"Seriously, what are you doing, Akihisa?" After Shimada Minami let Yoshii Akihisa down, she no longer paid attention to the looks the FFF Group members were giving him.
Sugawa Ryou: Akihisa, we'll keep a close eye on you from now on. Don't pull any more traitor moves.
Yoshii Akihisa spread both hands open in a little bear shrug gesture and said, "Geez, it was just trading bentos with friends. Himeji-san aside, the thought of Shimada-san acting all girly while making bentos, and then using a four-way joint lock on me…"
Halfway through his sentence, Yoshii Akihisa was already grabbed from behind by Shimada Minami and subjected to another round of the four-way joint lock. He was struggling.
"Akihisa, what do you mean by that? No matter how you look at it, I'm a little girl, right?" Shimada Minami asked patiently while applying pressure.
(Yare yare, she really is different from most girls.)
Yoshii Akihisa blushed as he struggled. "I surrender, I surrender! I was wrong, I was wrong!"
Tsuchiya Kouta was lying nearby, desperately trying to peek up skirts while muttering under his breath, "Almost… almost… almost…"
Sakamoto Yuuji couldn't help tilting his head slightly as he watched the skirt fluttering in the wind. "Pfft—" A miserable scream rang out.
"Ah!!!!"
Kirishima Shouko suddenly appeared right behind Yuuji. "Yuuji, you can't look. You can only look at mine."
Sakamoto Yuuji clutched his eyes in pain. "I don't want to look at all. You actually poked my eyes… How are you even here?"
"I came to have lunch with Yuuji. We can trade bentos too… right?"
Sakamoto Yuuji snapped back to his senses. "I refuse."
Kirishima Shouko raised her anti-wolf stun baton. "This isn't a request. It's a notification. There's no option to refuse."
The next second, Sakamoto Yuuji was shocked unconscious. Then, while still passed out, Kirishima Shouko personally fed him.
Meanwhile, Akihisa finally couldn't take it anymore and cried out, "I was wrong, I was wrong, Shimada-san! I really know I messed up! I'll listen to whatever you say, okay? Just let me go!"
Shimada Minami seemed to be in a better mood and loosened her grip a little. "Really? Then next weekend, I want to go to La Petite at the station front for crepes and to watch a movie."
Yoshii Akihisa hesitated. "What? For real? Go there? But…"
"Ah!!"
Hearing that Yoshii Akihisa was about to refuse, Shimada Minami applied force again.
"No no no, I'll definitely take you! I absolutely will! Let me go!"
Hearing Yoshii Akihisa agree, Shimada Minami made another demand. "Then from now on, you have to call me Minami-sama."
"Yes, Minami-sama."
Shimada Minami's face turned slightly red. Her grip slowly tightened again. "And… and… say… say you love me."
Himeji Mizuki: "Hey, you can't do that! You can't make him say it, Akihisa-san."
Shimada Minami: "Say it."
Yoshii Akihisa said in pain, "Yes… as you command… I… I love you!!"
(You're done for.)
"You idiot!!" Shimada Minami applied a bit more force. Crack.
"Ah!!!!"
Shimada Minami's panties were also exposed. Tsuchiya Kouta looked like he had discovered something monumental. His nosebleed sprayed out again in an unbelievable volume. "Ah!… Today it's white."
[Yare yare, I'm full.]
Saiki left the classroom. For the rest of the time, he didn't want to see how this group would keep developing the plot. He didn't want to deal with it anymore.
...
Meanwhile, on the other side, at Saiki's house, Shiina Mahiru finally slowly opened her eyes and woke up.
Shiina Mahiru smelled the scent drifting from the bed and instinctively closed her eyes again, wanting to keep sleeping. The smell was so comforting, it made her want to stay here forever.
But the next second, the image of herself collapsing in the park flashed through her mind.
Shiina Mahiru forced herself to fight off the urge to lie back down and sleep. She sat up and looked around to figure out where she was. Her mind was still a little fuzzy, and she was completely confused about why she was here.
"What happened to me? How did I…" Shiina Mahiru sat on the bed for five minutes, letting herself wake up a bit more.
She observed her surroundings. It looked very similar to her own room—after all, the layout of each apartment room was pretty much the same—but the decorations were different, letting her know this wasn't her room.
Then Shiina Mahiru noticed the clothes she was wearing felt unfamiliar. She lifted the blanket and saw she was in a full set of Doraemon pajamas. "?"
Shiina Mahiru sat there in complete confusion.
After checking her body and finding nothing particularly unusual, she relaxed a little.
Then Shiina Mahiru suddenly noticed a letter and a thermos next to her pillow.
Nervously, she opened the letter and read its contents:
There's porridge in the fridge. After you wake up, you can heat it up and eat. After finishing the porridge, take the medicine in the thermos too. You'll probably want to sleep again afterward—that's the medicine working. It's for your own good.
Don't worry about school. I've already requested a leave for you. Just rest well.>
At the bottom of the note: Your neighbor, Saiki Kusuo.
"It's Saiki-kun."
Shiina Mahiru murmured Saiki's name. Suddenly, a memory surfaced in her mind: even though she had fainted yesterday, in her hazy state she had opened her eyes and seen Saiki Kusuo's face.
"So that wasn't a dream."
Realizing that it really was Saiki who saved her, she clutched the note tightly in front of her. Her face turned slightly red. "So this is what it feels like to be cared for by someone. It's so warm."
Shiina Mahiru got out of bed, went to the living room, walked to the fridge, took out the porridge, heated it in the microwave, and started eating.
Perhaps because she was sick, or because she hadn't eaten anything yesterday, Shiina Mahiru felt this bowl of porridge was especially delicious. Before she knew it, she had finished it all and even felt a little unsatisfied.
"Ugh… so good." Shiina Mahiru let out a satisfied burp and quickly covered her mouth.
Shiina Mahiru swore this was the best porridge she had ever eaten in her life.
It wasn't just plain white rice porridge…
Then she returned to the room, picked up the thermos, drank the medicine inside as instructed by Saiki, and was about to head back to her own house to sleep. But suddenly she thought:
If she just left like this and disappeared, wouldn't Saiki worry when he came back? And she hadn't properly thanked him yet!
After some thought, Shiina Mahiru decided to wait for Saiki to come home at his place, greet him properly, thank him, and then go back.
"Yeah, that's what I'll do."
After deciding, Shiina Mahiru looked at the bed in front of her, lay down again, and felt that the scent of this bed was especially comforting.
Unconsciously, Shiina Mahiru grabbed the pillow and blanket, took several big sniffs, and let out a soft "hehehe" laugh from her mouth.
Finally realizing something was off, she immediately blushed, stopped the behavior, and wrapped herself completely in the blanket, covering her head.
"How could I do that? If anyone saw me, they'd definitely think I was some kind of perverted weirdo. I can't act like this."
...