LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 75
On a certain day off, at a karaoke bar.
“Say, Shizuna.”
“Yes?”
For Shizuna, it was a question that was bound to come.
“You see, it’s about the girls who were with Shishido at the sports festival the other day…”
She, Yuuhi, was also one of Shizuna’s friends, and at her remark, Shizuna could make out who those girls she was talking about were. It was probably…no, it was almost certainly Chisa and Satsuki, but this was the first time she’d been asked about their relationship that only she and the others knew about.
“Seriously?”
“Yeah… Umm… Shizuna?”
Perhaps what she was trying to say was that Ryuichi might be cheating on her, but for Shizuna, she didn’t feel the need to worry at all, so she smiled.
“Please don’t worry. As you may have guessed from seeing us at the sports festival, those two are acquaintances of mine. They’ve been good to me, and they’re really important people to Ryuichi-kun.”
“…I see.”
“Sorry for bringing up weird suspicions.”
“It’s fine,” Shizuna replied. That being said, there was a reason she couldn’t tell them off strongly anyway, since if they didn’t fully understand the entire situation, they might have easily had some misunderstandings.
She was sure her friends weren’t the only ones who’d seen them; some of their other classmates and even some seniors and juniors had probably seen them as well, but nothing particularly troubling had happened since then.
“Are those two girls college students? It feels like they’re a little older than us… Also, why are all the girls around Shishido such beautiful women? Shizuna, too.”
“Yes, they are college students. And I’m not a beautiful…no, you’re right. I’m a beautiful girl, too.”
“Uwa, you actually admitted to it.”
Yuuhi and the other girls were a little taken aback, but for Shizuna, the words she just uttered had meaning. It wasn’t that she was a narcissist, but it was because of Ryuichi’s words that she spoke about her good looks like this.
“You see, Ryuichi-kun is always telling me how pretty and beautiful I am. So I decided to have confidence in myself because I have someone who says such things about me. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to say this to anyone and everyone, you know? I can only say this to all of you girls whom I trust.”
“…Shizunaa!”
“Geez, you’re seriously the cutest thing in the world!”
“That smile of yours is so charming, it’d even make girls fall for you! I can’t get enough of it!!”
Shizuna was soon embraced from both sides. It was such a boisterous and noisy atmosphere that you could easily imagine Ryuichi, if he were there, smiling contentedly with a troubled look on his face at how rambunctious they were.
“…I wish I could be you, Shizuna.”
“Where did that come from?”
Another one of her friends, Murakami Saya, put her hand on her own breasts. The term ‘mountain’ couldn’t be used to describe the size of it, which was to say, it was like a cutting board.
“You’re a pretty girl, and you’ve even got the smarts to go with it, don’t you? Besides, you’re going out with someone as cool as Shishido, and more than anything… More than anything, you’ve got huge boobs!”
“Even if they’re big, all they do is cause stiff shoulders.”
“Only a certain level of people can actually say that!!”
Although her appearance resembled that of a gyaru’s, she was far from the naughty and sexy woman she aimed to be due to her lack of size in certain regions. She, Saya, excitedly reached her hand out toward Shizuna’s big breasts. Shizuna accepted her hand without avoiding it, and Saya’s fingers sank into her soft flesh.
“…It’s so soft and warm… I might get addicted to this.”
“I don’t think you should. The only person she’d allow that for is Shishido.”
That’s right. Shizuna giggled inwardly. As she stroked Saya’s head, seemingly drooping in dejection after having taken a blow from reality, she decided to keep quiet about the fact that her breasts had recently gotten a little bigger again and she had changed her underwear for it.
“I’m pretty sure you were an F cup, right?”
“Well, somewhere around there.”
She was actually a G cup, but she decided to keep quiet about that, too.
“…Hey, Shizuna.”
“Yes?”
Yuuhi nervously called out to Shizuna. It was very cute to see the tomboyish-looking Yuuhi fidgeting like this, but it seemed that she had something she wanted to discuss with Shizuna.
“The truth is… A friend of mine from my junior high school days confessed his feelings for me. The thing is, I’m not sure if I want to go out with him or not.”
“Really?”
“Huh? Wait, I’ve never heard of that before!”
