- Thus the next day. As agreed upon, me and Kuroneko went out early in the day to buy a swimsuit.
- How to put it, as it's the first time buying a swimsuit together with a girlfriend I'm quite nervous.
- The previous evening I browsed through all the old magazines in which Kirino appeared. I intended to do it as a reasearch----- but these magazines were indeed not suitable, the swimsuits were all too daring. If I'm pressed, you would say that perhaps the blue one Ayase wore on a title page would be suitable for Kuroneko. But that was also a bikini. Even though this was what I thought, following happened when I was standing in the shop
- "... even though you said no bikinis, you are staying in the bikini area the entire time."
- Ah, I made my girlfriend angry.
- "Sorry, sorry, indeed we came here to buy a one-pieced swimsuit."
- ".... it was also said yesterday to leave it all to senpai."
- "Are you sure? Don't you have anything you like yourself?"
- "........ huh, it seems you understand nothing. Huh, that's why humans..."
- Kuroneko stopped and shrugged. With her a little bit acting like this, I fondly remembered the first time meeting her. This was one of her most beautiful expressions.
- Then-----
- "..... it's a swimsuit I wear for you, so of course it has to be according to your likes... please don't force me to say it out lout."
- "What, what if it's in contrast to what you like (?).... my, my tastes are also not that good."
- I was a little bit too embarrassed, so in order to hide my emotions, I sped to the one-pieced swimsuits.
- Then I pointed towards a couple of swimsuits.
- "How about this one?"
- "This one?"
- "Yes"
- ".......... If I'm not under a spell, then there are only school swimsuits."
- "No, I just think that this one will definitely suit you."
- I mean, this really, really is fitting. Is there another swimsuit in the world that suits Kuroneko better?
- "Sen~ pai~? ..... If you don't want to be cursed, then please choose seriously."
- Oh, oh.... she's angry, she's angry.
- "Ah, ok, sorry."
- "Honestly... I already have a school swimsuit. What sense does it make to come here and buy another."
- "I'm really sorry. I will earnestly look for one. How... how about this one?"
- The next one I chose was a pink one-pieced swimsuit with skirt-like edges.
- "What do you think? Even though it looks a little bit childish-----"
- Hm? While talking and talking I suddenly noticed that Kuroneko was staring at this swimsuit the entire time.
- ".... it, it really is an acceptable swimsuit..... your tastes are not bad, senpai."
- Really! Is the really okay! Unexpected... probably.
- Looking at those frilly skirt-like edges, it is rather similar to the clothes she normally wears.
- "Then... let's take this?"
- "Okay, this one it is."
- It really was chosen as simply as this.
- Holding the swimsuit Kuroneko proceeded to take out the money and bought it herself, really a girlfriend who wouldn't let me treat her to anything.
- This girl is very serious when it comes to that matter.
- After buying the swimsuit we directly went to the public pool.
- For the purpose of Kuroneko being able to swim before Hinata-chan and Tamaki-chan arrive.
- We split up in front of the dressing room, then I putted on the swimming trunks she chose for me and headed out.
- "Ku... hot!"
- This very clear day is absolutely a good day for swimming. I did some warm-up exercises next to the pool and carefully stretched myself.
- "......... sorry for the wait"
- Wearing the swimsuit I just chose for her, my girlfriend arrived.
- ".....ah"
- Compared to that goth-loli bikini the revealed parts of the body greatly decreased, but nevertheless my heart started to pound.
- It pounded even stronger than yesterday, perhaps because she was wearing the swimsuit I selected.
- "Ha... this, looks good."
- "Really?.... So happy to hear that."
- Kuroneko replied me in such a timid voice that I couldn't resist patting her on the head.
- Perhaps I hadn't been aware of that, or even thought entirely different.
- ...... that I actually like those type of girls that are younger than me.
- "Good, then ---- before starting the swimming exercises, let's warm up first."
- "Okay, understood, senpai."
- "Don't say okay, say 'Yes, Teacher'."
- I spoke it while doing a kind of pose. She frowned a second, then smiled and said
- "Yes, teacher ---- please take care of me."
- "............. uh."
- After a couple of minutes ---- I discovered something new about my girlfriend.
- Right then we were standing face to face in the pool, with the waterline reaching to the chest.
