Chapter 204: You Do Your Homework, I'll Hug My Boyfriend

Rushing back before dinner, Miyahito, who was eagerly craving curry rice, rode his motorcycle with sparks flying (just kidding) back to the apartment.

"I'm home!"

When he opened the door and changed his shoes, even though he had called out, he got no response. Miyahito subconsciously looked up at the room, which felt a bit too quiet.

The room lights were on.

"Utaha? Did she go out?"

Carrying his schoolbag, Miyahito walked down the hallway, muttering to himself as he headed toward the bedroom.

Before entering the room, he specifically checked the kitchen... Yeah, the curry and rice were already cooked.

So, did Utaha go out?

"If she went out, why didn't she send me a message." Just as Miyahito was complaining quietly, and pulling out his phone to check for any missed messages.

Click—!

Accompanied by the sound of the door lock turning, the next second, Utaha's voice reached Miyahito's ears in the room.

"Hmm? Miyahito is back!"

Hearing his girlfriend's muttering from the entryway, Miyahito, who was leaning against the wall and sitting on the carpet, turned his body, poked his head out, and looked at Utaha, who was changing her shoes, with a slightly resentful gaze. His tone was calm but carried a hint of grievance.

"Welcome home, Utaha...."

However, before Miyahito could even start complaining about why she didn't tell him she was going out, his words were interrupted by a sudden gasp.

"Eek!" Seemingly startled by Miyahito's sudden voice, Utaha, who was halfway through changing her shoes, instantly stopped in a panic, stood at attention, and even hid the convenience store shopping bag in her hand behind her back.

"Hmm?"

Seeing this, Miyahito tilted his head in confusion and asked curiously.

"What's wrong? Did you buy something from the convenience store?"

"No... nothing..." Utaha's voice lacked confidence as she guiltily averted her gaze.

"Really?" The more he looked at Utaha's reaction, the more curious Miyahito became.

He couldn't help it. After all, Utaha's current appearance, looking like a child hiding potato chips she bought with her allowance from her parents, was just too cute (slip of the tongue)... too curiosity-inducing.

"Really!"

Seemingly pushed to the edge by her boyfriend's intensely curious gaze, Utaha, in a fit of flustered anger, placed the bag on the shoe cabinet, kicked off both her slippers and outdoor shoes, and stepped barefoot onto the wooden floor of the hallway.

Stomping with heavy steps, she quickly rushed into the room and tackled the sitting Miyahito onto the carpet.

Pressing her entire body onto him, squishing her ample chest flat against her boyfriend's chest into the shape of flattened dough, she used her delicate hands to pull at Miyahito's mouth. While messing with him, Utaha shouted at her boyfriend in a slightly exasperated tone.

"I'll make you curious! I'll make you curious! I'll make you, Miyahito, so curious!"

"Seriously! Don't you know girls have lots of secrets? You have absolutely no consideration for your girlfriend!!"

"...Eh?" Completely dumbfounded by his girlfriend's exasperated accusations, Miyahito paused. After staring blankly at her blushing expression for a good while.

"!"

"Utaha, are you on your period!?"

The air... froze.

After a long silence, the next second.

"W-wait! Utaha! It's turning blue, blue, blue! The flesh is going to turn blue from pinching!"

...

After routinely disciplining her reckless boyfriend.

Having almost exposed what she bought at the convenience store and nearly died of social embarrassment, Utaha kicked the teary-eyed Miyahito, who was rubbing the soft flesh of his waist, into the bathroom to take a shower.

Returning lightly to the hallway entryway, she picked up the pure white bag with a '7-Eleven' logo on the shoe cabinet like a thief with a guilty conscience. She extremely carefully opened the tightly sealed bag and peeked inside.

Looking at the few small, meaningless black-and-red boxes in the bag, Utaha's face gradually began to turn red. Especially when her gaze landed on the words 'Ultra-thin' written on the cover of the small boxes, an invisible steam slowly rose from the head of the blushing Utaha.

Swish—!

Yanking the bag shut, as if to seal the things inside, Utaha tied several dead knots firmly.

After doing this, she panicked and looked back at the closed bathroom door... holding her breath, she listened quietly for a few seconds to the sound of water and her boyfriend's happy humming from the bathroom. With a red face, Utaha let out a long breath.

Then, standing on her tiptoes, carrying the bag, she returned to the room very carefully, making sure not to make a single strange noise.

Yanking open the drawer in the bedside table where she kept her private items, she carelessly swept some things into the corner to make space, and directly stuffed the bag into the drawer.

"Phew..."

Closing the drawer, Utaha breathed a huge sigh of relief as if she had been saved.

After wiping away a non-existent bead of sweat, she propped her hands on her knees and slowly straightened up.

Smack, smack—!

After lightly patting her own cheeks twice, Utaha turned to prepare tonight's dinner.

After all, listening to Miyahito singing and taking a bath in the bathroom, he was about to finish a song.

However, when Utaha stood in the small kitchen in the hallway, listening to the noise from the bathroom behind her, her mind uncontrollably associated what she had just bought. Her thoughts inadvertently drifted back to the memory of Kyoko and Yuki earnestly educating her during lunch break.

'If Miyahito has been holding back all this time.' Chanting this in her heart, Utaha's gaze seemed uncontrollably drawn to the bathroom behind her, from which happy humming continued to emanate.

"How about it."

Her cherry-pink lips slightly parted, a few whispers of shy murmurs drifted from the lips of the increasingly fantasizing Utaha.

"Tomorrow night... I'll give Miyahito a back rub? I remember I put the new swimsuit in that wardrobe over there..."

...

It might sound strange to say it out loud.

Tonight, Miyahito inexplicably felt that his girlfriend seemed... much more seductive than usual, or rather, she was putting in extra effort to tempt him.

"Utaha...." His Adam's apple unconsciously bobbed up and down. Holding a pen and sitting cross-legged on the carpet doing extra math problems, Miyahito dodged her gaze and looked down at his girlfriend, who was resting her head on his thigh, and said to her cautiously.

"Um... I'm doing my homework, you know."

"Mhm."

Rolling over and burying her face in her boyfriend's lower abdomen, Utaha said in a somewhat low voice.

"You do your homework, I'll hug my boyfriend. Is that not allowed?"

".....Y-you're happy, so it's fine."