oh really?! You say that again?! If you’re getting serious, at least use your own body!”
“………!” Hiyori’s body froze up.
Mitsuki was too late to realize what she had just said, remembering back to the conversation between Yuuya and Hiyori.
“H-Hiyori, that just now was…”
“I would be doing that if I could already! Mitsuki you idiot! Small tits!” Together with her body, Hiyori’s voice was husky as she forced it out.
Big round tears fell onto the ground from her eyes, as she stuck out her tongue, swiftly disappearing again.
“Ah…”
Sorry, I said too much—Mitsuki was too late in following up with these words. All she could do was bit her lip in frustration.
I really went too far with that…
Mitsuki’s chest tightened up with guilt.
“Why did I go and say something like that…” Resting her back on the toilet stall door, Mitsuki let out a sigh.
“Mitsuki-chan? I brought you some change.”
Being called out from across the door, Mitsuki carefully opened the door and peeked out with her face, only to be greeted by Yukina with the gym clothes in hand.
“…Yukina-san, thank you very much.”
“That reminds me, what about Hiyori-chan? I haven’t seen her all this time…”
“Well, we sort of had a fight…” Mitsuki muttered as she explained.
“Is that so. I thought you were always pretty close, but I guess even the best of friends fight sometimes~”
“It always ends up like this! Hiyori always gets swept along with the situation, talks bad about me, clings to me…She’s super upfront, pushy, acting rashly in the complete opposite of me…I can’t follow her at all…”
As Mitsuki herself realized that half of it didn’t even sound like bad mouthing, Yukina showed a kind smile.
“With friends that are the complete opposite of yours, you can always learn a lot, and it feels refreshing, doesn’t it? She might be a ghost, but she is a good friend, right?”
“…Hiyori isn’t…like that…”
“Ahaha, your face has ‘That’s right’ written all over it, you know?”
“………”
Yukina softly poked at Mitsuki’s cheek, who grew teary-eyed with a sour look.
“For now, let’s say you’re close enough to fight like that, so it’s fine. It’ll get back to normal soon. Being friends isn’t that easy of a relationship to break up, right?”
“…Yukina-san…” Mitsuki’s eyes blinked as she gazed at Yukina.
Every time she got in contact with Yukina like that, Mitsuki realized just how much of an adult Yukina really was.
“That’s right…It was the same before…I thought she was gone, so I seriously went looking for her, but she was just watching me from the shadows…”
“Ahaha, so that even happened? Sounds really great, having a female friend you can fight with like that.”
“—Eh?”
“Look, I was always pretty mannish, so I was mostly friends with boys all the time. Even after transferring here, that didn’t change much, huh—”
After gazing down at Mitsuki, Yuuya softly pat her on the head. Because of her unexpected words, Mitsuki couldn’t hold back her surprise.
“Unlike us, Yukina-san is a proper adult already…so you just don’t fight at all.”
“An adult…huh…”
Mitsuki clearly meant it as a praise, but Yukina showed a complicated wry smile.
“They often say I’m like that.”
“…I’m a bit jealous. I’m the exact opposite…”
“But, that makes you worth protecting, you know? I mean, Yuuya even gave you a princess carry.”
“T-That was…”
“In my case, I wouldn’t be the one getting it, but rather doing it. Because I’m like an adult, I’m not cute at all, and I really hate that about myself.”
Seeing that even Yukina had things about herself she hated, Mitsuki was a bit taken aback.
“…I just said something horrible to Hiyori…I have to apologize, but I couldn’t…”
And to that guy as well…
Even though Yuuya was working his hardest during the Love Quest, he went and called him unreliable, blaming him for everything. Thinking about it like that, she felt self-loathing build up inside her chest, wondering what she should do now.
“Well, everyone has things they don’t like about themselves, so we just have to work hard in order to change, or accept them, right? That’s why I’m at least trying to look like a proper girl.” Yukina said, as she ran her fingers through her ponytail.
“…Is that so…I had no idea…”
“Really, it’s laughable…Mitsuki-chan is like a girl, cute, and worth protecting…that’s probably why Yuu-kun is always paying attention to you.”
“—Eh?”
“No, nothing.”
Yukina just shook her head, as suddenly, another broadcast could be heard.
This is the administration of the student council. A short notice concerning the Love Quest. One of the pairs that made it through the preliminaries has to withdraw because of personal reasons. We will be taking another pair if there are still willing participants. I repeat—
“?!”
Both Mitsuki and Yukina’s eyes opened wide. At the same time, Mitsuki’s phone vibrated, a call incoming from Yuuya. For a second, Mitsuki hesitated to pick it up, but gave in after Yukina urged her with a gaze.
“H-Hello…”
‘Mitsuki! I managed to get a spot for the final round of the Love Quest! I thought that something like this might happen, so I waited in front of the student council office!’
“………”
As Yuuya happily reported his success, Mitsuki was just spacing out, not having any words for this.
“…W-Why…would you go that far…and not just give up…”
After a short silence ensued, Yuuya responded.
‘I told you I’d do whatever I can! Anyway, you know where to meet, 3pm!’
“…O-Okay…”
Mitsuki had completely given up on the Love Quest, but since Yuuya was so forceful, she could only nod along.
“So you managed to make it to the final round as well! Congratulations! Since Yuu-kun was screaming that much, I could hear everything.” Yukina was happy as if she herself had won.
In response, Mitsuki flashed a rather wry smile. Though she felt like getting swept along Yuuya’s and Yukina’s tension, she also realized her heart felt heavier than before.
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