Yuujin-chara no Ore ga Motemakuru Wakenaidarou? - Volume 3.5

“Alright, the target is that group of five women who look like college girls.”

Asakura, now in a good mood, pointed ahead and said so.

We look beyond that.

There was a group of girls there with flashy hair colors and bikinis who seemed to be a little older than us.

They all have good looks, and I honestly doubt that high school kids like us would be taken seriously.

“…Let’s go, guys!”

I couldn’t say such a thing to Asakura, whose eyes were shining with excitement.

And we get closer to the girls.

However, before he could reach the girls, they were approached by two flirtatious, dark-skinned men.

“Ah~, sh*it!”

Asakura lamented, but the next moment the two men seem to have been turned down, and they immediately left.

I ask Asakura, who is doing a pose of guts when he sees it.

“… Hey, Asakura. I think there’s a very good chance we’ll end up like that, too?”

“What are you talking about, Tomoki? ……We have Ike-sensei over here, you know?”

That may be true, but I had one concern.

Without expressing any concern about this, Asakura addresses the group of girls.

“Hello, ladies, would you like to have a chat with us?”

Asakura smiles naturally.

If Asakura would act this proactive in his normal school life, he would have a girlfriend in no time.

Maybe the summer beach is making him more open, according to my analysis,

“Picking up again?”

“Isn’t this getting a little annoying?”

“I mean, these kids are so young!”

“Are you guys in high school by any chance?”

Each of them mutters in a bored manner.

“Yes, I am a high school student. Are you girls college students?”

Perhaps happy to be responded to, Asakura asked.

“Yes, we are college students~”

“So, I’m not really interested in the kids, so please go back~.”

They said, as in the case of the two men I mentioned earlier, we get an immediate rejection.

“…Hey, wait a minute. Aren’t those two guys in the back …… super nice?”

One of the girls said in a hushed voice, which reached my ears.

Then all eyes turned to Ike and Kai…

“Well~, I’m pretty much into younger boys~”

“Let’s go play with us”

“Ya, you guys are pretty muscular! Wonderful”

“Are you active in any clubs?”

They are easily turned their hand.

Ike and Kai are surrounded by two college girls each, and it’s like a flower in both hands situation.

“I play soccer, after all”

“I didn’t do anything in particular.”

Kai and Ike respond with puzzled expressions.

“What’s with the bashfulness? He’s quite cute♡”

Seeing that, the female college students was overjoyed.

And … Asakura’s expression of despair is inversely proportional to that.

My concerns were right.

Indeed, if good-looking guys like Ike and Kai were added into the pick-up operation, the girls would probably be more receptive…

It also comes with the risk of having all the favors taken away.

The fact is, Asakura and I are thus left alone and out of their sight.

I tried to comfort Asakura, but――

“I’m thirsty. Would you mind accompanying me to the stall over there for a minute?”

The last one who was not involved with Ike and Kai approached me.

Then she pulled me by the hand and started walking.

I’m agitated by the unexpected situation.

I had never thought that sunglasses would really work…

With this in mind, I looked at Asakura and saw a look of disappointment on his face as he turned to me.

…… I’m sorry, Asakura. You have my deepest apologies.

With this in mind, I walked next to her with my hand being pulled by hers.

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After a short distance from Ike and the others.

“You’re not interested in picking up girls, right?”

She walked next to me and asked me a question.

“Eh. …Well, yes.”

I wasn’t sure what to say, but seeing her surprisingly unconcerned, I answered honestly.

“Actually, I’m not really interested in picking up either.”

“That’s so”

With a cool expression, she says.

“That’s why I feel like I was lucky to get out of that place?”

“Ah, I see.”

No wonder.

I guess the reason she approached me, the tough-looking one, instead of Asakura, who was ready to pick up girls, was because she knew I wasn’t interested in picking up girls.

So, this person used me as an excuse to get out of it.

“So thanks for that.”

Then she turned her sidelong glance on me.

“No, it saved me too.”

When I answered, she stopped.

