Chapter 27: My story isn’t over yet!!

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Translator: Soafp

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“And then, when Saika and I were leaving school, we happened to run into Emu-chan. So we thought, why not spend some time together from then on?”

“Yes. I was very happy that they invited me.”

I listened as they explained how the three of them had ended up together.

It was presumptuous of me to think that I was the one thing the three of them had in common, but seeing the three of them getting along like this was still a wonderful sight.

When three beautiful girls who could no longer be called strangers to me were sitting together like this… well, there was no other way to describe it than a feast for the eyes.

“Putting aside Mari and Emu, I really didn't expect you to become this close with Honma too.”

“That's right. The three of us were all helped by Kai-kun♪”

Hearing her say that made me happy, but even though I had helped them, I had never thought of it as doing them a favor so that they would owe me something.

Sure, I was a guy their age, so it wasn't like there had been absolutely no ulterior motives in the back of my mind. Even so, I was genuinely satisfied just seeing them smile like this.

“Well, it's not like I did nothing for you… but did the three of you actually talk to each other about what happened to you in detail?”

“Yes. I've already heard about it from Mari-senpai and Saika-senpai.”

“Yeah. Somehow, we just ended up talking about it naturally.”

Apparently, they hadn't merely talked about the fact that they had been helped. They had also briefly told each other about what they had gone through.

I wasn't going to ask them how exactly they had talked about it.

No matter how trivial something might seem, even if it was already in the past, talking about it could potentially bring back the small traumas that had been etched into their hearts.

Honma's stalker incident had been a major ordeal, but in Mari and Agatsuma's cases, things had been serious enough to affect them mentally.

(…What I'm doing right now is pretty scummy in its own way, but still… just seeing them smile like this really makes me――)

As I thought that, I popped a piece of the cake I had ordered into my mouth.

That was when I noticed the three of them staring intently at me.

Mari and Honma were sitting across from me, while Agatsuma was sitting beside me, but for some reason, all three of them had their eyes fixed on me.

“Um… what's wrong?”

I asked in confusion, and Mari was the first to speak.

“Nothing. I just thought that Kai-kun is really kind.”

“What do you mean?”

“Because you were smiling so kindly just now. I'm guessing, but you were probably happy that all of us are smiling and able to be here together right now, weren't you?”

“!?”

I never expected her to see through me that easily.

Instead of being surprised, I became overwhelmingly embarrassed and lowered my head.

Naturally, my reaction meant that Mari's words had been correct, so not only she, but Honma and Agatsuma as well, gave small smiles.

“You really are such a kind person, Senpai.”

“Yeah. You're really kind and dependable. That's the kind of person Masaki-kun is.”

“P-please stop…”

They really needed to stop. My back was practically itching from embarrassment.

It wasn't that I wasn't used to being praised. It was more that I felt guilty because I had been doing all sorts of things to these girls even though they were genuinely grateful to me…

Come on! I had already decided that I was going to do whatever I wanted! But… well, you know?

“…Phew.”

I took a small, deep breath to calm myself down.

I told myself that I had already gone far beyond the point where I should be getting embarrassed over something like this.

Strangely enough, that helped me calm down, and I was able to look straight into their faces again.

“I'm just glad that nothing happened to the three of you. What I myself was able to do wasn't all that much, but… yeah. I'm seriously glad that the three of you can smile like this.”

“Ah…”

“Senpai…”

“Masaki-kun…”

Ah, never mind. This was embarrassing after all.

I tried to hide my burning cheeks by drinking some more tea.

…Or at least I tried to.

There was nothing in the cup. I had already finished it.

That meant I ended up looking at the three of them again, and before long, all of us were quietly laughing together.

(This place… smells amazing, and I'm so happy right now. But this is dangerous. I don't even know what exactly is dangerous about it, but it's dangerous!)

Incidentally, Agatsuma had been holding my free hand underneath the table the entire time.

I didn't know whether Mari and Honma had noticed, but Agatsuma had been holding my hand the whole time… and our fingers were interlaced, which made my heart pound.

“…Haa♪”

“……………”

And since she was sitting so close that our shoulders were touching, I could hear Agatsuma's alluring little sigh directly beside me.

I was sure Agatsuma didn't mean anything by it, but that woman really was like some kind of succubus who knew exactly how to get my lower body worked up.

(I wanna use hypnosis! Right now! I wanna do all sorts of things with not just Agatsuma, but all three of themmmmm!)

Unfortunately, though, I had already used the app during lunch, so my phone was running dangerously low on battery.

