Hearing Shioyaki Lemon's questioning, Imaizumi Keita's face remained serious, though with a bit more helplessness.
He didn't answer directly, but reached out and gently ruffled Lemon's refreshing short hair.
The strands were slightly stiff, carrying a unique scent of sunshine mixed with sweat.
"I didn't do anything bad to you."
Imaizumi Keita finished ruffling her hair and answered in a flat tone.
Shioyaki Lemon's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, dropped halfway. She was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when she heard Imaizumi Keita slowly add the second half of the sentence.
"But... you, Lemon, did something bad to me."
"Eh?!"
Shioyaki Lemon's eyes widened, feeling as if she had misheard something.
I did something bad to Kin-chan?
How is that possible!
"Impossible!" Shioyaki Lemon subconsciously retorted, her cheeks flushing with urgency. "H-How could I do something bad to Kin-chan! Stop joking!"
"I'm not joking."
Imaizumi Keita reached out and squeezed Lemon's palm, saying, "What happened in the Infirmary that day after you fainted from heatstroke... Lemon, do you really have no impression of it at all?"
What exactly... what exactly happened?
The image of Kin-chan's face leaning in close flashed through Shioyaki Lemon's mind. Was that actually real?
According to Kin-chan, could it be that she was the one who leaned in?
Seeing her thoughtful look, Imaizumi Keita continued to explain.
"After you lost consciousness from heatstroke, you kept crying out that it was hot. I was going to use the cooling spray I found in the warehouse to help you cool down, but you took off your sports top in two or three moves."
"Eh?!! Huh?!!"
Shioyaki Lemon felt her mind go blank.
S-She... suddenly took off her top?
In front of Kin-chan?
"Then, with your upper body bare like that, you hugged me tightly, constantly mumbling things like 'cool' and'so comfortable'... I couldn't push you away no matter how I tried. You were acting just like a delinquent girl."
D-Delinquent...
The vivid scene automatically generated and played in her mind, making her wish she could find a hole to crawl into on the spot.
She... took off her top... hugged Kin-chan tightly... and acted like a rogue?
T-This sounds like the kind of perverted behavior that only happens in manga!
No, it's impossible... But Kin-chan's expression is so serious, it doesn't look like he's joking at all...
Did she really do something so shameless while unconscious?
Her thoughts were a mess, her mind filled with a defenseless sense of shame.
Amidst this chaos, a thought broke through the obstacles and suddenly surfaced.
Wait... if what Kin-chan said is true, then doesn't that mean...
"Kin-chan, you... you saw?"
She squeezed out these words in a voice like a mosquito's buzz.
"Saw what?"
Imaizumi Keita asked knowingly.
"I mean... my... breasts..."
When those few words left her mouth, Shioyaki Lemon felt like the image she had built up before was completely ruined.
No, maybe it was already ruined in front of Kin-chan long ago...
She wanted to dig a hole on the playground and bury herself right now, too embarrassed to look at Kin-chan.
"Yeah, I saw."
Imaizumi Keita answered crisply and neatly, without the slightest hesitation.
Receiving this affirmative answer, Shioyaki Lemon instead calmed down in a 'broken jar' sort of way.
She looked up and glared at Imaizumi Keita with eyes full of shame, indignation, and self-abandonment.
"Then... is there anything you can prove?!"
She didn't know why she asked such a question. Perhaps a sliver of hope remained in her subconscious that this was all just Kin-chan's prank.
Hearing this, Imaizumi Keita sighed and answered.
"Above your left breast and below your collarbone, there's a very tiny light brown mole."
"..."
It's over...
It's true...
Everything is true...
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