131 Vol. 3 pt. 1 Patch 1.0: The Latest Addition (1/2)

Ryouta would never have imagined that he'd be reunited with his childhood friend, and especially not like this. The girl that he spent almost all of his free time with as a child now stands before him. He feels stupid for not noticing the similarities between her and the girl he bumped into on the street just days ago.

Just looking down at her face fills him with nostalgia. She looks exactly like an older version of herself from childhood. With her brown hair styled into a bob cut that hangs down to her shoulders while covering all of her forehead, she even has the same hairstyle from when she was a kid. Her eyes, while also brown, are bright with life and excitement as she stares up into his eyes. The most distinct feature that he's ashamed for not recognizing before is that she has freckles reaching from cheek to cheek connected by a bridge of marks that extend across her nose.

She had to have only been seven or eight the last time he saw her. Whereas she was a child before, now she is an adult and has a body that proves that. Everything about her is bigger than before except… well, except for her chest from what he can tell when looking her over.

”Ry-ou-ta! Where do you think you're looking? You should be looking at my face! If you want to do that then we should wait until we're alone at least!” Aiko tells him, snapping his eyes from her body and back to her own eyes.

”Sorry, I just – I can't believe it's really you. I thought I'd never see you again. I tried looking you up a few times every now and then just to try and check up on you to see how you were doing, but could never find anything,” Ryouta explains. ”Oh, come in and chill for a bit.”

Aiko happily skips into his apartment.

Closing the door behind her, he sees Aiko standing by Serra and signing to her. ”You know sign language?” Ryouta asks.

”Of course! I learned it just for my best friend here! Well, my only non-future-husband best friend,” Aiko explains.

”You know each other?”

”Yup, yup! We've been besties for like… I don't know, maybe a couple of years now?” Aiko says, looking back at Ryouta, then returns to signing to Serra. However, Serra signs something that makes Aiko hug her and pet her head. ”Don't worry about it! It's okay, I promise!” she says, placing her face directly in front of Serra so that her lips can easily be read.

”What's wrong?” Ryouta asks.

”She feels bad about not connecting us sooner! She said she had a feeling that I might've been the girl you were talking about when you told her about what happened to us, but never brought it up. But, that's okay! She showed me pics of you and her together and I didn't put it together either, so we both messed up!”

”Ex-excuse me, ah, Aiko, yes?” Alice asks.

Aiko looks at Alice and answers, ”That's the name!”

”By the way, Alice,” Ryouta interjects, ”I should probably mention that I didn't tell you the whole story about when I was hit by that autotruck. I got hit saving my friend by pushing her out of the way, and that friend is Aiko here.”

Alice's eyes light up. ”You mean… what happened afterward?” Alice asks.

”My parents sucked and took me away by making us move!” Aiko answers.

Alice's eyes light up even more. ”Then… my hero saved his childhood friend, sacrificing his legs in the process, and then his heroic effort was punished by being separated from the one he loved so dearly that he would put himself in harm's way for her?”

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”Pretty much!”

”That's – that's so horrible, but now that you are both reunited… it is such a wonderfully tragic story! And now, finding out that the love of her life has already acquired three girlfriends for himself, she will compete with them to try and win back the heart of the one she loves most! But then, but then—”

”Three girlfriends?” Aiko asks, narrowing her eyes at Ryouta.

”A – a lot has happened these past few months,” Ryouta says.

”I know about Cassandra since Serra told me about her, but who's this third girlfriend?” Aiko's voice lacks any of the playful excitement that it had earlier.

Ryouta looks at Alice then back at Aiko.

Aiko looks at Alice.

The jealous, threatening glare that Aiko stares into Alice's eyes with is enough to make the latter girl shiver.

Aiko looks Alice up and down before staring directly at her chest.

”Ryouta! Is there something wrong with having no boobs? How come everybody you collect has bigger boobs than me? Even Serra's are bigger than mine! I'm half a foot taller than her but she can actually be groped! I'm just… I'm a pancake!” Aiko whines, huffs, and stomps around while scolding Ryouta. ”Both of you!” Aiko looks at Serra and Alice now, making sure to sign along with what she says. ”Both of you need to share! We'll – we'll transfer the fat out of yours and into mine! Then it'll be fair and I can finally stop having a little kid's chest! You both love him, and since he clearly likes boobs so much, do the right thing and share!”