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https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818093079507847550/episodes/16818093081068420933
At the end of the day, Amamiya was in front of the bathroom mirror, moisturising his face with lotion and milky lotion.
According to Kumatani, men’s skin is more prone to dryness than women’s, so if you don’t moisturise after washing your face, it can cause rough skin and pimples.
Amamiya’s face, which had never been moisturised, was covered with pimples everywhere.
His beard was also unshaven and a bit dirty.
[Girls like a clean man. Suppose you have a girlfriend and you decide to kiss her. You’re in a good mood, you bring your face close to each other’s and you’re about to put your lips on …… then! She says: ‘Nasty! filthy!!’
I’ll tell you what brand I recommend to prevent that from happening. Do it every day from now on. I’ll substitute a goal for every day you skip it!]
This is also to become a man worthy of Karina.
In front of the mirror, Amamiya grins, imagining himself reborn with beautiful skin.
Anna witnesses this as she passes by and warns him that it’s disgusting.
Moisturising is good, but you have to work on your facial muscles too.
The next morning.
In the mirror, Amamiya’s exhausted and flaky face is reflected.
After all, a few days of exercise is not enough to make a difference to one’s skin, so he lets out a sigh and feels down.
Let’s go to bed earlier and rehydrate.
“Hey, Takaaki kun. Your skin seems to have somehow become more beautiful than usual. ……”
He heard a voice from the back seat, and when he turned around, he saw Karina staring at him with blank eyes.
As expected, her face was close as usual.
“I-is that so?”
“No, wait, it could also be that I’m imagining things.”
Which is it?! he almost fell out of my chair.
Amamiya, however, was not going to be able to hold his heart because of Karina’s naturalness, who always makes statements that make him expect something.
“It might not be my imagination, so can I touch you?”
“Eh ….. touch ……?’
Peta.
Karina did not wait for him to reply, but touched him with a face that was itching to confirm.
Amamiya’s cheeks blush in surprise at her curiously cold palms.
“Wow, so smooth~. Even though you are a boy, it’s so nice~”
She says happily, but it is him who is happy.
After all, she smells good.
“…… Then, next, why don’t you touch it and see if it’s smooth, Takaaki kun?”
As if Karina had come up with the idea, she said so with her silver side hair hanging over her ears and looking up at him.
Is she targeting it, or is she unconscious?
No, but there is a possibility that she is unconscious.
(I would …… touch her face, …… that shouldn’t be allowed, …… though. …)
While his head hesitated, his body seemed to be honest and his hand was trying to touch Karina’s cheek on its own.
The skin of the snow-white, beautiful, high peak flower, which is said to be unforgivable even by God, is getting closer and closer, as if being absorbed by the hand.
“……”
(Eh ……?)
Perhaps it’s his imagination, but Karina’s face seems to be getting redder —.
“Amamiya-kun, Nagase san. You’re in class. Please refrain from private conversation.”
Just a few centimetres away, they receive a warning from the world history teacher.
The classmates are also looking at him, and Amamiya, embarrassed, withdraws his hand.
“Ah, …….”
He immediately turns towards the blackboard, so he may have seen it wrong.
However, he felt that Karina looked regretful, and Amamiya was unable to concentrate on the class even a minute until recess.
Physical education time.
Kumatani and Amamiya, who was to run the three-man four-legged relay with kumatani’s friend.
Kurihara, a baseball player with a shaved head, and, like kumatani, the class’s central character and a cheerful person, but there was a crucial difference between him and kumatani.
That is,
“You’re too slow, Amamiya! Don’t be lazy!”
He has a bad mouth and looks down on Amamiya.
He may be the same type of person as Takasaki, and from a while ago he started to bite him in a strange way.
But it’s a class, so he has no choice but to obey and take his respective position: two cheerfuls and one loner
Kumatani on the right, Kurihara on the left and Amamiya in the middle.
“Kya! Go for it, Kumatani-kun!”
“Fight fight, Kumagai-kun!”
Kumatani brushes his hair and winks at the cheers from the girls.
The title of ace of the football club, high face deviation score and good character.
Kumatani is a perfect cheerful guy who should be irresistible.
(cheers from the girls. A man’s dream. ……)
“Go go Takaaki-kun! Go for it, go for it, Takaaki kun! Win!”
(Ka, ka, ka……)
All the girls who had been cheering for Kumatani became quiet, and only Karina’s voice, cheering for Amamiya, echoed around the schoolyard.
Perhaps not realising that the surroundings had become quiet, Karina continued to cheer even louder.
All the classmates reacted as if they had witnessed a UFO at the sight of Nagase Karina, the high schooler, cheering for Takaaki Amamiya.
That’s also true, because it wouldn’t normally happen.
“Fight fight …… ght …… fig–.’
Karina’s volume lowers as she notices that the surroundings have become quieter.
No, it’s too late for that.
But there isn’t a boy in the world who isn’t happy to be cheered on by her.
I will definitely win! and for the first time since entering high school, Amamiya’s fighting spirit flared up in PE.
Then Kurihara gives Amamiya a hard smack on the head.
“Ow! Kurihara-kun! What ……”
“Don’t get carried away, Amamiya? Anyway, Karina was just cheering you on as a punishment game with her friends or something. If you understand, get your ass in position, you little!”
“……y-yes.”
Kurihara is fit because of his hard baseball training.
In addition, his face was scary, and if he fought, he would definitely not win, so Amamiya decided to obey him quietly.
“Well, well, put the bullying of the weak to one side, Kurihara, get ready quickly.”
“Ah?”
Kumatani provokes him like that.
The two are also the only ones who are not afraid of the other.
(But …… they are supposed to be friends, right ……?)
Sparks are flying between the irritated-looking Kurihara and the freshly smiling Kumatani.
