The Heroines Want to Confess

Chapter 443 443: The Non-Binding Agreement

"Sakurai-san, you made me all wet!! Don't bully me anymore, it'll break!!"

'So weird.'

Itsuki bit the ice pop in her mouth, listening to what Yotsuba said, she felt that the scene before her was full of wrongness.

Their fun was theirs, it had nothing to do with Itsuki.

She really wasn't in the mood to play in the water with the other four, mainly because she hadn't finished her ice pop yet, and the house didn't have a refrigerator. She had bought them for everyone, yet these people simply said: "The water is cool enough, ice pops are completely unnecessary." That's right, that bastard Nino said that.

Just earlier before going, that girl even said she wanted to eat one, yet only half an hour later she changed her mind.

"Nino, you really don't want one?"

"Ya, it's too cold, Miku don't splash my face! Hmph, I'm mad now! Warning, once this young lady gets mad, don't even think that an apology will…" Nino hadn't finished speaking before Miku pushed her into the pool, and the straps of her swimsuit also slipped down.

She didn't care, immediately pushing Miku back, and very quickly, the two of them were tangled together wrestling.

'...' Itsuki crushed the ice pop in her mouth.

One bite, then another! Completely crushed!

Is playing in the water really that fun?

Just as she thought that, Yotsuba attacked her.

With a "whoosh," Itsuki's hair was soaked, and even the white T-shirt on her upper body couldn't escape.

"Yotsuba!!" Itsuki's molars ached, she no longer cared about the ice pop, and hurried into the house.

Not long after, she also changed into a swimsuit and ran into the pool.

In the end, it still became a party of five.

...

They played until the sun was about to set before stopping.

After putting away the inflatable pool, everyone prepared to cook dinner.

"In the end, Sakurai-san barely got attacked at all." Itsuki held the last ice pop in her mouth and dropped a remark.

Miku and Nino originally couldn't bear to attack him, but it ended up becoming the four sisters "fighting" among themselves.

But whatever, it was still pretty fun.

Nino: "Let's cook."

Miku: "I want to help too."

Yotsuba: "Eh? Everyone wants to cook together? I want to help too!"

Itsuki: "..."

Forgotten again.

"What's wrong? You look annoyed." Sakurai Saki saw Itsuki pouting, sadly watching her sisters walk into the kitchen while she did nothing, so he asked curiously.

"Being fought over by Miku and Nino, you must be really happy, huh?"

"Not really."

Perhaps some men would enjoy being fought over by women, but Sakurai Saki wasn't that type.

"I don't believe that." Itsuki tossed away the ice pop stick she had finished, then looked at Sakurai Saki and warned: "We're sleeping together tonight, don't you dare have any ideas. Especially toward Yotsuba — you are absolutely forbidden to go near her!"

"Can you trust me a little more?"

Sakurai Saki didn't know how many times he'd told her already — he really had no interest in Yotsuba… but Itsuki was always worried about Yotsuba's safety.

"Men are all wolves full of lies, that's my experience." Nakano Itsuki hadn't thought this person would lay hands on her before, yet who knew that flowing with the situation would later turn into a strange relationship.

Clearly she had only wanted to be good friends. Truly, between men and women, real friendship can't exist — there's only friendship that hasn't yet developed into love, or friendship that has already been distorted.

"How about this then, you sleep with me tonight?"

"..." Itsuki glared at him, her eyes saying: "Do you think I'm stupid?"

But a few seconds later, she reacted… If she offered herself to feed the wolf, then Yotsuba definitely wouldn't be attacked.

"Fine. I'll sneak over to your place tonight, but… one thing must be clear: you're not allowed to touch me."

"Okay okay okay."

Sakurai Saki answered casually.

Once nighttime actually comes, who touches whom, he really couldn't say for sure… Don't be fooled by Itsuki looking serious on the outside — once her desires flare up, she's more proactive than anyone. The ones who break discipline the most are often those who look the most obedient on the outside — like Miko, for example — though Itsuki and Miko aren't quite the same.

...

The cooking was done.

Because they were in the countryside, the food wasn't considered plentiful, but the five Nakano sisters were all girls who had gone through hardship, so they didn't mind this kind of meal — although Itsuki loved eating, she wasn't picky; Nino hated pickled food, but that was because she had eaten too much of it before; and Yotsuba, a little angel like her, would never be picky with food.

"Obon is coming soon. I saw quite a lot of white chrysanthemums at the flower shop in the village… Tomorrow we can buy some, Mom would probably be happy if she saw them." Nino said with a very serious expression and tone.

Obon in Japan, on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, falls around August 13–16 on the solar calendar, which happened to coincide with the "death anniversary" of the sisters' mother.

Even though they had fun during the day, they didn't forget the purpose of returning to their hometown this time.

"Umu, I'll go buy them tomorrow." Itsuki also nodded and said.

"There will be an event in the village… on the 16th they'll do Bon Odori. But at that time Sakurai-san probably has to go back to Tokyo, right?" Yotsuba looked at him.

Sakurai Saki nodded: "Shirogane has to fly to America that day, I have to go send him off."

"The student council is about to change members again. Now that I think about it, in all the years I attended Shuchiin, I never joined any school organizations." Itsuki shifted the topic away from the seriousness earlier.

"Why didn't Itsuki consider joining a club?"

"My grades weren't good enough. The academic pressure was too high, I didn't have time for anything fun." Nakano Itsuki was the most studious and serious among the five sisters.

Nino also said: "In my first year I thought about joining the tennis club, but I heard from a female upperclassman that if you join tennis, boys will come watch. I felt grossed out, so I didn't join…"

And why boys came to watch — the reason was obviously not a good one.

Nakano Miku quietly ate, not participating in the topic.

She was completely isolated in terms of social interaction; in class, aside from her sisters, she basically had no one to talk to. Asking her to join a club would be too difficult.

"Yotsuba is the complete opposite, she joined several clubs."

But Sakurai Saki heard she had withdrawn from the track and field club.

"Not really. I never joined the girls' basketball club or anything. As for track and field, I only turned in an application." Yotsuba explained.

Eating and chatting, time quickly passed into the evening — time to sleep.

Before turning off the lights.

Nakano Itsuki assigned the sleeping positions —

"We'll sleep on the left side of the room, Sakurai-san sleeps in the right corner. The AC wind is strong enough, so don't worry that it won't reach."

Today was really too hot, even at 10 PM it was still hot.

The four Nakano sisters (excluding Ichika who hadn't come) were wearing cool sleepwear but still felt uncomfortable.

"Got it. Itsuki, you talk too much."

This wasn't said by Sakurai Saki, but by Nino.

Itsuki stared hard at her — among all the people here, only Nino had the highest chance of slipping into Sakurai Saki's futon!

After the agreement was clarified, Itsuki turned off the lights.

'Hope Nino behaves.'

She prayed in her heart.

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