Chapter 143: Chapter 143: Sus Akane
But that flower-like smile clearly showed that she was quite happy about it.
At the moment when the Sakuramiya sisters thanked them, Natsuha and Akane both felt quite delighted, filled with a sense of accomplishment.
It was as if they could understand the feeling of when Hikari had saved them from fire and water.
"Class is about to start, so we'll head off first, Hinata-senpai, Saya-senpai."
After Hikari politely greeted them, he left with Natsuha and Akane.
Sakuramiya Saya and Sakuramiya Hinata watched Hikari, looking like they wanted to say something, but it seemed like they couldn't bring themselves to.
After leaving the flower bed.
Akane, while pressing Hikari's arm against her astonishingly proud chest, secretly asked,"Hikari-kun, I think I just saw you hugging that pair of very beautiful twin sisters. Nothing happened between you, right?"
Hearing this sudden question from Akane, Hikari glanced at her,'This girl has problems.'
"Weren't you busy beating up those scumbags from the photography club just now? How did you still have time to look at what was happening on my side?",Hikari asked.
"Uh... well... I still care about Hikari-kun.",Akane said sheepishly.
"Hm? Worried about me? I was the one who taught you your martial arts. Have you already gotten so arrogant?",The hand Hikari had placed on Akane quietly pinched her.
"Ahh!",Akane let out a coquettish cry of pain.
She quickly explained,"No, no! That's not what I meant."
"I just think that those Sakuramiya sisters are really beautiful."
"It feels like you and them are quite fated. Aren't they also your seniors from the archery club?"
"I think... maybe you could consider interacting with them more, developing things further, and deepening the bond."
Thinking back to when Akane deliberately pushed the Sakuramiya sisters into his arms earlier, and now hearing these words, Hikari more or less understood—Akane seemed to have awakened some kind of unbelievable kink.
Natsuha, who had been listening in confusion, although not as perceptive as Hikari, also vaguely picked up on something.
Natsuha widened her eyes and looked at Akane,"Huh? Akane, what do you mean by that? Are you saying you want to add that pair of twin sisters to Hikari-kun's tutoring class?"
"What's wrong with you? Don't you get jealous?"
Hearing Natsuha's questioning, Akane panicked a little, but she quickly explained,"Ah... isn't this just fate?"
"Besides... besides, just the two of us can't handle Hikari-kun alone."
"So... so adding a few more for Hikari-kun... what's wrong with that?"
"I think Hikari-kun is so outstanding that he deserves to be liked by more and better girls."
Natsuha pointed at Akane, momentarily too angry to speak,"You... you're really just all chest and no brain, huh..."
Hikari was also speechless,'Damn, Akane really seems to be some kind of extreme self-cuckold.'
'This...'
Although this trait made him, the War God of Pure Love, extremely speechless...
But, on the other hand, everything Akane was doing seemed to be for his sake.
It didn't even seem to be harming him. In fact, it was actually helping him.
Even his Pure Love Radar and other Pure Love-related tools didn't issue any warnings or alerts, meaning that what Akane was doing didn't seem to violate the Pure Love System's definition of pure love?
For a moment, Hikari didn't know what to say, so he decided to let things be for now.
Watching Hikari leave with two beautiful girls.
The Sakuramiya sisters still stood in place, watching their backs as they both fell into deep thought.
At this moment, Sakuramiya Saya was still reminiscing about the warmth in Hikari's arms.
After being rescued by Hikari once again...
Sakuramiya Hinata suddenly realized clearly—she seemed to have fallen for Hikari.
That sweet and sour feeling, the image of him lingering in her mind, wasn't that exactly like the heroines in the romance movies and novels she had seen, falling in love?
As a young girl, Sakuramiya Hinata had, of course, read those romance stories before.
It was just that she had never experienced such feelings herself.
That feeling of security whenever she was near him, and the constant desire to be with him—that seemed to be what real love was.
Sakuramiya Hinata suddenly realized that the relationship between her and her sister, Sakuramiya Saya, was actually just simple sisterly affection. It was just that they had relied on each other since childhood, leading to a misunderstanding.
Otherwise, there was no way to explain why, despite kissing her sister so many times, it couldn't compare to that one casual kiss with Hikari.
Sakuramiya Hinata realized that she did care about her sister, Sakuramiya Saya, and she did have feelings of affection toward her.
But that wasn't love—it was simply familial, sisterly affection.
Her heart-racing feelings for Hikari, on the other hand, seemed to be real love.
However, after understanding her own heart, Sakuramiya Hinata felt even more conflicted and guilty.
Because, in her mind, she and her sister had always thought they were in love with each other—an actual yuri romance.
Yet now, she had completely fallen for Hikari. Didn't that mean she had cheated?
But this emotion was completely beyond her control.
At this moment, Sakuramiya Hinata no longer wanted to have any physical intimacy beyond sisterly affection with her sister, Sakuramiya Saya—like kissing.
Instead, she urgently, even in her dreams, wanted to do things with Hikari that she hadn't even done with her sister.
Even though she had figured this out, Sakuramiya Hinata still didn't dare to tell her sister, Sakuramiya Saya.
She was afraid of hurting her beloved sister, and also afraid of being scolded.
But Sakuramiya Hinata didn't realize...
That the emotions of her sister, Sakuramiya Saya, standing right beside her, were just as complex and chaotic.
Actually, Sakuramiya Saya was also thinking about Hikari. Though not as decisively as Sakuramiya Hinata, her thoughts were quite similar.
After experiencing an unprecedented warmth and heartbeat from Hikari, Sakuramiya Saya suddenly started to question whether she was actually a lesbian.
If she truly was a lesbian, why had she only ever felt something for her younger sister, Sakuramiya Hinata, despite there being so many other girls around?
