Chapter 132: The Usual Faces (1/2)

Amane looked towards the voice, and found the faces he expected.

One of them was a frivolous handsome chap, and the other was a pretty tomboy. They were the faces he usually spotted at school.

“Why are you here, Itsuki?”

“No, I wasn’t stalking you. It’s really a coincidence. I’m not that curious.”

Itsuki denied it with a serious look. That truly might be the case.

Truth be told, given their personalities, if they were really stalking, they would have helped her the moment Mahiru was wooed. Given the timing, it appeared they found Amane and Mahiru after the latter were reunited.

Chitose’s expression too showed that they did not mean it.

“Well, we heard that you two would go to the pool this week, but we didn’t expect to meet on the same day at such an open place. Sorry to disturb this world of your own~”

“…I say.”

Since it was a coincidence that they met, Amane had no intention to grumble, but when Chitose gave a leery ribbing at the very end, he glared at her.

Despite that, since she was wearing a swimsuit, it would be rude to look at her skin. He merely stared at her face instead.

She was wearing an orange separate swimsuit, and might have noticed Amane’s stare as she giggled. “Yaa, you perv~” she fidgeted about.

She knew that Amane was not looking at her body, but she still fooled around. Amane gave a long sigh and gave Itsuki a look that basically complained “Deal with her already”. He then got a reply that went “she’s really energetic in the summer”. It seemed he had no intention of stopping her.

“Goodness me.” Amane looked dumbfounded, and turned towards Mahiru. She had zipped up the rashguard to cover herself from the flirting men, but it seemed that zipping to the neck left he really hot.

She zipped down to the chest, letting air in, and Chitose blinked away.

“Hm? Mahirun?”

“What is it?”

“…Eh? Are you wearing that swimsuit?”

“That swimsuit?”

“Hm, isn’t there a black string ouuo”

Chitose’s voice tailed off vaguely as Mahiru had covered her mouth.

Mahiru straightened her back, reached her hands towards Chitose, and froze, perhaps having noticed Amane’s stare.

“…Nothing at all.”

She shook her head, her face was flushed.

“So there’s another one.”

“Ah, no, e-erm…it is embarrassing to wear that in front of everyone.”

“Well, there’s a chance you’ll end up naked. So you’re going to wear that when alone with Amane? How cuteeemmmmmmm”

“Chitose-san, please be quiet.”

“Okay~”

Again Chitose’s mouth was muffled by Mahiru, and she did not seem apologetic.

Amane was shocked that Mahiru would actually purchase a swimsuit that would be embarrassing to her if she wore it in front of everyone, but once he remembered that she said she would wear it when the two of them were alone, his heartbeat ran wild from the boldness she showed.

“…Is it that dangerous?”

“Dangerous? Actually, given Mahirun’s nice body, I think it might look like there’s too little fabric on her.”