I Was Hired As A Tutor By A Cute Little Devilish Junior - Chapter 40 Tsun Tsun

“By the way, did Senpai ever have a girlfriend?”
“Eh…”

After renewing my position as Shiina’s tutor, she suddenly asked me this question.

“I’ve been thinking about it for a while now. So did you?”
“Y-you know…”

I was flustered and choked on my words when Shiina asked me as if it was nothing.
It seemed to me that this was a very sensitive topic, but it seemed that today’s high school girls don’t see it that way at all.

I quickly averted my gaze from her as she stared at me with a curious look on her face, unable to speak.

“By the way, my guess is that Senpai never had a girlfriend.”
“How can you say such a thing with an unconcerned face…”
“I told you that I know everything about you, didn’t I? Isn’t that right, by any chance?”
“Well, that’s correct…”

I’ve never had a girlfriend since I was born, as Shiina said.
It was true that in middle school, there were more people around me talking about such things…Gossips like this or that entered my ears back then.

But for some reason, I had no interest in love at all.
I had a general awareness of the opposite gender as a middle school boy, but I didn’t understand the joy of being swept up in the emotions, the effort, the joy, and sorrow.

I guess I haven’t gotten over that feeling since I started high school, and I haven’t had any of those sorts of thoughts in the last year.

“Well, I did get one confession…”
“R-Really!?”
“Y-Yeah.”

Shiina, who had been speaking in a surprisingly casual and matter-of-fact manner until a few moments ago, suddenly took a huge reaction to my words.

“Tell me more about it!” I was forced to recall my memories of that time.
It was not a very interesting story…

I think I was in the second year of middle school. I was in the same class as her, but I had never talked to her before, and she confessed her feelings to me.
I was surprised to experience this for the first time in my life, and I was somewhat happy to know that she liked me.

However, the girl did not have a very good reputation to begin with.
There were rumors that she talked freely with her friends at school, but behind the scenes, she slandered and gossiped a lot.

However, these were just rumors, and the truth was unknown. However, there was one time in the past when I heard a piece of it from a girl behind the gym after school.
I was a little lost at what to do, but in the end I refused to go out with her.

But unfortunately, the story didn’t end there.
I don’t know where the story leaked out, or if it was the girl herself who did it, but it became a bit of a rumor that I had been confessed to by the girl.

Of course, not all of them were attacking me, but my friends who were close to the girl had a contemptuous attitude towards me.
It wasn’t a big bullying incident, just a minor one, but it wasn’t nice and I remember feeling mentally exhausted at the time.

If anything, it might be a story of bitter memories from the past.

“I don’t know what happened to you. Senpai, you went through such a hard time…”
“Well, it’s all in the past. I don’t care about it now.”
“Really? I see…”
“Hmm? What is it?”
“N-No. It’s nothing.”

When I asked her, she immediately made up for it, but for a moment, Shiina looked relieved.
Was she relieved that my past was not too serious”
As I returned my gaze to Shiina’s notebook, unfamiliar rhythmic music sounded in the room.

The music was coming from Shiina’s cell phone, and it seemed to be the ringtone of a phone call.
“Excuse me,” Shiina said, taking out her phone and checking the screen.

“Ah, Kohei-kun…”

And then she let out those quiet words.
The moment I heard Shiina’s words, I felt my body tense up.

“I’m sorry, I have to take this.”
“…Yeah.”

Shiina put her cell phone to her ear, a little distance away from me.
I couldn’t hear what’s on the phone, but I could hear the electronic sound of the same voice as Kohei-kun’s that I just met outside.

He seemed to have called her just as he said he would call her later when we parted.
The electronic sound of his voice was lively, and Shiina’s face relaxed as if she was enjoying answering it.

(…What the hell am I thinking?)

Even though I had made up my mind just a few minutes ago, when it was eventually shown in front of me, I felt a tingle in my chest.
I’m not Shiina’s boyfriend, but I don’t know what I’m mulling over. In the first place, I don’t even have definite romantic feelings for her.

Of course, Shiina was an important kouhai, and an important student.
I do think Shiina is cute, and I have a selfish feeling that I should protect her.

But that was it, and I don’t think it was romantic feelings that I have for her.
Even if I was close to her now, it would be unreasonable to feel jealousy towards Kohei-kun.

…And yet, my mind was buzzing with restlessness.

While I was feeling these emotions that I had nowhere else to go, somewhere in my heart, I felt a sense of mischief.
It wasn’t just this buzzing in my chest that was causing this.
It was just a way to get back at Shiina for always teasing me.

Yes, it’s time to put “that thing” to use.

While replaying in my head the contents of the magazine I had perused at home, I slowly approached Shiina who was concentrating on the phone.
As expected, Shiina noticed my presence when I got that close and asked me with a look, “What’s wrong?

Instead of answering her question, I bring my right hand in front of her face and hold up my index finger.
Then, I slowly brought it closer.

Pinch.

I pinched her cheek with my fingertips.
Her cheek was so soft that I couldn’t help but pinch it again and again.

“!? Ah, um…”

Naturally, Shiina looked surprised and confused, unable to do anything because of the shock.
I couldn’t take it anymore, so I tried to say something to her, but Kohei-kun on the other end of the phone asked, “Hmm, what’s wrong?” I can’t say anything, I hope it goes by well.

I took advantage of her inability to resist and accelerated the speed of my pinching.
I also followed her cheek when she tried to escape by moving her head a little.
Of course, I pinched with the least amount of force possible, but because of my unexpected action, Shiina couldn’t escape any further.

This is the 7th place in the ranking of that magazine, 『Boy that pinches your cheeks lightly♡』
This magazine is excellent, after all. I’ve been indebted to it for a long time.

The more time passes, the redder her cheeks get, and I play around with them to my heart’s content.
When I got tired of pinching her cheeks, I reached for her ears.

When I touched her ear, which was already red, she twisted around as if tickled.
I felt the guilt and the immorality of it all, and when I touched it, her body shook.

“Hyah, mmm. Aah!”

Eventually, her voice started to leak out, and if I only listened to it, I could only hear her voice.
As expected, Kohei felt some of at this, and asked, “Are you okay?” with a reserved tone.

Shiina, who had lost the freedom of her ears, was so disoriented that she couldn’t even reply to the question, and it had become a suspicious situation.

I took my hand away from Shiina’s ear.
Kohei-kun said, “Well, I’d better go.” Shiina replied, “Uh, yeah…,” and the phone immediately went dead.

As soon as Shiina replied, the phone went dead.
I watched as she caught her breath, and after a few seconds, she calmed down.

I didn’t know what to say to her, so I kept quiet and Shiina’s body started to shake.

“Senpai…”

Shiina called me with a very quiet but strong voice.
I reply, “Y-Yes,” with sweat beading on my forehead.
Shiina finally looked up with a reply, her cheeks still red and puffed out.

“Sit straight.”

That was what she told me.