Chapter 87
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She was acting tsundere when we arrived to purchase our swimming suits.
Translated by Dawn
When we came to buy our swimsuits, She was being tsundere.
I wonder if Kiriha and Shisae, who were receiving my karate chops, were feeling this way, too.
“Hey, you’re Kiriha’s Honey, right?”
“Hmm? Yeah, I’m her boyfriend.”
I responded, wondering what had suddenly gotten into her, and she threw a question at me.
“Miina told me that Kiriha used to be a single person, is that true?”
When she told me that, I remembered when I had just met Kiriha.
Back then, Kiriha was dragging her past of being bullied because of her bee ability and said she didn’t need any friends.
She was like me in junior high school, and I couldn’t stand watching her.
“Ah, it’s true, you know. It’s hard to imagine that now, isn’t it?”
“Is it also true that you changed Kiriha?”
This time, she leaned her entire body against me, her voice filled with curiosity.
“That’s an exaggeration. I was just intruding. Because isn’t that so? If people told you to make friends and you did, there would be no longer a loner in the world. The only person who can change themself is always themself.”
Remembering my elementary and junior high school days when Bando and his friends bullied me and isolated me, but I thought that was fine, I explained in a lighthearted way so that things would not get too dark.
“If she got along with Miina and the others because I told her to, it’s just an act, it’s a fake. But Kiriha is different. She befriends Miina and Maria of her own will. That means she has changed by her own will. It’s her growth. Don’t you agree?”
When I asked for her agreement, MATSUMI looked down for a moment and then muttered like a mewling kitten, “He really doesn’t mount up.”
“Mount?”
“Miina told me. You see, ordinary people take credit for other people’s work, pretend it was jointly done by them and themselves, and if that’s not possible, they make it difficult, don’t they? In their minds, it’s like, how can I bring others down to raise myself up? It’s not that there are idiots like that from time to time; I think everyone is like that to a greater or lesser extent.”
“Sadly, yes. Other times, it’s like, you overestimate your own traits and underestimate other people’s traits.”
Those who could study said that the world was academic and made fun of athletes as muscle-brain.
Athletes evaluated people based on their athletic ability and made fun of people in the humanities for being plain and gloomy.
Those who could play music thought of themselves as stars and made fun of office workers as cogs in the wheel of society.
“Yes, yes. Tall people make fun of short people, good-looking people make fun of ugly people, outdoor people make fun of indoor people, and so on. If you’re a model or a professional, it doesn’t matter what your height, face, or hobbies are, they’re meaningless once you’re out in the world.”
I was impressed by her spot-on words.
“You’re so mature.”
“Well, yes. But the more idiots you surround yourself with, the higher your mental age becomes. Ikuo is also very mentally mature. I bet there are a lot of adults who are more childish than you.”
“Like the prime minister?”
“Right.”
She grinned and made an evil face. But Matsumi’s evil face had charm.
“Hm~ Now I know how Kiriha and the others feel. I like you, too.”
“By the others you mean Shisae?”
“What are you talking about, Honey-kun, when everyone calls you Honey? Miina, Shisae, Maiko, Maya, and Maria, all like you so much that I was a little taken aback. I thought this was a harem. And yet you’re Kiriha’s boyfriend, but everyone is all Kiriha’s friend, what kind of a bunch of people are you?”
“We’re just classmates, friends, and coworkers. And everyone calls me Honey because I’m Kiriha’s boyfriend. I’m not their boyfriend.”
That’s why I wanted everyone to stop calling me Honey.
“Wow, you’re all about Kiriha, aren’t you? I like that kind of seriousness in love.”
“Yeah. I never want to do anything that will make Kiriha sad. On the contrary, I want to fulfill Kiriha’s wishes as much as possible. It’s okay for her to be happy now.”
I said musingly, remembering her circumstances, where she had been bullied as a venomous woman just because she had the ability to be a venomous bee.
“This isn’t going to be cheap sympathy, is it?”
She dropped the tone of her voice, and I let out a giggle.
“Of course not. In fact, she’s really cute. She is innocent and cheerful, but devilishly bewitching, sometimes cool, and shows various faces depending on her mood, but all of them are genuine Kiriha, and I can’t see the bottom of her charms.”
“Ah, you mean the ‘Bunjin’ thing.” (+ぶんじん / 分人)
“It was a hot topic for a while, wasn’t it? I think it’s a word that refers to the many facets of a person, right?”
“That’s pretty much it.”
Holding up her index finger, Matsumi began to speak in a slightly teacherly tone.
