Kawaikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka? Volume 12 Chapter 1

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Yuika’s Revenge

That day, Keiki finished his dinner and sat on the sofa in his living room, just gazing into the void. Naturally, he was thinking about the time when he gave his response to Yuika’s confession.

In the library office’s storage room, he told her that he had feelings for someone else, and the girl answered with a brief ‘Is that so…?’ and left the room. Back then, Keiki couldn’t decipher the expression she showed. Was she angry or sad? She might have even been crying, for all he knew.

“Was what I did really right…?”

Maybe he could have rejected her a bit more kindly? …No, getting her hopes up when the answer was decided would only have been crueler. Being considerate when you can’t accept a girl’s feelings is just irresponsible. And yet, Keiki couldn’t help but feel regretful. After all, the other person was his cute junior.

He had mentally prepared herself for the fact that she might be crying when he rejected her. But he kept thinking that he wanted to keep their current relationship, and that he didn’t want her to hate him. Of course, he hated himself for wishing this.

“All you handsome bastards in this world, how can you deal with this…?”

Had Shouma, who had been confessed to dozens of times, gone through the same feelings each time? No, probably not. The reason rejecting Yuika’s confession hurt so much—

“…It’s because she was that serious about it.”

Out of all the people who had confessed to Shouma, most of them weren’t even in love with him, and just tried their luck, so to speak. However, Yuika was different. She was ready to even throw away her own interests in order to be liked by Keiki. She was prepared to practically sacrifice herself in order to win over the boy she loved.

“But I also…”

The Christmas date was the first time he had noticed, but with many back and forths, Keiki realized that he had someone he loved from the bottom of his heart as well. And these feelings definitely weren’t any less strong than Yuika’s feelings.

“—Nii-san?”

“Mizuha…?”

When Keiki raised his head, his little sister was standing in front of him. She was wearing a thick sweater with a skirt. She took a peek at her brother’s face.

“What are you making that complicated face for?”

“I was just thinking about something.”

“Thinking about what?” Mizuha thought about it for a second. “Hmmm…” She then clapped her hands together. “I see! You were thinking of lifting up your sister’s skirt.”

“Not in the slightest.”

How could she even say that with a serious expression? It was so different from how she usually acted, and it still surprised Keiki every time.

“Are you saying that you have no interest in your little sister’s panties?”

“It’d be really bad if I did, right?”

Isn’t that common sense? However, Mizuha didn’t seem to feel that way. She let out a sigh.

“I see. I put on some erotic black panties today, but I guess you’re not interested…”

“You’re wearing that!?”

“I went all out.”

“Your older brother can’t exactly appreciate that, you know?”

“Then…” She grabbed the hem of her skirt, lifting it up to where she was just barely not showing her panties, and flashed a provocative smile. “Would you like to check what kind of panties they are?”

“You damn pervert…”

Then again, that’s to be expected from the exhibitionist who had ‘No-panties days’.

Normally I’d just ignore her, but…

Today, the circumstances were different.

I did say I was ready to accept even Yuika-chan’s perverted side, so…

This had happened a few hours prior. When talking to his junior in the storage room, Keiki said that the girls’ fetishes were something similar to how he liked big breasts, so they shouldn’t force themselves to change. He had announced it so proudly, so going back on his word would make him feel even more awful. Denying Mizuha’s fetish would mean that he had betrayed Yuika’s feelings.

“Alright, then let me have a look.”

“Huh?!”

“Why are you so shocked? Didn’t you bring this up yourself?”

“T-That’s true, but…”

“What’s wrong? Stop fidgeting and show me.”

“Why did you get so aggressive all of a sudden!? …I’m happy, but if you want to see them so badly, you can just ask whenever. Nii-san is so lewd~” She smiled happily.

“………”

Keiki however really wanted to complain about who the lewd one was.

I put the ‘De-Perversion’ plan on ice, but is it really okay to let a pervert like her roam free?

Maybe he made up his mind too quickly after all. But for now, he decided to focus on the underwear check. He wouldn’t be able to rest easy either way. As it turned out, she was wearing slightly lewd black panties, just as she had said.

“How… are they?” She asked bashfully with her skirt lifted up.

