You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story 7th Date (Light Novel) (eBook)

Makiko Nagaoka (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-0986-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Continuing directly from where the previous volume left off, Ryuto finally reveals what went wrong that day at the end of his second year of high school. Now that his and Runa's relationship has become Too Much of Spring, what will it take for it to see a more traditional kind of development?
Meanwhile, Maria's search for a boyfriend continues, but the hunt seems to be heading in a dangerous direction...
Summer approaches, and so does the couple's trip to Okinawa, with a special meaning behind it. Will they finally do it this time?

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Prologue

Three years ago, at the end of both March and my second year of high school, it had been my birthday. Cherry blossom petals had been falling in a flurry. As we’d stood on the bank of the Arakawa River, Runa had said to me, bashfully...

“I wanna have sex...if it’s with you.”

The warm, amorous tone of her voice and the rosiness of her cheeks had reminded me of cherry blossoms. Her lowered eyelashes had cast shadows over her pink skin...

“This is the first time I’ve felt this way in my whole life...”

The number of times she’d blinked when she’d said it, and the exact moments when she had... All of that was burned into the back of my retinas in great detail. It was like a scene in a movie I’d rewatched over and over.

Yet even now, I still reached out for my memory of the past—the memory of those madly boisterous days of my youth.

***

On our way back from the riverbank, my mind had been adrift.

“I wanna have sex...if it’s with you.”

The only things swirling around in my head were the words Runa had just said to me. My heart had been pounding for a long time. The way it kept beating at a high pace was putting me into a prolonged state of calm excitement, as though a light fever had become my normal body temperature.

I’d been holding Runa’s right hand with my left, worrying that she might pick up on my excitement from my left hand. The thought made me feel bashful.

With red faces, Runa and I both maintained the silence. We returned to the vicinity of Station A and then walked through the nearby shopping district.

Something in the area caught my eye, making my heart skip a beat.

Hotel “The Earth”

Rest: 9,000 yen

Stay: 16,500 yen

That was what was written on the hotel’s flashy sign.

I looked at Runa involuntarily, and our eyes met. The fact she then awkwardly averted hers told me she’d been looking at the sign too.

“Th-That’s pretty expensive...” I said, trying not to be too obvious. I figured that it would’ve been worse to say nothing at all in this situation.

“Nine thousand for just a rest...” Runa replied.

“Yeah... Maybe it’s because it’s next to the station?”

Well, great, I thought to myself. Spending the night at that inn in Enoshima had been much cheaper. I didn’t have that much money on me.

“Your grandma is home today...right?” I asked, well aware that the flow of our conversation was putting my ulterior motives out in the open.

Runa nodded apologetically. “Yeah... My dad’s there too.”

“R-Right...”

Runa’s father was a salesman, so his days off were irregular. That meant he was sometimes home on weekdays.

However, when I gave it more thought, perhaps this turn of events was actually convenient for us. I recalled what Sekiya-san had once told me, after our school trip, when I’d asked him rather directly about his night with Yamana-san.

“Is it hard the first time?”

“Who knows...? It was my first time with a girl who’d never done it before. You wouldn’t want to force things if your girlfriend’s in pain, right? Especially since mine is still a minor.”

“You even care about that, huh.”

“Well, you know. Soliciting minors is a crime and all.”

After we’d parted ways, I’d looked up what Japanese law said on the subject. Specifically, “inko-jorei”—the ordinance on sexual misconduct.

“No one is allowed to engage in indecent sexual acts with minors.”

What does “indecent” mean...?

Who does “no one” apply to...?

Did that apply to me? I was a minor too. Could I not have loving sex with Runa, who was also a minor like me?

It didn’t make sense, so I went digging further and came upon a site that explained things in more detail.

Basically, even two minors having sex could be against the law. However, it didn’t apply to those who were engaged to be married or those who were “in a serious relationship equivalent to being engaged.”

The part about a “serious relationship equivalent to being engaged” had made me rack my brains. I intended to marry Runa eventually, and I believed that she had the same thing in mind.

