Chapter 545: Yukinoshita Ow Ow Ow!

Chapter 545: Yukinoshita Ow Ow Ow!

One Yukinoshita, two Yukinoshitas, three Yukinoshitas…

He didn’t know how many he counted up to, but anyway, Himekoji still couldn’t sleep!

Was it because he was too excited?

No, that was only one reason.

Basically, he just didn’t have a habit of taking naps regularly…

But time was limited!

If he dragged it out any longer, the bell for class would ring pretty soon.

He had to think of a way.

Himekoji suddenly got up.

His eyes were red, and he decided to use his ultimate move!

He rolled off the bed and crashed into the wall with a determined look, using all his force.

A dizzy feeling came right away…

Did it work?

When Himekoji opened his eyes again, he didn’t doubt he had entered dreaming land.

Maybe he hit his head too hard and got silly, or maybe that eager feeling messed with his usually calm and clear judgment.

Anyway, he was sure he was in the dream now!

He glanced at the clock; there was still half an hour until class time. He could make it! Though it was tight and might not be fully satisfying.

Himekoji held his sore, swollen forehead, swayed as he got up from the floor, took a deep breath, and quickly walked to the bed where Yukinoshita was lying.

“Whoosh!”

Himekoji ripped open the curtain between the two beds in one big pull.

Yukinoshita jumped, staring at Himekoji with big round eyes, looking silly but cute.

“Huh? Pervert-kun…”

“First time meeting you in the dream, Miss Yukinoshita.”

Finally, this moment came.

Himekoji steadied his messy breathing, tried hard to calm his pounding heart, and told himself—

He had done this many times before, don’t panic, don’t panic! Show his mature and steady side to Yukinoshita!

“N-no, wait a second… now… are we already in the dream?”

Yukinoshita blinked her eyes, seeming a bit confused and lost.

She remembered that even though she felt tired and sleepy earlier, thinking about what might happen after she fell asleep made her snap wide awake. She kept overthinking, getting all tangled up, apparently too nervous and excited to fall asleep…

So, in the end, she fell asleep without even realizing it herself?

That was amazing…

“Of course!”

Himekoji nodded firmly.

Seeing this, Yukinoshita didn’t doubt him.

Her hands under the blanket clenched hard, then relaxed, clenched again, then relaxed, repeating this several times. Finally, she won over the nervousness and barely managed to prepare herself a bit.

“…Alright, I get it.”

Yukinoshita tried to keep her voice steady, but her heart was beating out of control.

“Well then… I’ll start eating.”

“Huh?!”

“Ah, no, no…”

Himekoji embarrassingly and painfully scratched his head, thinking about what the right words to say were now. Maybe,

“Shall I dig in?”

“Please… be gentle with me…”

She blurted it out without thinking, but then Yukinoshita realized it was wrong,

“Ah! N-no, not that meaning! It’s just, this time is the first time I realized that Pervert-kun in dreams is actually the real Pervert-kun…” Yukinoshita tried hard to make her red, shy face look serious and stern, “So, so, all that experience in dreams before seems not to work now, I hope… hope we can treat this like the first time… Being gentle just means I want to be treated kindly… yeah, yeah! That’s… that’s it… probably…”

From Himekoji’s point of view, Yukinoshita was super, super cute. Annoyingly cute—only her head poked out of the blanket as she argued seriously.

What he was thinking came out of his mouth without him noticing, “Yukinoshita, you’re too cute.”

“Huh?! N-no… I’d rather be called cool or something, not cute.”

Yukinoshita felt her cheeks were so hot they were about to smoke. Frantically, she pulled the blanket up over her face, which was the only part still showing.

“Ah, I know, I know. Yuigahama always praises you like that, saying you’re cool, awesome, or whatever.”

Himekoji liked that kind of Yukinoshita too, and it was more normal for her.

“But I think cute is a better compliment than cool. Because if someone is cool, you might think less of them if they mess up. But cute is different—even if they mess up, it’s still really cute. Like you right now, hiding your head in the blanket.”

Himekoji said this with a slow smile, mostly sincere but with a hint of teasing.

“I’m not hiding my head in the blanket!” Yukinoshita protested from under the blanket, but she agreed with part of it, “Though it’s true I am cute.”

“Alright, get in here already!”

A slim hand reached from the blanket and pulled Himekoji inside with a no-nonsense attitude.

Clothes were thrown out of the blanket one by one.

Uniform jacket, shirt, skirt, pants, and…

“Wait! Don’t take off the stockings!”

“Huh?”

“I love Yukinoshita wearing stockings!”

“You’re a pervert!”

“I am a pervert… so what?”

Himekoji actually put on a whiny tone this time.

Yukinoshita got goosebumps and felt grossed out, so she gave in a bit.

“Fine, fine, I know already, please stop talking like that! Besides, you really are a pervert!”

“I’m a pervert like this, but Yukinoshita still likes me.”

“So what?”

Yukinoshita, feeling shy, didn’t argue back.

“I like the Yukinoshita who knows I’m a pervert and still likes me.”

“That’s too long.”

“I like Yukinoshita.”

“Did you not eat anything?”

“I like Yukinoshita!”

“Say it again, not strong enough.”

“I like Yukinoshita!! I really like Yukinoshita!!!”

A loud, unhesitating shout came out of the blanket, way too loud—in real life, it would disturb the school rules. But since it was a dream, it was okay.

“Huh? A-Akito…”

Yuigahama Yui overheard a sound that caught her attention from two hallways away. So, she followed the noise and crept over, looking suspicious.

“Hmph, you only know how to talk about it.”

Yukinoshita tried to keep a straight face, but her sparkling, laughing eyes gave her away.

“No, I’m not just talking; I’m doing it right now!”

“Huh? It already started? I don’t feel a thing!”

Yukinoshita pretended to be shocked and looked challengingly at Himekoji.

Feeling Himekoji’s gaze getting more pitiful, she couldn’t hold it in anymore and laughed out loud with a “Heh!”

However, her laugh froze halfway—

“Ow, ow ow ow ow ow!!!”

“G-gently!”

“We said you’d be gentle!”

“Huh?”

Himekoji, who was just moving a bit, froze.

He wasn’t using that much force!

It was just the usual rhythm from dreams.

So—

What was going on?!

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