Kaguya-sama Wants Me to Surrender

"You still want a piggyback ride?"

"I want a different reward." Shadow Chika shook her head, her tone calm. "Remember the first time we played board games in the Game Club? The punishment I drew was to call someone Daddy, so..."

"So what?"

"I want the president to call me Mommy."

"..."

Amamiya Natsuki's eye twitched, and he couldn't help glancing at Secretary Chika.

First it was a piggyback ride, and now she wanted someone to call her Mommy. As expected of you—your wishes are impossible to predict!

"I didn't. I wouldn't." Secretary Chika denied it guiltily, stammering, "Um... I called you Daddy before, so it'd only be fair if you called me Mommy, right?"

"That's certainly fair," Amamiya Natsuki said expressionlessly. "Just a little perverted."

"How is that perverted?!" Secretary Chika's pretty face flushed as she stubbornly retorted, "Married couples call each other Daddy and Mommy all the time, don't they?"

In Japan, married couples could call each other by name or use terms like "darling." The traditional terms used by the older generation were "Daddy" and "Mommy," so in that respect, it really wasn't strange.

However...

"I'm lying." Shadow Chika mercilessly exposed her. "I actually want the president to call me Mommy so I can experience motherly love through him."

Oh, come on!

Now we were talking about motherly love? Where was a high schooler supposed to get motherly love from?!

Secretary Chika's pretty face flushed bright red. She guiltily turned away, covered her ears with both hands, and muttered, "Don't look at me. I don't know anything."

"Phew..."

Amamiya Natsuki took a deep breath and calmed down.

Reward good deeds and punish bad ones. He'd agreed to do it, so even if it made him cry, he had to follow through.

It was only calling her Mommy.