28 Akane's feelings, and Kazuma's resolve

Unable to bear with the awkward atmosphere too long as Sakura and Kyoko kept on staring at her, Izumi says bye to Kazuma and left.

As for Kazuma before he could even ask his mom what the hell she was doing, she got a phone call about an emergency surgery. Due to this Sakura rushed away, leaving only Kazuma and Kyoko all alone.

Thinking that this was her chance, Akane decided to come out and reveal everything.

"What are you doing Kazuma?"

"I'm resting."

"Not this. I'm talking about that girl you brought home with you!"

Hearing anger and jealousy in Kyoko's voice, Kazuma put away his intention to sleep and focused.

"Are you doing this to make me angry?"

"I don't understand what you mean."

"Sleeping with other women, bringing some random girl home! You're deliberately doing this!"

Slowly Akane's eyes started turning wet as she felt her emotions getting the better of her. Even she didn't know why she was getting so worked up suddenly.

"It's not like that aunt..."

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!"

Shouting out loud Akane looked at Kazuma with disappointed eyes.

"Why are you calling me that!? Do you want to break our relationship? Am I too old for you now?"

"Akane calm down...I... "

Once again interrupting Kazuma midway, Akane said, "Don't tell me to calm down! Because I cannot! Every time I think about you spending time with another woman, I'm afraid that you're going to throw me aside!"

"And now that you've brought a girlfriend your own age home, what.... What... Ahhhhhh!"

Turning completely hysteric Akane was almost screaming and not even able to properly speak.

"I know that I said we can't be in a romantic relationship. But I want to! Even if we can't go outside and show it to others, can't you just for once tell me that you love me? At least when we are alone?!"

Sensing how Akane was right now, Kazuma didn't do anything stupid like tell her that she told him not to.

Instead, he got up, and while bearing the pain on his leg moved closer to Akane who was trying to hide her tears by looking outside the window.

Pressing his body against her, Kazuma tightly hugged her. Resting his head on her shoulder as their faces rubbed each other, he whispered into her ears.

"I love you."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Then what about that gi..."

"Ahh... My leg is still hurting... Can you help me lie on the bed."

Despite knowing that it was his way of discretely changing the topic and not talking about Izumi, Akane felt that this was enough for today.

Lending Kazuma a shoulder she helped him back into the bed, and went to prepare an ice pack and some food for him with a happy smile.

Kazuma, on the other hand, felt that his life was turning way too complicated.

If enjoying Izumi's company and give her the same in return was supposed to be hard, then the addition of two jealous women did nothing to make it easy.

...

The next day morning, even before Kazuma finished getting ready, Izumi had already come to his house so that they could walk together.

Thinking how early she must've gotten up to get ready, and take the train after which she walked until here just to go to school with him, Kazuma felt that even if he doesn't make her happy, he shouldn't let her down and disappoint her.

Going to school together, Kazuma took the opportunity to tell Riho that they couldn't continue the relationship anymore since he had a girlfriend now.

While Riho sounded quite accepting of his decision and even encouraged him to be happy, Kazuma failed to notice that she, in fact, wasn't satisfied with this decision of his.

But since she knew that she couldn't do anything about it, Riho decided to wait until the perfect time to take him away from his girlfriend.

After spending a happy lunch with Izumi who brought her handmade food for him, and even put a few pieces of fried chucked in his mouth, Kazuma felt that she was a great girlfriend and he definitely needed to treat her properly.

"Hey Izumi, shall we go out after school today?"

"What do you have in mind Kazuma?"

"How about let's go out and eat something together, and go to an amusement park after that?"

"Awww, that's a really good plan. But let's not go today. Let's go on this Sunday! That way we can spend a whole day together."

Kazuma was just about to nod his head when he remembered that he spent every Sunday with Akane. And given how she was behaving recently, it might not be a good thing to ditch her.

"I can't go out on Sunday. So how about on Saturday? It's a holiday anyway."

"Okay."

Not even thinking about why he wanted to go on Saturday, or what was keeping him busy on Sunday, Izumi nodded her head and accepted.

Since they had no plans for the rest of the day, Izumi took the initiative to invite Kazuma to her home saying that they could study together.

Going with Izumi to her house for the first time ever, Kazuma started feeling a little nervous about meeting her family for the first time.

On the way over Kazuma decided that he shouldn't get into any more sexual relationships with new women, and if possible even stop his current ones.

However it might not be as simple as breaking things off with Riho, so Kazuma thought that he'd take things one step at a time.

And the first step would be being faithful to Izumi and not having sex with any new women.

Unfortunately, his resolve weakened the very moment Izumi opened the door.