You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story 3rd Date (Light Novel) (eBook)

Makiko Nagaoka (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-0978-4 (ISBN)

Infos

As summer break ends, Ryuto, Runa, and their friends gather to play airsoft, after which our main couple goes on a lovely date in Odaiba! Soon after that, Ryuto enrolls at a cram school for the sake of Runa and his future together. There, he meets Sekiya Shugo-a guy who spent so much time focused on girls in high school that he failed to get into college. He also has a connection to a girl Ryuto knows quite well...

Meanwhile, Runa finds an opportunity to start rebuilding her relationship with her sister. Since Maria is joining the school festival committee, Runa and Ryuto join too. Will Runa and Maria's relationship improve, or will Maria grow closer to someone else instead?

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“Whoa!” I let out, captivated for a moment, before coming to my senses. “Sh-Shirakawa-san, your buttons!”

“Huh?” Runa looked down at her chest.

The chest of her camouflage shirt was wide open, putting her cleavage on display. Looking at the girls beside her, I saw that the same went for Yamana-san. Tanikita-san, on the other hand, wore her shirt loose in a high-fashion style that showed off her neck.

“Hey, it’s dangerous to leave your skin exposed!” I told them.

Sure, it wasn’t like we’d be using real bullets, but a pellet fired from an electric airsoft gun would surely hurt if it hit your skin directly.

Yamana-san frowned at me. “Ehh? You realize a gyaru’ll die if she doesn’t show any skin, right?”

“I’ll button it up just before the game starts!” added Runa in a cutesy voice.

“Yep yep. We’ll wear ’em normally after we’re done taking pics, ’kay?” said Tanikita-san in a matter-of-fact tone as she took out her smartphone.

“Yay!” the three of them cheered, and the safe zone instantly turned into a selfie photo shoot.

“They sure are gyaru, all right...” Icchi uttered quietly in a daze, watching the scene.

Nisshi’s nostrils flared and he breathed in deeply. “They smell so nice...” he said, then continued to load pellets into his magazines.

“Oh, wait, I’ll take a pic from below,” said Tanikita-san. She got down on the floor with her phone while Runa and Yamana-san struck poses with their airsoft guns as though they were models posing with props. “Move your hand a bit left, Runy.”

“Like this?”

“No, like, my left!”

“Ah, you mean right?!”

“’Kay! Now show some emotion.”

“Aka-taso, thank you very Maicching!” exclaimed Runa.

“Iyaan!” they all uttered in unison.

At this point, I had no idea what they were saying. The girls all bounced around with cheerful smiles on their faces.

Until now, I had mostly spent time with Runa in private, so it was new to me to watch her with her female friends up close. Seeing her having so much fun, I grew jealous of Yamana-san and Tanikita-san. I sure couldn’t keep up with her when she was like this.

As these thoughts passed through my head, my eyes suddenly met Runa’s.

“You guys, c’mon! Join us,” she suggested.

“Huh?”

“I’m gonna get the tripod!” said Tanikita-san, and she ran off to the storage area with small, quick steps.

“Oh, thanks, Akari,” said Yamana-san.

Tanikita-san came back with a small tripod about ten centimeters high, and before I knew it, we were preparing to take a group photo.

“C’mon, Ryuto!” exclaimed Runa, taking my arm and pulling me toward the front of the camera.

“Whaaat...?!” I exclaimed in return.

My arm grew hot from her touch. That floral-or-fruity scent of hers made me dizzy for the umpteenth time.

“Wow, look at those lovebirds!” Akari said exaggeratedly, looking at her phone.

Her reaction made me feel awkward.

Suddenly, I felt hostility from nearby. Looking over, I saw that Icchi and Nisshi were glaring at me with the kinds of faces you’d find in a manga about delinquents.

“Kasshi, you bastard!”

“Go to hell, normie!!!”

“Agh!” I exclaimed in reply.

I meant no harm; please forgive me!

Yamana-san approached them. “Hey, am I not good enough for you two?”

She stood between my two friends. Nisshi was about her height, and she put her arm over his shoulders like a male friend would. As Icchi was taller, she instead put a hand on his shoulder like a fashion model posing for a photo.

The two were shocked and they completely froze up at the unexpected physical contact with a girl.

“’Kay, angle’s good!” announced Tanikita-san after checking her phone atop the tripod. She ran up to us with those same small, quick steps and then struck a pose. “Takin’ it now!”

She seemed to have a remote control for that purpose, and the phone clicked on its own as soon as she said that.

I didn’t know what face I’d made in the shot, but either way, we were done taking a group photo.

