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Chapter 103 Part 1

Students Who Have Begun to Change (3) ~Strawberry Time~

The female student walking unsteadily, holding in both hands a large box with a stick or cylindrical object protruding from it.

Yuu, who had just climbed down the stairs, stopped and looked at her.

Her features, of which he caught a glimpse just now, sported a slender face with silver-rimmed glasses. He could see her long black hair swaying as she walked.

However, because of the object that jumped out of the box she was holding in front of her, it seemed that it was difficult for her to see ahead.

Given that she was walking straight in Yuu’s direction, perhaps she was going to go down the stairs.

It was so dangerous that he couldn’t afford to just watch.

Yuu approached the girl from the front.

Ah!

Maybe it didn’t fit in properly.

The moment the box tilted forward, something that looked like a booklet was threatening to fall off.

The person carrying it didn’t notice it.

Dashing forward, Yuu grabbed the box from the front and pushed the booklet in with his chest.

「Wha!?」

「Ah, so it was you after all, Aramaki-san.」

「H, Hirose-kun? Huh, huh, w-w-w, why?」

「It’s nothing, I just happened to see the contents about to fall out.」

「Ah… Thank you for that…」

Facing him from across the box was a class committee member of class 1-5, Aramaki Yoshie.

Suddenly looking at each other with Yuu from a close distance, Yoshie’s cheeks turned red.

「Teaching materials for the next class? Isn’t it hard to carry this by yourself? Let me hold it for a sec.」

「Ah, no, umm….」

He forcibly took the box from Yoshie’s hands and held it.

Width-wise, it was of the size that he could somehow hold when he outstretched his arms.

The contents appeared to be items used for geography classes, such as globes, maps, prints, and materials.

It packed considerable weight.

It wasn’t like he couldn’t carry it, but it would probably be quite the challenge for a girl with slender arms like Yoshie to carry it to her class on her own.

「T, that’s not it! Actually, there is another class committee member, but she is absent today. I thought about asking someone else to help me, but I didn’t manage to get anyone. 」

We were talking about Yoshie here, a class rep-type of person who was very earnest and had a strong sense of responsibility.

Yuu guessed that she had probably tried to carry it by herself without asking anyone for help.

「Let me give you a hand.」

「Fweh?」

「It’s too dangerous to go down the stairs ahead while carrying this by yourself.」

「B, but… Hirose-kun, you also have your next class….」

「I just can’t be at ease thinking of the possibility of you dropping the box, or worse, falling down as you climb down the stairs if I let you go by yourself like this, Aramaki-san. It wouldn’t be a big deal if the two of us carried it together, right?」

「T, that may be so, but…」

Heavy things were to be carried by men.

The common sense from before he was reborn remained deeply rooted within Yuu.

However, in this world, men were given priority in everything, and since there was almost no difference in physical capabilities between men and women, it seemed that there was no such notion.

「But I would feel bad for you, as expected. This is my duty, after all.」

「It’s fine. Here, let’s carry it together.」

Yuu, thinking that they wouldn’t get anywhere if they continued to argue like that, turned the box sideways and held it out toward her.

It had strings tied to it like handles, making it easy for two people to carry it with one hand.

「Ah… Fine, I get it.」

Grabbing the handle, Yoshie nodded her head, before then lowered her eyes slightly and turned to the side.

As if she was hiding the happiness she felt inside.

Aramaki-san has long eyelashes and surprisingly sexy eyes, doesn’t she?

He had come into contact with her a few times, but partly because she wore glasses, he didn’t pay much attention to it until now.

However, Yoshie’s face was also pretty well-featured, and rather than cute, she was more of a beauty type.

She was about the same height as Yuu, and had a slim and slender type of figure.

「Then, let’s go.」

「Yeah」

Even as he looked at Yoshie with favorable eyes, he started walking while keeping pace with her, and descended the stairs from the hallway.

Perhaps finding the lasting silence a little awkward, along the way, Yoshie opened her mouth.

「U, umm, Hirose-kun.」

「What is it?」

「Umm… you see, everyone is talking about how kind you are to girls… no matter who the other party is.」

「Hmm? I think that’s just the normal thing to do, though.」

「I, I don’t think that’s normal. If it’s a boy…」

「Is that so?」

「That’s right!」

When he looked at her with a sidelong glance, he noticed that Yoshie was looking at him as she tried to remind him, but when their eyes met, she shyly looked away.

In the world prior to his rebirth, it was only natural for men to be kind to women.

Like Yuu when he was a student, a man who was only kind was so ordinary that it was deemed to be unsatisfactory.

In this world, however, it was common sense for men to not be kind to women.

It seemed that the fact that Yuu was kind even to women, which he believed to be only natural, had earned him brownie points with them.

