Chapter 972 Shallow

Chapter 972 Shallow　　There’s no such thing as the erasure of guilt. One could accept and live with it while putting the guilt at the back of one’s mind. Forgetting was also not an option. One could try and forget it. However, when faced with the source of that guilt or something or someone connected to it, it would rise to the surface.

Between those two possibilities, the first one could torment the person every day depending on how buried that guilt was while the second one could torment and break a person when he or she remembered it after enough time passed.

In Coach Ayu’s case and because of my interference, she came to accept it.

Sometime later, I brought Sena inside the room, making it a three-way talk on what was going to happen to us next.

Because it looked like her guilt was about to overwhelm her again, Sena sat down at Coach Ayu’s side, assuring her that she was going to support her whatever decision she came up with.

The result could be summarized by Coach Ayu putting out some conditions.

But those conditions were directed to herself.

1. She won’t act as my girlfriend publicly.

2. No one else has to know about our relationship apart from the three of us.

3. She won’t demand attention from me.

4. We will act the same way before all this.

No matter how we shuffled that, it’s basically telling me to treat her as my side girl. Someone who will be satisfied as long as I don’t forget her.

In the end, Sena and I rejected it, drawing confusion from her.

“Coach, do you love Ruki?”

A few minutes later, Sena raised a question to which Coach Ayu answered in a heartbeat.

She raised her head and looked at me affectionately, her gentle and dreamy look made my heart skip a beat. However, her words left me laughing awkwardly.

“I… don’t think so. I’m attracted to him and I like him. That’s it… Wait, let me add, I love watching him teach boxing and when he’s inside the ring.”

Basically, Coach Ayu was attracted to me because of boxing. Ugh… She’s really a boxing idiot… But that’s one of her charming points, I don’t think I can imagine her being obsessed with something else.

A while later, I also raised a question, clearing the awkward atmosphere around us.

“Coach, if I quit my part-time job, will you still like me?”

This time she failed to produce an answer quickly. She contemplated carefully while sometimes sneaking a glance at me.

“Honestly, I don’t know. I met you in this gym. I can only see you when you’re in this gym…” Coach Ayu paused. Her eyes widened a bit, looking like she had just realized something, “… Ah! Now that I think of it, aside from this gym, we never had any interactions outside.”

And there, she also realized that what we know of each other was shallow. Our relationship was contained under the roof of this boxing gym.

“Onoda-kun, tell me about yourself!”

“No. That won’t be enough, Coach. Instead of that, won’t I have a week of rest before a new session of the Basic Boxing Program? Let’s spend some time together.” I suggested.

That would be two weeks from now.

With our relationship still this shallow, being attracted to each other wouldn’t be enough to sustain it. We had to do something else. Deepen our understanding of each other.

With that as the focal point of this conversation, the next thirty minutes were spent with us trying to come up with a plan for that. Furthermore, it seems like our relationship would remain in an ‘unsure’ status.

Nonetheless, because we already crossed the line by sharing not just one or two intimate moments, there’s no running away or reverting to a purely business-like relationship where she’s my boss and I’m her employee.

Anyway, even if we bond and eventually accept each other, there’s still the hardest hurdle. Telling her about how complex of a person I am…

Since I decided to pursue her, she’d receive the same treatment as the others, I would be completely honest to her…

Whether she would accept it or not was still unknown. For now, we’re satisfied with the outcome…

And before leaving the gym, we resumed what we were doing earlier. And with Sena there, I alternately went for their lips while holding them both close, my hands exploring their bodies.

Naturally, we stopped before going further. Coach Ayu was still comfortable after all. Kisses and caresses were the furthest she could tolerate. She stopped me from slipping my hand inside her pants and she didn’t join Sena in feeling up my bulging crotch.

Like I promised earlier, Sena and I stopped by to rest at the same hotel we went to before, spending the next three hours there.

We continued what we failed to finish inside Coach Ayu’s office, doing it twice to satisfy the girl thoroughly.

And when we both became exhausted, we talked about things concerning everything about each other.

On my part, I talked to her about my Disciplinary Officer position and the clubhouse.

Meanwhile, Sena had us review what happened with Coach Ayu as well as her boxing club and her boxing career.

Her boxing career was still going smoothly. With Coach Ayu and the whole boxing gym, her path was still clear.

She also showed me a schedule of her sparring matches. Be it at school or in another gym.

The boxing club picked her as the ace representative for the inter-high tournament. That’s to be expected, really. Who else would they pick as an ace? Sena could knock me out if I got hit by her punch. That’s how strong she is.

Ah right. She also mentioned her building annoyance with her classmates or other students that were trying to ascertain her claim of having a boyfriend. Since she hadn’t been seen with me yet, they’re not believing that claim or more like, they were deluding themselves that it’s just an excuse to stop the others from trying to court her.

Due to that, I added more names to those who I would deal with. I’m not going to hunt them down one by one. There’s another way to ruin them or make them stop annoying my girls.

But I needed time to prepare for it. So, one of these days, I’m going to walk her to school.

There’s only a bit of a problem though… This new haircut. I probably have to ask Ririka for wig tips. Or better yet, use that as a chance for us to go out together… Visiting a wig store and other related stores for the disguises.

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After dropping Sena home, my day hasn’t ended yet. Looking at the time on my phone. It’s half-past eight in the evening.

Before riding the train, I called home again, updating the girls there about my status.

Well, I already informed them earlier about my last trip for tonight so I merely informed them that I’m still alive and kicking, in case they worry for me.

Around close to an hour, I found myself at the same condominium building last week.

Not a minute later, a certain pink-haired girl rushed out of the entrance, without the horrid and too obvious disguise that she used.

With her eyes twinkling like the stars in the sky, Yue excitedly dashed and threw herself in my arms. “It’s been a week! Didn’t you say you’re going to take me away from here?”

Wait, when did I say that?