Chapter 16

Yuzu Senpai’s POV

“So basically, you’re always alone together in the club room after school with your cute kouhai, Kakeru-kun. And since you can’t forget the warmth of his lap the one time you sat on it, you end up sitting there every single day taking advantage of his kindness, and…”

“…Uu.”

It was pure hell.

After looking at everything I’d been doing from an objective standpoint, I had to explain it all from scratch to my younger sister, Lemon.

It was a parade of embarrassment—embarrassing to remember, embarrassing to speak aloud.

“Yep, that’s lewd.”

“It is not lewd!?”

“It is lewd, so you better realize it! If Kakeru-kun was an overbearing, super-sadistic prince type, you’d have been pinned down and pushed over by now, onee-san!”

“P-Pushed over…-?!”

“Hold on, though. If he becomes a chair for you, maybe he’s a pure masochistic kouhai puppy-type hero!”

“…Could you please speak in words I actually understand?”

“All in all, totally lewd.”

“Totally lewd!?”

W-What does this kid think her own flesh and blood is?

She used to be quiet and would stick right behind me like a little duckling when we were kids, too.

“Won’t you secretly take some hidden photos for me next time?”

“Absolutely not!?”

“Eeeh, I just want to see my onee-san sitting on Kakeru-kun’s lap with her brain ready to boil over!”

“That goes way beyond just ‘want to see’!!”

What on earth are you planning to do with pictures of my shameful state?

“Then pictures! At least let me see a photo of Kakeru-kun!”

“Eh…”

“A photo should be fine, right? He’s the person you like, after all, so shouldn’t I know what he looks like too?”

“Well, um…”

“Eh, don’t tell me your phone is full of lewd, unshowable hidden photos or something!?”

“No way!! I-It’s not like that… I don’t have… a single picture…”

“….Eh?”

Why are you making that face like you just saw something unbelievable?

“…Ah, then how about his social media account?”

“I don’t know…”

“…H-How about having him send you a selfie right now?”

“I don’t even know his contact info…”

“Are you kidding me, what have you been doing for two whole months!?”

“Wholesome club activities!!”

“What part of sitting on a male kouhai’s lap is wholesome!?”

“Uguu…”

I-I can’t win…

The pile of cold, hard logic was attacking me…

“You like him, right?”

“Yeah…”

“And you still haven’t asked for his contact info?”

“I-I couldn’t find the right timing, so it just stayed like that…”

“You’re in the same club, wouldn’t it be inconvenient without it?”

“If I go to the club room, I can always see him anyway…”

“You’re totally flaunting your sweet romance right now!!”

“Flaunting!?”

You don’t have to throw yourself backward onto the bed with such an over-the-top reaction.

Look, your shirt is riding up and your belly button is showing.

“…Got it, onee-san!”

Whoa, that startled me!

“I’ll step up and take matters into my own hands for you, onee-san! Oh, I don’t mean in a lewd way, of course!”

“I know that, but… W-What are you going to do?”

“Tck-tck-tck, romance is all about psychological warfare, onee-san.”

“P-Psychological warfare…?”

W-Well, that sounds a tiny bit legit.

“That’s right, warfare! You can’t just keep pressing forward all the time, you have to pull back sometimes!”

“P-Pull back… I-In that case, I have library committee work tomorrow right after school, so club is off…”

“That’s perfect! You can create some temporary distance and make Kakeru-kun impatient!”

“M-Make him impatient!?”

“If you seduce him right after that, he’ll fall for you in one second, onee-san!”

“Wait!”

“And even then, don’t sit down right away, you gotta make him wait until the absolute limit to drive him wild with frustration!”

“Will you wait?!”

“That’s right! This is the Sweet-and-Sour Cutting-It-Close Getting-Them-All-Worked-Up Done-Deal Grand Operation!”

“I told you to wait!”

This kid is hopeless, she’s so caught up in her own delusions she isn’t listening to a word I say!

“Anyway, I’m curious, so can I go check out Kakeru-kun tomorrow?”

“No way!”

“Eeeh! Just a little bit! Just a tiny, teensy bit!”

“Not a single bit, big or small, absolutely not!!”

“…Chee.”

“I mean it, okay!?”

“…Riiiiight.”

Ugh, I definitely picked the wrong person to consult…