Chapter 39 Chapter 39 Can't You Just Focus on Me?
After spending most of the summer vacation in a daze, Momozawa Airi unlocked several new achievements.
The first achievement was learning to swim.
The second achievement was personally experiencing the amazing effects of Jinpei Matsuda's daily exercise routine.
Learning to swim inevitably involves physical contact. Although she had no intention of deciphering the buzzing thoughts in her head while submerged in the water, she was able to figure out how many abdominal muscles the other person had through flapping and struggling.
No matter how many times she accidentally rubbed the other person's chest muscles, Momozawa Airi no longer blushed or felt her heart skip a beat.
Her shamelessness grew, and she even raised her head and urged seriously, "The exercise here is obviously not as effective as the abdominal exercise."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
He inexplicably remembered the word "bokiboki" that suddenly came out of the other person's mouth that day.
Although Momozawa Airi insisted that it had nothing to do with him afterwards, Matsuda Jinpei felt complicated every time he thought about it.
“…”
Jinpei Matsuda raised his finger and pointed with a grim expression.
"Swim eight more laps."
After a long pause, he added even more cruelly, "No dog paddling—or I won't teach you next time."
Airi Momozawa, who had just finished swimming several laps, said: "..."
Although she has learned several swimming styles, she still likes the simple dog paddle the most.
Momozawa Airi let out a long "Oh" and continued to struggle in the water, swallowing her anger.
Although Jinpei Matsuda always looked nonchalant when teaching her, he would argue with her from time to time.
But he actually teaches very well, and the few serious words he occasionally says are always to the point.
...So she endured it!
Then he would take revenge severely during the routine dinner date after swimming.
Revenge is inevitable.
For example, childish actions such as grabbing the last piece of barbecue and sprinkling chili powder into the other person's bowl.
The third achievement is -
Complete the production of an entire birthday cake by yourself.
She had only made small cakes with simple steps before and had never experienced making an entire birthday cake by herself.
As the day with a red circle and the words "Important! Curly-haired man's birthday!" on the calendar approached, Momozawa Airi hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to make an exclusive customized birthday cake for Matsuda Jinpei.
She planned to draw something on the cake, so she happily sketched a design and carefully selected the decorations.
Finally, on Jinpei Matsuda's birthday, Airi Momozawa got up early and carefully made the cake step by step according to the tutorial.
Grandma came to the kitchen to pour water and found her secretly fiddling with the cream.
Grandma casually asked, "Who's having a birthday?"
Momozawa Airi's body trembled, and she raised her head suddenly: "...Hmm!"
Grandma filled the cup with water and walked away slowly.
"You've been doing this for quite some time now, so you must be a very important person."
And said lightly.
“…”
Momozawa Airi lowered her eyes and looked at the cream in the bowl.
She thought her grandmother had gone far away, so she answered to herself:
"Yes."
"Who is it?"
Grandma suddenly poked her head out from the door.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi: “Nothing!!!”
…
"Excellent. Absolutely perfect."
When she finished painting the cake with chocolate sauce, Momozawa Airi nodded with satisfaction.
She looked at the cake in front of her for a while, then happily picked up her phone and took several photos from all angles.
"He would have been in tears."
Momozawa Airi put away her phone and carefully put the cake into the box while talking to herself.
After everything was ready, Momozawa Airi went out happily.
Momozawa Airi was sitting on the train, already imagining the other person's stunned expression when he saw her.
In order to make today's surprise more prominent, she deliberately responded coldly to Matsuda Jinpei's messages these days, pretending that she had forgotten his birthday.
She had specifically asked before, and was told that Jinpei Matsuda's parents were traveling and wouldn't be back today.
Then, she who came down from the sky without any notice and brought a delicious cake to celebrate Matsuda Jinpei's birthday would definitely be Matsuda Jinpei's best surprise today——
Airi Momozawa looked at the scenery outside the window happily and hugged the box contentedly.
*
Jinpei Matsuda leaned back on the sofa and browsed Twitter.
He found that Airi Momozawa had posted a new photo.
It's the platform near his home.
The caption is "Hey it's almost here."
"...It was revealed too quickly."
