Lonely Me and the Lonely Caring Goddess - Chapter 101

After getting out of the bathroom and taking a bath towel in the changing room, I wiped myself off, then put on the change of underwear and trousers I brought inside earlier.

The problem is my shirt – I guess I’ll just have to go out like this.

If it’s just my upper body, I’m sure Senpai will be okay with it… probably.

I put on a bath towel and left the changing room. Shirt, bandages, and compresses were all prepared inside the room. It looks like Sara-senpai prepared them all.

When we made eye contact with each other, we both turned red.

And seeing Sara-senpai looking embarrassed like this, I remembered it all over again…

“Ah… You’re imagining it again… Kazunari-san loves teasing me today…”

When you say it in such an embarrassing way, yet attempting to be dignified, I have no choice but to retort.

“I-I’m sorry, Sara-senpai. I’m sure you’re embarrassed, but as I thought, taking a bath together is hard…” 

“N-no, it’s not your fault. I’m sorry for showing this ugly side of me. But don’t worry. If it’s for Kazunari-san, I’ll do my best.”

She clenched his fists with both hands and gave a “guts pose.”

It was so cute and appealing to see her trying to do her very best…

And, as always, the words of refusal were not in my vocabulary.

I have to do my best. I don’t know what I have to do, but I’ll definitely do it.

“C-come, Kazunari-san, let’s wipe your head thoroughly first.”

She went behind me, lifted the bath towel above my head, and started wiping.

“*Wipe*.”

“Fufu… Please bear with it for a little while.”

Sara-senpai seemed to have gotten back into the swing of things, and returned to the usual generous onee-san-like character.

It seems she has some kind of switch, where she could become the slightly childish person or the gentle caring onee-san…

After wiping my head thoroughly, she proceeded to my shoulders, back, and other places, then put on my shirt.

By the way, I don’t have a hair dryer in this house.

“Now, Kazunari-san, sit over here, please.”

Bandage and other things were prepared on the table, so I sit on the chair and place my right arm on the table towards Sara-senpai.

She put a compress on it and wrapped the bandage around my arm.

“Yes, this should be good.”

“Thank you very much, and I’m sorry for everything…”

“No, no, don’t be. I’m doing all these because I want to.”

Sara-senpai frankly meant what she said. She is really a fantastic person… I’m really impressed by her.

After that, it was time for Sara-senpai to go home.

I’d like to escort her home, and said that I will, but…

“Kazunari-san, you are injured, so please be quiet and stay at home.”

I knew she would say that…

——————————————

Test… The last hurdle before summer break.

I haven’t skipped any classes, so I think my grades will be around average.

But this time, because I can’t use my right hand; well, I may have a hard time with subjects that have many essays or words to write.

“As an officer of the student council, I need you to at least get an above-average score. I didn’t require it last year, but we’ll be having study sessions after school for a few days until the test.”

Hnn… Being an officer of the student council… I guess I need to be careful about that aspect as well.

“President, please give us a teacher who can teach the study group.”

“I’ll see what I can do. But for the first year and second year studies, can I ask Satsukawa-san for help?”

“Hurray!”

“Yes! I’m pumped!”

“There are quite a few things I don’t understand.”

“Your motivations are obvious.”

“…I can see it clearly, too.”

It is well known that Sara-senpai has the best grades in her class.

The President has good grades too… But I wonder about everyone else.

“How are your studies going, Takanashi-kun?”

“I’m taking classes, but don’t study at home and only do homework. As expected, I guess that’s not good enough…?”

As I said that, the others joined in the conversation.

“For now, I only listen to the class.”

“I only study when I have something I don’t understand in class.”

“For me, I only study before a test.”

“Me too~.”

Am I the only one who doesn’t study?

Oh no, if I’m the only one getting bad grades, I will drag everyone down…

“You’ll do okay, Takanashi-san. I’ll teach you everything you don’t know.”

I asked Sara-senpai to continue calling me “Takanashi-san” at school.

The main reason was that I wanted us to call each other by first name in public only after we officially started dating… as a matter of personal decency.

There would probably be a lot of commotion, too, plus Sara-senpai loves the phrase “a secret between only the two of us.”

“Please take care of me! I’ll do my best!”

“I’m glad you’re psyched up, but please remember not to use your right hand too much.”

I will try to write with as little effort as possible, but the consequence is that my handwriting will be terrible…

——————————————

“Excuse me, Sara-senpai, here.”

“Yes. Do this, and then this here.”

My worst subject is math, so I tend to ask many questions about this subject.

I’m grateful that Sara-senpai teaches in an easy-to-understand manner.

“Thank you. I’ll solve it right away.”

“It’s okay, that’s why I’m here. Please keep asking me what you don’t understand.”

I have to achieve good grades for Sara-senpai, who teaches with a smile.

“H-Help, Satsukawa-san. How do you…”

“Have you read through the textbook entirely? Please research first before asking any questions.”

“Yes…”

“I knew it…”

“The fake study group plan is a failure…”

——————————————

Thanks to having a teacher like Sara-senpai, my studies were progressing at a good pace.

Not only during student council meetings, but also at home. She also taught me during her free time.

But what I still can’t get used to was…

“Kazunari-san, let me wash your back.”

“Y-yes! Please…”

It’s impossible not to be nervous about being alone with Sara-senpai in the bathroom.

“Fufu… How is it?”

Even though I’m still really nervous, Sara-senpai seemed to be getting more comfortable.

“Will five minutes suffice today too?”

I was frustrated that I wanted to get back at her.

“…You know what I’m doing, and you’d still ask that? You sure love to tease me, Kazunari-san…”

Guah…

Hearing Sara-senpai’s embarrassed voice, I was the one who ended up getting hit.