Caught in the act, I stop in my tracks, too.

“What’s wrong?”

At my words, she puts her index finger to her lips with a concerned expression on her face and then says.

“…Can you come over here for a moment?”

“I don’t think there’ s a store over there, though.”

When I ask her, with a tug on my hand, she gives me a mischievous smile before answering.

“Well, since we’re here, why don’t we talk in private, where no one else is around?”

Does she not want to go back there for a while?

I thought, well, I might as well hang out with her a little bit, and I was about to give my consent――

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“Ah, senpai, I finally found you!”

“Yuuji-kun, I’ve been looking for you!”

From behind me, a familiar voice reaches my ears and I turn around.

There they were, Kana in a swimsuit and Touka in a T-shirt over her swimsuit.

I don’t think they knew I was going to the beach, so it must have been a coincidence.

……Hmm? But they also said something like they were looking for me. What does that mean?

As I was thinking this, they looked down at the hand I was holding with the unknown girl, then said in a firm tone of voice.

“Ahre, senpai? There is no way you would pick up a girl when you have a super beautiful girlfriend like me, right?”

“Hey, Yuuji-kun. I’ve told you many times, haven’t I? If you’re tired of Touka-chan, just call out to me?”

☆

“By the way, I have to ask, …… who are these girls?”

Taking her eyes off Touka and Kana, who had suddenly appeared, and this time looking at me in a suspicious manner, the woman next to me asked.

Before I can answer,

“Almost his girlfriend!”

And after Kana said so,

“Over here is just a stalker, but I’m his girlfriend. …… who are you, too?”

Touka said in a terribly cold tone of voice.

Aside from Kana’s words and Touka’s words for Kana.

There is no doubt that Touka is my girlfriend.

I nodded my head in agreement when she looked at me,

“… Uwwaa~, the worst”

She turned a straight face, quickly let go of my hand, and then walked briskly away.

She must have known that I had no intention of picking on her, but still, it would have been unforgivable for me to go along with my friend’s pickup despite the fact that I had a girlfriend.

I ask after making sure her back has disappeared into the crowd.

“By the way, why are you two at the beach?”

“Rather than that, senpai, is there anything you would like to say to me?”

But without hearing the answer, Touka gives me a cold stare with a smile.

Even if I was a “fake” lover, she was probably uncomfortable with the idea of letting me go and talking to other girls.

I think of Touka’s feelings and try to apologize…

“Yuuji-kun got tired of Touka-chan, so it can’t be helped to have an affair, right?”

Kana fanned Touka with all her might.

Touka, who seemed to be annoyed,

“I don’t want to be told by Natsuo-chan, who isn’t even taken seriously by him, though?”

Touka’s words, while making a blue streak on her temple, but Kana was different today.

After taking a deep breath and then ignoring those words, she looked me with upward glance and asked me.

“Yuuji-kun, you have something to say to me, too, don’t you?”

Kana says with a bashful look on her face and her hands folded behind her back.

Unlike Touka, she no longer seems angry.

…… Well, I know what she is asking about.

I guess she wants a comment about her swimsuit.

Kana in a white bikini.

It fits her image perfectly and looks good on her.

Even so … With a swimsuit, Kana’s chest looks even more amazing.

“Yes~, there’s nothing to say to Hasaki-senpai, right? Senpai?”

“Swimsuit, it looks good on you”

“Moーー!!!”

When I complimented Kana on her swimsuit, Touka glared at me resentfully and got angry.

“… T-Thank you. I didn’t expect to get a straight compliment like that. I’m very …… happy, I guess.”

Ehehe, said Kana while smiling shyly.

“Senpai, leave this stalker alone now…. You also have something-to-tell-me-right !?”

Touka says in a strong tone.

…… I was going to apologize honestly, but when she was so adamant about it, I got a little pissed off too.

“That T-shirt looks good on you”

“Are you kidding me?”

Touka gives me a seriously irritated look.