“They’re safe to wear at home, but I can’t allow you to go to school with them. If another boy were to see them…”

“I’ll only show my panties to you, though!”

“So you’ve said before, but…”

As they had this nonchalant exchange, he couldn’t help but smile. Mizuha fixed her skirt and smiled as well.

“It seems like you’re feeling better now, Nii-san.”

“Huh?”

“You had a super-conflicted expression earlier.”

“Hm…” He put his hand to his forehead.

Mizuha was being considerate as usual. Maybe she had put on those panties to cheer Keiki up, even?

“So since you’re feeling better, how about we take a bath together?”

“I humbly decline.”

Let me retract my previous statement.

This pervert merely wanted to show off her lewd underwear.

*

“Morning, Kiryuu.”

“Ahh, hey Nanjou.”

The following morning, Keiki was busy putting on his indoor shoes when Mao appeared and called out to him. Her reddish-brown hair was tied up in the usual side-tail, and she was wearing a coat and scarf above her uniform. This morning, it was cold enough to almost freeze your fingers. After stuffing her gloves away, Mao started changing her shoes as well.

“Kiryuu, did you do your math homework?” She asked.

“Ah, I forgot we had homework.”

“You too? I guess Akiyama will have to show me his later.”

“Yup, good idea.”

“And thus, Kiryuu paid with his own body for the homework.”

“Can you not add weird narration to things first thing in the morning?”

Judging from that, she had probably been up all night working on her BL manga. Right as the two started to walk to their classroom—

“Ah, Keiki-senpai…”

“Yuika-chan…”

Keiki met eyes with Koga Yuika, who had just entered the building as well. Just like Mao, she was wearing a coat with a scarf, and she awkwardly averted her gaze.

“M-Morning, Yuika-chan…”

“………” Yuika just silently turned and walked away quickly.

It was a pretty obvious rejection. When he saw this reaction, Keiki felt a sharp pain assault his chest, worse than any punishment he had suffered previously.

That sure hurt…

Receiving a cold reaction from his beloved junior was tougher than he could have imagined.

“Kiryuu, did you do something to Yuika?”

“Shouldn’t that be ‘Did something happen between the two of you’?”

“Nah, knowing you and your nonexistent sense of delicacy, I don’t need to ask that. You probably called her ‘flat-chested’ or something.”

“I’m pretty sure you’re the one being rude right now.”

If the person herself heard that, she’d be the target of Yuika’s anger instead.

“Also, Yuika-chan has more than it looks like.” He said.

Of course, compared to the other members of the calligraphy club, she was clearly lacking, but when he got a good hold of them before, they offered more than he previously assumed. It was clear that she was working hard chasing after Mao and the others.

“…Hmmm? So she actually has more than she seems, huh?”

“Hm?”

When Keiki turned his face sideways, Mao met him with an ice-cold glare.

“So how exactly do you know that, Kiryuu?”

“Ah…”

Only then did he realize that he had dug his own grave. From the way he said that, it was clear as day that he had copped a feel of them before.

“Well, whatever. If you’re having a fight, then make up already.”

“…Right.”

They weren’t exactly fighting, but he couldn’t just say that Yuika had confessed, either. Thus, he merely nodded along.

“Yuika-chan really isn’t coming, huh?”

During lunch break that day, Keiki sat at the library counter for his job as a library committee member, all alone. Although it was her turn today as well, Yuika did not appear. As a result, the chair next to him was empty. Just thinking about all the times his junior had smiled at him as they talked, Keiki started to lose his motivation to work.

To be fair, the traffic wasn’t all too overwhelming right now, so he could do all the work just fine, but things could turn problematic if this situation continued for longer.

“What if she doesn’t show up to the club, either?”

It was entirely possible. Unlike her position as a committee member, clubs are things you can quit on a whim. All the more so if you keep in mind that she had only joined in order to make Keiki her slave. Now that she had been rejected, and lost her motivation to make him her slave, she had no reason to remain in the club.

“I guess it’s selfish of me to want her to stay in the club…”

Even so, when he remembered the conversations they had, and the fun they had shared together, he thought all of them were precious memories. He didn’t want things to end up like this.

“Kei-kun-senpai, good work today!”

“Ah, Rintarou… Wait, hm?”

