Chapter 551: Now I’m Pregnant Too!

Chapter 551: Now I’m Pregnant Too!

Himekoji was dragged back by Hiratsuka Shizuka speeding like the wind in her flying car.

In the car, he tugged at his hair, feeling anxious the whole way, trying to figure out a solution.

What could he possibly do?

If only he could just throw everyone onto one bed together…

Ah, forget it, that was the best he could hope for right now.

While Himekoji was still fretting away, the Female Teacher drove like a bat out of hell. In almost no time, she had transported Himekoji back home.

By the time Himekoji snapped out of it, he found himself being pulled by the arm by Hiratsuka-sensei, dragged close and into the elevator.

It seemed like if he didn’t explain things clearly now, he’d run out of time!

Himekoji thought it over for a moment, then finally found the courage to speak. “Sensei, about your mother…?”

“Ah, she’s thrilled!”

Hiratsuka Shizuka genuinely seemed very happy about it.

“And… your father…?”

“Ai! His condition is still not too great. But because of our situation, his mood has been better lately. The doctor says he just shouldn’t get any shocks.”

“Aha, ha… like that, huh…”

Himekoji gave an awkward laugh.

Somehow, the moment the Female Teacher spoke, it felt like she’d immediately blocked off everything he planned to say!

Forced into a corner, Himekoji could only hint around the edges—

“I wonder how long… Aunt might want to keep things like this?”

“That depends on how long it takes for us to get there…”

“No, but we… we can’t possibly have one, right?”

Even if the two of them spent every day, under Mama Shizuka’s watchful eye, staying in the same room and even lying on the same bed… if they didn’t actually do it, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t just conjure something up out of nothing!

Unless Himekoji used his Human-shaped Walking Artillery ability again…

Hiratsuka Shizuka seemed startled by Himekoji’s words. The Female Teacher looked at him with a strange expression, concerned. “What’s wrong? Did you… actually go for a check-up?”

Check-up?

After a brief pause, he realized—

“I said ‘we can’t possibly have one’ and I didn’t actually mean that!”

It felt like being mocked and humiliated in his area of expertise by some know-nothing amateur.

“Whew— Then why’d you suddenly go and say something like that?! You scared me to death! You scared me!”

The Female Teacher patted her chest in relief, causing the flesh there to bounce in some exaggerated, flourishing waves.

Must focus on small-chested! Must focus on small-chested!

Himekoji chanted it silently in his mind, remaining unmoved.

Still, he couldn’t resist grumbling. “Sensei, seriously? What did you even have to be afraid of?”

If there was such a problem, the one getting worried should be him.

“Of course I’m worried! Your body now, Sensei has a stake in it too, you know!”

“Is that so?”

“Is that not so?”

While they were discussing this, the elevator arrived at the designated floor. With a ding-dong, the doors slid open.

Stepping out of this elevator meant facing Hiratsuka-sensei’s home, and Mama Shizuka would be waiting inside like a prowling tigress, ready to toss them onto the bed.

“We’re here.”

The instant the Female Teacher took a step forward to leave, Himekoji, almost acting by some instinctive impulse, suddenly stretched out his hand and yanked her sharply back. At the same time, he pressed the button for the first floor. The elevator doors slid slowly shut.

He knew he had to say the words swirling in his head! He had to say them now!

Because—

“Sensei, I can’t hold back any longer!”

Inside the confined space, it was just Himekoji and Hiratsuka Shizuka. Himekoji pressed the Female Teacher against the elevator wall, looking straight into her eyes, speaking seriously.

Hearing this, the Female Teacher’s eyelashes fluttered rapidly, but she said nothing. Her cheeks flushed crimson, and she simply closed her eyes.

No, wait, why are you closing your eyes?!

Look at me! Look at my serious face and listen to what I’m saying!

“Sensei, I’ve thought about this for a long time, and I’ve held it in long enough. I think… there are some things I must say right now!”

Feeling a bit guilty, Himekoji turned away, his back now facing the Female Teacher.

He had promised to help all the way to the end, yet because of Yukinoshita, he now wanted to give up halfway.

“Stop! Don’t say it!”

“Eh?!”

The Female Teacher still had her eyes closed. She tilted her chin up slightly, making her soft, rosy, moist lips very prominent right then, clearly positioned waiting for a kiss.

“Don’t say anything. I… understand everything!”

