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“Oh, man…”
In the end, Mashiro and I walked out of the convenience store without buying anything.
“…………”
“…………”
We stopped in front of the store, and then—
“!!!!!!”
“Mashiro⁉”
Mashiro suddenly started running.
However, since Mashiro wasn’t very fast, I caught up to her easily and grabbed her arm.
“Hey, Mashiro!”
“Huh? Who do you think you are, touching my arm like that! Let go! If you don’t let go, I’ll punch you with a force that goes way beyond self-defense!!”
“What’s with kicking me while saying that?! What was that pointless warning just now?!”
“You…! Kensuke! You wimp! You loser! You… wimp!”
“That’s some vocabulary for insults you don’t hear these days!”
Maybe she’s confused, but Mashiro’s repertoire of insults is clearly lacking.
Besides, she’s probably trying her hardest to break free, but her strength is too weak to even count as resistance.
Mashiro’s verbal attacks pack a punch, but her actual physical strength is below that of the average high school girl.
“Just calm down!”
I forcefully pull Mashiro toward me.
“⁉”
Mashiro settled against my body with surprising ease.
“W-w-what are you doing… h-holding me back like this…!”
“It’s because you suddenly ran off, isn’t it? Besides, you’ve clearly been avoiding me lately.”
“W-well, that’s because of Kensuke… I-it’s not like I’m avoiding you… I don’t care about you at all… Hmph. …Actually, it’s just that you’re too close.”
“Oh. S-sorry.”
Mashiro pulls away from me.
She seems pretty angry after all.
“Hey, Mashiro. Why don’t we talk this out properly? It feels kinda… bad to just leave things like this.”
“…I have nothing to talk about with Kensuke. If anything, it’s a waste of my time and energy to even talk to him. I mean, talking to you is just incredibly boring and pointless to begin with. Also, it’s boring. And, it’s boring.”
“B-boring…”
That’s the most direct way to hurt someone’s feelings… and she said it three times like it was an afterthought.
“P-please. Mashiro’s been avoiding me lately, and I’ve been thinking about things… I just realized I really need to talk to you properly.”
“I-I don’t care about that. First of all, even if someone like you, thinks about things, your writing skills aren’t even good enough for a second-grader’s essay. Just putting those words out there is a waste of the air’s effort. I feel sorry for the air. Poor air.”
“Ugh… Please!”
“! …N-no way. I’m not free. I’ve got things to do when I get home, and I can’t be bothered with someone like Kensuke.”
“Mashiro!!”
When I said that, Mashiro turned her back on me, crossed her arms, and said,
“I-I’m telling you, aren’t I? I’m not free enough to pay attention to Kensuke. I don’t see any value in talking to him… Ugh, I’m going home.”
The neighborhood park.
“…………”
“…………”
Mashiro and I sat side by side on a weathered bench.
I never thought Mashiro would actually come.
The Mashiro I knew up until now would have never listened to a request like this from me…
“So, what? What do you want to talk to me about? Can you make it quick?”
Mashiro urged me with a sharp look.
“Uh, yeah. Well, um… what is it? It’s about what happened the other day…”
“Huh?! N-no way, Kensuke, you’re not getting carried away and thinking you can do that next, are you?!”
“Huh?”
“…………Ahem. N-nothing. Go on.”
I’m not quite sure why, but I’ll take her up on that.
“How should I put it… back then, I got really annoyed that Mashiro was goading me… I mean, she’d been saying all sorts of things to me even before that… calling me a coward, saying I’m good-for-nothing, all that.”
“…And?”
“So, it was kind of a tit-for-tat thing—like, ‘If you’re going to say that much,’ so I pushed Mashiro down, and then…”
“…And?”
“I didn’t mean to go all the way. Even though I was emotional, I really didn’t… But Mashiro kept provoking me, and I just couldn’t stop myself…”
“Huh! …………So? What? What are you trying to say, anyway?”
“Well, that’s…”
I looked Mashiro straight in the eye and said,
“I’m sorry! It was my fault!!”
I bowed my head to Mashiro.
Her eyes widened in surprise, and Mashiro immediately turned her face away.
“I-it’s fine. It’s actually kind of awkward when you apologize that much.”
“R-really?”
“Yeah. Besides… I’m not as angry as you think, or rather, I’m the one who…”
“Huh?”
“N-no! I’m angry! Of course I’m angry! I’m absolutely furious! I’m angry! I’m angry, that’s why!!”
“I get it, I get it! I totally get that you’re angry!”
Her anger seemed a bit unnatural, but… I’ll just chalk it up to my imagination. Yeah, that’s best for now.
“But I guess you’d be mad. Even though it was that kind of situation, it was Mashiro ’s first time too…”
“—Huh?”
“…Eh?”
“W-What? Why are you just assuming that it was my first time?”
“Well, I mean, based on your reaction…”
“Huh⁉ W-what do you mean by ‘reaction’!?”
“Well, you just didn’t seem used to it. I mean, you’re always putting on a tough front, but deep down, you’re not the type who’s immune to guys…”
“Hah! D-don’t you dare make fun of me⁉ It’s unthinkable that Kensuke would make fun of me! I’m the one in the higher position! Way higher! Do you get it⁉”
“I know, I know!”
“Ugh…”
Mashiro glared at me with teary eyes.
