Ch 173 – 15 June, Kato Megumi

Kouta thought that there must be a reason why Mafuyu behaved like that to him. From everything that happened, he could conclude two possibilities that happened because of Mafuyu's fear of cockroaches, and she was grateful to Kouta for getting rid of the cockroaches. But that was too simple.

While the other one was something Kouta often heard from Satomi. That his cute face often tickled her maternal instincts. He never thought long when saying that she resembled his mother because there was some truth to it. Her beautiful pink hair and the fact that she was the most mature woman Kouta had seen who shared characteristics with his mother were facts.

Kouta knows Mafuyu herself is fond of babies because, in the manga, she is sometimes entrusted with her nephew. However, Kouta never thought that he would be able to tickle Mafuyu's maternal instincts. That's why he tried pretending to be sad and mumbling about his mother while sleeping beside Mafuyu to see her reaction. Then, he got an answer that was very favorable to him. He just hoped that he hadn't stirred up anything strange in Mafuyu.

"I don't think eating just cup noodles is healthy, Kirisu-sensei," Kouta spoke when he saw Mafuyu, who was carrying cup noodles in her hand. Unlike in the anime and manga, it seems that Mafuyu can't cook, although she soon learns from the simple recipes she got with the MC.

"I'm sorry, Kouta— But I don't feel good now. So, can you prepare breakfast?" On the other hand, Satomi seemed to have a hangover, and her face was still pale. Kouta gave her a glass of water.

"Okay, don't push yourself," Kouta said as he prepared breakfast.

"You don't have to worry. Kouta's cooking skill is excellent." Satomi said it toward Mafuyu while she sipped the water.

"But—"

Mafuyu looked worried as she peered into the back of Kouta, who was cooking in the kitchen. In the end, in Mafuyu's eyes, two adults here should be able to prepare breakfast. However, her mind exploded when she tried the breakfast Kouta made, even if it was a simple breakfast of rice, chicken, eggs, and miso soup.

"Oh, this is delicious. This breakfast is so good. You're really skillful, Kouta." Mafuyu praised Kouta's food and even thought it could compete with restaurants.

"Ahaha, thank you. However, if you follow the recipe, you can cook quite well."

"Is that so—"

"Yeah, only a fool would think it's inefficient to just follow a recipe without knowing the basics of cooking. That's very sloppy." Kouta spoke in a way that tried to somehow significantly affect Mafuyu's self-esteem, which was because that was what Mafuyu was thinking about cooking.

"Hm— Ah, especially Kirisu-sensei. I think it's outrageous for an amateur to improvise things when they don't know the basics."

"Eh, why did you say that to me—" Mafuyu didn't react as if she didn't realize how bad her housekeeping skills were.

"Hm, I don't know why. But I can feel and sense it. That you may have terrible housekeeping skills."

"What— outrages why you think something like that."

"Well, it's kinda like a trope. A serious teacher that looks competent in every way has such terrible housekeeping skills."

"Gugugu— But this is real life. I'm not that bad."

Mafuyu said that, but somehow, she pouted and sulked like a child.

"If something like last night happened, you can call me for help, you know— Ah, I can help to clean up and cook, too." Kouta tried to give himself an excuse to be alone with Mafuyu in his apartment, like what had happened between Mafuyu and MC. It was one way to make their relationship progress.

"Why don't you have to do that— and it's not good for teacher and student too close."

"Well, I don't know why. But I feel like I wanted to be useful for Kirisu-sensei and get praised for it. Hehehe—" Kouta said while looking embarrassed to admit such a thing while deliberately trying to have as pleading an expression as possible.

"Ugh, okay— I may try to call you."

Like last night, somehow, seeing Kouta acting like a child like this and knowing that he lost his parents made Mafuyu want to spoil him.

In the end, Kouta will use any means so that he can have the time and opportunity to approach and steal the hearts of the heroine, even if it is a significant manipulation in his own way. Well, basically, he has done various bad things to the heroines in order for them to become his women.

Well, Kouta will do anything, including manipulative things like he is doing now, so that he can get close to one of the heroines, Kato Megumi because he had told his goons to observe and also to harass Megumi like a riajuu or typical gyaru-oh in the manga to doujinshi.

Kouta came to school with Satomi and Mafuyu before doing the usual things at school, namely paying attention to the teacher and sometimes working on his various assignments to make visual novels, games, and manga before he left his class during lunch break.

Kouta stepped into the place where his goons had been observing Megumi's daily activities, and he already knew where they might be. Somehow, looking at Megumi's demeanor from the anime and manga, he doubted that Megumi had any interest in someone like his goons, considering she ended up with Tomoya in the anime.

It didn't take long for Kouta to find Kato Megumi, who actually looked like a cute girl, but when he compared her to the heroines he met. Megumi lacked presence as she looked like a normal girl with short dark brown hair and brown eyeballs that were also lacking in distinction. However, she had "perfect proportions," i.e., a body with the usual height for women in Japan and proportions from breasts to hips that were neither too small nor too large.

As Kouta planned, Megumi was being harassed by his goon and could be visibly disturbed by his presence. Of course, to make Megumi uncomfortable, he had his goon change his appearance to look like a gyaru-oh. His skin was brown from using tan, and he wore various flashy accessories.

Kouta also told his goon to be a little impolite to really bother Megumi rather than such usual flirting.

"Ne—ne— Isn't you a cutie? My girlfriend can't make it— How about we go to a karaoke place after school? Ah, if you don't like it, how about drinking tea instead?"

Well, Kouta was quite amazed by the acting issued by his goon, or indeed, he was used to doing this. Even though it seemed that Megumi refused, the goon did not give up and, this time only asked for a cell phone number. This thug's behavior is something that Megumi also disliked when looking at her expression.

It's an operation that uses hooligans to make a girl like the guy who will save her from the hooligans. It's a simple operation often used by many villains in romance stories. It is also a cliche that usually occurs between heroines and protagonists.

Anyway, for now, it was good for him to follow the plan and help Megumi from being harassed by his goon.