Tsuki Tsuki Vol 9 Chapter 2

Chapter 02: Selfish Wish

…I believed that conflicts essential won’t yield anything.

That said, shamefully enough, my opponent was myself… Just how long would my reasoning last? In front of my eyes were Luna and Hijiri, both wearing maid clothes.

…After the ruckus in the living room, everyone left the room for preparations and when they came back after a while, it turned into this.

In view of this situation, the two of them were going to make some kind of appeal without doubt. And then I would have to choose which of them was better, which meant going to the aquarium together with the winner.

It might be that my reasoning would scream for it’s life during it.

While shaking the dog-ears on her hand, she kneeled in front of me and softly put her own cheek against my thigh for no apparent reason.

“H- Hijiri? What are you doing? What’s up?”

Hijiri replied with a small bark to my questions.

But I should deal with it composed. For now, I should try to pet her head. I got the feeling that I already had lost my composure, but unable to resists, I reached out my hand for Hijiri’s head.

As soon as she sat down besides me, she tightly clung to my arm spoiled, whereupon her sweet fragrance and breasts with a full-score on volume got a tight hold on my heart.

“M- Meow…”

She looked really adorable how she happily smiled while somewhat showing embarrassment.

“Ah, sorry. I haven’t forgotten about you, Hijiri.”

If Hijiri were a real dog, she might happily wag her tail now.

I faintly smiled and petted Hijiri’s head, whereupon Luna looked at me envious, as she wanted attention.

On my words, Luna nodded and as she then grew tired of waiting, she clung to me even stronger and brought her blushed face closer.

Pressing her glamorous lips against my ear, she lightly kissed it twice.

Luna might just be playing around, but I directly felt her bewitching hot breath, which already cracked my reasoning.

“Mm…”

Her smooth tongue tickled my cheek and while showing embarrassment, she looked somewhat happy. So close I noticed her charming expression again and of all things, Luna even started to play-bite my ear.

While my own reasoning creaked without me being able to move carelessly, Elni, Kaorun and Machina, who all watched over me, rushed over to me right away, as they noticed my predicament.

Like that, Elni swiftly snatched away Luna and Hijiri from me, whereas Kaorun held out an invisible microphone to me with a jerk.

…What a horrible question.

Both Luna and Hijiri were really cute, which made it difficult to decide. I crossed my arms and pondered for a while, then I shifted my gaze to Elni as an escape from Luna and Hijiri’s hopeful looks. With flickering eyes, I answered.

“…Eh? Instead of Luna or Hijiri, you want me, Shinobu? S- Somehow I’m getting embarrassed…”

Regardless of my rude remark, Elni faintly flushed her cheeks.

“Uwa, this suits you surprisingly well…”

She herself might have wanted to be a Mad Dog, but equipped with the dog-ears, Elni was extremely cute.

“Right. It’s regretful, but it doesn’t seem like I could win.”

By the way, as for Kaorun, she casually took the cat-ears from Luna’s head and put them on herself while blurting out “Shinobu-sama, in regards to maids, I am the best, right?”, but I ignored it with a smile…

Afterwards the showdown still continued, whereat Luna and Hijiri wore sailor uniforms or shrine maiden outfits, became bus guides or policewomen and in the end clad in white gowns or military uniforms all the while changing her appeals along with their costumes, which fiercely agitated my reasoning from beginning to end.

A tube top that boldly exposed her waist. Short hot pants. Reflected in both my eyes were her slender hips, long, beautiful legs and firm angles, which were all so erotic.

“Uhm, Hijiri-san? What are you doing over there? Hurry up and let us continue the showdown.”

“Wh- What’s this, Kaoru-san? That wasn’t agreed on. I thought I would wear the same one as Luna-san, so I— wait, stop it, Kaoru-san!”

But, Hijiri’s outfit turned all my expectations upside down.

A transparent, sexy pink negligee. Beneath it I could see her voluminous breasts covered by a white brassiere, her slender waist and nicely tense thighs. Moreover, on Hijiri’s every little movement, her big swellings bounced around, which ensnared my heart gravely.

