Kissing My Student, It's Over if We're Caught-Chapter 1Volume .8 - Favorite perfume: Citrus

As they said that, one of them, Kana-chan, took out her smartphone.

“And this, I found out for the first time the other day… The president without glasses is super beautiful! It’s like, you have to throw those glasses off forcefully!”

We had started to stand up and move, but it was crowded and we couldn’t escape quickly.

Then, Kirihara’s smartphone started to ring.

“Huh?”

The moment Kana-chan, who called, seemed to turn around.

At the same time, Kirihara’s hand swiftly pulled mine, which was leading. Turning halfway back towards her, Kirihara’s hands enveloped my face.

“…!?”

Both Kana-chan and I gasped at the same time.

Stretching herself up, Kirihara kissed me right in the middle of the food court, without caring about the people around.

“Aw, aw!”

Maybe they weren’t used to such a scene. The two members of the student council immediately turned their faces away and looked down.

Noticing that from the corner of her eye, Kirihara gently pushed my back.

While feeling the gaze of other customers on us, we quickly left the food court and went far away without saying anything.

My heart was still racing. Though my heart rate was fast, I felt a chill.

After moving from the food area to the apparel corner, I asked Kirihara.

“…Did you save me?”

“Yeah.”

Her reply was as if it was the most natural thing, and it slightly surprised me.

“Is it that weird? I mean, I definitely don’t want to end your life or anything.”

The hand that was normally holding mine let go and changed to a lovers’ hold.

“I just want to be with someone fun, so my life doesn’t get lonely. For as long as possible.”

…How should I interpret this?

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Should I be happy?

Or should I be afraid that I can’t return to a proper life anymore?

These thoughts, like Kirihara’s presence, were both the face and the flip side of the same coin.

Charm and destruction are always back to back, inseparable.

“Let’s go home now. It doesn’t feel like a date anymore, right?”

“…Yeah. But, can we stop by one place before that?”

I didn’t know the answer, but I wanted to thank her for saving me.

“Sure. Where?”

“The store that sells perfume.”

Suddenly, Kirihara stopped. She looked at me, puzzled. It was a rare moment as if time had stopped.

“You liked it, didn’t you? The citrus-scented perfume.”

…

Kirihara’s face broke into a smile.

“Or so you say, but wasn’t it you who liked it?”

“If you don’t want it, we can go home without stopping by.”

“Wait, wait. I do want it. Let’s go.”

She was in high spirits. As proof, she intertwined her arm with mine, pulling our bodies closer. It was the closest contact we had all day.

Afterward, Kirihara found the perfume that Kana-chan had let her try and bought it with her own money.

“I wanted to pay as a thank you for saving me,” I said, but Kirihara refused.

“I don’t want to owe anyone,” she claimed, and when I said the same, she retorted, “I feel the same way.”

“I don’t want to muddle things with money… I just want to have fun, for as long as possible.”

Faced with her divine-like expression, I had no choice but to back down.

…Perhaps she had some trouble with guys other than me in the past.

***

Kirihara doesn’t use the perfume she bought at school.

But when I go to her room on weekends, a slight, refreshing citrus scent has started to drift through the room.

That’s how we slowly accumulate our mistakes together.

The longer we spend time together, and the more secrets we have, the number and density of our mistakes grow.

Becoming intimate with Kirihara means just that.

My sins are slowly accumulating──.