CH ss - 29

SS 29: The Couple On a Diet

Translated by: chocolalaEdited by: soi been toe-few

In the literature club room as usual, Yuzu—who arrived later than me— suddenly yelled, “I’ll be on a diet today!!” as soon as she entered the club room.

“You always say things out of the blue.” I was connecting the cables of the console to the TV in preparation to play games, but I soon frowned as I had a feeling this would be in vain.

“Well, I did a bit of thinking; I’ve been playing a lot of games lately and I think it’s not healthy. In order to have fun playing games, I have to maintain a healthy body!” Yuzu spoke of her wonderful philosophy with a sparkling smile.

I had no reason to object to her, so I simply nodded to Yuzu.

“I see. Now you mention it, we also had our physical measurement today. So, have you put on weight?”

“Just why did you have to say that so bluntly?!”

Her mouth was saying all those flamboyant things, yet her true reason was exactly this.

“Calm down there, plumped-up Yuzu. I also don’t wish for my girlfriend to be fat, if you wanna go on a diet, I’ll follow along.”

“Don’t say I’m plump! In the first place, it’s because I go along with you to play RPG that I move less and become fat! Yamato-kun, you should take responsibility!” Yuzu pointed a finger at me, her face red in rage.

“When you say that, it surely makes me feel awful… Alright, I’ll properly take the responsibility. But it’s strange that I did not gain weight even though I play games as much as you…”

“I don’t need to hear that last bit of information! But just why is Yamato-kun not getting fat?! I got fat here, you should be considerate and also get fat along with me!”

Hey, what a ridiculous demand she just made there. Somehow, this thing had caused severe psychological damage on Yuzu, more than I had thought.

“I got it. I can’t get fat with you, but I can put effort into losing weight with you. Anyways, let’s exercise?” I appeasingly said to her and she slowly calmed down.

She pouted before replying, “Thanks.”

“So, what are we going to do? Aerobics? Muscle training?”

“I don’t think aerobic exercises are possible to be done here. That leaves us with only muscle training.”

“In that case, maybe it’s better to do squats or back muscles training?”

Since back muscles and thigh muscles made up a large mass of one’s body, it was certainly easier to increase the muscle mass here compared to abdominal muscles. Especially by doing squats.

“Squats? Okay.” Yuzu nodded motivatedly.

“Now, without bending your back, keep your eyes straight ahead and bend your knees. When you bend your knees, try not to go further than your toes. Yes, one, two, three.” I gave Yuzu the instructions by doing it myself, to show her by example.

“Th-This is difficult.”

Although she was confused by the unfamiliar training, Yuzu was able to do reasonably well, perhaps due to her natural athletic ability. I made her do twenty squats for the time being before taking a break; she panted as she sat down on a chair.

“So hard… So squats are actually this hard.”

“It’s the king of muscle training after all… Experts will do it while bearing weights, it’s even harder. So, what? You wanna try while holding a dictionary or something?”

When I gave her that suggestion, Yuzu repeatedly shook her head.

“Totally impossible. But Yamato-kun, you look like you’re used to this. You’re like an instructor!”

“Even if I look like this, I belonged to a sports club during middle school. We had to do things like this a lot, so my body just remembers.”

Especially muscle training, there were some negative memories I’d rather not recall.

“I see. I guess you can’t forget the moves that are ingrained in your body, even after you’ve retired.”

“Something like that. I sometimes still do the exercises I learned back then to relax in between playing RPGs.”

“What do you say? You’re telling me that you’ve been exercising alone while I’ve been gaining weight? You traitor!”

“Why are you blaming me…? Anyways, the break is over. Let’s continue.” I gave her a cold stare in response to her unreasonable berating and told her to resume the workout.

“Hey, this workout is great, but why don’t we find something that involves both of us? If we do it together, it might be less disheartening than doing it alone,” Yuzu suggested. Perhaps, she felt squats were too much to bear.

“I don’t mind, so what’ll it be? Group acrobatics?”

Imagining the two of us forming a human pyramid right here, I felt dispirited.

“How can I lose weight that way?! We need something more, um, there must be workouts that can be done by a couple! Let’s check them out a bit,” Yuzu said as she brought out her smartphone.

Honestly, I felt like we had digressed from our original motive, but it was just like Yuzu to enjoy anything to the fullest. I had no intention to object, so I peeked at the phone screen from behind her.

“Double air chair… It says here we form an air chair with our backs to each other. Wanna try this one, Yuzu?”

“After doing squats just now, this one is a bit… Rather than that, how about this one? The boyfriend doing push-ups with the girlfriend on his back! If you can do this, I’ll have a better impression of you!”

“What’s the point of me doing that? The one who has gotten fat is you!”

“You’re absolutely right, but don’t ever use the word ‘fat’ again!”

The list had a lot of stretches we could do in pairs, but when it came to muscle training, they were prone to be a lot more acrobatic.

“Most of the things here are not exactly what we can do.”

“Let’s go check other sites.”

On the browser, she clicked ‘back’ and scanned the next sites in the search suggestions. There, we came upon an article with a catchy headline—’The First Thing to Check When Dieting with Your Partner!’

“Oh, what’s this?”

“This sounds just what we’re searching for. If it’s interesting, let’s try!”

Attracted by the headline, we went to check the content of the article.

If you want to lose weight as a couple, this is the way to do it—Sexercise! Do xxx in bed! It’s a natural way of exercising while making sure you love each other.

——We froze for a while when the article appeared with a vivid suggestion.

“…”

“…”

Awkward. Totally awkward.

Yuzu stared at the article in her smartphone, sparing no gaze at me at all. She was totally conscious about it. But, she couldn’t bear to look back at me, because she would be at a loss for words if we made any eye contact. I totally understood how she felt, to the point it hurt. Why? Because I felt exactly the same.

But, when I thought about it, this kind of article was a given. That indeed was a vigorous exercise. However, as a fake couple, it was still too much information. I really wished the site would cut us some slack or something.

In the stiff atmosphere, I was overcome by a feeling of helplessness and courageously opened my mouth, “Um, thinking about it, I guess muscle training is better done by oneself.”

“…I think so too,” Yuzu responded and she stored the phone back in her bag.

Afterwards, silence reigned between us again for a few seconds.

Then…

“…Alright, let’s do some workouts! Yamato-kun, please teach me some secret muscle training you learned from when you were on the basketball team!”

“…Okay! I’ll be strict, so be prepared!”

We pretended the thing a few seconds before had never happened.

I spent the rest of the day torturing my body so that no needless thoughts would come to mind. I would later suffer from sore muscles for a while.

chocolala: Haha, awkward!!!