Jinpei Matsuda stared at the tweet for a while, chuckled, and a barely noticeable curve appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He couldn't help but think of the video that Momozawa Airi forwarded a few days ago, "Learn to make a sweet birthday cake from scratch★Guaranteed to be quick", and the expression on his face when she secretly asked him if he would be at home on his birthday.
Matsuda Jinpei: “Yes.”
Momozawa Airi blinked: "Are your parents here?"
Matsuda Jinpei: "He was there too. It happened to be the weekend."
Momozawa Airi looked melancholy: "Ah..."
It was almost like he was using a loud speaker to play the words "I will come to your house on your birthday to bring you a birthday cake" in his ears on a loop.
Matsuda Jinpei paused and added, "...I suddenly remembered that they were not at home that day and were going out for a trip."
Then he looked at Momozawa Airi's face which was once again filled with anticipation.
…Anyway, he finally pretended to casually suggest to his parents that they go to the street baseball game, the kind where they could go out and have fun all day.
…
The cold air from the air conditioner dropped the KTV flyers on the table to the ground. Matsuda Jinpei bent down lazily and stretched out his arms to pick them up.
I put it in my pocket yesterday when I went to KTV with Hagi and the others to celebrate my birthday in advance.
I forgot to throw it into the trash can and just left it on the table.
Jinpei Matsuda stared at the words "Happy Birthday to You" on the flyer for a while, then slowly folded it into a paper airplane and gently threw it out.
The paper airplane swayed in the air, flew for a distance, and fell by the door.
Almost at the same time, there was a bang on the door.
"Is anyone there——"
The voice came into the house through the door, and one could vaguely hear the other party's uneasy mood.
Matsuda Jinping stood up, walked quickly to the door and opened it.
It turned out to be Momozawa Airi.
She put her hands behind her back, looking mysterious.
But the transparent cake box that was half exposed had already exposed her.
…There was even “Happy Birthday” written in large marker on the box.
"Zhenping! Happy birthday! Are you scared?"
Momozawa Airi tilted her head and looked at him with a smile.
"I showed up unexpectedly! Isn't it a surprise?"
Words like "I've noticed it a long time ago" and "Your social account has exposed you" came to his mind, but he suppressed them one by one.
“I didn’t expect that at all.”
Matsuda Jinpei turned sideways to let her in, raised his eyebrows, and curved his lips into a beautiful arc.
"It's a cake!! I made it myself!"
Momozawa Airi walked into the house happily and took out the box hidden behind her.
Jinpei Matsuda closed the door calmly, took the heavy box with one hand, and looked at Momozawa Airi who was becoming more and more excited.
The other person shouted, "I knew you would never guess the surprise I prepared," and patted the lid of the box, saying that this was a perfect cake that she had made easily.
“…”
Thinking of the several close-up photos of failed products posted on the other party's Twitter, Jinpei Matsuda couldn't help but laugh.
"?" Momozawa Airi raised her eyes and looked at him doubtfully, "Are you so happy?"
Matsuda Jinpei stopped smiling and nodded seriously, "...Yes."
Very happy.
Momozawa Airi blinked and nodded with increasing satisfaction: "Hehe, I knew it - eh."
She suddenly noticed the paper airplane in Jinpei Matsuda's hand.
"Zhen Ping, you're already this old, and you're still playing this at home alone. How childish!"
Although she said this, Momozawa Airi, who was having a lot of fun, took the paper airplane and threw it up.
The paper plane took off, soaring into the sky, and landed safely above Jinpei Matsuda's head.
Inserted in the fluffy curly hair.
Momozawa Airi: "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
He put his arm around Momozawa Airi's neck and led her into the house.
"Since you came all the way here to bring me a cake, I'll let you go today."
"What do you mean by letting me go?! Even if we really fight, I won't lose!!"
…
Thanks to the physical contact, Momozawa Airi finally learned that the other party had already known about her surprise plan.
The surprise plan had been ruined without her noticing, and she felt a little depressed.
"It turns out my surprise failed a long time ago."
Momozawa Airi muttered somewhat frustratedly.
As they were walking, their heads suddenly bumped into each other's backs.
Pah.
Momozawa Airi looked up in confusion.
"Why did you stop so suddenly..."
“There is no failure.”
Matsuda Jinpei's voice sounded at the same time as hers.
He turned and looked at her with a rare frankness.
