Chapter 530: I’m Happy for You

Chapter 530: I’m Happy for You

Himekoji’s foolishness annoyed Hiratsuka Shizuka a little.

“My mom has been spying for ages, yet we don’t look like a couple at all!”

“No, even in your made-up story, where you’re undercover and I’m a teacher, our pretend romance at school shouldn’t be public, right?”

Himekoji himself felt he was more careful and smarter about this setup.

“We can’t be just standing around like this—it’s too weird!”

After thinking for a moment, Himekoji agreed there was some truth to the Female Teacher’s worry.

The way they were acting was not like people in love at all.

Even a secret romance should still feel like a romance.

Plus, maybe guilt was messing with Himekoji’s head, but Mama Shizuka’s gaze from behind her glasses just looked more suspicious now.

Oh well, he had decided to help Hiratsuka-sensei after all…

Himekoji stood up quickly, glanced around, and picked a spot where no one was looking, except at the exact moment Mama Shizuka was staring.

He kissed the Female Teacher fast, then ran off feeling like a weight was lifted.

Hmm, it really did give him some fresh excitement.

Also, his butt hurt a bit now.

Because right before he ran away, his butt got a hard kick…

It was the Female Teacher who had kicked him!

Hiratsuka Shizuka was just flustered and angry.

Because! So what if Himekoji kissed her? It wasn’t the first time.

But he had to fake it, using his hand to block the kiss at an angle where Mama Shizuka couldn’t see, between their lips that had been so close just the day before yesterday…

Like he didn’t even want it?!

Did she have to beg him to kiss her?

The Female Teacher felt too embarrassed to save face, so she turned violent.

But actually, Hiratsuka Shizuka misunderstood Himekoji.

He did it purely out of habit.

First, kissing his teacher at school as a student still made him nervous.

Second, and more important, he was scared! So scared it stuck in his mind!

You know, if you get bitten by a snake once, you stay afraid of ropes?

It’s the same thing with being bitten by women.

He kissed the Female Teacher the day before yesterday and got his lip bitten.

Yesterday, he kissed Nanami and got his lip bitten again, in the very same spot.

Now his mouth still hurt even when he talked!

He knew this time should be safe, but the first two times he never expected kissing to be dangerous…

So he went into over-the-top self-defense mode.

“Click!”

Mama Shizuka put down her camera feeling satisfied.

Today’s happy pre-pregnancy candy had arrived!

Based on this, her wait for a grandchild wasn’t far off.

At that thought, this person dressed in a school uniform, who looked like Imouto but was really Mama Shizuka, finally showed a grandma-like kind smile.

She edited the photo she just took by adding a “long live the love” filter, sent it to Papa Shizuka in the hospital, and Papa Shizuka was so happy he immediately posted it on his ins.

Good events brighten the heart, and Papa Shizuka’s face even got a healthy glow, better than any medicine.

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The school bell rang for dismissal.

Himekoji went to the Service Club with a few bottles of Folic acid and multivitamins hidden in his pocket, ready to offer them to Yukinoshita like treasures.

He still hadn’t thought of an excuse to give her, though.

But when he got to the Service Club, he saw Yukinoshita was surprisingly absent for the first time—she had left early due to feeling ill.

Once he heard that, Himekoji couldn’t just sit still.

He made up something and left too.

Yuigahama and Hikigaya gave him strange looks again.

Himekoji caught up with Yukinoshita at the bus stop while she was waiting for the bus.

Since last week, Yukinoshita stopped having her driver take her to and from school like a princess.

Probably because the driver was busy?

Anyway, Himekoji got all excited back then, thinking his chance had come.

But then later on, he realized he was wrong—their relationship didn’t get any closer.

He actually felt like Yukinoshita kept avoiding him…

It was really awkward.

Luckily, Himekoji was someone who faced problems head-on.

He wouldn’t give up just because of a little setback.

Today, Yukinoshita seemed truly unwell.

From far off, Himekoji saw her standing by the bus stop sign, yawning a lot.

As he got closer, he spotted a pair of big dark circles under her eyes on her clean, pale face.

It was really rare because Yukinoshita was always the model for good habits in the Service Club—she’d be in bed by 10:30 p.m. and asleep by 11:00 p.m.

Seeing her like this, with such huge dark circles, was hard to imagine.

Did she love Panda San so much she wanted to become like him?

Though the dark circles and her tired yawns kind of made her look lazily cute…

But after Himekoji looked at her a bit more, he felt bad for her.

Yukinoshita was carrying a precious baby now—she couldn’t get exhausted, and rest was super important.

The bus was taking forever, and Himekoji could see Yukinoshita dozing off even while standing.

He wanted to get her a seat at the bus stop rest bench for passengers.

Himekoji glanced and saw two girls taking up the whole bench with their super fancy and bossy poses.

Normally, it could seat five or six people, but they had their legs up and hogged all the room.

That’s why Yukinoshita had to keep standing, even when she was very tired.

Himekoji got really mad right away—

Couldn’t they see a pregnant woman here?

Even if the seats were full, anyone should offer theirs.

But here, these two were each taking many seats when they should have given them up!

This ugly, selfish behavior of hogging public spots ticked Himekoji off big time.

He decided to fix things himself.

Himekoji thought hard about how to do it well without making Yukinoshita feel like he was trying too hard to please her.

He was careful because he remembered that after he started acting extra nice before, Yukinoshita began avoiding him…

Back then, he was still thrilled about becoming a dad and forgot to be subtle.

He probably came on too strong, and it made Yukinoshita wary and angry.

After that hard lesson, Himekoji wanted to handle this smoothly and secretly.

He thought it over many times and decided to go back to his old tricks.

Even though he hadn’t done pervert stuff in a long time and was a bit rusty, he jumped right back in after recalling it.

Himekoji whistled and swaggered up carelessly.

“Hey, beauties? Alone here?”

“Are you stupid? There’s two of us!”

The red-haired one fiddling with her phone raised her head with annoyance.

Then she saw Himekoji looking down sneakily at her neckline.

She blushed and spat out, “Pervert!”

Himekoji just grinned like he hadn’t heard and didn’t stop.

He even reached out to touch one of the girl’s legs resting on the bench.

Of course, they didn’t let him do that.

They screamed and jumped off the bench together, looking all scared and rushing to the roadside.

Now the bench was empty.

Himekoji dropped his silly smile, straightened up, and peeked over at Yukinoshita.

She was staring at him in shock, her hand covering her mouth.

Then, as if remembering something, her eyes softened and grew thoughtful.

Yukinoshita didn’t hold back but sat down properly in the spot he had “won” for her.

Even though she seemed super tired, she sat with her shoulders and back straight, like a perfect lady.

So Himekoji sat down too, but with two seat gaps between them, as her coldness lately made him nervous to sit closer.

“Over there, those two girls are watching you.”

That was the first thing Yukinoshita said once she sat.

Himekoji followed her gaze and saw the two girls he had shooed away, looking ticked off.

They stood all steamed up with hands on hips like little angry teapots, glaring at him hatefully.

Himekoji whistled back at them once but ignored them after that.

But at that exact moment, Yukinoshita’s bus arrived.

Since sitting down, her bottom hadn’t even warmed up before she had to stand again.

Yukinoshita sighed with a frustrated look, her eyes glinting at him, and said,

“Oh well, so why bother?”

Himekoji also felt awkward about the wasted effort.

But he kept his chin up and stubbornly spoke,

“I’m happy!”

Seeing Yukinoshita stand when she could have had a seat didn’t make him happy!

On the other hand, even if it just meant her sitting for one second, Himekoji was glad.

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