CH 34

After rubbing her head against my chest for a while, Kohinata stopped her movements quietly, as if she had calmed down. However,

“………… Kohinata?”

It is good that she stopped moving, but Kohinata stopped at such a distance that she is almost in close contact with my chest, as if she does not want me to see her face. Or rather, the tip of her nose is still attached to me.

If she wants to hide her face, she should hide it with her own hands or turn around. …… Ah, it’s no good because Keiichi and the others are behind me.

From the side, the distance looks like we are hugging – but we are sticking to each other. The only contact surfaces are Kohinata’s nose and my chest, and the rest is just the slight rubbing of our uniforms against each other.

Although I could easily break the situation by stepping back, I thought that if Kohinata was satisfied, I could just leave it like this for a while.

I’m so embarrassed and nervous that I feel my heart rate is nearing its limit, but I’m willing to give it a little more effort.

“Are you two free today? Let’s make teru teru bozu at my place if you want.”

I say to Keiichi and Saejima with a wry smile. It’s probably an unusual invitation for a second-year high school boy to make, but both of my classmates readily agreed to it. Saejima was so enthusiastic that she said, “Let’s go shopping for ingredients on the way home!” I thought tissues and string would be enough.

“Well, I’m going home.”

Saying so, I turned my body toward the two members of the student council. By the way, Kohinata is moving around a little bit as I move, keeping her nose in the twitch position. Cute.

Before I knew it, the student council president – President Ikaruga was in the same pose as when I first entered the student council room, with her mouth covered and her arms crossed, with a crisp expression on her face. She then looked at me and nodded her head in a hawkish manner, then turned her attention to Shiraki-senpai.

“Take care of the rest, Vice Chairman Shiraki–I’ll go first.”

As soon as she finished saying this, Ikaruga, the KCC president, slumped down on the desk like a robot that had lost its power.

Blood is now flowing on the desk like a murder scene, and I don’t know whether I should be panicked or appalled. I don’t know if I should be upset or appalled, but I’m sure she was just hit by Kohinata’s cuteness and spewed out a nosebleed anyway.

“As the president said…..then Sugino Tomoki kun. All I asked for was for you to do the rest. I’m coming too.”

Saying this, Chairman Shiraki crumples to the ground like a puppet with broken strings.

“No, you can’t undertake this at all! – You really can’t help yourselves, you perverts!”

This school’s student council is really rotten!

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Fortunately, the infirmary was located near the student council chambers, so we knocked the school nurse who was asleep there awake and together carried the student body president and vice president to the infirmary. I was sure they were bleeding, no matter how silly the reason.

I left a note under their bedsides saying, “You owe me one,” as if I was angry that I had been pushed around this time. Not one for both of them, but a note for each of them.

Incidentally, the dozing school nurse glanced at Kohinata and let out a sigh, “Oh, the usual,” which suggests that the girls are regulars in the infirmary.

I wonder what will happen when Kohinata’s expression is fully restored, if the cuter she becomes, the more damage she will cause.

“Apparently, you can’t draw a face on a teru teru bozu first.”

After all the commotion at the student council, the location changed to my house.

Using a cheap white cloth we bought on the way home, we were diligently working on making teru teru bozu. We were sitting around the kotatsu, just like when the four of us used to play together, but I was sitting next to Kohinata, even though we weren’t playing a game.

If I changed my place now, it would look like I was avoiding her.

I think Kohinata probably feels the same way as I do, but …… I’ve been getting the feeling that Kohinata has been awfully cold since I got home. I don’t know if it’s a matter of being discreet or twitchy. It’s because of what happened in the student council, I guess.

“Eh!? I’m not allowed to draw faces!? It’s kind of not cute. ……”

Keiichi’s words stopped Saejima’s hand, which had already finished making the shape and was about to draw a face. I don’t agree with Saejima’s opinion, although she probably thinks so because she’s so blunt.

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what he looks like. Isn’t the silhouette of a teru teru bozu cute enough?”

It’s so tiny and round and round and round.

–teru teru bozu is kind of like a kohinata. Like the cute part, though it doesn’t have much expression. If you added more expressions, it would be even cuter.

“I think Kohinata’s is cute, too,”

Kohinata, who was making teru teru bozu with the others next to me, seemed to be slightly agape, perhaps dissatisfied with not being able to draw facial expressions. Then, in response to my call to her, she turned her gaze and face up at an angle.

She must have been very embarrassed by the way I had groped her classmate’s head. But I was embarrassed too, so there was no need to avoid it so blatantly.

Well, I was looking at the back of her head with a smile on my face and thinking, “Well, she’ll get back to normal after a while,” when Saejima said, “I see!” she dropped her fist into the palm of her hand. And,

“Asuka doesn’t show much emotion either, but she’s cute, isn’t she? I see what you mean, Sugino-kun!”

She said something outrageous thing

You know that, but keep it to yourself! I shouted in my mind, and a grinning Keiichi followed Saejima in making her statement.

“You’re so youthful, Tomoki.”

“Shut up! I’m talking about teru teru bozu!”

I shouted in my defense, but to no avail, Kohinata’s ears turned red in no time at all. When her ears were the size of ripe tomatoes, Kohinata turned her body toward me. I’m not sure if she can make eye contact with me yet, but she is looking at my stomach.

Then, Kohinata breathed out strongly through her nose,

peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti peti.

She tapped my shoulder again and again with her small hand like that.