Chapter 31: That’s cheating…
Kaede quickly regained her senses. As we relaxed in the quiet living room with a cup of hot tea in our hands, Kaede stared at the plate on the table and then spoke up, with a voice filled with determination.
“Yuya-kun. I want to eat chocolate cake too! Can I have some?”
“You want some? It’s fine, but why are you asking?”
“Because… this was made for Yuya-kun, wouldn’t it defeat the purpose if I ate it?”
If you have a lot of food, it’s better to eat it together, as Kaede herself had said earlier. It’s worse to eat it all at once and ruin your stomach. But it was almost 10 pm. Was it fine to eat something so sweet at this hour?
“It’s okay! No matter how much sweet stuff I eat, it’s absolutely justified! Besides, I’m not fat!”
She declared it like a doctor who uses her skills as a weapon to say things that the women of the world would grit their teeth in jealousy if heard. Well, as I found out after living with her, Kaede ate a lot. But her fascinating body shape did not change at all, and even her ‘chest armor’(Footnote: That’s not censoring from our side; this is really what he’s thinking.) seems to have been strengthened. It’s just my imagination, right?
“Ah… speaking of which, my underwear has been getting tighter lately. What kind of underwear do you like, Yuya?”
Hhuuuuh!? WHAATT!!?? What do you mean, they’re still growing!? I mean, don’t you dare lean forward while tightening your b*****s in your sweater! It’s so stimulating! Extremely stimulating!
“I think I’d like to match Yuya-kun’s preferences anyway. What kind of underwear would you like me to wear?”
She smiled devilishly and leaned close to me, straddling the table. I did my best to turn my head to look completely elsewhere in order to prevent seeing her at all. Nevertheless, Kaede moved into the perfect position, appearing right in my line of sight.
“Is it the neat white type? Or a floral pattern like the apron might also be cute. How about a fresh light blue? Bright colors make you feel refreshed! Or how about black for a more mature image? It will make me look sexier, great for seducing you, Yuya-kun! Speaking of seduction, isn’t pink even better? It’s said pink is quite lew-“
“STOO—OP!! I will not let you say anything else! You wanted to eat the cake, right!? I’ll bring it to you, so just sit down and be quiet!”
There was no way I was going to let the word “lewd” come out of Kaede’s mouth! I cut off the conversation and left the table with the plates. I was annoyed by Kaede’s smirking, happy face. She was enjoying watching my reaction, wasn’t she? Watch me.
I took out the cake from the refrigerator. The cake was so beautifully decorated that I thought it had been bought. I was hesitant to put a knife in it, despite the cake being meant to be cut into pieces.
I cut it, taking great care not to make the piece lose its shape, and put it on a plate. The fork was still on the table, so I didn’t get another.
“Here, I’ve brought the cake. You wanted to eat it, didn’t you?”
“Thank you very much. Where’s the fork?”
“Oh, just use this. I don’t need to bring a new one, right?”
Yes, I handed Kaede the one I had been using, and she froze up again. Hehehe. Just according to keikaku. [TN: Keikaku means plan.] But this was not the end of it. I’ll make sure to make you pay for your sins, for teasing me so much with a man’s dream!
“That’s right. You said earlier that you wanted me to kiss you. So if you insist, it can’t be helped.”
“— Whaa!? Yuyuyuyuya-kun!? What are you talking about!? Have you gone, insane!?”
While she was being confused, I put my fork into the cake and cut it into easy-to-eat pieces. I brought it slowly to Kaede’s mouth, who was being flustered with a fully activated panic switch.
“Okay, Kaede. Aa—h?“
“Uu… Uu…“
She looked from side to side, looked down, shook her shoulders, clenched her fists, and looked up at the ceiling with an unintelligible voice. I wonder if she was that conflicted. It’s not a problem at all though, because she looked too cute.
“Ah, aa—hh…”
She ate a piece of cake on the fork. Her face turned bright red like colored autumn leaves.
“How is it? Does it taste good?”
“I don’t know… I’m too excited to… taste it.”
Kaede said in a thin voice as she stared at me with jittery eyes. What’s so exciting that you can’t even taste it?
“Because of this…. indirect kissing, … I’ve had an indirect kiss… with Yuya-kun, you know… Of course I’m going to be nervous…”
The destructive power of Kaede, who looked up and said shyly, then put a fork in her mouth staring upward, was definitely of strategic grade. This was like a final resort that turned the battle situation upside down with just a single blow. The ‘you know’ shot used for the final push was enough to blow my mind to pieces. In other words, my face was boiled to a crisp as well.
