Episode 003 - Is It Wrong to Want Some Sympathy from Partiers?
And so they all made their way from Asagi High School to the shopping district in front of the train station, where they entered the karaoke club. The lineup consisted of Jun, Reina, Momoko, and their other friends—all girls, for a total of nine. Some were from outside Class 2-A, but the whole group consisted of huge normies who knew each other through Reina. They’d all been in the same class as the Queen in middle school or their first year of high school.
Then there was Kai, the only guy in the group. The girls surrounded him on all sides on their way over there.
“Oh my gosh, Aaaaaash!”
“I’ve heard so many rumors about Myaakawa’s nerd boyfriend but never thought he’d ever hang out with us!” He could tell they were actually trying to make him feel welcome, but he also sort of felt like a zoo exhibit.
“My name is K-a-i N-a-k-a-m-u-r-a! Not Ash!” he complained. They all just laughed, however. Nobody took him seriously.
“And Kai’s not my boyfriend!” Jun added.
“We’re just friends!” Try as they might to explain this, Jun and Kai may as well have been talking to a brick wall.
“Soooo, Ash. When you guys are all alone, how does Myaakawa baby you?” said a fair-skinned girl, latching onto Kai’s arm so naturally it took him by surprise. Kai was excited to feel her chest against his arm, but also terrified, like a prey animal being squeezed to death by a snake. Knowing she wouldn’t let go until he talked, he felt overwhelmed.
“Which part of her did you fall in love with? Her face? Her tits?” his classmate Shirayuki Saitou asked quite bluntly. Shirayuki was a redhead because her mom was American.
“Who takes charge when you bone?”
“Are you a missionary kinda guy?” one girl asked.
“Or cowgirl?” her twin piped up, immediately following up with another god-awful question. Kai’s otaku brain led him to believe that older sisters looked best in ponytails, and that little sisters ought to have pigtails. She had a fairly short haircut instead (a dose of reality). They must absolutely hate getting mixed up.
But anyways, that was the situation Kai found himself in. Obviously, since the girls were part of Reina’s inner circle, they were all cute, too—extremely so. A guy like Kishimoto would be in seventh heaven if he were in Kai’s shoes, surrounded by cute girls all squealing over him. A huge virgin like Kai, however, found it incredibly daunting.
Aren’t they supposed to be really defensive around guys?! Was he just hallucinating when he thought they were just like the Sakakibara gang of mean girls he’d heard all about? He looked to Reina for help.
“I’m sorry they’re being so un-ladylike,” she apologized. “They’re just being candid with you, Ash.”
“No need to be cautious around an otaku dweeb like Y-O-U? Don’t get the wrong ideaAa!” Momoko snickered. Reina’s way of putting it was easier to swallow, but Momoko was probably closer to the truth. That’s what Kai chose to believe, anyway.
The girls wouldn’t leave his side even after entering their room at the karaoke club. Kai found himself sandwiched between the fair-skinned girl and another girl on the couch seat. “A-Aren’t you a little bit close?” he asked nervously.
“Ohh? Are you worried ’cause Myaakawa’s looking?”
“Haha, is she going to take her jealousy out on you later or something?”
“Awww ?”
Why was he suddenly so popular with the ladies?!
Kai knew better than to get the wrong idea. He could tell right away that they were just making passes at him to get a glimpse of something they rarely ever saw: Jun being jealous.
Jun also saw right through them. She was on the other side of the table directly across from Kai, sitting between Reina and Momoko. She fiddled with the straw in the drink she’d ordered, not flustered or paying any attention at all to the situation. “I’m happy for you, Kai. The ladies can’t get enough of you. Now’s your chance: maybe you’ll get to rub up against Nocchi’s rack in all the confusion,” said Jun, spouting utter nonsense with a straight face.
The girls around Kai found this hilarious. “Myaakawa’s a tough nut to crack!” one roared with laughter.
“Maybe she’s chill ’cause they’re like husband and wife already—anybody else getting those vibes?”
“Don’t let her trick you; she’s just bluffing!” said Nocchi, the girl to Kai’s right. She was the only one taking it seriously. Nocchi was a tall, tan, sporty chick who was very clean cut. Kai didn’t know this about her, but she was the team delinquent on the girl’s volleyball team. Despite regularly skipping practice (like she was today), she had the build to be the team’s ace spiker. Her tan was from all the other fun she had, not volleyball (since volleyball’s an indoor sport, after all).