Clearly, even the beautiful Natsuha and Akane at Hikari's side didn't stir anything in her.
Yet, for Hikari, she had a strange feeling.
She had already been somewhat curious about Hikari, and after being saved by him twice in a row…
Sakuramiya Saya suddenly realized that Hikari's face, which she had never found unpleasant to look at, now held a strong attraction for her.
Sakuramiya Saya did not have as clear and obvious feelings for Hikari as Sakuramiya Hinata did, but this vague emotion was already making her very uneasy.
She wanted to hide this feeling away.
'No, no!'
She definitely still loved her sister, Sakuramiya Hinata, just as her sister still loved her so firmly.
'How could I betray her? Absolutely not!'
With this thought, Sakuramiya Saya turned her head and said to Sakuramiya Hinata,"Hinata, just now, that Hikari-kun felt so violent…"
Even though, in reality, watching Hikari unleash his explosive power earlier had made Sakuramiya Saya feel exhilarated—she had even wanted to clap in excitement—at this moment, in order to cover up her feelings, she deliberately spoke in a belittling manner.
Hearing Sakuramiya Saya's words, Sakuramiya Hinata immediately wanted to refute her, but seeing her sister staring at her closely, as if searching for some flaw in her words…
Sakuramiya Hinata quickly went along with her. "Yes, yes, yes! Hikari-kun is just too violent, really scary! A guy this violent surely isn't popular with girls—he's just terrifying…"
At this moment, Sakuramiya Hinata actually had already realized her feelings for Hikari, so she naturally didn't think there was anything bad about his so-called violence.
In fact, in her eyes, Hikari's actions just now had been incredibly cool.
However, she had a strange feeling that her sister was acting a bit off, as if she had noticed something.
Afraid that her sister might scold her for "cheating" or something, Sakuramiya Hinata hurriedly buried her desire to praise Hikari and instead echoed her sister's words.
Sakuramiya Hinata: "Look at Hikari-kun, he always has two pretty girls by his side. Those two girls, Natsuha and Akane, seem to have an unusual relationship with him. He's probably two-timing them—what a frivolous guy!"
'…Ah, I actually want to get closer to Hikari-kun, too. I wouldn't even mind if he had three girls at the same time…'
Sakuramiya Saya: "Exactly! And aside from those two girls, didn't we see three gyaru girls at the school gate earlier? Who knows, maybe Hikari-kun is actually a delinquent!"
'Hikari-kun must have his reasons for doing this. He's saved me and Saya so many times without ever taking advantage of it—he's definitely not the kind of man who gets lost in beauty.'
After that…
In order to hide their true thoughts, the Sakuramiya sisters bizarrely began nitpicking Hikari, the very person who had just saved them, picking out all sorts of flaws in him.
While they criticized him, both of them also felt guilty toward Hikari.
But they were afraid that their true thoughts would be exposed, so they could only continue belittling him.
———
"Achoo!"
Sitting in class, Hikari had no idea why he had suddenly sneezed several times in a row.
"Damn it, who's badmouthing me behind my back? Is it that brat Tachikawa?"
'Looks like I really should finish him off completely. If the Sakuramiya sisters weren't there today, I'd have just killed him outright.'
'Forget it, I'll find a chance to get rid of him soon. The sooner he dies, the sooner I'll have peace.'
Unable to pinpoint the culprit behind his sneezing, Hikari simply dumped the blame on Tachikawa.
For the rest of the day, Hikari occasionally chatted with Yoshida Saki, who wanted to talk to him but always ended up stammering after a few words.
Then he dealt with the three gyaru girls again.
And after enduring another round of Shirakwa-sensei's endless nagging…
His school day passed in a lighthearted and pleasant manner.
After resolving the situation with the Sakuramiya sisters, nothing else happened on campus today, and the peaceful day smoothly reached the time for dismissal.
However, after school, Natsuha pulled Hikari and Akane aside, suggesting they go to her house for dinner together.
Originally, Natsuha and Akane had a good relationship and could even call each other sisters. But now, their relationship seemed a little strained.
Because Natsuha was somewhat similar to Yukino—both were the jealous type, the kind who would get possessive in a normal way.
It wasn't that she objected to Hikari meeting and getting to know more girls.
But she also didn't want her love to be divided among other women. She was the kind of person who would fight to keep it.
However, Akane's perspective on the matter seemed to be different from theirs.
This made Natsuha very unhappy—she wanted to correct Akane's way of thinking. But Akane's reasoning was… frustratingly logical.
She argued that even when the two of them were together, they still couldn't withstand Hikari's long "whip."
So today, Natsuha decided to bring Akane along and call Hikari to visit the Harmony Apartments for a foursome.
She wanted to gather the three of them—Akane, Yukino, and herself—who already had a deep connection with Hikari.
Then, the three of them would take on Hikari together in a proper battle.
Natsuha refused to believe that the three of them together couldn't handle Hikari.
She wanted to prove to Akane that the three of them could do it.
After all, even though she was jealous of Yukino, she had to admit that Yukino's offensive capability was top-tier. Every time the two of them fought Hikari together, Yukino had always absorbed most of Hikari's "attacks."
So, Natsuha Natsuha intended to use this party to "fix" Akane's peculiar self-sacrificing attitude.
———
Meanwhile…
As Hikari walked home with a serious-faced Natsuha and an excited Akane… on another street, another group of people seemed to have gotten hold of some crucial information.
Confident that they could also "start a party," the three gyaru girls—Reina, Yukina and Ruri—marched toward Hikari's apartment with determined expressions.
Their faces were flushed with excitement, their eyes brimming with confidence as they strode forward under the morning sun.
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