A boy, Mitani Rin, walked towards the counter, wearing his male uniform. Next to him was another boy familiar to Keiki.

“H-Hello, Kiryuu-senpai…”

“Um… aren’t you Chouno?”

“Ah, yes, that’s me.” He affirmed Keiki’s assumption, bowing slightly.

He was a first-year like Rintarou, and a member of the manga research club.

“Why are you two together?”

“Chouno-kun and I became friends. We talked during the election, and our hobbies lined up. After all, he’s a fellow reader of ‘ShameCom’.”

“Ah, ‘ShameCom.”

ShameCom is a manga that’s particularly popular with middle school students. Its full name is ‘Is it shameless to hope for a romcom in a different world?’, and it tells the story of a protagonist who gets into lewd accidents with the heroines. Keiki had read it before, and he enjoyed it quite a bit.

“Um, Kiryuu-senpai. I’m very sorry about what happened during the election…”

“Fujimoto-san forgave you, and I’m not particularly angry either.”

He was one of the few people who had caused a bit of trouble during the elections in order to try to damage Ayano’s popularity, but that had been taken care of already.

“More importantly, how is everyone from the club doing?”

“Well… Now that Megu-senpai became the student council vice president and started showing up to our club less, we’re a bit out of motivation.”

“That makes sense. Onizuka-san was basically your club’s idol.”

‘Megu-senpai’ was Onizuka Megumi. She was Keiki’s classmate, a member of the manga research club, and also the vice president of the student council. She had been scouted by Ayano, and was currently awfully busy with her work, which was why her manga research club activities were suffering as a result.

“Well, that can’t be helped. Megu-senpai was the only one who really brought the club together, and we’re not exactly coming up with any new ideas either.”

“Oh yeah, Onizuka-san came up with that, didn’t she?”

Since their main creative mind had left, they obviously hadn’t come up with any new ideas for manga. It seems like that was having a pretty negative influence on the motivation of the manga research club’s members.

“But she looks like she’s having fun, and she’s got a boyfriend taking care of her, so I’m more than satisfied.”

“Yeah, they went on a Christmas date too.”

Onizuka-san was currently going out with the third-year Inui Naoya, and they were spending a lovey-dovey high school life together. Of course she wouldn’t have time to check in on the club.

“Speaking of dates, listen to this, Kei-kun-senpai.”

While Keiki was enjoying his conversation with Chouno, Rintarou suddenly cut in.

“I ran into Mizuha-senpai in the hallway just now, but when I invited her out to drink some tea together, she said she had some natto sale that she had to worry about and declined.”

“You still haven’t given up, huh?”

“Of course I haven’t. I won’t stop until I bury my face between those honkers.”

“Can you not fantasize about someone else’s little sister like that?”

He might have had a peaceful face, but that bastard was actually rotten to the core.

“I won’t hand over Mizuha to someone who’s only in it for the breasts.”

“Ahaha, you’re as much of a siscon as always, Kei-kun-senpai.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment.”

He had been told as much many times as of late, so he had gotten used to it.

“Don’t get the wrong idea, though. It’s not that I’m only in it for the breasts. It’s rare that you find a girl as great as her. She’s good at cooking, beautiful, and kind. It’s like a Goddess has descended to earth.”

“A goddess, huh?”

Clearly, Rintarou was under the wrong impression that Kiryuu Mizuha was an average girl. Of course, from an objective point of view, Mizuha definitely was cute. Her breasts definitely were her big charm point, clothed or not, her cooking and cleaning skills were second to none, and she had a very gentle personality. However, she also had a hidden status that should never be revealed to anyone else.

I wonder how he’d react if he saw Mizuha force her older brother to check her underwear like that…

In reality, she was a pervert who loved walking around with no panties on. She was the exact opposite of the term ‘prim and proper.’ Even though that was the case, Keiki couldn’t tell Rintarou about this, as the knowledge of it would spread like a wildfire.

“—You seem to be having quite a bit of fun, Kiryuu-senpai.”

“Ah, Nagase-san?”

There’s quite a lot of people visiting the library today, Keiki thought. After Rintarou and Chouno, now even the first-year Nagase Airi-san had showed up. As always, her beige hair was tied up in twin-tails, and she wasn’t even trying to hide her bad mood. On reflex, the two boys in her way took their distance.

