Volume 3 - CH 22

“…Yes.”

Right next to Yuzuru.

The girl who had been sleeping quietly raised a small voice.

Looking at it, her jade green eyes were dimly open.

She looked as if she was still in a dreamy state of delirium.

“Are you awake, Arisa.?”

“…es.”

Arisa rubbed her eyes sleepily and slowly raised her torso.

She stared at Yuzuru with a dazed gaze.

“Arisa, are you okay?”

“Mm… Why is Yuzuru-san…?”

She mumbled something like that in her sleep.

And the next moment.

“Yu-yuzuru-san!? Why?”

Arisa backed away in a panic.

She was confused and didn’t realize that she would fall off the bed if she moved back.

“Arisa.”

“Fu~e?　Hi~ya”

Yuzuru hurriedly grabbed Arisa’s arm and pulled her body forcefully.

As a result, Arisa was able to avoid falling off the bed, but she had to leave her body in Yuzuru’s hands.

“Wh, why…”

“Calm down. This is my room. …You fell asleep in the middle of your massage.”

“…eh?”

When Arisa heard Yuzuru’s words, she made a peculiar sound.

She then scampered around … and finally realized that this was not her own room.

Her face instantly turned beet red.

“This is… I’m sorry for the inconvenience.”

She shivered.

Seeing Arisa like that …Yuzuru was a little relieved.

(Thank God …she was asleep after all.)

After Arisa had fallen asleep,

Yuzuru, who was overtaken by evil, did various kinds of mischief to Arisa.

He was aware that he had done something rather akin to sexual harassment, something that could not be excused if he were to be caught in the act.

At that time, he had such a light-hearted feeling that Arisa would forgive him, but when he thought about it, it was an act that he could be hated for.

… He didn’t want Arisa to hate him.

“Well… no wonder. You must have been tired.”

Yuzuru said something plausible to cover it up.　

Then Arisa asked him,

“What time is it?”

“It’s… just before five o’clock in the afternoon.”

To be exact, it was 4:45.

Just in time to start preparing dinner.

“Is it that late? I’m sorry… Shall I make you dinner?”

“…Well, it would be nice to be able to have dinner with you.”

Today is a weekday.

It’s not a good idea to keep Arisa around for too long. …Above all, she should be tired from the marathon today.

“If it’s okay with you, why don’t we eat outside?”

Yuzuru suggested.

That’s how Yuzuru and Arisa went to a famous high-class French restaurant… Not. Instead, they went to a famous family restaurant chain in the neighborhood.

With Yuzuru needing a lot of money, and Arisa having a limited amount of spending money, their options were inevitably limited.

When they finished ordering food for both parties…

Yuzuru asked Arisa, who looked strangely fidgety from earlier.

“… Is there something you want to ask me?”

After all, could it be that she was awake at that time?

Such anxious thoughts passed through Yuzuru’s mind.

However, when Yuzuru asked, Arisa’s jade green eyes slightly turned away, and her white skin was dyed rose-color… and she asked reservedly.

“Etto, when I was asleep…”

“…Yeah?”

Thump, thump, thump.

Perhaps from nervousness and fear, Yuzuru’s heart thumped violently.

No way. Did she notice it?

“Y-you know… did you notice anything unusual when I was sleeping …?”

It was an odd question, to say the least.

Just what would happen differently while Arisa was asleep?　Normally, nothing would happen, or you would think so.

That’s why one doesn’t ask such questions.

But since she was asking as such, she thought that something unusual had occured.

In other words…

It was equivalent to asking, ‘While I was asleep, did you do anything? ‘

(…Let’s calm down.)

Arisa had been awake at that moment and had noticed his prank.

Such a possibility crossed Yuzuru’s mind.

But if she had been awake … would she have stayed still like that?

Assuming that she was awake at the time in the first place.

How long had she been asleep?

Surely, Arisa was not awake at that time.

She was definitely not pretending.

Just that… She is suspicious that Yuzuru might have played some kind of dubious prank on her while she was sleeping…

In that sense, she must have asked the question with such an implication.

No, that must be it.

Having made such a deduction, Yuzuru replied while maintaining as much composure as possible.

“…no, I don’t think there was anything special about it.”

Seriously, what are you worrying about?

Really, I don’t understand.

Pretending as such… Yuzuru asked her.

“Did something not feel right to you?”

After a moment of silence, Arisa replied,

“No, I was sleeping well …yeah, I was …sound asleep.”

There was something implied in the way she said it.

However, he felt that it would be dangerous …for both parties to go into details about it.

Now, as Yuzuru and Arisa were playing such a psychological game…

The waitress brought in the food.

Yuzuru had spaghetti soup, while Arisa had hamburger steak.

A delicious aroma filled the table.

“Shall we eat?”

“Yes, let’s.”

The two of them picked up their forks and knives and brought their meals to their mouths.

This type of chain restaurant food is consistently delicious no matter where you eat.

Of course, Yuzuru knows of better restaurants, and he also knows that Arisa’s homemade food is much better.

But that’s that, and this is this.

It’s not that the food at the chain restaurants isn’t good, and it’s not that it is not good enough to eat.

“…Hey, Arisa.”

“You want a taste?”

“How did you know?”

“fu fu… I mean, This had happened before as well. It’s not the same store, though.”

Arisa said and cut the hamburger with a knife and fork.

And…

She stuck the fork she had been using earlier into the hamburger.

Slowly, she lifted it up, making a plate with her hands so that the sauce would not drip onto the table.

She blew gently on the hot hamburger and let it cool.

Then Arisa leaned forward.

“Here you go.”

“…Aah.”

Yuzuru naturally opened his mouth.

Arisa, on the other hand, placed the hamburger in Yuzuru’s mouth without hesitation.

Yuzuru slowly closed his mouth.

With a fork, the hamburger was trapped in Yuzuru’s mouth.

The juices and the thick demi-glace sauce stimulated Yuzuru’s taste buds.

But Yuzuru was so nervous that he couldn’t even taste the food.　

Arisa, on the other hand, slowly pulled the fork out of Yuzuru’s mouth.

The fork, stained with grease and saliva, was pulled from Yuzuru’s lips.

“How is it?”

“…it is delicious.”

Yuzuru managed to squeeze out a few words and asked Arisa.

“Do you …want a taste too?”

“…Yes.”

She nodded with a sly grin.

Yuzuru used a spoon and a fork to twirl the pasta so that it was easy to eat.

When Yuzuru leaned forward, Arisa opened her glossy lips.

Her white teeth and pink tongue peeked out, and Yuzuru gently inserted the fork he had been using just a moment ago into her mouth.

Yuzuru felt his body become intensely hot and his heart thumping wildly.

Arisa, on the other hand, closed her mouth without hesitation.

“Mmm…”

Arisa narrowed her eyes.

Yuzuru slowly pulled the fork from her beautiful lips.

After waiting for Arisa to finish chewing, Yuzuru asked,

“Do you like it?”

“Yes. It’s very …delicious.”

Arisa smiled at him.

The smile looked very seductive and sensual in Yuzuru’s eyes.

Then Yuzuru and Arisa fed each other several times.