Sasaki, of course, already knew how she felt.
He only asked to tease her about her reaction, that's why, after hearing her confession, he didn't press the joke for too long, and Sasaki let her lead him to her club on the second floor.
Chifuyu's club was the Yoga Club, the same club Sakuragi Otome and Rinka were part of.
In fact, Otome was the vice-president of the club.
Since it was an all-girls club, even though he was the vice-president's childhood friend and her boyfriend, Sasaki had never been inside.
So, this trip with Chifuyu was truly his first time entering.
Taking off his shoes at the entrance and stepping inside, Sasaki followed the girl to the area where they practiced their yoga poses.
Since they needed plenty of space to adjust their postures, the practice area wasn't heavily decorated.
A few potted plants sat by the window, and a large mirror covered much of the north wall, reflecting the entire space clearly—clearly used to help members correct their form.
Glancing around briefly and breathing in the faint, pleasant scent in the air, Sasaki turned to the obediently standing Chifuyu beside him.
"How do you usually practice here?"
His gaze lingered on Chifuyu.
The girl, whose figure contrasted so strikingly with her delicate face, stood with remarkably straight posture.
Despite the significant weight she carried in front, she didn't hunch or slouch.
But precisely because she stood so straight, all the pressure rested squarely on her shoulders.
It might be fine for a short while, but over time, her shoulders would inevitably start to tense and curl forward.
On a guy, such a posture might make him seem timid or lacking confidence.
But on Tsukimi, paired with her pitifully cute face and her unfairly attractive figure, it only made one want to tease her even more.
Completely unaware of her boyfriend's mischievous thoughts, Tsukimi Chifuyu placed her soft hands lightly on her school skirt and answered sweetly.
"We just lay out a yoga mat on the tatami, change into yoga clothes, and practice."
"Vice President Otome guides us from the front."
"If we're learning a new pose, Vice President Otome demonstrates it for us first."
"I see," Sasaki replied casually, then smiled and asked, "Can you show me? I've never seen you practice yoga before."
!!
Hearing his words, the girl's round, adorable eyes, which had been fixed on her boyfriend's face, blinked rapidly.
However, after a moment of surprise, Tsukimi Chifuyu averted her gaze, a blush coloring her fair cheeks as she shyly mumbled.
"Okay…"
It's just, even though she agreed, however, the more she thought about it, the more embarrassed she felt.
In the end, she bowed her head, and quickly headed toward the changing room.
But once inside, she realized her boyfriend had followed her in.
"F-Fuyumi…"
As her eyelids lowered bashfully, Tsukimi Chifuyu stood frozen, unsure of what to do.
Her personality was rather slow on the uptake, so she wasn't entirely sure what he wanted to do.
Still, being alone with her boyfriend right as she was about to change clothes brought a natural wave of shyness to the girl.
Seeing her adorable, flustered state, not knowing where to look or what to do next, Sasaki walked over calmly, took her hand, and asked directly.
"Chifuyu, would you mind if I helped you change?"
If she had been a slightly more assertive girl, she wouldn't have even given him the chance to ask.
The moment he entered the changing room, she would have pushed him back out.
After all, even though they were now in a relationship...but they had only confirmed it now.
Wasn't it a bit too fast.
But Tsukimi's nature was soft.
Plus, there was their relationship as a couple… and Sasaki's earlier questioning downstairs.
This was her boyfriend's first request of her and the girl didn't want to refuse him or let him down.
So, after a brief internal struggle between embarrassment and hesitation, Tsukimi Chifuyu bit her lower lip lightly and shook her head.
"N-no, I don't mind~"
Getting the answer he wanted, Sasaki smiled, cupped her face, and captured her slightly pursed lips with his own.
After sharing a few intimate moments to ease the tension within her, he stroked her hair and had her open her personal locker.
Inside were neatly folded a black tank top and a pair of dark blue yoga pants.
Taking them out and placing them on the soft leather couch in the middle of the changing room, Sasaki smiled and began untying her neatly knotted necktie.
"You look so cute when you're shy, Chifuyu~ I wish I could watch you like this forever."
Hearing his straightforward compliment, Chifuyu's heart fluttered...and the tension brought on by the gradual unfastening of her buttons eased just a little.
No one had ever complimented her like that before and the fact that it was from her lover made her feel warm and fuzzy.
"R-really? Thank you…"
Flick.
Hearing her words, Sasaki immediately gave a light tap to the pale blue lace trim decorating one of the "little watermelons" as a playful punishment and then said with a tone of mild dissatisfaction:
"We're a couple. You don't have to be so polite. Complimenting you, treating you well, that's what I'm supposed to do.