“Could I have a bit of your time?”

“Right now? I’m on duty, though…”

Yuika wasn’t here either, so he couldn’t just skip out on work. However, Airi directed her gaze over towards Rintarou.

“Mitani.”

“Ah, yes?”

“Sorry about this, but could you take over for a moment?”

“Me!?” Rintarou, who had no experience working as a library committee member, protested loudly.

Airi ignored his protests and dragged Keiki with her out of the library room.

*

After walking for a while, they came to the student council office. Since the door was open, they immediately went inside, and Airi spoke up after having been quiet the entire way.

“You probably know what I’m about to say, right?”

“Well, about that…”

“I heard you rejected Yuika.”

“Yeah…”

When she brought up that topic, Keiki’s expression tightened. She sounded like she had figured something like this could happen. When she talked to him at the end of the previous year, at that certain cafe, it sounded like he might just have another girl he was interested in—and not Yuika. Even so, it was Yuika. If she simply became serious, winning over such an ordinary boy would be an easy feat—or so Airi thought, but in the end, Yuika wasn’t chosen.

“You’re a liar. You said you wouldn’t make her cry.”

“I’m sorry…”

“Playboy. Enemy of all women. Dull protagonist.”

“Aren’t you taking it a bit too far there?”

“Can’t you think about it one more time? There’s still a chance that—”

“I know, but I can’t.”

“Why?”

“Because I have someone I like.”

“!?”

She had expected something along those lines, but hearing it from him was still quite a shock. However, she could not be shaken.

“…Is that person cuter than Yuika?”

“In my eyes, yeah.”

“There’s no way a girl cuter than Yuika could exist, you know!?”

“Then what am I supposed to say?!”

“Hmph…”

This wasn’t good. She was letting her emotions get the better of her. She didn’t want to be like this in front of him, but her anger got the better of her.

“I thought it was weird. Why did you go that far for Yuika-chan’s sake, Nagase-san?”

“That’s…” She hesitated for a bit, but eventually spoke again. “You know how much of a lone wolf she was back when she first started attending the school here, right?”

“Yeah, she was alone in the library pretty often.”

“Back then, I knew what she was going through, but I couldn’t help her through it. Well, I tried talking to her a few times, but she never really bothered interacting with me.”

Back then, Yuika would reject whoever tried talking to her, no matter what they said. As a result, Airi failed to save Yuika.

“That’s the reason I wanted to support her love. It’s not going to erase my guilt, but I at least wanted her to enjoy her school life with the person she loved.”

“So that’s why…”

“The power of love is amazing, isn’t it? Even a girl like her could become this cute.”

Yuika seemed like an angel when she was with Kiryuu Keiki. When she heard about it, Airi felt jealous of the upperclassmen who managed to make the girl smile, which was something she couldn’t do. He had saved Yuika alone. That’s why Airi was so desperate to get these two together.

If she can be happy, then I’m ready to support her with everything I have.

She always felt that way.

And yet—

Any more than this was impossible. Her reason was screaming for her to not think any further. Her head felt dizzy, and right when she was about to be sucked down into the dark abyss, a warm hand was placed on her head.

“…Kiryuu-senpai, what are you doing?”

“Rubbing your head.”

“I can tell that…”

She was unable to understand why he would do that right now. Not to mention that he was smiling, and he said the following.

“You really are kind, Nagase-san.”

“Eh?”

“You’d go that far for a friend of yours. I think you’re pretty amazing.”

“…I’m not kind at all.”

He could only say that because he didn’t know anything. If he knew what she felt, he would be devastated. And yet—

Why do I feel so happy…?

She found herself unable to brush away his hand, and she just gave in to this gentle feeling. She knew that this was equivalent to betraying Yuika. Even so, her face started to burn up, and right when she started thinking about what she always avoided, Keiki opened his mouth.

“You resemble the person I have feelings for, Nagase-san.”

“Eh…”

“Of course, your personality is different, but I just can’t leave her alone. Just like you, she works her hardest for other people, and treasures other people’s feelings.”

“……”

The latter half of what Keiki said didn’t even reach Airi’s ears. Sadness, pain, and many more emotions that had no name tampered with her heart, leaving her head blank. Before she realized it, she had brushed away Keiki’s hand.