“The warmth of a demon gyaru...”

“The scent of a demon gyaru... The smell of coconut...”

While Icchi and Nisshi were entranced, Runa pulled on my sleeve.

“Hey, whatcha think about this outfit?” she asked. “Does it suit me?”

“Huh...?” I then realized that I hadn’t properly told her my thoughts earlier.

Perhaps her current getup didn’t feel right to her because she normally dressed in a completely different way. She looked at me with her upturned eyes, but they seemed slightly nervous.

“Um...” I began, looking her over once again.

My eyes stopped on the open chest area of her partially unbuttoned camouflage shirt. I then brought my gaze back to her face in a hurry.

“I-It suits you well... Y-You look cute,” I said falteringly.

Runa smiled in relief. “Really? I’m so glad!” Next, she switched her handgun from a one-handed grip stance to a two-handed one and pointed it at me. “My performance today’s gonna hit a bull’s-eye on that heart of yours, Ryuto! Bam!” she said and giggled bashfully.

Her cuteness made even my ears burn.

“Weren’t you just told you shouldn’t point that at people?” I complained in order to hide my embarrassment.

“Oh, you’re right!” replied Runa, bringing her hand to her mouth as a serious look appeared on her face. “Sorry, Ryuto!”

“It’s okay this time,” I bashfully replied. My heart pounded violently as I recalled how she’d been a moment ago.

“My performance today’s gonna hit a bull’s-eye on that heart of yours, Ryuto!”

You sniped my heart long ago, though...

Runa stared at me, seeming to find me strange. “What’s wrong, Ryuto? Why’re you grinning like that?” she asked. “Ah! Were you...looking?” she asked, pushing up her chest to accentuate her cleavage.

“I-I wasn’t!”

So much for all my efforts to keep averting my eyes in hopes that she wouldn’t get the wrong idea and take me for a pervert.

“If you fess up, I could show you more...”

“Like I said, I wasn’t looking!”

With the face of a prankster, Runa teased me by trying to direct my attention to her cleavage. Somehow managing to dodge her attempts, I went back to getting ready for the game.

Once we’d finished our preparations, we headed from the safe zone to the combat area in order to start the game.

“Whoa!”

“Holy crap!”

Icchi and Nisshi sounded mesmerized.

“Isn’t this like Apax?!”

“More like POPG, dude!”

They were louder than they had been at any point earlier in the day, bringing up names of famous battle royale shooters.

Naturally, the arena we’d rented wasn’t as spacious as an outdoor field. It might have been more like a conference room in terms of size, but there were walls and obstacles set up all around, so its visibility was poor, like a maze. It felt fitting for a group of our size.

It was decorated with things like artificial ivy and tape that read “KEEP OUT,” giving it the feel of a battle royale video game—something that I was secretly hyped about. Icchi, Nisshi, and I had started talking about airsoft a while back precisely because we’d admired those games’ worlds and wanted to experience them in real life.

We hadn’t hired a game master to run the game since it would’ve cost money, so it was just us players. After splitting into two teams, we got to our starting areas.

Team Red was made up of me, Runa, and Tanikita-san. Team Yellow had Yamana-san, Icchi, and Nisshi. The teams had ended up like this for no particular reason after the photo shoot. To avoid any friendly-fire accidents, each of us wore an armband with our team’s color over our camouflage uniforms.

“Begin!” we all yelled out, marking the start of the game.

For a while, we all waited to see what would happen. There was no time limit and the game would only end when all members of one team were eliminated, but things would no doubt be decided quickly because there were so few of us.

We—Team Red—stuck together as we waited. Then...

“I’m gonna go take a look,” said Tanikita-san all of a sudden. She took advantage of her small build to hide behind the barricades as she moved forward.

“Be careful, Akari,” said Runa.

We both followed Akari. And at that point...

“Die, normie!!!”

The shout was followed by a pellet whizzing past my ear.

“Whoa!” I exclaimed.

Looking over, I saw Nisshi off to the side, his upper body visible behind a barricade as he aimed in our direction.

“Get down!” I told Runa. Stepping in front of her, I used another barricade to cover half of my body as I readied my rifle.

“Damn it! I’m gonna send you both to hell!” exclaimed Nisshi, his sights still set on...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2024
• Reihe/Serie: You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story
• Illustrationen: Makiko Nagaoka
• Übersetzer: Makiko Nagaoka
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Coming of Age • first girlfriend • Gyaru • high school drama love story • Light Novel • modern day romance • the experienced you and the inexperienced me
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-0978-3 / 1718309783
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-0978-4 / 9781718309784