Swimsuit Short Story: Suzune Horikita Chapter

"Swimsuit Short Story: Suzune Horikita Chapter" (水着ＳＳ・堀北鈴音編) is a short story from Gamers' store privilege for the first short story collection of You-Zitsu light novel series, interlocking with the purchase of the first volume of the manga series. Along with other four, it's a part of bonus swimsuit short stories.

Summary
During the summer holiday, while everybody was enjoying their vacation and were busy playing in the swimming pool, Horikita Suzune had continued training her swimming. When she reached the finish line, she was greeted by Ayanokouji, who was with her, noting her time.

Horikita grabbing the ladder asked if he saw her. Ayanokouji said that she was the only one still practicing during their vacation. She answered that she wasn't there to play and asked him why he threatened her to bring her to the pool. After a short banter between them, Ayanokouji asked her why was she training so hard and what was her goal.

Horikita, without answering glared at him and asked him why was he there if he wasn't going to play or train. Ayanokouji dodged the question with a jesting answer and added that even though there was a large number of people, only she was standing out, spreading an "I don't need friends" aura. She then asked him to swim so he could cool his head to which Ayanokouji retorted saying not to change the topic. She asked him to move away from the ladder to let her climb which Ayanokouji did. Ayanokouji then thought that if she were just to stay silent, she would have turned to be such a beauty. Horikita then answered the question about her goal and said that she was training hard as she doesn't want to experience defeat and have unnecessary feelings.

Feeling that it was the first time that Horikita displayed the signs of weakness, Ayanokouji tried to console her saying she won't be defeated easily. Hearing him, she returned to her usual behavior and said that he was saying something obvious. Seeing her like that, Ayanokouji felt that the reason he paid attention to her ever since enrolling was... before cutting his thoughts off.