“My bad. …I didn’t mean to cheat on you. I just couldn’t refuse to go along with the pick-up because Asakura asked me to. I’m sorry.”

I said this after taking off my sunglasses and bowed to Touka.

“… I don’t think senpai, who has a beautiful girl girlfriend named me, would seriously pick on another woman, which is fine.”

Touka muttered so.

After hearing my honest apology, her irritation seemed to subside considerably.

“Just, if you’re going to the beach, …… make sure you invite me, too.”

While turning away from her face, Touka looked lonely and said so.

I’m sure she felt left out from the beginning, and that’s probably why she was so angry.

“I’m sorry. …… I’ll ask you out properly next time.”

“… If you understand it, then fine.”

Touka mumbles to my words, then holds my hand before saying.

“Then, let’s have a lot of fun now!”

With a bright expression on her face, Touka said, and now Kana too, after intertwining her arm with mine.

“Ah, Yuuji-kun! You’d better ask me out properly next time, too!”

Touka responded to Kana’s words, and I made up my mind while listening to them arguing again.

――I can’t let Asakura, who has zero life points after a failed pick-up attempt, see this situation coming, I thought.

I reply with a simple word, and the message is immediately replied to.

『Meet in front of the station at 10 o’clock』

Then, without a moment’s pause,

『And you can’t invite girls. Especially, no inviting Hasaki or Touka-chan!』

The message continued.

『I get it, but why?』

『I want to see Touka-chan and Hasaki in swimsuits so badly, really badly』

Then I thought, perhaps you should invite them,

『But more than that. …Because I don’t want to see Tomoki with two beautiful girls in swimsuits.』

The next message I received from Asakura weighed me down.

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“Now, we’ve arrived at… the sea!”

And the next day.

After taking a train and a bus, we arrived at the beach.

Asakura said this while already in his swimsuit and facing the ocean.

The muscles are naturally trained. It shows the effort that goes into daily club activities.

He plays volleyball, an indoor sport, but you can see faint sunburn marks, probably because he also practices outside.

“I knew it. The sun is still too bright.”

It was Ike who muttered this and squinted at the glare of the sun.

Tall and handsome, Ike looks good in anything he wears, but he also looks good in just a pair of beach pants.

Despite not being a member of an athletic club, his body was surprisingly well-trained and his physique was magnificent.

The fact that a gal in a swimsuit passing nearby glanced at such Ike and gossiped about him shows how good-looking he is.

“But then again, there are quite a lot of people here~.”

It was Kai who said with a wry smile.

He has moderately fine muscles, as if his strength training is paying off.

From a short distance away, I noticed a flamboyant gal looking at Kai with the eyes of someone who was looking at her prey.

After all, Kai is also a handsome man, so he must be popular in these places.

These four men are today’s members.

I turn to Asakura and ask him.

“So what am I supposed to do when I come to the beach? I’m sorry, but I have no idea, I have no experience.”

It was Kai who responded to my question.

“First, let’s put on some sunscreen, Tomoki-senpai!”

“No, you don’t have to do that, right?”

“You should not underestimate the summer sun, Tomoki-senpai. It really hurts if you don’t apply sunscreen often.”

Kai says with a serious expression on his face,

“Well, you’re absolutely right. I had a bad experience the other day when I was out training.”

Asakura agreed, chuckling weakly as he recalled that moment.

“I bring sunscreen, so please use it!”

With that said, Kai offers me the sunscreen.

“Then, I’ll use it with pleasure.”

We then apply the sunscreen we received from Kai to our bodies.

“I’m sorry, Tomoki-senpai. May I ask you to help me apply it to my back?”

Kai asks me in a sweet voice.

“Yeah, I don’t mind that much.”

I say this and then pick up the sunscreen before applying it to Kai’s back.

“I thought so when I saw you before, but you’re better than you were when we went to the hot springs. You got a nice body.”

When I said that, maybe Kai was embarrassed, blushing bright red up to his ears

“When Tomoki-senpai says that… I’m glad”

He muttered.

