The Hero Who Returned Remains the Strongest in the Modern World Chapter 37

"Basically, everything has been settled."

She shook her head slowly.

"There's still one more important thing to do…"

"What's that?"

"Our relationship."

"Eh?"

"You should take a break from school, today. Naturally, I'll do too."

"….Eh?"

"Hey, Morishitkun?"

"Yeah?"

"Will you walk with me on the beach, now?"

"The beach…?"

Early afternoon on the coastline.

The water's surface was glittering from the sun shining, and there was a pleasant spring breeze.

Both of us sat on rocks and looked towards the sea.

"Hey, Morishitkun?"

"What is it, senpai?"

"What's your favourite food?"

"Ramen… probably?"

She lightly nodded while smiling.

"I also like ramen, you know. Then next time…Would you want to go with me to a ramen restaurant?"

"…Sure."

And a moment of silence fell on us.

Abeno-senpai's silk-like long hair was waving from the sea breeze.

Her white skin even on normal conditions is transparent and now it looked even more when reflected by the surface of the sea.

Her breasts are also impressively big, if she's quiet then she's really unimaginably beautiful… and I sighed at thinking that.

"Hey, Morishitkun?"

"What is it, senpai?"

"It will be summer in several months. Do you hate the sea?"

"No, I don't hate it."

"Well then, what kind of swimwear do you like on girls?"

"Blue and white stripes type. Naturally, bikini."

"Then next time… Would you go together with me to buy? Since we're friends… Let us enjoy the summer vacation together."

"….Yeah."

A moment of silence fell.

Since earlier Abeno-senpai has been hard fixated upon gazing at my face.

Big eyes, nasal muscles, deep crimson lips and vibrant white skin. Despite showing signs of mostly no cosmetics, she truly can make some professional actress run for their money.

"Hey, Morishitkun?"

"It's in the future. You're able to have a wife."

"Well, it's better to be able to have than not."

"In a situation where you're newly-wed and deeply in love which one you pick from 『Would you have a bath？　Would you like dinner？　Or perhaps would like to have me？』 when you come back home?"

While thinking about what she was talking… I was tired.

Rather, Senpai's eccentricity never stopped since the start.

And, in other words I should answer honestly here.

"Would you like to have me?… Is my answer."

"Fufu. Honest, are you?"

She nodded satisfied and continued talking.

"Morishitkun. Well then, next time… Will you come with me to buy condoms, together? Aah, that's right. At that we shouldn't forget to preview the love hotels where we would spend our first night."

"Oi, you stop right there!"

"Eh…?"

What is she saying? -like feeling Abeno-senpai opened her eyes widely.

"Rather, what are you talking about all of a sudden!?"

"What I'm talking about… I'm talking about sex, of course?"

"A girl must not talk about sex infront of a boy with a cool face!"

Abeno-senpai shrugged.

"Look here, Morishitkun."

"What?"

"I'm a virgin."

"Yes, I know that."

"That's right, basically I am—"

Abeno-senpai became silent.

And then took deep breaths and talked.

"Slutty virgin."

"And why do you need to pretentiously correct yourself in that point!?"

"Honestly speaking, I had something to think about in this case."

"For example?"

"I don't think things like virginity are that much of a minus in a battlefield considering I've been into one."

"Well… If you lose to the enemy… There's also such kinds of things."

"If you had lost to the Nine-Tails, Right now… the goblins would've been smearing semen on me."

"Girls saying such things in front of boys with a cool face is big NO!"

"That's right. Basically"

Abeno-senpai became silent.

Took deep breaths and then she talked.

"Bukakke as much as one would like."

"Is it necessary to correct yourself pretentiously there!?"

"That's right, it's already… like an erotic doujin."

"The story became graphic!?"

"Well, with such feelings… I thought of throwing virginity. It's just a deficit."

"That perhaps it's like that."

"By the way, If I lose my virginity… I'll just be slutty, then."

"I hate being friends with such people!"

*Fufu* she just laughed while I had a headache.

"You're a virgin, too… Won't you quickly throw it?"

"Surprisingly for you, I'm a romanticist. I won't give my first time to anyone except the person I like."

"Does it get easier at the 2nd time and after it?"

"I wonder about that… In the world there are also things such as sex industry. For men… There's also things that I can't completely deny."

