CH 41

After Yurina left, Me and Kaede were resting on a bench, but the biting cold was too much for us to bear, so we decided to leave together.

However, My face was red all the time and my heart was racing.

When I looked at Kaede, I saw that she was red from the cold, and even her ears were bright red.

“You know,… what you said earlier.”

“…what  I Said earlier?”

Kaede’s shoulders jolted as I said. Kaede asked that while tilting her head, but she was obviously upset, as if she had already noticed.

“Um… That the person Kaede likes is me”

“T-That’s! I just said it in the heat of the moment! Forget about it. I’m dying with embarrassment….”

I was more than happy to hear that she didn’t deny it, even though I thought it was hard to admit because of embarrassment,

However, Kaede saw me grinning and looked at me with narrowed eyes.

“… W-what is it?”

“Nothing? I was just wondering what you thought when you heard that.” She asked,

“I like you too, I’ve never liked a woman this much before.”

“Huh, I know… It’s weird, right…..Wait HUH!? W-WHAT?”

Kaede was so agitated that she asked me again, but it was embarrassing to say it twice. Kaede, however, looked at me with a face that seemed to want me to say something very badly.

I was so embarrassed that I pinched Kaede’s soft cheeks and touched them meekly, then stretched them to the side.

Kaede didn’t seem to mind, but she was confused what I was doing to her.

I took a deep breath after enjoying her cheeks and said those words again,

“I like you too.”

“Eh…thank you very much, what should I say…”

I had heard many rumors that Kaede had been confessed by various men, so I thought she was used to this kind of thing, but it seems she was not.

“I am surprised, I thought that someone as popular as you was usually used to this kind of thing…”

“I’m not used to it! It’s the first time someone I like has directly told me he likes me…”

Hearing that, I blushed. Kaede, who said those words, also blushed.

“But I can’t go out with you yet, Kaede.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’m not yet a man worthy of Kaede, so if I feel that I’ve become a man worthy of you, then I’ll confess my feelings to you, will you wait for me?”

Kaede heard this and exhaled softly, perhaps relieved.

After that, she took a step forward and looked back at me.

She gave me a big smile. But her cheeks remained slightly red.

“It can’t be helped, I’ll wait for you, okay? But if you fall in love with another girl, you never know what will happen, right?”

Kaede (the little devil) stuck out her tongue a little.

“What’s going to happen?”

“Hmmm, maybe I’ll end my life??”

“Oi Oi, you’re kidding, right?”

“Of course”

This little devil, I thought seeing Kaede laughing.

But love is difficult because I find such a situation cute as well.

“Rest assured, I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen. Or rather, how could it possibly happen?”

“Fufufu, I’m looking forward to it. How will you confess?”

“Don’t raise the bar too high.”

With that said, the two of us head back home.