“Leave…”

“Huh?”

“Enough. Just leave…!”

“Didn’t you bring me here!?”

Ignoring her senior’s confusion, Airi just pushed him out of the room, closing the door after him. She could hear his complaints from the outside, but these were eventually followed up by his footsteps growing more distant. Confirming this, Airi pressed her forehead against the door.

“Since I resemble the person he likes, I’m out of the question, huh…?”

That was the reason she had thrown Keiki out so aggressively. Because she felt betrayed.

“I’m not kind at all…”

That boy seemed to have the wrong idea, but Nagase Airi was actually the worst kind of human being.

“After all… for Kiryuu-senpai, I actually…” It happened when she was about to admit everything.

A rummaging sound came from the inside of the room, which should normally be empty, together with a flustered ‘Ah!?’ voice.

“Who!?” Airi screamed, and turned around.

She spotted a mobile game console dropped to the floor next to the sofa, and a female student peeking from beneath it—

“Shiho-senpai!?”

“Y-Yahallo~?”

How long had she been there? Judging from the situation, she probably tried to pick up the console from the ground, when Airi and Keiki stormed into the room, which left her unable to come out—

“Why are you here, Shiho-senpai…?”

“Ahh, well…” Shiho stood up with a troubled expression, taking the console with her. “Y-You know, I wanted to keep playing that new game I got into, and thought I would borrow the room here, but then you two suddenly came in, so I had to hide… I didn’t mean to eavesdrop, so please don’t be angry, okay?”

Apparently, she had been enjoying a game here in this room. Now that Airi thought about it, she would hide in here and play games pretty often when the student council was busy. Normally, Airi would give her an earful for it, but now she lacked the energy to do so.

“You were… listening?”

“…Yeah, I heard everything.” Shiho nodded awkwardly.

It made perfect sense, since this room wasn’t necessarily big or anything. Of course, that meant she must have heard Airi’s muttering.

“So you like Keiki-kun, Airi-chan?”

“That’s…”

She considered hiding it, but quickly realized that it would be futile. Now that her feelings had been heard, it was already too late.

“…That’s right, I’ve always been attracted to Kiryuu-senpai.”

She blurted out all of the feelings she tried to hide.

“It’s weird, isn’t it? I kept going on and on about how much I hated men, and avoided them…”

Because of a past trauma, she didn’t want anything to do with men. She was quite harsh with Keiki in the beginning, as well.

“He’s just too kind for his own good. He constantly meddles with other people’s business, and worked with me all day and night to cure my hatred of men. I’ve never met someone as weird as him.”

No matter what Airi said to him, he never left her alone. At first, she had merely been curious about him, tracing him with her eyes, until she eventually started thinking about him at home. But by then it was already too late.

“Senpai has someone he likes…”

Him telling her that she resembled this person was too cruel for her to bear. She was painfully reminded that she was not special in his eyes. After making Airi think about him 24/7, after making her unable to be without him, he had just gone and fallen in love with someone else.

Why isn’t it Yuika? Why can’t it be me?

She knew that she was being unfair. It wasn’t his fault, nor was it anyone else’s. She herself had chosen not to pursue that path.

“It was really hard for me… Even though I decided on it, I wanted to support Yuika… ignoring my own pain…”

Now that she had started letting out her honest feelings, there was no stopping them anymore.

“I really wanted to go on that date with Kiryuu-senpai during Christmas Eve… Walk through town with him, maybe even hold hands… The promise was supposed to be between the two of us!”

She had been happy to hear how he was looking forward to the date. When she received the present at the cafe, her chest burned up with joy. What would he think if he knew how much she gazed at that notebook every single day?

“I’m not as kind as Kiryuu-senpai thinks I am. Because when I heard that Yuika was rejected, before feeling sadness and grief for my friend… I felt relieved…”

She said she was doing it for Yuika’s sake, but she still hadn’t given up on the boy herself.

“The reason I called him here was to convince him to accept Yuika’s feelings so I could finally give up…”

Now that Yuika had been rejected, why had she even given up on him in the first place? And she felt guilt for being relieved. But even her final attempt ended in failure.