“She probably wouldn’t even care if her husband cheated on her! Let’s find out! I’m gonna let Ash give my boobs a squeeze!” Nocchi declared. Using both hands to lift up her uniform jacket, she quite generously revealed her chest. She was just as well-endowed as Jun.
Is this what being a normie’s like?! Good lord! Kai was horrified. Was it okay to look at a girl’s boobs as long as she was wearing a bra? Was she laid-back about it because it was just like wearing a swimsuit?
He covered his eyes before he could think twice about it and attempted to worship Nocchi’s enormous rack from between his fingers. However, Nocchi’s lewdness was nipped in the bud by a doting but absolutely furious Jun. “What are you, stupid?!” she yelled, stepping in with the karaoke remote controller.
All Kai got to see in the gaps between his fingers was the untanned, milky white stomach that lay beneath Nocchi’s clothing and her belly button, which had a strangely erotic shape. Truly a sight for sore eyes.
The other girls were overjoyed at Jun’s fierce reaction. “We finally got to see the lovely bride being jealous!!!” one of the twins howled.
“Man, that was *chef’s kiss*!” the other twin cackled, even though neither of them actually thought she was all that jealous. They found Jun’s scowling funny and teased her even more.
“Excuse me, that’s enough. Why don’t we do some singing?” Reina proposed. There’s no telling how long they would’ve toyed with Kai and Jun if Reina hadn’t exercised her keen ability to read the situation.
Thus began the karaoke session for the cool kids, by the cool kids.
Shirayuki sang the theme song from a popular Western movie with perfect English intonation. The twins performed a duet together, taking breaths at completely different times throughout the song. Nocchi did a Nogizaka (?) song with so much energy, it hurt Kai’s ears. Reina almost sounded like a pro when she sang her ballad.
Meanwhile, Kai kept the upbeat atmosphere going by shaking maracas with the fair-skinned girl. Quite frankly, he’d already given up less than thirty minutes in.
Th-This is SO BORING... He couldn’t think of any songs that weren’t from an anime, much less sing them. Not that he had zero clue which songs were popular, to clarify. Kai vaguely knew the titles and the names of the artists. They played pop songs at his part-time job too, so he knew how the tunes went. He could at least take a peek around him and figure out when he needed to clap along. It wasn’t all that fun “entertaining guests” at karaoke, though.
Oh well. I knew what I was in for. He was only tagging along so as not to make things awkward between Jun and her friend group. But then Kai took a long look at Jun and wondered, Am I though? AM I okay with this?
Although Jun was in the middle of singing a duet with Momoko... in stark contrast with her friend—who seemed to be having the time of her life—Jun was singing in a very tame, quiet way. Momoko was confidently insisting on doing things her way, ignoring the original melody here and there. Some might say she was rearranging the song, others might say she was completely out of tune.
And then there was Jun, perfectly matching Momoko’s self-indulgent way of singing. When the song included back-up vocals, Jun went ahead and let Momoko be the star. She wasn’t doing it because she was singing a duet with someone selfish like Momoko. Now that he’d been watching for a while, Kai noticed that she did this with anyone she sang a duet with. Conversely, she hadn’t added a single song of her own accord, either.
This isn’t what Jun usually does at karaoke, he realized. To go one step further—she didn’t seem to be having any fun, period. It was obvious I wouldn’t have a good time... but isn’t it odd that Jun is bored? What was the point of hanging out with your friends if you didn’t enjoy it?
Of course, being friends didn’t necessarily mean you had all the same interests in common. Kai loved manga for example, as well as light novels and anime. Kishimoto, on the other hand, liked manga but wasn’t really into light novels or anime, and he also loved chasing after girls. Manga was their common interest, so that’s what they had fun talking about together.
Kai felt that The Ryuo’s Work is Never Done! and 29 to JK were masterpieces, and he had good intentions when he said, “It’d be a damn shame not to read this!” Still, he never forced anything on Kishimoto (although it did make him happy when they got manga adaptations). Kishimoto also understood Kai’s personality and never asked him to be his wingman. This made being around him fun, which is why they were friends.