"As I thought… You are a perverted junk without any virtue."

"You have no right to say that!?"

"Anyhow, no thank you. First of all, if there was such a girl who would just get it done for convenience sake… I wouldn't want to throw my virginity nor take some girl's virginity like that."

Abeno-senpai stood up and bent herself towards me who was still sitting on a rock.

And then she grabbed both of my cheeks, and stared directly at my eyes.

It could be said that our faces were distanced by 10 cm's and her breath tickled my nose.

"Hey, Morishitkun? I'm saying this to you because I've chosen appropriately."

"Eh?"

"I'm erotic. That's right, I'm a slutty virgin. And if my virginity is taken I'm just a slut. No, rather— I'm a bitch."

"Bitch… you say?"

She took deep breaths and then nodded as if to affirm it.

"However— Exclusive bitch for you only."

"Senpai…? What are you talking about?"

"Well then… Let me say it more clearly."

Senpai's cheeks slightly became red and then—

"Let's become friends with the premise of marriage."

"Your japanese is strange, oi! Why is that we become friends under the premise of marriage!?"

She made a weak expression and had tears in her eyes.

"Hey, Morishitkun? Do you hate me?"

Not good. Now that I remember… she immediately begins to cry.

Are you confident or timid which one is it… while thinking that I sighed.

"I don't hate you, I can assure you of that."

"Then, what should we do, Morishitkun?"

Aaa… I looked towards the sky.

At first I was thinking of running away from this insane woman however… Somehow… Before I knew it, I've become immobile.

"For now… As I thought we should start from friends…"

"From… friends?"

"For me to go out with you… I need to know a lot more about senpai. That's why I can't give you an answer here. However, I've considered it seriously, too."

She frowned as she was not satisfied and made her mouth like a duck.

"Senpai? Don't you know the words more than friends but less than lovers?"

And like a *Paff* she made a smile like she'd been given life.

Her smile was so beautiful that it could've been a picture adorned in an art museum.

Surely my heart has been grabbed ahold of Abeno-senpai's smile in that instant.

"Okay, I understand. Let's settle on that for today."

Settle… That's not a word you use in a scenery like this—I made a wry smile.

And then I looked at my wristwatch, and gradually it became high time.

"Well, shall we go back now? I'll walk with you till the station."

We stood up and got out of the rocky area and walked side-by side on this sandy beach.

"Hey, Morishitkun?"

"What is it?"

Abeno-senpai looked at her right hand and made a dissatisfied expression.

"My right hand is lonely."

"What do you mean?"

"My, right, hand, is, lonely."

And then she pointed at my left hand.

"Is it about… holding hands?"

"Yes, you've come to the point."

"However, we're not going out, though?"

"Oh my? Did you not say we were more than friends less than lovers?"

I can't talk back to that.

I grasped her hand and began walking with her till the station.

Around 5 minutes walking, she stopped at the sight of the station.

"What happened? The station is right over there."

She shook her head slowly.

"Let's walk about one station."

"Why?"

"Right now… your hand is really cozy. I want to feel more of your warmth. A reason to walk one station— Can't that be one?"

"Eh….?"

And then we turned right and walked to the next station.

There was a long silence however, Abeno-senpai's warmth coming from her right hand… is strangely comforting.

"Hey, Morishitkun? I was really sad from the betrayal of my own father and sister."

"Yeah. That's how it is."

"I thought that my chest would burst. However, that right now is worthless. The abolished shinto shrine of the Nine-Tails… At that time and place, you came there solely for the purpose of helping me. And right now, you're holding hands with me. With just that I am really happy. Right now, this throbbing of my heart— If I had to live my life again, I would surely walk the same path just for this exact moment again. Hey, Morishitkun? Do you believe me? I'm being serious. The words that I'm about to say to nobody other than you will be truer than any I've said so far in my life… No, even if it's you I won't repeat them again, so listen very carefully."

And then she made a troubled face and began talking while her cheeks were crimson.

"I like you a lot, Morishitkun. I love you."

The picture doesn't belong to me, it belongs to its proper artist.

The next chapter is really long yo, it's in the past where he is in the different world and it's kind of side-story, I presume.
So I don't how long it will take me but expect several days of nothing.
Well then, this marks the end of this arc.

Chapter end