Chapter 54 - Studying in the Library (2/2)

So, in the end, she’s still going to tell me.

“The A/C, it’s still quite rough.”

Without me understanding who she was trying to explain to with her mutterings, Hiiragi-chan moved towards me.

“It seems just fine around here ♪”

Ignore it. Ignore it. Since I came here to study, I don’t intend to play around with her.

“If it’s just right here, then please return my jersey.”

“Ohon. It might be cold if I take it off, it might be better if I stay like this.”

Until the end, Hiiragi-chan didn’t want to pass the line that where she would be considered as bothering me, and so she made her declaration in monologue style.

“Ohon. Wearing another males jersey might be seen weirdly by other people.”

“Ohon. This was given to me by a kind student, who wanted to avoid me getting a cold. I should probably wear this for a little longer.”

It seems that she has no intention at all of taking off the jersey that I leant her.

Tsun tsun, I felt something from my leg.

When I looked at the person across, she averted her eyes. As I look below, I could see Hiiragi-chan’s beautiful leg, slightly extended, in order to softly hit my foot.

“…”

Our eyes met and once again she averted them However, her leg didn’t move away.

… It seems that she intends to flirt even if it was just with her legs.

“Ohon… if you don’t like it, just say it…? I’ll stop immediately.”

She said that in a quiet voice.

“Ohon… My legs are quite long, so it’s probably easy to bump into the person across from me… Just this much doesn’t really bother me though.”

“Ohon… Being kind so suddenly. It isn’t okay…”

Facing her own laptop, Hiiragi-chan had zero desire to let go with her legs. She continued to stick her legs close to mine. The toes on her stocking covered feet were stroking my leg. When I did the same thing back to her, Hiiragi-chan reacted by jumping up a bit.

“Wait, it tickles… Ah. Ohon.”

That cough was too late.

“Ohon… I really can’t concentrate on my work at all… what should I do?”

“Ohon. My studying isn’t really making much progress…”

If you really wanted to concentrate on work, you could just do it in the staff room. For my studying, I could just do it at home.

… In other words, it’s like that. Under the desk, where no one could see, our legs continued to play.

But, it strangely felt more calm this way. The two of us concentrating on work and studying without speaking.

Since it was during testing season, and the school was about to close, the only people in the library were the two of us and the librarian. Regardless, there were originally only two students other than me.

“I should go borrow a book…”

Standing up from my seat, I begin to browse the bindings of books located on the shelf. Hiiragi-chan followed me as well. Her mouth was loose, as if she was going to play a prank on me.

I checked the counter to make sure that the librarian wasn’t moving at all, and walked into a blind spot. Under the shadows of the bookcase, we had a kiss against the rules that we had set for ourselves.

“I was pretty bothersome wasn’t I… Sorry.”

“It’s okay. I can still study once I go home anyways.”

“… Muuu… You always suddenly become nice like this…”

After having a secret conversation that couldn’t be heard by anyone else, we once against quietly kissed each other.

“Good luck with work, Sensei.”

“Sanada-kun as well, good luck with studying.”

As our happiness gauge built up, both of us broke into smiles.

“It seems it’s true when they say that if you have someone you love, you can really do your best…”

Hiiragi-chan quietly said those words.

On that note, I wholeheartedly agreed with her.