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“Anyway, thanks for your hard work.”
“Likewise… thanks for going along.”
“No worries. We fight as a team, so ain’t that only natural?”
“You might be right there.”

Rir and I left the club room. Well, we’d probably come back here tomorrow anyway. As usual, she refrained from giving me a hug after club activities.

“I can’t believe it… I thought I’d never be able to keep up with you, Shuu, and now I surpassed everyone else…”
“Well, you got impressive reflexes, and I also gave you one-on-one trainin’ in Anazumu. Would be more surprisin’ if you didn’t get better.”
“Woof, that’s true!”

That said, I’d been the one most surprised. Maybe smart people did learn all kinds of things at a faster pace than normal folk, after all. Come to think of it, Rir managed to outperform club members in all sports.

“Hey, Rir. Is it true that you beat a girl from the track and field club on the 100-meter dash?”
“It is! I mean, everyone keeps saying that I’m the most amazing at PE. Regardless of the curricle.”
“I think you mean curriculum, not curricle¹. Ain’t that a good thing?”
“…But surpassing people who work so hard at clubs as if it was nothing… uhm, it feels bad…”

Huh, so did she feel like that today, too?

Bringing down a judo practitioner with that much of a weight advantage was impressive. It was something she should brag about.

“You gotta be prouder of yourself. You’re genuinely amazin’.”
“Y-You think so?”
“You’re good at both studyin’ and exercisin’; pretty much a model student… Sooner or later, someone’s gonna show up, thinkin’ I’m a poor match for you as your boyfriend.”
“Huh… It’s more that I drag you down…”
“That ain’t it.”
“Woof?”

She inclined her head in confusion. Although we didn’t hug, that didn’t stop us from walking so close together, we were almost touching, which caused her head to slightly rest on my shoulder.
Gah, she’s so damn cute.

“Will you be going to bed right after taking a bath and eating dinner today?”
“That was the plan. Somethin’ you wanna do?”
“Something I’d like to do? Well… uhm… I’d like to talk and spend some more time with you, but…”

I also felt like something was missing currently. The only times we got to hug was in the morning and when we went to school. I got hooked on how nice it felt and now I somehow couldn’t calm down. At this point, she had completely stolen my heart.

“In that case, come to my room later. We can spend time together as long as we keep it under an hour.”
“Awoo! I’m so happy! Shuu, uhm… ever since we did it on this side, you were the one to initiate several times, right?”
“Guess so?”

From my perspective, it was more like the things holding me back had disappeared. Emotionally, it had become much easier to bring it up with her. It was like I no longer had to restrain myself… As an experiment, I suggested having sex twice in Anazumu, and she accepted both times happily with her tail wagging. Was that what it meant to sink into carnal desires?

Like Ayumu and Mika? Not exactly, but I definitely started thinking that loving each other might be all we needed, which seemed unlike me. Or maybe it meant that I finally gained a profound understanding of how important she was to me? Well, it didn’t matter in the end. The simple truth was that I loved her. That was all.

And it was probably all thanks to my best friend.

“In that case, you can touch me as much as you want today… We might also do it during that hour…”
“A-Ah… nah, that’d probably tire us out too much.”

Maybe due to the sweat, she looked strangely alluring, almost causing me to give in to my base desires. Not good.

“In that case, I’ll touch the parts I like most about you, Shuu²…”
“About that… well, be my guest.”

What am I sayin’? Guess I let go of most my self-restraint, after all… I might be turnin’ into a huge pervert. Question is, am I growin’ up or regressin’? Wasn’t I worried ’bout not bein’ able to do it before? This is hard.

“What will we do once the intra scholastic tournament is over?”
“That’ll probably be around Christmas… We could go on a date somewhere.”
“I was hoping for you to say that! Eh-heh-heh.”

Dang… too cute…

With how things are goin’, might as well win the countrywide competition and then go on the date in high spirits. It should be possible! It might sound like wishful thinkin’, but with my current skills, I can do it!

Hang on… what ’bout money? Let’s see… do I have enough for Christmas, gifts and everythin’? I do have some leeway, but at this rate, what I saved up from part-time jobs won’t be enough. I also gotta think ’bout the other side.

“Awoo, I can’t wait~… huh!?”

She suddenly turned to look behind us. She kept staring there.

“Rir, is somethin’ wrong?”
“Well… I felt like I heard the sound of suspicious footsteps.”
“Suspicious footsteps…?”
“Yeah… But there’s no one there, so I guess I must’ve misheard.”

She turned to me while still glaring in the same direction.

I see, she thought there was some suspicious guy who might be dangerous.

We kept looking around on high alert, as we boarded the train on the station and made our way home. My old man was there, so it was the safest place possible.

1. In the original, she mixes up 樹木 (“trees and shrubs”) and 種目 (“item”, “event”), which are almost homophones, with just one syllable slightly different.
2. I don’t think it sounded that suggestive in the original. Also, I’m pretty sure she’s talking about his muscles.

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