But given what the law said, could we prove it? As hard as it was to imagine, if, for some inexplicable reason, a cop were to burst into the room while we were doing it in a hotel and accused us of breaking the law, wouldn’t we need an adult to prove that our relationship was serious?

That meant that, before we did something like that, I figured we ought to tell Runa’s father about our plans to marry.

“So... What now?” Runa asked reservedly once we reached the station.

I want to have sex.

I could tell that my face said as much. And it was clear to me that Runa felt the same way. And that was precisely why I said...

“I’ll walk you home.”

Obviously, I couldn’t just say, “I want to ask your father for permission to have sex with you,” so I gave myself an excuse to go to her house.

“Huh...? O-Okay.” An unconcealed look of dejection appeared on Runa’s face. She must’ve thought I was ending our date already.

That’s not how it is, Runa. Just wait for it.

As we walked through the usual peaceful residential area, I was secretly burning with resolve.

When we arrived at her house, Runa put her hand on the gate without a word and turned toward me.

“Ah, wait a moment, Runa.”

“Oh...?” She cocked her head as she looked at me.

“Sir, I’m giving serious consideration to my future with Runa-san.”

When I simulated the situation in my mind, saying the words I intended to say, my mental version of Runa’s father sighed and gave the following reply.

“So what? You’re still in high school. You can say things like that all you like. How do you plan to make my daughter happy? I want to hear how exactly you envision it.”

In that mental exchange, I was left speechless. In a few days, I’d be a high school senior. I was going to have to study with all I had and greatly improve my grades, doing whatever I could to get within range of being accepted into Houo University. And even if my efforts were to pay off and I got in, I’d still only be a university student.

All this time, Runa’s father had been working a full-time job, earning money, and raising his daughter. I felt like nothing I could say to him would be convincing in the slightest.

Besides, the last time I’d seen him had been on New Year’s, after my and Runa’s first shrine visit of the year. Back then, I’d barged in on them and asked him to hold off on letting his future wife move in. Recalling that I’d won that argument, I felt like it was going to be my turn to take a beating. The thought of it made me tremble.

“What is it, Ryuto?”

Runa’s voice brought me back to my senses.

“Well, uh, I mean...”

Now what...? Cold sweat formed on my skin as I considered what to do next, but I noticed that my phone was vibrating in my pocket.

“Oh...?”

Pretty much all my friends were introverts like me, so I almost never got calls without advance warning. It kept ringing, so I couldn’t ignore it. I pulled it out and looked at the screen.

“Dad...?”

The call was from my father, of course. That was unusual too, because even in my family, everyone was an introvert.

“It’s your father? You should take it, it might be important,” Runa said considerately.

“R-Right.” I tapped the button to answer the call.

“Hey, have you heard? Things are bad.” My father sounded restless. It was unusual for him as he was the quiet, taciturn type. “Your mother will be having surgery for cancer.”

My vision turned pure white. “Huh...?”

My father then told me when my mother would be admitted into the hospital and went over some other details, but barely any of it registered as I stood there in a daze before cutting the call.

“Ryuto...” Runa looked at me with sympathetic eyes. She must’ve heard what my father had said, as she’d been standing nearby.

“I’m sorry, Runa...” I replied. My mouth felt dry.

Runa gazed straight at me and nodded, a look of understanding on her face. “That’s okay. You should hurry home and be with your mom.”

“Yeah... Thanks.”

I turned around and walked away, putting Runa’s house behind me. As I walked to the station, hanging my head, I recalled the memories of my mother from when I’d been a kid, and before I knew it, my vision had grown blurry.

Naturally, the regret of not having done the deed with Runa was far from my mind at this point.

However, when I got home and stepped into the living room, it was anticlimactic. My mother was acting normally. The kitchen...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.5.2025
• Reihe/Serie: You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story
• Mitarbeit: Sonstige Mitarbeit: 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: 1-7183-0986-4 / 1718309864
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-0986-9 / 9781718309869