My love index is at its maximum.

Tazaki Tsukasa glanced at the route map, then, carrying Hoshino Hanami, he turned left and right repeatedly. The path was sparsely populated, devoid of the usual tourist noise, creating a tranquil and expansive atmosphere.

After walking along a high earthen wall for a while, we turned into a narrow side door.

The stone path underfoot had turned into a dirt road, and a long row of unidentified white flowers bloomed on both sides of the road.

There are also several small stone sculptures of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva by the roadside. Red leaves have fallen on the heads of the little Ksitigarbha Bodhisattvas, making them look incredibly cute!

"Put me down."

"Ok."

As soon as Hoshino Hana landed, she suddenly reached out to her girlfriend with a sinister smile.

Realizing the danger, his senses reacted passively, but Tsukasa Tazaki didn't dodge. He just pretended not to have reacted and let out a "Ah!" before Hoshino Hanami grabbed his hands.

"I told you, I'll punish you slowly," Hoshino Hanami said with a cold smile.

"Please have mercy..." Tsukasa Tazaki replied pitifully.

At this moment, Tazaki's sister was being pinned against a tree trunk by Hoshino Hanami, her wrists being suspended by her hands.

Seeing her girlfriend's tightly pursed lips and teary-eyed, shy expression, Hoshino Hanami sneered, "If I don't teach you a lesson, you'll get too big for your britches."

"You're bullying me like this," Tsukasa Tazaki protested.

"Bullying? Today I'll show you what real bullying is." Hoshino Hanami reached into Tazaki Tsukasa's clothes, her fingertips lightly tracing his smooth, beautiful abdomen, tickling him like a feather.

"Please stop..."

Tsukasa Tazaki's soft little lips were pressed tightly together.

Tears welled up uncontrollably in her eyes, and her body instinctively began to struggle.

"It's too late to beg for mercy now~" Hoshino Hanami smiled maliciously, lowered her head and quickly kissed his lips.

Tazaki Tsukasa slowly closed his eyes, and the last thing he saw was a maple tree on the opposite bank of the stream, its leaves red, and its fiery red reflection rippled gently in the water.

……

An hour passed quickly, and the catgirl features disappeared.

Tazaki Tsukasa breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Hoshino Hanami, who was leaning on his shoulder: "Are you calm now?"

"Mmm~" Hoshino Hanami responded softly, snuggling closer to him. "Are you feeling unwell?"

"It's so uncomfortable!"

How about I let you change again?

“…Okay.” Tsukasa Tazaki hesitated for less than a second before making his choice.

"Forget it, I'll get tired of it after one time." Hoshino Hanami rolled her eyes at him and threw out the transformation device. "Take this back to Sakura. As for whether she wants you to transform into her, I don't care."

"Absolutely not." Tsukasa Tazaki quickly hid the transformation device and placed his right hand on her waist: "I can't accept anything as shameful as this, except for my sister."

Hoshino Hanami glanced at him, then closed her eyes and buried her face in his chest.

Chapter 269 Hold me tight, you idiot!

The trees are lush, and wild birds flock to the forest.

My body felt warm and cozy in the sunlight, and I didn't want to move at all.

Quietly savoring the peaceful atmosphere, Hoshino Hanami looked up at Tazaki Tsukasa and scolded, "You're such a spineless man. Please, be a little tougher! If you defy me, let me harden my heart and have a big fight with you, then a big fight, and finally dump you cleanly!"

"I'm sorry for what happened to you first..." Tsukasa Tazaki whispered, his lips brushing against her delicately scented hair. "No matter how unreasonable your request is, I'm willing to do it if you ask it."

In that instant, the option of 'dumping those women' flashed through Hoshino Hanami's mind.

Can he do it?

The surrounding bamboo forest remained quiet.

Hoshino Hanami pondered for a moment, then propped herself up with her hands, staring intently into Tazaki Tsukasa's clear pupils, and asked as if to confirm, "Are you sure you can ask for anything, no matter how outrageous?"

"Yes," Tsukasa Tazaki replied affirmatively.

"I'm not lying."

"I am absolutely not lying."

"I want you..."

With her mouth agape, she paused for a moment, then, instead of continuing, Hoshino Hanami extended a slender finger and touched his brow. Bathed in the warm autumn sunlight, the fingertip was almost translucent white, radiating a pale pink hue.

Tsukasa Tazaki didn't ask anything, he just hugged her waist tighter.

After a long silence, Hoshino Hanami's deep voice sounded in her ear, "What you owe me, you can never repay in this lifetime."

"Thank you." Tazaki Tsukasa breathed a sigh of relief again, holding her sexy body tightly in his arms, his cheek rubbing against her neck.

The dirt path in the bamboo forest is bathed in the last warm sunlight before winter arrives.

On the other side of the stream, the maple leaves are fiery red, forming a continuous expanse. The red leaves present different perspectives, and the closer one is to the sky, the wider the view becomes.

A few tourists passed by, and the two moved behind a tree trunk to hide, admiring together the few small clouds floating in the sky, their shapes distinct and simple.

"happy?"

"I've never been happier before."

"Useless." Hoshino Hanami snorted dismissively.

Tazaki Tsukasa rested his head on the tree trunk, gently picked up a strand of her hair, and scratched her neck. "I've had this worry before, what if you make me have no choice but to follow you? I just thought of the same question again, and the answer seems even more certain than before."