“People who change their attitude depending on the time and place wonder which one is their true self, or they say that they discovered their true nature when they saw someone they know with a different attitude, but they are wrong. It’s all theirs, all of them are real.”
She said with an inflection in her voice to make it easier to hear.
“There’s no way that my attitude toward my lover and my boss is the same. There’s no way that the tension between playing and working is the same. It’s natural for people to change their attitude depending on the occasion and the person they’re talking to. But it’s not an act. When you’re working, you’re naturally tense, and when you’re on a date with your lover, you’re excited and high-spirited. So it’s natural for their attitude to change. It’s natural to change one’s attitude depending on one’s mood, just as one’s attitude is different when one is happy and when one is angry.”
“That’s right.”
My attitude was different when I was with Kiriha at home and when I was with Bando at school.
“For example, if Taro-san is a serious person at work, but when he hangs out with his friends from college in town, is it true that Taro at work is acting and being playful? No, it’s not like that. He’s just the type of person who is a bit of a jerk but takes his job seriously, isn’t he? On the other hand, wouldn’t it be more of a problem if he used polite and respectful language with his friends from college or acted haughty with his boss at work?”
“I see.”
“In other words, Kiriha is cheerful because she likes you and is in a good mood, and she knows you’ll spoil her, so she spoils you innocently. And when you show her an opening, she will be stimulated to prank you and tease you sexually. But in a pinch, or in the presence of someone who can’t be taken off guard, she becomes more alert and cooler, devoting her resources to observation and analysis. I guess that’s about it.”
“You’re surprisingly knowledgeable.”
I was honestly impressed, but Matsumi was indignant with her mouth.
“You know, I’m in the same special ed class as Kiriha and Miina, right?”
“Oh, yes, that’s right. I thought you were a female lion.”
“What is that supposed to mean!?”
She raised her eyebrows and held up a clenched fist.
I held up my hand to calm her down.
“It’s literally that.”
“You’re too insensitive to girls like a lioness. If it wasn’t me, you would have seriously beaten them up!”
“I said it because it was Matsumi who I was talking to. How can you call a stranger a lioness?”
“Ngguu.”
When I let out a disappointed laugh and showed my teeth, Matsumi flinched and lowered her fist, her cheeks blushing.
Then she turned her head down and looked up at me with a reproachful sideways glance.
“Are you doing this on purpose?”
“What?”
“Enough……I can’t believe what Maria and the others have been through…….”
Matsumi sighed as her shoulders slumped.
Frankly, I didn’t understand what she was trying to say.
I guess Maria could understand what Matsumi was thinking, but I was a teleporter, so I couldn’t.
After thinking for a moment that it would be useful if I could teleport what they were thinking into my head or something, I shook my head.
—Isn’t it disgusting for a human being to peek into the heart of another person?
Just then, Kiriha, Shisae, Maria, and the others returned.
These guys were always exposing people’s hearts instead of peeping into them, though.
“Honey, I want you to pick out a string bikini for me to show Honey in the room, in addition to the one I’m going to wear in the ocean.”
“Honey-chan, can you help Maiko put on a bikini thong♪?”
“What’s wrong, Honey-san? You look tired, don’t you? Where is the infidel who makes Honey-san look like this?”
“Actually, they’re right in front of me.”
A question mark floated above the heads of the three of them.
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She was acting tsundere when we arrived to purchase our swimming suits.
Translated by Dawn
When we came to buy our swimsuits, She was being tsundere.
I wonder if Kiriha and Shisae, who were receiving my karate chops, were feeling this way, too.
“Hey, you’re Kiriha’s Honey, right?”
“Hmm? Yeah, I’m her boyfriend.”
I responded, wondering what had suddenly gotten into her, and she threw a question at me.
“Miina told me that Kiriha used to be a single person, is that true?”
When she told me that, I remembered when I had just met Kiriha.
Back then, Kiriha was dragging her past of being bullied because of her bee ability and said she didn’t need any friends.
She was like me in junior high school, and I couldn’t stand watching her.
“Ah, it’s true, you know. It’s hard to imagine that now, isn’t it?”
“Is it also true that you changed Kiriha?”
This time, she leaned her entire body against me, her voice filled with curiosity.
“That’s an exaggeration. I was just intruding. Because isn’t that so? If people told you to make friends and you did, there would be no longer a loner in the world. The only person who can change themself is always themself.”
Remembering my elementary and junior high school days when Bando and his friends bullied me and isolated me, but I thought that was fine, I explained in a lighthearted way so that things would not get too dark.
