Chapter 61 – Chika's Hidden Kink (Patreon)
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Kouma hadn't expected Chika to just throw herself at him like that. And she brought her sister, Toyomi, along for the ride too.
Given the circumstances, Kouma wasn't some generic soft-hearted harem protagonist. He was an incubus loaded with all kinds of forbidden skills! Naturally, he wasn't about to refuse.
By the time the two-hour lunch break ended, he could clearly feel that his strength had undergone a massive leap forward over the course of that morning.
Afterward, Haruno led Kouma and the two Fujiwara sisters to an apartment near Shuchi'in Academy. It was a standard studio: one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen, and one bathroom.
"Alright, let's wash up here!"
They'd gotten pretty dusty back in that abandoned sports equipment shed.
"Haruno-nee, is this place...?"
Haruno spun a set of keys around her slender finger. "I rented this apartment just a few days ago!"
She pulled one key off the ring and handed it to Kouma. "If Kouma-kun ever wants to rest, you can come here too!" She gave him a wink.
Kouma looked down at the key in his hand. Yeah... this familiar line, this familiar scene. It reminded him of the key Ai Hoshino had given him. The address on that one seemed to be this same apartment building, too.
"That's quite the coincidence..."
He quietly tucked the key away.
"Why do you have a place here, and yet you still dragged us to the sports shed...?" Toyomi asked, bewildered. Remembering that absurd series of scenes, her body still felt weak, and her face instantly flushed deep red.
"Hmph, you're still far too inexperienced." Haruno let out a light, dismissive snort.
What difference would coming to this apartment have made? Doing it here would've felt just like doing it at home. Was that the same experience as doing it at Shuchi'in Academy, a place with such a strict academic atmosphere?
It was just like how so many people love searching for plot in smutty books and hunting for smut in serious literature.
"There's only one bathroom. Kouma-kun and I will go first."
Haruno opened the wardrobe, which had already been stocked with clothes for herself and for Kouma. Toyomi even spotted some outfits inside that were... extremely revealing.
"Looks like Haruno had this apartment's intended purpose figured out from the start..."
In the bathroom, steam filled the air.
"Haruno-nee... you're not mad that I let Toyomi-nee and the others join in earlier?"
The young boy's timid voice sounded, and the movements of Haruno's hands as she cleaned him paused for just a moment. She gently drew the boy into her arms.
"How could I be? Whatever decisions Kouma-kun makes, I'll always support you."
Haruno spoke softly, her eyes glimmering faintly through the mist. From the moment she'd learned the truth about Kouma's incubus identity, she had been prepared for everything.
As an incubus, Kouma needed to absorb the yin energy of enough women to grow stronger. Only then could he accumulate enough power to protect himself before the day his true identity was inevitably exposed. And relying on her alone, there was no way she could give him enough yin energy or help him build the strength to face powerful enemies.
Haruno was a smart woman.
On one side was selfish love. To monopolize Kouma, to make him hers and hers alone. The consequence? One day in the future, she would lose him in agony, and he would lose his freedom and suffer inhuman treatment.
On the other side was selfless love. To help Kouma absorb yin energy from more women, to accumulate his strength, so that both she and Kouma could live freely and happily.
Haruno had made her choice long ago. She had already steeled her resolve.
"Haruno-nee..."
Kouma tilted his head up, their eyes meeting. His heart felt warm, his gaze filled with affection and emotion.
That said... no matter what, when she saw Kouma together with other women, Haruno still got jealous. That was simply part of her nature as a woman, unavoidable.
"However..." Haruno pressed her lips close to Kouma's earlobe, letting out a soft, moist breath. "I'm still very jealous... so Kouma-kun has to make it up to me."
Out in the living room, Toyomi, who was sitting on the sofa, once again heard those familiar sounds coming from the bathroom. Her red lips parted slightly, and her face flushed.
"Does Chika even have any stamina left?"
She glanced over at her sister. Chika was so spent she could barely move anymore.
As if sensing her sister's gaze, Chika propped up her upper body, defiant. "That's only because you were all ganging up on me the whole time..."
"But isn't that exactly what you wanted?" Toyomi asked flatly.
She was starting to seriously suspect her little sister had some kind of hidden kink.
"Still... Kouma-kun really is incredible..."
Listening to the increasingly unrestrained sounds, Toyomi felt as if her body was slipping right back into that earlier state, her beautiful eyes gradually growing hazy.
...
In the apartment that Ai Hoshino had rented, Miyako Saito was lying in bed, resting. In her sleep, she dreamed she was in a blazing whirlwind romance with the most handsome boy in the world. Just as they reached their wedding night, she jolted awake.
Miyako rubbed her bleary eyes and pulled the blanket out from between her legs. "I can't believe I'm still having teenage dreams like this..."
A look of bewilderment crossed her face. And now that she thought about it, that boy in the dream... he kind of looked like an older Kouma.
"Have I really been single that long...?"
"The alarm hasn't even gone off yet..."
Miyako sighed in frustration. There was nothing worse than setting an alarm and then waking up early! This was her hard-earned lunch break. Later, she still had to go to Shuchi'in to oversee Ai's performance, and after that she had to visit other agencies to negotiate some commercial performance contracts for B-Komachi.
"Might as well sleep until the alarm goes off..."
She closed her eyes, but then faintly heard a string of... suggestive sounds coming from next door.
"It's still broad daylight... are you seriously not gonna let me sleep...?"
Miyako's face burned crimson. That sound instantly yanked her right back into that wedding night dream. She rolled over, trying to ignore it.
But those sounds were devastatingly penetrating. They passed through the wall, slipped past her eardrums, and wormed their way straight into her heart. She lay there with her eyes shut for a long time, but she couldn't fall back asleep.
Miyako was someone who warmed up very slowly. Normally, sounds like this never managed to stir anything in her before they were already over. But this time, because of the dream she'd just had, combined with the unrelenting noise, Miyako's emotions gradually began to heat up.
A blurry figure resembling Kouma floated into her mind... but in a waking state, the imagination craves specifics. Soon enough, that blurry figure sharpened into the crisp, vivid image of Kouma.
Miyako's red lips parted slightly.
"Kouma..."
...
After Kouma and Haruno finished their bath, Haruno, exhausted from the day's exertions, quickly fell into a deep slumber.
The two Fujiwara sisters, faces still glowing red, rushed into the bathroom to clean up.
Kouma stepped out of the apartment into the hallway and pulled out the key Ai had given him. When he saw the label stuck on it, his expression froze in disbelief.
Ai and Haruno really had rented apartments in the exact same building. Not only that, but on the exact same floor!
He looked toward the door next to Haruno's apartment. The room number on it matched the number on the label of the key in his hand perfectly.
"Right next door?!"
Kouma stood there, stunned.
"Well... she probably isn't here right now..."
He slid the key into the lock and gently pressed the handle.
Click!
The door opened.
The layout inside seemed identical to Haruno's place. One bedroom, one living room, one kitchen, one bathroom.
Kouma immediately spotted the things sitting in the living room. "So Ai-nee actually stays here sometimes?"
His gaze shifted to the tightly shut bedroom door.