For Some Reason, A Gal In My Class Became Friends With My Step-sister. - ■V2 Chapter 1 ◆Part 4【Restart】

Translator: AJ1703

Editor: Matsu

◆Part４【My Student Is Trying To Reach Out】

　July had arrived.

　In our school, which has a first and second semester system, the final exams are held in July.

　It was the biggest obstacle that stood in our way before the summer vacation that everyone was looking forward to.

　Well, that’s just for the average student. For me, who studied all year round and whose identity is based on good test scores, this is the time to show off my skills, so instead of being depressed, I am excited about it.

　I am the strongest student on campus.

　This time, I’m going to get the top spot in my grade. I was on fire.

　I am a study worm, a study WORM I tell you, but I had never taken first place in my grade.

　The person in first place was an honor student who was sure to win the election for the student council president this year.

　But I was also frustrated that I kept losing, so I wanted to beat him and take the top spot in my grade. I was secretly looking forward to stirring up some excitement in my mind when I won the election for student council president in the fall. Well, I don’t know this person.

　There was still a lot of time left before the test, but it was better to start studying early than later.

　Okay, I’m going to do my best.

　How do I want to sit comfortably at my desk in my room and concentrate on my studies with a lot of enthusiasm…

“Hey, Shinji~! How do you solve this?”

　A sweet voice echoed in the room, which did not fit the bleak and lonely atmosphere of studying.

　Study materials were spread out on a folding round table, and Yua was there, sitting on the carpet.

　Yua, dressed in her usual school uniform, tapped the section with questions on it with the butt of a mechanical pencil.

“…That one, I just taught you about that earlier, didn’t I?”

“I don’t get it in just one go~!”

　Yua, with a mechanical pencil between her nose and upper lip, was nowhere near as nervous as she was about taking the test.

“Can you teach me about it one more time?”

　Grinning, Yua looks up at me.

　I am sitting in my study desk chair, and because of the height difference between me and Yua on the floor, I can almost see her chest when I look down at her.

　Originally, I had planned to study alone this time as well and had no intention of acting as Yua’s tutor.

　However, during the lunch break on the day that I was informed of the test’s scope, Yua cried out to me, asking me to help her study.

　I had assumed from Yua’s appearance and personality that she was the type of person who could not study, but it seemed that her grades were not so bad. I learned this when she told me about her past grades.

　However, her grades varied greatly depending on the subject. While she was able to get above average marks in arts subjects, her grades in science and mathematics subjects were just above the red mark. Even so, she had never received a red mark in any of our subjects.

　Although Yua’s grades were extremely uneven, I had a good impression of her.

　Yua seemed to be playing around, but she had the perseverance to work hard.

　Fortunately, in her science and mathematics subjects, there was plenty of room for improvement even in a short period of time, once she learned how to solve the problems and the patterns of questions that might appear on the exam.

　So I decided to take care of Yua, even if it meant cutting into my own study time.

　…Even though she didn’t seem to be studying seriously as far as I could see.

　I had given her my own book of problems, which I had extracted only the parts that were likely to appear on the exam from a commercially available book, but Yua refused to touch and read it.

　I regret now that I had taken on such a troublesome student, but once I had accepted the job, I couldn’t just throw it away. Maybe it’s not that she really doesn’t want to do it, but that she just doesn’t know how to do it. I would like to help if I can, since I’m usually the one who’s been taken care of by Yua, especially when it comes to Tsumugi.

　I sat down next to Yua, and we both had the same problem book in front of us.

“I don’t understand this part and this part in particular…”

　Yua leaned toward me and her chest hit my arm.

　I felt like my brain was going to fly away because of Yua, but I couldn’t let myself get carried away.

　Studying is important for students. It’s not just for now.

“Yua, we are not freshmen anymore, we are sophomores. We better have to start thinking about our future. In our third year, we will have to choose between literature and science.

　Our school, for a public school, is very enthusiastic about education, and in the second year, they not only conduct a survey of students’ career aspirations, but also invite experts outside of our school to provide enthusiastic guidance on our career paths.

“What are you planning to do with your life?”

