Real teaching, but diary flow

"The photos were taken, and although... although Asakusa-kun didn't do anything to me other than taking the photos, and said she wouldn't use them to threaten me..." With her head down and clutching her skirt, Sakura Airi whispered, "But... I'm still a little scared..."

They are afraid of being threatened, afraid of being exposed, and afraid of the feeling of having their privacy held by others.

so......

"Are Kushida-san and Asakusa-san a couple? Could you please ask him to delete the photos?" Turning around, Sakura Airi spoke her request to Kushida Kikyo, whom she trusted most.

Of course she hadn't forgotten about it; the reason she hadn't brought it up earlier was simply because she couldn't find a suitable opportunity to bring it up.

But since we need Kushida's help, we can only ask him now.

Yes, it should be fine...

...No way.

"Boyfriend/girlfriend...?" Kikyo Kushida's cheek twitched slightly, her tone rather elusive.

Sakura Airi keenly sensed the change in the atmosphere, and she lowered her eyes and whispered:

"No, isn't it?"

"Because, because I could smell Asakusa's scent on Kushida, and he also smelled like Kushida, and then I heard Kushida's voice on the phone he answered at noon, so I assumed you two were dating..."

She explained in a low voice, then raised her head and continued:

"Since you're not boyfriend and girlfriend... Kushida-san, is there something Asakusa-san has caught on you?"

Kushida Kikyo: "......"

Miscalculated.

I've been too careless and lax lately.

Not only did they not disguise themselves when entering and leaving, they also failed to properly deal with their body odor.

If even Sakura Airi could smell this scent, could the others have noticed it as well?

No, it won't happen.

If others discover it, they will definitely try to find out indirectly, and in most cases, they have already washed themselves and changed their clothes to confirm the smell.

I've just become more and more lax these past few days.

I need to be more careful in the future.

But that's a matter for later. Right now, the most pressing issue is how to appease Sakura Airi.

...Seriously, it's all that guy's fault!

There's no need to do unnecessary things.

If you see it, you see it, why take a picture!

Kikyo Kushida was seething with hatred, but the cowardly eyes of Airi Sakura seemed to be urging her on, constantly putting pressure on her.

So annoying!

I should have just admitted we were boyfriend and girlfriend!

Having already denied being in a romantic relationship, how am I supposed to explain where the smell came from?!

...Got it.

Suddenly, Kikyo Kushida had a flash of inspiration and had an answer in her mind.

“…Yes.” She lowered her head, revealing a slightly forlorn expression, acknowledging the source of the 'weakness': “Didn’t Chi and the others fail the midterm exams?”

"No one had any points to draw, but we couldn't just stand by and watch our comrades die."

“Even so, 1.2 million is not a sum that just anyone can come up with.” She raised her right hand and grabbed her left arm, pursing her lips. “He used that as leverage, and through his relationship with Ichinose, he threatened me that if I didn’t become his mother, he would make Ichinose find a way to drop out of Hirata-san!”

As soon as she finished speaking, only Kikyo Kushida's voice echoed throughout the room.

Especially in Sakura Airi's ears, only one word kept echoing.

'Mom,' 'Mom,' 'Mom'...

'He threatened me to be his mother.'

Sakura Airi: "???"

She had always thought she would hear some unspeakable secrets, like being filmed doing something inappropriate, or having something private seen on her.

But Sakura Airi never expected that the coercion would involve something like this!

The leverage for the threat is very reasonable. Thinking about it carefully, it was indeed Kikyo Kushida who took the initiative to make the phone call, which is why Toru Asakusa and the others came to Class D together.

...After thinking about it carefully, Sakura Airi realized that, oh, she actually seemed to have met Asakusa Tetsu.

She hadn't realized it before, but now that Kikyo Kushida brought it up, she remembered that there really was such a thing.

After all, it was Ichinose who negotiated the contract terms on home ground, while Asakusa Tetsu seemed to have always just been playing cards with those few people behind the scenes.

She didn't dare to look up at strangers much, and really couldn't remember.

However, such things were completely unimportant in the face of the coercion.

“...Mom, Mom?!” Sakura Airi repeated the word in a trembling voice.

"Hmm." Kikyo Kushida nodded slightly and continued to fabricate slanderous words against someone: "Asakusa-kun, actually, well, has always lacked maternal love."

“His psychological problems became even more apparent after he enrolled in this boarding school.”

Kikyo Kushida sighed softly and said:

"...That's why he did something like threatening me to become his mother."

She wasn't lying; Asakusa Tetsu did indeed lack maternal love.

Silence fell in the room again. Sakura Airi's brain was overloaded as she tried to comprehend this unbelievable situation.

Recalling Asakusa Toru's calm, collected, and handsome face on the rooftop, and remembering his effortless manner when he toyed with her, Sakura Airi couldn't imagine what it would be like for Asakusa Toru to call Kushida Kikyo "Mom."

"Um, that..." Driven by curiosity, Sakura Airi asked cautiously, "How exactly... I mean, how did he ask you to be his 'mother'...?"

This was actually a question she would never have asked; it was a question that might have crossed a line slightly.

But perhaps it was because she was in her own dormitory, in her own room, sitting on her own bed, and because Kikyo Kushida gave her a very friendly feeling, and because she was really, really curious.

