"How-how-how-how did you suddenly come in?! Don't you know how to knock?! Go to hell!!!"
Inside the room, Suzune Horikita was changing clothes when Yuki Gyakukai suddenly walked in. Her face flushed crimson, and even the skin exposed to the air turned faintly pink.
She noticed Yuki's burning gaze roaming over her bare skin.
She didn't care anymore. In an instant, she charged forward and swung a high kick at Yuki's head.
Yuki was speechless as Suzune rushed at him with her leg raised, practically offering him a view.
But when he saw her ankle right in front of him, his hands reacted instinctively. He grabbed it, then yanked hard.
The next second,
Suzune's view turned upside down. She was dangling in the air, held aloft, both legs firmly clasped in the man's hands.
An indescribable mix of humiliation and indignation filled Suzune's heart. Her red eyes blazed with cold killing intent as she glared at Yuki.
"I'll kill you... I'll kill you... Go to hell... Go to hell..."
Suzune kept flailing her little hands, trying to strike Yuki where it hurt.
That was every man's fatal weakness, after all. Yuki felt a chill run through his groin.
He reacted quickly, swinging Suzune into the air before catching her in his arms as she cried out, holding her tight in a bridal carry.
Feeling that she couldn't move at all, that she couldn't even struggle, and sensing the unfamiliar touch against her skin,
Suzune felt she might as well die right then and there. This was mortifying beyond belief.
But in an instant, it was as if an electric current flashed through her mind.
Wait, this was her room. Why should she be embarrassed?
She gritted her teeth and gave Yuki a cold look, speaking in a voice that was almost too embarrassing to utter.
"Yuki Gyakukai, you're going to take responsibility, right? If you don't, you'd better be ready to die!"
Enjoying the girl's soft, smooth skin in his arms while listening to her vicious words, Yuki looked down, speechless.
"I already have Tomie. I can't take responsibility for you."
"Ever heard of divorcing her? Besides, you barged into my room. Believe me, I'll send you straight to jail."
Suzune's expression was almost icy. Setting aside the blush on her face, she looked pretty intimidating.
"Then I'm sorry, but you gave me the key card. How can you blame me for this when you're the one who made the mistake?"
Suzune felt like a hot potato in his arms, so he let go at once and set her down on the bed.
Back in familiar territory, Suzune reacted immediately.
She spread her arms, grabbed the blanket from the bed, and wrapped it around her naked body completely, without giving a thought to the fact that it was still summer.
Before long, the room grew a little stuffy, and Suzune, bundled up in the blanket, began to sweat.
"Why don't you get dressed first?"
"No. With a pervert like you in the room, I feel like my body's in danger."
"Tch, you're really milking this. Fine, I'll turn on the air conditioner for you."
"The remote's in the drawer. Set it to 25.5 degrees."
At Suzune's words, Yuki pursed his lips, but quickly made his way to the drawer.
Suzune was sitting on the bed. As she watched Yuki approach the drawer, something seemed to occur to her, and her face suddenly grew hot again.
"Don't—never mind. Let's just leave the air conditioner off..."
By the time she said this, it was already too late.
Yuki hadn't noticed anything amiss at first, but then he spotted the clothes she'd just changed out of, a chair with suspicious wet marks, the faint smell of the sea in the air, and the computer screen she'd left on.
He put the pieces together in an instant, then turned in surprise toward Suzune, who was blushing and couldn't meet his eyes.
"You only got me into the galgame world a month ago, and you're already paying tribute to the legendary mining master, becoming a wordless water mage."
Beep!
The air conditioner switched on. A cool breeze drifted through the dorm room, but it did nothing to dispel the heat radiating from Suzune.
It was like being alone in your room, playing pilot and taking off. Just as you were picking up speed, your dad suddenly burst in through the door, and you couldn't interrupt the spell you were casting,
and then, father and son met face-to-face.
It was beyond mortifying.
Perhaps sensing the awkward atmosphere in the room, Yuki fell silent too.
After all, he was the one who had introduced innocent Suzune to this esteemed circle.
So naturally, he bore some responsibility.
After a long silence,
"Yuki, you didn't see anything just now, right? That's right, isn't it?"
Suzune looked at him almost pleadingly, as if she'd burst into tears the next second if he disagreed.
"Yeah. I didn't see anything."
In truth, he'd seen half of it.
Which half, you ask?
Probably the half where she'd pulled on a pair of panties with a little bear pattern, up to her thighs.
Suzune: That means you saw everything!!!
"So nothing that just happened actually happened."
"Mm, exactly. I have a bad memory. Nothing happened just now."
When he put it that way, Suzune, who had nearly managed to fool herself, felt another wave of shame.
She immediately covered her flushed face with both hands and spoke in a trembling voice. "Ah... right... go to my wardrobe and get me a set of casual clothes."
Yuki obeyed without question. Once he brought her the clothes, Suzune took them and rustled around under the blanket as she got dressed.
Why didn't she kick Yuki out?
Suzune just felt that she'd made a fool of herself again.
After getting dressed and climbing off the bed, she walked over to the desk without changing her expression. Using her dirty clothes, she quickly wiped away the remaining wet marks, then carried the clothes to the bathroom.
Once she'd finished tidying everything up, she finally let out a small sigh of relief.
She felt more confident now. Turning to the person responsible for her embarrassment, she asked,
"So why did you get to my room so quickly? You said you'd be a little while."
"Right, just a little while. I came over as soon as I got the key card you gave me."
Realizing she was the one to blame, Suzune ground her upper and lower teeth together. The grating sound filled the bedroom.
She stared at Yuki with a cold gaze, as if he were the prey she was gnashing her teeth over.
Still feeling that wasn't enough, she strode over, put both hands against Yuki, who didn't resist, and pushed him onto the bed.
She stared down at him.
"Honestly, I'm still furious. What exactly are we to each other?"
Yuki didn't know the right answer, so he could only make a tentative guess.
"Close friends? Yuki and Bug-une?"
He remembered Suzune had once said that once you liked galgames, you were on the same level as an insect.
So calling her Bug-une seemed like a safe bet, right?
But apparently, he'd answered wrong.
Suzune's forehead was now bulging with veins. There was a faint smile on her lips, but there was no way it meant she was happy!
"You've got some nerve, you bastard. You really should just go to hell!
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