"It's just that the surprise came early."
"If we bring the time forward, the surprise will last much longer."
Jinpei Matsuda looked at her, with a look that could be described as "gentle".
“…I’m very happy.”
“…”
Momozawa Airi looked at him for a while, then suddenly hit him lightly.
"You must eat it all."
Jinpei Matsuda took the box and returned to his usual nonchalant expression.
"certainly."
He paused, then looked up at Momozawa Airi: "...How did you know I found out?"
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi broke out in a cold sweat: "...Because I'm good at reading people's expressions!!"
“…”
Jinpei Matsuda glanced at her and narrowed his eyes slightly.
But in the end, no further investigation was carried out.
"Come on, I haven't had lunch yet."
"I didn't eat either!! Will you cook for me?"
"Hey, today is my birthday."
"Since it's Zhen Ping's special day, it makes sense for Zhen Ping to cook for me."
“…”
*
Before eating the cake, you should first light the candles and make a wish.
Birthday boy Jinpei Matsuda: "But I don't seem to have any candles at home."
Customer Momozawa Airi: "I don't care, I want it."
Birthday boy Jinpei Matsuda: "..."
Finally, the birthday boy rummaged through the storage room for most of the day and finally found some usable birthday candles.
The guest was sitting carefree on the sofa, enjoying the air conditioning and watching TV. He turned his head to look at the birthday candles and commented, "It's not pretty enough."
Birthday boy: “…”
He made a ruthless judgment: "This is it."
…
After quickly singing the birthday song and making a wish, Momozawa Airi looked eagerly at Matsuda Jinpei who was taking the extinguished candles off the cake. "What did you wish for?"
"..." Matsuda Jinpei glanced at her nonchalantly, "How can you even speak your wish out loud?"
Momozawa Airi: "After I blow out the candles on my birthday, I always tell my grandma my wish so that I can receive a new gift the next day."
Matsuda Jinpei: “…”
Momozawa Airi: "If you tell me, maybe I can prepare something for you."
She secretly pinched the corner of her clothes, thinking that if it was a wish for a kiss or something, she would just satisfy it.
After all, it’s the other person’s birthday, hehe.
Momozawa Airi was inexplicably a little shy.
Jinpei Matsuda paused and finally took the last candle.
He lowered his eyes to look at the cake.
A curly-haired Q-version man is painted on the surface with chocolate sauce.
Next to the Q-version man, there is a round pear drawn with jam.
"Then meow for me to hear."
Jinpei Matsuda was cutting the cake while talking nonsense.
Momozawa Airi: "..."
Momozawa Airi: "How could this be your birthday wish!!! Who would wish for something like that on their birthday!!!"
Her birthday wishes are simple ones like “I want a new dress”, “I want to buy new blush”, “I want to go eat pizza”!
Jinpei Matsuda ignored her argument, responded perfunctorily, and placed the cut cake in front of her.
"Eat it, your perfect cake."
He repeated what Momozawa Airi had just said.
Momozawa Airi glanced at him, and seeing that he didn't really want her to meow, she felt relieved and took the small plate with the cake.
The piece of cake she had was exactly that curly-haired Q-version man.
Momozawa Airi blinked and looked down at the cake.
“Hey, you gave me the part of yourself.”
She picked up the fork.
"Does this look like I ate you?"
Only after she said it did she feel a little ambiguous. She raised her head a little nervously and found that Jinpei Matsuda was also looking down at the cake, and didn't seem to care about what she said.
Momozawa Airi let out a breath and was about to start eating the cake when she accidentally glanced at the pattern on the cake in front of Matsuda Jinpei.
It's a round pear.
*
With Airi Momozawa's aggressive statement that "the cake I made must not be used for cake wars," the cake-eating process was very harmonious and peaceful.
Momozawa Airi couldn't eat any more after taking a few bites of "Matsuda Jinpei".
She had made several failed products before and tried them many times, so she no longer had any appetite for sweets.
…and she accidentally put too much sugar in it, so the cake was a little too sweet.
Momozawa Airi put down her fork and looked at Jinpei Matsuda beside her.
He seemed unaware of the overly sweet taste and had already eaten most of the cake in front of him.
Momozawa Airi took a quick glance and discovered that all the pear patterns had been eaten.
