She Became Distressed After I Stopped Being Restrained and Started Interacting with Others - Chapter 36

Honoka’s hand grips my shoulder through my uniform with crushing force.

Enough strength to cause pain.

“…You said you weren’t going anywhere on your day off, right?”

A low, trembling voice.

Yet her unwavering words pierce my ears without mercy.

“You said you weren’t going anywhere, right? I trusted you, Yuna.”

More strength flows into the hand gripping my shoulder.

But more suffocating than that pain is Honoka’s expression before me.

“Then why… why were you at the aquarium?”

—My heart leaped violently.

“Why… with that girl?”

Honoka’s gaze shifts to the edge of my bed.

Where a small penguin plush sits.

The one I bought with Shiori at the aquarium—.

—Ah.

The moment I follow her gaze, the air freezes.

“…That.”

Her tightly clenched fingers tremble slightly.

“…Did you buy matching ones with her?”

A wavering voice that could be either anger or sorrow.

But the next moment—

“…Yuna, why…?”

As if everything she’d been holding back came flooding out at once, she rapid-fires questions.

“Why did you lie? Why were you with someone other than me? Why do you have matching things with her? Hey, even though I’m here?”

Her face draws closer.

To a distance with no escape.

“I’ve been enduring it all this time, thinking only of you.”

“I’ve been so lonely, yet you were having fun with that girl.”

“Aren’t you mine alone, Yuna?”

Ragged breathing. Trembling voice.

Honoka’s fingers grab the collar of my uniform.

And then, her lips approach right before my eyes.

“After all, you were planning to discard me and switch to that girl.”

Honoka’s voice seeps out low and pained.

It wasn’t certainty, nor was it doubt—just words spilled out from pure emotion.

“That’s not it, I didn’t mean—”

Just as I started to speak.

“No, no no no no no no no no no no no no no no…!!”

Honoka’s voice instantly filled the room’s atmosphere.

The hand gripping my shoulder trembles, tightly clenching the fabric of my uniform.

“It can’t be, I can’t accept you discarding me…! I’ll absolutely never allow that…!”

Though her voice shakes, her eyes cling to something, capturing only me and refusing to let go.

More terrifying than her words was that gaze.

“I don’t want to be taken by that girl, you’re mine, mine alone…!”

The next moment, my breath stopped.

—My mouth was sealed.

Strongly, fiercely, deeply.

As if to confirm my very existence, Honoka’s lips press against mine.

No room to breathe.

A kiss bordering on madness, dominating even deep in my throat.

This isn’t just about taking.

This is meant to carve everything into me—.

“…Yuna is mine… mine alone… absolutely…!”

Right after our lips part, Honoka murmurs lowly with ragged breath.

Her hand captures me again.

As if declaring she won’t let me escape anymore—.