All Beautiful Girls Want to Stick with Me

”Just wear it normally. There’s no need to treat it so carefully. It wasn’t that expensive. If I give you an ordinary coat and you treat it like this, then if I ever give you a luxury handbag, are you going to put it on display at home? And every time you look at it, will you bathe and burn incense first?”

Kotomi teased with a half-joking grin.

Yui flushed at her words and hurriedly said,

”Luxury goods are expensive. That’s not good. We shouldn’t waste money.”

Because of her family’s financial situation, Yui saw buying luxury items as a waste. So when Kotomi mentioned giving her one, she instinctively refused.

”Then what if I said I wanted a luxury item?” Kotomi countered.

”Which one do you want? I don’t understand luxury brands, so once you decide, just tell me how much it costs. I’ll calculate how many cakes I need to make by working overtime late at night to earn that much. It might take some time, but if you want it, I’ll definitely buy it for you.”

Yui agreed without hesitation.

She was frugal with herself. Between a six-hundred-yen loaf of bread and a five-hundred-yen one, she would choose the cheaper without a second thought—even if it didn’t taste very good.

Yuka often told Kotomi, ”My sister is so stingy with herself.”

Yet when it came to her family, and especially to Kotomi, Yui was unimaginably generous.

If she could, she would dig out her entire heart and offer it to Kotomi—even if the next second meant death.

Yui had no clear concept of how much luxury goods cost.

She only knew they were expensive. But how expensive? She didn’t really know. Even after racking her brain, the highest price she could imagine was a few million yen.

To Yui, a few million yen was already an astronomical sum. But as long as Kotomi said she wanted it, Yui would rather scrimp and save, exhaust herself working late into the night baking cakes, just to gather those few million yen.

This silly girl had no idea that in the world of luxury goods, a few million yen didn’t even count as entry-level.

Faced with Yui’s answer, Kotomi found herself momentarily speechless.

Yui’s love for her was like a little dwarf standing at a princess’s feet, straining up on tiptoe, lifting higher and higher the heart she had just torn from her own chest with bloodied hands.

Kotomi Izumi, who was usually so eloquent, could only part her lips as though she had countless things to say, yet for a moment had completely lost the ability to speak.

After a long while, she sniffed lightly and turned her head away, not wanting Yui to see the faint redness at the corners of her eyes. In a low mutter, she said,

”I’ve never seen someone as foolish as you in my entire life...”

Then Kotomi reached out and tightly clasped Yui’s small hand, as if silently conveying a promise: I will never let go of your hand in this lifetime.

Though she held Yui’s hand, she deliberately looked elsewhere, refusing to let Yui see her face.

Perhaps this was just a tiny bit of stubborn pride in her heart when she felt like crying.

”I don’t like luxury goods either. If you dare give me one, I’ll break up with you,” Kotomi said, rubbing her nose, her voice slightly thick.

”I don’t want...”

Yui murmured softly as she leaned closer to Kotomi. They had already been sitting close together, and with that small movement, the last trace of distance between them vanished.

”Don’t want what?” Kotomi asked.

”I don’t want to break up with you. I want to marry you. I want to be your wife.”

Yui’s pretty face flushed deeper and deeper red as she spoke. Even though she felt unbearably shy, she didn’t stop. She wanted to convey her feelings completely, without holding anything back.

”Hmph. That depends on how you behave~”

Kotomi replied with tsundere pride, her heart as sweet as if she had just swallowed a piece of candy.

At that moment, Yukino Yukinoshita returned from the vending machine not far away.

Holding three bottles of drinks, she looked at Kotomi and Yui, their hands clasped together...

For some reason, Yukino felt that in just the few minutes she had been gone, the atmosphere between Kotomi and Yui had subtly changed once again.

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