CH ss - 9

SS 9: The Boyfriend Whose Girlfriend Accidentally Discovered the Porn Stash in the Room

Translated by: chocolalaEdited by: Seiryuu

“An empty literature club room sure feels different,” I murmured alone in the quiet literature club room.

Today, Yuzu was caught by her friend while in the classroom, so I came here first…. But now I’m at a loss for what I wanted to do. Usually, I would spend my time playing RPGs but recently the game I played was the one played together with Yuzu. I didn’t feel like turning on that game and playing by myself.

“Oh, right. I didn’t bother with it all this while, but isn’t this the literature club? Let’s read some books.”

This might be the first time I actually thought of using this room for its true purpose. I then went to the bookshelves in the deeper part of the room to salvage books.

“There’re a lot of books on science fiction and mystery. Should I go for Holmes…..Hmm?”

Suddenly among the neatly lined books, there was a book that exuded a very different vibe. When I tried taking it out….. Hmmm, I see. This was the type of book where nude women were blatantly displayed on its cover.

“Isn’t this porn….” Moreover, this was from more than ten years ago. A mysterious ancient weapon was thus excavated from here.

“Hmm… What should I do with this?” It was an option to just quietly return it to its original place, but if by chance, it was discovered by Yuzu, it could lead to weird misunderstandings.

The best option would be to dispose of it…. But taking this out in the first place had its own risks. It turned out that I excavated a troublesome dud shell.

Whilst I was troubled as to how I should deal with it, I could hear footsteps from the corridor as if alerting me that I was running out of time. The same time that I thought ‘Oh no!’, the door slammed open.

“Yo-ho! Sorry I’m late, Yamato-kun!”

“Oh, um. There’s no helping it if you were with friends.” I responded with an almost high-pitched voice.

However, under my uniform, I was covered in cold sweats.

—This was bad. On the spur of the moment, I hid the porn book on my back, under my uniform.

“Then, let’s play games. Today should be the sub-event before facing the next boss, right?” Yuzu set up the game console in a good mood, while I desperately racked my brain over here.

What should I do? Try to find a chance to return the book to the shelf? But, if following that, the book fell and made a sound, she surely would find something suspicious.

“Yes, set up done~” Yuzu already finished setting up the console while I was still at a loss.

Urkk… I would look unnatural if I didn’t start the game here. I had to give up returning this to the shelf.

“Su-sub-event? Alright, let’s try our best.”

“Yeah. The event requires a lot of money[efn_money]She’s referring to in-game money[/efn_game], let’s earn a lot of money today.”

It just had to be today that she was strangely motivated. Usually, she didn’t like these trivial activities like leveling-up and going around to earn money.

“Oh yes, Yamato-kun. While we’re at it, as we’re going around to earn money, let’s check out if there are any treasure chests.”

“Urmmm… I don’t think that’s a good idea. If you try to look into things you normally don’t look at, there’s a big chance unnecessary things will come out. Something like ancient weapons or so.”

“What’s with that advice that feels so real? But well, without referring to the strategy sites, it would be very difficult to collect everything? Wisdom left by the precedents sure is very helpful.”

“You thought so, right? But even precedents can be so dumb at most times. They even left something that can’t be considered as wisdom.”

“What’s with you since just now, all these words that feel so real?”

Ignoring the baffled Yuzu, we bit by bit went on to do things that earn us money. Then, after tens of minutes, at just where it was just nice to pause in the game, Yuzu let go of the controller.

“Phew…. that was tiring. Let’s take a break. I think my shoulders are getting stiff from being in the posture for so long.” Yuzu stretched to relax the muscles on her back.

To prevent the porn book from slipping down from my back, I didn’t change my posture the slightest bit, my back muscles felt so stiff.

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“Hmm, it feels nice when I stretch them like this. Yamato-kun, how about you stretch too?” Hearing her suggestion, cold sweats ran down my back again.

If I move that much, just as my belt loosen a bit, the porn would surely slip.

“I-I’m alright.”

