Chapter 496: This Is as Far as Dad Can Help You
Chapter 496: This Is as Far as Dad Can Help You
They hit traffic halfway through their journey.
The Female Teacher had a restless personality and couldn’t stand this sort of thing. Feeling irritated, she immediately pulled out a cigarette from her pocket and tried to light it.
Luckily, Himekoji’s reflexes were quick—
“Sensei, no!”
While shouting loudly, he hurriedly leaned forward from the back seat and snatched the cigarette away.
This made the Female Teacher unhappy.
“What now? Himekoji?”
She frowned, annoyed that Himekoji was making a fuss.
“Sensei, think about the baby! Don’t smoke right now, okay?”
Item two of early pregnancy precautions—
Stay away from cigarettes and alcohol.
Secondhand smoke counts too!
Especially now, in this enclosed car space. Inhaling secondhand smoke from one cigarette was like smoking fifteen cigarettes at once!
Nicotine and PCDD in cigarettes could cause pregnant women to face a high risk of miscarriage or fetal abnormalities.
Though this was Himekoji’s first time being a dad and he knew nothing, luckily he could learn this stuff online.
“Think about the baby? What baby?”
Hearing the words that Himekoji blurted out in his panic, Hiratsuka-sensei froze.
Then, Himekoji froze too.
Crap! He’d slipped up!
His heart dropped instantly.
“Baby?”
“Baby!”
“Baby?!”
Yukinoshita, Yuigahama, and Hanjo Ayame all turned into parrots, repeating the word together. Their eyes fixed firmly on Himekoji.
“I… uh… no…”
Himekoji’s brain short-circuited for a moment. He stammered out words that even he didn’t understand.
“Akito! You… and Sensei…”
Yuigahama suddenly spoke up, letting her wild imagination run freely. She looked back and forth between Himekoji and Hiratsuka-sensei, her face filled with disbelief.
So that shock and surprise spread to the Female Teacher in the next instant.
Hiratsuka Shizuka opened her mouth dumbly, making a stiff and slow movement to touch her lower belly.
“D-Do I have one?”
“Have one?”
Even the Female Teacher herself said so. It seemed this was practically confirmed.
Yukinoshita’s face turned frighteningly dark.
“She has one?!”
Hanjo Ayame was flushed red with excitement, thrilled and shouting loudly,
“A huge scoop! A huge scoop!”
Now Rikka was hers!
“No! Nothing happened!”
Himekoji found this misunderstanding utterly ridiculous. Anxiously, he raised his voice to defend himself.
But no one listened!
“Sensei… you two… when did you…”
Yuigahama asked absentmindedly. This situation was too shocking. She probably needed some time to calm down before she could accept it.
No, she’d never accept it, even after calming down!
“You… you’re teacher and student, aren’t you?”
Even Yukinoshita couldn’t pretend to be calm now. Her hands holding the lemon trembled violently.
Compared to Yuigahama and Yukinoshita, the Female Teacher as the person involved astonishingly accepted it right away. A maternal glow suddenly flooded out of her.
“Mama Shizuka” showed a gentle, calm smile full of kindness. She placed both hands over her belly, feeling the rhythm of a fresh, new, tiny life beating within.
“But… teacher and student… that’s forbidden, isn’t it?”
“For the baby, I can stop being a teacher.”
Such is a mother’s love!
Hanjo Ayame was moved.
“Sensei, I support you two! So what if you’re teacher and student? So what if it’s forbidden? You’ll definitely find happiness!”
Hanjo Ayame tightly hugged the sleeping Rikka in her arms. Then, she offered the Female Teacher her sincerest blessing.
See that, Rikka? The man you like is just a beast!
He actually got his teacher pregnant!
He can’t give you happiness!
Only a woman can give another woman happiness!
…
“Hey! Hey! What are you all talking about? I said nothing happened! Nothing! Absolutely nothing! I swear, I didn’t do it! Not that kind of thing!”
The more Himekoji heard, the crazier he felt. This was getting insane!
Why wouldn’t these women listen to him?!
“Himekoji, I’ll listen to you.”
Finally, someone agreed to listen!
This was a good start!
Himekoji looked up enthusiastically. The person saying this was Hiratsuka-sensei.
As she spoke, the Female Teacher took the cigarettes and lighter from her pocket and pushed them all into Himekoji’s hands.
“Himekoji, I’ll listen to you. For the next ten months, I won’t smoke, won’t drink, and will eat on schedule. All for the baby!”
“No! You’re not listening to me at all!”
Himekoji had been mistaken. Nobody listened to what he said!
What damn baby?!
“Sensei, stop talking nonsense. There’s no baby, and we never even did anything that could make a baby!”
Himekoji looked directly at the Female Teacher, sincere and earnest. He was telling the absolute truth!
How could he make them believe him?
“Huh?”
The moment she made eye contact with Himekoji’s genuine, sincere gaze, the Female Teacher instantly froze.
“No child?”
She began to believe him a little.
“Yeah!”
Himekoji nodded with utmost seriousness.
This was a serious matter! A life-and-death matter! No room for jokes!
“Really none?”
“Of course not! If anything, it’s weird that you think there would be! Nothing like that ever happened between us!”
“But… but didn’t you sneak into my place late one night? When I woke up, my underwear was wet, my whole body ached, I couldn’t even teach the next day! I had to take leave.”
“T-that happened?!”
Yukinoshita gasped in shock.
“Akito?!”
Yuigahama stared wide-eyed, instinctively tightening her thighs.
Hanjo Ayame scrutinized Himekoji up and down, eyes filled with surprise, muttering something like “Never knew you had it in you.”
“Also, during that School Trip, didn’t you get me drunk and take me to that love Hotel?”
“That was entirely you drinking yourself drunk!”
Himekoji protested loudly, feeling horribly wronged.
“And that time…”
“Enough! Sensei, please stop!”
Couldn’t Himekoji just admit defeat?
“So… there really wasn’t anything between us?”
The Female Teacher actually seemed rather disappointed.
But disappointment was pointless!
“Absolutely nothing!”
“Then why did you stop me from smoking earlier? Why mention a child?”
“Ah… I meant to say… yes! There’s still a child in the car! Look, Rikka! Rikka’s still asleep! Secondhand smoke is bad!”
Himekoji scrambled to throw out a flimsy excuse.
“Huh?”
The Female Teacher stared blankly for several seconds, finally accepting the wild emotional rollercoaster. Thoroughly deflated, she shot Himekoji a fierce glare.
“Right! Give me back my cigarettes!”
Finally remembering, she aggressively snatched the cigarettes and lighter she’d just surrendered back from Himekoji.
“S-sensei, don’t smoke…”
Himekoji knew he’d touched a nerve, but for the sake of Yukinoshita’s child, he steeled himself to plead again, voice low and humble.
“I won’t smoke now!”
Fortunately, the Female Teacher wasn’t entirely unreasonable, though Himekoji never got a kind look from her after that.
Sigh!
Himekoji could only force a bitter smile.
The newly minted father slumped in the back seat, arms crossed, utterly exhausted.
Child, Daddy could only help you this much.
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