CH 24

“Hayato-kun♪~”

It was currently at night,

Aina was in the bed, smiling happily at me.

After that incident, I reached out to her, seeking warmth, wanting her to wrap me in it, and never ever letting go of me.

“It was intense, very intense.”

“…Aina-san?”

“Ahaha, sorry, sorry♪”

When I gave her a jittery look, sticking her tongue out, she apologized to me.

If I’m not mistaken, it didn’t develop into anything of that sort,

I think it was because, while we were at the limit of our rationality, we still managed to hold back by simply embracing each other.

I don’t know if I can justify this to myself, but I think I did a good job of holding my ground.

However, that incident led me to realize yet again that I would never be able to let go of their warmth. (E/N: The “incident” he means here is now directed to the one he had with Aina and not the first incident.)

Normally, she would have left after making me dinner, but I wanted her to stay with me since I didn’t want her to leave me.

“I’m so glad about what you said. You told me you didn’t want me to leave, that was the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard you know?~.”

“… I’m sorry about the suddenness.”

“Don’t be sorry. Because I was hoping for it too… And you’ve already noticed it, right?”

“Yeah… but still, why do you have feelings for me?”

Although I kinda figured that both Aina and Arisa had feelings for me, I wasn’t expecting to hear that Sakuna-san also had some feelings for me. But when I thought about it calmly, reminiscing the emotions mixed in her eyes, I understood immediately.(E/N: H**L YEAH SAKUNA!!)

“I wonder―”

I was just about to say, “I wonder what I should do,” when the intercom rang suddenly.

It was nighttime, though it had been some time since I had dinner. I wondered who it was, but the answer came from Aina.

“I called my sister. Mom is at work so she can’t come back today.”

“Is that… so.”

…Huh, did Arisa come alone in this dark?

In an instant, impatience showed on my face.

Aina chuckled at me for worrying too much,

I then headed straight to the front door with her.

“Good evening, Hayato-kun… and Aina, why are you…?”

“Ehehe, it is the proof of my happiness~♪”

Arisa looked from me to Aina, then her face became dumbfounded. The reason for her shock was simply because of what Aina was wearing. Since it was decided suddenly that she would stay the night, she had no change of clothes, and what she was wearing now was the gym uniform jersey that I wear at school.

“I brought you a change of clothes, but by the looks of you, you don’t need anymore them, do you?”

“Yes!”

“… Haah.”

I chuckled a little at Arisa’s sigh.

It was cold outside, so I invited Arisa in and went straight to my room.

Thinking back on it, this was actually the first time the three of us were together in my room like this.

I then prepared some hot tea and we sat around the table.

“… Hayato-kun’s room, my heart is beating so fast.”

“I know, right? It makes me so happy~”

“Ahaha…”

-If it makes you that happy, you can always come here… I was about to say that, but when I looked at them again, both of these girls were looking at me with their distinct, beautiful eyes. They were most likely waiting for me to say something. Aside from Aina, I was sure Arisa knew exactly what we were going to talk about.

“How do you two feel about… me?”

These were the last words of confirmation, a kind of self-imposed way, for me, to escape.

“I love you. I want to support you as a woman.”

“I love you… I love you so much that I want to have your babies, Hayato-kun.”

I felt all of my worries blow away when I heard them say that they loved me… and Aina’s subsequent statement that she wanted to have a baby with me. Maybe she said it to ease my nerves, but I couldn’t help but feel that she was being serious about it.

Well, this confirmed my suspicions.

“… I see..”

I was very happy to hear the two of them tell me they liked me. But… there was still a voice whispering to me that I shouldn’t take it seriously… and it kept telling me that it was because of that incident that they–

“… I am.”

It was when I was wondering how to respond appropriately that,

“Hey, Hayato-kun, would you mind listening to what we have to say first?”

“Yes. That’s the reason why I called my sister here.”

“What is it about…?”

