Chapter 291: Sendai-san never tells the truth — 291
Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV
I slowly crawl my finger to Sendai-san’s lips.
It is softer than the hand that was holding it.
A light press and the lips open.
I push my fingers inside just a little and she bite loosely.
All she asked for was a kiss, and I can’t watch the rest of the movie at this point.
There is no reason to hesitate.
I pull my finger out.
I look into Sendai-san’s eyes, who didn’t want to push me down, but I had to push her down.
Her eyes look straight at me.
Relieved or thrilled.
That day, that time, that hour.
The feeling from her eyes is different.
I am a little nervous today.
I don’t want to know why.
I bring my lips close together and ask before I touch her.
「Sendai-san, you’re not going to watch the rest of the movie even if I kiss you, right?」
I know how she responds in these situations.
There is a flow that Sendai-san has decided upon, and we are not allowed to go against it. The conversation lands in a fixed place.
「That’s not true.」
「You are. You lie so easily, Sendai-san.」
「Try it and see if I’m lying.」
Sendai-san chuckles beneath me.
I instantly know that the smile I often see is made up.
I don’t like it.
The words coming out of her mouth are exactly what I expected and what I am about to do is exactly what she expected. I know and I don’t complain because I know. Any effort to change the direction of the conversation is futile. No matter how differently we try to go about it, the end result of a kiss can only be the same.
Is it one kiss that is sought after or two?
Is it more than one?
I attach my lips to that of Sendai-san without asking her about such things. But when I quickly released my lips and tried to release my body as well, Sendai-san tugged on my arm, as if she didn’t like the touch for less than a second in time.
「Miyagi.」
A slightly low voice calls me.
We have kissed in exchange. So, even though my lips should have no more use for it, Sendai-san’s lips are still attached to mine. As it was, her arms were around my back. Her body was almost as attached to me as her lips, so I grabbed her arm and peeled it off.
「I knew it was a lie. You said earlier that you only tell the truth.」
I bring up what she said to me when we had the mapo tofu.
Sendai-san ate the mapo tofu I made and said it was delicious. When I told her those words were a lie, she told me「she was only telling the truth.」
Sendai-san always does.
She always does things that make me lose faith in her.
「I’m only telling you the truth.」
Sendai-san tells lies with impunity.
「Then watch the rest of the movie.」
「Kisses, I’m missing some of them.」
「Sendai-san, you never said how many times.」
Sendai-san didn’t say how many kisses, and I didn’t ask. I knew this would happen, but I accepted the exchange she offered.
Sendai-san should obey me and I don’t want to obey her.
That’s what I think. And yet, there are times when I move as if I were her puppet in this way.
It’s as if I want to kiss Sendai-san again and again.
I didn’t intend to do so, but it seems as if I do, so I sit up and sit on the floor.
「…You don’t have to watch the movie.」
「Does that mean you want more kisses?」
Sendai-san utters an answer that she knows is wrong.
「No. I’m going back to my room.」
If I was at her beck and call for an exchange price, it will be more than just a kiss.
Perhaps Sendai-san wanted to go beyond the kiss and brought up the ridiculous exchange terms. And we have done that kind of thing so many times that Sendai-san is allowed to do that.
「What about the movie?」
Sendai-san, who had just sat up, blurted out.
「…」
It’s not a long halfway vacation, my close friends are working part-time and I’m the only one with time on my hands. I am not a person who likes to be alone, but there is a gap in my life that allows me to feel that it might be okay to have such a thing with Sendai-san.
Only I touch Sendai-san, and Sendai-san touches only me.
I feel that with that kind of time, I wouldn’t have to think about what Sendai-san is doing at her part-time job.
——Am I really?
「Miyagi.」
I stare at Sendai-san, who naturally sits next to me.
Sendai-san is going to work part-time as a tutor. I am convinced about that, but the face of her student, whom I did not know before, comes to my mind along with the word “part-time job.”
It’s uninteresting.
It’s boring.
It’s gut-wrenching.
I feel so bad that none of them apply.
I feel so bad that even if Sendai-san was mine, it wouldn’t be enough.
「Miyagi.」
A soft voice calls out.
But I can’t reply.
「I guess I’ll watch the rest of the movie.」
With a gentle voice, as if nothing had happened earlier, the tablet on the bed is placed on the table.
「… I’m not watching it. I’m going back to my room.」
「Don’t say that, just watch the rest of the movie. If you prefer not to continue, I’ll play a different movie.」
「That’s not it.」
「Then, what is it?」
Sendai-san’s hand reaches out and touches my hair. Her fingertips intertwine with mine as if it were nothing, and she tugs lightly on it. I take her hand in mine and stick it to the floor.
