I Accidentally Sent a Love Letter to the School's Most Prestigious Young Lady Instead of My Childhood Friend, and Now She's Bowing to Me, Asking, "Please Date Me—On the Premise of Marriage!" - 16

“… What about me?”

The response to Airi came from a sudden voice.

Startled, I looked over to see the door opening just as Shion-san was entering.

“Your voices are carrying into the hallway, you know… Airi-san, was it? Isn’t that careless?”

Shion-san stepped inside and carefully closed the door.

Hare was the first to react.

“Why is Shion… coming here…?”

“I haven’t walked home with Kisaragi-san for a while, so I thought I’d stop by after club activities today…”

“I see… What timing…”

Hare wore an awkward expression—somewhere between embarrassed and uncomfortable—at having caused trouble in the literary club room, her own territory. After her, Airi continued.

“Hey, Shion-senpai, did you know? Kisaragi-senpai and Haru-buchou here, they…”

Airi cut her words short there and turned her face toward me.

It felt like silent pressure—a threat to expose me. She was probably trying to intimidate me to gain an advantage.

But to Airi, who was watching for my reaction, Shion-san declared without changing her expression in the slightest.

“I know. Of course I know everything about what Kisaragi-san and Haru-san do in this place.”

“……”

Airi’s expression stiffened at having her secret exposed.

“You know…?”

“Yes. They hug and kiss, don’t they? They probably want to go further, and the private room provides the perfect environment, but both Kisaragi-san and Haru-san are principled people, so they likely stop before going all the way.”

As she said this, Shion-san looked at me and smiled with satisfaction.

I broke out in a cold sweat—no, a greasy sweat, dripping relentlessly. Like a frog stared down by a snake.

Airi glared at Shion-san, who maintained her perfectly cool expression.

“So what? Is this your officially sanctioned hookup room?”

“That’s right. That’s the agreement, the contract we have. Haru-san and I have even settled who gets to take Kisaragi-san’s virginity first.”

“……”

Airi’s face showed she had no retort to Shion-san’s words.

Then Shion-san strode right up to me and, as if to show off to Airi, sealed my mouth with her own.

She continued kissing me for several seconds. After pulling her lips away and releasing me as I gasped for air, she glanced at Airi and said, “How about that?”

“…The last part about settling who gets Kisaragi-san’s first time was a lie, though.”

With a serious face, she declared to Airi, as if telling her not to interfere with the three of us.

“Everything else is with all three of our consent.”

Haru reacted to Shion-san, who was looking down on the entire room.

“Shion, you knew…? Even that I couldn’t resist and kissed Yuu here…”

“I can tell, just by watching Kisaragi-san and Haru-san. After all, even if it’s temporary, I am his ‘wife.'”

“But you seem pretty okay with it. Aren’t you angry? At me, or at Yuu for seeming like he’s two-timing?”

“That’s the agreement from the start. The official wife is Haru-san, and I’m just a time-limited mistress.”

When Shion-san gave us a faint smile, Airi reacted sensitively this time.

“I’ll tell everyone! I’ll tell all the boys at school everything!!”

“Go ahead. Feel free. We’ll just do as we please.”

“I’ll tell them!! I’ll tell them everything!! I’ll…”

I wonder what made her so sad. Though she’d been hurling insults, Airi soon started sniffling and crying.

“Everyone’s making fun of me… Nothing goes my way, I can’t get anything…”

Shion-san silently watched Airi for a while, then gently approached and softly embraced her shoulders.

“That was too much. I could tell something was wrong at club from Kisaragi-san’s behavior… I might have been a little too worried…”

Airi still wouldn’t stop crying, sobbing with hiccups.

Shion-san, holding her as if carrying her, left the clubroom together with Haru.