His Childhood Friend is a Beautiful, Reclusive Girl, So He Spends His After-School Hours in Her Room (But He’s Not Her Boyfriend!) - Ch. 83: Ku, If She Had Stick To The Normal Poultice, Then This Wouldn't...

Oh, God. Buddha. Reason-san.
Why is this child so innocent?

I was secretly shivering.
In front of me, my childhood friend was lying on her back.
Her head is resting on my legs, and she has a spray can between her breasts.

She had some gel on her hand to relieve muscle pain, and the words that came out of her mouth were, “Here, apply this for me♪~”

“…No, I’m good.”
“Heh? Why?”
“Because…”

Isn’t this situation a little erotic?
I was too afraid to say it with my mouth, so I put my hand into my school bag.

It was not the science club’s specialized one that I took out, no, not that one. This is a seal. I took out an ordinary poultice that Nadeshiko-san had given me in the living room earlier.

Nadeshiko-san had also prepared a poultice for Yuiha, thinking that she would need it.
It was a normal poultice, so of course, it smelled. I put it to Yuika’s nose with a benevolent smile.

“Girl. Here, use this. You can put this poultice anywhere you like. You can smell it, though, right?”

Her thin shoulders trembled.

“Funyah!?”

Yuika turned her head languidly and slumped over.
The spray can that had been caught between her chest flew to the wall.

Eh, the wall? It’s flying too fast. What is with that force? It’s so soft that it’s bouncy…!

“Yuika, you’re amazing…”
“What’s so amazing? Souta is terrible! You know Yuika-chan can’t stand that smell. You know that~!”

Yuika flapped her leg in anger.
Oh no, I messed up. Because Yuika was angry, and I’m on my knees right now…It was very dangerous position for Yuika to be in…

“Well, I’m sorry, Yuika. let’s get you back on your back, okay?”
“What?”
“Whatever, just get back on your back.”

“No! Souta, you’re going to torment me with that poultice again.”
“I won’t torment you. Come on, I already put the poultice in my bag. I’m not going to torment you.”

I put the poultice away in her sight, spread my hands out to show nothing is there, and to show her my kindness.
While lying on her face, Yuika raised her eyes and stared at me.

“I’ll bite you if you do it again, okay? I’ll smash you okay? No mercy, okay?”
“…I’d rather not have you bite me, please…Please have mercy on me.”

I’m sure what Yuika was expecting to bite was a hand or something, but when she said that in this position, just imagining it made me break out in a cold sweat.

“Fumyu? Souta, did you really hate being bitten that much?”
“I don’t think it’s hard to find someone who likes that…The only ones who like it are probably those who are M’s who are into it.”
“? But Souta, you looked a little happy when I bit you before, didn’t you?”

“That’s not the case for me. That time it was my shoulder, and it was to make Yuika’s voice bearable. So that pain is more like a medal for being a man…Ah.”
“…Ah.”

We both noticed it at the same time.
I hadn’t been conscious of the fact that the conversation had taken a very subtle turn.

The first time Yuika bit me was when she lost her wits in an ear-related situation.
She had bitten my shoulder so that Iori in the next room wouldn’t hear her.

In other words, it was a very embarrassing thing for both of us to recall face to face.

“Ah…”
“U-Um…”

We couldn’t look at each other and turned red and averted our eyes.

“I-It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it?
“Uh-huh. It’s a very nice day to be cooped up.”
“…”
“…”

Oh no. I can’t keep a pause when I’m conscious of it.
Umm a topic, a topic, whatever it is just a topic to divert our attention!

“Why don’t you use that gel you keep in your hand?”
“Ah, yeah, that’s right. Then…Yes.”

When Yuika sat up, she carelessly transferred the gel to my hand.
There was a little bit of stickiness left, I’ll smear it on my fingertips and rub it off.

“Alright”
“No, it’s not alright. Why do you transfer it to my hand when you’re told to use it?”
“I told you to apply it for me.”

“So why don’t you apply it yourself?”
“I can’t get my own back.
“Oh, I see…!”

That was a blind spot.
Yuika was very stiff. If I made her bend forward, she would be too stiff and would be pretty funny. But it was impossible for her to do it herself.

Oh no, I can’t find a way out of this.
I should have anticipated this kind of development when Nadeshiko-san prepared a poultice.
What’s more, the one I brought was the gel type. Damn, I’ve dug myself a grave.

…Isn’t this an erotic judgment in Yuika’s mind?

I’d like to ask her, but in the current atmosphere, a bad question would be a bushwhacker.
The only thing I could do was to complete this mission as quickly as possible.

“Are you sure you want me to apply it to your back?
“Yeah, back for now.”
“Okay. Turn around.”

“Eh? Don’t I have to be on the bed?”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Just turn around, hurry! Hurry!”
“Heeh!?”

I grabbed her by the shoulders and made her turn around.
We couldn’t do this in bed. If I push her down in bed, my head would lose all reason.

Yuika was sitting on the floor with her back to me.
I thought I’d just get it over with, but then I realized I couldn’t move.

Eh, what is this? Why the heck do I have to do to put it on her back…?

It seemed that Yuika also noticed the same thing.
She finally showed a hint of confusion and looked back awkwardly over her shoulder.

“Ah, what do we do…This is so embarrassing.”
“I told you it was a bad idea…
“Because I seriously can’t put it on myself.”
“That’s true, but…”
“Well, what do you say? …I take it off?”
“…!”

An embarrassed whisper sparked in my brain.
…Oh no! I’m losing it! My body is halfway onto her! Work more like a chariot horse, Reason-san! I don’t care if it makes me vomit blood!

“Y-Yui…”
“Ah! I feel like you’re going to push me over! Wait, Souta. I have sore muscles, so if you push me down now, I’ll fall apart. Just like a lump of meat!”
“I can’t fight against the seven demon superhuman, no matter what I have… In that case!”
[TLN: No clue what he is referencing.]

I let my mind go blank and shoved my hand down the hem of her pajamas and into her back.

“Kyaunn!?”
“Don’t make any funny noises, girl!”
“T-That’s because you suddenly put your hand on my back and it made me flinch! And your tone of voice is weird!”
“It was the gel that made you flinch! My tone of voice is proof that I’m losing my mind, that is all!”

“It’s not, I don’t think you’re losing it! No, Souta. If you pretend to be something you’re not, you’ll fall to the dark side!”
“I’m trying my best not to fall! Don’t throw in a backstory when I’m like this! I can’t afford it!”

No good, thoughts like ‘can’t afford’ are filling up my head. I really can’t afford it.
It was because her skin was so smooth and soft.

It would get to be. No way, it is impossible for it to get to me. I’m a machine that is focused on applying gel, a machine, just a machine…Hmm?

I was applying the gel with a blank mind when I felt something touch my fingertips.
Something like a hard metal hook? And a string?

“What is this?”

I said it out loud and immediately cursed myself for my shallowness.

“Ah, that’s…”

Yuika reacted instantly.
She turned over, red to the ears, and mumbled in embarrassment.

“…It’s bra strap, dummy.”

Wha…I stiffened.
Tik…My finger clipped it.

The next moment, the hooks of the bra strap are off.

““—!?””

Yuika and I both gasped at the same time.
This is…a catastrophe!