“Judging by Shinobu-sama’s reaction, it seems the victory goes to Hijiri-chan.”

On Kaorun’s words, Machina immediately attacked with complain.

“…So you say, but at this rate we will never reach a conclusion, you know? I take you are getting tired as well, Machina, Elni-san? It is already the ninth round after all. Why not accept now that it is Hijiri-chan’s victory?”

“This will be the finale! Please let it continue for a bit longer! Besides, it is not settled yet! I will try my best as well!”

Widening her eyes midway in her sentence, Kaorun then stopped her words just like that.

After all, as soon as Luna reached out her hands for her hot pants, she pulled them down and exposed her black panties, as she didn’t want to lose to Hijiri. Moreover, she grabbed the hem of her tube top and slowly rolled it up.

If she were to strip off her top like this, her ripe breasts would get exposed. Luna tightly bit her lips and turned bright red up to her ears.

“…I will win and go to the aquarium with Shinobu-san!”

Instantly, her round breasts showed up with a bounce as they were released from the constraining top. The breasts clad in a black brassiere bounced right and left for a moment, then the white, soft flesh of her cleavage bumped into each other on the backlash, swaying around lewdly.

“T- Troubles, Elni. Sister is too bold. I’m sure a weird switch was flipped for her. I guess we better stop her?”

“Hey, Elni! Stop saying ridiculous stuff! Besides, even Sister wouldn’t go as far as—”

“Ehh!? She agreed!?”

“I can’t believe it— wait, why are you surprised the most, Elni!”

The surprised Machina and Elni coloured their eyes with innocence and guilt respectively.

Giving these girls a sidelong glance, Luna unhooked her brassiere at her back with still red cheeks.

“The aquarium with Shinobu-san. The aquarium with Shinobu-san. The aquarium with Shinobu-san….”

Regardless of their big size, her breasts had not a shred of slackness and undoubtedly had a pleasant tension and magnificent elasticity.

The tips of these breasts were coloured in a pale pink and had a stimulating charm that couldn’t be written off as mere pieces of art.

It was my first time seeing Luna’s breasts so close and this clearly. Losing my senses and leaking my true feelings from my mouth, I swallowed my saliva with a gulp.

To be honest, I wanted to touch them. I was dying to. Actually, wouldn’t it be rude not to touch them?

“J- Judging by Shinobu’s drool, Sister wins this showdown.”

On Machina’s words, Hijiri, who had been dumbfounded so far, immediately raised her voice.

“Yes, you’re right, Hijiri. It starts— wait, no. It stars now!? Just why!? Accept already that my sister won!”

“No way! I don’t want to lose at all!”

“Date with Shinobu-kun. Date with Shinobu-kun. Date with Shinobu-kun…”

Instantly, Machina made a grim look and now shook Kaorun’s shoulders with attitude.

“Y- You are right. I understand. Please leave it to me.”

“Please stop at once! No matter what— just do not take off your socks!”

“I, I am keeping my senses at all times! Besides, please take a look. S- See, Shinobu-sama’s appearance of being approached by girls is as pretty as a painting.”

“Shinobu-sama! So wonderful! Your female fans are already gathering behind the sports hall!”

“If so, then please onto my bottom— wait, no! It is embarrassing, so please stop it— wait, not that either! I, I wonder what I should have said at a time like this!?”

Machina gave a plausible impression with a weary behaviour, whereas Hijiri with still red cheeks tried to unhook her bra and seeing that, Elni immediately put her hand on the strap.

“Mh? What about me?”

Nazuna suddenly showed up in the living room. Me included, everyone froze up all alike, whereas Nazuna had frizz-like bed hair, as she had been enjoying an afternoon nap so far.

As soon as her gaze fell on Luna and Hijiri, Nazuna widened her eyes in surprise.