Is Jun not like that, though? Or, are girls just not like that?
He knew Jun went to karaoke with Reina pretty often. He figured she fit right in and had a great time at their cool kid karaoke parties. Had she actually just been forcing herself to hang out with them, even though she wasn’t having any fun?
If so, that doesn’t sit right with me. If that was the case, then shouldn’t they have just played tanks at his house? Kai thought so.
Momoko and Jun finished up their song as Kai sat there, feeling discontent. Momoko smiled for a brief moment, looking quite proud of herself. Then, all of a sudden, her expression turned wicked like she’d just come up with some kind of prank. “Hey, Ash, how about you add a song? You haven’t sung a single thing this whole time?” she said to Kai, laying it on super thick. She was so self-centered, she didn’t care that the next girl’s song was about to start any second.
“Nah, I’m good. It’s fun just listening to everybody sing,” Kai replied, picking up on her motives. He dropped the volume of his voice low enough so only Momoko could hear him.
“D’aww, listen to you~ You just don’t wanna get laughed at when everybody finds out you’re tone deaf, am I right~?”
“Yup, hit the nail right on the head. I’m no match for you, Momo,” he said. Let’s leave it at that. He wasn’t a good singer; that much was true.
“Awww come on, sing something~! You could do a duet with me! How’s that sound~?” she continued to nag. “That’s, like, a platinum-tier thing I’d NEEEVER agree to with Matsuda, even if he begged me on his hands and knees~!”
“Nah, I said I’m good,” Kai declined. “I don’t know any songs well enough. I wouldn’t be able to sing with you.”
“No biggie, no biggie~? I know, like, SOOOO many songs~ I’ll make it work! C’mon~ Pick any song you want, Ash~!”
Go on. You think you could sing “Koi wa Chaos no Shimobenari” from Nyaruko: Crawling with Love if I added it to the queue?! Yeah right. You’d be flailing around crying “Gah! Eee!” trying to fake it! Kai scoffed to himself, though he held his tongue.
Hobbies weren’t something you forced onto somebody else. Sure, he may have been uncomfortable because Momoko had strong-armed him into being at a cool-kid karaoke party. But still, doing something off-putting like playing an anime song around people who wouldn’t understand it would be a terrible disservice to a classic like “Koi wa Chaos no Shimobenari.” He couldn’t bear to do that. Kai read between the lines and humbly declined yet again.
“Ugghhh, what a buzzkill~ You’re a reeeal downer, Ash~ A no-life loser~?” Momoko sneered, which really hit a nerve with Kai.
Being called a “downer”—eh, whatever. He wasn’t all that sophisticated compared to literal rays of sunshine like them, and he wasn’t terribly masculine, either.
Kai couldn’t agree with being called a “no-life loser,” however. There was no denying that Kai could point to a friend group like Jun’s as an example of normies with full social calendars, but that didn’t make him a “no-life loser” by default. He happily filled his days with his otaku hobbies, and worked very hard at his part-time job to save up the funds to do so. He also went to events like Comiket pretty frequently. If that wasn’t a happy and fulfilling life, what was?
Miffed, Kai ribbed her right back. “Mihara, do you really want to sing with me that bad? You’re making the first move on a guy? What are you, horny? A ho?”
“WHA?! WHAT DID YOU SAY JUST NOW?!” Momoko immediately screeched, her eyes opening wide in rage. Kai thought it was kind of funny to see her cutesy act fail for a split second.
Momoko put the facade back up right away, in addition to smoothing out the roughness in her tone of voice. “O-Oh wow, Ash, that was mean~? I thought we were friends! Here I was just trying to help Myaakawa’s boyfriend get along with everybody~” she sniffled. “And poor little Momoko got called a “ho” for all her trouble~?”
“Yeah, yeah, but you’ve got your sights set on your friend’s man. Which makes you a ho.”
“I’m NOT NOT NOT a HO!”
“So... just undateable then?”
“I’m not here to be judged, you nasty lil’ party pooper~? Like I said, a pretty face is all a girl needs~! And I’ve always knocked ’em dead~”
“Okie dokie, ho.”
“I AM NOT!!!”