Shizuna and Saya were very intrigued by this big news. After that, Shizuna talked a lot about the happiness that came with having a boyfriend, but that only made the two girls exasperated at how Shizuna had instead gone on a rant about her love life with Ryuichi. Shizuna apologized, but to be honest, she was not satisfied and still wanted to tell them much more about Ryuichi.
“Never in a million years would I have guessed that that Shizuna would turn out like this.”
“I agree. But Shishido is one lucky man too, being able to get his hands on a girlfriend as incredible as Shizuna.”
Shizuna giggled when she heard their words. She giggled because everything they said was true, and vice versa, as Ryuichi loved Shizuna just as much as she loved him.
“Who has more stamina when you two have sex?”
“Don’t ask questions like that!!”
Now that was definitely something Shizuna couldn’t answer. Well, if Shizuna had to say, she was a masochistic woman and thus loved rough things, but recently, she had been willing to try out some of the techniques Ryuichi taught her, and she too had now gained some experience.
“Ryuichi-kun’s basically the one who has more stamina. Once he embraces you with those arms of his, there’s nothing you can do.”
“…Wow.”
“That’s lewd.”
Shizuna thought it’d be okay to tell them that much. However, because she’d said those words while imagining her night with Ryuichi, Yuuhi and Saya blushed at the exquisitely sexy atmosphere Shizuna was letting off. After that, they continued their lively girls’ talk before leaving the karaoke bar.
“Wanna break up for the day?”
“Yeah, I think so. Is that okay with you, Shizuna?”
“Alright. Well then, I’ll see you… Oh?”
Shizuna suddenly spotted a couple of familiar rear figures, and with a chuckle, she said goodbye to them and approached the figures.
“Ryuichi-kun, Mom.”
“Hrm?”
“Oh my, Shizuna?”
The two figures she’d spotted were Ryuichi and Sakie. It seemed they were out shopping, as Ryuichi and Sakie were carrying shopping bags.
“I was also hanging out with Makoto and the others when I spotted Sakie shopping. So, you know, I couldn’t just not help her after seeing her like that.”
“So that’s what happened.”
“Fufu, it made me really happy. And also, Ryuichi-kun, you did such a mischievous thing that it surprised me.”
“A mischievous thing?”
“………”
Ryuichi turned away, telling her not to ask too much about it. The subtle blush on his cheeks told her that, putting aside its mischievous nature, it must’ve been embarrassing as well, but even after giving it some thought, Shizuna couldn’t figure it out.
“Hey, come on, Ryuichi-kun, tell me.”
“It wasn’t anything important.”
“…Muuu.”
He seemed stubbornly unwilling to tell her. Then Shizuna joined them to do some shopping, and when Ryuichi took a bathroom break, Sakie told her all about what he’d done.
“You see, he first called out to me, but then he covered my eyes.”
“He covered your eyes?”
“Yup. Then he asked me who it was, but I told Ryuichi-kun there was no way I’d ever mishear his voice.”
“True. Ah, so that’s what happened.”
“He must’ve been embarrassed by it.”
It was certainly the kind of thing a child would do, so she couldn’t really picture Ryuichi doing it. “Perhaps,”Sakie prefaced before continuing.
“Perhaps if he’d been close to his real mother, he would’ve had that kind of exchange with her. It’s seeing those cute little moments that make me want to be like a second mother to him.”
“…I see.”
Was it because he’d never been given love that he subconsciously seeked love from a mother? It wasn’t that Ryuichi was still dwelling on his past; his actions simply meant that he had opened his heart to Sakie.
“…What’s up with you two?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
“Yup. It’s nothing.”
Ryuichi had only just gotten back from the restroom, but he seemed to have guessed what they had been talking about from their smiling faces.
“…You told her, huh, Sakie?”
“Should I not have?”
“Well, I’m not saying you shouldn’t, but…”
“Then isn’t it fine?” the two of them quipped as they laughed at Ryuichi. Looking at the shy Ryuichi, Shizuna’s feelings of cuteness toward him mysteriously swelled up inside her. She wanted to see more of it; much, much more of it, she began to realize.
…Ah, is this what they call a sadistic side?
It was at this moment that a new possibility was born within Shizuna.