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Chapter 6
Chapter 1, Childhood Friend And I — Episode 6 : Conditional Relationship【Kaori's Point Of View】
Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV
His house has a fence surrounding the property, even a covered gate, and a granite nameplate that reads Yamazaki. A large, magnificent white building stands behind it. Above the black-painted iron gate, a surveillance camera glares at us.
「Stay here until your clothes are dry.」
「Okay…」
When I walked in the door, Yamazaki-kun was baptized with an enthusiastic welcome home greeting. A medium-sized, long-haired dog of mixed brown, dark brown, and white fur was jumping around, frolicking like a child. When I thought it did, it stood up and hugged Yamazaki-kun.
Continuously, it gasped for breath and stuck out its tongue, sweetly asking him for petting.
「Peter, calm down! I’ve got a visitor. Don’t just jump in there like that.」
With a bark! The fussiness of a moment before subsided as he barked, and he sat down quietly.
「What kind of dog is that?」
「It’s a Sheltie… Shetland Sheepdog. He’s a sheepdog, so he’s just very energetic. He’s friendly, but he wants to be spoiled.」
「Will he jump on me too?」
「Nhn～ he’ll give you a hug if you don’t tell him.」
I waited at the entrance as Yamazaki-kun went somewhere in the house, saying, “Give me a sec.” I stroked the head of the middle-size dog, who was sitting down in a well-mannered manner, and he was wagging his tail happily.
They say that a dog is like its master, but his carefree smile towards me and his eagerness to spoil me… And it’s like he just want to play together.
They were just like each other.
Continuously panting, and playing with the medium-sized dog.
「Here, use this.」
「Thank you.」
After wiping the moisture from my hair and clothes with a bath towel brought by Yamazaki-kun, I was led through a long corridor to the bathroom with a large room on the side.
I called out,「Sorry for intruding,」but there was no answer and the place seemed empty. Yamazaki told me that I was in doubt.
「My parents won’t be back until late today for a doctor’s meeting…」
If I would shut up…
「If you don’t want to, I’ll send your clothes when they’re dry and warm.」
「Okay…」
It was the type of unit bath you would find in any house, but it was two times larger. The bathtub was large enough to accommodate three people. He said,「You can use the bath,」but it was going to take a lot of time just to get the water hot.
He let me use the washer and dryer for my wet clothes as they are. This is the first time I’ve rented a shower at a boy’s house except at Kaname-chan’s house…
The shower of hot water warms my body, which has been chilled by sadness. It was as if Yamazaki-kun was thinking about me and caring for me.
It’s clearly an invitation.
An innocent body that has never known a man was reflected in the rectangular mirror, staring back at me. The idea of giving in to me, not forcing me to do so, shakes me up like a splash of water splitting into two streams as it hits my body.
Kaname-chan…
I… may not be able to take it anymore. When I get out of the shower, I have a top and bottom jersey and innerwear… with a note on it.
【This is all I have, but you can use it if you like.】
I thought he would give me a man’s Y-shirt or something, but it was more normal than I expected. I wondered if it belonged to his mother. Either that or…
I was curious to know more about him. I changed into a jersey that was tight in the chest and a little loose in the rest of the body and went into the room with him.
A large, neat room. Maybe he uses this a lot for that kind of thing, but the beds are not that big.
I sit next to Yamazaki-kun, who is sitting on the bed, nervously but daringly. Taking a little distance…
「Yamazaki-kun, do you know that there are rumors around you?」
「Ah… yeah.」
「I’m sorry, I guess I said something you didn’t like. Please forget it.」
I was punished badly for what I said, and when I tried to walk away to escape, he grabbed my arm and held me back.
「I know. Not all the rumors are true, but I think there are some facts included. If I care about Sendō, I’ll answer them properly, one by one.」
Yamazaki-lun’s love history seems to have exceeded ten, even though he is a high school student, as he only makes girls’ feelings fluterry.
But he didn’t have girls like me who had been separated from their boyfriends by death or by accident…like me.
「I’ve never been two-timing or dating more than one girl at a time. But I did have a problem with a girl who got complicated and turned out to be like a stalker, and I had a problem with having a new girlfriend…」
Carpets, cushions, sheets, pillows… I looked around at objects that could easily leave traces and pretended to fidget with my feet to examine them, but not a single hair fell out that looked like it.