Kai was just teasing, but Momoko was undeniably pissed. Her immediate reactions were a tiny bit amusing, though. The fair-skinned girl and the twins were sniggering like they’d just found a new toy.
I see. Her face isn’t the only reason why Annoying AF Momoko gets to be part of the cool girls’ club. Kai had to hand it to them.
Lil’ Miss Short Fuse completely lost her temper. Momoko stood up and grabbed the hem of her skirt, yelling, “See if I’ve popped my cherry for your GODDAMN self! THAT’LL prove I’m not a ho!!!”
“ENOUGH—how unbecoming!” Reina thundered right away. Jun gave Momoko a silent bop on the head.
“Owww...” Momoko curled up into a ball holding her head, her anguish audible.
The girls all burst into laughter, holding their stomachs and kicking their legs around. A true feast for a man’s eyes, since all of their skirts were so short. Kai looked down at the ground and stuck his straw into his mouth because he had to pretend like he saw nothing.
Which is to say, he witnessed plenty. If Kishimoto and Matsuda ever found out, they would kill him out of jealousy...
Their fundamentally boring cool-kid karaoke party stretched on in spite of that delightful incident. The party lasted all the way until the student discount hours ended at 9 p.m. Then they disbanded, splitting off into those heading home by foot, those heading to their part-time jobs on their bikes, and those taking the train.
Kai and Jun commuted to school by train. The nearest station to Asagi High School was Sakata, the terminal where the East-West and North-South lines in their prefecture crossed. Kai got off at Watarai, four stations north. He figured others would be headed home the same way, but Jun turned out to be the only one.
The two squeezed onto the full train, packed from all the people headed home during the evening rush hour. Jun stood right by the door, with Kai using himself as a human shield protecting her from being crushed by the other passengers. Even though they weren’t boyfriend and girlfriend, they’d gotten pretty clever about stuff like this in the year that had passed since they met and started hanging out every day.
Kai propped himself up against the door by placing his arms on both sides of Jun and firmly planted his feet on the ground.
“Man, I’m beat today,” Kai said jokingly. He didn’t breathe a single word of all the suffering he’d gone through. “They’re all so damn full of energy. It took everything I had to keep up.”
“Haha... You did great.” Jun thanked him for his efforts with a half-hearted smile.
That karaoke party basically amounted to a harem consisting of the hottest girls in his grade. If Kishimoto caught wind of this, he’d lose his mind: “What could you POSSIBLY be unsatisfied about, you ungrateful bastard?!” Truth be told, Kai’s anxiety was through the roof.
“You really did me a solid back there. Thank you, Kai.”
“I did? What do you mean?” he asked.
“They’ve been nagging me to introduce you for a while, to be honest,” Jun explained. “They asked me to bring you along at least once. I guess they were all super curious because they thought you were my boyfriend.”
“Ah...” Looking back on the way they’d pretended to welcome him, he completely understood.
“I knew you wouldn’t be into it, so I came up with bogus reasons to turn them down. Then they all thought I was making a big deal about it, which made them even more curious. Honestly, it had been pretty hard to keep turning them down recently,” she sighed. Jun had been desperately trying not to bother Kai, and he didn’t even know it. He really couldn’t have helped more when he offered to hang out with them.
“They should all be happy after today. Thank you SO much, Kai,” Jun smiled weakly, making no effort to hide how exhausted she was. She might be used to keeping up with them, but she was still just a girl. Her baseline stamina was different from Kai’s.
There was a short lull in the conversation from both sides. For the most part, they just faced each other in close proximity, silently being tossed around by the train. All they could hear was the dreary sound of the train car moving and the sluggish train announcements.
Jun squirmed around in her seat between Kai’s outstretched arms, then took out her smartphone. He watched from above at point-blank range while she looked down at her screen. Despite the downtrodden look on her face, Jun was a downright catch. As he stared at her long, quivering eyelashes, Kai found himself absentmindedly wondering absurd things like, “She’s nothing like my sister... What does she eat to get them so long?”
Kai didn’t need to kill time on his phone. He never tired of looking at Jun’s face; he could stare at it forever. Her face was exactly his type.
