All Beautiful Girls Want to Stick with Me

Yukino didn’t want the warmth Kotomi had left on her lips and cheek to vanish. But she couldn’t hold on to it. She knew exactly how to keep that warmth from fading—but even knowing how, now that she had calmed down, she no longer had the courage to act on it.

Composure didn’t mean her feelings had cooled or faded. On the contrary, her emotions for Kotomi Izumi had only grown stronger, richer. The mark Kotomi left on her heart had deepened.

Kotomi Izumi’s image—her name—was now etched deep into Yukino’s soul.

Being cared for so gently by Kotomi feels so good. I want to have her all to myself—to make her mine alone, someone no one else can touch.

The phantom ”Little Yukino” appeared again—this time perched on Kotomi Izumi’s back, her small arms wrapped loosely around Kotomi’s neck. Her gaze toward Yukino was filled with mocking challenge.

”So this is what you were really thinking just now. Disgusting and pathetic. Don’t bother denying it—I’m you, and you’re me. I know exactly what’s in your heart. You’re jealous of Yui Yuigahama. You want to be Kotomi Izumi’s lover—her future wife. You want to own her completely, never letting anyone else touch her. And deep down, you already have some terrifying ideas about how to make that happen~ You just haven’t realized it yet.”

Little Yukino stroked Kotomi’s cheek, but Kotomi seemed completely unaware. In fact, everything around them had gone still—as if time itself had stopped.

Only the hallucination—Yukino’s inner self—could move.

Even Yukino herself was frozen, forced to watch helplessly as the young phantom version of her climbed over Kotomi’s back, running her delicate hands through Kotomi’s hair, over her skin, and—

Yukino clenched her teeth, eyes blazing with fury as she glared at the phantom version of her younger self daring to touch Kotomi so freely.

Right now, she wanted nothing more than to regain control of her body—so she could kill that little Yukino clinging to Kotomi’s back.

She couldn’t allow anyone to touch Kotomi like that.

Not even a hallucination of herself.

”Look at your eyes—I can feel the killing intent pouring out of you,” said Little Yukino with a smirk. ”You’d really go that far, huh? I’m still you, after all. I’m your truest self. And my face? It’s the face you had as a child.”

”How ironic,” she sneered. ”You can muster the heart to want to kill your own younger self—but a moment ago, you were too cowardly to even hug Kotomi, to kiss her lips, to declare war on Yui Yuigahama.”

”Oh, I see—you want to say that if I hadn’t interrupted you just now, you’d already be kissing Kotomi, right? Don’t kid yourself. Even if I hadn’t stopped you, your laughable rationality would’ve held you back at the last second. You would’ve hesitated again.”

”By the way, didn’t I just mention that you’ve already thought up plenty of terrifying ways to make Kotomi yours? You still don’t realize it, do you?”

”No matter. Right now, your twisted heart—liking Kotomi but not daring to confess, watching her be with Yui and silently stewing in jealousy—is like a deep, lightless sea. And soon, from that abyss, the monsters called ’methods’ will start to surface one by one…”

”You’re furious watching me touch Kotomi, but that anger’s mixed with jealousy, isn’t it? Because what I’m doing to her right now—that’s exactly what you’ve always wanted to do. You want her. You want to possess her.”

”But too bad—this time, I’m going to take her before you can. I’ll steal the Kotomi Izumi you’ve always longed for. And I’ll start… by stealing her kiss.”

With that, Little Yukino gently tilted Kotomi’s chin upward. Kotomi looked like a puppet with its strings pulled—motionless, completely under her control.

The young phantom smiled wickedly, slowly closing the distance between them. In the next instant, Yukino Yukinoshita could only watch in frozen horror as her younger self leaned in to claim Kotomi Izumi’s lips right before her eyes.

Just as the hallucination—”Little Yukino”—was about to press her lips against Kotomi Izumi’s, Yukino Yukinoshita tried with all her strength to lunge forward, to pull Kotomi back from her phantom self’s grasp.

Was she really going to just stand there and watch as ”Little Yukino” stole Kotomi’s kiss before her eyes? No—absolutely not! The very thought made something snap inside her.

”I won’t let you touch her!” Yukino shouted with all her might.

The moment her voice rang out, ”Little Yukino” stopped. Then, just like sand slipping through fingers, her figure dissolved into nothingness.