“What can I do when he tells me that he has someone he likes? I know better than anyone that you can’t just stop those feelings.”

She didn’t want him to go through the same feelings she had. She didn’t want him to shoulder the pressure and pain of not being able to confess to the person you like.

I’m sure I’d just be a bother even if I confessed now…

That’s why she chased him out of the room before she could make any mistakes.

“…I see. So that’s what was going on.”

“Shiho-senpai…?”

Airi raised her head, only to be embraced by Shiho.

“You did great.”

“—!?”

No more words were needed. Airi just buried her face inside Shiho’s chest, crying like a child.

*

Classes came to an end that day, and while Keiki was walking down the hallway after cleaning the classroom, his smartphone vibrated inside his pocket.

“Hm? It’s from Nagase-san?”

Maybe she wasn’t done complaining at him yet? With these thoughts, he opened the message.

‘Yuika collapsed and was taken to the infirmary.’

“…Eh?”

For a second, he failed to grasp the words he just read. Only the part about Yuika having collapsed repeated over and over in his head, sending emergency signals up to his brain, his blood freezing.

“Shit!!”

Although he didn’t know the circumstances, staying still was not an option. Before he could think, Keiki started running, moving through the empty hallways, jumping inside the infirmary on the first floor.

“Yuika-chan—”

The school nurse Tachibana-sensei seemed to be out. However, of the two beds, one was hidden by the curtains.

“…Fuu… Ah… Mmm… Nnn…” He heard a girl’s suffering (?) voice from behind it.

“Yuika-chan!”

“…Eh?”

He pulled open the curtains and moved inside, only to find Yuika sitting on the bed, blinking in confusion—

“…Eh?”

Keiki himself suffered from a similar reaction. The scene in front of him left him speechless. The girl had taken off her blazer and was groping her breasts with both her hands.

“K-Keiki-senpai!?” Her face turned as red as a tomato in a matter of seconds, and she started screaming. “W-Why are you here?!”

“Right back at you… What are you doing?”

“T-This is…”

“Were you doing something this indecent at school…?”

“N-No!?” When Keiki gave her a doubtful gaze, Yuika frantically removed her hands. “This isn’t what you think it is!”

“Then why were you fondling your breasts?”

“That’s… Ugh…” The girl resigned herself to it and screamed. “This is a method to make Yuika’s chest grow! Tachibana-sensei told her about this! Do you have a problem with that!?”

“I understand. I’m at fault here, so put that pillow down, would you?” He quickly retreated from the landmine he was about to step on.

Then again, it felt like he already stepped on it, but at the very least, the pillow wasn’t thrown after him.

Seriously, what is that nurse telling her students…?

Since she was quite well-endowed as well, it was probably easier for Yuika to fall victim to her nonsense.

“…Yuika already knows that it’s too late.”

“Eh?”

“A man wouldn’t understand our feelings, hmph.” She put her blazer back on, buttoned up the front, and sat on the side of the bed. “So why are you here, Keiki-senpai?”

“Nagase-san told me that you collapsed, so…”

“Collapsed? No, Yuika was just lacking sleep, so she took the afternoon classes off…”

“Really?” Keiki inspected the girl more closely.

She didn’t seem sick or the like, nor did she have any injuries. That could only mean—

“Nagase-san set me up again?”

It was probably so the two of them would end up alone together.

“But Yuika is happy that you were this worried about her.”

“Well, yeah…”

“Even though you rejected her yesterday.”

“Ugh…”

“Also, the reason Yuika was lacking sleep is because she was crying all night after you rejected her…”

“O-Okay…”

His chest hurt unbearably. Her gaze stabbed him all over.

“Don’t you think that was a waste? A beauty like Yuika confessed to you, and you still said no.”

“……”

He couldn’t argue against that. Even now, he thought that it was a waste.

“Ahh, what a shame. If Keiki-senpai were to become Yuika’s boyfriend, she’d let you do whatever you wanted.”

“Whatever… I want?”

That sounded quite interesting. Although that thought was immediately destroyed by what Yuika said next.

“Like going on a walk with Senpai as Yuika’s dog?”

“I really don’t want anything to do with that.”

The only person who’d be happy about something like that would be Tokihara Sayuki.