He couldn’t spend forever looking at her, though. Just for the next four stations, or twelve minutes. This perfectly content silence, this stationary moment in time—where all the hubbub and din gave Kai the illusion that he was all alone with Jun—would come to an end. Then, Kai would get off the train and say goodbye to Jun, who got off at the next station.
All of a sudden, Kai noticed that she was humming to herself while using her phone. He strained his ears for her humming, frustrated that the sound from the train car was in the way.
It was “Onaji Sora no Shita de,” the theme song from the anime film Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Arrow of Orion, arranged to a slow tempo.
Guess she didn’t get her fill at karaoke.
He could just tell.
Guess I didn’t sing a single song either.
Jun immediately responded. “Sure!” Then she shot him a stunning smile, like all her exhaustion had been wiped away.
Kai and Jun left Watarai Station, then entered a tired little karaoke club perfectly suited for the tired little shopping center it was located in. The cost was a bit expensive for high schoolers like themselves, although they weren’t about to bring it up.
After booking their time and placing the orders for their first drinks at the reception counter, Kai and Jun entered a cramped little room. The moment they walked in, Jun gave Kai a big hug from behind without warning. “Thank you SOOOOOOOO MUCH for everything you did for me today!” she squealed.
“Jun?!” Kai was perplexed by the spring in her step since she’d waited until no one was around to show it.
“Be honest: you’re crazy stressed out from that, right?! Let’s sing! Let’s sing a BUNCH! That’s really all we CAN do!!!” Jun had a very weird energy—she was overcome with emotion.
“W-Well, that’s a bit of an overstatement.” Kai’s voice was climbing in pitch too. He could feel, FEEL, Jun’s bounteous breasts pushing up against his back. “Your friends are all great people, Jun. I couldn’t keep up the whole time, but I wouldn’t say it stressed me out. Not at all.”
“Be honest, though. You’re not really a fan of girls like them, are you? But you’d never say anything bad about my friends,” said Jun. “Even though Momoko and some of the other girls have been saying mean things about you behind your back on LINE!”
“Oh, is that why none of them went home with us? I could’ve gone without knowing that,” Kai grumbled.
Man, girls are scary, he thought to himself. Regardless, he would never speak ill of Momoko and the others. He might not be enough of a smooth talker to say any friend of Jun’s was a friend of his too. He could at least show them a bare-minimum level of manners, though. Kai didn’t learn this from his parents or teachers. This nerd had manga, anime, and light novels to thank for that.
“Real talk, though: they’re not all like Mihara, right?”
“Nope! Reina and Nocchi and some of the other girls usually turn on her and put a stop to it.”
“See, I told you. You know so many nice people. I expected nothing less from your friends, Jun.”
“That includes you too, Kai! Love you!”
When Jun said “love” just now, she was saying it the way friends would, not the way a man and a woman might say it to each other. Kai knew that was all she meant. He’d never get the wrong idea like the dense protagonists in light novels. But still... even though she only meant that she liked him and not loved him, Kai was speechless hearing her say this. It made him happy, pure and simple.
I guess... it... Since she’s my friend and all... Kai couldn’t quite gather his thoughts.
You just didn’t say the word “love” like that to somebody’s face, no matter how close a guy and a girl might be. You couldn’t hug each other, or touch each other either.
(? ^o^)??(Otherwise you’d see one of these dudes around.)
Gotcha. There’s some things she can only say because she’s my friend, who just happens to be a girl. Kai decided to tell her how he felt without holding back, too.
He definitely did provide a huge assist to Jun today. He’d gone through a lot of trouble for her. And though Kai had no intentions of reminding Jun that he’d done her a huge favor, he was glad she noticed his efforts and was grateful for what he’d done. It felt good: a very sincere, very human emotion. He was also really happy to have a friend like Jun who noticed those sorts of things. An insensitive person like Momoko would’ve been completely unaware.
That’s why he wanted to make sure to tell her exactly how he felt.
No sooner had the thought crossed his mind... he stumbled over his words! “I-I lurve you, uh, too, Jun!” Wow, how lame was he...
“Yeah, I know you do!” Jun didn’t even care. It made her that much happier, causing her to give him an even tighter hug. This then caused Jun’s boobs to squish against him more, putting Kai’s lower half in a tough spot. Then, they—
“My apologies, but we are not that kind of establishment,”warned the female employee who came to bring them their drinks. Kai and Jun scattered, their cheeks bright red. Neither of them could look her in the eye.
