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Chapter 4 Part 2

「I’m glad to hear that. High school, huh, I’m looking forward to it.」

Starting from April, I’ll really become a high school student, huh. To think I would start high school all over again at my age.

He muttered so in his mind only.

「Yuu-chan, for you to enroll in a co-ed school, mama is so worried. As I thought, you should have gone to a boys’ school. After all, mama is worried that you would be attacked by girls again.」

Perhaps reminded of the incident on his way home from the graduation ceremony, Martina’s expression did a one-eighty into a sorrowful one, but from the bottom of his heart, Yuu sincerely hoped for her to do anything but that.

What was so sad that he had no choice but to go to an all-male high school?

At this moment, he wished to thank the original Yuu for his choice to go to a co-ed school.

If it had been the same Yuu as before, though, maybe he would have refused to go to a co-ed school because of that incident.

「It it’s going to be alright. I’m sure, yup. Come to think of it, umm… what happened to the girls who attacked me, and the male security personnel who protected me?」

As soon as she heard that, Martina’s expression suddenly had a complete change into a scary one.

「Fu, fu, fu. Mama is going to make sure those bitches who attacked you pay for their crimes. Criminal punishment alone is too lenient. Mama is going to file a civil suit and extract an ample amount of compensation from them. As for the security company that failed to protect you, they immediately came to apologize, so we have settled the case, though. We’ve already formed a legal team to discuss the matter, but it sure is frustrating that we can hardly hold the school accountable.」

There were also laws similar to juvenile law in this world, and girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who committed crimes were sent to institutions aimed at rehabilitation, but they generally received less punishment than those over the age of 18.

The only exception, however, was when they attacked a male.

It seemed that the sentence was much heavier than for same-sex crimes, and even attempted rape was punishable by 3 to 5 years without probation, and if the crime ended up being committed all the way, it was punishable by heavy imprisonment, such as 10 or 20 years.

These were something from the memory of Yuu of this world himself, as he once saw it on a news program in the past.

The members of the self-proclaimed fan club who chased after him on their bicycles just wanted to meet him and exchange parting words in person, and it might have been simply that those feelings had ended up bursting.

However, it was certain that there was no room for sympathy for the delinquents who had planned to kidnap and attack Yuu.

Finding the figure of his mother, who was mumbling vindictive words with dark eyes, scary, Yuu could not help but keep his mouth shut.

He wanted to express his gratitude to the male security personnel who put their lives on the line to protect him, but looking at the state of his mother, he felt like he would be stirring up a hornet’s nest, so he kept his mouth shut.

Not only was the number of men extremely few in this world, as expected, even the concept of chastity seemed to be inverted.

Men were precious and protected existences.

That was why, so that they would not be attacked by women, they had restrictions put onto their actions, which was extremely inconvenient. On the other hand, women were super predatory, where they would try to get their hands on a man even if it meant kicking others down.

Yuu, who had been attacked in reality, was a good example.

Even though he always had male security personnel accompanying him on his way to and from school and was dropped off and picked up by car, his mother’s worry, as she was concerned that he might be attacked by a woman, was only natural.

I thought I was a goner, but I ended up being reborn in an unbelievable world, or so Yuu thought, but at any rate, now that things had turned out that way, it seemed that he had no choice but to live on somehow or another.

「Mom.」

Yuu, reaching out his hand and wrapping it around Martina’s clenched fist, called out to her.

「Ha! I, I’m sorry! Even if mama told you all this, it will only make you feel unpleasant, right, Yuu-chan? First of all, you need to take a good rest and focus on healing your body.」

「Yes. I’ll do that. By the way, mom, are you okay, with your work, I mean?」

「C, compared to your safety, things like work are… My superior might become noisy soon, but if you want, until you’re discharged….」

「I’ll be fine. The nurse told me about it, you know? That since I was admitted to the hospital, you have been with me every day from morning to night, and I really appreciate it. But you shouldn’t push yourself too much and get some rest.」

「Y, Yuu-chan, to think you would be worried about mama!」

Once again, Martina had tears in her eyes as she ended up shaking with emotion.

After reaching the age of 40, he simply felt a sense of gratitude toward his mother who had raised him, so these words were simply something he said with these thoughts in mind.

