Comprehensive Anime: Making Money Starting from Saki

Of course, this was not the first time Kageyama Sora had looked, but last time, both of them had been shy and neither had the courage to observe the other too closely.

Now that their relationship felt increasingly intimate, he naturally had the energy to appreciate the beauty of his partner.

And such appreciation only made Kageyama Sora feel that Haramura Nodoka was even more wonderful.

"You are mine, Nodoka." He whispered, then leaned down again... and kissed Haramura Nodoka's lips.

Haramura Nodoka's hands also unconsciously wrapped around Kageyama Sora's neck, pulling him closer.

And this time, Kageyama Sora's goal was not as simple as just a kiss.

Kageyama Sora's kiss traveled downward from the girl's red lips.

Then, to Haramura Nodoka's utter shock.

While patiently kissing her, Kageyama Sora grabbed her ankles.

Then, in a way Haramura Nodoka could not comprehend, he dragged her to the edge of the bed and wedged her entire body against the bed frame.

The white over-the-knee socks had not yet been removed, and beneath the hem of her skirt was that existence which had already stirred with emotion, sharing the same color as Haramura Nodoka's hair and the lighting in the room.

Then, under Haramura Nodoka's bewildered expression, Kageyama Sora lowered his head to kiss the damp pistil.

Kageyama Sora only felt the girl's sweetness explode in his mind, while Haramura Nodoka simultaneously let out an uncontrollable cry—how, how could he do such a thing.

This overwhelming sensation, a feeling she had never experienced before, left Haramura Nodoka's mind completely blank.

But Kageyama Sora was still capable of doing even more excessive things.

He explored deeper, stirring the folds within, and Haramura Nodoka actually reached the clouds without having had actual, truly intimate contact with Kageyama Sora yet...

As Haramura Nodoka felt the strange sound of rain explode against her eardrums, she heard her own bones emit a crisp sound.

The lace sheets wrapped around her ankles like melted moonlight, refracting her body heat into fine silver foil.

Kageyama Sora's breath was a scorching tide, carrying the unique scent of a young man, washing over her trembling pistil and causing her to condense countless dewdrops.

"It seems that Nodoka is already able to accept more now."

Saying this, Kageyama Sora launched a further offensive.

His fingertips touched the protruding vertebrae at the back of her neck, which made Haramura Nodoka, who was already shivering, tremble even more violently.

The moment their skin touched, every sensation was magnified like a crystal under a microscope—the calluses on his palms brushed against her waist like sandpaper polishing mother-of-pearl; his moist kisses meandered down her ribs, each inch blooming like a thorny rose.

Haramura Nodoka stared at the crystal chandelier swaying on the ceiling, the light spots shattering into a kaleidoscope on her retinas.

And when they reached intimate contact in the true sense, Haramura Nodoka heard her own heartbeat shatter the glass cover, and countless tiny rainbow fragments fell rustlingly onto Kageyama Sora's scorching skin.

Their damp breaths intertwined into a spiderweb, entangling their trembling limbs.

She felt herself melt into a pool of spring water, reshaped in his palms, or like crushed moonlight seeping into every inch of his texture.

Those secret gardens hidden in her girlhood were gently uncovered by him at this moment, revealing the softest pistil.

The torrential rain that had exploded deep within her heart turned into a fine mist at some point, shrouding the room in a hazy oil painting.

Haramura Nodoka's nails sank into the muscles of Kageyama Sora's back, carving winding riverbeds into his sweat-slicked skin.

Those suppressed whimpers mixed with the sound of rain, spilling from her lips like a startled nightingale singing a broken song in the midnight forest.

She saw her own reflection swaying in his pupils, unable to distinguish between reality and dreams.

Haramura Nodoka only felt all her senses burning, only to be reborn in the ashes.

Chapter 29: Why Not Say Boyfriend

The morning mist had not yet dispersed, and Kageyama Sora and Haramura Nodoka walked side by side on the slope leading to Kiyosumi High School.