Each of them turned so bright red that it wasn’t gradable anymore and curled themselves up like that to hide their bodies. And amidst that, Kaorun made a follow up while still showing agitation.

“But, Kaoru-san, the proficiency test doesn’t cover health and physical education.”

“Yeah! Okay! I’ll become a honour student until the test is over! Because mom got angry at me with ‘Don’t sleep, but study’ earlier!”

On the other hand, Kaorun made a sigh of relief and then tried to quickly leave the living room by pulling Nazuna on her hand, but

Nazuna stopped as she remembered something and pulled out something that looked like a ticket out of her pocket.

“T- Truly a godsend, Shinobu-sama. Now we can end the showdown and you three can go to the aquarium together. The world knows some plays for only threesomes as well. Are you not glad?”

When I replied to Kaorun with a dry laugh, Nazuna spread her arms as to say it was okay to hug her, but I brushed it off with “It’s only a feeling.” and made a small sigh.

The truth was uncertain, but… nevertheless, it was impressive that my reasoning withstood.

“Well then, Hijiri-san, let us go to the aquarium with the three of us.”

“Ehm, I have a shift today and tomorrow, so how about Sunday next week?”

Luna and Hijiri nodded to each other and looked at me with sparkles in their eyes.
…I had no reason to turn them down. I faintly smiled and shook my head front-to-back. Like that the date with the three of us was decided upon next week Sunday.

After the turmoil, Hijiri and Kaorun left the living room together with Nazuna. They surely looked after her studies in her room.

After training my body in the garden, I went into the living room, whereupon Kaorun suddenly entered the room. She stopped once she noticed me, so I called out to her with a casual tone.

“Yes, she is working harder than expected, so I would like to teach her some more after dinner and a break. I also spoke with Tomoe-san just now, which resulted in me preparing dinner for today.”

As she technically was a maid, Kaorun’s cooking skills were superb.

“Shinobu-sama, I will use the best of my abilities to prepare tonight’s dinner. However, I demand a kiss from you as payment. Depending on your technique, I will pay back your change with a kiss too.”

“…It is a promise, you hear?”

“Incidentally, Shinobu-sama, do you have any wishes for dinner?”

“Shinobu-sama, that answer is the most troubling for a cook. You must have one or two things you would like to eat.”

“You do not need to show any reservations. We have a close relationship, have we not? If there is something you would like to eat, then please say it outright.”

“…Shinobu-sama, even close relationships have manners. If you keep fooling around, then you will get a dog chew bone for dinner. Now please voice out your thoughts of ‘Gehehe, I want to eat sushi from Hijiri’s naked body’ while drooling.”

“Well, you are right, but a Manchu Han Imperial Feast, huh…”

“I believe I can fulfil your expectations as much as possible with hard work, but would it really be all right to make it? I would charge all the necessary food expenses to the Nanjou Household, you know?”

“Mother and Child Reunion? Just to make sure, it does not mean anything perverted, does it?”

While cracking such jokes, we both headed into the dining kitchen together. After confirming the contents of the fridge, Kaorun nodded small with “Looks like I can make it with these” and smiled at me.

“…Watch your language a bit. Even I can help out at least.”

“I’ll watch anime docile.”

I gave up on helping out and returned to the living room, where I kept watching TV absent-minded while the dinner was completed at some point.

A colourful salad was displayed on the table. Furthermore there was steaming Miso soup. When I picked the main dish, chicken and eggs on rice, with my chopsticks, the fluffy food texture of eggs spread in my mouth and the deliciousness of the well flavour chicken meat made me smile broadly.

While everyone ate Kaorun’s dishes with relish, my mother suddenly faced Hijiri and leaked a voice of admiration.

“Th- Thank you…”

“Thank you for looking after Nazuna’s studies today.”

While replying so, Hijiri gently petted her head, whereupon Nazuna’s smile broadened even more.

Ohh, it was quite rare for Nazucat to be this serious about studying.

“Ehm, Shinobu-kun, you have rice on your cheek.”

