Chapter 544: Let’s Take a Nap!

Chapter 544: Let’s Take a Nap!

“No! We did… in the dream!”

Things had come this far, so it was definitely time to lay everything out. Himekoji shut his eyes, throwing all caution to the wind.

“Huh?!”

The shock and unease flashing across Yukinoshita’s face were exactly as Himekoji had predicted.

But there were things he hadn’t expected—

“How do you know?!”

That was the sentence Yukinoshita blurted out next.

The girl’s finger pointed shakily, straight at Himekoji—a rude gesture. Normally, you wouldn’t dare imagine someone as well-mannered as Yukinoshita doing something like that.

Yet, she did.

Someone once said a woman before and after pregnancy are totally different people. That saying probably held some truth.

Himekoji took a deep breath. He sorted out his thoughts and finally spoke with the resolve of someone facing execution. “Yukinoshita… what I’m about to tell you next might sound completely absurd and unreasonable to you. But I swear! All of it is true. Every single word…”

Himekoji looked directly into Yukinoshita’s eyes. He carefully told her everything from beginning to end, holding nothing back.

Yukinoshita covered her small mouth the whole time. Every now and then, she’d do things Himekoji found unbearably adorable.

Like suddenly blinking several times in a row. Like letting out a tiny gasp that escaped through her fingers even though her hand covered her mouth. Like furrowing her brow seriously as she considered whether Himekoji’s words were believable.

Himekoji spoke slowly and in great detail. Maybe he himself didn’t realize it, but his desperate desire to prove its truth made him repeat things that could have been said just once. When this long explanation finally ended, he even felt his throat was dry.

“……”

Yukinoshita needed plenty of thinking time to make a decision.

Himekoji didn’t disturb her.

No one spoke. An eerie silence settled. Himekoji felt like a criminal waiting for his sentence, restless and anxious.

Himekoji watched Yukinoshita closely. But her calm, emotionless face gave away nothing about her true feelings.

Then, the next moment, he saw Yukinoshita move.

She turned and walked straight towards the stairway exit of the rooftop.

Was Yukinoshita leaving?

That was the information Himekoji got first.

Which meant…

There was nothing left to talk about, right?

Yes! Anyone hearing such an explanation would think it ridiculous. Would think the person foolish enough to say such things must be the biggest lunatic.

Himekoji felt icy cold spread through his limbs in that instant. Yet, strangely, he also felt calm. It was the calm of giving up and resigning to fate—as if this outcome was what he deserved and he should have seen it coming anyway.

After about a second of this despairing self-pity—

“Hey, why are you just standing there? Come on.”

Yukinoshita’s voice suddenly came from the stairway entrance, tinged with faint complaint.

“Come on? Where?” Himekoji’s despondent reply was almost instinctive.

“To the Nurse’s Office.”

Yukinoshita furrowed her brow seriously, her cheeks bright red as she glared at Himekoji. She seemed to be trying hard to hide her embarrassment.

“If what you said is true… then we have to verify it!”

“Verify? How… How do we verify it?”

He vaguely guessed the answer.

Have you ever felt that feeling?

In just one second—swoosh!—from hell to heaven!

Himekoji’s heart started pounding as if it no longer belonged to him. But he still wanted to hear Yukinoshita say it out loud to truly feel at ease.

“Let’s… take a nap… and try…”

Unless you were really straining to hear, paying close attention, you definitely would have missed it—the tiny, whisper-thin sound of Yukinoshita’s voice, soft as a mosquito’s hum.

Yet those explosive words might as well have been shouted!

`Let’ s take a nap…`

`Take a nap and try…`

……

During lunch break, no Sensei was in the Nurse’s Office. This undeniably provided great convenience for their… experiment.

Click!

Feeling nervous, tense, uneasy, and even a little excited, Himekoji locked the door.

“Why lock it?”

Yukinoshita’s puzzled question reached his ears.

“Huh? Oh… okay, no lock then.”

He never expected Yukinoshita to be so… bold! The complete opposite of her elegant and composed exterior! A spark of shameful anticipation ignited within him.

Thinking this way, Himekoji felt his heart race faster and faster, almost ready to leap out of his chest.

A school, the Nurse’s Office, an absolutely beautiful, top-class girl, and the uncertainty that someone might barge in at any moment…

Though he had dreamt of trying something like this, he never imagined the one with the guts to suggest it first would be Yukinoshita.

Fine! To answer this intensely provocative invitation from Yukinoshita, he would bring his absolute A-game!

He absolutely could not let her down. He had to give her a perfect, unforgettable experience!

Just as Himekoji, full of fighting spirit, felt his inner fire ignite, Yukinoshita had already taken off her indoor shoes and calmly laid down on one of the Nurse’s Office beds.

“Well then… I’m coming.”

His excitement made his voice dry and raspy, a fire scorching his throat. Breathing heavily, Himekoji approached Yukinoshita slowly.

Just as he was about to take off his own shoes and climb onto the bed—

“Your bed is over there.”

Yukinoshita stopped him, pointing to another bed nearby.

“Eh? We… need two beds?”

Ah, made sense!

For a truly perfect experience, expanding the battlefield was necessary!

Yukinoshita really was thorough!

The Nurse’s Office beds were all single-sized. Many techniques would inevitably feel cramped and awkward.

Himekoji rolled up his sleeves, ready to push the two beds together.

However, before he could act, Yukinoshita suddenly reached out and with a swift motion…

pulled the curtain hanging between the two beds firmly shut…

Shut?

Shut!

Yukinoshita’s lovely figure disappeared behind the curtain.

“Good afternoon.”

“Huh? Ah… g-good afternoon…”

Himekoji finally realized something.

Could it be…

When Yukinoshita said “take a nap and try,” she meant it exactly like that?

Just closing their eyes, taking a nap… each sleeping in their own bed?

One kind of “nap”… not the other kind?!

Yes! It was his own filthy mind!

The best way to verify it was really just by each sleeping and seeing if they shared the same dream, right?

Upon learning the truth, Himekoji’s tears threatened to fall (metaphorically).

“Pervert-kun, do you usually nap?”

Yukinoshita asked him softly from behind the curtain.

“I don’t usually… but maybe I could fall asleep if I tried.”

“Good. Well then, I feel more at ease. Actually… I spent the whole night worried about this and that, so I couldn’t sleep. I feel rather sleepy now. Um… if what you said isn’t a lie…”

The words that followed seemed too embarrassing for her to finish. Her voice grew smaller and smaller, barely reaching Himekoji.

“……then I’ll… head to the dream first… and wait for you.”

Hearing this, Himekoji finally snapped out of his daze in an instant!

An indescribable wave of excitement hit him.

So—

Why was he feeling upset at all?!

Was there any difference between dream and reality for him?

It was the same setting—the Nurse’s Office!

Same absolutely beautiful, top-class girl—Yukinoshita!

No, if anything, the Yukinoshita in his dreams might have been more enthusiastic, proactive, and unreserved…

The moment this thought struck, a deeply suggestive, adult-like smirk spread across Himekoji’s face entirely of its own accord. He lay down on his bed, fully dressed.

Never in his entire life had he wanted to fall asleep so badly, so immediately.

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