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"I have a complaint."

"He?"

In a certain hospital room, I tilted my head upon hearing the words uttered by the girl who came to visit me.

The girl in front of me is a beautiful girl with distinctive blue eyes and glittering cerulean blue semi-long hair– Kurosaki Rei, who for some reason pouted her cheeks, dissatisfied. It really made me want to poke those cheeks of her… Wait, that's not it.

"What are you talking about?"

When I asked because I couldn't think of any event that led to this, ‘Mu'–such a voice leaked from Rei's mouth.

"This time, I did my best."

"That's right. I was able to defeat Cain because Rei was there after all."

"Despite that, when I tried running toward you to share the joy of victory, you suddenly returned to the surface, and when we also returned, Rin was already sleeping comfortably on Claire's lap. This is definitely not something that can be forgiven."

"So, that's what you thought, huh. My bad—-wait a minute. Did you just say Claire gave me a lap pillow?"

"In addition, she also caressed your head."

"Wha!?"

The hell? This is the first time I heard that. Please tell me about that in detail.

"Returning to the topic. Essentially, I should receive a proper reward from Rin."

"… Although it doesn't sound right to me, Rei indeed had helped me after all. So, I don't really mind, but is there something that Rei wants?"

"What I want is not a ‘thing'…. Ei!"

"Wha, Rei!?"

Suddenly, Rei gets into the one-person bed I sat on, sits there and taps her thighs.

"Here, come on."

"Rei-san?"

I couldn’t read her intention… No, to be precise, I actually knew what she meant, but I called her name to confirm just in case. I even subconsciously used ‘-san'. That question made Rei pout her cheeks again, dissatisfied. Yep, I really wanted to poke them.

"Why Claire was fine, but I'm not?"

"No, that's not what I meant. In the first place, I don't even remember when Claire gave me a lap pillow—"

"Fussy. Ei!"

"Whoa"

Soon after she forcefully grabbed my body, she placed my head on her thighs. Even though she wore a skirt, I still could feel the sensation of her thighs transmitted to the back of my head, making me unable to say anything. Then, in order to run from this embarrassment, I asked her a question that came to my mind.

"Hey, in the end, you are the one who gave me a lap pillow but…could this really be considered a reward to Rei from me?"

"Very much so."

"Very much so, huh."

A maiden's heart is really hard to understand. I guess a strange rivalry was born when she saw Claire giving me a lap pillow. Un, that should be it.

When I thought about something like that, I could feel something placed on my head. Needless to say, it's Rei's hand. And her smooth white skin caressed my head.

"…. Rei?"

"Fun~ fufu~n"

When I tried to ask her intention, Rei hummed happily with her eyes closed. And there is no way I could bring myself to stop that.

(….. Well, I guess it's fine. It's not like I don't like this anyway)

Or rather, doesn't this feel like—–.

Alright, I decided to stop thinking any further and just listened to Rei's humming. Then, we shared a relaxing moment like that.

…. Incidentally, while we're spending such a relaxing time together, we went through hell when Hana and Yui peeked at us through the gap in the door to see what we were doing but… let's leave this story for another time.