　If Yua was considering getting higher education… I was willing to cut back some of my study time. She’s been taking care of me for a long time now, and if there was anything I could do to help, I was willing to do so.

“…………”

　Yua became unexpectedly serious and seemed to be unsure whether to say it or not.

　I thought she was going to say something like, “I don’t know,” and hug me in her arms.

“I’m going to pursue college education.”

　Yua opened her mouth heavily, as if her lips were turned to lead, and began to fiddle with the mechanical pencil in her hand with her fingertips.

“I’m pretty good in the humanities, so if I focus on private universities, I should be able to get into some of them.”

　For Yua, science and math subjects are what she calls “throw-away.” If she’s going to take a liberal arts course at a private university, there’s no need to study science and math subjects. She just has to be careful to avoid getting red marks so that she avoids failing the course. Since it seems that Yua has so far avoided only red marks, she had her sights set on a private liberal arts course from the beginning and was by all means planning her future career path in no uncertain terms.

　Yua had constructed a tentative blueprint for her future career, but her expression was not cheerful.

“But hey, I don’t know what’s going to happen to our house.”

　A melancholy-looking Yua knocks uselessly on her mechanical pencil.

“I’m kind of giving off the impression that I’m doing everything on my own without depending on my parents, but my parents are paying for my school fees and rent, not me. If I wanted to go on to higher education, they would probably pay for my tuition at a private school, even if it costs a lot of money.”

“That… can’t be helped, you know? You’re in high school. There are limits to what you can and can’t do.”

　You can’t be a teenager and rely completely on no one to get by. Even Ayaka-san, who was also a teenager and ran away from her parents’ home with Tsumugi in her arms, seems to have depended on her parents’ support to take care of the bare minimum of her life.

　No matter how hard she tries, she has no economic power. Therefore, they had no choice but to rely on adults, which was the limitation of minors.

“My parents had to be good ‘parents’ for me not to have to worry about school fees. I don’t know if it will be the same in the future.”

　Yua’s career path seems to be wobbly and unstable in a way that has nothing to do with her, even if she is acting with an eye toward the future.

　I feel once again that Yua Takarai is always in a precarious position, even though she seems to be living in a carefree life.

　If that is the case, I must change my ways.

“Yua, where was the question you just asked me? I’ll teach you again… No, I’ll definitely teach you until you tell me that you finally understand it.”

　There’s not much I can do.

　I have a father, so I’m not in a position where I have to stand on my own like Yua, and I’m in no financial difficulties. I even live with my stepsister, who is very loving and affectionate. I am in a privileged position.

　So when Yua wanted to be pampered, I thought I could at least accept her without being shy and running away from her.

“Eh, really?”

　Yua, with a bright face that made me want to say, “What was the serious mode just now?”… No, she just hugged me and pushed me down with her shoulder against my abdomen with the force of a Spear.

“That’s right. Shinji, you’re so kind.”

　Yua’s buttocks pressed down on my abdomen. I couldn’t move anymore.

　What in the world was Yua going to do? As I was thinking, Yua moved the problem book on the desk to my chest.

“You’re going to stay with me until I say, ‘I understand,’ right?”

　Yua, grinning from an agitated point of view, began to run her pen across my chest, using, oh dear, my chest as a desk. Thanks to the notebook as an underlay, I didn’t get scratched by the tip of the pen, but I was ticklish because of it.

　It would have been fine if I had been tickled by the tip of the pen, but as I bent over to write, the tips of Yua’s long hair brushed against my arms, and her gravity-deflected bosoms spread out in a panorama before my eyes, the stimulation in this particular environment was so strong that I almost ascended to heaven. Thank God Yua is riding my butt on her belly.

“Let me continue to work on this until I say, ‘I understand.'”

　Yua said, with a look of definite enjoyment on her face. This is the one that never says ‘I understand.’

　In the end, Yua said something like, “It hurts my back too much to do it in this posture,” which was obvious to me if I thought about it for a moment and walked away from me, so I didn’t stay with her for long.

　I felt relieved to be able to concentrate on my own studies, but at the same time, somehow I felt lonely.

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Translator’s Afterword: This guy needs some bonking and Antihornyspray.