Chapter 206: Wanting to Grow Old with You

So it was you two causing all this trouble!

After listening to Utaha's explanation, Miyahito, caught between laughter and tears, couldn't help but raise his hand to cover his face and shake his head.

Although he had heard about how explosive the topics girls discuss could be, becoming the center of their discussion (and that kind of topic at that) gave him an indescribable sense of social death.

"Why did you have to talk about this with Hori and the others?" With a darkened face and a stiff smile, Miyahito gently pinched Utaha's cheek, squeezing the words out through his teeth. "Seriously, stop chatting about random nonsense with them all day."

"But." Utaha puffed out her chest defiantly, glaring at Miyahito with slightly puffed cheeks. "We're already cohabiting, yet you never touch me!"

"....." Is it my fault?

Stunned into silence by his girlfriend's retort, Miyahito's gaze involuntarily slid down from Utaha's baby-soft, fair face, uncontrollably landing on her firm, peak-like cleavage.

Noticing her boyfriend's gaze, Utaha's pretty face couldn't help but blush, and she subconsciously hunched her upright posture a little.

But the next second, seeming to feel that this subconscious action was a bit undignified, she endured the rolling shame in her heart and straightened her upper body again.

Now, with a little bit of reason returning, Miyahito couldn't quite handle it anymore.

Slowly shifting his gaze away from that place, Miyahito looked vaguely toward another corner of the room, his tone somewhat insincere and stammering.

"I... you... I....."

"Look into my eyes." A slightly impatient Utaha reached out, her palm firmly gripping Miyahito's cheeks as his head and neck started swaying evasively, staring straight into his pupils.

'I'm serious!'

Reading this from her eyes, Miyahito was momentarily stunned. After a shallow sigh, he reached up and pulled Utaha into a tight embrace.

"Eh...." Surprised by being suddenly held tight, Utaha turned her face slightly. Looking at Miyahito, who had buried his face in her collarbone and hair, her cheeks grew slightly warm, and she felt a bit at a loss.

Subconsciously, her hands, which were resting on his shoulders, unconsciously wrapped around his neck, her fingers interlacing anxiously.

"Actually, Hori and Yuki were right."

Feeling his cheeks gradually heating up, the muscles in Miyahito's entire body unconsciously began to tense.

"I'm a normal guy, and I have normal needs."

Every single day since we got together, I've been enduring the impulses in my heart, suppressing my physical desires every single day.

"Utaha is beautiful. Very, very, very beautiful."

Every minute and second I spend with you, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold back the next second.

"Miyahito." Softly calling her boyfriend's name, ripples like water appeared in Utaha's wine-red eyes.

"Actually." Hugging him a bit tighter, pressing her slender, curvaceous body a little closer, feeling their heartbeats gradually overlapping, Utaha whispered as softly as a mosquito by his ear.

"You don't have to hold back... We... we... aren't we lovers?"

The moment those words entered his ears, Miyahito, who had subconsciously held his breath, felt his heartbeat seemingly stall for a second.

The corners of his mouth curling into a suppressed, bitter arc, he raised his left hand, his palm gently brushing through Utaha's smooth hair, his voice somehow becoming a bit dry.

"Don't tempt me like this, Utaha."

I'm just an ordinary male high school student.

I really can't withstand a test of beauty like this, hey.....

But then again. Feeling the charm of his girlfriend in his arms, who was in the prime of her youth and possessed a figure and appearance that broke the mold, Miyahito estimated that in this world, aside from people of the same sex, family members, and some with innate disabilities, there were very few who could truly withstand Utaha's test.

"That's not right." Slowly straightening up, the corners of her eyes reddening, Utaha looked at the wavering Miyahito with a seductive gaze, the corners of her mouth involuntarily curling into a little devil-like arc.

"Right now, I'm not even really tempting you yet, my Mr. Miyahito."

"....(Gulp—!)" His Adam's apple sliding unnaturally up and down, Miyahito struggled to shift his wavering gaze away, his tone carrying a hint of struggle as he spoke in a low voice.

"Utaha... we're still young right now... For your sake, I will absolutely not do anything that could hurt you at a time like this."

"I'm not just thinking about now. I want to marry you, and I want to grow old with you slowly..."

The moment those words fell, overwhelmed by a surge of security, Utaha could no longer suppress the impulse rising in her heart.

She sealed Miyahito's slightly parted lips with her own cherry-pink ones.

...

"Hoo...."

"Hoo...."

Two breaths, one light and one heavy, rang out.

With the world reflected in their eyes reduced to only each other's faces, the tightly embracing couple, Miyahito and Utaha, both fell silent after the kiss ended.

Just like after those deep, passionate kisses from days past. They just quietly held each other, silently feeling their gradually overlapping heartbeats, and gazing deeply at one another.

"So." The corners of Miyahito's mouth curled into an arc of helplessness and doting affection. "Are you satisfied with my answer, my Miss Utaha?"

"Mhm." A similar smile gracing her pretty face, Utaha, with her eyes curved into crescents, nodded gently. "I'm very satisfied, my Mr. Miyahito."

After the brief exchange, the deeply affectionate couple couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle, looking at each other and laughing.

...

Having experienced that passionate moment just now, Miyahito didn't pick up the game console again. He simply sent an apology via LINE to Ishigami Yu, whom he had promised to farm materials with, and agreed to play next time, thus 'ruthlessly' standing up his good friend.

That's right, compared to games and such, spending time with his girlfriend was obviously more important! If he couldn't play the game today, he could play it tomorrow. But if he didn't keep his girlfriend company today, he'd probably face disaster tomorrow.

"Right, Utaha?"

Rolling her eyes at Miyahito, who was looking at her with a fawning expression, Utaha huffed and gave his solid chest a half-hearted, playful slap.

"By the way, what did Miyuki-senpai and the others want to see you about today?"

"Oh, about that." Miyahito scratched the back of his head. "It's not a big deal. It's just... well, you see, Miyuki-nii and the others know about my identity as 'Miyani', right?"

"So, they wanted to commission me to write a song for Shuchiin's sports festival, or asked if I could appear as a guest performer to add a little something to their opening ceremony."

Hearing this, Utaha thought about it for a moment, then said with a hint of hesitation,

"Like the opening performance at Koshien?"

"Yeah, something like that."

At this point, a mischievous thought suddenly flashed through Miyahito's mind.

Shuchiin, Shirogane Miyuki, Shinomiya Kaguya, and a song... How about performing "DADDY! DADDY! DO!" at the Shuchiin sports festival opening ceremony?

That might actually be pretty fun.