It was during a break in the physical fitness test.
“Did you sleep with Takasegawa-kun already, Arisa-san?”
“Kehou!”
At the question of her friend, Nagiri Tenka, Arisa spewed out the contents of her water bottle.
While coughing and wheezing, she glared at Tenka.
Her white skin was slightly tinged with red.
“P-please don’t ask me strange questions all of a sudden!”
“So, did you sleep with him?”
She was asked in a curious tone.
Arisa looked away and answered with a little hesitation.
“No, I mean… not yet…”
“You stayed over, but you haven’t done it yet?”
“No, well… as high school students, we thought we should maintain a platonic relationship for a while…”
Then Arisa puffed out her chest slightly.
“But we kissed, you know?”
“…Even if you proudly say that”
She was annoyed that her proudest step (for Arisa) was denied.
Then she gave a small snort.
“Since you say that, have you ever done anything like that, Tenka-san?”
“No, never…”
“I’m ‘above’ then.”
“No, that doesn’t make you above or below…”
“I’ll wait for you above.”
Tenka was annoyed by Arisa’s smug face.
So, she silently gave Arisa a small poke on her side.
“Hey, please stop it… hya… ah.”
Tickled, Arisa grabbed Tenka’s arm and pressed against the opposite side.
She easily pushed Tenka down.
“Damn, you strong-armed gorilla… hya ha ha ha…”
“You’re just weak, Tenka-san. Here, why don’t you say something… hya!”
Arisa’s body as she physically mounted Tenka came to a halt.
It was because someone had grabbed her by the neck.
Arisa was rather sensitive, so this was enough to make her unable to move.
“You seem to be doing something interesting.”
“Please let us join you!”
The two people who said that from behind Arisa were Ayaka and Chiharu.
Incidentally, Ayaka was the one holding onto Arisa’s neck.
“N-no …It’s nothing big… Yeah, I’ll leave it at that for now.”
When Arisa realized that she was going to be attacked by three people, namely Tenka, Ayaka, and Chiharu, she decided to retreat as soon as possible.
Arisa does not fight against those she cannot win, and she does not fight battles she cannot win.
“So what were you talking about?”
Chiharu’s question was answered by both Arisa and Tenka respectively.
“We talked about how far Arisa had gotten with Takasegawa-kun.”
“When I told her it had progressed to kissing, she made fun of me… Even though she’s never done it before.”
“It was Arisa-san was the one who mounted on me for something trivial.”
“You’re just paranoid.”
“You were smug. You were smirking.”
“No, I wasn’t.”
“You were.”
“I wasn’t.”
“You were.”
“I wasn’t.”
“You were.”
“I wasn’t.”
“You were (wasn’t)”
“Is it Kodama?”
“No, it’s Hikari.” (TN: Kodama & Hikari are two bullet train services in Japan with different speeds. Ayaka & Chiharu are comparing Arisa & Tenka’s arguments with them I guess.)
When Ayaka and Chiharu heard what Tenka and Arisa had to say, they nodded their heads in understanding.
And they sighed in exasperation.
“It’s like an acorn race…”
“It’s hard for me to keep up with… It’s unbearable…”
The two of them pretended to start crying.
Tenka and Arisa were pissed off and wanted to say something back, but decided not to.
The two of them don’t fight opponents they can’t beat, and they don’t fight battles they can’t win.
“So, all you did was kissing.”
“I thought you two were already going at it all the time.”
“G-going at it you say…”
Arisa blushed as she imagined the act.
She could imagine herself doing such things with Yuzuru …and she had done so before, but it didn’t feel very realistic.
But when she thought about it calmly, it was too small a step.
It’s not unusual for a slightly more advanced elementary school student to have at least a light kiss.
To be proud of it in high school was certainly… a shameful story.
…Still, though, Arisa thought, she had beaten Tenka.
“By the way, how far have you two gotten… or rather, have you been doing it?”
Tenka asked Ayaka.
The fact that Ayaka and Chiharu are a so-called lesbian couple, and that they have a rather strange relationship with Soichiro, was something that needed no further confirmation.
“Yeah, I’m too embarrassed to tell you…”
Chiharu answered Tenka’s question coquettishly.
Arisa and Tenka could guess that the two of them were kings of the field.
“Just the other day I sent Soichiro-kun a video of me and Chiharu doing it, you know ‘Netorare video letter’ play.”