I really don't want to have a girlfriend.

Are you polite?

After saying that, it was about time to turn around and go up into the cockpit.

Tenkuji Yuu turned back into the cabin, and for some reason, the staff outside seemed to close the door with a bit too much force.

What did you say to him?

The girl, bathed in the glow of dusk, looked at him, her fingers gently twirling her naturally falling, straight black hair, as beautiful as a freshly painted ink wash painting.

"I just assured him we wouldn't mess around inside."

As she casually remarked, Tenkuji Yu sat down opposite her and unbuttoned the top button of her shirt.

Looking at his barely visible collarbone, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't help but show surprise: "Are you going to do this?"

Tenkuji Yu paused, his expression quite subtle: "...Are you planning something?"

"Whether you do it or not is up to you; the other person won't resist anyway. In fact, they're completely powerless against you punching them into the highest score on the boxing machine!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha pretended to be pitiful, then couldn't help but laugh and shook her head.

"Forget it, it feels a bit inappropriate to talk about such intimate things in such a romantic atmosphere."

“I didn’t say what ‘fun’ meant, just don’t get the wrong idea.”

Yuu Tenkuji sighed helplessly, gazing at the scenery gradually rising outside the window.

But after a short while, her behavior drew my attention back to her.

"What are you doing?"

"Things that make you feel comfortable."

Kasumigaoka Utaha took off her shoes, revealing her flesh-colored toes through her thin black stockings, finally freed from the oppressive space she had been in for hours.

Five toes curled up cutely, as if greeting him, or perhaps deliberately trying to seduce him.

"Hmm~"

Kasumigaoka Utaha stretched languidly, ignoring the fact that her feet almost slipped between Tenkuji Yu's thighs—or perhaps she did it on purpose—and after stretching out her limbs, she slowly curled up, hugged her knees in her seat, and slept like a cat, pressing her face against her knees, her lazy voice gurgling out of her throat.

"Ugh, I've been waiting in line for an hour, so tiring!"

Yuu Tenkuji said expressionlessly, "That's no excuse for letting your feet stink in a confined space where you're alone with someone."

"What nonsense are you talking about! How could a beautiful girl's feet smell?" She suddenly raised her face, stared at him in disbelief, and tried to stretch her right foot in front of his nose, only to be ruthlessly slapped away by him with a look of disgust.

“I don’t have that kind of fetish… Besides, you’ve exposed yourself.”

From his vantage point, whether she hugged her knees or raised her feet, he could clearly see what was under her skirt.

In that mysterious space wrapped in black... I can't describe it in detail later, after all, the censors say that it can't be erotic, and if it is, the hidden trap card will be revealed [removal warning], so please use your imagination.

"So what if I'm exposed? You're the only one who saw it anyway."

Kasumigaoka Utaha said nonchalantly, her face flushing slightly as if she had been sunburned by the setting sun, and she casually put her legs down, swinging her calves lightly in mid-air.

Occasionally, she would dart over to him and tease his instep and shin with her toes.

Although it was a little itchy, it wasn't unbearable, so Yuu Tenkuji pretended not to feel it and continued to enjoy the view outside the window.

"Hey, aren't you going to say something?"

Seeing him enjoying the silence with such contentment, Kasumigaoka Utaha, after playing with his calf for a while, ultimately dared not tease him any further. She could only put her leg down again and break the golden silence with some dissatisfaction.

Tenkuji turned around and asked her with a smile, "What do you want to say?"

"For example, the name of the child in the future, and the time to pay the grain tax every week."

I've lost count of how many times I've been stunned by her remarks, my face stiffening slightly.

"Um... Ms. Kasumigaoka, we're not married yet, are we?"

"Any relationship that isn't aimed at marriage is just playing around, and that's only a matter of time, isn't it?"

As she spoke, Kasumigaoka Utaha chuckled to herself, her bright eyes fixed on him, her delicate and flawless face radiating a glow gentler than the twilight.

"If you're going to try anything funny with me, I'll pray that the fireworks will explode on this cockpit, so we can both take off and become the most dazzling sight in each other's lives!"

—Then, say the most terrifying things in the most cheerful tone.

"That's a curse, not a prayer!"

Just as Tenkuji Yu finished complaining, she suddenly got up and sat down next to her.

He pulled a box of Pocky from his pocket—a box he didn't know when he'd bought—put one in his mouth, and said to him with a smile:

"Come on, if we can't mess around, how about playing a Pocky game? No winner, the kind couples use for flirting."

Chapter 116 Our ending can only be bad or worse.

Tenkuji Yu turned his head and looked at her with a helpless expression that seemed to say, "What exactly do you want to do?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha did not back down. She lightly pursed her pink and delicate lips on the chocolate bar and gestured towards him in a suggestive manner.

The Ferris wheel turned silently.

The cabin slowly ascended, and the tall buildings disappeared outside the window.

As the evening light gradually fades, the pale twilight spreads across the sky, and time slips silently through our fingers.

"alright."

With a sigh as if there was nothing he could do about her, Yuu Tenkuji bit the other end of the chocolate bar, showing no shyness or embarrassment, her mindset completely calm.

