All Beautiful Girls Want to Stick with Me

Don’t be fooled by how airheaded Kotomi Izumi could seem. There had once been a time when she was obsessed with watching parkour videos and fantasized about being a parkour master herself.

”Kotomi...”

Megumi suddenly grabbed Kotomi’s wrist, her cheeks flushed red.

”I still want to kiss a little longer... i-is that okay?”

Kotomi froze for a moment. Then, after realizing what she meant, a gentle smile curved across her lips. She set the plastic bag aside and stepped into Megumi’s arms of her own accord, wrapping her arms around Megumi’s neck. On her lovely face—equal parts cute and alluring—appeared a bewitching smile.

”Of course, my wife~”

Before she could finish speaking, Megumi sealed her lips.

This kiss—who knew how long it would last?

And who knew whether this kiss might naturally lead them beyond something as simple as just kissing?

After a long while, Kotomi gently stroked Megumi’s short hair, her gaze tender as she looked at Megumi, who had fallen asleep in her arms.

Megumi had indeed intended to start with a kiss and let things escalate naturally...

But unexpectedly, once she was full, drowsiness followed. Before she could wrap her arms around Kotomi’s slender waist and lift her up, the overwhelming wave of sleep swept over her. In the blink of an eye, she had drifted into peaceful slumber.

There was a trace of affection in Kotomi’s eyes, along with a hint of grievance. She had already prepared herself...

And yet Megumi had fallen asleep.

Kotomi’s ”appetite” was far from small. Even though just a few hours ago she had enjoyed a sumptuous ”meal” from Ayani Kika—who was roughly the size of a small watermelon—after passionately kissing Megumi, she found herself a little hungry again.

”Sigh... let’s just rest properly tonight.”

Kotomi gently lifted Megumi and carefully placed her on the bed, adjusting her head on the pillow. She took a cotton quilt from the cabinet and covered Megumi, tucking in the corners with meticulous care. Every movement was light, afraid of waking her by accident.

After finishing, Kotomi nodded in satisfaction and pressed a fleeting, dragonfly-light kiss to Megumi’s cherry lips.

”Good night, Megumi. I love you.”

After thinking for a moment, Kotomi picked up a ballpoint pen and a pink heart-shaped sticky note from the desk. She wrote a sentence on it:

[Eat three meals a day on time! —Your future little wife, Kotomi Izumi]

After writing, she paused, then drew a small penguin at the end, tossing tiny hearts into the air.

[Picture: A little penguin blowing hearts]

Once finished, Kotomi stuck the heart-shaped note to Megumi’s bedside table. Only then did she feel at ease enough to leave.

She first drew the curtains for Megumi. Then, standing behind them, she opened the window and climbed onto the windowsill. After closing the window securely, Kotomi leapt down.

However, perhaps because she was feeling a little smug—and because her legs were still slightly weak after all that kissing—she made a small miscalculation. After landing, she stumbled forward several steps.

Fortunately, she managed to steady herself in time. One more step and she would have stepped right onto a little black cat sleeping by the roadside.

Kotomi patted her skirt, glanced toward her own home not far away, and smiled.

”Flying back from Kyoto to Chiba overnight, and now I have to rush back to Kyoto again. Looking toward home before leaving... it feels kind of... I don’t know how to describe it. I just want to go home sooner, I guess.”

Stretching lazily, she tossed the plastic bag into a street-side trash can and walked back the way she had come.

”So sleepy. I’ll sleep as soon as I get on the plane, and once I land, I’ll head straight back to Harugamo Inn. But it’s so late... maybe after getting back to Kyoto, I’ll crash at Kika’s place for a bit. No, she’s probably already asleep...”

Before she could finish muttering to herself, her phone chimed with a message notification.

Kotomi took it out and saw that it was a text from Ayani Kika.

Ayani Kika: [I’m not asleep yet.]

”Eh?”

Kotomi stared at the message, feeling as if a ring of little question marks was circling above her head.

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