Even while making an excuse out of desperation, it didn’t change the fact that it was embarrassing. I reached out my hand for my cheek right away, but even faster

Hijiri extended her hand to my cheek with a giggle and softly removed the rice grain. Then she fixedly looked at her fingertips that held the rice grain and coloured her cheeks red for some reason.

“…Hijiri, if you aren’t going to eat it, can I have it?”

Along with her words, Hijiri opened her well-formed lips and put her slender fingers into her mouth with a small sucking sound while showing a slight hesitation.

While I averted my eyes, Kaorun smiled roguish again.

“K- Kaoru-san! Please don’t say anything weird! I only thought about that for a bit.”

The instant Machina interjected doubtful, Hijiri turned bright red immediately with “Auh…” and my mother blurted out a “So cute”, whereupon Kaorun threw out her chest with pride.

“Hee, then I would like Hijiri-chan to cook something for us next time.”

“Tomoe-san, even I can cook.”

“…I did not know. So Machina can cook too.”

In regards, the ones that knew Machina’s cooking skills, Hijiri, Elni and I turned pale all alike and called a stop. By the way, Nazuna was engrossed in her meal even now while still smiling…

After dinner, I got out of the bath and made myself comfortable on the sofa in the living room, whereupon Machina showed up in the room. When she noticed me, she sat down besides me and smiled somewhat gently.

“…I just hope she doesn’t get a fever from suddenly working so hard.”

“Hey, hey, isn’t that a bit rude to Elni?”

“I mean, I never saw Elni study seriously. She’s always just playing around and if she were to suddenly start studying, I would think it snows the next day. I don’t even have seen her reading a book.”

Speak of the devil and she shows up. This time Elni showed up in the living room with an unusual serious look.

It weren’t manga books. What was going on? Could it be Elni started to read a proper book?

“E- Elni? What’s with these books? What are you going to do with them?”

“…Who are you? What did you do to Elni? So far I have never seen Elni reading a book except manga.”

Machina showed a playful expression ,whereas Elni pushed up her invisible glasses with a jerk and replied composed.

“I- I want to find out what’s going on in your head. Actually, it’s empty, right?”

Instantly, Machina opened her eyes widely with “Ehh!?”.

“…Sorry, Machina, but you’re disturbing my reading. Could you keep it quiet?”

Elni showed an obvious unusual reaction.

“What do we do, Shinobu? Elni became weird.”

“Not like that! I’m saying she’s weirder than normal!”

Standing up half-wearily, I peeked down at Elni’s hands as I was a bit interested.

“Mhm~ No matter how much I try, I can’t become a verbal alchemist like you, Shinobu, so I’m aiming to be a jester sage. I don’t plan to become a magician. Besides, I only borrowed these books because I want to teach Nazucat some magic tricks.”

“Actually, her school is holding the student council election soon.”

While making a short agreeable response, I listened to Elni’s story.

“…She’s as popular as ever. But how are magic tricks and the election campaign related?”

“I see. That’s why you’re studying magic tricks now.”

Elni’s reaction had confused Machina. She might get angry with “Don’t do something so misleading!”.

“I’m glad. It was the usual stupid Elni…”

“Actually, you were seriously worried, weren’t you? To be honest, you quite like Elni, right?”

On the other hand, I stayed with a wry smile and looked through the books of magic tricks together with Elni. But after a while I shifted my gaze towards the clock on the wall of the room concerned.

Getting worried, I took out my cell phone. Then I gave calling her a try, whereupon after a few call signs, I could hear Luna’s strangely enchanted voice.

“Y- Yo, hello. It’s me, the always cool Shinobu-san… You’re Luna, right? What’s up today? You’re not coming home yet?”

“Huh? Eh? Somehow, you sound a bit strange?”

Luna leaked a somewhat erotic voice. She obviously behaved weird. Bewildered, I gently got to the main topic.

“No, my shift is already over.”

“Yes, okay. I want to come home quickly to touch your ear, pet your head, hug you and kiss you.”

