Introvert's Hookup Hiccups: This Gyaru Is Head Over Heels for Me! Volume 11 (eBook)

Yuishi (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-5568-2 (ISBN)

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Having gotten their fill of an endless summer during their class trip to Hawaii, Yoshin and his pals return to Japan-only to find that it's the middle of winter back home! The sudden change in temperature has our lovebirds catching cold, but when they recover and get back into the swing of things, Christmas is already just around the corner. Of course, spending the holiday season together is nothing but pure joy, especially when Yoshin gets to enjoy another significant event with Nanami-his birthday-even if he has forgotten all about it himself. With a party on Christmas Eve among all their friends and a more intimate affair with just the two of them on Christmas Day, our couple can't get enough merriment and cheer between them!

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Prologue: When I Returned Home, It Was Like a Foreign Land

The class trip that had felt both long and short ended without any huge hiccups. Prior to all this, I hadn’t been sure if I’d be able to enjoy going on such a long trip. But after it had ended I felt like it had gone by in the blink of an eye.

In fact, six days and four nights even seemed a bit short. As a class trip it was perfectly fine, but we all felt as if we had left things undone. There were places we wanted to go but couldn’t, foods we wanted to eat but couldn’t, and things we wanted to do but couldn’t. Hawaii was like a meal we’d eaten only an eighth of, full of a charm that made us want to stay there for just a little while longer. I could completely understand, now, why it was such a popular travel spot.

At the same time, I was also starting to feel an undeniable desire to head back home. I admit the first thing I did when our plane landed safely back in Japan was sigh in relief.

I wanted to stay in Hawaii for longer, but I also wanted to go home. Maybe those contradictory feelings were a part of what made traveling so enjoyable.

At least I’d promised Nanami that we’d return to Hawaii, so I was sure that I would go back at some point. To do that, though, I would have to prepare. I needed to look into learning how to drive and getting my license. The trip would come sooner than I knew it—just like this first visit had.

And just like that, we finished our class trip and returned home...but the first thing we all said when we landed ended up being the same. Despite the fact that we’d each experienced and enjoyed the trip in a different way, our hearts became one in this final moment.

The first words out of our mouths were...

“It’s cold!”

Those two words were something all of us said.

Seriously, the moment we got off the plane, we all started saying how cold it was, like we were all part of one giant chorus. I was so shocked by the chill that I couldn’t help saying it too. I mean, what was going on with the temperature? We’d all heard ahead of time that it was cold, so none of us were lightly dressed, but we all still felt it.

It was true that, when it was cold, that was all you could think about. We thus tried desperately to hold on to the last bit of Hawaiian warmth in our minds as we stood there battling the Japanese cold. Even though I was attuned to the scent and the difference in the air when we landed in Hawaii, this time, landing back in Japan, all I could think about was the temperature change.

“Seriously, why is it so cold?” I murmured.

I didn’t think I usually felt this cold. What was going on? Was it because I’d just spent the past few days basking in the Hawaiian sun?

Even though it had just been six days, four nights, the trip had been nearly a week long. It seemed entirely possible that our bodies had gotten used to the temperature there and so found the weather in Japan to be colder than usual.

Nanami was hugging herself as she walked. Even though we’d got back home, it felt like we’d arrived in a foreign land. But that also could have been because we were walking through the jet bridge connecting the plane to the terminal, which meant we were practically outside.

“Nanami, are you okay? It’s cold, huh?” I asked.

“What in the world, it’s cold...super cold. I wanna eat something warm,” she returned.

“Seriously. Ramen would be so good right now,” I muttered.

“Oh, that’s a great idea. Should we get some before we head home?”

Nanami’s agreement made me want ramen for real. We hadn’t encountered any in Hawaii...though I guess we did see some cup noodles. Despite Nanami’s very appealing suggestion, though, we weren’t actually going to disperse as a class at the airport, so the odds of us actually being able to act on it was low.

I should have thought better than to mention this at all. Now I totally had ramen on the brain.

People around us were also naming warm comfort foods—oden, pork and veggie soup, udon, soba...just a variety of Japanese foods. Maybe we were just rebounding from our time abroad.

But as we continued walking through the jet bridge, our heads filled with the thought of warm foods like The Little Match Girl, we finally understood why it felt so cold.

“Wow, it’s snowing.”