To clear the awkward atmosphere, the two decided to go all out enjoying themselves at karaoke.
“...Laaade~ ...eaVes my cheeeeSt~ ? ...arLet jelly, ...rcLe allll ...rooound me...~ ?” went Jun, singing her heart out to the opening theme song of the anime World Break. Although she wasn’t quite a pro at articulation or pitch, she sang with passion and nailed the transitions between notes like an enka singer. Kai knew her singing style well.
He could tell she was having a good time. Good, she better be! Kai thought, finding her good mood contagious.
Not to be beat, Kai put in yet another song.
“...oLd ooout myyy haan... eeLs like I... ooouCheD yooou~? BuT theeen~ ...reak yooou agaaain~?” A stellar tune he couldn’t sing during their first round of karaoke, one that almost seemed to wipe away all his frustration. It didn’t bother him that he was a worse singer than Jun. He also had to use falsetto because the song was by a female vocalist, but he didn’t find it embarrassing. Why hold back around your best friend?
Since they were both otaku, it was anime song, anime song, anime medley, one after another. Top 40 hits? Not on their watch! Karaoke never felt so good!
“...Rraria! ...pArkle aaaand shiiiiine ?”
“...Rraria! sTrooong, but fraaagile toooo ?”
“...Ess ...e’re ...eeeeded oooout ?”
“...Nn ...eaaaal ...fffe ?”
The pair got really excited singing duets because they had the same taste in anime music, too. They happily held hands, then raised their arms in the air like some kind of idol unit as they sang next to each other on the couch.
“I’m getting kinda thirsty!” Jun piped up.
“Me too!”
“Let’s get a refill on our drinks!”
“Grapefruit for me, please!”
Jun picked up the internal phone next to her seat and ordered some additional drinks. They took a short break while they waited.
As luck would have it, Jun’s phone rang. “It’s from Nocchi,” she noted.
“It’s okay, take it.”
“Nah, she’ll text me on LINE later.”
“No need to be modest,” he replied.
Jun got a message in her LINE group chat while she and Kai were going back and forth. “Nocchi says she’s sorry you got mixed up in all our nonsense. She says we won’t do that anymore, and that next time it can just be the three of us,” Jun said, skimming the message.
“O-Oh, okay...” Of course a social butterfly like Nocchi would say something like that. Being driven to make more friends wasn’t all that unusual, although that didn’t come naturally to Kai. “T-Tell her I’ll think about it,” he stammered.
“You’ll ‘think about it’?” Jun asked, an evil grin spreading across her face. “But Nocchi’s boobs are huge!”
“What does that have to do with it?!” he countered (and meant it).
“I was just joking,” Jun giggled. Then she folded her arms as if to accentuate her own outstanding bust, holding her ample bosom up from below. Grinning again, she added, “I don’t think Nocchi has me beat in that department, though.”
“Wh-What do you mean? I don’t get it,” Kai said, playing innocent. Truth be told, he thought Jun was the clear winner too. Nocchi obviously had the advantage of being tall, but assuming that they were the same size, logically Jun far surpassed her in terms of proportions.
“So Kai, since you caught a peek of Nocchi’s boobs...”
“She FLASHED me!” he objected.
“You’ve had a good look at mine too, yeah?”
“SORRY, that’s just my male instinct kicking in. I’d be missing a few screws if I was capable of resisting!”
“Do you like boobs that much, Kai?”
“If you know a guy who hates boobs, I’d love to meet him!” Kai made the subject as broad as possible to avoid any personal responsibility.
“All right, all right, then...” Jun trailed off. All of a sudden, the mischievous smile on her face stiffened, and she averted her eyes.
“Hm?” Kai stared into her face, not sure what had caused the abrupt change in her behavior. Jun fidgeted in her seat to avoid his gaze.
“D-Do you want to... touch my boobs?”
“...Wha?”
“I-I’m saying, if you like boobs so much, then I’ll let you touch mine!”
“WHAAAAAAT?!” The idea was so shocking, he let out a hysterical cry. “What are you thinking, Jun?!”