“If she got along with Miina and the others because I told her to, it’s just an act, it’s a fake. But Kiriha is different. She befriends Miina and Maria of her own will. That means she has changed by her own will. It’s her growth. Don’t you agree?”
When I asked for her agreement, MATSUMI looked down for a moment and then muttered like a mewling kitten, “He really doesn’t mount up.”
“Mount?”
“Miina told me. You see, ordinary people take credit for other people’s work, pretend it was jointly done by them and themselves, and if that’s not possible, they make it difficult, don’t they? In their minds, it’s like, how can I bring others down to raise myself up? It’s not that there are idiots like that from time to time; I think everyone is like that to a greater or lesser extent.”
“Sadly, yes. Other times, it’s like, you overestimate your own traits and underestimate other people’s traits.”
Those who could study said that the world was academic and made fun of athletes as muscle-brain.
Athletes evaluated people based on their athletic ability and made fun of people in the humanities for being plain and gloomy.
Those who could play music thought of themselves as stars and made fun of office workers as cogs in the wheel of society.
“Yes, yes. Tall people make fun of short people, good-looking people make fun of ugly people, outdoor people make fun of indoor people, and so on. If you’re a model or a professional, it doesn’t matter what your height, face, or hobbies are, they’re meaningless once you’re out in the world.”
I was impressed by her spot-on words.
“You’re so mature.”
“Well, yes. But the more idiots you surround yourself with, the higher your mental age becomes. Ikuo is also very mentally mature. I bet there are a lot of adults who are more childish than you.”
“Like the prime minister?”
“Right.”
She grinned and made an evil face. But Matsumi’s evil face had charm.
“Hm~ Now I know how Kiriha and the others feel. I like you, too.”
“By the others you mean Shisae?”
“What are you talking about, Honey-kun, when everyone calls you Honey? Miina, Shisae, Maiko, Maya, and Maria, all like you so much that I was a little taken aback. I thought this was a harem. And yet you’re Kiriha’s boyfriend, but everyone is all Kiriha’s friend, what kind of a bunch of people are you?”
“We’re just classmates, friends, and coworkers. And everyone calls me Honey because I’m Kiriha’s boyfriend. I’m not their boyfriend.”
That’s why I wanted everyone to stop calling me Honey.
“Wow, you’re all about Kiriha, aren’t you? I like that kind of seriousness in love.”
“Yeah. I never want to do anything that will make Kiriha sad. On the contrary, I want to fulfill Kiriha’s wishes as much as possible. It’s okay for her to be happy now.”
I said musingly, remembering her circumstances, where she had been bullied as a venomous woman just because she had the ability to be a venomous bee.
“This isn’t going to be cheap sympathy, is it?”
She dropped the tone of her voice, and I let out a giggle.
“Of course not. In fact, she’s really cute. She is innocent and cheerful, but devilishly bewitching, sometimes cool, and shows various faces depending on her mood, but all of them are genuine Kiriha, and I can’t see the bottom of her charms.”
“Ah, you mean the ‘Bunjin’ thing.” (+ぶんじん / 分人)
“It was a hot topic for a while, wasn’t it? I think it’s a word that refers to the many facets of a person, right?”
“That’s pretty much it.”
Holding up her index finger, Matsumi began to speak in a slightly teacherly tone.
“People who change their attitude depending on the time and place wonder which one is their true self, or they say that they discovered their true nature when they saw someone they know with a different attitude, but they are wrong. It’s all theirs, all of them are real.”
She said with an inflection in her voice to make it easier to hear.
“There’s no way that my attitude toward my lover and my boss is the same. There’s no way that the tension between playing and working is the same. It’s natural for people to change their attitude depending on the occasion and the person they’re talking to. But it’s not an act. When you’re working, you’re naturally tense, and when you’re on a date with your lover, you’re excited and high-spirited. So it’s natural for their attitude to change. It’s natural to change one’s attitude depending on one’s mood, just as one’s attitude is different when one is happy and when one is angry.”
“That’s right.”
My attitude was different when I was with Kiriha at home and when I was with Bando at school.
“For example, if Taro-san is a serious person at work, but when he hangs out with his friends from college in town, is it true that Taro at work is acting and being playful? No, it’s not like that. He’s just the type of person who is a bit of a jerk but takes his job seriously, isn’t he? On the other hand, wouldn’t it be more of a problem if he used polite and respectful language with his friends from college or acted haughty with his boss at work?”
“I see.”