That’s right: snow.

I guess someone had mentioned it while we were on the plane, but I’d never expected to see my first snow of the year like this.

Outside the window, white snow fell slowly from the sky. It wasn’t piling up on the ground, and there definitely wasn’t a snowstorm or anything, but at least I finally understood why it felt so dang cold.

“You wanna wear my jacket, Nanami?” I asked.

Even though we were almost out of the jet bridge, if Nanami was cold, then...

“Hmm. I think I’d rather do this than have your jacket,” she replied.

“This?” I asked, then added in confusion, “What?”

“This!” Nanami said, taking my hand and dexterously entwining her arm with mine. We had our arms linked, in other words, but it seemed like we were much closer to each other than what arm-linking would allow. We also had to walk more slowly, which made us stick even closer together.

“Tee hee, it’s so warm,” Nanami whispered.

“Dude, we just got back,” I thought I heard someone mumble, but I decided to pretend like I didn’t hear it.

Nanami smiled happily as she attached herself to me. Being this close really did feel a lot warmer than before. I was also pretty sure that this was the first time ever in my life that I had kept myself warm in such a way.

This seemed obvious, but humans have pretty high body temperatures. Common wisdom even said that in the event you ever got stranded on a snowy mountain with someone it was best to warm each other naked. That was how hot the human body was.

Though, apparently there were various conditions under which you really actually should warm yourselves naked. It was said to be kind of dangerous to do, and there were rather detailed instructions...but I’ll just skip all the details. Because right now we weren’t actually stranded on a snowy mountain. It was just that it was kind of cold.

What was most important here was the fact that I was experiencing something that I only knew in theory—Nanami getting warmer from my body heat—and that I was also getting pretty warmed up myself.

That was what was important. To learn by doing. It might as well have been a part of our class trip.

I hadn’t been expecting to continue my education even after the trip ended. Was this what people meant when they said a field trip only ended once you stepped through your front door? I was probably wrong about that, though.

Yeah, instead of thinking something weird, we should probably focus on getting inside while it’s still kind of warm. But if it’s this warm, it must mean that both our bodies are burning through enough calories to produce heat, right? If we’re trying to warm each other, don’t we need a certain amount of energy...or fat? Wait, fat warms us not because it burns, but because it doesn’t let out heat, right? So if my body is warm, then it means I have a certain amount of fat...and if Nanami is warm, then she, too, must have a certain amount of...

Wait, self. I think you’re thinking something very rude right now. I mean, she’s saying that I’m warm too, so it must mean that we’re both fa—

In that moment, a chill ran up my spine.

“I feel like something rather rude just crossed your mind,” Nanami said, looking up at me with all the light having disappeared from her eyes. Despite the fact that I felt warm, my body immediately began to shiver, having been taken over by a sudden freezing sensation.

More importantly, how did Nanami know what I was thinking? Apparently she could read minds now; her beautifully faint smile was paired with a deep darkness dwelling in her eyes that was honestly frightening. So frightening I decided to cease all thought right then and there.

Yeah, I’m probably just imagining that she’s psychic. My face must be telling her everything. Yeah, that must be it.

“It’s warm, huh?” I said, genuinely expressing how I felt—though it wasn’t a lie to say that I was trying to change the subject too. Still, Nanami’s expression brightened immediately when I said that. The light seemed to have returned to her eyes as well.

To be honest, even though her expression from earlier did send a chill up my spine, I didn’t actually dislike it. But Nanami looked her most beautiful when she was smiling with joy. It definitely wasn’t because I was scared. If anything, it was my fault for having thought such offensive thoughts just now.

“It is, isn’t it?” Nanami agreed, her arm still entangled with mine. “The cold’s not too bad now, though.”

When we were walking so close to each other, it was possible to forget how cold it was...almost. Either way, it really was pretty warm. Though the parts where we weren’t touching each other still felt quite chilly.

Once we got out of this jet bridge, though, we’d be inside the...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2025
• Reihe/Serie: An Introvert's Hookup Hiccups: This Gyaru Is Head Over Heels for Me!
• Illustrationen: Yuishi
• Übersetzer: Yuishi
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Heartwarming • High School • Light Novel • male protagonist • Personal Growth • Slice of Life
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-5568-8 / 1718355688
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-5568-2 / 9781718355682