“Oh, no… I just thought I could see your embarrassed face if I gave you a surprise ‘ahh’ as payback for teasing me! And I didn’t expect you to be that surprised by an indirect kiss, you see!?”
Kaede silently plunged the cake into my mouth while I was wildly gesticulating to explain myself. And the fork that Kaede had been holding in her mouth just a moment ago was now in my mouth. It’s strange, the chocolate feels sweeter than when I ate it a while ago. And my face is really hot. My heart aches.
“I want Yuya-kun to understand too. It’s not like you can’t be embarrassed… by kissing someone you love, even indirectly. But it can be just… as pleasing…”
I could only nod my head as Kaede appealed to me with a watery film over her eyes. It was more embarrassing than I had imagined. It’s almost as embarrassing as kissing when indirect kissing is involved. But Kaede was also right about the other aspect. It kind of fills my heart.
“That’s cheating, Yuya-kun. How can you make me nervous so easily… I wanted to do something to you and make you nervous, but… that’s cheating!”
“No, it’s not a matter of cheating or not cheating, you know? In fact, if that’s the case, Kaede is pretty much a cheater too! No, Kaede’s very existence itself is cheating!”
“What the h**l does that mean!? Isn’t it terrible that my existence is a cheat!?”
“Of course! In the first place, ever since I suddenly found myself living with the … cute girl I’ve always been admiring, I’ve been both happy and embarrassed, and I’ve been nervous every day! I’m not even sure if I’ve ever had a day where I wasn’t nervous! You should know that, you… baka.”
After I blurted that out, I felt too embarrassed and got up from my seat. I wanted to punch myself for saying that I had a crush on Kaede just a few seconds ago. If there was a hole, this was exactly what I would want to jump into. In times like this, I would normally take a bath. Yes, let’s escape to the bath. The bath is a sacred place to wash away the events of this day.
“No…! Don’t go, Yuya-kun.”
As I was about to head to the bathroom to get ready for my bath, Kaede hugged me tightly on my back.
“Please don’t leave me alone. If I’m left alone now…”
“What happens if you’re… left alone?”
I swallowed my gulp and waited for Kaede’s words.
“If I’m left alone now, I’ll go crazy with… happiness.”
‘Teehee’, she added at the end.
I felt dizzy from her cuteness. And since I didn’t want her to go crazy, I sat on the couch with her until Kaede was satisfied and we spent a lazy, slightly early Valentine’s night.
Chapter 31: That’s cheating…
Kaede quickly regained her senses. As we relaxed in the quiet living room with a cup of hot tea in our hands, Kaede stared at the plate on the table and then spoke up, with a voice filled with determination.
“Yuya-kun. I want to eat chocolate cake too! Can I have some?”
“You want some? It’s fine, but why are you asking?”
“Because… this was made for Yuya-kun, wouldn’t it defeat the purpose if I ate it?”
If you have a lot of food, it’s better to eat it together, as Kaede herself had said earlier. It’s worse to eat it all at once and ruin your stomach. But it was almost 10 pm. Was it fine to eat something so sweet at this hour?
“It’s okay! No matter how much sweet stuff I eat, it’s absolutely justified! Besides, I’m not fat!”
She declared it like a doctor who uses her skills as a weapon to say things that the women of the world would grit their teeth in jealousy if heard. Well, as I found out after living with her, Kaede ate a lot. But her fascinating body shape did not change at all, and even her ‘chest armor’(Footnote: That’s not censoring from our side; this is really what he’s thinking.) seems to have been strengthened. It’s just my imagination, right?
“Ah… speaking of which, my underwear has been getting tighter lately. What kind of underwear do you like, Yuya?”
Hhuuuuh!? WHAATT!!?? What do you mean, they’re still growing!? I mean, don’t you dare lean forward while tightening your b*****s in your sweater! It’s so stimulating! Extremely stimulating!
“I think I’d like to match Yuya-kun’s preferences anyway. What kind of underwear would you like me to wear?”
She smiled devilishly and leaned close to me, straddling the table. I did my best to turn my head to look completely elsewhere in order to prevent seeing her at all. Nevertheless, Kaede moved into the perfect position, appearing right in my line of sight.
“Is it the neat white type? Or a floral pattern like the apron might also be cute. How about a fresh light blue? Bright colors make you feel refreshed! Or how about black for a more mature image? It will make me look sexier, great for seducing you, Yuya-kun! Speaking of seduction, isn’t pink even better? It’s said pink is quite lew-“
“STOO—OP!! I will not let you say anything else! You wanted to eat the cake, right!? I’ll bring it to you, so just sit down and be quiet!”
There was no way I was going to let the word “lewd” come out of Kaede’s mouth! I cut off the conversation and left the table with the plates. I was annoyed by Kaede’s smirking, happy face. She was enjoying watching my reaction, wasn’t she? Watch me.
