Living in a Class-Based World

“I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

“No, don’t worry about it. As long as my sick visit can help with your recovery, Fumika-san, it’s all I could hope for.”

“Oh my, I didn’t expect to be told something so lovely by a young gentleman during my remaining lifetime. Just today, you kindly called me by name many times over. Didn’t he, Sumire-san?”

“Aren’t you glad to have met such a wonderful man, Mother? You need to get healthy so that you can have Yuuta-sama read out your name during his next stream again, don’t you think?”

“Oh, how very true, my dear. It looks like I must do my best at living for a bit longer to have the chance to watch some more of Yuuta-sama’s dreamy streams.”

As part of Moe’s mother’s, Sumire’s, Service request, Yuuta had visited the hospital where Moe’s grandmother, Fumika, was being treated. By now almost an hour had already passed since Yuuta, Fumika, and Sumire had started to talk in Fumika’s room. Especially Yuuta’s previous Game Stream served as a very exciting topic for the two women.

Yuuta never brought up a talk about him wanting Fumika to take the surgery, but he made sure to encourage the elderly lady by telling her that he was planning another fun stream in due time and that he’d love for her to watch it again.

Earlier when Yuuta had arrived at the hospital, Moe, Sumire, and Aoi had greeted him. Because Aoi wore a cute one-piece dress, he ended up being spellbound by her charm, his eyes remaining pinned on her for a short while. But, he quickly remembered the objective of today’s visit, and after exchanging a greeting with Sumire, he headed over to Fumika’s hospital room.

As one hour had passed, it spelled the end of the Sick Visit Service, and thus Yuuta promised that he’d definitely do another stream and then left together with Sumire after casting a gentle smile at Fumika.

Afterwards, the two of them headed towards the first floor’s waiting room where they’d left Aoi and Moe earlier.

“Yuuta-sama, thank you so very, very much.”

“It’s fine. All that matters is Fumika-san becoming healthy again.”

“I’m sure it will be alright. Today she showed enough motivation to say that she would do her best to get back on her feet again.”

“That’s great news then.”

“I have already heard from Moe. Yuuta-sama, you have asked to receive a D rating for this.”

“Yes. Allowing Fumika-san to recover her health is of utmost importance, so I’m completely fine with a D rating.”

He didn’t put it into words, but the necessary surgery for Fumika would naturally cost money. Also for the sake of not adding financial burden on Moe’s family, Yuuta renewed his wish for a D rating.

“Then please allow me to take advantage of your kindness this time, Yuuta-sama.”

“Sure. Please watch my future streams in exchange.”

“Of course! We will wait eagerly for your next streams!”

When the two arrived at the waiting room, Aoi and Moe were in the middle of a friendly chat. And seeing Aoi’s smile as soon as she spotted him, Yuuta ended up embarrassed.

“Welcome back.”

“Yuuta-sama! Thank you so much!”

“N-No, I was able to have a nice conversation with Fumika-san and she also promised me that she’d watch my stream again.”

“I’m sure Granny is going to strive hard in order to recover.”

“Yep!”

Moe rejoiced after learning about the successful end of the Sick Visit Service and her grandmother now feeling like working hard at getting better. Seeing her friend like that made Aoi happy as well, and so the three continued to talk in the waiting room for a bit.

“Yuuta-sama, thank you once again for your hard work today. Are you going back…with Aoi-sama?”

When the conversation between the three students reached a good stopping point, Sumire brought up Yuuta’s return back home with Aoi. Aoi, the next matriarch of the Eternal Yoshiwaras, was wearing an adorable outfit while also having applied make-up. Neither Sumire nor Moe were dumb enough to not realize what sort of feelings Aoi was harboring towards Yuuta.

“We are going back to our grandmother’s sickroom again.”

“Yes! That would be for the best!” Moe cheerfully announced with a grin on her lips.

Even though Aoi felt amused by Moe’s facial expression, she still felt grateful for her friend’s consideration.

“Yuuta-sama, if you do have some time to spare…how about we go eat something sweet together?”

“Eh? Oh, sure! Gladly!”

It was an invitation to a date. Right now Yuuta was wearing a simple shirt and jeans since he’d come to the hospital for a sick visit. At first he thought it’d have been better if he’d dressed himself a bit more stylishly, if he was going to go on a date with Aoi, but then he reconsidered that it’d be best for him to go with simple clothes since he didn’t have any fashion sense to begin with.

