After deciding to give up, I became popular

246. The Fujiwara Family's Little Darling

Yukino remained silent for a long time, before whispering, "...Whatever."

Natsukawa Kanade raised his head, looking at her in surprise.

Honestly, he didn't expect Yukino to agree so easily. After all, this was quite intimate contact, and being righteously refused by her was the norm.

His original intention was just to tease her a little. After being rejected, he would change the topic and use his eloquence to express the idea of "cherishing your body more." He didn't expect Yukino to actually agree.

So he couldn't help but ask doubtfully, "Are you sure? Seriously?"

"Didn't you say so yourself?" The snow woman student raised her head, frowning and glaring at him, looking like she wanted to get angry.

"That... I did say that..." Natsukawa Kanade was a little embarrassed. He couldn't very well say that things were developing unexpectedly, could he?

"If you don't mind... then I'll start?"

"..." Yukino suddenly regretted it, feeling that she had been inexplicable just now. How could she have agreed to such a thing?

But soon she had no time to think about anything else.

"Eep!"

"..." Natsukawa Kanade looked over, silently staring at her with his head tilted.

"J-Just, I wasn't ready..." The snow woman student subconsciously shrank her neck, her cheeks a little red.

So Natsukawa Kanade withdrew his gaze and continued the contact.

"Mmm..." Yukino still made strange noises.

This time, Natsukawa Kanade himself couldn't help it. Looking at her eyes, he suggested, "Why don't you bite a towel?"

"..." Yukino widened her eyes and then glared at him fiercely, looking like she wanted to eat him alive.

"Uh..." Natsukawa Kanade could only awkwardly withdraw his gaze, but he kept complaining in his heart, how was he supposed to continue?

He guessed that Yukino must be quite sensitive, so when he touched her ankle, she felt a little itchy and involuntarily made strange noises. Originally, he was prepared to only rub it with his fingers, in order to reduce skin contact. Now, he could only press his entire palm against it, perhaps her reaction would be smaller this way.

The effect was pretty good. After he did this, Yukino really didn't make any more strange noises, so he didn't look up at her again, and continued to rub her injured area.

"..."

"..."

Throughout the process, the two didn't speak again, and the whole room fell into silence.

After a while, Natsukawa Kanade felt that it should be about time. He let go and observed, and found that, as he thought, the red and swollen area of Yukino's injury had visibly reduced, so he nodded in satisfaction.

"Indeed, the technique wasn't learned for nothing..." he muttered, then turned his face to look at Yukinoshita, looking like he was ready to accept praise, but he was stunned, "Ah, this..."

In his vision, Yukino's cheeks had turned completely red, like they were stained with the afterglow of the setting sun, her shy posture like a cute angel.

"..." He was a little dazed.

"I-Is it over...?" Seeming to have just regained consciousness, Yukino lowered the hand covering her mouth after seeing him stop, and breathed a few times, slightly heavily.

The heavy sound was particularly noticeable in the quiet infirmary, and Natsukawa Kanade could almost feel the moistness of the hot breath hitting his face...

"..."

"W-What's wrong?" Yukino looked at him blankly, her usually cold eyes now seeming like silk, delicate and alluring.

"N-Nothing..." Natsukawa Kanade slightly averted his gaze, unable to look directly at her.

The usually aloof snow woman student revealed a delicate and cute appearance. This contrast was really too撩拨人心弦, wasn't it?

"Right, right!" Natsukawa Kanade struggled to withdraw his gaze, and slowly uttered a few more words, "Need to apply a little more spray..."

After focusing his attention on the treatment, he was able to calm down a bit.

He picked up a treatment spray produced by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical from the medical tools and sprayed it a few times on Yukino's injured area. The cool and comfortable feeling quickly made Yukino groan again.

"Eep!"

It could be seen that she was really sensitive, and she made a sound again without being prepared.

But this time Natsukawa Kanade didn't plan to look at her. He lowered his head slightly and silently finished the treatment, then slowly lifted her leg onto the bed.

"It's definitely over this time," Natsukawa Kanade reminded her in a low voice, then got up and silently went to wash his hands.

After putting the medical tools back in the small box and finding a place to put it, he turned back and found that Yukino had already put on her socks again at some point. Her cheeks were no longer as red as before, although there was still a little afterglow, but it was obvious that she had calmed down.

