"A kotatsu really is the best."
After helping wash the dishes, Shirai Mio immediately dove into the kotatsu.
Before her transmigration, she'd often seen kotatsus in anime and had always wanted to try one. Now she finally had the chance.
Actually, when the temperature dropped before, Mio had considered getting a kotatsu for her place. But her apartment had underfloor heating, so she didn't really need one. After some internal debate, she hadn't bought it.
"Want something to drink?"
"Coke!"
After getting Mio a can of Coke, Yuigahama Yui was about to crawl into the kotatsu when she seemed to think of something and asked, "Mio, want to watch a movie?"
"Sure. A horror movie?"
"Let's skip horror this time. After watching one last time, I kept feeling like people were hiding everywhere in my room." Yuigahama Yui even shivered as she spoke.
"I was just asking casually. I'll watch whatever Yui wants to watch. Even if it's one of those kinds of movies, I'm totally fine with it~" Shirai Mio said with a smile.
"We don't have those! And even if we did, we wouldn't watch them!" Yuigahama Yui said indignantly.
Originally, Yuigahama Yui had wanted to find a comedy to watch, but she'd already seen all the comedy movies at home.
After some internal debate, she ultimately chose a romance movie.
After setting everything up, Yuigahama Yui also crawled into the warm kotatsu.
Seeing Yui enter the kotatsu, Shirai Mio playfully stretched out her foot and lightly poked at her.
She'd just wanted to tease Yui a little, but she hadn't expected that the moment she touched Yuigahama Yui, Yui would grab her foot and mercilessly launch a tickle attack on the sole.
"Ha... haha, Yui I was wrong... hahaha."
"You gave up that fast? Clearly not sincere."
One minute later.
Shirai Mio lay there with disheveled hair and a flushed face. If someone who didn't know the truth saw her, they might develop some strange misunderstanding.
After quite a while, Mio finally recovered somewhat. Once again, she experienced the inconvenience of having a sensitive body. If this were before her transmigration, how could she have possibly been so embarrassing!
Whatever. No use dwelling on past glories.
Just then, the system's voice suddenly rang out. "Two young women alone in a kotatsu together—feels like something should happen, wouldn't you say?"
"Please, Host, find a way to make Yuigahama Yui proactively kiss you before the movie ends. Success may yield a Yuigahama Yui series card pack or item reward. Failure will result in drawing from the punishment card pack."
"Today's Saturday. Can't you at least take a break?" Shirai Mio complained weakly.
"Not happening. For the sake of the host, this system works all year round with no days off. Aren't you touched~?"
"Tch."
Shirai Mio couldn't be bothered to waste time arguing with the system. She turned her attention to Yuigahama Yui.
Yui was sitting across from her. If she wanted to make Yui proactively kiss her, this distance definitely wouldn't work. So her first step was definitely to close the gap.
With that thought, Shirai Mio dove straight into the kotatsu.
Before long, her little head poked out from Yuigahama Yui's chest area, immediately catching sight of Yui's helpless expression.
Before Shirai Mio could say anything, Yuigahama Yui grabbed her shoulders and pulled her upper body out of the kotatsu, then directly embraced her. "The movie's already started. No more squirming around."
"...Okay." Feeling the warm embrace from Yuigahama Yui, Shirai Mio couldn't help but blink. Why did today's Yui seem way more proactive than usual?
Surprised as she was, Shirai Mio didn't notice that Yuigahama Yui's face was slightly flushed at that moment, her eyes also somewhat unfocused—clearly her heart wasn't calm either.
However, seeing that Shirai Mio didn't show any particular reaction and even seemed to be enjoying it, Yui finally relaxed a bit.
As time ticked by second by second, the movie's plot gradually unfolded. Watching the male and female leads kissing on screen, Yuigahama Yui instinctively glanced at Shirai Mio, then quickly shifted her gaze back to the screen.
What was she even thinking about?
She'd watched these kinds of movies with friends plenty of times before, and there'd been no shortage of kissing scenes. But she'd never thought much of it back then.
Only when she was with Shirai Mio did she immediately think about what kissing Mio would feel like when seeing such scenes.
Yuigahama Yui felt like something was wrong with her thinking. Very wrong!
Just as she was lost in thought, Shirai Mio's voice suddenly rang out. "Speaking of which, last time we also ended up kissing by accident like in the movie, huh?"
Yuigahama Yui hadn't expected Shirai Mio to suddenly bring this up. Completely unprepared, she couldn't figure out how to respond for a moment, stammering for ages before squeezing out an "Mm."
"You know, before we just kissed and pulled away immediately. Nothing like how they do it in movies. I'm actually kind of curious what that would feel like. Want to try?"
"Huh!?"
Looking at Shirai Mio's smiling face, Yuigahama Yui couldn't tell if she was serious or joking.
Though she didn't know if Mio was joking, she knew Mio was definitely embarrassed, because she'd noticed that while Mio's face looked completely calm, her slightly reddened cheeks and ears didn't lie.
If she backed down now, knowing Mio's usual habits, she'd definitely keep teasing her, right?
Though she didn't mind being teased by Shirai Mio, she wanted to be the one doing the teasing even more.
With that thought, Yuigahama Yui took a deep breath, then smiled and said, "Sure. As long as you don't mind, let's try it. We're both girls anyway, so no big deal."
"I... how could I mind?"
Right now, Shirai Mio didn't know if she counted as being stubborn or not. She'd just habitually wanted to tease Yuigahama Yui a bit.
According to her predictions, after hearing her suggestion, Yui should've been so shy she could barely speak.
At first, that's exactly what happened. But then, for some reason, Yuigahama Yui had suddenly become assertive and even agreed to her suggestion.
Something felt... off about this.
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