“I’m done applying it”

“Thank you! … This time, I will apply sunscreen to senpai’s back.”

“I see. That helps.”

I hand him the sunscreen.

Then Kai carefully applies sunscreen to every inch of my back.

“As I thought… senpai’s, so big.”

“Oh. …You don’t have to apply it so relentlessly, do you?”

When I ask,

“Y-You’re right. Haha, I’m sorry.”

Kai replied and stopped.

“Thanks for the help.”

I turn to Kai and say so,

“I am honored to be useful”

He said happily.

As I was impressed with what a junior who has a heart for seniors, Asakura called out.

“Okay, we’ve found a nice looking target, and now it’s time to go.”

“…What are you going to do?”

Ike asked this on behalf of those of us who did not understand the meaning of Asakura’s words.

“What, you said, it’s obvious what we would do if we came to the beach in the summer with a group of guys, right!?”

I look at Ike and Kai and tilt our heads.

When Asakura saw this, he covered his face exaggeratedly and lamented.

“Kaah! Seriously, you guys!? I can’t believe it!”

What’s with the tension today, Asakura.

“When you come to the beach, you have to pick up girls in swimsuits! That’s why I called you guys!”

Asakura speaks passionately.

I don’t know that you have to pick up girls when you come to the beach, but I can well understand why you brought two good-looking guys, Ike and Kai, for that purpose.

But then…

“I can see why you called Ike and Kai to pick up girls, because it’s going to attract a lot of different girls. But if someone tough like me is there, I don’t think it’s going to be much of a pick-up because it’s just going to scare the girls away.”

I said, and Asakura grinned.

“No, I’m not missing that point.”

After saying that, Asakura took out a pair of sunglasses from the pocket of his sea pants.

And he put it on me.

“Thus, wearing sunglasses and styling the hair properly…”

Then Asakura messes with my hair.

Then he nods in satisfaction and tells me with a smile.

“You see, I knew it! This way, you look like the kind of rugged, macho, party people guy that swimsuit gals would love to see!”

…… Is it really a compliment?

I’ve normally questioned it.

“I mean, if I wear sunglasses, I’m still a scary guy, right? I think it will only scare them off.”

Asakura cowered at my words.

Really, Asakura is very excited today.

“If normally you wore sunglasses, sure, you’d be just as scary, but we’re on the beach now.”

“Indeed. On the beach, the atmosphere is less intimidating with sunglasses on.”

Ike, who heard Asakura’s words, also agreed.

“Senpai with a different atmosphere is also wonderful.”

Then Kai said that and complimented me.

Apparently, combined with the atmosphere of the place, the scary face is a little less….

That said, does that really not scare them away?

When I’m worried about it…

“But Asakura. I’m not that interested in picking up girls.”

Asakura, full of motivation, was abruptly told by Ike.

“……Eh?”

Hearing Ike’s words, Asakura’s face instantly turned serious.

“Ah, I’m not interested in it either.”

To Asakura, Kai continues.

“Rather, I… will be scolded by Touka.”

To Asakura who had a blank expression on his face, I said with apologies.

I am sure that if I were to pick on the girls, it would only cause trauma to both me and the girls, and I would appreciate it if we could refrain from doing so.

Upon hearing our words, Asakura broke his knees and crouched on the spot.

Was he that shocked? That’s what I thought as I watched him.

A short time later, Asakura says in a trembling voice.

“It’s the summer of my second year in high school. It’s not all about club activities, like Ike and Tomoki… I just want to spend some time flirting with cute girls!”

After turning his clear eyes toward us, Asakura exclaims.

I’m not ruthless enough to say no when I hear that earnest look and voice.

The three of us nodded to each other and then reached out our hands to the crouching Asakura.

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And the result of picking up college girls with Asakura――.

“Ahre~, senpai? There is no way you would pick up a girl when you have a super beautiful girlfriend like me, right~?”

“Hey, Yuuji-kun. I’ve told you many times, right? If you’re tired of Touka-chan, you can call on me?”

…… For some reason, it became like a carnage.