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Chapter 181
Sendai-san's summer vacation — 181
Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV
Today isn’t a very good day.
It’s raining and thundering and Sendai-san is not at her part-time job. She should’ve at least taken a day off from her part-time job on days like this, but she went to her student’s house again today. It seems that both her tutoring job and her students are very important to her.
I knew that Sendai-san would never take a day off from her part-time job, but being alone makes me want to complain about her absence.
I tried reading manga to distract myself even if I couldn’t lose my mind, but I couldn’t get the content out of my head. I can’t concentrate even when playing games. Then, I now wonder if the weather will get any worse.
It is time for Sendai-san to come home, but I still don’t hear her say,「I’m back.」
I grab the stuffed black cat from the bookshelf and lay down on my bed.
It’s all Sendai-san’s fault that I have to worry about unnecessary things and the weather is bad.
I pat the black cat’s back and place it on my chest.
Even after a few days had passed, Sendai-san’s words,「What about me?」is still in my mind.
That day when she talked with Ami and Maika.
Sendai-san wanted a word other than roommate. But I could only utter the word roommate and a few words describing the past.
Sendai-san and I are people who would never have crossed paths if it were true.
Even though we were in the same classroom, I didn’t approach the place where Sendai-san and the others were, as if it were a border, and they didn’t approach me either. We just happened to be in the same class, nothing more, nothing less, but we crossed paths and somehow we are connected by the word “roommate.”
And yet, Sendai-san wanted me to say a new word.
Her presence in my mind has reached a point where I cannot erase it now. She fills out my calendar without asking and tries to turn me into something I am not.
I think there may be a better word than “roommate,” but I don’t know what it is right now, and I don’t want to know.
I would like us to be roommates.
Long after we graduate from college.
I hope this time lasts forever.
If we replace roommate with another word and it doesn’t apply well to us, all might be lost.
I pat the black cat’s head and put my lips on the tip of its nose.
I place the black cat on my pillow and close my eyes. I feel my body stiffen as I think I hear a disturbing rumbling sound coming from outside.
I don’t want to listen, but I still do.
I don’t hear anything like thunder.
I exhaled a breath of fresh air, and as I sat up, I heard a noise coming from behind the door, and as I walked out of the room, my eyes met Sendai-san’s.
「I’m back.」
Sendai-san, who was about to enter her room, says in a soft voice.
「Welcome back. Your hair is wet. Was it raining hard?」
Before Sendai-san walks into the room, I grab her arm and her palm is damp, indicating that not only her hair is wet, but also her body.
「The rain wasn’t too bad, but it was very windy.」
Her hair was a mess, as if to prove the correctness of the words heard. Perhaps because her hair is not braided, it stands out even more.
Maybe the disturbing sound I heard earlier was not thunder, but the wind.
「Miyagi, what’s the dinner?」
「I haven’t eaten yet.」
「I’m going to go change my clothes, I’ll be back in a minute. Let’s eat together.」
「Why don’t you take a bath first? We can have dinner later.」
It’s not so wet that water drips from jer hair or clothes, but there is no way she can stay wet.
「I’m hungry, I can do that later.」
「If you get wet, you’ll catch a cold.」
Before last summer vacation, Sendai-san came to my house soaking wet. Today she isn’t in uniform, but she’s wearing a blouse just like that day, which subtly overlaps with the past.
She didn’t catch a cold then, but she might do so today. So Sendai-san should take a bath and change her clothes as soon as possible. If she wants to stay wet like this, I have to take off all her clothes like I did then.
No, I was in high school and I didn’t take off all of her uniform.
But today, I don’t know.
So I want her to take a bath honestly.
「I’ll dry my hair, I’ll change my clothes, I’ll be fine.」
「You should take a bath.」
「I said I’m not that drenched and there was no rush to get in.」
Sendai-san raises the corner of her mouth to smile as if to reassure me.
I called out strongly『Sendai-san,』with my hand gripping her arm, and she stripped my hand from her arm and leaned against the door.
「What? If I don’t take a bath now, are you going to undress me here? Just like that time?」
Apparently she was remembering the same thing I was.
「What if I told you to take off your clothes?」
「Nhn, let’s see. Maybe Miyagi should take off from me as well.」
Sendai-san turns up the hem of her T-shirt. But it was only to the point where her sides showed a little, and she stopped her hand as if it was up to me to decide what to do next. But I don’t know if she will really do as she says.
I don’t think I want to be undressed, but I do want to unbutton Sendai-san’s blouse like I did last year. And now I had to take off her blouse, too, and her bra——
This isn’t good.
We have strayed too far from the scope of the term roommate these days.
「There’s no way I’d take it off.」
There is no need to take them off.
I know that, but my hand moves of its own accord and touches Sendai-san’s blouse, the top button of which is undone.
「
But, I’ll leave a mark.」
I unbutton one button as it is.
「Where would it be?」
Without answering the voice I hear, I undo two more buttons and open my chest. I don’t unbutton all the buttons like I did last year, but I can see her underwear.
「Miyagi. Are you saying you didn’t undress this?」
「I just unbuttoned three buttons. I didn’t undress you.」
What I am about to do is an act not worthy of the word “roommate”. But it’s too late. If we want to make this time closer to eternity, we shouldn’t leave the scope of the word roommate, but the scope of roommate that Sendai-san has expanded on her own has become the new standard, and we have been doing this for a long time. And I’ve done some more undeserving things.
「You don’t have to unbutton it to make a mark.」
「Can I put it on somewhere prominent?」
「I didn’t say it was fine.」
She doesn’t deny that I made a mark.
So I put my lips on her open bosom.
Sendai-san pulls on my hair, but the force is weak and doesn’t interfere with making a mark.
I sucked hard, strongly on Sendai-san’s skin, which she neither denied nor affirmed. Then, when I slowly released her lips, I found a red mark on her white skin.
「You really does this kind of thing right away, Miyagi.」
Sendai-san says as she strokes the marks I have made.
「Last time you told me I could chew enough to leave marks all summer long. Even this one is similar, and I made sure it was in a place where your student couldn’t see it when you went to work properly.」
「I’m glad you took it into consideration, but it’ll be gone by the next bite.」
「If it disappears, I’ll put it back on.」
I peel off Sendai-san’s hand, which is stroking the red mark, and then close the unbuttoned button to the very top.
「I’d say if it disappears, you’ll put it back on, but thanks to the considerations, you can’t see that I’m doing this, so you’d have to check to be sure.」
「Let me know when it’s gone.」
「You should check it out for yourself, Miyagi.」
「It’s self-declared.」
「Then, it’s gone.」
Sendai-san smiled and said happily, then stared at me. At the teasing look, I kicked her leg.
「How could it disappear so quickly?」
「Why don’t you check it out?」
Sendai-san unbuttoned one of the buttons she had just closed and grabbed my arm.
She said to me,『You do this kind of thing right away,』but it’s Sendai-san who deserves this word. She is quick to make fun of me and try to make the term roommate ambiguous.
I take back the arm that was grabbed.
「I know it’s not gone without checking, and you need to take a bath or get dressed as soon as possible. I don’t want you to catch a cold.」
「Okay, okay. I’m gonna go get changed.」
Sendai-san said in a voice lighter than that of a stuffed black cat, and opened the door to her room.