Looks like I'd have to make do with imagining the three of them naked and remembering the sensation of their bodies before going to sleep tonight.

“Oh, right. Hey, Masaki-kun.”

“What?”

Just as I was lost in various thoughts, Agatsuma called my name.

When I looked at her, she made a suggestion.

“I think it's unfair that you're the only one who calls Mari by her first name. I feel the same way, and I'm sure Emu wants you to call her by her first name too, right?”

“Ah, of course! Actually, I've been meaning to ask for a while now. Why do you only call Mari-senpai by her first name?”

“Ah…”

I looked toward Mari, and she smiled at me with a quiet little laugh.

The reason I had started calling her by her first name was that incident when she got into another dispute with her ex-boyfriend, who was also her childhood friend.

Although, compared to calling her by her first name, the more shocking memory was touching her br**sts when she was completely defenseless…

Still, if the other two wanted me to call them by their first names, there was no reason for me to think about it any further.

“Then it's okay if I call you by your first names?”

The two of them nodded, so despite being a little nervous, I said their names.

“Emu… and Saika?”

“! …Yeah.”

“…Being called without an honorific… I like it♪”

As for Agatsuma… no, Saika's reaction was understandable enough.

But Honma… no, Emu's reaction was a little harder to understand.

Still, this meant that I would finally be calling the girls I had gotten to know by their first names.

Thinking about that made me feel a little sentimental.

I honestly never thought that I would become this close to them through a hypnosis app.

“…Kukuku.”

Oops. That was bad.

A creepy smile had slipped out naturally.

Mari and Emu didn't seem to notice, but Saika, who was still looking at me, might have seen it.

“…Saika?”

“Yeah. I saw it.”

“…Sorry. That was creepy, wasn't it?”

“Not at all. It's fine.”

Man, this girl was way too kind…

And so we continued spending time together, chatting about all sorts of trivial things.

That was when a rather strange customer approached us.

“Excuse me.”

“Huh?”

“What is it?”

It wasn't every day that another customer at a café would come over and talk to you, so all of us looked toward the woman.

She was dressed in a crisp business suit and was a very slender, beautiful woman.

(…She's small.)

I was a perverted scumbag who preferred bigger breasts to smaller ones, so I had no interest in her.

Perhaps because an unfamiliar person had approached us, Saika moved slightly closer to me, and my attention was immediately drawn to the sensation of her chest against my arm.

(Hmm…?)

Actually, if I wasn't mistaken, this woman wasn't even looking at me.

She seemed to acknowledge my presence only minimally, with most of her attention focused on the three girls.

“…That's impossible… Excuse me.”

For some reason, after saying that, the woman glared sharply at me as though leaving it behind as a parting gift, then walked out of the café.

I didn't feel good about being glared at, just like when I had encountered that woman in town earlier, but there was no point worrying about it.

“What was with that woman… I hate her.”

“Yeah. I hate her too.”

“……………”

Apparently, the three girls had gotten a terrible impression of her as well.

Saika in particular was staring intently toward the exit where the woman had disappeared.

I suppose that meant she was angry because the woman had glared at me for no reason.

“I'm going to the bathroom for a bit.”

“Okaaay.”

The cake and tea were both gone, so there wasn't much left to do except leave.

I headed to the bathroom, did my business, and came back out.

That was when I happened to find Saika there.

“Saika?”

“Yeah. I'm going to the bathroom too.”

I nodded, but for some reason, two of the buttons around her chest had come undone, revealing just a tiny glimpse of her cleavage.

The buttons had definitely been fastened before…

Still, I didn't think too deeply about it.

I couldn't take it anymore, so I activated the hypnosis app.

“Seven percent left… It'll be over after I squeeze them a little, but I guess it can't be helped.”

“Want to squeeze them?”

“Huh? O-oh, sure… Come here, Saika!”

“Okay.”

For just a brief moment, I enjoyed the sensation of Saika's chest.

Afterward, I said goodbye to the girls and began making my way home.

The entire time, I kept staring at my phone, whose battery had completely run out.

“The hypnosis app really has changed so many things for me… Keep helping me out, partner. I'm gonna live however I want!”

My dreams weren't over yet.

I was going to enjoy myself more and more, and my expectations continued to grow.

However… there was still one mystery I couldn't figure out.

Both the woman I had encountered in town and the woman I had seen at the café had given off something like hatred toward me…

No, more than that, it felt like hatred toward men themselves.

It was a much stronger emotion than anything Sasaki or Someya had shown.

Still, I figured I probably wouldn't encounter them again, so I didn't pay it much mind.