From now on, don't say thank you to me, okay? I might get upset~"
The girl subconsciously wanted to reach out and cover herself, but after hearing his words, her face blushed red, as she stopped her movement and asked in a small voice:
"Then… then what can I do for Fuyumi?"
Seeing her lower her eyes, cheeks flushed, shyly using her slender wrists to hug him while asking so obediently, Sasaki's breathing paused for a moment and his lower body turned stiff.
However, not wanting to scare her, he took a deep breath for a moment, and smiled, speaking.
"You don't need to deliberately do anything. Chifuyu, just being like this right now… letting me kiss you, letting me hold you… I'm already very satisfied."
Hearing these words that seemed to carry a hint of guilt toward her, Tsukimi Chifuyu puffed out her small cheeks, took a few steps forward, and wrapped her arms around her lover's waist.
Squeezing her small watermelons against him, into a flat watermelon pancake, the girl tilted her head and rested it against her lover's chest, saying shyly but firmly.
"I… I know what Fuyumi told me before. I know Fuyumi has other lovers… Although, although I mind a little, if it's the Club President, Tome I can accept it."
"Fuyumi doesn't need to feel sorry toward me."
"Things that other lovers can do… we can do them too. Fuyumi doesn't need to hold back."
Reaching out to hold her smooth, slender shoulders, Sasaki stroked her hair, couldn't help but shake his head with a helpless laugh, and said:
"You silly girl, do you even know what the other lovers do? And you're saying it so easily like that."
"..."
She indeed didn't know very clearly, but she had still attended physiology class… she wasn't completely clueless.
But whether she knew or not… wasn't actually important.
What mattered was that her lover knew.
She hoped he would teach her, and then she would try her best to cooperate.
With this thought in mind, Tsukimi Chifuyu lifted her lovely little face that was completely peach-pink, and asked in a soft, charming voice:
"Fuyumi… you know, right…? Can you teach me? We're lovers… it's okay."
"..."
Did he want to teach her?
He did.
But Sasaki's original naughty idea was never meant to go this far.
After all, Chifuyu was different from Natsuha and Akane… they had been "drugged" so, in the end he had no choice but to get on the train first.
If he treated Chifuyu with the same attitude he had toward Natsuha and the others, he would appear extremely horny… as if he had never seen a woman before.
That kind of impatient, rushing-to-devour-her appearance might even scare her.
One cannot eat hot tofu in a hurry…
Sasaki had always remembered this.
Otherwise, his initial suggestion wouldn't have been to just wander around the school…
But now, with Chifuyu's request…
He wanted to teach her… but this would be her first time, and doing it here…was a bit too inconvenient.
To make sure she really understood what she was saying, Sasaki straightened her body and slightly lifted his chin toward her.
The buttons on his collar were right in front of her eyes.
Tsukimi Chifuyu understood… as long as she reached out and undid them, she could step through the door into a whole new world with her lover.
Although nervous, she didn't retreat or hesitate, and very quickly undid the first button on her lover's collar.
Once she had the beginning, the remaining buttons weren't so difficult anymore.
...
Ring ring—
"Alright, everyone stand up now. You may leave after the teachers have collected all the exam papers."
After the bell signaling the end of the exam rang, the two invigilators (one in front, one behind) began calming the restless students and collected the papers in seat number order.
After the invigilators had taken away all the exam papers, only then did Sakuragi Otome, who had been standing at her seat, put her pen back into her pencil case, and then placed it into the school bag she had left at the back of the classroom.
From her crossbody bag, the took out her phone and sent messages to Rinka and Chifuyu respectively, inviting them to eat together at the cafeteria.
After that, she also sent a message to her lover, asking about how the exam went.
Except for Rinka, the other two did not reply to the messages.
However, thinking that they were probably still packing up their stationery or walking downstairs, Sakuragi Otome didn't mind.
She put away her phone, slung her school bag over her shoulder, and walked out of the exam room.
It was now the time when examinees were leaving the building, so going back to her own classroom would be inconvenient and meaningless.
Therefore, Otome went down the teaching building and directly headed to the place where she had agreed to meet Rinka.
She waited for about three or four minutes before the girl she had been waiting for, came running over quickly with her school bag on her shoulder, her long legs wrapped in black sheer pantyhose stepping in round-toed little leather shoes:
"Otome-neesan, I'm here! Did you wait long?"
Sakuragi Otome, who still hadn't received replies from her lover or Chifuyu, put away her phone, looked up at the girl standing in front of her, and gave a light laugh.
"No, I just got here too."