“Please excuse us at this point then. Once more, thank you for coming today, Yuuta-sama.”

“Thank you, Yuuta-sama!”

After bidding farewell from Moe and Sumire, Yuuta and Aoi started to walk towards the exit next to each other. Aoi was walking a half step behind Yuuta, but Yuuta also paid attention to match her speed, resulting in the fairly charming and heart-warming sight of a young couple walking while constantly being considerate of each other.

The hospital staff witnessed the two’s antics, leading to a rumor that this whole act looked just like the replay of a particular scene in a very famous and adored romantic fiction novel.

“Yuuta-sama.”

“Y-Yes?”

“Would you please inform your case worker that you are going to stay together with me for a while?”

“Oh, right. I’ll get permission right away.”

If the men of this world took actions outside their schedule, it’d be immediately discovered and trigger the dispatch of police forces. For the sake of avoiding this, a man would usually contact their case worker first.

In this particular case it was about getting permission for Yuuta to spend time with Aoi. But if a man said he wanted to go shopping at some store, for example, bodyguards would be dispatched.

“Ah, I got a call.”

Ayaka had contacted Aoi after receiving Yuuta’s message. The number of the Male Supervision Department was displayed on Aoi’s smartphone.

“Hello, Aoi speaking. Yes…yes…that’s right. The time…please wait a moment.”

After having talked about something with Ayaka, Aoi lowered the phone, and asked, “Yuuta-sama, how much time do you have?”

“U-Umm…”

Yuuta didn’t plan on limiting the time spent with Aoi in any way, but of course no other man in this world would consider things like that. In the first place, men would usually expect some sort of benefit for themselves to even take this sort of exchange into account, and women were also operating on the premise that they had to provide some sort of benefit for the man of their choice.

However, Yuuta, as someone from the Old World, still hadn’t clearly grasped how love worked in this world.

“Let’s see… How about we go with one…no, two hours for starters?”

“Okie♪”

After hearing Yuuta’s response, Aoi happily returned to her call with Ayaka. And after informing Yuuta’s current case worker of the timeline and their destination, she hung up.

Thereupon, Yuuta’s smartphone rang next.

“Oh, hello.”

“Yuuta-sama, Ayaka speaking. Just now I have heard from Aoi-sama that you would be heading to Sakura Sweets for around two hours together with her. Would that be correct?”

“Yes.”

“In that case, I shall permit the adjustment to your schedule. Yuuta-sama, please use your car as a means of transportation.”

“Very well.”

“If you have a nice mood going, it will also be fine to extend the timeline for your date.”

“Ugh…I-I’m hanging up.”

“Please enjoy your time”

As expected, this is regarded as a date over here as well, huh? Yuuta became strongly aware of it.

“U-Umm, she told me to use my car to move around.”

“Of course.”

Considering the man’s bodyguards, it was only natural for him to move around while using the car provided by the government. And for the woman it was a blissful occasion to be allowed to ride in the man’s car.

Yuuta, who had entered the floating box of a car first, suddenly recalled that the man was supposed to escort the woman at such times. Thus he extended a helping hand towards Aoi who was just about to get in as well.

“P-Please watch out.”

“Oh my…thank you so much♪”

Aoi joyfully accepted Yuuta’s hand and climbed into the car. Yuuta’s face turned bright red when faced with her broad smile from very close proximity. Given that the car had been built with one person alone riding it in mind, its design hadn’t taken the comfort of another passenger into account. When it came to a place for Aoi to sit, her only choice was the auxiliary seat.

“Ah, Aoi-san, please sit over here! I’ll take the auxiliary seat.”

“That will not do. For me to allow you to sit on the auxiliary seat would be unthinkable.”

“B-But…”

Aoi treated it as very natural for her to occupy the auxiliary seat. Even for her as next matriarch of the Eternal Yoshiwaras, it’d be preposterous to allow a man to sit on a cramped, auxiliary seat while sitting on a soft, nice leather seat herself.

However, Yuuta and Aoi kept yielding the comfortable seat to each other inside the car. Therefore, Aoi decided to take advantage of Yuuta’s kindness.

“Umm…if…if you are okay with it, Yuuta-sama, t-then…”

“Yes?”

“T-T-T-Together…”

“Huh?”