「Hmm. Leaving aside what everyone else talks about me, I wonder what you think of me, Aramaki-san?」

When they made it down to the first floor, Yuu suddenly asked her as such.

「M, me?!」

「Yes. How you feel about me, Aramaki-san.」

「Auu… T, that’s, umm….」

Yoshie mumbled and stammered.

「C’mon, there’s no one here anyway. If you feel grateful that I’ve given you a hand, please tell me about it.」

They stopped in front of the corner leading to the connecting passageway leading to the school building and looked at each other.

Classes were about to start, so there was no sight of other students in the surrounding area.

The sound of footsteps moving away from there must be that of a teacher.

「Ah… I, I am… Umm…」

「Yeah」

「Hirose-kun… Not only are you cool, you’re always cheerful and kind, w… which is wonderful, I think.」

「I see. Thank you. Likewise, not only do I think you’re cute, Aramaki-san, that side of you where you do your best to fulfill your duty as a class committee member is wonderful.」

「Hau!」

Like a boiled octopus, her face turned bright red innocently, which he found lovely.

The lust that had subsided within Yuu was rekindled like a banked fire.

「Say, Aramaki-san.」

「W, what is it?」

「I want to know more about you.」

「H, huh?!」

「Are you free during lunch break today?」

「Lunch… break?」

「Yeah. What do you say about us meeting, just the two of us?」

「J, just the two of us…?!」

Yoshie was taken aback by the sudden invitation, but after a while she nodded in agreement.

The girls’ school building was opposite to the boys’ building, with first-year classes on the first floor and second-year classes on the second floor.

As such, as they got closer to Class 1-5’s classroom on the first floor of the school building, the students near the window noticed Yuu and Yoshie and started making a fuss.

When Yuu beckoned to them instead of Yoshie, whose face was still red, about 10 girls came out, even though one would have sufficed. The figures of Youko, Kazumi, Yuma, and Mashiro could also be seen among them.

Each and everyone of them asked Yuu why he came with Yoshie, but with a smile on his face, he dodged the question, asked them to help carry the box, and then hurried back to the administration building.

Incidentally, he ended up late for the third period, the chemistry class, but when he honestly told the teacher that he was late because he had given a girl a hand, the teacher, who was a woman, didn’t scold him, but instead complimented him.

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「S, Sairyou Academy’s… f, female students… w, when they come into contact with boys, no matter the circumstances… hnn, haa, haa… must never…. nghh… s-succumb to their sexual urges, and have to always carry themselves in a ladylike manner… Hnn?!」

After the third period, Yuu looked around the administration building for a place that he could use for his rendezvous with Yoshie, and found the landing of the stairs from the third floor to the rooftop.

As expected, the door leading to the roof was locked, making it impossible to get out there.

There were steel lockers and desks alongside the wall, and chairs in the corner, but it still had plenty of space.

It was probably being used as a storage space for unnecessary stuff, so to speak.

He climbed on top of the desk and tried opening the window, but it was equipped with a vertical grid so he couldn’t get out.

However, at any rate, he believed not many people would come there.

When Yuu, who had wolfed down his bento and finished his lunch quickly as soon as lunch break started, arrived at the meeting place, which was the front of the music room, he found that Yoshie had already arrived.

When he asked her if she had eaten lunch properly, she hurriedly replied that she had.

Apparently, she was also looking forward to their lunch break rendezvous.

After opening the window for better ventilation, Yuu pulled out a chair, and sat down.

Grabbing Yoshie’s arm as she tried to pull out another chair for her own use, he pulled her towards him, and sat her down on his lap, facing each other.

Yoshie’s surprised expression was a sight to behold.

Yuu paid it no mind and hugged Yoshie’s slender body, but seemingly at a loss as to how she should react to it, she remained hanging her hands down.

「Is that what the girls are taught at this school?」

He immediately took Yoshie’s lips, but she remained frozen, so he temporarily let her go and tried asking her as such.

It appeared that Yuu’s words didn’t register in Yoshie’s ears.

「Err, err, t, that one just now was… a kiss?!」

「That’s right. Here.」

This time, he placed his hand lightly on Yoshie’s head and kissed her again.

Let alone closing them, Yoshie opened her eyes wide.

This time he took his time kissing her, enjoying the softness of her lips.

「Aramaki-san… no, I’ll go ahead and call you by your name now. You see, Yoshie, I want to get even closer to you. Which is exactly why I’m using my body to engage in skinship with you like this. That’s why, you don’t have to force yourself to restrain yourself right now.」

「H, H, Hirose-kun?!」

「Call me by my name, Yuu.」

「That’s just…」

Yuu hugged Yoshie’s body tightly.

They were about the same height, so now that she was sitting on his lap, her chest was hanging right in front of his face.

Although they weren’t that impressive in terms of size, he could still feel the softness on his face through the uniform.