Tokyo: About My Yandere Girlfriend

"Um - Sato-chan is a very good girl. Nanami-kun will definitely be happy with her."

Chapter 41 Can my existence bring you happiness?

Located in the steam-covered bathroom.

The buttons on her chest were undone, and her changed clothes were placed on the stool beside her. Arisu Sato looked at her reflection in the mirror, and her dark purple pupils became dull.

Nanami, you probably didn't notice it, right?

——Rather than saying that my relationship with Asamura and Hachiman is that of friends, even describing them as classmates would be a bit of a stretch.

I hope everything develops in the expected direction.

Tentatively, he touched the water surface with the tip of his right foot, and after confirming that the water temperature was correct, Arisu buried everything below his chin in the water.

The sound of water in my ears gradually replaced my thoughts.

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"By the way—Arisu needs help?"

The taken-off suit jacket was placed on the back of the chair, and Nanami Fumito focused his attention on Arisu Sato who had just walked out of the bathroom.

Perhaps because she hadn't wiped her hair carefully, water was still dripping down from Arisu's bangs. She was so focused on tidying up her hair that she didn't notice that a large area of ​​her pajamas on her chest was soaked.

"help?"

Arisu stopped wiping his hair.

"Yes, because I need to explain something to Arisu in person, so I plan to explain it to you while I blow dry my hair."

"Oh, is it so."

"Yeah."

click -

The sound of the plug being inserted into the socket was particularly abrupt in the quiet bedroom.

Feeling the cold touch from his fingertips, Nanami Fumito turned the hair dryer to the softer second gear.

"By the way - in fact, the relationship between Hachiman, Asamura, and Arisu is not what you would call 'friends' at all, right?"

I'm really not good at beating around the bush.

Nanami is not good at reaching her destination through speculation. Instead of saying a lot of irrelevant words and then getting straight to the point, when faced with confusion, she prefers to speak out her inner thoughts without hesitation.

However, such a straightforward way of talking may only be used by Arisu-san.

"Yes."

Arisu Sato stopped playing with the corner of her clothes.

The tone also became much more cautious than before.

"Because I want Nanami to do 'that thing'. If I don't do this, Nanami won't agree."

Arisu lowered his face anxiously.

Was Nanami able to see through him so easily?

"That thing? Could you please describe it more accurately?"

"...Why would Nanami want to know such a thing? Besides, I lied to Nanami. Nanami once said she doesn't like people who lie."

I recalled the scene when we first met.

Because they had a common person they hated, Nanami agreed to her request to live together without hesitation.

but now--

If you disrupt this balance, you will be disliked by the other party.

"I did say that, but I don't think Arisu is lying. After all, Arisu admitted what he did right away instead of trying to cover it up. I don't hate that."

"So, Arisu-san."

Nanami put the hair dryer aside.

At the same time, he sat down next to Arisu.

My eyes linger on the side of Arisu-san's face, which seems to be hesitating.

"Can you tell me about what Arisu wants to do? As your roommate, I want to help you out sometimes."

Arisu gradually raised his drooping cheeks.

Their eyes met at this moment.

——It will always be like this.

Just looking at Nanami's face up close made his heart beat faster than ever before.

The body began to move towards Nanami subconsciously.

Until you can clearly feel the height of the other person's shoulders.

It would be even better if you could feel your heartbeat.

"I want to be happy."

After a brief hesitation in his heart, Arisu gradually raised his deep purple eyes that were almost covered by his bangs.

"I want to feel happy. Can Nanami do this?"

Looking at Arisu-san's determined face, my originally firm thoughts wavered for a moment.

What exactly is Arisu-san's idea of ​​happiness?

The difference in their perceptions of each other, Nanami understood one thing very clearly -

The happiness that Arisu-san thinks of and the happiness that I think of may not be things in the same dimension.

anyway--

When it comes to "feeling happy", there seems to be only a rough outline in my mind.

"As for Arisu...you seem to be a little too obsessed with so-called happiness."

Nanami began to feel more and more curious about the happiness that Arisu mentioned.

Until she felt the same familiar weight on her chest, Nanami looked at Arisu in disbelief as he buried his upper body in her arms again.

Is this what Arisu-san thinks is happiness?

Can a mere hug bring about the happiness that Arisu-san believes in?

"I don't know why it turned out like this. Why is everything Nanami does so different from what I imagined? I don't understand. Everything around Nanami is just ordinary things, but I subconsciously start to care about it. I can't face everything that happened with Nanami as if nothing happened. I know it's wrong to do this, but I still do it without hesitation. I don't understand. I want to make changes but it still doesn't work. I want to make up my mind but always have to give up at the last moment. Hey, I don't understand. Is everything I do really right?"

——Arisu-san’s exhausted voice reaches my eardrums.

The strength of his hands gripping the shirt began to increase.

Nanami placed her hands on Arisu's shoulders and looked at Arisu, whose body began to tremble, with a gentle look in her eyes.

Yeah.

Is this the culprit that caused Arisu-san's personality change?

There are so many things that have happened to him. After his mother passed away, Arisu, who had never felt cared for, showed only confusion when he was really faced with care. He didn't know what the so-called care was, and when he really faced it, he was caught off guard.

It turned out to be the case.

Arisu still believes that feeling cared for by others is not something that should be taken for granted, but rather requires a cruel price to be paid in exchange.

Arisu, who subconsciously linked the concern he felt with the departure of an important person, has already deduced everything into a logical formula.

"I understand. I understand what Arisu-san is thinking about."

Nanami Fumito placed his palm against Arisu Sato's back.

"Being with Arisu, I feel that life has become much easier. Although I don't know if that is the so-called happiness, I find that I have begun to rely on you. I will not be able to adapt to life without Arisu washing my underwear and socks. So it's okay, just take everything I do for granted, and don't feel any burden at all. Life will continue like it is now - we rely on each other, and there is no need to care too much. Arisu only needs to do this step and it will be fine."

Nanami smiled.

His eyes focused on Arisu's dull face.

"So, Arisu-san, does my existence bring you happiness?"

Chapter 42 The Feeling of Love (Seeking Pursuit)

Considering that Arisu has now fully recovered, and recalling that he has been sleeping on the living room floor for some time, Nanami Fumito decided that from today on, the two sides will start exchanging sleeping places.

This week, I will be responsible for sleeping in the living room for a week.

"Well, cheer up, Nanami."

After slapping both sides of her cheeks, Nanami looked at the face in the mirror that looked a little tired.

There has been so much to worry about in recent days.

It is not clear why Mr. Aragaki called me, or whether it has anything to do with Arisu. If Mr. Aragaki intends to end our current cohabitation relationship, then as an outsider, I have no room to interfere.

"Nanami, where are the underwear I changed out of today?"

He suddenly thrust his upper body into the bathroom, and the sudden appearance of Arisu Sato made Nanami Fumito tremble all over.

"Oh...it should be in the tub. I clearly closed the door, but Arisu managed to open it without me noticing."

"It's just that Nanami is too stupid."

Arisu bent down and quickly found Nanami's washed underwear and socks in the wooden basin.

After sorting the socks into another wooden basin, Arisu seemed to suddenly remember something, turned sideways and went out of the bathroom. When he came back in, he had in his hand the tight swimsuit he would change into for swimming class.

Oh - it's pretty good.

"What's wrong, Nanami?"

Noticing that Nanami's attention seemed to be on the tight swimsuit in her hands, Arisu raised her cheek in slight confusion.

"Hmm... I was just thinking that if Arisu put on a tight swimsuit and appeared in front of me, it might be quite lethal to me as a single office worker."

"Really?"