Volume 6 - CH 18

Next morning, during the bus ride…

“Last night, Arisa-san, you were amazing.”

“…last night?”

When Chiharu smirked at her, Arisa tilted her head.

Then, after thinking for a while, she replied…

“What are you talking about?”

“Ara~, you don’t remember?”

Tenka raised her voice in surprise.

Arisa nodded.

“…yes. I remember that we were playing the werewolf game, but I don’t remember what happened after that…”

“Arisa-chan, you got drunk on chocolate.”

Ayaka grinned.

Arisa’s eyes widened.

“Oh… I see. So you mean I fell asleep in the middle…?　I was in bed when I came to…”

“Well, you certainly fell asleep in the middle…”

“It was amazing up to that point, wasn’t it?”

Ayaka and Chiharu looked at each other and smiled, “Riight??“.

Yuzuru couldn’t help but frown at them.

“She said she doesn’t remember, and that’s enough. let’s not talk about it anymore…”

“No, but it’s a shame.”

“I can’t remember the last time I heard a confession that was so passionate.”

Soichiro and Hijiri grinned and laughed.

Yuzuru involuntarily blushed and turned away.

Last night.

After hearing Yuzuru’s response, Arisa fell asleep, perhaps because she was relieved, perhaps because she was drunk and sleepy, or perhaps because she was tired, to begin with.

Yuzuru took her to the girls’ room and laid her on the bed.

…It was good up to that point.

But later, after returning to the men’s room, he suffered a lot of ridicule from Ayaka and the others.

Rather in poor taste, Ayaka and the others had been secretly listening in.

“Um, Yuzuru-san… did you say anything to me?”

Arisa asked, tilting her head.

Yuzuru shook his head from side to side.

“No, I didn’t say anything important. Don’t worry about it.”

Although it was Yuzuru’s true feelings, at the same time, it was also an embarrassing matter.

Yuzuru hoped that if she had forgotten about it, she should just let it be forgotten about.

“It sounded like it was a big deal to my ears… but you said something important there, didn’t you?　Maybe you should tell her again?”

Grinning, Tenka asked…

It was obvious that the intent was to make fun of him completely… but at the same time it was a good argument.

There was no doubt that Arisa was worried about the gap in values between her and Yuzuru.

If she had forgotten Yuzuru’s answer, he must tell her again.

“It’s not necessarily wrong… but, you know, there’s a certain way of saying things… If Arisa has forgotten, I’ll tell her again. Of course, without you guys around.”

I’m not going to talk about it here.

Yuzuru assured her.

Tenka gave a bored look of “hmm” at Yuzuru’s answer.

Then she turned to Arisa once again.

“I wonder if you really don’t remember it, Arisa-san?”

“Even if you ask me about what I remember, I don’t know what you’re talking about…”

“For example, what you said to Takasegawa-san”

“…I don’t remember much. Did I say something strange?”

“You smiled for a moment just now. You must have thought you had successfully fooled us.”

When Tenka pointed this out, Arisa reflexively controlled her own mouth.

Then, after restraining herself, she made a huffing expression.

“I-I wonder what you are talking about…”

“I think we’ve found our doofus.”

“Please stop it! I don’t remember ever forcing him to kiss me!”

Arisa categorically denied that she had any memory or recollection of the event.

However… all the others except Arisa looked dumbfounded.

“…What is it?”

“…Arisa. No one has ever said anything about you forcing a kiss.”

Yuzuru pointed out to her with a wry smile.

“Ha-ha-ha, so you actually remembered?”

“To pretend you forgot and pretend you didn’t… You are so devious.”

Ayaka and Chiharu immediately started to make fun of Arisa.

Arisa shrank back in embarrassment when the two teased her.

“S-stop, please. I was acting weird at the time…”

Arisa defended herself in an embarrassed voice.

Soichiro and Hijiri, on the other hand, laughed merrily.

“Good for you, Yuzuru. It seems that Arisa-san remembers it well.”

“It’s too sad to see her forget a confession like that. I’m glad. Really glad.”

“You two…”

Yuzuru sighed involuntarily and then smiled a little.

He felt embarrassed, but at the same time relieved that Arisa remembered it.

…because it would be so sad to be forgotten after having pushed through all the embarrassment and confided his true feelings.

“I’m glad you remember. I was afraid that for Arisa, it was something that she would inadvertently forget.”

Feeling flustered, Yuzuru decided to be on the side of teasing Arisa in order to deflect the attention away from himself.

Then Arisa glared at Yuzuru with her green eyes.

“E-even you Yuzuru-san… I hate you now.”

Yuzuru asked Arisa, who turned her cheek away from him.

“Oh no… Will you forgive me if I kiss you?”

“P-please stop it already!” 

Arisa shouted, her face turning bright red.

TN: Only epilogue remaining…