Chapter 414: Sakura The Victor (1/2)

“Is something the matter?”

“—-ngh!”

Taiyou let out a moan.

Looking at the source of the voice, he found Sakura looking over at him with a mystified expression.

“W-What’s the matter?”

“Oh, I just wanted to say that I won the game—-but what’s the matter?”

“N-Nothing’s the matter.”

“What were you two talking about?”

Sakura asked Hera.

“I said that I belong to Taiyou-chan.”

Hera said calmly. Sakura made a pensive expression.

“It hasn’t been very long that I’ve been able to see you, so my knowledge is lacking in this regard, but you’ve said that phrase before, right?”

“Yes indeed! I’ve been saying it ever since I met Taiyou-chan.”

“And what exactly is the issue here?”

This time she asked Taiyou.

He couldn’t answer. There was no way for him to.

He himself didn’t even know why that was the case, so there was no way he could answer.

So he had no choice but to gloss over it.

“W-Wow, so you actually won, huh?”

“Alright.”

He pulled Sakura’s hand in order to get her standing up, then took her straight to the unoccupied bathroom.

“What are—-”

Sakura began puzzledly, but he cut her off with a kiss.

A fierce kiss.

A kiss rich enough to cause the water in the room to reverberate.

They confronted each other in an embrace as they kissed countless times, absorbed only in that one activity.

Even Taiyou was finding it difficult to breathe.

Sakura leaned on Taiyou, who was sitting on the toilet seat, sinking into him.

Their rough breathing continued briefly.

“…Now.”

Sakura suddenly opened her mouth quietly.

“Now I feel happy that I competed. Competing on equal terms with everyone, I won and got to come here. Somehow I feel even happier.”

Sakura softly spoke in his chest.

She spoke straight from the heart, with nothing disguising her true feelings.

Taiyou could sense her feelings of gratitude.

He felt a pain in his chest.

He began to feel ashamed for bringing her into the small room just to evade questioning.

“I’m—-”

“Thank you so much.”

Sakura had cut Taiyou off. Was it on purpose, or purely coincidental?

He could feel Sakura’s breath on his chest, which only made him feel more and more apologetic.

“Umm…”

“W-What?”

“Please don’t think of me as…a vulgar woman.”

Sakura began, lifting her head up and staring right at Taiyou.

“Can we do it…one more time?”

“Eh, one more time?”

“K-Kiss…umm, this isn’t exactly part of the deal with the contest anymore, so I do feel a bit sorry for everyone, but, but…”

Sakura pleaded.