After whispering those words, her cheeks blushing even deeper, she puckered her lips towards Himekoji’s direction.

She didn’t open her eyes throughout. Only her long black eyelashes fluttered like beautiful butterfly wings.

Unfortunately, Himekoji, with his back turned, missed this incredibly obvious request for a kiss completely.

“Sensei, is… is it really true?! That’s fantastic!”

Himekoji clenched his right fist and thumped it into his open left palm. He bounced slightly on his toes, both relieved and utterly delighted. This level of mutual understanding that needed no words? Amazing!

Truly befitting his Sensei!

Overflowing with excitement, Himekoji turned around. His hand was raised a bit too high in his enthusiasm, so the back of it accidentally brushed right past the Female Teacher’s waiting lips.

Himekoji didn’t notice the momentary contact. But Hiratsuka Shizuka, still with her eyes closed, interpreted that fleeting touch as a light, hesitant kiss.

Inside the sealed elevator, teacher and student. A confession finally made. Love overcoming the age gap. A marriage their parents both eagerly wished for… All these elements, intensified by the thrill of a breach of morality, made the moment feel all the more stimulating and sweet.

“Sensei! Then, later, let’s just tell Aunt directly!”

Himekoji clenched his fists, feeling a surge of newfound energy. He hadn’t expected the most difficult problem at hand to be resolved so simply.

“Alright. I know, Akito… You also think my mom would be awkward… really in the way, don’t you?”

Because the two of them didn’t need anyone bothering their time alone…

The Female Teacher opened her eyes. Her fingers tangled together, a picture of feminine charm. She shot a shy, quick glance at Himekoji.

Himekoji had never in his life seen Hiratsuka Shizuka act like this – including “never” right up until this very moment.

“Yes, yes, exactly!”

Himekoji, thoroughly absorbed in the current atmosphere of relief and cheerfulness, completely missed the meaning of the Female Teacher’s expression, actions, and the sudden change in how she addressed him.

Hiratsuka Shizuka took a breath, pulling herself together. She straightened her back slightly. “Akito… Later… Let me just tell my mom about us!”

“Then… I’m counting on you!”

Himekoji was deeply moved.

Hiratsuka-sensei was trying to take the blame for deceiving her mother all by herself.

Well, she was his teacher after all!

He was the one who said he would help at first, but then he gave up halfway—he was the one in the wrong. Yet Hiratsuka-sensei didn’t say a single word of complaint. She still accepted him and understood him. Her heart was so big and so kind!

Himekoji Akito stepped back, looked serious, and bowed deeply to the female teacher.

From Hiratsuka Shizuka’s perspective—

Why was this foolish student bowing all of a sudden?

With that deep, meaningful expression, did he really have such strong feelings for her?

Then why didn’t he say so earlier! Fool!

If he had said it earlier, they could have had kids by now! No need for Mom to keep pushing!

Moved, Hiratsuka Shizuka pressed her lips together, took a quick step forward, and helped Akito straighten up.

The elevator door opened just then—

“Teacher, you go first.”

“Akito, please, you first.”

Lost in their own feelings of being moved, they walked from the elevator to the female teacher’s home full of respect for each other.

After a joyful moment, they finally reached the house and met Mama Shizuka.

Akito didn’t need to say anything else. The female teacher stepped forward and spoke—

“Mom, you don’t have to push us so hard anymore. Go spend more time with Dad.”

Exactly, well said!

Akito kept nodding secretly on the side.

“Actually…”

As she said this word, Akito finished the sentence in his head—

Actually… they weren’t really a couple at all!

Hiratsuka Shizuka took a deep breath—

“Actually… I have successfully gotten pregnant with Akito’s child!”

Huh?

“Mom, thank you for pushing us all this time!”

What?

“We did it!”

Huh?

No, no, something was wrong?

They clearly… hadn’t done anything?

This wasn’t what they had agreed!

“Really? Really?! Pregnant? Haha, pregnant!” Mama Shizuka got excited like a child. She jumped around joyfully and suddenly seemed years younger. Then she hurriedly took out her phone to call her husband in the hospital, “Dear, Shizuka is pregnant, Shizuka is pregnant!”

The female teacher nodded shyly and sweetly in front of her mom, covering her hot cheeks.

Among the three people there, only Akito was standing off to the side, shocked like a stranger.

He still hadn’t understood—

Wrong, it was all wrong.

How had things ended up like this?

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