“So, so it wasn’t your first time?”
“Huh?! W-well… it’s just that… I never had a partner worthy of being my first, or rather, the reason—or rather, the factor—is that there’s no one who’s my equal… It’s not my personal problem, but the other person’s problem, or rather, the world’s problem…”
“Huh? So, was it your first time after all?”
“H-! W-well…”
She averted her gaze from me and spoke while glancing sideways.
“I-is that… bad?”
Mashiro’s cheeks had turned red, as if they were burning.
“No, it’s not bad. Not bad at all, but…”
“H-hmph. Still the same boring answer as always.”
“You never miss a chance to put me down…”
In that regard, she really hasn’t changed a bit.
“W-well, speaking of which, Kensuke…”
“What?”
“…No, it’s not that there’s nothing… but… I’m curious… no… but…”
“What is it?”
“H-hey, could you not rush me so much?”
“If you have something you want to ask, just ask, okay?”
“H-huh? For someone like you, you’re pretty cheeky. You cowardly—”
“—?”
“……N-nothing at all!”
“No, if you have something you want to ask, just tell me. I’ll answer properly.”
“! Y-you’re so noisy…”
“Noisy? I don’t think I’m being noisy.”
“Y-you’re noisy! You keep pestering me…”
“That’s just because you’re hesitating, which isn’t like you at all. There’s nothing you’d find hard to ask me now…”
“F-fine! I’ll ask! I’ll ask!”
“…Why are you getting so worked up?”
“You really are so annoying! Fine, I’ll ask then!”
Mashiro stood up and looked down at me.
“K, Kensuke! K, Kensuke… !!”
I thought she was going to clench her fist and say it forcefully—but instead.
With her queenly facade crumbling, she said it meekly.
“K-Kensuke… isn’t this your first time?”
“…………Huh?”
“B-But you seemed so experienced, and besides… t-there were condoms in your room…”
“Condoms?”
“…………C-condoms… I… don’t make me say it…”
I see.
So that’s why you were staring at the condoms at the convenience store like that.
“You’ve done it before, haven’t you…? Bringing some stupid woman into the house next door to mine, letting Kensuke just easily take her…”
“Stupid woman…”
I almost asked, “Then what about you, Mashiro?”, but stopped myself.
It would definitely rub her the wrong way.
“W-what about you? Tell me… you idiot Kensuke.”
When Mashiro said that, I couldn’t help but…
“Pfft. Ahahahaha!”
“Huh⁉ W-what are you laughing at?!”
“No, I just realized you were actually worried about that.”
“Huh! I-I wasn’t worried at all…”
“You were curious, weren’t you? Why else would you go out of your way to ask me?”
“I-I wasn’t…!”
“I saw you checking at the convenience store, too.”
“…!!! …………I-I wasn’t… I-I don’t know…”
Mashiro is getting weaker and weaker.
That Mashiro, who used to mock me the moment she opened her mouth, is becoming subdued.
Just as I thought.
That Mashiro…
“…W-well, what’s the deal?”
Mashiro glanced at me.
Since it wasn’t exactly a big deal, I said it casually.
“It was my first time, the other day.”
“…H-hmm. I see. …I-I thought so.”
“That’s a bit of a stretch now, isn’t it?”
“Huh?! I, I really did think so! For someone like you, you seemed to have the guts to pin me down back then, didn’t you? But you were stiff as a board the whole time… and you were, you were nervous the whole time, weren’t you? Plus, you were just, just terrible at it! In the end, it was all about you, and not a single bit…”
“Wasn’t it you who was stiff as a board the whole time, Mashiro?”
“H-!! Y-you can’t say that…”
“And ‘lousy’? With a face that horny?”
“A face that… w-what are you even talking about… I-I don’t get it…”
“For someone just going along with it, you started to seem like you were into it halfway through. From your voice, your body’s reactions, and your expression, Mashiro… you were really feeling it…”
“-!!!!!”
Mashiro’s face turned bright red, as if painted.
“I… I… I…!!!”
And then Mashiro—started running again.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!”
“Again⁉”
I’m left alone on the bench.
“What the hell…”
As I suspected, Mashiro was acting strange today.
She’s different from the Mashiro I’ve known before—if I had to put it into words… a sense of impending collapse.
“Huh! Could it be… the tables have turned?”
The queenly Mashiro, who had treated me like a lowly underling, goaded me, and looked down on me, wavered when I took a firm stance—and then became submissive.
No mistake. I’m not imagining things. This is…
“I-it’s a revolution…”
—On that day, I realized a revolution had taken place.
Furthermore, I had grasped the tangible sense that, depending on how I acted, even that Mashiro would become weak and submissive.
—And then.
At that moment, I hadn’t anticipated it in the slightest.
That by sensing this response, that very Mashiro—the Mashiro who had been goading me relentlessly—…
“…Kensuke, dedicate your entire life—every single part of it, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part, every single part—to me. Live only for me, keep your eyes only on me, and love only me. In return—I’ll give everything I have to you alone, Kensuke. You have no right to refuse. If you refuse, we’ll just die together right here, right now. Is that okay? You’ll swear it to me, won’t you? —Kensuke?”
After all the twists and turns, she had gone beyond mere coyness and was losing her mind because of me.
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