Swimsuit Short Story: Airi Sakura Chapter

"Swimsuit Short Story: Airi Sakura Chapter" (水着ＳＳ・櫛田桔梗編) is a short story from Melon Books' 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
As afternoon in the leisure pool is the peak time, more students were gathered and it was crowded everywhere. To Kiyotaka who loves act alone thought that this was a good time to pull away from his group -- from Horikita and the others. However, as he was about to depart, someone pulled his arm. That person was Airi, who was standing among the crowd looking at Kiyotaka with full concern. Both of them are not good at coping with big crowds, thus, they decided to move onto the corner to at least upheave their discomfort. Though at some moments they were almost separated from one another as either one of them is being swallowed by the crowd, to Kiyotaka, all of this is just an entertainment for him. Finally, he set aside his little silly game and seriously aimed for Airi. In order not to get scattered with the latter, they followed the wall of the facility near to them.

Kiyotaka broke the ice by asking Airi whether she's going to swim or not. To which, the latter replied that she's going to pass given that she's not good at it. She also asked Kiyotaka the same question while being feeling sorry that he has to stay with her instead of having a good time with himself. The latter teased the former that she's totally not causing him any trouble by staying with her and affirmed that he's really 'very happy' that he's spending his moment with her at the time being.

Airi lightens up a bit and changed her mind. She resolved that she'll be going to spend a little bit of her time swimming along with Kiyotaka. To ensure that she's not going to pull back, Kiyotaka called on Airi to remove her top. Of course, to Airi, that would be a little bit embarrassing, with so many people around them. However, he assured him that they are going to be seen as invisible since their inconspicuousness had been evaluated with high marks. and that both of their presence was almost non-existence. To completely assure her of everything's going to be fine, Kiyotaka offered himself to be a guard for her -- someone who will conceal her from the public. He assured that he won't gaze and look back at her.

While Airi was changing, though he wasn't looking, Kiyotaka was somehow aroused as he kept the surreal sound of friction of her coat from behind resonating in his head. The moment ended with them agreeing on plunging themselves at the pool while holding each other's hand -- a couple alone in a trance -- feeling happy regardless of how mundane the future that they'll be facing soon.