Curiosity erased the sense of distance, and it prompted her to ask the question.

"..." Kikyo Kushida's body visibly trembled. She bent over, biting her lip with all her might from an angle that Airi Sakura couldn't see.

—She was trying not to laugh.

So much fun!

Spreading rumors and nonsense is more interesting than you might imagine!

The fact that the other party was asking her in a serious tone about the specifics of the situation made it even more amusing.

She suddenly began to understand the feelings of writing in a diary.

No wonder the diary entries are always so cheerful; it's precisely these rumors that contain a tiny bit of truth but are completely wrong that are the most interesting!

Looking at Sakura Airi's stunned expression just now, and listening to her changing breathing rhythm, the more Kushida Kikyo thought about it, the more she wanted to laugh.

In Sakura Airi's eyes, Asakusa Toru has now truly become a faithful follower of Freud's ideas.

In short, it's all because of the Oedipus complex!

No, no, I can't think about it anymore, or I'll burst out laughing.

That would mean all our previous efforts were in vain.

"Well, it's just..." Kikyo Kushida straightened up, raised her head, and wiped away the tears that welled up in her eyes from trying to suppress her laughter. She said haltingly, "I want to hug him... I want to lull him to sleep... I want to pat his head and praise him..."

Kikyo Kushida couldn't take it anymore. As soon as she finished speaking, she bent over again, buried her head between her legs, and refused to look at Airi Sakura's expression.

She felt that if she actually saw Sakura's expression, she definitely wouldn't be able to hold back her laughter.

"..." Sakura Airi's expression was very strange. She raised her hand to cover her pretty face and began to imagine the scene described by Kushida Kikyo.

Kikyo Kushida took the initiative to pull Toru Asakusa into her arms, and Toru Asakusa lay obediently in her arms like a baby...

This is just too much...

"So, Kushida-san smells like Asakusa-san, is it because he often hugs him?" She twisted her body and asked a question that didn't actually need confirmation.

“…Hmm.” Kikyo Kushida swallowed the laughter that was welling up in her throat and pulled out her usual acting skills as a little angel in class to forcefully suppress her laughter: “Only in this way can he feel the maternal love that he lacks.”

Sakura Airi blushed slightly, feeling ashamed of her previous misunderstanding.

As expected, Kushida-san is Kushida-san. Only someone like Kushida-san would so reluctantly become the mother of a male high school student her own age for the sake of her classmates...

If it were me, I definitely couldn't do it.

Holding Asakusa like a baby in her arms and then trying to put her to sleep is just too embarrassing.

Woo...

As Kikyo Kushida described, the already vague impression of Tetsu Asakusa in Airi Sakura's mind was quietly shattered, and gradually a different shape was outlined under Kikyo's mother's description.

"Ahem." After coughing twice to clear her throat, Kikyo Kushida, regaining her composure, intended to end the increasingly erratic topic.

She hadn't forgotten why Sakura Airi had come to her for advice.

Isn't it just a photo taken by some guy who couldn't resist taking pictures?

To be honest, when she first heard about this, her first reaction was to tell that guy to just delete the photos.

Isn't she enough for me?!

But upon closer reflection, Kikyo Kushida realized something was amiss.

Why was nothing done to Sakura Airi?

Whether it's the descriptions implied in the words, the attitude towards Asakusa Toru, or the reaction after the lunch break.

Kikyo Kushida could clearly sense just how utterly clueless this little coward was.

They were really well protected by those unfashionable glasses.

However, glancing at Sakura Airi's expression at that moment, Kushida Kikyo felt inexplicably annoyed again.

No, why should I? She was all pfft-pfft, and she even knelt down and pressed her handprint! She was terrified, afraid that he would actually do something.

Trembling with fear and timidity, his legs quivering.

Not only were they taken advantage of, but they also lost face completely.

Although she managed to win back the lost face later, the loss was still lost.

How come Sakura was so lucky? She just happened to make a phone call and was let go without doing anything.

She is not convinced.

Kikyo Kushida's possessiveness and jealousy began to clash.

"..."

Without a doubt, after a brief moment of deliberation, the latter emerged victorious.

"Sakura-san wants him to delete the photos he took, right?" Kikyo Kushida brought the topic back on track, saying, "Asakusa-kun and I aren't boyfriend and girlfriend, so it might be difficult for me to ask him to delete the photos."

Sakura Airi's face showed obvious regret.

But before she could lower her head, Kikyo Kushida said again, "But, it's not like I'm completely helpless."

Upon hearing this, Sakura Airi quickly asked, "Yes, what method is it?"

"I mentioned earlier that Asakusa-kun is actually someone who lacks maternal love, right?" With an incredibly 'kind' smile, Kushida Kikyo's hand quietly rested on Sakura Airi's shoulder. Feeling her body tremble slightly, the corners of her mouth curled up even more: "Tell me, if Sakura-san were to become Asakusa-kun's mother, wouldn't that give him a reason to delete those 'mother' photos that shouldn't exist?"

She was talking complete nonsense.

......

Chapter 160 Super Serious (Two Chapters Combined)

These words are full of errors and omissions; anyone would dismiss them as incoherent ramblings.

In fact, this was indeed the ramblings of someone who was delirious.