Volume 2 Chapter 1 Part7 (2/2)

While curling up not to get knocked over by the wind ourselves, we got closer to the tree I usts, but she looked so light and sht be bloay into the air, so I grabbed her hand and held it tightly

「Fuwahh?!!!!」

She was surprised at first but quickly realized what my intention was and calmed down

「So all we have to do is to tie this wire around the tree, right?!」

「Y-Yes! There are hooks on either side of this wire, so all we have to do is to eround nearby!」

It's good thing that whoever designed this courtyard thought about such a safety feature The trees looked quite strong and were planted fir now that without the wire more than half of them would've surely snapped

「Hand ao-san, you should…!」

「Hyaaaaaawaaaaa!」

FWOOsh!+

When she wanted to hand ao's body was indeed raised into the air by the raging winds, much to my surprise I quickly reached out towards her and pressed her firainst myself to keep her safe

「Uwaah, I-I'm sorry…」

「Don't worry about it But you know, you really are light, Asagao Like, super light」

「T-That's not true at all Besides, Yugao is alh she has more curvaceous body than me, as much as I hate to ad all blushy… well, whatever Sheof a middle-schooler And now that I held her firmly with one of my arain

「All right, let's get this over with Give lue As , now's not the ti onto ao handed lasses slip from my nose, but with both of my hands preoccupied, there was notthelasses on, my mind entered the 「Professional Killer Mode」 As a result, htened, enabling ao's body and the pulse of her rapidly beating heart just by touching her withwith the wire, there was a point when I've pressed her onto myself more firmly, to which she reacted with a cute 「Hyan!」 shout, but my mind was so focused on the task at hand that I didn't even had the time to savor the sound of this ht noas to be done iring this tree, leave the windy courtyard and get the two of us to safety as soon as possible But in order to do that, I needed to wait for just the right occasion… Here!

Taking advantage of the htly weaker, I hurriedly wrapped the wire around the whole tree, after which I placed all the hooks in the ground and then ht towards the door that led back to the villa

And then, just as I was about to reach our goal, I slipped on the wet floor and fell to the ground right in front of the door Ignoring the pain in ot up, flung the door open with my free hand, and then immediately slalasses back on with shaking hands, I did

「Fuaaaaaaaaaaaah!」

Next to h or a cal, and she had a so? You all right?」

「Don't you 'You all right?' ed like that! I know the circumstances kind of forced it on us, but even so, you were too casual about this! I don't know about you, but I'm not a fan of such thrills! Is that how it is, huh? Does that sort of thing ht be right」

I didn't quite understand what she was so angry about, but it was generally better to agree with her just in case

「Huh?! Maybe so?! Geez!」

Visibly agitated, Asagao stood up and went down the corridor She seeetic for someone who almost learned how to fly thanks to the typhoon winds Well, it's no surprise, seeing as I practically carried her throughout the whole courtyard

「You knohat, Monjiro-san? I know you helped rateful to you for that, but allow ive you sos of the girls around you, lest you want to become an insensitive jerk Or a s of others?! Me, so machine, who had to learn common sense and all the nuances and subtleties of huer sister?! Soirls on a daily basis, yet still could not understand how 「The Heart of a Maiden」 worked even if his life depended on it?!

I know I' excuses now, but it really was easier said than done

「But… you know… Oh, how do I put it… being held like that… it felt nice You really have some… really nice hands」

「Y-You're welcome?」

Faced with such an odd praise, all I could do was fix h to cover the fact that this ti red to his ears