Sawamura Got Himself into Trouble

"Furuhashi-san, you really are gorgeous! Such a beauty! You're so lucky to have such a beautiful childhood friend! I'm so jealous."

"Yeah, yeah! I'm jealous to death!"

"Really? Honestly, I was startled today too! Come to think of it, the last time I saw Fumino was three years ago!"

"Seriously? Sen-chan, you haven't even seen any photos of her?"

"Of course not. They're such a hassle. Though she did ask for photos of me every so often. What a pain. What's so interesting about photos anyway?"

"A hassle... You're hopeless."

"Yeah, yeah, Sendou, you really are hopeless. What a useless man!" Sawamura chimed in too. Though he had no idea what his friends were talking about, he could tell they were ganging up on Sendou, so he joined in.

"Your face itching again?" Sendou grabbed Sawamura's cheek and gave it a thorough kneading!

"Save me, everyone!"

The others exchanged glances, shrugged, and collectively chose to ignore him.

"Ah!!!"

"You sure are lively, Ei-chan!"

"Dinner's ready!"

"Sendou, let go already! Dinner's ready, didn't you hear? Let go!"

"Oh? I'll let you off for now!"

His cheeks felt pretty nice! Sendou thought. Who knew how long he had been playing with Sawamura's face?

"It looks delicious! ×N (everyone except Sendou)"

"I didn't know you could cook. When did you learn?" Sendou asked Fumino.

But Fumino's eyes began to wander.

"There's a lot you don't know!"

"Oh, Wakaba made it?"

"What did you say?" Fumino suddenly reached out, grabbed both sides of Sendou's face, and tugged as she spoke.

"Mmph!"

"What did you say? I couldn't hear a single word!"

What goes around comes around! Sendou had completely forgotten.

He had learned cheek-pinching from Fumino.

"Sorry!"

He said this as he removed Fumino's hands from his face.

He did not notice that when he held Fumino's hands in his own, she turned her head away as though shocked by electricity and only rubbed her own cheeks.

"All right, I only helped a tiny bit with dinner."

"Let's eat!" Sendou completely ignored that remark. He did not want to get his cheeks pinched again.

"Let's eat!" Seeing Sendou begin, everyone else said it too and started without ceremony.

Only Sawamura stared at Fumino with stars in his eyes. He seemed to think she looked cool when she bullied Sendou, like she had done something he never would have dared to imagine. Probably!

Dinner was delicious. Everyone gradually finished eating and began clearing up, but when they were about to carry the dishes into the kitchen, Wakaba and Fumino rushed ahead and took everyone's bowls and chopsticks away, saying they would wash them later.

Then everyone watched Sendou eat...

"Um, don't stare at me like that. I'm embarrassed!"

As he spoke, he sped up and quickly finished the remaining food.

"I'm full!"

"Akila, I ran some hot water. Why don't you all go bathe first? I didn't expect your house to have two large baths. It's so luxurious!" Wakaba said with a sigh.

"My parents are traditional Japanese people. They especially enjoy baths, and they wanted it to be convenient for guests, so they built an enormous bathhouse. Wakaba."

"Hmm?"

"You'll become a wonderful wife someday!"

In an instant, both Wakaba and Fumino blushed! No one noticed how Fumino's previously hostile attitude had changed.

"What's wrong?" Sendou asked curiously.

"Nothing!"

"I didn't expect Sen-chan to be such an airhead sometimes?" The others secretly communicated with their eyes.

No one actually said anything more. They all rushed into the ultra-luxurious bath Wakaba had mentioned, though the two girls were delayed a little because they had to wash the dishes.

"Are Wakaba and the others still bathing? Going by manga logic, shouldn't one of us suggest peeking on them right about now?" After bathing, Sendou saw everyone sitting around with nothing to do and said so.

"Huh? What are those looks for? Hey, I was just joking! Don't take it seriously!" But the moment he saw everyone except that idiot Sawamura looking at him strangely, he hurriedly explained himself. He had suddenly remembered that this group of friends was, well... angels.

"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed at the rare sight of Sendou panicking.

"I didn't know Sen-chan could be this cute!"

"Huh? Huh? What are you all talking about?" Sawamura could not understand any of it!

After a while!

"Sendou! You actually wanted to peep!!! I can't believe I misjudged you!!!" All right, one person had taken it seriously—and his reaction time was incredibly long, on top of that loud voice!

"Idiot, keep it down!" Sendou immediately rushed over to cover Sawamura's mouth.

"Ei-chan, it's not like that!" Their friends frantically tried to explain as well.

Sometimes, having one idiot around was really exhausting.

"What are you talking about? Peeping?" The worst part was that Wakaba and Fumino had just finished bathing and walked out.

"Wakaba!!! Sendou wants to peep while you're bathing!!!" Sawamura shouted at lightning speed.

"We're doomed!" everyone silently complained.

"Ah!" The two girls cried out first. Then Wakaba watched the group wildly making all sorts of gestures and understood what had happened.

"If it's Akila, then I don't really mind!"

But Fumino's mind went completely blank. She lost all judgment and blurted out that one sentence!

"Huh?" Sendou turned around.

"Ah?" As if frozen in place, everyone turned to look at Fumino too. But Fumino could no longer see or hear anything.

"It's fine. It's fine even if you see me."

"Even if Akila saw me, you'd apologize."

"But an apology isn't enough!"

"Don't look. You really shouldn't look!" Fumino stared blankly ahead and said several sentences in a row. Maybe she realized her earlier words were inappropriate and tried to fix them, with the result being...

"Ah!!! What am I even saying?"

"You're an airhead too?" Everyone stared blankly at her as she spoke. They were probably too shocked to think anything else. Everyone except Sawamura, of course.

"Um, I understand, Fumino. Stop talking now.

We were only joking about the peeping thing.

That idiot just took it seriously."

Sendou placed both hands on Fumino's shoulders and glanced at Sawamura as he spoke.

Understand my ass! What the hell is she even talking about? he screamed inwardly.

He really had to get that out of his system. At the same time, he decided to show some proper affection to someone who still had no idea he had gotten himself into trouble.

After finally calming Fumino down, Wakaba suggested a pillow fight to liven things up and ease the tension. Aside from Fumino, Sawamura, and Sendou, the thoroughly confused others blindly agreed.

Seeing that it was not helping much, Sendou reacted quickly, picked up a pillow, and hurled it at Sawamura. Sawamura flew into a rage and struck back, and only then did everyone else realize what was happening and join the battle.

After a fierce battle, the room finally escaped its strange atmosphere.

After that...

"Sendou, spare me! I was wrong! I'll never do it again! Save me, everyone! Hurry, this guy's gone crazy!!! Ah!!!"

For several hundred meters around, someone's utterly miserable screams echoed—someone who still had no idea exactly how he had offended Sendou.

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