Indifferent to my growing bewilderment, Luna’s voice through the phone became somewhat distant, as she removed the cell phone from her ear.

“Luna? Hey, what’s up? What happened?”

While my worry grew stronger than my confusion, the voices of a couple of girls, maybe from the restaurant?, including Luna’s faintly reached my ear.

Such a conversation unfolded and Luna readily talked about good and embarrassing things like “Shinobu-san is really gentle, cool and tells funny jokes…”, but suddenly the call was cut midway.

Inadvertently becoming slack-jawed, I watched my cell phone with my head titled for a while, then

I somehow got even more worried than before. I stood up from the sofa and called out to Elni, who was hiding her face behind the book for some reason.

“Huh!? I’m not sleeping! Not at all!”

Only for now I refrained from retorting. With a touch of worry, I headed for the front door.

“What’s up, Shinobu-kun? You seem to be in a hurry…”

Quickly telling her, I turned around right away and left the house.

“Ah, Shinobu-san.”

When I immediately turned to her, there was Luna being supported by an unknown woman’s shoulder.

The unknown female had extremely finely chiselled features and was likely in her late 20s. Emitting a somewhat composed aura, she looked at me while still supporting Luna.

“You came to pick me up, Shinobu-san. Thank you. I am so happy.”

“…I did not get to touch Shinobu-san’s ear.”

I certainly got excited from the elasticity of her breasts and the softness of her lips. But right now I was more concerned about Luna’s behaviour. Seriously, what was up with her?

“Are you the rumoured Shinobu-san? The Shinobu-san that Luna-chan described as always composed, cool, gently, moreover sometimes cute and sexy while telling funny jokes…?”

“In a way, yes.”

“Shinobu-san, this pretty lady is the manager of my workplace. She is really kind. Everyone calls her ‘perverted Manager’ and adores her.”

Actually, why was she adored, even though she was a pervert?

She might know why Luna was behaving so strangely. I send my gaze to the woman— the manager.

“Well, Luna-chan is cute, even when weird, but actually a girl from the restaurant brought souvenirs from her trip overseas today. So after work, we all ate these souvenir chocolates. Up to this point everything was still fine, but…”

“It seems the chocolate was filled with alcohol. So Luna-chan got completely drunk and made a fuss about you with red cheeks the whole time, which was just too cute that I wanted to take her home with me like that to get her on my bed and spent— *cough*. That was just a verbal slip. Forget about it.”

“Ufufu, sorry, Boy. I already touched Luna-chan’s bottom numerous times. I’ll let you touch my bottom as an apology, so cheer up— wait, I was partly joking, so don’t make such a frightening face. I’m really surprised. Your eyes look like you have killed three people…”

I myself had completely forgotten to use respectful speech too, but how could she say that with a straight face. I frowned and was a bit hurt at heart, whereupon Luna quietly shifted her gaze to the manager and brightened her usual gentle eyes with a glaring flare.

“S- Sorry, Luna-chan. I won’t say it again. The Boy is cool.”

A complete turn around from her sadistic glowing eyes. Luna showed her usual gentle smile. In regards, the manager was seriously frightened, different from the time with me.

She had said, “Luna-chan is surprisingly suited for a Queen” “The boss of the house is obviously Luna-sama” and “At night she becomes a gently sadist”.

While I was a bit unsettled, the manager sent her gaze towards me with a still pale face.

“Like hell we will. Go home already. Disappear this instant.”

In spite of the harsh joke I carelessly cracked like I would do with Asada,

Showing a somewhat bewitching expression, the manager writhed. It was a bit sexy, but scary. I quickly took Luna’s hand and turned my back to the manager without hesitation.

“…That’s rude, Boy. But that’s okay. Scold me some more. You alone will be fine, Boy, stay over at my place tonight.”

Her nickname perverted Manager wasn’t just for show. We should quickly escape. I easily attracted weird people like her— I remembered that my mother said that before.

It must have been because she was drunk.

“Fufu, Shinobu-san, you are bright red.”