Amamiya shrinks and trembles between them.
Are they really friends?
“Now, take your positions – ready!”
At the teacher’s signal, the other teams were in a running position, shoulder to shoulder, but the Amamiya team was.
“I will never lose, Kumatani.”
“I’m going to repeat that line.”
Kumatani and Kurihara crouch at the starting line, even though their ankles are tied together.
Amamiya had a bad feeling about this, and just as he was about to crouch as well.
“Don!”
“Aaahhhh!”
Two athletic boys start running at the starting signal, and one weak boy is dragged along.
The three of them are supposed to run together, but in this case it’s an individual race.
“Kyaa! Kumatani-kun!”
“Go, Kurihara!”
“Takaaki kun~~~!”
Kumatani
is cheered on by the women’s team, Kurihara by the men’s team, and Amamiya is worrying Karina.
The PE teacher, seeing this, rushes in to stop them, and Amamiya somehow manages to save his life.
“Ouch. ……”
“Wow, Amamiya, are you alright? You’re bleeding.”
Amamiya’s knee was bleeding, probably from scratching it when he was dragged.
Kumatani asked about this as if it were no one else’s business, so Amamiya tried to poke fun at him, but his ankle hurt too so he couldn’t help but put his hand on it.
“I might have twisted it.”
“Seriously….. sorry Amamiya.”
“No, do you mean you’re apologising for that?”
Kumatani
puts his hands together and apologizes lightly, and Amamiya makes a light tsukkomi.
Even though he was the cause of the sprain, he’s an incompetent person.
“Then it’s the infirmary. Can someone give Amamiya a shoulder?”
The teacher calls out to his classmates, but only Karina raises her hand. No one doesn’t want to lend a hand for a shady person.
“Teacher! I’m going!”
“Oh, then, Nagase…..”
“Um, I think it’s hard for a girl to lend a shoulder to the infirmary, so I’ll go.”
The teacher was about to ask Karina, but Kurihara unexpectedly suggested that he go instead.
Kumatani whistles and tries to sneak off somewhere.
For the first time, Amamiya feels the urge to punch Kumagai, but inwardly prays that he will never want Kurihara.
“Oh, well then, Kurihara. I’m asking you to take care of Amamiya.”
(Noooo)
“Eeeeeeee!!!”
Karina, whose role had been taken away by Kurihara, let out a lament that echoed throughout the schoolyard.
The classmates were excited by their new discovery: ‘Karina-san can make such a loud voice.’
Infirmary.
Unluckily, no one was there, and Amamiya gulped.
This is because he will be alone with Kurihara, who will be hostile and poke at him.
At any rate, if he washed the scrape with water and then disinfected it, and made ice for his sprained ankle…..
Amamiya, who was thinking about this, found himself on the floor.
“Kurihara-kun, ……?”
This was because Kurihara, who had lent his shoulder up to this point, had pushed him down.
He was looking down at him with a scary face.
“Even though you’re a shady person, aren’t you and Karina getting along well lately, Amamiya? Hey?”
Amamiya tried to crawl away from Kurihara, who approached him, snapping his joints, but he was grabbed by the collar with room to spare.
“Hey, don’t run away, you shit. Don’t bother me, …… you cheeky bastard.’
He slaps him on the cheek.
The hand was full of pulses, but the pain was too much and he frowned.
“What? Are you going to cry? If you’re going to cry, cry, you wimpy bastard.
I’m telling you, this isn’t going to be the end of it. The most quickest way to make someone like you understand is by hurting. So, another shot.”
He was slapped harder than before, and blood started coming out of his nose.
Amamiya doesn’t understand and tries to resist, but he is no match for the well-trained Kurihara and gets slammed to the floor.
“Why is she turning to a worthless loser like you ……, a useless piece of trash, instead of me? This was my first love! So why didn’t she show that smile for me? I liked her first!”
While receiving Kurihara’s slaps repeatedly, Amamiya recalled the rumour that he had confessed to Karina a few months ago and had been rejected.
(Oh, so …… that’s what you mean ……!)
He had run for the troublesome job of taking the sprained Amamiya, who was neither his friend nor anything else, to the infirmary, in order to take it out on him.
He couldn’t tolerate the fact that he had been rejected, but a dark-rooted, shadowy character, who no matter how one looked at him, didn’t match up to Karina, was having a friendly conversation with her.
“Hey, Amamiya. I’m going to say this clearly, Karina is my woman. Next time you talk to her without my permission. I’ll kill you, okay?”
Kurihara, his eyes wide open, brought his face close to Amamiya, who was lying on his back, and warned him in a threatening manner.
The face is a frightening expression that cannot be compared to Tojo’s or Takasaki’s.
Somewhere in the back of his mind, Amamiya had prepared himself for this to happen one day.
Other boys love Karina as well, and he has always been wary of the fact that some of them would do such horrible things.
And finally the day had come.
(Scary, scary ……)
He would have given up easily in the past, having longed for Karina to sit in the back seat.
(But ……)
The image of her as just a cold person with a nice face has changed a lot in Amamiya’s mind since they got to know each other.
She’s cute and doesn’t flinch. In fact, she is shy and has a complex about her voice. Likes games more than anyone else and hates to lose. But she is also a hard worker.
Amamiya got to know the Karina that everyone else didn’t know and fell in love with her even more than he had liked her before.
“Try it!”
His fear of Kurihara disappeared and Amamiya raised his fist as high as he could.
He had never punched anyone in his life, but the dull sound and raw feeling caused by a direct hit to the jaw caused Amamiya to close his eyes.
He was desperate, was it for Karina or for himself?
With no time to think about it, Amamiya struck one more blow, slamming his fist into Kurihara’s face.
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