Sweet Cohabitation Romcom With My Senior Girlfriend and Alcohol Starts At Twenty - Volume 1 Chapter 1.3

Can Legally Drinking Alcohol and Living Together After Turning Twenty

“So, from tomorrow, we’ll be living together, okay?”

“What do you mean, ‘so’? It’s way too soon to start living together from tomorrow! And what about your stuff? Surely you can’t be ready to move in today or tomorrow.”

“No problem there! I’ve been preparing everything for today!”

“That’s a huge problem! And what were you planning to do if I said no?”

“I’ll get you drunk if I have to, but I’ll make sure to get a marriage promise from you!”

“Even if I can legally drink from today, isn’t that a little underhanded!?”

“But I just want to spend more time with you…”

“Ugh…”

Kureha Senpai pleads with me with her cute face and a sexy pose that doesn’t quite match. I couldn’t help but be shaken by her.

One moment she’s giggling, the next, she’s confidently smirking.

Then she leans forward in her loose T-shirt, a mischievous look on her face, and with slightly puffed cheeks, she sends a love call, saying, “I want to be with you.”

Could anyone stay calm in the face of such an overwhelming assault? Could anyone’s heart not race? I certainly couldn’t.

Especially since just a moment ago, I had seen a vulnerable side of her…

“Hehe, you’re so cute when you’re embarrassed, Takashi-kun~”

“It’s because you’re teasing me, Senpai…”

My feelings for Kureha Senpai spill over onto my face, and she notices. No, even if it wasn’t obvious, my feelings must have been clear to Senpai all along.

Because she knows, Senpai teases me even more. She’s Ootani Kureha, a troublesome person who is one year my senior.

And I’m hopelessly in love with such a Senpai.

“I’m serious about everything I’m saying, you know~?”

“About the promise?”

“Serious.”

“Getting drunk…?”

“Of course also serious.”

“…”

“I could seriously marry you, don’t worry.”

“Rather, I can’t help but worry about you, Senpai, who’s already concerned about marriage…”

She answered my questions smoothly, as if she knew what I wanted to ask without me having to say a word. Moreover, she provided an answer when I was hesitating about whether to ask that question. And the look in Senpai’s eyes was dead serious.

It was all happening too fast.

“So, you don’t want to?”

Kureha Senpai appealed to me again with those teary eyes. I have an undeniable weakness for that look.

Ah… I can’t help it… My true feelings are slipping out…

“It’s not that I don’t want to… It’s just not that easy, isn’t it?”

Even though I think it’s too soon, my feelings are honest, and I find myself dreaming about sharing both the good times and the bad with Kureha Senpai.

Despite neglecting my work, not being sure if I can graduate, and not even knowing if Kureha Senpai’s feelings will change, I still dream about it and then fall into a state of self-loathing, thinking, “Isn’t it too soon to be considering this?”

It’s precisely because of these strong feelings that I can’t remain unfazed by Kureha Senpai’s serious gaze. However, as inexperienced as I am, I still can’t fully grasp how serious Kureha Senpai is.

“It’s because you worry about me like that that I end up wanting to marry you~”

“And as a preliminary step to that, living together?”

“Correct!”

“That’s just too sudden…!”

Her expressions change rapidly.

In between, the beautiful woman with crimson hair sips her Lemon Sour. Her lips, damp from the drink, look more seductive than usual, yet the content of our conversation is anything but seductive.

“I thought it through quite thoroughly on my part, but maybe I should have consulted you first?”

“I would have appreciated a heads up for the sake of mental preparation, to be honest. To suddenly start living together from today or tomorrow is just too abrupt…”

The idea of living together might be Senpai’s version of a birthday surprise, but it’s definitely beyond the scale of a regular surprise.

Of course, it’s not that I’m not happy about it. I’ve even dreamed of marrying Senpai, so there’s no point in trying to deceive myself now, and in front of Senpai, I don’t have the luxury of pretending otherwise.

However, as a male college student, there was one issue with welcoming her into my place.

“Like I said before, it’s not that I don’t want to live with Senpai, okay? It’s just that… there are things I need to tidy up…”

“Don’t worry~. I’ll help you~”

“That’s exactly what I’m worried about…”

“Why is that, I wonder?”

Seeing me fumble with my words, Kureha Senpai seemed a bit puzzled.

I hoped she wouldn’t notice, but that hope was fleeting.

“Ah…!”

It seemed she had caught on.

No, not yet. If Senpai didn’t actually say it out loud, I could still claim she hadn’t noticed anything. Yes, let’s go with that!! Please let it be so!!

“Don’t worry! I won’t be put off, no matter how abnormal the books you have are, Takashi-kun!”

My wishful thinking was shattered by the words that came with Kureha Senpai’s beaming smile.

And to think that she would even find out where I kept those kinds of books…

***

“Breast special? Okay. Tanned girls collection? No, thigh heaven? Well, that’s fine.”

Right now, Senpai is in the midst of checking my erotic magazines, and all I can do is silently watch this unfold.

How miserable am I?

To prevent this from happening, I had hidden my erotic magazines very carefully… very carefully indeed…

Knowing that it would be dangerous to show my erotic magazines to a teasing Senpai, I had meticulously checked and prepared the perfect hiding spot for them, anticipating her visit today.

And where was that? Behind a hollow space under my bed.

Of course, I didn’t just put them there. I created a fake wall to make it look like there was no hollow space at all.

It was so well crafted that at first glance, no one would suspect there was a hollow space behind the bed.

I had entrusted all the details to a friend from the architecture department, so the craftsmanship was guaranteed.

Furthermore, I placed a box filled with unused cables under the bed and squeezed more reference books behind the reference book area on the bookshelf to create a decoy, all in an effort to divert Kureha Senpai’s attention from the fake wall behind the bed.

Without even glancing at either side, she immediately reached behind the bed to the disguised wall.