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The date had long since passed and it was now the middle of the night. My eyes were burning, despite the fact that I hadn’t consumed any caffeine.
“Zzzz……zzzz…… nn, Jinpei kun…….”
“No, Itsuki. You can’t …..ah, touching such a place when everyone is around……”
Kanna is sleeping peacefully and cutely on the futon, which I’m not sure when it was brought in, and I can hear Asakusa talking in her sleep, wondering what she’s dreaming about.
Because it’s pitch black and silent, I can clearly hear it, which is bad for my heart, and my nerves aren’t strong enough to sleep in this space.
“Itsuki, are you still awake?”
Sasatsuki, who was sleeping next to me, spoke to me in a small voice.
I ended up sleeping on the same bed as Sasatsuki because of the comment I had just made. And since we were using a single bed together, there was very little distance between us.
“…… I’m awake. What’s up? Don’t tell me you’re scared and want me to come with you to the bathroom?”
“Muu. I’m not a child, so I wouldn’t say that. What does Itsuki think I am?”
“Well, if I had to say…..I’d say you’re a handful of puppy dog?”
“I see. Then it’s normal for puppies to be spoiled by their owners.”
Sasatsuki squirms while speaking. And with a surprisingly quick movement, she hugged me tightly. Furthermore, she wraps around my legs, making it impossible for me to move.
“Yeah, it’s just as comfortable as I expected. This is perfect. I think I’ll have a nice dream.”
Sasatsuki murmurs in a satisfied voice. I’d like to say that I’m happy for her, but I really want to pull her away from me right now,
“Itsuki was the one who said I was like a puppy, right? You wouldn’t tell me to leave, right?”
“….My bad. I’d like to correct the puppy part—“
“And I told you, didn’t I? I can’t sleep without a pillow.”
Sasatsuki whispered in my ear in a bewitching manner, refusing my attempts to ask for forgiveness. Apparently, she was also hiding a bewitching side behind her cuteness.
“I was thinking of waiting for Itsuki to sleep, but I’m almost at my limit. I can go to sleep, right?”
“No. Don’t fall asleep while we’re still attached to each other.”
“… Itsuki. Thanks.”
When I turned my body around to forcefully remove it, Sasatsuki murmured in a voice that sounded like she was holding back tears. Involuntarily, I stop.
“Thank you for finding me and being my friend.”
“I didn’t do anything special.”
“No, even if it’s not special to Itsuki, but it’s different to me. I can’t thank you enough. I don’t know how to repay this favor…”
“I see…..so I guess be happy just being friends without thinking about repaying the favor?”
I just approached Sasatsuki. There is no calculation in that. I don’t know if it was something special for her, but I don’t want her to think that I want her to return the favor, and I don’t want her to.
“We just became friends, so there’s no need to return the favor. Or rather, I’ve already received more than enough just by being like this.”
“That means….sharing your bed with me is a way of repaying?”
“Could you please choose your words carefully? Also, could you please not interrupt the conversation when I have something nice to say?”
Thanks to her, I have forgotten what I was going to say.
“Fufu, I’m joking But if you insist that much, it can’t be helped. I’ll be your best friend from now on. You should feel honored.”
Sasatsuki nuzzled her face into my chest and hugged me, squeezing the hands around my waist even tighter. In addition, her legs hold me in place, so I can’t move. It was a perfect body pillow situation, but strangely, I did not feel any ill will toward her. In fact, I felt as if I wanted to wrap her gently in my arms.
“Yeah, yeah. I feel honored, Princess.”
“Hmm, enough said. Thanks to Itsuki, I think I’ll have a nice dream…thank you.”
Not more than a few minutes later, Sasatsuki was in a deep dream, and I could hear her cute breathing coming from inside my arms.
“Haa…… I guess I’ll be up all night tonight.”
I give up and make up my mind. I could pull her away if I wanted to. If I want to wake her up, I can do it. But the reason I don’t want to do that is because Sasatsuki’s peaceful sleeping face resembles the sleeping face of Kanna that I used to see when I was a child.
I remember the day when we cuddled and slept together more than ten years ago, the day before Kanna moved out.
Kanna cries saying she doesn’t want to leave. She doesn’t want to leave any memories behind, so I slept on the same futon with her, and she used me as a pillow in the same way.
The warmth I felt from her at that time and that from Sasatsuki were very similar—
“It can’t be helped. I’ll just have to endure until morning…….”
It was only a few hours until dawn. It’s nothing compared to spending a night in the mountains. Let’s leave it like this until Kanna and Asakura wake up.
But sadly. The warmth of Sasatsuki’s body, her peaceful sleeping breaths, and the beating of her heart. And the feeling of a pillow that was softer and more comfortable than the best pillows, my consciousness slowly sank into the deepest darkness.
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