They nodded and began to talk… from that first encounter to the present…

“The first and foremost fact is that I love you, Hayato-kun. I love you so much that I have identified supporting you as my purpose in life, to the point that I can’t help it. I may even quietly die if you tell me that you don’t need me anymore, that’s how much I love you.”

“I want to say it again, I love you, Hayato-kun. I want to devote all of myself to you, I want to have your children and have a happy family, I just want to be loved by you… and I love you, love you, so much that I can’t stop thinking about you…”

It… The intensity of the love they brought was so great that my brain was unable to process it.

They chuckled at my blank stare and then moved beside me.

Arisa took my hand in hers.

“That time, when we had given up everything, you appeared in front of us. And perhaps you may have been thinking that, that incident was what was tying us to you, weren’t you?”

“……”

She was right on the mark.

“So it was true,” Arisa muttered and continued her story.

“If I’m being honest, that is certainly true. I, Aina, and even mom can’t get that incident out of our minds. You saved us, and we fell in love with you, a love that overflowed boundaries and never stopped.”

Aina took after Arisa’s words.

“From that moment on, we fell in love with Hayato-kun, and we wanted Hayato-kun so badly that we couldn’t help it. I wanted Hayato-kun to hold me, I wanted Hayato-kun to love me, I wanted Hayato-kun to impregnate me, it was so hard, you know?”

“Well, that’s…”

Wanting to have babies… I don’t know what to say back on that.

Being stared at by Arisa’s blue eyes and Aina’s red eyes, I couldn’t move my mouth properly.

Aina then put her finger on my cheek and whispered in my ear to calm me down. At the same time, her breath hit my ear and a strange tingle ran down my spine.

“When you came to our house, Hayato-kun, you told us about your family, didn’t you? You were the savior who saved us, and we learned that you were actually carrying a deep sadness in your heart. That is why we wanted to fill that sadness for you and drown you in the love that we have for you.”

“We were convinced that if we did that, Hayato-kun would never leave our side, and would rather seek us out with all his heart. That’s what we thought. And I’m pretty sure that Hayato-kun too doesn’t want to leave us anymore, right?”

I nodded in agreement.

It’s exactly what they both said. We got so close after that encounter that I didn’t want to ignore the feeling these girls had for me anymore.

I don’t want to be alone anymore… I want to soak in the kindness and warmth they are directing towards me.

“I don’t want to… be alone anymore.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“Un, I know.”

The two of them embraced me, holding me in their arms.

It was warm… so warm that I wanted to immerse myself all the way into them. It seemed like a swamp in the name of love that I even thought that I wouldn’t mind being swallowed up, not just my legs, but my waist, my neck, my whole being…

They came up to my face and each kissed me on both cheeks.

I was not shocked, I was hot all over my face, that my brain was about to boil with the understanding of what had just been done to me.

“That’s how we tried to hold onto you like that. We tried to bind you with the chains of love so that you would never be able to leave us.”

“Then we will be together forever. We will be fulfilled, and Hayato-kun’s will, will be fulfilled, and that way everyone will be happy ever after…”

…Ah… so that’s how it was.

The words that they told me were supposed to be a little scary. But I was glad to hear that they had such strong feelings for me. Because I felt that not only Arisa and Aina but also Sakuna-san would never leave me alone.

“But you know what? Even if there’s a hint of darkness in our hearts. We can still call it love, because we know that our love is just that heavy.”

“Yes, I think everything will be fine, as long as everyone is happy…”

It was at that time, Aina muttered to Arisa.

“I remembered. We were called by two of Hayato-kun’s friends.”

“Huh?”

Why did you mention them there?

I was surprised, but the two told me.

I wondered what intention those two had in calling Arisa and Aina. But once they told me, I became aware of how much my friends thought of me.

(E/N: A true bro! *Hiccup, Damn this chapter, I’m sorry I couldn’t make it more emotional, I had a hard time editing it to make it more dramatic, since I don’t have experience on dramatic novels or heavy emotion kind of novels. welp. Enjoy the upcoming chapters!)