Chapter 190: Disaster!

Exhausted from all the work last night, he was finally chased off to sleep by Nanami after five in the morning, and then—

He actually wasn’t late!

Himekoji Akito had woken up before the deadline.

Well, all thanks to Nanami yelling right in his ear to wake♂ him up…

His eardrums were practically bursting, seriously!

Nanami, you’re amazing!

It felt nice not having to wake up super early for once.

No bento to make, and no Mashiro to worry about.

Nanami had handled everything expertly.

In such a good mood, he figured he’d reluctantly award Nanami the title of “the perfect housewife material” today…

Hang on, slip of the tongue! He meant “the great girl-next-door”!

Thinking about it, Nanami really was impressive.

Recalling his and Mashiro’s first time dealing with this… it had been pretty much disaster-level…

But Nanami, it seemed, didn’t encounter any such problems.

Mashiro was perfectly managed by the girl, appearing before Himekoji Akito neatly dressed and proper.

“You! Hurry up! Get out of bed! Wash up!”

Today, it was Himekoji Akito who was being rushed.

So, the latter scrambled to get ready at top speed, and then the trio charged out the door, dashing towards school…

Wait a minute, “trio”? Like hell we were a family!

Akito almost bought into that idea himself.

…

On the way.

“Stop falling asleep while running!”

Akito was truly amazed by Mashiro; the girl could drift off anytime, anywhere.

If he hadn’t reacted quickly and grabbed her just now, she would have totally faceplanted and probably looked like an idiot.

Time was tight. Akito would have preferred taking a cab, but Nanami, ever mindful of saving, had stopped him without a second thought.

Hence the scene of the frantic family trio sprinting for their lives.

“Because Akito wouldn’t let me sleep last night.”

“Don’t just shamelessly dump the blame on me! Who exactly was stopping who from sleeping last night?!”

Akito was stunned by Mashiro’s sheer audacity.

“Enough! Both of you, shut up! From now on, neither of you are allowed to be alone together in a room late at night!”

Ultimately, it was Nanami who restored order.

Himekoji Akito and Mashiro both clamped their mouths shut.

Well, for about a second—

“Uh, Nanami… that outfit you’re wearing…”

One second later, Akito couldn’t help but speak up again after inadvertently noticing something.

“I told you to shut up!”

The girl flushed bright red, squirming awkwardly as she scolded him loudly.

The slightly small uniform… or rather, the decidedly large chest♂ emphasized by her squirming movements, looked even more prominent.

Nanami’s own clothes had met their demise in yesterday’s unbelievable Clothing Explosion incident…

So now, Nanami was wearing Mashiro’s spare school uniform.

“Shut up shut up shut up!”

Nanami was furious and embarrassed.

“Okay.”

Akito replied, but alas, this attempt at silence also lasted less than five seconds.

Because a sudden gust of wind swept down the sloping path.

The wind blew Nanami’s skirt up…

Wait, that wasn’t the point! The point was it blew Mashiro’s skirt up too!

“Shiina! You!”

Akito suddenly realized something utterly disastrous and grabbed Mashiro, who was right in front of him.

“Hmm?”

Mashiro was forced to stop, turning her head. She tilted it slightly, looking sideways at Akito, her dignified and beautiful face looking as adorable as ever.

“What’s up? Akito, we’ll be late.”

The words “we’ll be late” coming from Mashiro’s mouth… felt incredibly strange no matter how he thought about it…

Where was this sense of urgency usually, huh?!

No, getting sidetracked—

“You… you, you!”

Stumbling over his words, Akito suddenly found himself at a loss for how to phrase it.

“Me?”

Mashiro asked back.

“Why aren’t you wearing any underwear?!”

He finally got it out!

Honestly, he felt a surge of relief getting that off his chest.

“What are you yelling about?! Keep your voice down, you dummy!”

He was immediately scolded by Nanami beside him.

Meanwhile, thanks to this scene, the surrounding pedestrians who heard the commotion turned to cast weird looks in their direction.

Only then did Akito belatedly feel the awkwardness, hurriedly covering his face with his hand.

“Because Akito didn’t help me put it on.”

In this world, there actually existed a strange creature who felt zero embarrassment even when gawked at by nosy passersby!

Yes, it was Mashiro!

The girl stood calmly before Akito, answering in her usual, matter-of-fact tone.

“You didn’t make her wear underwear?”

Akito immediately turned his head to Nanami, ready to demand an answer.

How could you not tell her to put underwear on?

A big problem was going to happen!

Wait! Were you always the one helping Mashiro put on her underwear in the past?

But Nanami completely ignored Himekoji’s complaint and quickly caught the key point in Mashiro’s words.

“Yes.”

“Of course not!”

Mashiro and Himekoji spoke at the same time.

“Is it yes or not?”

Nanami pressed, frowning.

“No.”

“Yes.”

They clashed again.

“Shiina, shut up!”

Himekoji couldn’t take it anymore.

“You’re the pervert who should shut up!”

But Nanami was even more fed up!

Nanami was almost going crazy from these two and their unclear, messy relationship.

By the way, this stupid conversation seemed familiar—it happened just yesterday too.

“We can’t put it off until next month anymore! By then, you might even have a baby!”

Nanami had planned to move to Himekoji’s house next month, but now, it was clear that waiting until next month would ruin everything!

“Have a baby?! What are you talking about? Don’t just start such adult topics!”

Himekoji frowned and shouted loudly about it.

“Adult topics? Before you complain like that, take a look at yourself! You two are already doing adult things every day!”

“No way to argue.”

Mashiro nodded along in agreement.

No way to argue?

Pfft—!

Himekoji almost sprayed salt soda all over Mashiro.

What a betrayal! Impossible to guard against!

No way, he couldn’t stand it!

He glared at Mashiro and spoke seriously, yelling hard—

“No way to argue, my foot! Stop making it worse, you dummy!”

“Akito is the dummy.”

“I feel like I’m the dummy for being with you two…”

As she spoke, Nanami slumped her shoulders, completely defeated.

Cheer up! You can’t give up, Aoyama!

Himekoji immediately threw her a “gentle” encouraging look—

“Mashiro is up to you. I’m going to buy some underwear!”

He really couldn’t let Mashiro go to school with nothing on underneath.

If she did that, he’d be thinking about it all day!

Plus, if someone saw her, what would he do?!

After saying that, Himekoji dashed away.

…

Himekoji never thought he would end up late that day.

He ran to the nearest supermarket, bought Mashiro some underwear as fast as he could, but when he ran back, Hiratsuka-sensei caught him right then.

“Ohh, what’s that in your hand? Women’s underwear? How like Himekoji, starting the day so full of energy and happily doing pervy things~~”

It was as if she was waiting for him to be late. Hiratsuka-sensei eyed the item in Himekoji’s hand with great interest.

Uh-oh!

He ran out too fast and forgot to put the underwear in his bag first!

Himekoji winced.

…