Volume 5 - CH 29

“…now you’re having twins?”

“Arisa-san, you’re going to have them!”

“Well, it’s good to have many children, isn’t it?　Now the Takasegawa family is safe and sound.”

Chiharu, Tenka, and Ayaka all congratulated Arisa on the birth of her child.

Arisa, on the other hand, blushed with embarrassment and fidgeted.

“No, please stop it!　This is just a game of life!　It’s not Yuzuru-san’s child or anything…”

After watching the movie, the seven were playing the game of life that Hijiri had brought – he was in charge of the so-called “fun goods,” games that everyone could play together.

And just then, Arisa had just given birth to her fourth child.

“Did you hear that, Ayaka-san! Apparently, it isn’t Yuzuru-san’s child!”

“Oh no, Yuzurun’s head is going to explode…”

“Eh, cheating…?”

Arisa raised her eyebrows angrily at the three of them.

“T-that’s rude!　If I’m going to have a child, it’s obviously going to be with Yuzuru-san!!”

“But Yuzurun is married to another woman, and they have children, you know?”

Ayaka pointed to Yuzuru’s piece.

Yuzuru’s piece was with a ‘female piece’ and ‘two child’ pieces.

“T-that’s… isn’t this a game to begin with!　Don’t mix it up with real life!”

“By the way, how many children would you like to have in real life?”

“Eh? Well… I do think it would be more lively if there are more… wait, what are you guys making me say !!”

Arisa’s face turned red and she raised her voice.

Soichiro and Hijiri, on the other hand, smirked and patted Yuzuru on the shoulder.

“So she says. Work hard Yuzuru.”

“Hurry up and make two more to balance the count.”

“Hey you guys…”

Yuzuru chuckled as he spun the roulette wheel, advancing the pieces.

The place where it stopped was: ‘Divorce! Take a break. Consolation and child support minus 5 million.‘

“Eh?　Why did you divorce him, Arisa-chan?　Did you come to hate Yuzurun?”

“It wasn’t me who divorced him. It’s the other woman. I’m relieved now.”

“Even you Arisa, what are you guys even talking about…”

The game itself was a lot of fun.

Next morning.

“Nn…”

Yuzuru opened his eyes involuntarily to the morning sun shining in.

Looking around, he saw empty plastic bottles, candy trash, and his friends wrapped in blankets sleeping.

They had had a lot of fun and frolic last night, and all of them had fallen asleep before getting into bed.

“Should I go back to sleep… No…”

It would not be too late to go back to sleep after watching the sun rise over the ocean.

Yuzuru washed his face lightly and then went outside.

When he stepped out onto the sandy beach…

“Ah, Yuzuru-san.”

There was Arisa, dressed in her nightgown.

It seemed that she had woken up before Yuzuru.

“You are an early riser, aren’t you?”

“You say that,  but you’re an even earlier riser.”

“I just woke up a few minutes ago.”

Arisa smiled as she said this.

The two of them sat down on the beach and looked out at the ocean.

The sun was just about to rise.

“…It’s almost over, isn’t it?”

Arisa said regretfully, smiling.

After everyone wakes up, they will have breakfast, then clean up, and return home at noon.

“It’s a trip until we get back, Arisa. We have more than half a day to go.”

“I think we will all fall asleep on the way home.”

“That’s for sure.”

Yuzuru chuckled.

They had played in the ocean and stayed up late, so they must all be running out of energy.

All would fall asleep on the ride home.

Yuzuru was not sure he could stay awake either.

“I really enjoyed it. Thank you very much…”

“Why don’t you tell that to Ayaka who invited us?”

Yuzuru said with a wry smile.

“Of course I will… But it was thanks to Yuzuru-san that I got to know Ayaka-san.”

If I had not gotten to know you.

If it were not for this relationship with you.

I would not be here.

I would not have friends who would invite me to the beach.

Arisa said with a smile.

“That’s why… It’s all thanks to Yuzuru-san.”

“You’re reading too much into it. You’re here now because you changed, right?”

Yuzuru knew.

She had become much brighter than before.

That she is no longer trying to hide her true feelings from others by reading other people’s moods.

He also learned that she clearly expressed her own will to her adoptive parents that she wanted to marry Yuzuru …and that she had gained courage to do so.

“That was also thanks to Yuzuru-san.”

“Even so… it was your willingness and ability to change that changed you, wasn’t it?”

“…Is it like that?”

“Yes, I think so. That’s why I came to like you.”

Yuzuru said and lightly squeezed Arisa’s hand.

“…Thank you.”

Arisa nodded a little shyly at Yuzuru’s words.

“But… I do wonder, even though I needed Yuzuru-san, do Yuzuru-san need me…”

“What with that all of a sudden…”

“Yuzuru-san remains and always has remained wonderful, hasn’t you?”

Yuzuru tilted his head when he was told that.

In other words, Arisa is saying that he has not changed in a good way between before and after he met Arisa.

As for Yuzuru, he would say that he has changed.

He has become more careful about his appearance in order to show his good side to Arisa, and he has started to keep his room tidy in a reasonable manner.

But that was not what Arisa wanted to imply.

“I was wondering if I was giving anything back to Yuzuru-san…”

Thanks to him, she was able to change and become happy.　

However, Arisa wanted to express that she wondered if she had made Yuzuru as happy as he had made her…

Of course, Yuzuru was happy at the moment.

A man with such a lovely fiancée has no choice but to be happy.

But that doesn’t mean that Yuzuru was unhappy before he had a fiancée named Arisa.

In that sense… The difference between happiness and unhappiness can be said to be small compared to Arisa.

“Well, perhaps we can look forward to more to come from now on.”

Yuzuru responded to Arisa’s words.

“…from now on?”

“Make me happy enough so that I would be horrified… If you… If Arisa is not there or if you aren’t my fiancée.”

Yuzuru scratched his cheek as he said this.

He felt a little embarrassed when he said it himself.

“That’s right!　From now on… it is going to be a long time, right!”

Arisa smiled happily.

Then they closed the distance…

And exchanged a long kiss.