"Then why are you still flirting with other women everywhere?" Hoshino Hanami punched him in the chest and sat up.

“It’s all something I owed before…” Tsukasa Tazaki brought a strand of hair to his nose and sniffed it gently. “For example, Ninomiya-san, she got involved with me a little earlier than you. Although I refused her very readily at first, I gradually wavered, and now it’s hard for me to leave her behind.”

"You didn't seem to have it that hard when you made me angry!" Hoshino Hanami kicked him and asked through gritted teeth, "What are you going to do about the other two high school girls?"

"It's hard to say." Tsukasa Tazaki didn't hide anything and honestly explained, "My relationship with Yui Kikawa has become so complicated that it's hard to sort out. At first, she planned to sever ties with me, but because of our past relationship, I tried to get close to her. Later, in Oma Town, she tricked me, and then it was my turn to sever ties."

Hoshino Hanami leaned back into his arms: "Next, she confessed to you in front of the whole country at the Jade Dragon Flag competition, right?"

"On the surface, it was a confession, but in reality, it was to protect me." Tazaki Tsukasa lowered his head slightly, looking at her delicate face. "It was after the Jade Dragon Flag Tournament that our relationship became more complicated. We both knew what the problem was, but we couldn't agree on what to do. Sometimes we wanted to get closer, and sometimes we restrained ourselves, maintaining this stalemate."

"Where's Sakura?" Hoshino Hanami reached out and angrily pinched his cheek.

“Sakura’s problem is much simpler.” Despite the pain, Tsukasa Tazaki answered honestly, “I get along very well with her, and I’m likely to like her more and more as we spend more time together. I can foresee that. But that doesn’t mean we have to be together. What the future holds depends on her own thoughts and your attitude.”

Hoshino Hanami pinched his cheek with one hand and his neck with the other: "Is there anyone else?"

"That's all!" Tsukasa Tazaki answered, especially loudly.

"If you dare to have another one, I'll kill you!" Hoshino Hanami released her grip, her body collapsing as if all her strength had been drained. Then, she asked the same question again: "If I asked you to leave another woman, would you agree?"

“Yes.” Tsukasa Tazaki squeezed her hand and said firmly in her ear, “And it will be without any resentment. I will hide all my pain and loss and only show you the way you like.”

“Not a single word of the truth.” Hoshino Hanami glared at him disdainfully, then stood up and walked back towards Kiyomizu-dera Temple.

Tsukasa Tazaki put on his school uniform jacket and followed behind her.

The two climbed up the slope.

The dappled sunlight flickered and swayed on the dirt path through the forest.

The larch and maple trees grow lushly, and you can hear the clear chirping of birds and the flowing of the stream.

Tsukasa Tazaki finds the world exceptionally lovely today.

Before this, although he had openly become a scumbag, he had always harbored this worry in his heart: what if Hoshino Hanami could no longer tolerate it and forced him to make a decision between option 1 and option N?

That was a very painful decision.

Painful, but not difficult.

I know very well which side I should choose.

From now on, this hidden worry should be eliminated... The road ahead suddenly becomes clear, and things between Yui Kuriyama and Sakura Kuriyama can finally develop naturally.

As for whether they will actually end up together, Tsukasa Tazaki doesn't really care.

Moreover, given the proud personalities of those two young ladies, he couldn't force them to agree, so he could only leave the choice to them.

"Sister, wait for me."

Tazaki Tsukasa quickened his pace, catching up with Hoshino Hanami. "Shall we go into a temple together and draw a fortune slip? I heard that Kiyomizu-dera Temple has..."

The sound gradually faded away.

Seeing Hoshino Hanami's red-rimmed eyes, my heart skipped a beat.

"How about..." Tsukasa Tazaki frantically rummaged through his pocket and pulled out the transformation device, "I'll transform again, okay?"

"Get out!"

Hoshino Hanami yelled at him, wiping her eyes, "Who cares if you become a woman? I'm not a lesbian, get the hell out of here."

"I swear."

Tazaki Tsukasa took a deep breath and slowly approached her. "I swear to the blue sky, to the maple leaves, and to the whole of Kyoto, I, Tazaki Tsukasa, will always love Hoshino Hanami without reservation or objection."

Hoshino Hanami choked up slightly, tilted her head back, and closed her eyes.

The sunlight fell on her skin.

It wasn't warm, but it wasn't cold either.

The sound of footsteps crunching on fallen leaves I heard was very close to me, and the footsteps stopped very carefully.

After waiting for a while, there was no further news.

Hoshino Hanami opened her eyes and yelled at him, "Hold me, you idiot!"

In an instant, a pair of trembling hands pulled her into an embrace, and Tazaki Tsukasa's breath reached her, her originally cold lips slowly becoming warm and soft.

Chapter 270 This little cutie has a lot of mischievous ideas.

Leaving the bamboo grove, we arrived at the torii gate of Jishu Shrine.

Just as Hoshino Hanami was about to suggest going in to pay her respects, she was pulled aside by the girls in her class to take a group photo.

"Hey, Tazaki-san," the female literature committee member looked at Tazaki Tsukasa with a regretful expression, "why did you wash off your makeup? And why aren't you wearing your cat ears anymore?"