Dewdrops on the sycamore leaves dripped onto their shoulders from time to time. Haramura Nodoka hung her head, kicking pebbles, and the penguin charm on her school bag swayed gently with her steps.

Suddenly, a camera flash pierced the thin mist, and a man and a woman holding microphones emerged from the corner, calling out to Haramura Nodoka: "Haramura Nodoka-san!"

The lead female reporter's work badge on her chest shimmered with a metallic luster in the morning light: "It's been a year. The last time we met was when you won the individual championship at the National Junior High School Mahjong Tournament..."

She deliberately drew out the end of her sentence, but she remained polite throughout, not intentionally getting too close to Haramura Nodoka in a way that would make her uncomfortable.

"Eh?" Haramura Nodoka turned her head instinctively, but because of the movement, her back bumped into Kageyama Sora's warm chest.

The young man's faint scent, wrapped in his body heat, surged over, making her grip the hem of her school skirt tightly... because the scent on Kageyama Sora right now was the scent of the body wash from Haramura Nodoka's home; how could it not make Haramura Nodoka feel flustered?

"Speaking of which, who is this beside you..." Another male reporter's lens swept over Kageyama Sora's cold, sharp profile, and the overlapping shadows of the two in the viewfinder were stretched very long.

"...He is her older brother." Kageyama Sora reached out and pulled Haramura Nodoka behind him, the lingering warmth of his palm branding the back of her neck through the fabric.

As he lowered his eyes, his bangs cast a small shadow under his gaze, carrying a very strange sense of mystery.

"Older brother..." The female reporter drew out her tone meaningfully, her pen tip scratching across her notebook.

Haramura Nodoka stared at the white laces on her sneakers, watching the morning mist condense into fine water droplets on the leather surface. She heard the rustling of Kageyama Sora's clothes and felt inexplicably uncomfortable, so she changed the subject: "...May I ask, is there something going on this time?"

Mentioning serious business, the female reporter immediately asked: "Because the National High School Mahjong Tournament is coming up soon, is there anyone that contestant Haramura Nodoka is particularly concerned about?"

The image of Saki Miyanaga suddenly appeared in Haramura Nodoka's mind, and she thought about the way she won her hands.

But... she was her teammate.

"No." Haramura Nodoka turned around, ripples appearing in her blue pupils beneath her bangs: "I don't know anything about school team players or the like, and I don't care. I only intend to do my best."

After saying this, Haramura Nodoka seemed to have no intention of dwelling on the matter further and headed straight toward the school.

Kageyama Sora followed her immediately.

"That's a really cool answer, Nodoka." Kageyama Sora curled his lips, revealing a gentle expression rarely seen by others. His fingertips brushed against the hair strands disheveled by the wind, his movements as light as touching fragile glass.

"...Yeah..." Haramura Nodoka suddenly kicked a pebble at her feet, watching it tumble down the slope. She bit her lower lip, struggling for a long time before asking about the thing that bothered her most: "About what you said earlier, calling me your sister..."

"Ah, you mean that." Kageyama Sora was quite frank about it: "I wanted to say you were my girlfriend, but it would be troublesome if your family saw it in the news."

As he said this, his gaze swept over her pale knuckles. He was actually quite afraid that Haramura Nodoka would be saddened by this, and it wouldn't be good if it affected her mood.

"Is that the only reason?" Haramura Nodoka looked up abruptly, her eyelashes still damp with morning dew.

She suddenly felt the cherry blossom trees by the slope swaying, with petals falling one after another onto their shoulders.

"Of course." Kageyama Sora reached out to pat her head, his fingertips grazing her soft hair as he deliberately lowered his voice to tease her, "If you don't like it, how about I call you my girlfriend next time?"

He saw the tips of the girl's ears turn bright red instantly. As she turned and ran toward the school, the penguin charm on her school bag clattered crisply, blending with the sigh he didn't voice, dissipating into the thickening morning mist.