- "Kuroneko.... you"
- "..... wha, what."
- "Are you.... an idiot when it comes to sports?"
- "............................."
- Apparently hurt by the comment, Kuroneko silentely turned sidewards.
- Since looking at her whilst preparing ----- no, since I secretly watched her in the sports classes I already began to feel that way.
- "First, your body is too rigid."
- During the stretching exercises, she struggled and struggled, but was not able to touch the ground. When I wanted to help her by pushing her back down, she suddenly let out a H-sound. Really couldn't help it... That's not right! How can you make this kind of sound in a public bath---- honestly.
- "..... I'm really sorry. But I belong to the stay-inside-faction."
- "Even if it's like that... you still are a young person."
- Manami's body is also rigid as hell. As she is a grandma she makes 'oh, yoi, yoi .... oh, yoi, yoi..' kind of sounds when I'm helping her.
- "Furthermore, you are too afraid of the water."
- Even if one drop of water gets on her face, she starts to wipe around like crazy, when her feet touch the surface of the water she starts shouting like 'eh~ eh~', this absolutely is not okay.
- How can you take your sisters to the beach when like that? The reputation as an onee-san would be completely blown away.
- I don't really understand what those overly water-fearing people are thinking. They obviously have no problem bathing in the tub.
-"Why do you fear it like that? Did you nearly drown in the past?
- "... huh... that's the scar of a battle with a demon in the Agean.... a long long time ago."
- "Don't try to go around it using some kind of strange lines."
- "My, my preexistence was able to swim, really!"
- That was the first time I heard such a time-jumping excuse.
- "Mah... at this point we only can continue to work."
- Even though it looks like it will end up in a failure, let's see how far we get.
- First it's... moving the legs in the water. No... before that one first has to learn how to breathe while in the water.
- After an hour of training, Kuroneko was finally able to kick her legs in the water, while I held her. Although it is far from having 'learnt how to swim', a result is a result after all.
- "Puah!" Kuroneko raised her head out of the water. Then she shook her head, spraying the water all over the place, just like a cat.
- "Good. About time to rest, shall we get something to eat?"
- "You're right... Hah, I just can't do it."
- "Don't worry. You have made some progress."
- ".... but still... compared to what was promised to Hinata and Tamaki..."
- "It will indeed be tough to catch up to that."
- "In this case..."
- Kuroneko is probably intending to refuse going to the pool with her sisters before she is able to swim.
- "Even in this case it's still meaningful. At least the current Kuroneko can save Tamaki-chan when she falls over in the children's pool, right?"
- Before, Kuroneko wasn't able to do even this much.... Therefore the lessons did have their worth.
- "Besides, I'm also here."
- "... don't, don't say those cool-sounding words, senpai."
- "That is only natural, right. As a boyfriend... you have to act cool in front of your girlfriend!"
- "Is that so. Then, I'll also do something a girlfriend would do."
- Splash. Kuroneko rose from the pool and made a pleased face.
- "I've made bentos."
- We left the pool area, went outside, sat on a long park bench and started to eat these bentos.
- Kuroneko's outfit today was also the 'holy angel Kamineko'. So of course she drew the sights of the people around. My heart at this point was already more than able to withstand those piercing gazes, while I was walking besides my girlfriend on a date. I really did grow stronger.
- Like during the first date, inside the basket were sandwiches.
- "Lately you seldomly make rice balls anymore."
- "Eh heh. That's because even though you usually are of the Japanese-style-food-faction, when it comes to bento you are of the Western-style-faction."
- "Ah, when you put it like that it certainly sounds true."
- Quite surprising, even I myself hadn't realized that.
- I bit off a part of that little sandwich.
- "Mhm! Tastes great ---- sandwich with jam?"
- "Yes. This one is with chocolate, this one with lettuce and that one with egg. All in all, it's great if the tastes can satisfy you."
- "Mhmhm, very satisfied."
- "I see.. if you have some requests, feel free to ask them."
- "Nothing right now."
- I was virtually too satisfied and had no other wishes.
- "When thinking hard about it..... probably a little bit of meat."
- "Meat..."
- "Yes, yes. In case of sandwiches, like with tuna, pork, ham, or something like that."
- "I see."
- "And speaking of sandwiches, it would be great, if they were slightly bigger, don't cut them this small."