I took out the cake from the refrigerator. The cake was so beautifully decorated that I thought it had been bought. I was hesitant to put a knife in it, despite the cake being meant to be cut into pieces.
I cut it, taking great care not to make the piece lose its shape, and put it on a plate. The fork was still on the table, so I didn’t get another.
“Here, I’ve brought the cake. You wanted to eat it, didn’t you?”
“Thank you very much. Where’s the fork?”
“Oh, just use this. I don’t need to bring a new one, right?”
Yes, I handed Kaede the one I had been using, and she froze up again. Hehehe. Just according to keikaku. [TN: Keikaku means plan.] But this was not the end of it. I’ll make sure to make you pay for your sins, for teasing me so much with a man’s dream!
“That’s right. You said earlier that you wanted me to kiss you. So if you insist, it can’t be helped.”
“— Whaa!? Yuyuyuyuya-kun!? What are you talking about!? Have you gone, insane!?”
While she was being confused, I put my fork into the cake and cut it into easy-to-eat pieces. I brought it slowly to Kaede’s mouth, who was being flustered with a fully activated panic switch.
“Okay, Kaede. Aa—h?“
“Uu… Uu…“
She looked from side to side, looked down, shook her shoulders, clenched her fists, and looked up at the ceiling with an unintelligible voice. I wonder if she was that conflicted. It’s not a problem at all though, because she looked too cute.
“Ah, aa—hh…”
She ate a piece of cake on the fork. Her face turned bright red like colored autumn leaves.
“How is it? Does it taste good?”
“I don’t know… I’m too excited to… taste it.”
Kaede said in a thin voice as she stared at me with jittery eyes. What’s so exciting that you can’t even taste it?
“Because of this…. indirect kissing, … I’ve had an indirect kiss… with Yuya-kun, you know… Of course I’m going to be nervous…”
The destructive power of Kaede, who looked up and said shyly, then put a fork in her mouth staring upward, was definitely of strategic grade. This was like a final resort that turned the battle situation upside down with just a single blow. The ‘you know’ shot used for the final push was enough to blow my mind to pieces. In other words, my face was boiled to a crisp as well.
“Oh, no… I just thought I could see your embarrassed face if I gave you a surprise ‘ahh’ as payback for teasing me! And I didn’t expect you to be that surprised by an indirect kiss, you see!?”
Kaede silently plunged the cake into my mouth while I was wildly gesticulating to explain myself. And the fork that Kaede had been holding in her mouth just a moment ago was now in my mouth. It’s strange, the chocolate feels sweeter than when I ate it a while ago. And my face is really hot. My heart aches.
“I want Yuya-kun to understand too. It’s not like you can’t be embarrassed… by kissing someone you love, even indirectly. But it can be just… as pleasing…”
I could only nod my head as Kaede appealed to me with a watery film over her eyes. It was more embarrassing than I had imagined. It’s almost as embarrassing as kissing when indirect kissing is involved. But Kaede was also right about the other aspect. It kind of fills my heart.
“That’s cheating, Yuya-kun. How can you make me nervous so easily… I wanted to do something to you and make you nervous, but… that’s cheating!”
“No, it’s not a matter of cheating or not cheating, you know? In fact, if that’s the case, Kaede is pretty much a cheater too! No, Kaede’s very existence itself is cheating!”
“What the h**l does that mean!? Isn’t it terrible that my existence is a cheat!?”
“Of course! In the first place, ever since I suddenly found myself living with the … cute girl I’ve always been admiring, I’ve been both happy and embarrassed, and I’ve been nervous every day! I’m not even sure if I’ve ever had a day where I wasn’t nervous! You should know that, you… baka.”
After I blurted that out, I felt too embarrassed and got up from my seat. I wanted to punch myself for saying that I had a crush on Kaede just a few seconds ago. If there was a hole, this was exactly what I would want to jump into. In times like this, I would normally take a bath. Yes, let’s escape to the bath. The bath is a sacred place to wash away the events of this day.
“No…! Don’t go, Yuya-kun.”
As I was about to head to the bathroom to get ready for my bath, Kaede hugged me tightly on my back.
“Please don’t leave me alone. If I’m left alone now…”
“What happens if you’re… left alone?”
I swallowed my gulp and waited for Kaede’s words.
“If I’m left alone now, I’ll go crazy with… happiness.”
‘Teehee’, she added at the end.
I felt dizzy from her cuteness. And since I didn’t want her to go crazy, I sat on the couch with her until Kaede was satisfied and we spent a lazy, slightly early Valentine’s night.