“My body feels somewhat hot too.”

…Her usual physical contact grew more intense, but once in a while this side of her might not be all too bad. While getting excited from her conveyed heat, I showed a wry smile.

“Of course not. I only kiss people I love.”

“…You sure love kisses.”

Showing a fascinating bright smile, Luna changed her tone into a gentle one.

With still a gentle tone, Luna quietly lowered her face.

Slowly breaking off her words, but not breaking the gentle tone,

Luna’s smiling face blossomed like a flower when she raised her head.

The stained daughter that was left behind by a whore. A gentle devil that was unwanted and unloved. Luna… who never could act spoiled with anyone.

That fact, brought a heat to my chest.

I couldn’t get her expression or words out of my head. Indecision spread in my hot chest. But, I quietly reached out my hand… and petted Luna’s head.

But somehow hiding my feelings, I endeavoured to act as normal as possible.

“Shinobu-san, can we drop by there for a bit?”

“…I will kiss you on the lips when you do not agree.”

I nearly had my lips stolen.

Dragged on my hand by her, I moved to the park with a wry smile. Walking to the back of the park while side-glancing the various playground equipments, my vision fell on a small river, whose surface reflected the moon. Benches stood in it’s vicinity. In the empty park, Luna and I sat down on the nearby bench.

“Shinobu-san, do you remember?”

“Do you still remember the first time we went out together after our reunion?”

“Fufu, Shinobu-san, even when I asked you to just call me just Luna before we went out, you said things like ‘I’ll call you like that at least in my mind’ or ‘If you keep being so selfish I’ll add another ‘san’ and call you ‘Luna-san-san’.’, which was a bit cold.”

“You are still young, Shinobu-san.”

“But on that day, you petted my head at the park saying ‘It’s okay to cry’ and told me ‘Welcome home’ once we got back to the house. Despite that, I started crying and couldn’t tell you. At this point it may be too late, but…”

“Shinobu-san, thank you very much for back then.”

“I am enjoying every day too.”

“Speaking of, it has nearly been half a year since we met again.”

“Indeed. But in this half a year, you changed a bit, Shinobu-san. Your tone has become somewhat softer, you are kinder than before and you have become really strong.”

But if I had changed, it surely was thanks to Luna.

Irritated by my weak self with only envy in my chest, I always demanding what I lacked.

But it was different now.

Reuniting with Luna on that day and living together with her made my feelings from my childhood gradually grow stronger with every contact with her in my every day life.
I could no longer lie about it.

As I thought, I— love Luna.

This feeling was stronger than in my childhood. I wanted Luna to always stay by my side. But I didn’t want to tell Luna this feeling, my answer at this place.

But, what kind of face would Hijiri made when I told her my answer?

Mumbling with both my fists clenched, I looked up to the night sky, whereupon Luna softly leaned her body against mine with quiet sleeping sounds, as she had fallen asleep while I was in thoughts…

The time passed quickly after the day Luna got drunk, getting to the night before the date.

Tomorrow was the date, so if possible I wanted to outgrow myself a bit and dress up.

“Good evening. I came by to play again.”

“So cruelly cold!?”

I actually wanted to urge her to use the front door, but Kaorun received a light shock. I leaked a wry smile and beckoned her.

“Good grief! Why the indifferent reaction, even though an angelic maid like myself is coming by? You are as cool as ever, Shinobu-sama.”

“Uhm, please do not lie so boldly.”

“…Nothing is left at all.”

“Like what for example?”

…I said it myself, but it was quite saddening.

“Hell yeah… As if. Encouraging or fooling around, choose only one. Actually, why do you know my nickname?”

Stopping her words with a sigh, Kaorun then raised a discontent voice.

“I’m disappointed in you! What’s going on in your head! So it was you, who spread the weird rumour!”

“…I guess I’ll strangle your neck with a tight hold as well then?”

However to my surprised, Kaorun seemed to somehow enjoy it. Moreover, upon noticing my scattered clothes in the room, she made a fantastic suggestion with a smile.