- "What 'thinking hard about it', these are a lot of requests."
- "It was you who said I shouldn't hesitate."
- "Yes, yes, these opinions help. Honestly, if you have a boyfriend with requirements when it comes to food it really is bothersome. Then, take this."
- Kuroneko handed me a tiny sandwich.
- "Eh? What's that?"
- ".........Ah......"
- "What are you saying?"
- Her voice was too small to understand her.
- Having said that, Kuroneko's face turned red and her finger tips also began to shake----
- "....Ah~~~~ please open your mouth."
- "You, you cut those sandwiches to this size for this reason!"
- "That's one part of the event... come, give it up."
- It, it's embarrassing as hell... are you intending to kill me?
- "Honestly--- Eh, eh, eh, no way around it. ---- I just have to open it!"
- ".... huh... that's more like senpai. Good, I'm coming.... ah~~~~~"
- "Ah~~~~~ ---- ku, really embarrassing this is."
- "Huhu... shall we repeat it? Good, ah~~~~~"
- "You, you come again!"
- Kuroneko always seems to be happy when it comes to eating. Surely I am the same.
- Then------
- After eliminating the delicious bentos we returned to the pool-------- Although I really do want to write this, in reality it wasn't so.
- When we had packed up and were about to leave
- "You, you, wait right there."
- The holy angel Kamineko was questioned by a police patrol.
- Eh, me and Kuroneko were confounded and could do nothing else than just wait there in confusion.
- "Eh?"
- "Do you mean us?"
- We answered similarly like this. Then were were asked something close to "Yes, correct. Are you students? Which school? Can you take a minute and answer our questions?" Well, something like this. Because it's summer vacations it's probably hard to distinguish students.
- "Hah"
- "............"
- I had the feeling that Kuroneko was not feeling well facing this police patrol, standing there silently, so it was mostly me who did the answering.
- The first time going to a date at the pool.
- Then, questioned by the police for the first time.
- The police patrol smiled in a subtle way (eyes were not smiling) and asked
- "Do you have your ID's with you?"
- "Ah ~ I do. A school ID." I looked at Kuroneko and asked "You also have yours with you, right?" But Kuroneko only shook her head.
- "It seems that only I have one."
- "No problem, let me have a look."
- The policeman who took my school ID nodded with a mmhm~ mmhm~and looked at it for a while.
- "Kousaka Kyousuke-kun... mmhm, sorry. Lately the residents here say that strange people have appeared, it's only due to caution that we've called you out. We won't bother you for long."
- "Strange people? Ha~ ha~ ha"
- No matter how you look at it, we don't seem like strange people, do we. What's this policeman doing~
- Right Kuroneko? I used the moment to glance over at my girlfriend.
- ".... hu, hu... really.... really impolite." (note, this part also could mean something like 'sorry' in Chinese, but I still went with something like this)
- A strange person!
- Ah~ I see. Because of the presence of the holy angel here, the police patrol noticed us, so I took up my courage and tried to explain.
- "Ahm.... This~"
- Cold sweat ran down my body, as I once again turned to the policeman.
- "Is that your girlfriend? This outfit is really incredible."
- "Hahahahahahaha"
- I could only pass this through laughing like an idiot!
- "This, ahm, you see.... do you know cosplay?"
- "Ah~ yes, I know, I know."
- I could only point the policeman towards this direction. Just when I was about to do this, an unexpected rebuttal came forward.
- "Cosplay? Huh, that's absolutely not the case. This is a 'holy angel outfit'."
- "What's a holy angel outfit?"
- Don't ask me!
- "This~ This, is the name of the outfit she's wearing..."
- What is this for a questioning, that's too agonizing!
- "Your girlfriend, why is she also wearing wings?"
- How should I know! When I wanted to reply 'isn't it part of an angel~'
- "..... Kukuku.... as you are asking so sincerely, then let me mercifully enlighten you... that's the result of the 'conversion' from the darkness into the light... to put it in other words, these are wings of love. But this is only an illusion. In reality they are far bigger than that...."
- "Say, your girlfriend doesn't have any problems, does she?
- I was on the verge of dying.
- "Well then, can I have a look at your bag?"
- "Yes....."
- Time passed so slowly, as I was questioned by the police for the first time in my life.