“Well, that makes sense. Now that Yuika has been rejected, she only can move on to another love.”

“Yuika-chan…”

“…Did you think she would really say that?”

“Eh?”

“Fufu, everything just then was a lie! Yuika isn’t giving up at all!”

“Ehhh!?” Keiki was taken by surprise.

The girl smiled.

“Yuika is a sadistic queen, right? That’s why there’s no need for her to listen to Keiki-senpai’s opinion. She will attack you whenever she wants, wherever she can.”

“That’s…”

Doesn’t that mean she will stay in the club?

“You’d better be prepared. Yuika will make you hers, Senpai.”

“I guess I’ll have to be careful from now on.” A smile appeared on Keiki’s lips.

It appeared as if Keiki’s ‘De-Perversion’ plan had failed. She had no intentions of quitting. Yet, oddly enough, it didn’t feel too bad.

After that, Yuika and Keiki made their way to the clubroom, with the other three members had already gathered. Sayuki, Mao, and Mizuha sat around the table, looking up as the two entered.

“Took you long enough,” Sayuki said.

“Good work today. What are you all doing?”

“We were looking at the pictures from the trip.”

“Wait, they’re here already?”

“It didn’t take more than a day thanks to Ootori-san.”

“That’s Koharu-senpai for you, I guess.”

There’s no person more reliable than that senior. Apparently, they had spread out the pictures already, and they scooted around the table to make room for the other two.

“Here you go, Nii-san, Yuika-chan.”

“Let me see.”

“Ah, there’s the picture of the snowman Mizuha-senpai made.” Yuika pointed at a picture showing a happy snowman family.

There were other pictures, like Yuika attempting her first time at skiing, Keiki teaching her, Mao sleeping, and Sayuki in her pajamas.

“When did you take a picture of me!?”

“Ah, that was me. It looked cute, so I couldn’t resist.”

“Mizuha?” Mao loudly protested.

It was the same club as usual.

“………”

When Keiki glanced over, Yuika was smiling to herself, so he figured he didn’t have to worry about her.

Now then…

His response to Yuika had finally been dealt with, but there’s still one more person waiting.

I have to find some time to be alone with Sayuki-senpai…

She was, just like everyone else, looking at the pictures and smiling. Keiki still had put the answer to her confession on hold. Although his answer had already been decided, he’d rather not say it in front of everyone.

I guess I’ll invite her on the way home…

Keiki was busy thinking about it, when the girl in question, Sayuki, called out to Yuika.

“That reminds me, Koga-san, you were with Keiki-kun today, weren’t you?”

“Ah, Yuika had something to talk with him about.”

“What exactly?”

“Well, the thing is—”

Keiki realized too late how evil Yuika’s grin was.

“Keiki-senpai apparently is willing to accept our perversions.”

““““Eh!?””””

Yuika’s words dropped like a bombshell, and everyone started to panic.

“D-Does that mean we’re allowed to show our fetishes?”

“What happened to his De-Perversion plan?”

“Is that true?”

Sayuki, Mao, and even Mizuha looked over at Yuika.

“That is the truth. Right, Keiki-senpai?”

“Well, that’s…”

He did say that he would respect their individualities. But never did he state that he would totally accept every single aspect of them.

“Also, he said something else that was very interesting… “

While everyone’s gazes were focused on Keiki, Yuika flashed a grin and dropped another bomb.

“It appears as if Keiki-senpai has someone he likes.”

“““Someone he likes!?”””

The voices of all three girls overlapped.

“That being said, Yuika doesn’t know who that is… Right, Senpai?”

“……”

That was just unfair. Keiki was unable to withstand the intense gazes of the three girls. He had to look away.

“H-Huh… Kiryuu has someone he likes. I see.”

“Just who might it be?”

“Nii-san has someone he likes…”

Mao and the others started pondering who it could be. The calm atmosphere from before had vanished elsewhere. What was left was a mix of panic, excitement, and absolute craziness.

What is going on here…?

This wasn’t a mood where he could think about his response to the confession. How did things even end up like this? Of all the people to find out, it had to be the girls from the club.

“Yuika-chan…”

“Ehehe~”

Keiki gave Yuika an exhausted glare. She simply grinned and stuck her tongue out at him in a cute fashion.