Chapter 24

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Chapter 24\n

Title: Your tongue slipped, Yuunagi-san\n \n“Sa-, Sakuraba-kun, I have something important to tell you….”(Yuunagi)\n \n“….What’s up?”(Sakuraba)\n \nOver the phone, Yuunagi told me this reluctantly, her voice filled with guilt.\n \nToday, I received a message from Yuunagi saying ‘I want to call you,’ so I had no choice but to put my book down and take a break from reading.\n \nI feel like, recently, the amount of times she’s asked me to call her has increased.\nOn top of that, for whatever reason, I found myself giving into her requests.\nThough, well, while I’m watching a movie, I don’t like checking my smartphone at all, so I ignore all the messages that come in regardless of their contents.\n \nBut this is really bad.\nBefore I knew it, conversations with Yuunagi had gradually become a part of my daily life.\nI’m sure it’s due to her assertiveness and her good communication skills, but, regardless, I need to come up with some countermeasures as soon as possible.\n　\nWell, for today, that’s besides the point.\n \n“I have a bad feeling about the way you said that.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“We-, well, how should I say this….I guess it’s kind of a report, or I guess a request….”(Yuunagi)\n \n“So, what is it?”(Sakuraba)\n \n“……It’s just….one of my friends…..found out….”(Yuunagi)\n \n“Found out what?”(Sakuraba)\n \n“….About how we’re dating.”(Yuunagi)\n \n“Huh?”(Sakuraba)\n \nMy body instantly froze up, my phone pressed against my ear.\nThis girl is unbelievable, really.\n \n“Do you mean someone besides Shirato-san? Did you forget the conditions?”(Sakuraba)\n \n“I-, I remember them! But, this time, I felt that I really needed to tell that person, no matter what.”(Yuunagi)\n \n“Without asking for my confirmation?”(Sakuraba)\n \n“Y-, yes….”(Yuunagi)\n \nEven over the phone, I could tell that Yuunagi was shrinking back.\nI’m sure she had some really compelling reasons for doing what she did, and I’m sure she feels sorry as well, but…..\n \n“……I see. Then, thank you for our time up until now.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“EEh?! Wait a minute!! Sakuraba-kun?!”(Yuunagi)\n \nSo noisy.\n \nIt was so loud that I moved my phone away from my ear.\nI thought about hanging up and leaving things as they were, but I was afraid of what might happen afterwards, so I decided not to.\n \n“Sakuraba-kun, please!! Hello?! Are you there?!”(Yuunagi)\n \n“……I can hear you, so calm down.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“Haaaaa…..” I heard a long sigh come from over the phone.\nI knew this would happen….\n \nWell, in any case, it’s a bad move for me to break up with her unless I’m willing to put in a lot of effort and commit all the way to it.\n[TLN: I struggled a lot with the end of this sentence. JP: まあ、どのみち僕から別れを切り出すのは、よっぽどじゃなければ悪手だ. Lmk if you have a better translation for this line(particularly what the jyanakereba is referring to)]\n \nThose 3 rules are, in effect, just there as a deterrent to prevent Yuunagi from going off and doing whatever she wants. \n \nThat’s why, despite the fact that I can’t really do anything about her breaking the agreement, I also can’t afford to not behave threateningly. \nIn order to make sure the deterrent keeps properly functioning as a deterrent.\n[TLN: Istg the amount of times I almost typed detergent.]\n \n“S-, sorry Sakuraba-kun!! I’m really sorry!!”(Yuunagi)\n \n“You don’t really have to apologize. It’s just that you violating the conditions means we break up. That’s all there is to it.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“EEh?! No, no, no!! Forgive me!! Please!!”(Yuunagi)\n \n“Like I said, I forgive you. I mean, I’m not mad at you.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“That’s not what I mean….. Wait, is this really the end….? Are we done….?”(Yuunagi)\nIt wasn’t really the end.\nBut I needed to properly burn her for her actions.\n[TLN: The Japanese used the kanji for moxibustion(look it up, I didn’t know what it was either), so I’m just going to leave it as burn.]\n \nHowever, I felt more guilty than I expected…..\nGood grief, this person really is….\n \n“….Well, for the time being, tell me what happened and what the circumstances were.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“…..O-, okay.”(Yuunagi)\n \nWhat she said was basically this.\n \nBecause of some reason that she couldn’t tell me, Yuunagi couldn’t help but confide our relationship to someone that she couldn’t tell me about.\nShe then proceeded to say that she knew that she was breaking the conditions and that she would never do something similar ever again.\nThat’s why she wanted me to overlook this incident.\n \n“…..That request is quite convenient for you, Yuunagi-san.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“Ugh….Th-, that’s the case, but….please, somehow…..!”(Yuunagi)\n \n“So then, basically, there’s a person who I’m not allowed to know about that you’ve now told our secret to, and that person one-sidedly knows all about our relationship.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“Th-, that is the case….”(Yuunagi)\n \n“Did you get a promise from that person saying they wouldn’t reveal our secret?”(Sakuraba)\n \n“A-, a promise….I didn’t get one.”(Yuunagi)\n \n“Hmmmm.”(Sakuraba)\n \nThere was a brief period of silence.\nAs one would expect, this time, Yuunagi was really quiet and obedient.\n \nTo be honest, her actions were quite surprising to me.\n \nI realized after we started dating, but Yuunagi really, really likes me.\n \nIt was hard for me to believe.\nBut there have been countless things that Yuunagi has both said and done that made me believe it.\nAnd that’s precisely why I couldn’t hide my surprise at her doing something like this, something that is clearly unbeneficial for me.\n \nBut that is exactly what was emphasizing to me that maybe the circumstances really made talking about our relationship truly unavoidable.\n \n“……If the secret leaks out from anywhere…..”(Sakuraba)\n \n“Y-, yes….!”(Yuuangi)\n \n“If it leaks out, regardless of who it is, whether it’s you, Shirato-san, or someone else I’m not aware of, I’ll regard the agreement as broken and then we’re done. That’s why, I’ll tolerate it this time.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“Re-, really….?”(Yuunagi)\n \n“After this, I won’t overlook anything else. If you go ahead and tell someone without permission again, regardless of the circumstances, we’ll break up. If you really have to tell somebody, tell me about it beforehand.”(Sakuraba)\n \n“Y-, yes! I got it! I’ll do exactly that!”(Yuunagi)\n \nHaaa….\nWell, I guess that’s about it.\n \nOn the other end of the phone, Yuuangi sounded like she had regained all her energy.\nOh, man.\nI might also have to reconsider what we’re going to do from now on.\n \n“Oh, Sakuraba-kun!”(Yuunagi)\n \n“…..What is it now?”(Sakuraba)\n \n“……Shouldn’t I be able to also call you by your first name by now?”(Yuunagi)\n \n“Don’t get carried away.”(Sakuraba)\n \nAt this point, I hung up the phone and let out a long sigh.\n \nReturning to what I was doing before, I lay down and opened the book that I had closed.\n………\n……\n \n“…..Huh?”(Sakuraba)\n

….What did she mean by “also?”\n\n\n\n\n[TLN: You may notice that it is now Wednesday and that I’m just now only releasing chapter 24. Don’t worry about it 🙂 I’m not a lazy unmotivated piece of shit :). I’ll try to speed up the pace again. I think I’m going to pick up “I can breathe because you’re here” as a side WN series and then there are 2 LN series I’m keeping an eye on that drop on May 10 and May 25th.]\n

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