“H-How about we s-sit…together?”

Their eyes were pinned on the soft single chair which Yuuta always used when driving in this floating box. Certainly, it was big enough of a seat for both of them to fit if they stayed close together.

As someone who had experienced traveling inside a packed taxi in his previous world, Yuuta wasn’t against sitting on it together. Rather, in this case, it’d be more of a reward.

“E-Err, if you don’t mind it, Aoi-san.”

“Absolutely not! Sitting together with you…w-would m-m-make me…v-very happy.”

Looking bashful and yet unable to hide her delight, Aoi gently took Yuuta’s arm and sat down on the seat together with him. Yuuta also entrusted the lead to her, sitting down while glued to Aoi’s body.

She smells nice.

A refreshing, soap aroma wafted over from Aoi. Her cute dress was sleeveless, and her arm and hand with their pretty, white skin exposed were clinging to Yuuta’s arm as if Aoi’s life depended on it. Their thighs and waists fit so well together that one could consider them to be one person.

Aoi’s chest as a 15-years old third-year at junior high was still small compared to the adult women Yuuta had seen in this world, but its E-Cup size was more than plenty to arouse Yuuta.

“I-Isn’t it too cramped? Are you okay?”

“Thank you for worrying about me. I am fine. How about you, Yuuta-sama? Umm…w-w-we can move t-together even c-c-closer…”

“O-Okay.”

The thumping of his heart was so loud that Yuuta worried Aoi might actually hear it. But, accepting her offer, Yuuta brought his body even closer to hers.

“Ahn♡,” gasped Aoi quietly.

Not a single trace of rejection was contained within her voice. Rather, it was brimming with joy over being allowed to approach Yuuta even further.

Once Yuuta looked at her face, she responded with a sweet smile.

How cute. So very cute.

Yuuta thanked God, despite not knowing whether one actually existed, for being able to ride a car while glued to such an adorable girl.

“Ah.”

“P-Please do not mind.”

When Yuuta tried to change his sitting posture a bit, an awfully soft sensation pressed against his arm. However, this hadn’t been intentional.

I-I mean, Aoi-san turned this way and glued herself to me!

Because Aoi was sitting with her body stuck to his while facing him, you could call the act of her chest pressing against his arm an inevitability. Even at this very moment, Aoi’s chest was firmly pushing against his arm.

Even if he was told to not mind it, Yuuta didn’t know how to react under these circumstances. Meanwhile, the sensation of Aoi’s soft breast was passed on across his whole arm.

This car was a floating box, so it didn’t suffer from the vibrations of the cars in Yuuta’s former world. It didn’t stop all of a sudden either. Hence, the chance of some lewd event to occur was close to zero.

But, Yuuta didn’t need any of that since his current situation was plenty lewd by any standard.

Aoi didn’t move away while having her chest stuck to Yuuta’s arm, and Yuuta didn’t know what to do while his heart was racing.

Yuuta secretly turned his face in her direction.

S-She’s way too cute.

Then Aoi moved her face, directly staring at him with moist eyes. Their eyes met. In a space occupied by them alone.

Unbeknown of who had started hit, both felt like the distance between their faces had shortened somewhat. The throbbing in either chest showed no signs of stopping.

『Arrival at the set destination』

Their own little world was shattered by a mechanical announcement.

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“Oh, how delicious.”

“I am glad to hear that♪ The syrup-covered anko here is my personal favorite.”

After the two arrived at Sakura Sweets, they happily entered the cafe together while still being slightly embarrassed. With them informing Ayaka of Yuuta’s new plans with Aoi, Ayaka took care of everything else along the route, including contacting Sakura Sweets in advance.

As such, the owner came out to greet and guide them to a private room deeper inside the store. The staff and female guests, who saw the couple enter and pass by, watched Yuuta and Aoi enter the private room with their breaths taken away, before a furious whispering flooded the cafe as soon as the door closed behind the two students.

Sakura Sweets was a cafe located in the Yoshiwara District. Not a single woman in this area didn’t know who Aoi was.

Yuuta spent a wonderful time eating anko and fruits together with Aoi. At first Yuuta was worried about what he should talk about, but Aoi skillfully brought up all sorts of topics, dominating their conversation. As he listened to her speak, asked her about things interesting him, and talked about himself, time flew by very quickly.