“Eh? But Yamato-kun, you’re constantly in that posture all this while. You’ll get stiff shoulders.”

“It-it’s okay. You see, it’s my hobby to have stiff shoulders.”

“What kind of hobby is that!?”

“Or should I say, playing RPG is also for the sake of getting stiff shoulders.”

“Is there even such a thing!? I don’t want to criticize other people’s hobbies, but that’s way too niche!”

“That’s why you don’t have to bother.”

“O-okay…. I got it.”

Either she was respecting my will, or she was simply taken aback so she wanted to avoid the topic altogether (probably the latter), Yuzu just let me be. At that moment, from inside Yuzu’s blazer, her smartphone rang.

“Oh sorry, I’ll take this call.”

“Ow, okay.”

“Hello.” Yuzu took the smartphone, and with her back to me, she went to talk on the phone.

…….Finally one in a million chance!

I surreptitiously walked away from Yuzu, and returned the porn book on the shelf. At that instant, I was enveloped with a sense of liberation.

“Phewww….. At long last, the load is off my shoulders.” I stretched my back to an arc, and relieved all the tensions inside.

“Eh, now you’re stretching. Didn’t you say you like to have stiff shoulders?” Yuzu had finished her call when I didn’t realize it, and with an astonished face, she looked at me doing muscle stretching.

“Hey, hey… of course, such a person doesn’t exist. Stiff shoulders are humanity’s common enemy.”

My girlfriend sure said some strange stuff.

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“But isn’t that totally different from what you just said!? Isn’t stiff shoulders your hobby!?”

“Yuzu…. Let’s think calmly. Is there even a person with such a hobby in this world?”

“Of course, there aren’t!”

“Right? If you think normally, you’ve figured it out earlier.”

“Of course I would! But what is this unreconciled feeling I have!” At times, she would blurt out inexplicable things like this, but that’s one of my girlfriend’s charms.

“Alright, let’s continue the game.” I managed to relax the muscles in my body and was about to return to the game, but suddenly my hands were stopped by Yuzu.

“Ah, wait. I have something to find.”

“Um, what’s wrong?” I tilted my head and in front of me, Yuzu headed towards the bookshelf of all places.

“The call just now was from my friend who’s on the library committee. She told me there are some books that have been left unaccounted for since a few years ago after they were lent out. Then she asked me to tell her if I happen to find them inside the school, so firstly I thought of checking the bookshelves here.”

What a request at such bad timing…..!

“Oh, is that so? They must have it hard too. Well, while we’re here, I’ll help out too. Hmm, how about I’m in charge of searching the bookshelf and Yuzu go look somewhere else?” I tried my hardest to distance Yuzu from this dangerous zone, but her gaze didn’t leave the bookshelf at all.

“Oh, you don’t need to. I think if they’re here, they should only be on this bookshelf. Well, if they cannot be found here, I’ll just ask other people.”

Ugh… She was so formidable. However, it was only a matter of time before Yuzu would discover the existence of that ancient weapon.

“I got it. If that’s the case, let’s divide the shelf area and each of us searches through half of it. I’ll search the top half and Yuzu search the bottom half.” If things already come to this, I could only opt for the next best measure. At least, I’ll be in-charge of the part where the porn book was hidden; this would decrease the risk for it to be discovered.

“Okay. Then, please.” Yuzu held no doubts as she agreed to my proposal.

Phew…. I still had a small hope left.

“Urmmm…….”

Books from the library had ‘For borrowing’ stickers on them, so even if the titles were unknown beforehand, we could know which books were from the library. I skimmed through the upper shelf but I didn’t find any book with ‘For borrowing’ stickers on them.

“There aren’t any here. How about down there?”

“There’s also none on my part.”

‘Alright, this should sum up our search on the bookshelf.’ I just thought of that, but I was too naive.

“Then next, how about we swap the place we check to re-confirm? That way, we can be more sure.” Yuzu uttered something really inconvenient to me.

“Is-is that even necessary?”

“Yeah. It’s possible that we would overlook it when only one person searches for them. It’s not like it takes a long time to do it after all.” As soon as she said that, she returned her gaze to the bookshelf.