"Um... you..." Yukinoshita lowered her head slightly, stammering.

She had just looked at her wound and found that it had actually reduced the swelling a little. She originally thought that the other party was fooling her, maybe just wanted to take advantage of her, but it wasn't...

"Anyway, thanks again this time..." After saying this, she felt a little more relaxed.

"..." Natsukawa Kanade blinked while wiping his hands, looking at her awkward and embarrassed appearance, and thought that Yukino was really cute, no wonder everyone wanted to bully her when they saw her.

"It's nothing, you're welcome," Natsukawa Kanade waved his hand and said, but he accidentally said something cheap again, "It's more like thank you for the treat..."

"..." Yukino was still a little tangled, but after hearing his words, she immediately calmed down, and then stared at him expressionlessly, while also snorting coldly.

"Hmph..."

"Uh..." In the middle of summer, Natsukawa Kanade felt as if a drop of cold sweat was flowing from his forehead.

Although Yukino hadn't said anything yet, he felt that she had said everything, and might even add a sentence of "three consecutive insults" in the next second.

But he's really not a foot fetish!

"No! You misunderstood! I meant the expression... no! I meant—the cookies before! Yes, I was referring to the cookies before!" Natsukawa Kanade looked very flustered. He almost blurted out the truth just now.

Not because I like your feet, but because I saw Yukino's cute expression, so I said "Thank you for the treat"—explaining it this way would definitely cause problems, right?

Anyway, it's a good thing he came up with a clever idea and didn't reveal the truth.

"The cookies you sent before were very delicious and very much to my taste! So I wanted to express my gratitude... or something," Natsukawa Kanade explained, not knowing if Yukino would believe him.

It seemed that his credibility was still working. Although Yukino still had a suspicious expression, her eyes finally became less cold than before, but her tone was still a little aloof.

"Is that so..."

"..." Natsukawa Kanade nodded repeatedly.

"..." So Yukino didn't speak, and then the two fell into silence again.

Although he had recently re-established contact with Yukino due to various factors, he really didn't know how to get along like ordinary friends. With other people, most of the time they would take the initiative to bring up topics, and then they would chat along the way, but Yukino... she was really not good at communicating, and basically wouldn't take the initiative to bring up topics.

Well, that's normal. After all, she's the kind of person who can say "That depends on what the definition of a friend is" to reply to someone's question of "You don't have any friends, do you?" If she was good at communicating, it wouldn't be like this.

After thinking for a while, Natsukawa Kanade took the initiative to suggest, "Since you're okay... do you want to go back together?"

"..." Yukino pursed her lips, actually a little tempted, but in the end she shook her head and said, "No, I still have... something to do."

If they went back together, they might happen to meet her sister... never mind.

Seeing that Yukino was unwilling, Natsukawa Kanade didn't insist on getting close. After nodding, he gently instructed a few words, "Then be careful on the road, and don't overuse your feet too much. Although it has improved, it's still best to take care of it until it's completely recovered."

Yukino nodded calmly, as if acknowledging his words.

After saying a few more words, the two walked out of the infirmary.

Yukinoshita left first because she had to change her uniform. She and Natsukawa Kanade were going in different directions. After saying goodbye to the other party, Natsukawa Kanade locked the door and left the activity building directly.

When he walked out of the gate, he found that the sky had already started to darken gradually. The people who were still sweating on the playground were gradually leaving.

After leaving the school, he walked for a while and came to a relatively lively commercial street.

Because it was getting late, the shops here were gradually opening for business. There happened to be a takoyaki shop by the side of the road, and it seemed like they had just set up the stove. Natsukawa Kanade went to line up and bought a serving.

After getting the snack, he turned back and found that the sky had completely darkened.

Natsukawa Kanade suddenly felt a little hungry, so he stood by the side of the road, opened the box, and stuffed a takoyaki ball into his mouth.

After carefully tasting it, he was about to put it away when he felt his pants leg being gently tugged several times.

He looked down and found a golden retriever that appeared out of nowhere, squatting obediently next to his leg, looking at him with its tongue out.

"Is it someone's lost dog..." Natsukawa Kanade muttered, thinking that it was also hungry and wanted something to eat.

