232 Only an innocent kiss between childhood friends

Iori pulls away before he could react. She's pleased to see him so shocked. She looks at him smugly and says, "I win."

"Win?" He blinks his eyes, still in shock.

"You were going to kiss me, right? I know you now. You were going to tease me and say that is your way of proving that you're a man." Iori laughs. For the first time in her life, she has the upper hand. There's no way that she would ever let this devil prince have his way with her. She's been teased and bullied enough. Kinoshita Iori is no longer a dumb woman. "I did it before you could that. Don't think that I see you as a man. I kissed you as a childhood friend."

"Kissed me as a childhood friend?" Takeshi bends his head and looks at her, confused. "You said that friends don't kiss."

"That...That…" She did say that. Iori bites her lower lip and peers at him. "Friends don't kiss like lovers. That was a kiss between childhood friends. It's just an innocent kiss."