「What? I’d rather touch you than the floor, Miyagi.」
When she said this, Sendai-san barreled her hand off the floor. Then she tried to touch my hair again, and I slapped her hand.
「…Sendai-san, do you touch your students?」
I ask in a voice that is quieter than I expected, and a flat voice responds.
「Do you think there’s an element of touching students when I’m teaching them to learn?」
「I don’t know, but there might be some.」
When I was in high school, Sendai-san touched me while I was studying.
I touched Sendai-san, too.
「None. I don’t need to touch them to teach them to learn.」
「And what about from the students?」
「Is that student Kikyō-chan?」
「And the other kid.」
「There is no element of a tutor being touched by a student…」
I hear the same voice as when I tell her the menu for dinner, and it breaks off in mid-sentence. The words do not continue in a broken line. I felt uncomfortable and was about to pull a tissue out of the platypus’ tissue cover when Sendai-san started to say something like,「Is that…」and I kicked her leg.
I don’t want her to say that I am jealous.
This is a different emotion than jealousy.
I don’t want Sendai-san to do to anyone else what she does to me.
Just that, nothing more, nothing less.
I get up, grab the penguin off the bed, take it, and place it next to Sendai-san.
「This, my alternative. If there’s something you want to do, you can do it with the penguin.」
I go crazy when I’m with Sendai-san.
I say things that I would never say to Maika and the others, and I think things that Maika and the others would never think.
I know this is because Sendai-san and Maika and the others are classified as different.
Maika and the others are friends.
Sendai-san is——
Just as Maika and the others are tucked away in the place marked “friend,” Sendai-san is tucked away in the place marked “roommate.” However, there are times when I don’t feel like reading the letters that categorized Sendai-san.
This kind of thing is not good.
The distance between me and Sendai-san is too close now.
It must be a distance of about one penguin.
「…So this is Miyagi. Well, you two look exactly alike. It’s pretty much out there.」
Sendai-san holds the penguin and pats it on the stomach.
「I don’t have that much of a belly.」
I squeezed Sendai-san’s leg and then sat down a little farther away from her.
「Really? Can I check?」
I didn’t say anything good or bad, but Sendai-san closes the distance on her own and pats my stomach.
「Annoying.」
I slap Sendai-san’s hand as hard as I can.
「It’s alright, just a little bit.」
「It’s not alright. If you want to touch me, touch the penguin.」
「Does that mean I can do whatever I want to Pen-chan?」
「…What are you going to do with it?」
I push Sendai-san’s shoulder and look at her, and she gives me a meaningful smile.
「Whatever I want?」
「It’s not fair to ask questions like that. You always do that, don’t you, Sendai-san?」
「I thought I would do what you want you to do, Miyagi. Pen-chan, you’re taking Miyagi’s place, aren’t you?」
「You’re going to do something weird, give it back to me.」
「I told you I wouldn’t do anything weird.」
Smiling at me, Sendai-san kisses the penguin’s beak and then its belly. When I thought she would stop at that, her lips would stick to its short legs, and I would take the penguin there.
「I knew you did something weird. Sendai-san, you pervert.」
She really doesn’t do fragile things.
I put the penguin back on the bed and glare at Sendai-san.
「I don’t think it’s as perverted as it looks.」
「It’s definitely perverted.」
「Well, Miyagi. What about your promise to go see the pervert and the penguins? You haven’t decided on a destination yet, but would you say you’re not going?」
Without reaching out or closing the distance, Sendai-san holds my knees.
「…I’m going.」
「Where would it be?」
「I decided.」
「Miyagi?」
Sendai-san says and looks at me in surprise.
「Yes. So, Sendai-san, don’t make a mess. And I’ll watch the movie, so just be quiet.」
After reminding Sendai-san that I only do what I don’t have to do, I pressed the play button on my tablet.
Announcement:
I will be the reducing the chapters being scheduled from 4 to 2, starting at Chapter 292, and once we reached Chapter 301, I will be reducing the chapters scheduled into 1. Also, I will be updating the older chapters to get them revised because I now have the capabilities to do so.
I will be also translating two new Yuri series which is currently in the drafts. One is game/reincarnation-themed where a girl is reincarnated as a rival lady which is in love on her favorite villainess, and because the heroine is going to a route which leads to the ruin of that villainess, the reincarnated rival lady will do her best to save her. (Edited this one, there might misunderstanding if I didn’t do so)
The other one was sports-themed in which the Kendo-playing heroine lost against the strongest female Kendo-player in middle school, but both already quitted the sport at high school, and now the latter offered the former training with the condition of “if the former wins against latter, she will join the Kendo Club.”
Further announcements for these two series will be in Travis Translations Discord Server.
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