“…I appreciate the offer, but I hope you don’t plan to make me wear something weird?”

“Hey, hey, you’re really skilled at leading people into something… Is not what I’m going to say. What choice of clothes is that. I would make the acquaintance of the police before my date.”

…I didn’t want to admit it, but I couldn’t fully deny it. I got the feeling that my cross-dressing was greatly popular with the girls. But a date in cross-dress, huh…

“Shinobu-sama, this T-shirt is better. Please change your trousers as well. Take this belt along with it. As for accessories…”

“Ohh, this is going to get me popular with the girls.”

“Hey, hey, don’t be so cruel. Reality is harsh. At times you’ll want to look away from it. I can’t do anything about my evil look.”

“Oh, you’re going to call Doraem*n or what?”

“…Truth be told, unknown guys whispered ‘When Nanjou-kun puts on glasses and combs back his hair, he’ll be a perfect Yakuza’ behind me back…”

She got angry, even though it wasn’t about her, then she exceptionally readily brushed it off and held out the glasses to me with a jerk.

“…Leave it to me.”

“Lately I’m attracted to a certain colour. Yes, the brilliance of intelligence— Marvelous Orange. Whoops, guess that was a bit hard to understand for you?”

“S- Stop it. The glasses are innocent.”

When I faced the mirror again, the expression of my eyes had softened more than I thought as a result of the glasses and to say the unvarnished truth, I was kind of moved.

“Uh…! To think you had such a bitter experience! I deeply apologize for teasing you about your evil look until now! I just had no idea!”

Apparently she got sad, even though it wasn’t about her, but it was troubling how she brushed it off so readily again. For now I ignored Kaorun. I wanted to hear the other’s impressions. Still wearing the glasses, I left my room with high spirits and walked down the hallway.

But for some reason, Luna brightened her face upon seeing me and then dyed her cheeks rose-coloured.

“Yeah, Kaorun recommended them to me just now. So I tried them on. Now I feel really smarter.”

“Can a human live on intelligence alone? I want to find out.”

Leaking an erotic sigh, Luna enchanted her eyes with ecstasy. An reaction beyond my expectation. Completely different from the reaction that Kaorun showed earlier. It seemed like various heart marks were dancing around Luna.

“I cannot do that! You are not disgusting, Shinobu-san! Even just breathing, you are cool!”

Once more bewildered by Luna’s reaction, I showed a wry smile and continued.

“No! That is not the case! I like them because you are wearing them!”

Strange. I was still bewildered, but to be honest quite happy.

“Ehm, that is…”

“Shinobu-san, if possible, could you leave off the glasses tomorrow? You certainly look wonderful with glasses. But I love the usual Shinobu-san better after all. Besides, tomorrow’s date is…”

…She loved my usual self better.

Affection straightaway aimed at me.

Hijiri said that she loved me. I heard the same words from Luna now. Of course Luna’s love might be in the meaning of a family. But my heartbeat accelerated in the hope of “What if?”.

Luna suddenly peeked in her head, so I inadvertently backed off one step in surprise.

“I- It’s nothing. I was just a bit charmed by you. Don’t pay it any attention.”

For some reason Luna blushed and fidgeted her index finger against each other, but I dared to ignore it with “Well, that’s it”. I swiftly returned to my room in an escape.

She was sitting on the bed and lovely hugging my pillow against her chest, but as soon as she noticed me, she turned bright red and raised a complaining voice.

“Ah, sorry. I just— Not! Why do I specially have to knock to enter my own room. You’re the rude one here. Who do you think you are!”

“As if!”

I added so in my heart, whereupon Kaorun put the pillow she was hugging to the side and quickly changed the topic with still red cheeks.

“I talked a bit with Luna in the hallway.”

“Yeah, quite so. But that Luna—”
“I understand. Do not say anything more. You want to make a gigolo-like remark with ’That Luna was just too smitten by my glasses that I thought that I better embrace her

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