“B-Because we’re friends...?”
“You let your friends touch your boobs?!” Kai asked incredulously.
“I-It’s not that big of a deal!” she huffed. “Plus, up until now my friends have all said we should let each other touch at least once if they’re curious.”
“That’s between girls, though! It’s a TOTALLY different story when you’re talking about a guy friend!”
“Y-You’re my only guy friend, though, Kai! You’re special!” Jun yelled, beet red all the way down to her neck. Why say it if it embarrasses you that much? Now I’M embarrassed too! Kai thought, flustered. Maybe she felt like it was a competition between her and Nocchi, who tried to get him to touch her boobs earlier? Or was it simply her way of paying him back for today?
No no no no no NO. I CAN’T... Kai wasn’t sure what face to make.
Jun, on the other hand, was now being quite blunt to mask her shame. “S-So? How about it?” she demanded.
“...Let me think about it for a little bit.”
“‘Think about it’?” Jun inquired, another evil grin spreading across her still flushed cheeks.
Do I rub them, or do I NOT rub them? That is the question, Kai pondered, struggling with his adolescent conundrum. To be quite frank, he did want to. He’d love to rub them for an hour if he could, until he’d gotten his fill.
But, he wondered, should he really trust what Jun said? If he touched her boobs for five minutes, wouldn’t she treat him with contempt and say something like, “I didn’t think you’d take it seriously”? Would he be in the clear if he only did it for three minutes? Should he avoid being greedy and just limit himself to thirty seconds? No, the safest thing to do would be to not touch them at all.
No matter how hard he racked his brain, he couldn’t come up with an answer! What is this game of chicken we’re playing... Dammit!
“Hngh...” Kai’s right hand wobbled aimlessly. A faithful depiction of the turmoil in his heart.
Jun watched attentively, a somewhat nervous expression on her face. She froze every time Kai’s right hand moved in her direction and went “Hrmm...” looking unsatisfied. A faithful depiction of how complex a girl’s heart could be, something Kai simply didn’t understand. At any rate, Jun sat there with bated breath and rosy red cheeks, waiting for Kai’s answer—for Kai to make his move.
Finally, Kai’s right hand stopped dead in its tracks. He’d made up his mind. Slowly, he reached out toward Jun’s voluptuous boobs...!
Can’t fight my male instincts!!!!!
For the very first time in his life! He was steadfastly determined! To touch! TOUCH! A girl’s chest! Would it be soft? Would it be bouncy? Would his heart race non-stop? Would he be able to directly feel Jun’s heart racing in his hand?
“O-Okay then, with your permission, I’m going to touch your boobs. As your friend.”
“Y-Yes, please feel free. Since we’re friends.”
The two were so nervous, they’d both become polite for no reason. Jun was still sitting on the couch without attempting to wriggle away, so Kai moved his right hand toward Jun’s left breast and—
“Excuse me... We areNOT that kind of establishment...” warned the female employee who came to bring them their drinks the moment Kai made his move. Kai immediately leapt away, landing on the very end of the couch a good distance away from Jun. He whistled like nothing had happened at all. Despite the employee’s icy-cold, critical stare, he continued to whistle like an innocent bystander.
The employee said nothing else. She set the drinks down with a conspicuous sigh and then exited the room.
Kai was extremely relieved. Afterwards, Jun burst into laughter.
“Wh-What?” he asked.
“The way you moved just now was WILD. You noped out of there, sitting down like freaking Zeppeli!” she cracked up.
“All men become Ripple users when they find themselves in a do-or-die crisis.”
“You really had your back up against the wall there, huh?”
After cracking a few jokes, the two had a good belly laugh together. Even though things had gotten a hair erotic just now over whether or not he’d touch her boobs, their laughter completely swept it all away.
Jun and Kai sat happily side by side, quenching their thirsts. “Wanna do a duet or something with me, Kai?”
“How about ‘Koi wa Chaos no Shimobenari’?” he suggested.
“Man, that’s a throwback! Nice choice, though.” Jun used the remote and, of course, chose the version that came with footage from the anime. Kai and Jun sang enthusiastically with Nyaruko rampaging on the TV screen.
Nothing beats singing anime songs at karaoke!
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