"Do you want to eat this?" Natsukawa Kanade looked at it.

The golden retriever tilted its head quite humanely, and then gently leaned over. So Natsukawa Kanade handed it over with a spare skewer. After the golden retriever swallowed it in one bite, it obediently lowered its head again, as if meaning for him to touch it. So Natsukawa Kanade simply reached out and gently stroked the head of this big cutie.

"Good boy, good boy, very good..."

He squatted down and carefully observed this golden retriever.

It was very close to people, its fur was also very beautiful, and it also had a collar and rope on its neck, so it should be someone's lost child, but the most important thing was—Natsukawa Kanade felt that it looked familiar for some reason, as if he had seen it somewhere.

After stroking its dog head for a while, Natsukawa Kanade began to think about whether to send it to the police station first or something, but suddenly he heard a clear girlish shout coming from the side.

"Pace! So you're here!" A girl jogged and appeared beside him, and then began to reprimand the golden retriever, "Really, how can you run around? You can't cause trouble for others!"

Then she looked at Natsukawa Kanade, in a gesture of wanting to apologize to him: "I'm very sorry, my Pace has caused you trouble... Eh? President?"

"That's right, it's me," Natsukawa Kanade nodded slightly.

He was very familiar with the girl in front of him—Fujiwara Chika.

No wonder he said that this golden retriever looked so familiar, it turned out to be the Fujiwara family's dog.

"Oh, oh! It's President! No wonder Pace suddenly got excited, it turned out that it smelled the President's scent!" Fujiwara Chika suddenly realized.

"Uh..." Natsukawa Kanade twitched the corner of his mouth.

Although there was nothing wrong with this statement, it made it seem like he had a strong smell... he was obviously very clean, okay!

"Hmm, come to think of it, it's been a long time since I've seen President..." Fujiwara Chika muttered.

"Nonsense, we just saw each other at noon, right?" Natsukawa Kanade glared at her, but was met with Fujiwara Chika's objection.

"I'm definitely talking about the time outside, you stupid President."

"Heh, the guy who likes to call others stupid is the real idiot!" Natsukawa Kanade retorted.

"What, President is obviously the idiot!" Fujiwara Chika puffed up her cheeks and began to accuse him, "And I just saw it, what did President want to do to my Pace?! You're not allowed to abduct Pace!"

"I didn't want to abduct it, okay?" Natsukawa Kanade complained, raised his hand, and gestured to the snack in his hand, "It came up to me on its own. I thought it was hungry, so I fed it a takoyaki ball."

Unexpectedly, after saying this, Fujiwara Chika directly started to change the topic, as if the act of caring about her dog just now was fake.

"Wow, it's takoyaki! I want it, I want to eat it too!"

"..." Natsukawa Kanade looked at her speechlessly, thinking that even your dog wasn't as excited as you were.

"That being said... this skewer has already been used by it..." Natsukawa Kanade raised his hand and gestured, then pointed to the golden retriever next to him.

"Oh, it's okay, there's no problem at all," Fujiwara Chika shook her head.

Natsukawa Kanade widened his eyes and looked at her, thinking, you don't mind sharing food with the dog? As a result, he didn't expect that she would actually come over and pick up another skewer, stick a takoyaki ball on it, and stuff it into her mouth.

"Mmm... delicious!" She even had a happy smile on her face.

Natsukawa Kanade: "..."

Okay, he misunderstood. He thought she was... but it's also weird to use a skewer with him, right? Doesn't she mind at all?

But thinking about it carefully, this seems normal, right? After all, there were times when they shared bento boxes, and it seemed that he had also fed her dishes directly into her mouth, so sharing a skewer didn't seem like a big deal.

And seeing Fujiwara eating so deliciously, he naturally didn't want to spoil the atmosphere.

247. The Fujiwara Family's Pink Devil

With Fujiwara joining in, the takoyaki in my hand disappeared exceptionally quickly. Including the two I ate myself earlier, all the rest went into Fujiwara Chika's stomach.

Then, she gently licked the corner of her lips, revealing a somewhat unsatisfied expression.

"Umm... what should I do, President? I feel like I'm getting hungrier the more I eat..." Fujiwara Chika looked troubled.