Chapter 105 - Goddess's Visage

As the train quickly sped past multiple areas, the scenery rapidly changed and blurred while Takei absentmindedly stared out the window.

It would only be a matter of minutes before they finally reached their destination.

Although Takei was only in his school uniform today, he made sure to tidy up his appearance before heading to school this morning.

After shaving his facial hair and slightly gelling his hair back, Takei looked like the protagonist of a harem manga.

Needless to say, he was objectively very handsome without the long bangs covering his face.

Apparently, Takei was handsome enough to notice that the person next to him was drooling without even noticing it.

He motioned Akari to come closer to him, and she did as instructed.

"That's not very ladylike with what you're doing."

"!"

Takei pointed towards her mouth and let out a light snicker.

Akari immediately cleaned up the drool with a cloth and averted her eyes from him for the rest of the train trip.

Seeing the meek and embarrassed Akari was always a refreshing sight for Takei.

A couple minutes passed after this event happened, the train finally reached its destination.

They both got off the train and proceeded to walk towards the mall.

It looked like Akari was no longer embarrassed by the drooling, since she had a normal relaxed expression on her face.

"Ah, I think it's over here!"

Excitedly pointing towards the west section of the mall, Akari told Takei that the swimsuit ship was just around the corner.

They entered the store and witnessed the true reality of the swimsuit store.

Although it was advertised for both genders, there was obviously a skewed gender ratio of the shoppers.

For every three women, there was about one male.

Even if they were male, an overwhelming majority of them were just stuck with shopping with their girlfriends.

It was quite obviously no different for Takei.

"Oh! Those colors and designs look perfect!"

Akari giddily skipped towards a section of the swimsuit ship that had attracted her attention.

However, it caused all of the males in the store to glance her way for a second.

Which ended up earning them a slip on the wrists by their girlfriends, no doubt.

Yeah, you bet that right! My girlfriend is the cutest there is!

Takei monologued about his superior girlfriend in his head as he saw the males gawk at her.

As this was happening, Akari hopped back into his vision while holding two swimsuits.

One of them was a frilly blue polka-dotted bikini that didn't leave much to the imagination.

The other was a more conservative and streamlined white one-piece swimsuit that was easy on the eyes and incited a different emotion than the sexiness of the first option.

"I didn't know which one you would like more, so I grabbed two of these that I thought were cute."

"The second one."

"That was fast?!"

Akari had only brought these swimsuits over to gauge Takei's reaction, but he had answered with no hesitation at all.

"I don't want others seeing you like that, so please choose the one that covers more..."

Takei expressed some of his selfish desires, which made Akari gently smile at him.

"Of course, you're the target audience here."

Listening to his request, Akari returned the first swimsuit to its original position.

"I'm sorry about my selfishness..."

Takei felt that he was a bit too controlling and forceful about his decision, so he genuinely apologized.

"There's nothing to apologize for? This was my own decision, since I'm catering to your tastes." Akari nonchalantly explained. "It seems that my boyfriend likes more reserved clothing~"

Akari had already known Takei's preferences beforehand, but she still wanted to ask anyways.

After hearing her explanation, Takei gulped and once again realized how heavy his girlfriend's feelings truly were.

"Thank you."

In a small voice due to the growing happiness that was building up inside of him, Takei thanked Akari for her careful consideration.

"Yes, yes, now please stand outside while I go look for some more seductive clothing to destroy your reasoning with."

"..."

Not even wanting to comment on that, Takei obediently followed her instructions and waited outside of the store.

What seemed like an eternity passed as Takei leaned against a pillar outside the store while he waited for Akari to finish.

What's taking her so long?

"Hey you there, are you free?"

"Want to come play with us?"

Two older girls wearing a different high school uniform came over and asked if he would like to entertain them for a while.

It seemed that his makeover had proven a little bit too effective.

Takei didn't feel like entertaining these girls, so he tried his best to politely refuse.

"Ah, not really. I'm a bit busy right now."

"You're not waiting on someone, right?"

"Just come and hang with us for a bit, I promise we'll show you a good time~"

Even with his refusal in their faces, the two older girls refused to back down and proved persistent even in the face of rejection.

However, that wouldn't last long.

"Takei, I'm done!"

Akari left the store with a big bag of clothing in hand.

Judging by her impeccably cheerful demeanor, most people would assume that Akari was in a very good mood right now.

However, Takei knew this was not the case.

There was a slight twitch in her expression that rang alarm bells inside of his head.

"Tch."

Once the two girls saw who Takei was waiting for, they immediately left due to Akari's unparalleled beauty.

After they left, Akari hopped over and hugged his arm hard.

"Ouch, hey... You're hurting me..."

"I'm a little bit miffed, if you couldn't tell."

Takei's right arm was being heavily crushed by Akari's surprising gorilla strength.

He could tell that this was her way of calming down and relaxing, since she had a stressed-out expression on her face that was slowly relaxing.

Takei lightly ruffled her hair with his non-dominant hand and reminded her once more of his feelings.

"Don't worry, my heart is only for you."

Hearing that, Akari's expression brightened up immensely until it was too blinding for Takei to look at.

Once she fully recovered, an exasperated expression appeared on her face.

"Why do you have to be so handsome... It troubles me a lot more than you would think..."

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Idiot Couple Meter: 56 -> 60%

We love a protective girlfriend!

Serious-san: Shall we dance m'lady?

Sugar-san: I don't know how...

Serious-san: Just follow my lead, I'll show you my true power!