CH 17

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The next day― there was a minor commotion at school, just like yesterday.

Yō stared at the face of the source of the disturbance.

“Is there something wrong with me?”

Marin smiled cutely as usual while tilting her head, and asked Yō.

She didn’t seem to care that people were paying attention to her, so Yō put down his chopsticks and opened his mouth, slightly dumbfounded.

“You cut your hair?”

When he asked the question that everyone wanted to know, the students around him who had been listening attentively shivered.

Yō waited for Marin’s words while looking at the other students.

“I’m just trying to change things up.”

As she said this, Marin touched her hair, which had changed from long wavy hair to a natural bob.

She had always kept her hair long ever since she entered the school.

She had been famous since her first year, and her appearance was burned into the memories of everyone in this school.

When Marin cut her hair short, there was a minor commotion in the school.

A woman who had kept her hair long until now cut it off.

I’m sure that many of the students present were thinking the same thing about the meaning of this action.

“Does it not look good on me…?”

Perhaps because she’s never had short hair before, Marin asks Yō anxiously.

Yō opened his mouth, thinking that she was looking up at him a little (this person is surprisingly sly…).

“It’s a matter of taste, but I think the short one looks better on you.”

“T-that’s right… ehehe~…”

Perhaps because Yō, who usually does not praise others, said something like a compliment, Marin laughed happily and cutely.

When he saw Marin’s shortened hair and embarrassed smile, he thought that she had grown a little older, but he did not say anything about it.

Yō was more concerned about the fact that when Marin smiled happily after hearing his words, he heard tongue-lashing words all around him.

He didn’t know why he was being tongue-lashed and looked around quizzically, but because of this, he made eye contact with many of the students who were staring at him.

(Did I say something strange…?)

Yō, who had perfect eye contact with the students around him, felt uncomfortable and picked up the chopsticks that he had placed in front of him.

He then extended his chopsticks to the bright red ramen in front of him.

“…It’s similar to yesterday, do you like very spicy food?”

As Yō was slurping down the noodles, Marin asked him, looking a bit pensive.

But her eyes seemed to have an interest in his bright red food.

It seems that Marin is very curious.

“Well, I like them.”

He’s never been particularly conscious of it, but when he thinks back on it, he certainly seems to eat a lot of them.

Thinking about this, Yō replied in that manner―

“By the way, I heard that people who like spicy food are an M…”

“―!? *Cough cough cough!”

[EDN: M=M*sochists/S=S*dists] [TLN: Take note of these if ever used again in the future because apparently google adsense doesn’t love these words, thanks.]

Marin’s unexpected comment made him choke up.

“Are you okay!?”

“T-trachea! *Cough cough! The chili pepper… entered… my trachea…! My throat is burning…!”

“Awawa! Water! Here’s some water!”

As Yō writhed in agony from the chili peppers that had entered his windpipe, Marin quickly handed him a cup that was close at hand.

Then, in the opposite position of yesterday, Yō took a sip of water, but realized that this was the wrong response and immediately stopped drinking.

In fact, drinking the water made him swallow even more.

As it was, Yō was tormented by the chili peppers that had entered his windpipe, but the students around him (don’t f*ck with us…!) say that for some reason, instead of laughing, they were burning with anger.

“―I’ll make you cry…”

“I-i’m sorry…”

After calming down, when Yō glared at Marin with slightly teary eyes, who was burning with anger at him, Marin shrugged and apologized.

But that didn’t stop Yō’s anger at the thought of having his throat burned by chili peppers and then being teased for being an M.

He was about to complain further, but for some reason, he realized that there were two cups in front of him that made him shut his mouth.

He immediately understood what it meant, even though his head was still bleeding with anger.

He looked at Marin’s hand to make sure.

There was no cup near her.

This didn’t mean that Marin hadn’t prepared water when she ate.

He had seen her prepare water and drink it while eating.

So there was only one reason why she didn’t have a cup in her hand and Yō had two cups in his.

“Umm, I’m more scared if you’re silent is-…”

Marin, who had been lying on her face, looked up fearfully when Yō became silent, but her words were cut short when she noticed that two cups were placed in front of Yō.

And then, she realized that she didn’t have a cup in her hand, and her body trembled.

“Ah, umm, I’m sorry…”

“No… yeah, it’s my pleasure, …….”

The atmosphere of anger from earlier was nowhere to be seen.

The two of them realized what they had done to each other and had no choice but to apologize to each other out of awkwardness.

The atmosphere around them was naturally filled with anger and murderous intent towards Yō.

“…”

“Oh, umm, Kasumi-chan…? If you keep staring at those two that much, I’ll feel sorry for them…”

“…”

“Heee―! I-I’m sorry! It’s nothing…!”

At some distance from their seats, a boy who was being stared at by a girl whose atmosphere filled with dark and murderous intent was making a frightened and surprised noise, but for Yō, who was filled with embarrassment, did not notice this.

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