Chapter 116: 116

The young couple of the Kazamachi family are happily married…

The young couple of the Kazamachi family are lovebirds who don’t hesitate to flirt with each other, even in public…

The eldest son of the Kazamachi family is a lustful man who loves his wife…

It’s no good.

I’ve been trying to do image training ever since then, but I don’t feel like I can do it at all, even if I increase or decrease the setting.

It’s late at night, 11pm.

Aoi and I were in the shower room washing Jaja and Nana’s butts.

“We’re lucky you two pooped at the same time.”

“Yes. It would have been twice the work if they went individually. Jaja and Nana are good friends, right?”

Uhhhh.

Nana makes a disgusted sound with an unpleasant expression.

I guess she’s afraid of the bathroom with its different atmosphere from home.

Nana is a timid girl.

“Yes, it’s okay. Nana is a good girl.”

Aoi had a firm grip on Nana’s arm and pointed the shower nozzle, which produces weak, warm water, at her butt.

I wipe it with a baby wipe before coming here, but it would be a pity if it got covered up.

Let’s try to be clean.

After I’ve washed it clean and dried it up nicely, I’m going to finish it off with baby powder.

“Oh.”

“Hmm? Is Jaja finished?”

Jaja was in my arms, naked and wrapped in a towel.

Jaja loves bathing and is not afraid of this shower room.

Rather, she wants to play more in the shower, and is squirming around in my arms.

“Let’s splash lots when we get home, shall we?”

“Muh.”

Ah, she’s pouting.

Well, this place is full of things that even Jaja and Nana have to put up with.

I guess the stress is starting to build up by now.

I let them make a clamor with their baby friends who are close in age at lunch, but they need to be quiet at night, or else the other evacuees will be bothered.

I feel sorry for them, but they’ll have to endure it for a while longer.

“Ah, good evening, Aoi-chan. Are you taking a bath with the twins?”

“Ah, Shiina-san. Good evening.”

A middle-aged woman appeared at the entrance to the shower room.

Ah, come to think of it, I forgot to lock the door.

“Ah, were you waiting? I’m just washing their butt, so it won’t take long.”

“No, no, don’t worry about it. You can take your time.”

“S-sorry.”

Aoi gave a shy, embarrassed smile.

She’s on good terms with Aoi, is she a mommy friend?

The way Aoi has been working hard lately, in relationships as well, to the point where she’s been welcomed into the circle of mommy friends at this shelter.

She was so shy in the beginning, she’s really amazing.

Let’s see, I think Shiina-san is the mother of a girl that’s in elementary school, right?

“Uh, good evening.”

“Uu.”

I didn’t wait for my memory to match the face, and greeted her.

I bowed lightly with Jaja in my arms. Jaja let out a short, cute greeting as I did, too.

“Ah, Good evening.”

Hm?

It was kind of stiff?

“Ah, so your husband was here as well.”

“Yes, he’s helping me. Jaja would be very unhappy if papa wasn’t here.”

“Heh. So Jaja’s a daddy’s girl.”

Shiina-san refused to make eye contact with me.

Hmm. That’s the problem, isn’t it?

Should I just try it?

Let’s start simply and probe a bit first.

I bent down and snuggled into Aoi’s shoulder.

“That’s right! Jaja, you know, she’s selfish and doesn’t want to just be with her mom. Right? Mama?”

“Eh, ah, yes.”

Strategy number one!

Call her mama as close to her as I can!

I’ve been known to call Aoi mama when we’ve been messing around at home, but I’ve rarely called her mama in front of others!

It’s embarrassing!

This operation has one goal!

We’ll show them that we regularly call each other mama and papa!

As expected, this was too minor, and although Aoi felt uncomfortable, she didn’t know what it was.

She twisted her head curiously and also shut off the water.

Shiina-san was also unresponsive as far as I could tell.

I knew it, perhaps the ‘We usually call each other darling and honey!’ would have been better?

No, that’s just not natural.

It would be too much of a lie.

And I would die of embarrassment.

“It’s good that your husband helps me. Mines just goes to bed right after dinner, you know? I want him to take a lesson from your husband.”

Huh?

Isn’t she softening up a bit?

Could it be a great success?

“Shiina-san’s husband was working hard too. Well, I won’t deny that Kunpei-san is a good husband.”

“Ah.”

“Wouldn’t you agree, Nana?”

Aoi laughed jokingly, and Nana responded.

“Well, well, thank you for the meal.”

Shiina’s wife smiled wrly, amazed.

”Ehehe.”

Aoi put the shower nozzle back stood up with Nana in her arms.

She grabbed a baby towel that was hanging on the towel rack and wiped Nana’s bottom before wrapping it around her body.

“Sorry to keep you waiting. We’ll be going. Come on, Nana, say bye-bye.”

“Dah.”

“Bah.”