After watching Haramura Nodoka leave, Kageyama Sora returned to Ryumonbuchi High School for his classes.

As he stepped into the classroom, the bell for class rang just in time.

Kageyama Sora tossed his school bag onto his desk casually and sat down lazily.

On the podium, the teacher was rambling on about knowledge that was already deeply ingrained in his mind. He rested his chin on one hand, his gaze drifting toward the swaying branches outside the window.

Rather than saying he came to class, it was more that he was worried Ryumonbuchi Toka would go crazy again and say he was skipping class, wasting the effort she put into enrolling him.

The chalk scratched against the blackboard, but Kageyama Sora's thoughts were not on the lesson at all.

When Haramura Nodoka looked up and asked him "Is that the only reason?", the morning dew on her eyelashes and her reddened earlobes played over and over in his mind.

Although he had explained it at the time, he was still very concerned about it.

The lunch break bell finally rang. Kageyama Sora grabbed his school bag and ran toward Kiyosumi High School without hesitation.

He was already familiar with the Mahjong Club at Kiyosumi High School. The gatekeeper nodded at him with a smile, as if he were a regular visitor.

Pushing open the door to the Mahjong Club, only Hisa Takei was inside, leisurely flipping through a magazine.

"Where are the others? Why are you the only one here?" Kageyama Sora asked with confusion, pulling up a chair to sit down.

Hisa Takei put down the magazine, a meaningful smile curling the corners of her lips: "Today, a server at Mako Someya's family cafe took leave, so Haramura Nodoka and Saki Miyanaga went to help out."

"I see..." Kageyama Sora nodded slightly, "You people in the Mahjong Club have quite a good relationship..."

"It's a maid cafe, you know." Hisa Takei leaned in suddenly, her eyes flashing with a cunning light, as if she were hinting at something to Kageyama Sora.

"A maid?" Kageyama Sora raised an eyebrow. The image of Haramura Nodoka wearing a maid outfit surfaced in his mind involuntarily, and his heart skipped a beat for no reason.

"What? Do you really want to see it?" Before Hisa Takei's teasing could fade, the door was "banged" open. Yuki Kataoka rushed in, her maid outfit skirt fluttering: "Because I guessed someone would want to see it, I specifically wore it back!"

She struck an exaggerated pose, "Would you like to see under my skirt!"

"...Yuki, you're a girl!" Hisa Takei held her forehead, looking completely helpless.

"Hahahaha, Kageyama-kun isn't an outsider." Yuki Kataoka laughed heartily.

After the noise in the room subsided slightly, Hisa Takei said seriously: "There is a mahjong table at Mako Someya's cafe, and customers and neighbors come to play mahjong every day."

"Then wouldn't Nodoka and Saki-chan be winning all the time!" Kageyama Sora thought of Haramura Nodoka's superb mahjong skills, and his mouth curled up involuntarily.

"That's right, but... if they keep winning, it loses its meaning, so I asked someone very powerful to come..." Hisa Takei glanced at her watch, "Looking at the time, she should be here soon."

"A powerful person? Did Takei-san invite someone to give them... a lesson?" Kageyama Sora became interested, leaning forward with curiosity in his eyes.

He suddenly felt a sense of anticipation, wanting to know who could bring a challenge to Haramura Nodoka in mahjong, and even more, wanting to see that different, maid-clad Haramura Nodoka as soon as possible.

Chapter 30: Maid Haramura Nodoka and Saki Miyanaga

When Kageyama Sora fled from the Kiyosumi High School Mahjong Club with a red face, the afternoon sun was slanting across the street, dyeing the crimson on his earlobes even more intense.

He wasn't the type of person who was easily embarrassed...

It was just that the moment Yuki Kataoka lifted her skirt, the wind carrying the girl's body heat and a faint scent of soap rushed toward him, and the lace on the edge of the small white ruffles fluttered gently, like a butterfly about to take flight.

