Does This Love Suit Your Taste? - Volume 1 Chapter 2.5
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The First Kiss Tasted Like Lemon 5
“You… when it comes down to it, you’re just a shitty woman…”
When I said that, Shirahime showed a moment of confusion.
“I don’t want to be told that by a problem child…”
Shirahime, who conforms to others, and me, living for myself.
Indeed, my ideology and Shirahime’s are completely at opposite poles.
Fundamentally, everything is different; she is a woman incompatible with me.
“I get it now. Basically, you’re on my old man’s side, my enemy. Ah, it’s refreshing to have it all out in the open! Who in their right mind would say ‘yes, I’ll marry you’ with that attitude? Don’t get too cocky just because you’re a model, you two-faced woman!”
“What, jealous!? I can’t help it if you’re bitter about not being popular~”
“Hah! No need for you to say it yourself!”
“And yet you were the one who kept making eye contact and blushing——!”
“Wha… Still, in the end, you’re the one who got rejected by me——!”
” “Huff- huff-…” “
Both of us were out of breath after the argument.
Fundamentally, we’re in completely opposite directions. There’s no point in arguing any further.
“Anyway, marriage is out of the question. Come on, let’s go. You can just make something appropriate up for your father.”
As I turned on my feet towards the stairs leading down the mountain, Shirahime stubbornly called out to stop me.
“W-Wait!”
With her eyes growing cloudier, Shirahime said in a slightly restrained voice.
“I’ve said it earlier, but I don’t want to call off the marriage just because of your personal circumstances. This is not… this is not just my problem…”
“What are you, a dog? You don’t have to blindly obey everything your parents say.”
“I don’t want to be so selfish…”
“…What?”
Shirahime just made a pained face. Come to think of it, it was rare to see the always-smiling Shirahime discard her smile and show sadness, fear, or anger. These normal human expressions seemed so rare coming from Shirahime.
“Please… what can I do to make you listen to me?”
Shirahime was persistent to no end.
Despite clearly stating her dislike, she still intended to marry such a person; this woman must be out of her mind.
No, wait a second… If she dislikes me, that could simplify things.
Even if Shirahime acts for someone else, there must be limits to what she can do.
So, if my demands reach beyond what Shirahime can endure——
“Right, you were saying something about Venus and all that earlier, right?”
“…the story about pledging love to Venus?”
“That’s the one. You’re planning to pledge your love to me, someone you dislike?”
“Well…”
“Then give me a kiss. Right here, right now.”
Shirahime’s face looked startled.
“…A kiss?”
“Yeah, a kiss. Kiss this brat who’s got his ears pierced right here and pledge your love to Venus. If you can do that, I’ll listen to whatever you say.”
Shirahime froze, then looked at me with a serious face.
What’s with that expression…
“L-look, you don’t like it, right? Did you think you could get married without doing it? You see, that’s what marriage is all about~. If you can’t do it, then this conversation is ove——!? Wait——”
Mmmfhh♡
I was frozen stiff at the soft sensation I felt on my lips.
She really kissed me. A mouth-to-mouth kiss.
With me being less than 170 centimeters tall and Shirahime wearing heels, there was no need for her to stand on tiptoes; my eyes were at the same level as Shirahime closed hers.
Her ten fingers were placed on my cheeks, her fingertips clasping my ears, holding my head.
Then her cold eyes opened up at zero distance——
Mmwhh♡
“Mmmffnh…!?”
As I stood there dumbfounded, waiting for our lips to part—something moist entered my mouth and intertwined with my tongue.
This girl… she’s using her tongue…
The warmth of a person that’s neither cold nor hot, the sweet scent of vanilla perfume, the faintly sweet and sour taste of a palate-cleansing lemon sorbet.
I feel dizzy… My senses were in a whirl.
With the sound of lips, Shirahime’s smooth tongue rolls around inside my mouth. For some reason, it felt awkward.
“Fwah-…”
Finally, our faces parted.
Shirahime licks her lips as if savoring the taste. Her cheeks were tinged with a hint of red, yet her expression seemed slightly triumphant.
” ….?”
“Perhaps a French kiss is more to the taste of a bistro’s garçon?” (waiter)
I was completely dazed, embarrassed and in a state of shock.
Did she really kiss me? For real? How can she kiss me so easily…? Is the bar for kissing that low? Have most people already done it?
I mean, it’s a form of greeting in the West and she’s half… But still, that was way too intense…
—Did I really kiss Shirahime Rira just now?
While I was lost in thought, Shirahime smirked while lifting the corners of her mouth after having fulfilled the condition I had set.
“By the way, you’re going to do as I say, right? The school’s number one problem child-kun?”
“What… this is not my intention…”
“You let it happen.”
Shirahime shook her short hair and displayed a devilish smile that was completely different from the persona she showed at school. She pointed to her lips with her index finger.
“You should fulfill your promise. Otherwise, I’ll use these lips as evidence and tell my agency and Papa that I was threatened and forced into kissing you.”
Her devoid of any hint of romantic intention sent me plummeting into an abyss of despair.
“That way, you’ll be in jail for sexual harassment and I won’t have to marry you.”
Mmm-hmmm- , Shirahime nodded cutely twice.
“Perfect!”
How so?
“N-no, isn’t it weird? Weren’t you the one who was always nagging me to get married? If anything, I should be the one going to the police instead——”
Then, with an air of ennui, Shirahime let out a sweet sigh and turned her gaze toward the illuminated nightscape.
“I wonder who people would believe between a girl like me and a problem child like you.”
Hmm…?
“…Sorry”
“Right~, I wonder what should I do~”
With a twirl, Shirahime now leans her back against the handrail, waiting for my reply with a composed expression. As if her personality wasn’t interesting enough, now she’s got a hold on my weakness too. How much darker can her true nature be?
But I can’t trade my spine for my belly. To protect my dignity at all costs, I have no choice but to follow her lead for now.
“What should I do…”
“Isn’t that obvious? Of course it’s an engagement. I’ll be in trouble if you don’t become the president, so you’ll have to give up on the shop, come to school every day, and then we will——hmm—”
Fluttering the contents of the pledge, Shirahime pointed the tip of her index finger sharply at my face as if she had cleared away her hesitation.
“Anyway, there’s no other way for you but to silently listen to everything I say. Got it?”
“…Listen to you? I’m not your servant.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Gah… Hey, you’re strangling me…”
Shirahime held my tie as if it were a leash used for a dog and lifted my chin with her other hand.
“Of course, we’re getting properly engaged, but from today on, you’re my servant who will listen to anything I say. That’s what I’m telling you. I might as well break that annoying pride of yours and reform a hopeless problem child like you. Got it?”
Shirahime brings her face closer, forming a hideous smile with that neat face.
Is this girl serious…?
“Reform? That’s a good joke…ugh!”
Shirahime’s sadistic aura is so out of place in this romantic location. Even the countless locks that are said to bind love to the iron bars seemed like they were there just to ‘lock’ the doors of my future.
“I’ll ask you one more time. Will you swear your love to me here?”
“I swear…ugh! I swear! I swear!”
“Very well.”
Shirahime’s bewitching smile floated in the dim darkness of the night.
“From today on, you belong only to me, Toui-kun.♡”
Thus, I, Kiminami Toui, was forced to pledge my love to this short-haired, ‘pitch-black’ Venus.
Little did I know that this encounter and this relationship with the woman known as S-Hime would soon transform my life completely into something different.
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