Aoi took Nana’s hand and waved it at Shiina-san.

I hurriedly took Jaja’s hand and gave her a bye-bye as well.

‘Yes Nana and Jaja, bye-bye both. Good night!”

“Good night.”

“Ah, good night.”

I turned around and thought about it.

Shall I invoke at least one more strategy?

Yeah, it would be Kazamachi Kunpei to do it before he thought about it.

As the two of us walked side by side to the door, I resolved myself and hugged Aoi’s shoulder who was to my right side.

Aoi’s body was stuck close to me.

Like that, I moved my arm to Aoi’s waist.

This is something couples do all the time… right?

I’ve seen it done in town occasionally, and I’ve seen them even more excruciatingly close together, so this is still on the trivial side, right?

I walked out the door and closed it.

“Ha, they’re unexpectedly intimate, huh…”

Along with the sound of locking the door from inside, the small voice of Shiina-san could be heard.

G-great victory!

“…Kunpei-san?”

“Hmm?”

I don’t know how many times Aoi looked at me suspiciously while walking down the corridor.

Should I let go now?

No, but it doesn’t feel right to let go right away.

“W-what’s wrong?”

“No, your face is bright red. What’s wrong with you, Kunpei-san?”

“Aren’t you imagining things? It’s nothing.”

Calm down, my heart.

Don’t beat with such a high tempo rhythm at a time like this.

I’ll be revealed.

“Really? That’s fine then…”

My left hand was still around Aoi’s slender waist. Uwah, it’s so soft. What is this?

Come to think of it, I’ve never touched her this firmly before.

It’s no good! It’s not good if I’m conscious of it!

And even if it wasn’t, I’m at an age where my lower half is hyperactive!

Catch your breath and calm your mind.

Let’s see how Aoi is doing.

Hmm.

Aoi’s attitude is the same as usual.

If I think about it, this level of contact has been quite frequent before.

In my room or on the couch, there are times when Aoi would be completely on my lap.

It’s probably too late for Aoi to be particularly surprised now.

“… Somehow, Kaoruhei-san is kinder than usual today, isn’t she? No, it’s not that you’re not usually kind too.”

No, it’s working.

This is working.

“Is that so?”

“Yes.”

“Ah”

“Dah”

Perhaps in response to Aoi’s words, Jaja and Nana nodded in imitation of Aoi.

“See, Jaja and Nana say so too.”

“You’re imagining things. You’re tired, right? Let’s go back and feed the little guys and go to bed, okay?”

Did I fool her?

“Yes. And it’s hard to find the right time to nurse them together when we’re staying here.”

Aoi, who was in somewhat of a good mood, rubbed her cheek against Nana’s.

“I think I’m going to have a good dream today. Right?”

“Au?”

Smiling, Aoi asked Nana a question, and made her marvel.

…I didn’t think she’d be so happy with just this.

It was worth the effort to endure the embarrassment.

It’s a good thing that Aoi is happy.

And there’s one thing I’ve learned.

It’s the way the people around me look at me.

It seems that people around me don’t see me directly because of the rumors that precede me and my bad image.

I guess it’s partly because they’re scared and partly because they’re confused. They don’t know how to treat me.

That’s why most people look at ‘me through Aoi’ and decides how to treat me.

I guess that’s partly because Aoi has been telling people how good I am.

My image has lost its outline and is blurred.

They’re confused by the gap between what they hear about me through the rumors and what Aoi happily tells them about me.

The way I treat Aoi, and how happy she was, has clearly shaped me in Shiina-san’s mind.

So her attitude suddenly softened.

This is effective.

In other words, the more I show that I get along with Aoi, the more the overall image of the “young couple of the Kazamachi family” improves.

My minus parts are compensated by Aoi’s positive parts, and our overall image will increase every time we show ourselves be intimate.

It’s doable.

I can do this.

“Is Jaja sleepy?”

“Fuaa”

Aoi looked at Jaja in my arms.

Jaja yawns adorably.

“Fuaa”

Jaja’s absent-mindedness shifted, and even Nana opened her mouth wide.

“Hang on a little longer, you two. We’ll be there soon!”

The conference room where my family and I are staying is just around the corner.

“…Alright.”

I resolved my self with a bit of ardor.

Normally it would be meaningless if people didn’t see it, but I’m honestly happy to see Aoi’s happy face just now, so let’s try a little harder to see it.

Before I go to bed, I’m going to put one more strategy into operation.

This strategy had been put on hold due to the fact that I couldn’t show it to others, but as long as I didn’t show it to others, there was no problem.

The only problem is that I might get so excited that I might die.

I’m kind of high on the success of my strategies right now.

Maybe I can only do it at times like this.

A man’s got to have guts.

Let’s do it while we can!

The door to the conference room opened.

Tonight, this place will become a battlefield.