That soft, vaguely visible curve, and the girl's crisp laughter from her successful prank, lingered in his mind.

His fingertips trembled slightly, forcing himself to pull his thoughts back to reality.

It was truly perverted; what kind of girl uses showing her skirt as a prank?

Lost in thought, he crossed two streets, and the sign for the maid cafe run by Mako Someya's family came into view.

In the glass display window, a doll wearing a ruffled apron was holding a coffee, and through the mist-covered glass window, Kageyama Sora locked eyes with Haramura Nodoka sitting at the mahjong table.

The light pink maid outfit made Haramura Nodoka's waistline look even more slender, and under the white lace headband, a few strands of hair hung beside her flushed cheeks.

She was looking down, fiddling with the mahjong tiles, her eyelashes casting a small shadow under her eyes.

Saki Miyanaga, also wearing a maid outfit, tilted her head, her fingertips unconsciously spinning a mahjong tile, and the maid bell on her hair tip swayed gently with her movements.

Opposite the two, a girl with short purple hair in a gothic style was devouring a pork cutlet bowl.

And opposite the gothic-style girl, a middle-aged man in a suit was organizing the tiles with a bitter face, beads of sweat seeping from his forehead.

Presumably, this purple-haired gothic girl was the person Hisa Takei had asked to help.

Kageyama Sora happened to know her. She was a professional mahjong player known as the "Queen of Pulling Down the First Place," active in both professional leagues and corporate teams, and ranked twenty-third in the country according to her professional player card.

Of course, this was the kind of knowing where Kageyama Sora knew her, but she did not know Kageyama Sora.

After all, for someone who developed mahjong software, how could he not be familiar with certain professional players?

Kageyama Sora had not expected that Hisa Takei would actually be able to invite such a figure.

He pushed open the Gate of Opening with a smile, the wind chimes tinkling as he did.

Against the backdrop of the maids' "Welcome home, Master," he walked straight toward the mahjong table and offered the middle-aged man a polite smile: "Excuse me, sir, may I join in?"

The man looked as if he had been granted amnesty, hurriedly rising to vacate his seat, not forgetting to pat Kageyama Sora on the shoulder before leaving: "Brother, good luck."

Clearly, the man had lost quite badly and was already a bit broken, just having lacked the opportunity to leave.

Haramura Nodoka was stunned the moment she saw Kageyama Sora.

For a moment, she didn't know if it was because Kageyama Sora had suddenly appeared here, or because she was so embarrassed to be seen in a maid outfit by the person she liked.

Saki Miyanaga was much more direct; she stood up abruptly, her skirt fluttering: "Eh, Kageyama-kun, why are you here?"

Kageyama Sora smiled at Saki Miyanaga in a friendly manner: "Because I went to look for Nodoka and was told you two were here, so I came over."

Haramura Nodoka's face turned even redder.

Fujita Yasuko, who had been devouring her food, looked up at these words to size Kageyama Sora up, a meaningful smile curling the corners of her lips: "Are you also from the mahjong club?"

Kageyama Sora pulled out a chair and sat down, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing the cold tabletop: "I am a student at Ryumonbuchi High School... If I had to describe my relationship with the Kiyosumi High School mahjong club, it would probably be because... I am Haramura Nodoka's... boyfriend."

As he spoke, his gaze fell upon Haramura Nodoka, and the moment she finally looked up to meet his eyes, the tips of her ears quickly dyed a faint shade of red.

This reminded Haramura Nodoka of what Kageyama Sora had said when they parted that morning: "If saying I am your older brother makes you uneasy, then next time I will call myself your boyfriend."

Once these words were out, it wasn't just Fujita Yasuko who was surprised; even Saki Miyanaga was incredibly excited: "Hey, hey, hey! Boyfriend? When did you two start dating!"