“In other words, Kiriha is cheerful because she likes you and is in a good mood, and she knows you’ll spoil her, so she spoils you innocently. And when you show her an opening, she will be stimulated to prank you and tease you sexually. But in a pinch, or in the presence of someone who can’t be taken off guard, she becomes more alert and cooler, devoting her resources to observation and analysis. I guess that’s about it.”
“You’re surprisingly knowledgeable.”
I was honestly impressed, but Matsumi was indignant with her mouth.
“You know, I’m in the same special ed class as Kiriha and Miina, right?”
“Oh, yes, that’s right. I thought you were a female lion.”
“What is that supposed to mean!?”
She raised her eyebrows and held up a clenched fist.
I held up my hand to calm her down.
“It’s literally that.”
“You’re too insensitive to girls like a lioness. If it wasn’t me, you would have seriously beaten them up!”
“I said it because it was Matsumi who I was talking to. How can you call a stranger a lioness?”
“Ngguu.”
When I let out a disappointed laugh and showed my teeth, Matsumi flinched and lowered her fist, her cheeks blushing.
Then she turned her head down and looked up at me with a reproachful sideways glance.
“Are you doing this on purpose?”
“What?”
“Enough……I can’t believe what Maria and the others have been through…….”
Matsumi sighed as her shoulders slumped.
Frankly, I didn’t understand what she was trying to say.
I guess Maria could understand what Matsumi was thinking, but I was a teleporter, so I couldn’t.
After thinking for a moment that it would be useful if I could teleport what they were thinking into my head or something, I shook my head.
—Isn’t it disgusting for a human being to peek into the heart of another person?
Just then, Kiriha, Shisae, Maria, and the others returned.
These guys were always exposing people’s hearts instead of peeping into them, though.
“Honey, I want you to pick out a string bikini for me to show Honey in the room, in addition to the one I’m going to wear in the ocean.”
“Honey-chan, can you help Maiko put on a bikini thong♪?”
“What’s wrong, Honey-san? You look tired, don’t you? Where is the infidel who makes Honey-san look like this?”
“Actually, they’re right in front of me.”
A question mark floated above the heads of the three of them.
She was acting tsundere when we arrived to purchase our swimming suits.Translated by DawnWhen we came to buy our swimsuits, She was beingtsundere.I wonder if Kiriha and Shisae, who were receiving my karate chops, were feeling this way, too.Hey, you're Kiriha's Honey, right?Hmm? Yeah, I'm her boyfriend.I responded, wondering what had suddenly gotten into her, and she threw a question at me.Miina told me that Kiriha used to be a single person, is that true?When she told me that, I remembered when I had just met Kiriha.Back then, Kiriha was dragging her past of being bullied because of her bee ability and said she didn't need any friends.She was like me in junior high school, and I couldn't stand watching her.Ah, it's true, you know. It's hard to imagine that now, isn't it?Is it also true that you changed Kiriha?This time, she leaned her entire body against me, her voice filled with curiosity.That's an exaggeration. I was just intruding. Because isn't that so? If people told you to make friends and you did, there would be no longer a loner in the world. The only person who can change themself is always themself.Remembering my elementary and junior high school days when Bando and his friends bullied me and isolated me, but I thought that was fine, I explained in a lighthearted way so that things would not get too dark.If she got along with Miina and the others because I told her to, it's just an act, it's a fake. But Kiriha is different. She befriends Miina and Maria of her own will. That means she has changed by her own will. It's her growth. Don't you agree?When I asked for her agreement, MATSUMI looked down for a moment and then muttered like a mewling kitten, He really doesn't mount up.Mount?Miina told me. You see, ordinary people take credit for other people's work, pretend it was jointly done by them and themselves, and if that's not possible, they make it difficult, don't they? In their minds, it's like, how can I bring others down to raise myself up? It's not that there are idiots like that from time to time; I think everyone is like that to a greater or lesser extent.Sadly, yes. Other times, it's like, you overestimate your own traits and underestimate other people's traits.Those who could study said that the world was academic and made fun of athletes as muscle-brain.Athletes evaluated people based on their athletic ability and made fun of people in the humanities for being plain and gloomy.Those who could play music thought of themselves as stars and made fun of office workers as cogs in the wheel of society.Yes, yes. Tall people make fun of short people, good-looking people make fun of ugly people, outdoor people make fun of indoor people, and so on. If you're a model or a professional, it doesn't matter what your height, face, or hobbies are, they're meaningless once you're out in the world.I was impressed by her spot-on words.You're so mature.Well, yes. But the more idiots you surround yourself with, the higher your mental age becomes. Ikuo is also very mentally mature. I bet there are a lot of adults who are more childish than