"How was the exam? Does Rinka-chan have the confidence to climb up a few more ranks?"
Okino Rinka's academic performance wasn't bad, but it couldn't be called top-tier.
Wanting to improve further and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the top students in the class wasn't easy.
In the past, when Otome asked such questions during exams, the girl would just laugh it off and brush it aside.
But after having sex with her "brother-in-law" more times, those difficult questions didn't seem so hard anymore when she did them.
She increasingly felt that Fuyumi-niisan was really useful… but the moment this thought came up, she felt sorry for Otome-neesan, after all, essentially..he was her boyfriend.
Thinking about it, Okino Rinka's smile became a bit awkward:
"It's… okay, I think I'll improve a little compared to before."
Noticing Rinka's expression, Sakuragi Otome blinked strangely:
"Really? Rinka-chan's smile looks so weird."
Her heart and body had already been molded into Fuyumi-niisan's shape.
What was the use of feeling guilty now?
Rather than feeling guilty, it would be better to think about how to atone for it.
Since Fuyumi-niisan and Otome-neesan were family, it was the same no matter who she atoned to…
Yes, tonight she would definitely let Fuyumi-niisan properly punish her.
That was the punishment she deserved.
She made a mistake, received punishment, didn't that mean the mistake was canceled out?
Thinking like this, the guilt in Okino Rinka's heart disappeared in an instant, and her smile immediately became natural again:
"Is that so? Then it must be because it's too cold today, my face is a bit stiff."
The girl rubbed her cheeks, tilted her head with a bright smile, and made a peace sign (scissor hand) at Sakuragi Otome:
"How about now? Does it look less weird?"
"Ah, mm~" For some reason, perhaps thinking of something, Sakuragi Otome unnaturally averted her gaze, her face turning slightly red.
It was all his fault for making her become so strange.
Now even seeing a simple scissor hand made her…
The scissor hand was just the most ordinary cute pose.
Okino Rinka, who was making this gesture, didn't think too much about it.
But now seeing Otome-neesan pressing her legs together with a strange, evasive look in her eyes, the girl put away her smile and asked in confusion:
"Otome-neesan, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Hearing the words, the girl immediately suppressed the lingering romantic thoughts in her heart, secretly feeling annoyed and embarrassed about the naughty things that person had done to her, and rubbed her arms, her smile a little awkward.
"Ah? No, no, the temperature suddenly dropped so low today, it's a bit cold."
It was indeed a little chilly just wearing long sleeves today, but they had both brought jackets in the morning and left them in the club changing room.
Thinking about it, Okino Rinka suggested:
"Then let's go back to the club to get our jackets."
"But Chifuyu hasn't come yet."
"Hmm… Let's give her a call and ask how long it'll take for Chifuyu-neesan to get here. It should be soon, right? We all finished the exam at the same time."
As she spoke, Okino Rinka took out her phone from under her skirt and called Tsukimi Chifuyu.
Beep~
After waiting about half a minute, no one answered.
Not knowing what Chifuyu-neesan was busy with, Rinka looked toward Sakuragi Otome:
"Chifuyu-neesan didn't pick up.
She's probably still busy… maybe she went back to class?"
"Maybe."
Since Tsukimi Chifuyu didn't answer the phone, they might end up having lunch with one person less today.
Naturally, Okino Rinka thought of her own "brother-in-law."
Linking arms with Otome-neesan as they walked toward the club building, the girl suggested:
"Speaking of which, it's been a few days since we last ate together with Fuyumi-niisan at the school cafeteria. Should we call him to join us?"
Of course Sakuragi Otome was happy to eat with her lover, but…
She took out her phone and glanced at the messages, frowning in confusion:
"Fuyumi hasn't replied to my messages either."
"Let's call him then. We can have Fuyumi-niisan go to the cafeteria first to buy the food."
"Okay."
Nodding, Sakuragi Otome continued walking and dialed her lover's number.
Beep~
Beep~
However, after nearly a full minute, the call automatically hung up because no one answered.
Sakuragi Otome and Okino Rinka exchanged puzzled glances.
Otome knew that Tsukimi had a boyfriend in the soccer club, so she wasn't surprised that she didn't pick up the phone.
Maybe she was being intimate with her boyfriend.
But Fuyumi not answering the phone… was he busy with something?
Noticing the confused and bewildered look on Otome-neesan's face, Okino Rinka's eyes darted around mischievously.
Clearly, she was thinking about something naughty.
She knew about Fuyumi-niisan and Chifuyu-neesan's relationship.
Now both of them weren't answering their phones… could they be doing something naughty together?
Probably not, right? The exam just ended… and they're still at school…
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