Chapter 137 I Understand A Little Bit
Edited by: Kanaa-senpai
He could understand.
Just a little.
(What am I saying…? How stupid do I sound…?)
He has memories from a life before this one.
He has a strange power. Something he can’t tell other people.
Those things… sure, they might explain why he’s different.
But just because his past is strange… doesn’t mean others should have to understand.
More than anything, his situation is just… too strange.
(So I guess… it’s up to me to choose between them.)
If there’s a right answer to this mess,
It’s probably that he never should have picked a partner at all.
But… that’s too late now.
Nobody can see the future.
”Akane, I’m sorry… I was selfish.”
Sniffle…
She cried loud. Shouted even louder.
Haruto just sat there, rubbing her back in silence.
And when her sobs started to quiet down, he finally spoke.
”I’ll decide. I’ll make it clear who I’m with… I’ll say it.”
Sniff…
Choosing between them.
That meant deciding: Akane… or Harue.
But if it was that simple…
He never would’ve asked for something nobody could understand in the first place.
Haruto looked at the clock.
The date had already changed.
He knew he couldn’t stay overnight.
He stood up to leave.
”I’ll call you later.”
”……”
He waited.
But Akane said nothing.
(Choosing one… even that might just be another selfish thing I do.)
Maybe this would be the last time he ever came to this room.
With that heavy thought in his chest, Haruto moved slowly toward the front door…
”Sniff… Haruto”
”…What?”
”I can forgive you… but only if you promise me one thing.”
”…One thing?”
”I’ll… I’ll be with Shouma-san and Papa… like that.”
”………”
”Because that’s what you’re doing, right? Then it’s only fair I do the same…”
She wasn’t wrong.
Everything she said made sense.
”…I’m sorry. I can’t do that.”
”Why not?”
”I just… can’t take the idea of you being with another man.”
”You’re so selfish.”
”I know… but that’s one thing I just can’t accept.”
”…I’m glad.”
”…Huh?”
”If you told me to accept Mama and Harue-san… and let myself be with another guy to make it ‘even’…
I couldn’t have done it.”
”…Akane…”
”So I’ll forgive you now. But only if you don’t… do that stuff in front of me.”
”Eh!? But that’s…”
”Because I’m going to be the one who makes you feel the best!”
A shocking declaration.
No, more than that—she was boldly saying she’d compete.
Like a challenge in love, in heart, and in body.
”You don’t have to push yourself. You’re still the most important one to me.”
”Do you say that to everyone?”
”No! I held back my feelings for Mom for so long. I tried so hard to control myself… But then I lost it. I… I couldn’t stop. I acted without thinking—wait! Hold on!!”
”With Harue-san… it wasn’t just recent, was it?”
”…No. I did see her as a woman for a long time. But I told myself—she’s family. I have to stop. But when I finally told her the truth… we both realized we’d felt the same way for a while. So we decided to stay together.”
”And with Mama…?”
”R-Remember when your dad was against me during high school? Back then, you and Yui-san talked about it… about asking her to join us. You remember that, right?”
”I-I do… wait, no way…”
”I tried really hard. I really did. But… it turned out like this.”
Akane had thought Haruto was just… dating three girls.
But now, after hearing everything, she felt like she could finally understand a tiny piece of this twisted story.
With Harue—it was because of past life memories. He had seen her as a woman.
But he tried to stop himself.
Still, when he lost control and confessed, they realized they both felt it.
With Yui—it had been a plan.
She and Haruto talked. They agreed.
That’s why she accepted even being massaged without clothes,
and why she didn’t complain when Haruto met Yui alone.
It wasn’t something she liked…
but now she could kind of understand.
”Haruto!! You didn’t explain any of this before!!”
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Edited by Kanaa-senpai.
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