Stealing Spree

Chapter 369: The Club Without Ogawa (2)

”Err… Sheʼs right, Onoda-kun. Stop that. Youʼre not intruding at all, these guys are just not used to having you around.”

Arisa-senpai hurriedly said as she scanned the room with her eyes to get their agreement.

However, not everyone answered favorably to that statement. Thereʼs Izumi-senpai with her knitted eyebrows as she mouthed something to Arisa-senpai. And thereʼs Tadano who kept his silence.

Either way, I expected this outcome.

If anything, itʼs the truth that my presence was disrupting the harmony in this room.

When Nami released my cheeks and I turned my head to Arisa-senpai, we couldnʼt help but exchange wry smiles to each other.

”Alright, I wonʼt apologize. Instead, please let me stay here!”

After saying that in a louder voice than normal, I stood up and bowed once more.

Startled by my voice, Izumi-senpai ended up being taken aback and Tadano frowned deeply.

In the end, the two released a sigh before finally giving their acknowledgement.

”Thatʼs a great shout, Ruu. Now sit, this is a rare chance, let me be this close to you.” With a meaningful smile, Nami pulled me back down before resting her head on my shoulder. One of her arms also slipped behind me as it ended up holding me to my waist.

As the other members of the club saw that, they all had different reactions. Naturally, the most notable was Hina who looked as if she wanted to do the same.

However, with our sitting arrangement, Nami was sandwiched between us so thereʼs no way for her to do the same.

In the end, she settled with stealthily stretching her arms from behind Nami and tugging onto the hem of my uniform. Sheʼs asking for me to hold her hand.

When I took her hand, I could imagine that we became similar to that notable photo on the internet.

Holding another girlʼs hand when the guyʼs girlfriend was leaning onto him.

Soon enough, they finally resumed their Club Activity with me as an observer.

If not for Arisa-senpai, the time would most likely run out with a thick veil of awkwardness inside the room.

Theyʼre the Student Support Club so their activity was actually from their 1st client and no, itʼs not from Shizuʼs Student Council.

Itʼs from a teacher in charge of the Mentor Program.

He tasked the club to sort out the report sent by mentors.

Right. As it turns out, the Mentors had the duty to report what happened during the program.

Thinking back to why Izumi-senpai was somewhat against my presence here, it solved the mystery.

She probably didnʼt want me to read about her report on me.

Naturally, it got me curious that I whispered to Nami to look for Izumi and Arisa-senpaiʼs report.

Still with that meaningful smile of hers, Nami nodded.

With a lot of hands working here, thereʼs a possibility for her to miss it but thatʼs fine.

Because when I whispered to Nami, I made sure that Izumi-senpai was looking at me.

As soon as I finished, I met Izumi-senpaiʼs slightly glaring eyes.

Naturally, I also gave her a smile but the effect was… Izumi-senpai raised a fist as if warning me that I would taste that if I continued with what I was thinking.

”Izumi, what are you doing?”

And seeing her friendʼs silly antics, Arisa-senpai couldnʼt help but ask.

Before she could follow Izumi-senpaiʼs gaze, I took back my gaze and acted as if I was focusing on watching Nami.

”Look here, Ruu.”

A few minutes later, Nami lifted a paper and showed it to me.

Looking at the handwriting and at the name of the Mentor, it was Arisa-senpaiʼs report.

”Hey! No reading!” And noticing her familiar handwriting, Arisa-senpai shouted before lunging forward to take it from Nami.

Sheʼs successful but I already read the first half of the content.

Although she wrote Ogawaʼs name, what was written there was what happened to us in that abandoned classroom. Obviously, minus the fact that I tried hugging her and telling her that I am interested in her.

She just noted that ʼOgawa-kunʼ was a great mentee that had the true passion to learn from someone.

”Onoda-kun, why are you smiling?”

”Nothing, senpai. Ogawaʼs lucky to have you as his Mentor.”

”You donʼt say. You also have Izumi as your Mentor, Onoda-kun.” And from the side, Kikuchi lifted a paper with Izumi-senpaiʼs name on it.

”Hey, Noriko put that down!” Izumi-senpai instantly shouted. Because of the distance, she couldnʼt do what Arisa-senpai did.

Using only her voice naturally resulted in failure.

Before she could stand up, Kikuchi began reading it.

”Onoda-kun is an exemplary mentee. Heʼs easy to teach and heʼs someone easy to get along with…”

The first half goes like that but the second half which probably pertained to Tuesday flipped over.

”Onoda-kun is a hateful and shameless guy. Instead of learning from me, I ended up learning something new from him. I honestly donʼt look forward to seeing him again but for this program, I will persevere.”

When Kikuchi finished reading the whole report, Izumi-senpai was already slumping down her desk with her exposed ear as red as a ripe tomato.

”Is this true, Onoda-kun? That youʼre hateful and shameless?” Ignoring the overheating Izumi-senpai from embarrassment, Kikuchi asked me a question.

When that happened, everyone in the club except Izumi-senpai perked their ears to hear my answer.

Well, the five girls here apart from Kikuchi herself already know the answer from it but perhaps theyʼre anticipating how I would answer it, everyoneʼs gazes fell on my person.

”Am I hateful and shameless? The answer is yes.”

”Wow. Admitting it like that. Can you elaborate about it?”

”Letʼs see. If Izumi-senpai is fine with it then… I will say it.”

”Donʼt you dare!” Izumi-senpai roared and this time, she stood up and went over to my side.

Due to that, Nami and Hina, whoʼs connected to me with both of their hands, removed their hold on me.

As soon as Izumi-senpai arrived behind me, her arms put me in a chokehold. However, instead of my neck, she covered my mouth.

And because of that, my head pressed onto her soft hills. Although itʼs not as big as my Kana, I believed that it would spill in my hands if I tried cupping it.

Ah. Wait. My perverseness acted up again. How did I even analyze it through my head?

”Nami, Iʼm sorry but I need to silence this boyfriend of yours.”

”Un. Feel free to do that, Izumi. Just donʼt break his neck. I still want to walk with him today.”

Nami winked at me while keeping that meaningful smile. Just looking at her eyes, this girl was enjoying this.

In any case, I was also enjoying this part. Although Izumi-senpai was restraining me, a little exertion of force could release me.

Her hold was weak after all. Or I was just sufficiently stronger than her.

Nonetheless, I wouldnʼt do that, I was still enjoying the soft sensation behind me. And until now, the girl was clueless about it.

She had a smug smile as if I was currently in the palm of her hand.

”Rest assured. Arisa, take that paper from Noriko.”

Arisa-senpai who was watching everything unfold had an expression of helplessness on her face. For sure, she wanted to reprimand her friend for what sheʼs doing but seeing how elated Izumi-senpai was, she could only shake her head and follow her.

In the end, I was only released by Izumi-senpaiʼs hold when Arisa-senpai managed to take the paper from Kikuchi.

Ah. Thatʼs a nice experience but the girl in question was oblivious to that… I turned that pseudo-victory of hers to my favor.

Without Ogawa, this club was turning out to be fun. Ah, except that frowning Tadano.