Most of the topics were inoffensive topics suited for a date between a man and woman, such as Aoi’s usual student life, her hobbies, her favorite food, and so on. Yuuta also talked about many things, except for the things he ought to keep secret.

Just like that, the scheduled two hours passed in a flash.

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“It’s about time…”

“Ah, so much time has already passed?”

The two still hadn’t had their fill of talking. Yuuta wanted to stay with Aoi much longer. Remembering that Ayaka had told him that it’d be fine to extend the time, he was about to contact her.

Aoi wanted to be together with Yuuta, too. For her Yuuta was different from all the other men so far. She didn’t clearly understand why she felt like that, but she enjoyed spending her time with Yuuta.

He isn’t scary.

Aoi’s heart whispered to her.

“U-Umm, if you’re alright with it, I’d like to stay with you for a bit longer.”

“Y-Yes! I want to spend some more time with you as well, Yuuta-sama.”

“Please wait a moment.”

A person butted into the two’s time of happiness. The one who had entered the private room was none other than Manami.

“Manami-san!?”

“Please forgive me for entering the room without permission. I am terribly sorry, Yuuta-sama.”

“Ah, no, no need. I’m fine with it.”

“Thank you kindly. I did not intend to interrupt your private time. But, Aoi-sama…”

“Y-Yes?”

“Lady Nanase is calling for you. Forgive me, but please go back home.”

“Eh? Mother is calling for me?”

“Yes. I think she wishes to talk with you about your next concert…”

“Ah!” Aoi covered her mouth with her hands.

Yuuta couldn’t tell from her expression what was going on, but he understood that Aoi had just realized something.

“Yuuta-sama, please forgive me. I must return home.”

“No problem. Please don’t mind me. U-Umm…see you later again.”

“Yes!”

Aoi had been slightly depressed, but hearing Yuuta tell her that they’d see each other again in the future, her face immediately bloomed into a smile.

“I would be very grateful if you would allow me to accompany you on the next occasion as well, Yuuta-sama,” said Manami with a slightly teasing tone.

However, the one answering Manami was Aoi.

“By all means! If you are fine with it, Yuuta-sama, I would love to come here again next time, but then with Manami-san accompanying us as well♪”

“S-Sure. I don’t mind… But I see, Aoi-san, Manami-san, you’re truly close as childhood friends.”

“I mean, Manami-san has been at my side ever since I was born♪”

“Since you were born?”

“Yes. It is a great privilege that I can rightfully claim to be Aoi-sama’s half-sister.”

“Eh?”

“Manami-san’s father is also my father.”

“I-I see..”

‘W-Well, it should be rather normal in this world. I’m sure there’s plenty of half-sisters around.

Yuuta guessed that the number of half-sisters would be tremendous in this world where excellent men were desired for their sperm.

And it’s not like Aoi-san hates spending time with me alone either, I’m sure. …I suppose this is only natural, too. It’s bad for me to judge everything by the value system of my former world. The women of this world consider it as commonplace to share a man. Instead, women who monopolize a man are regarded as unreasonable.

Of course, that didn’t mean that a woman would be fine to share her man with just about anyone. No woman would be happy about her beloved one getting married to another woman who she hated. And although it was also important for a woman whether her man showed her affection and interest, the values of the women over here put a lot more emphasis on a man contributing to society, or in other words, a man interacting with other women, which meant that monopolizing a man was naturally shunned.

Aoi-san would probably be happy about me and Manami-san getting along well… No, I’m pretty sure, she’d be overjoyed. After all, it’s that sort of world.

“I am very reluctant to part, but…”

“Don’t worry. I’m looking forward to our next meeting during the upcoming School Day.”

“Okay! I will definitely attend your classroom, Yuuta-sama!”

“I also look forward to visiting your classroom together with Aoi-sama.”

Once they left Sakura Sweets, Yuuta got onto the floating box by himself, and returned back to his apartment.

And then, after Yuuta was gone…

“Sheesh…Aoi-sama, be a bit more careful, will you?”

“Sooorry! I simply enjoyed my time with Yuuta-sama too much!”

“Yeah, yeah. That is great to hear. It is truly auspicious that Yuuta-sama does not scare you.”

“Ehehe, you see, Yuuta-sama is incredibly gentle♪”

“I will listen to your bragging about your newfound love later on. For now we must hurry so that you won’t be late for your piano lessons.”

“Okaaay♪”

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