Volume 3 - CH 23

Sometime later.

Yuzuru, Soichiro, and Hijiri were having a meal at a family restaurant.

Of course… it was Hijiri’s treat.

And when three men get together, … there’s one thing they always do.

Yes, indecent talk.

“I’ve been thinking lately how wonderful buttocks are.”

Yuzuru said as he sipped his grape drink from a glass.

His face was faintly red.

“Well, the buttocks are essentially the greatest sex appeal for the hominids.”

Soichiro said in a calm voice.

Yuzuru nodded exaggeratedly in agreement with his friend.

“Right? Well, breasts are nice, too. I still think the butt is the real thing…”

“But there’s no rational reason why a fake can’t beat the real thing.”

Soichiro poured the grape juice in the decanter into his own glass while saying this.

Then he said to Yuzuru with a serious face.

“We are hominids, but we are also human. The difference between an ape and a human is …in the chest. Then shouldn’t we love the breasts?”

While poking at the mussels, Hijiri said with a sigh to Yuzuru and Soichiro.

“You guys just don’t understand…”

Yuzuru and Soichiro looked at Hijiri.

“It’s the legs. Slender legs are more artistic than just big breasts and buttocks.”

Breasts and buttocks may be sexual.

But there is an artistic eroticism to legs that goes beyond that, he argued.

“Well.. at the end it is all of them, aren’t they?”

“That’s what it comes down to.”

“Not simply all of them, it’s a matter of balance, and degree.”

In the end, they concluded that everyone is different and everyone is great.

Then the topic shifted to another hobby.

“Yuzuru, what do you usually watch?”

“What do you mean?”

“The genre, the genre.”

“Ah… Genre huh.”

Yuzuru thought for a while before answering.

“Well, it’s a normal one.”

“Netorare one?” (TN: Feel free to google)

“That’s not normal right?”

“But it seems to be the most popular genre.”

“That’s ridiculous.”

He doesn’t know if it’s the most popular or not, but at least Yuzuru didn’t have that kind of taste.

However, Yuzuru regretted that “normal” was not a good answer.

“Come to think of it, I’ve seen a lot of …massage stuff lately.”

“Oh, you mean like lymphatic flow?”

“Yeah, yeah. That kind of thing.”

While saying that… Yuzuru remembered the “massage” with Arisa a while ago.

Of course, Yuzuru did not do anything to regulate the lymphatic flow of Arisa, but it was fun in many ways…

“So while asking me that, what are you watching these days?”

“I’ve been into VR lately.”

“I’ve never seen it. Is it fun?”

“It’s very immersive.”

“Is there a sense of reality in it?”

“Try it and you’ll see.”

When Hijiri said that, it made Yuzuru want to give it a try.　

However, he doesn’t have the time to buy such trivial things right now because he has to save money for a gift for Arisa.

“What about Soichiro?”

“Yuri.”

“You don’t waver at all, do you…?”

Soichiro answers Hijiri’s question immediately.

Yuzuru laughed at his “hobby” as usual.

“It has to be yuri for me.”

“Anything with yuri in it is okay with you?”

“If there’s a guy involved, then it’s not for me”.

“Oh come on, this is like the shame until the end of the generation…”

“Soichiro is the last of his generation.”

In addition, “the end of the generation” does not refer to the descendants, but the next life. And “shame until the end of the generation” means shame until the next life.

Of course, all three of them knew that.

“Speaking of which, are you going to be son-in-law to Tachibana after all?”

Suddenly, he asked Soichiro about the information he had overheard.

He had heard about it through his father.

“That’s what will happen if things go in order.”

“Then Satake’s governorship will be…”

“I’m out.”

Tachibana and Satake do not have a bad relationship.

However, Satake would not want to become a part of Tachibana.

The man who would become Tachibana’s son-in-law could not possibly become the head of Satake, and it was only natural that Soichiro would have to decline the position of the next successor.

“Well, I have many brothers, unlike Tachibana. So, it doesn’t have to be me. I guess I should be the one to go down.”

Soichiro said and stood up, “I’m going to go to the washroom”

After he left the table, Hijiri asked Yuzuru.

“…I don’t know as much about their relationship as you do, but…”

“What’s up?”

“I’ve been wondering for a while if Tachibana and Uenishi are actually ‘a thing’.”

“Well, they’ve been ‘good friends’ for a long time.”

Yuzuru answered vaguely while drinking a grape beverage.

In response, Hijiri nodded, “I see”.

“In other words, that guy… gave up Satake’s governorship because the three of them can be happy together?”

“I suppose so.”

“He’s a surprisingly lovestruck man…”

Satake is a major landowner in the eastern part of Japan, mainly in the Kanto region, and also has extensive connections in the local assembly and civil engineering.

The position of the heir to the governorship will not be something that can be thrown away so easily.

And…

“I’ve been told by Tenka, but is he the one who will be providing seeds to Uenishi? But Uenishi is in Kyoto, and Tachibana is in Tokyo. What’s he going to do?”

“Well, isn’t it just a… duolocal marriage?　He can just do it linearly.”

It will be a life of regularly going back and forth between the two houses.

Of course, Ayaka and Chiharu are “good friends,” so it’s not uncommon for them to sleep over at each other’s houses.

“… Poor guy, he’ll never have a specific home to go back to.”

Hijiri’s words contained sympathy and, nevertheless, some respect for the guy who left his house for the woman he loves.

“I guess so.”

As Yuzuru agreed with Hijiri…

“Well, to be honest, Tachibana and Uenishi have more money than Satake.”

“You’re scum after all, aren’t you?”

Hijiri said to Soichiro, who had just returned from the bathroom.

“That’s the first thing you say to your friend when he comes back from the bathroom?　…Isn’t it shit which should be said there?”

“This is not a gag. What’s with the feces man routine? Are you in grade school or what?”

“Dirty jokes make your drink..,kohon!… makes your juices taste bad, so stop it.”

You can’t get off… no, you can’t eat with dirty things…

Yuzuru complained to Hijiri along with Soichiro.