‘Th-this is bad!’

“Yuzu!” I grabbed her shoulders, and forcefully made her face me instead.

“Wh-what?” My sudden action made Yuzu frozen with her eyes wide open.

I rested my hands on both her shoulders, and stared into her eyes.

“Trust me. I already checked here very carefully as I want to be useful to Yuzu. So, won’t you trust me on that?”

“I-I got it, but….. you’re so close. And, you see our pose right now, can really cause misunderstandings….” It was unknown what she was thinking about, but Yuzu’s face flushed red as she averted her gaze.

Whoa! The spot she just averted her gaze to was exactly where the porn book was!

“Yu-Yuzu! Please look properly into my eyes!”

A room bathed in duskglow with only the two of us inside. The situation where Yuzu, trapped with the bookshelf behind her and me, grabbing her shoulders and locking my gaze with her.

“Ya-Yamato-kun….. Today you seem so proactive…. Eh, but you can’t, to suddenly bring us to a kissing situation like this…. Not like I dread it, but this needs mental preparation…..” Yuzu burbled something abashedly, but I was way too anxious whether she already noticed the porn book or not, so whatever she said didn’t enter my ears.

Anyway, I had to bring her away from here. However, Yuzu stiffed her body out of nervousness, she didn’t seem to budge at all.

“Yuzu…. Relax your body, entrust yourself to me.” ‘And I’ll move you away from here as soon as possible.’

“Al-Alright…..” Her thought was beyond me, but with a face like she was ready, she relaxed her body and closed her eyes.

‘Hey, if you close your eyes, isn’t it difficult for me to move you? Whatever, I’ll just take you by force.’ I wrapped my arms around her back, with a half-hugging pose, I was about to bring-

“I-I still need to prepare mentally!”

—Like a prawn, Yuzu suddenly darted backwards, and that totally ruined my plan. Her sudden jump was so strong that Yuzu’s back smacked the shelf behind her.

“Ah……!” I immediately paled, but it was too late for me to do anything.

The porn book that I just roughly slipped back on the shelf couldn’t withstand the impact from Yuzu’s hitting the shelf, and fell down to the floor with a flop.

“Wah, I made a book fall…. Huh?” Yuzu hurriedly went to pick up the book that fell down from her impact, but the instant she saw the cover, her hands stopped.

‘What the….. Is there no god in this world?’

“What’s this?” With a zero degree cold voice, Yuzu picked up the book and showed it to me.

Not yet. This was no time to panic. Even if she discovered it, it had no relation to me!

“Who, who knows? It looks old. Maybe some alumni left this behind?” I restrained my voice from getting high-pitched, and feigned ignorance.

“But just now, Yamato-kun, you looked over this shelf, right? You should’ve noticed this then, didn’t you?”

Ah, my heart hurts. Murderers who had to confront Conan or Kindaichi1 must’ve felt like what I was feeling now.

“No, I only checked if the books have ‘For borrowing’ stickers or not.”

“This book, it’s strangely warm. Something like human warmth…. No way, the reason why you didn’t want to stretch your body was-!”

What a detective! Here, a famous detective was just born!

Yuzu, who just realized the truth of the matter, blushed as she glared over here, “Yamato-kun, you lewd! What were you hiding in secret!”

“It’s a misunderstanding!”

“Toyotomi Hidekichi of the porn books world! Even if you warm this thing like straw sandals, you won’t even get promoted, okay!”2

“I’m not aiming to be such a terrible kind of ruler of a nation!”

“Tell me, which page is your favourite!”

“Is this a shame play!?”

—I used up the whole time after school just to clear up Yuzu’s misunderstanding.

chocolala: Yuzu actually looking forward to being kissed…… and omg, no wonder i felt it took me a long time to tl this, it’s way longer than usual too.

Footnotes

Both referring to detective comicsThis refers to the famous story of a historical figure, Toyotomi Hidekichi warming up straw sandals for his master, and he got praised and promoted