“…”
She licked the corner of her lips, and her face began to heat up involuntarily.
It seemed that since some time ago, the feeling when she and Jinpei Matsuda played and joked around was a little different from before.
Momozawa Airi stared at Matsuda Jinpei in a daze, remembering that when she first started dating him, they were just simply eating, drinking and having fun.
Then...the kissing began.
And now…
Momozawa Airi pursed her lips.
She seemed to have never heard Matsuda Jinpei's thoughts of wanting to go further.
Recently, during physical contact, Jinpei Matsuda's thoughts were mostly just some random nonsense, or he was just empty-minded.
Instead, she was a little distracted.
As if he wasn't satisfied with just a simple kiss.
Momozawa Airi supported her chin and thought that Matsuda Jinpei might be a pure love party.
Ah... innocent herbivore or something.
Her intense gaze was so intense that Matsuda Jinpei finally looked up: "...Why are you staring at me?"
The other person suddenly looked up, and Momozawa Airi, in a daze, met Matsuda Jinpei's clear eyes without any defense.
“…”
She shuddered, and in an instant she felt that her thoughts were seen through by the other party. She raised the cream in front of her and flicked it at the other party's face.
"Ahhh don't look at me—"
Matsuda Jinpei: “?”
He dodged nimbly, but still got some cream on his cheek.
"Didn't you say you wouldn't start a war?"
Jinpei Matsuda wiped the cream off his face and held Momozawa Airi's wrist with his other hand to stop her.
【Why did it start suddenly? 】
Momozawa Airi was led by him in a daze.
Voices appeared in her ears and mind at the same time. When she subconsciously tried to spend energy to distinguish the voices in her heart, Matsuda Jinpei suddenly came close to her.
"Are you thinking about anything else?"
Jinpei Matsuda gently pinched her chin and narrowed his eyes slightly.
“…It seems like this happens often.”
[That expression again.]
[The expression that often appears when you are with me. 】
“…No, no.”
Momozawa Airi avoided his gaze.
It is not easy to distinguish and hear two sounds ringing at the same time. Every time she tries hard to make it clear, her expression looks a little distracted.
As if he wasn't paying attention when he was talking.
Just at this moment, two voices sounded at the same time.
Momozawa Airi was in a panic, not knowing which voice to listen to, and her mind was in a mess.
She vaguely sensed that the tone of Matsuda Jinpei's inner thoughts was somewhat complicated, and instinctively wanted to explain.
"I...I remember what others said..."
In order not to be exposed, she stammered to explain and modified "what you said" to "what others said".
The force on the jaw suddenly tightened slightly.
It didn't hurt, but it forced her to tilt her head back a little more.
Just then, she felt a cool touch on her neck.
Momozawa Airi reached out to touch it in a daze and found that it was cream.
Jinpei Matsuda was pinching her chin with his hand that had just been smeared with butter.
...a new cream war.
“…”
Momozawa Airi didn't dare to speak carelessly, for fear of confusing her inner thoughts with the real voice and being discovered by the other party. So she planned to use the action of wiping cream to avoid Matsuda Jinpei's somewhat hot gaze.
As soon as she raised her hand, Matsuda Jinpei suddenly lowered his head and pressed his lips against her neck.
Matsuda Jinpei casually lifted up the long hair that fell on Momozawa Airi's neck and put it behind her shoulders.
Momozawa Airi: "???!!!"
She tilted her head up in a daze, not daring to move, and could only be forced to feel the unfamiliar feeling of having her vulnerable part kissed by the other person.
As the smooth and cool cream was slowly and methodically licked clean, the soft skin inevitably touched the other's fangs.
The cream seemed to be stained with the heat of Matsuda Jinpei's tongue. Although the part that touched was only a little, it spread and expanded bit by bit, making her whole body start to feel hot and tremble involuntarily.
The air around me was filled with an overly sweet smell.
Matsuda Jinpei's breath was very close to hers, and he broke into her safe distance without any explanation and landed on the side of Momozawa Airi's neck.
He didn't say anything, so his hidden thoughts were particularly clear.
Together with the aura of Matsuda Jinpei, it occupied her mind without any objection.
Very domineering.
【When you talk to me——】
【Can’t you just focus on me?】
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