you.Like the prime minister?Right.She grinned and made an evil face. But Matsumi's evil face had charm.Hm~ Now I know how Kiriha and the others feel. I like you, too.By the others you mean Shisae?What are you talking about, Honey-kun, when everyone calls you Honey? Miina, Shisae, Maiko, Maya, and Maria, all like you so much that I was a little taken aback. I thought this was a harem. And yet you're Kiriha's boyfriend, but everyone is all Kiriha's friend, what kind of a bunch of people are you?We're just classmates, friends, and coworkers. And everyone calls me Honey because I'm Kiriha's boyfriend. I'm not their boyfriend.That's why I wanted everyone to stop calling me Honey.Wow, you're all about Kiriha, aren't you? I like that kind of seriousness in love.Yeah. I never want to do anything that will make Kiriha sad. On the contrary, I want to fulfill Kiriha's wishes as much as possible. It's okay for her to be happy now.I said musingly, remembering her circumstances, where she had been bullied as a venomous woman just because she had the ability to be a venomous bee.This isn't going to be cheap sympathy, is it?She dropped the tone of her voice, and I let out a giggle.Of course not. In fact, she's really cute. She is innocent and cheerful, but devilishly bewitching, sometimes cool, and shows various faces depending on her mood, but all of them are genuine Kiriha, and I can't see the bottom of her charms.Ah, you mean the Bunjin' thing. + / It was a hot topic for a while, wasn't it? I think it's a word that refers to the many facets of a person, right?That's pretty much it.Holding up her index finger, Matsumi began to speak in a slightly teacherly tone.People who change their attitude depending on the time and place wonder which one is their true self, or they say that they discovered their true nature when they saw someone they know with a different attitude, but they are wrong. It's all theirs, all of them are real.She said with an inflection in her voice to make it easier to hear.There's no way that my attitude toward my lover and my boss is the same. There's no way that the tension between playing and working is the same. It's natural for people to change their attitude depending on the occasion and the person they're talking to. But it's not an act. When you're working, you're naturally tense, and when you're on a date with your lover, you're excited and high-spirited. So it's natural for their attitude to change. It's natural to change one's attitude depending on one's mood, just as one's attitude is different when one is happy and when one is angry.That's right.My attitude was different when I was with Kiriha at home and when I was with Bando at school.For example, if Taro-san is a serious person at work, but when he hangs out with his friends from college in town, is it true that Taro at work is acting and being playful?No, it's not like that. He's just the type of person who is a bit of a jerk but takes his job seriously, isn't he?On the other hand, wouldn't it be more of a problem if he used polite and respectful language with his friends from college or acted haughty with his boss at work?I see.In other words, Kiriha is cheerful because she likes you and is in a good mood, and she knows you'll spoil her, so she spoils you innocently. And when you show her an opening, she will be stimulated to prank you and tease you sexually. But in a pinch, or in the presence of someone who can't be taken off guard, she becomes more alert and cooler, devoting her resources to observation and analysis. I guess that's about it.You're surprisingly knowledgeable.I was honestly impressed, but Matsumi was indignant with her mouth.You know, I'm in the same special ed class as Kiriha and Miina, right?Oh, yes, that's right. I thought you were a female lion.What is that supposed to mean!?She raised her eyebrows and held up a clenched fist.I held up my hand to calm her down.It's literally that.You're too insensitive to girls like a lioness. If it wasn't me, you would have seriously beaten them up!I said it because it was Matsumi who I was talking to. How can you call a stranger a lioness?Ngguu.When I let out a disappointed laugh and showed my teeth, Matsumi flinched and lowered her fist, her cheeks blushing.Then she turned her head down and looked up at me with a reproachful sideways glance.Are you doing this on purpose?What?EnoughI can't believe what Maria and the others have been through.Matsumi sighed as her shoulders slumped.Frankly, I didn't understand what she was trying to say.I guess Maria could understand what Matsumi was thinking, but I was a teleporter, so I couldn't.After thinking for a moment that it would be useful if I could teleport what they were thinking into my head or something, I shook my head.Isn't it disgusting for a human being to peek into the heart of another person?Just then, Kiriha, Shisae, Maria, and the others returned.These guys were always exposing people's hearts instead of peeping into them, though.Honey, I want you to pick out a string bikini for me to show Honey in the room, in addition to the one I'm going to wear in the ocean.Honey-chan, can you help Maiko put on a bikini thong?What's wrong, Honey-san? You look tired, don't you? Where is the infidel who makes Honey-san look like this?Actually, they're right in front of me.A question mark floated above the heads of the three of them.