Had I been more unscrupulous, I don’t think I would have come to his house so carelessly and I would have left right away like he told me to.
「I, Sendō-san…」
They packed the space for one person and looked at me with passionate eyes. I look back into his eyes without taking a pause, without refusing. His hands are on my shoulders and his mouth is close to mine.
「Wait… a kiss is…」
What if, what if Kaname-chan comes back. I don’t think this would be the righteous thing to do to a childhood friend, but at least…
He turns his face away from my words. Why? He had such a strange look on his face.
「I guess, you believe Kirishima is still coming back.」
I nodded silently at his words.
「No kissing, no this, no that. If it’s just your butt…」
I…still love Kaname-chan even if he never comes back. So, this is a way to break Yamazaki-kun’s heart. This is an excuse to manipulate Kaname-chan.
「And, if Kaname-chan comes back, I’ll break up with him.」
I wonder what Yamazaki-kun is talking up to about me. I feel nauseous, as if I’m being too presumptuous.
I was under the impression that he would not accept such a ridiculous condition. I might be scorned. But he was okay with that. I don’t know anymore. I really don’t understand. Why is he alright with that…
「I’m alright. If that’s okay with Kaori-chan, then…」
「Ehh!? Ehhh!?」
Did he think my seemingly selfish and absurd conditions were devilish and mistakenly thought I was cute? Smiling with ever gentler eyes, he wraps me in his…
I was a calculating and very dirty woman. I was so curious to see if he has any other girl in his life and I wanted to get back together with Kaname-chan.
「Hold on for a second.」
「Okay.」
I was interested in such things as much as anyone else. I thought my first time was with Kaname-chan, but it stopped when I was in middle school and after high school, so I’ve been comforting myself more often.
I didn’t know why he agreed to these terms, but now that he returned, I know.
When Yamazaki-kun returned, he was holding an aluminum tray that looked like a medical tray. On top of it were tubes and what looked like beads cut in half. The tube, like those containing ointments and toothpaste, was labeled Xylocaine.
「This is…」
「It might hurt at first, so you can use an anesthetic jelly for the endoscope to help you get used to it.」
Once he agreed to the terms, there was no way I could refuse him, and he gently pushed me down on the bed. Yamazaki-kun’s foreplay melted me and I accepted him in my abnormal place.
My first time… why… this strange feeling. I asked Yamazaki-kun, who was lying down next to me after our affair.
「I was so impressed with how painless it was for me to finish it for the first time… Why?」
「Ah～ Uhh… How can I say this…」
He scratches his temples and looks very reluctant to say anything.
「See, I told you I was dating a few people before. I’m not two-timing her or anything, so when we were having one of those days or whatever, I just couldn’t resist and asked her over there…」
「…」
I know I said this, but I probably shouldn’t have asked. But Yamazaki-kun was honest.
It was a rainy day when I allowed myself to be with Yamazaki-kun for the first time. After that, every time I meet him, I surrender my body to him. After a while, it was time to get used to it and get better at just that jelly.
「Kaori is much prettier than those girls. You’re not just used to makeup and stuff.」
「Y–You think so?」
「I’m the one who said it, so you can rest assured.」
I was puzzled by him, but Yamazaki-kun gently guided me with his hand behind my back.
He brought me to a beauty parlor…
「Kaori is a good original. That’s what a bad girl is, no matter how she does it. You’ll be beautiful enough that the girls around you won’t talk about you behind your back in a weird way.」
Unlike the self-made fashion, I felt as if I were not myself as I was guided by Yamazaki-kun, wearing cosmetics, clothes and ornaments.
It was about a month after I started dating him. After a date, he asked me out and took me by the hand into a hotel.
He had convinced me to have abnormal sex, as he had promised.
「Is this okay?」
「That’s the deal, right? I’m used to it, so I don’t mind.」
「Yeah…」
As a result of Yamazaki-kun’s continued love for me, the sadness of my separation from Kaname-chan faded away, and my memories of him… I never expected Kaname-chan to return at such a time. I never thought that I would be in the middle of an affair with Yamazaki-kun.