It was a wonder as to how cold the Yuu of this world had been.

In any case, seeing that it was almost midnight as she took a look at her watch, perhaps Martina thought it was about the right time. She began to prepare to leave. Wrapping up the uneaten apples, she then put them away in the refrigerator provided in the room.

When Martina stood by the bed, Yuu was about to get out of bed, but he was stopped by her in a hurry, so there, he decided to send her off while remaining sitting up on the bed.

「Well then, I’ll come back tomorrow.」

「Yeah. Got it.」

Even after Yuu replied so, Martina didn’t move from her spot and fidgeted.

「Hmm? What’s the matter?」

「Umm… If, if you don’t mind, Yuu-chan… Ah, I’m sorry. It’s nothing!」

「Eh, it’s fine. Just go on and say it.」

Since she broke off in the middle of her sentence, it made him curious instead.

「Err… Errr… Do you mind if we have a hug, like we did in the past?」

「Huh?」

It might not be common in Japan, but he knew that in other countries, family hugs were the norm.

He had heard that his mother, Martina, was half-Spanish and since her parents married in Japan, her birthplace was Japan.

However, because of her mother’s influence, she seemed to have been closer to the Latin lifestyle than to the Japanese.

For Yuu, who was born and raised in Japan, hugging his family members was embarrassing, so the thought of actively doing it had never crossed his mind.

It was just that, he felt the sentiment she had as a mother, where she loved Yuu from the bottom of her heart, pleasant. She might seem like a worrywart, but in this world where men were precious, such a thing was probably normal for a mother.

Besides, from the point of view of Yuu, who was an old man inside, there was no way he would not be happy to be hugged by a very attractive woman.

「I, I don’t really mind.」

「I knew it, you don’t like it, do you? You’re at that age… Wait, huh, for real?!」

「For real. As expected, doing it in the public would be embarrassing, but there’s no one here, so….」

「Ah! Somehow, it looks like you have returned to the old you, mama is so happy, Yuu-chan!」

Martina cheerfully sat down on the edge of the bed and latched onto Yuu.

As she did so, Yuu could not settle down instead.

For the Yuu within the body, except for the few experiences he had at the sex industry or at a snack bar that he had visited for socializing, he had never had a woman, moreover a foreign beauty, in such close proximity to him since his divorce.

However, without paying any mind to his state of mind, she hugged Yuu tightly from the front.

Unlike the time when she clung to him with abandon when he just woke up, it was a gentle embrace.

The sweet and gentle flowery scent from her long brunette hair and the citrus scent from the nape of her neck tickled Yuu’s nostrils, and at the same time, the sensation of her soft and springy breasts was transmitted to him with a squeeze.

Oh… T, this is…

Along with feelings of embarrassment and happiness, arousal was rising in him, that was the feeling of the old man Yuu.

He felt a sense of repulsion that made him want to push her away, but at the same time, he recalled the conflicting feeling of intimacy and nostalgia, that must be the feeling of the original Yuu.

Yuu put his hands on Martina’s back and hugged her lightly.

That was because it was a fact that she was the mother of Yuu, the owner of this body, so he thought doing that much should be only natural.

After about a minute had passed, Martina reluctantly pulled her body away from Yuu

Without a doubt, she must have wanted to share more hugs with him.

More or less, Yuu felt the same way.

They looked at each other at such a close distance that their breaths could reach each other.

「Then, mama is going home now.」

「Yes. Thank you for visiting me today.」

「…! Yuu-chan!」

Suddenly, not only was he hugged, Yuu also had a kiss plastered on his cheek.

「Ah! Umm… Err, this is….」

Martina, perhaps realizing what she had done, immediately pulled her body away and was in panic.

Yuu, hiding the rising tension in her chest, smiled at her.

「Be careful on your way home, Mom.」

「Ha! Yes! M, mama will come again! Mama will definitely come again to see you, Yuu-chan! See you tomorrow!」

He saw off Martina, who was leaving while waving her hand vigorously and looking at him time and again.

Somehow, rather than parent and child, we feel more like lovers, thinking as such, Yuu floated a wry smile on his face.