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――Some day in August.
I came to the nearby indoor pool with Toka.
Due to the relentless heatwave, there were fewer people than I expected. Especially the 50m pool where serious swimmers train was almost empty.
“Come on, Toka! Swim properly!”
“Waaaaaah!”
On a day like this, I decided to put Toka through swimming training. Mastering swimming at the ocean is pretty tough because of the waves. For practice, an indoor pool is definitely the best!
“Where’s my float?!?”
“If you keep using floats, you’ll never learn to swim! Come on, just try swimming 15 meters for now!”
“Ryo-kun turned into a Spartan teacher!”
There’s a saying: A lion throws its cubs off a cliff.
Raising someone with love means deliberately giving them tough trials to help them grow.
What a perfect phrase for us!
So, I decided to push the former child actor off the cliff (the pool). Pampering her all the time wouldn’t do Toka any good!
“Okay, swim over to me!”
“Wah-wah-wah!”
“Stretch your arms out, chest out! Keep your body parallel to the water surface!”
“Can’t push out what isn’t there.”
“I wasn’t talking about that right now!”
I gave strict instructions to Toka, who was dog-paddling. True, her school swimsuit today meant her chest wasn’t exactly…not that!
Even when I’m tough on her, Toka always tries her best. That’s her good point. She’s got plenty of room to grow!
“Um, like this… like this?”
“That’s it! That’s it!”
When she used her body exactly as I told her, Toka glided smoothly and lightly toward me.
“Ah, that was easier than I thought.”
“……”
W-what a frustrating kid to teach… Yeah, Toka’s basically skilled, she just lacks motivation. Who knew her former genius would show up in something like this…
“I feel like I could swim about twice as far now.”
“Oh…”
“Why do you look disappointed?”
“No reason.”
I’d really pumped myself up for today…
For a moment, the saying “the more clumsy the child, the cuter they are” popped into my head. Not that Toka isn’t cute no matter what she does!
“Ah! My leg…”
Toka suddenly sank. Wait, did she get a cramp!?
“Toka!!”
I hurriedly jumped into the water too.
Oh no, even though she said she could do it, did I push her too hard all of a sudden!?
In the blue water, I swam quickly toward Toka’s body. She spotted me and gave me a little smile.
“Guhh!?!?”
Touka suddenly grabbed my cheeks with both hands in the pool.
—Then she pulled her face closer, and our lips touched. Air bubbled out between our mouths.
“Whaaaaaat?! What are you doing all of a sudden?!”
“Haa haa… Revenge complete.”
Running out of breath, we quickly surfaced.
“What do you mean, revenge?!”
“Because you were so strict with me.”
“What do you mean?”
“Every time Ryo-kun is strict with me, I’ll kiss him lots.”
Toka said something weird. Even though we were in the pool, her face was bright red.
“Huh? Then I’ll be even stricter…”
“Wh-why?!”
“Because…”
“…”
“…”
“Ah!”
Toka noticed something!
“Waaaaaah! Ryo-kun is being so mean today!”
Toka fled from me at full speed. Seems her swimming improved a lot today.
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