He could smell a faint, slightly mature fragrance emanating from the girl; it must be some high-end perfume, which suited her perfectly and smelled wonderful.

It seemed that there weren't many ventilation openings in the cabin, and the air between the two of them became hot and restless, like breathing in a sauna. A faint, ambiguous heat began to ferment in their chests.

Tenkuji Yuu looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha, and Kasumigaoka Utaha also looked at Tenkuji Yuu.

Their palms rested on the chairs, their fingertips less than a few centimeters apart, their heads close together, as if they could see directly into each other's hearts through their eyes.

"Each person says one sentence, and after you finish speaking, you move forward one space. Is that alright?"

After vaguely explaining the rules, the girl opened her pearly teeth and moved one step closer to Tenkuji Yu's lips.

The blush on her pretty face spread to her ears, and her eyes, both shy and happy, were moist and charming, yet she stared straight at Tenkuji Yu without flinching, as if she had made some kind of decision.

—After holding her hand and agreeing to truly consider her his girlfriend, he couldn't understand what Kasumigaoka Utaha was thinking.

After a brief moment of thought, Tenkuji Yuu made a sound without moving his lips, using a special ventriloquism technique.

Is there anything you want to say to me?

Then move forward one space.

Perhaps because of nervousness, he didn't feel the warmth of her breath coming from her nose.

So Tenkuji Yuu also stopped breathing. After all, it's quite impolite to breathe directly into someone's face.

“Of course, there’s a lot I want to say.” She paused, then asked in return, “But before that, there’s something you also need to tell me, right?”

Their lips twitched slightly, and only seven centimeters remained between them.

Tenkuji Yuu frowned almost imperceptibly, and quickly decided to proceed with the plan to its final stage.

After all, the Ferris wheel was practically the final stop of their date, so now was the most appropriate time to say something... They couldn't just go to the hotel with her later, do everything they were supposed to do, and then start chatting, could they?

So he composed himself and used ventriloquism to express the heavy emotions in his heart.

"Are you referring to the matter concerning Nayuta?"

Six centimeters.

Her mind inevitably wavered, and Kasumigaoka Utaha almost blurted out, "Who?"

She quickly recalled that Kanayuta was the junior who had tried to sexually assault her. Despite being younger and looking younger than her, she had a figure that was just as good as hers.

Seeing Tenkuji Yu's inexplicably solemn expression, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't help but feel annoyed and frustrated. She really wanted to question him about whether he had done something bad with that baby-faced giant cat in private.

—But that's what she should do as his girlfriend.

Now, it's almost time for my girlfriend's experience to end; she has more important things to do.

"...What happened between you and her can be explained to me later."

As if venting her resentment, she gently pinched the back of his hand with her fingers propped on the chair.

As he tried to break free, Kasumigaoka Utaha covered him with her much thinner hand and used her body weight to hold him down, preventing him from escaping.

Leaning slightly forward, her tone was equally heavy: "I'll just ask you bluntly, do you like me or not?"

Five centimeters.

"You think I'd play Pocky with someone I don't like? You're overestimating me."

Without the slightest hesitation, Tenkuji Yu countered with a question. At the same time, she also confirmed one thing in her heart—she didn't know the biggest secret of that scumbag Yu, and his attitude at the carousel was probably for some other purpose.

In other words, her previous assumptions were completely wrong. Now she has revealed her true intentions and is ready to openly and honestly scoop up the fish she didn't catch back then with a fishing net.

So the biggest question is, what exactly does she want from me? Is she planning to find a way to get me to accept her confession?

Is this something that Kasumigaoka Utaha did in the memories, or is some ulterior motive manipulating all of this...?

Only four centimeters remained between their lips, and they could almost feel each other's heat; the lines on their lips were more pronounced than ever before.

"Since you like me, why don't you answer directly? Why don't you just say 'I like you'?"

Ignoring her increasingly rapid heartbeat, which even caused a slight pain in her chest, Kasumigaoka Utaha stared intently into his eyes, not allowing him to be so easily fooled.

"Like me, I can say—Tenkuji Yu, I like you."

"If you don't dare to cross the line from fake to real, then I'll take the initiative to pull you over. You just need to nod."

Three centimeters apart, their noses almost touching, yet she didn't even have time to feel shy.

It felt like her heart was being gripped tightly by a large hand. Kasumigaoka Utaha had long forgotten what it felt like to breathe. She never imagined she would be this nervous—even though she wasn't really going to confess to this guy.

And if nothing unexpected happens, he should agree to her confession... He should accept Kasumigaoka Utaha's confession, so there's no need to be so afraid and uneasy.

Unless the adult version of yourself is dreaming, and the two of you are not actually dating, then the sweet and loving relationship is just a lie.

—That's exactly to prevent this from happening, so Kasumigaoka Utaha had planned out the script beforehand. Only after confirming that everything was ready and she was just waiting for the right moment did she go up the Ferris wheel to confess to him.

She first tested whether Tenkuji Yu's feelings for her were genuine, and in her mindset, she also disregarded the fake relationship and truly treated her as her girlfriend.