Chapter 118 - The Silence of Akira Ooukouchi

Because the hot springs at the Emiya's residence are being cleaned, Shirou and Negi decide to use the one of the big bath in the Mahora Middle school. All the girls in the Emiya residence already take a bath before the bath is cleaned so the girls doesn't need to go along.

And both of them did not want to be accused of peeping in the bath because currently they both were bathing in the bath for women. So they try to clean themselves as fast as possible.

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Akira Okochi has just finished her activities at the swimming club, and by chance the swimming arena is right next to the onsen, Akira decided to clean herself first before returned to the apartment.

Seeing the hot springs empty and no one else in the bath apart from her, Akira decided to take a dip in the hot springs. It was a rare opportunity to swim in a hot spring.

'Swimming in ofuro occasionally is great!' That's what she currently thinks.

But because Akira was too engrossed in swimming she was completely unaware of the existence of Shirou and Negi who were just about to come out of ofuro.

Akira's head touched the stomach of Shirou who was just about to stand up, to get out of ofuro.

Shirou's face flushed slightly, he didn't realize that Akira was swimming in Ofuro, usually he kept alert all the time because of his habit, but because he to engross enjoying the ofuro his awareness has laydown and Shirou can't feel Akira existence who came to the big ofuro.

But something different happened to Akira, once she realized that her head touched the stomach of the man she really loved. Akira's face flushed red, smoke came out of her head and soon Akira drowned because she did not expect to be in the same ofuro with a man she in love with.

Negi panicked tremendously and Shirou swiftly immediately took his towel to covering Akira's naked body while lifting her from the ofuro. He then put down Akira's body and kissed her lips to give her artificial respiration. Shirou's effort was successful, a minute later Akira opened her eyes she woke up once more.

But the problem didn't end there, Akira realized that Shirou was currently kissing her lips. Akira's head heated up once again and then she passed out successfully for a second time.

Because things got out of hand, Shirou decided to bring Akira back to her apartment.

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Akira Pov

I just had a very beautiful and embarrassing dream, this afternoon when I was swimming in ofuro. In my dream my head accidentally touched the body of the man I admire, I don't know why he could appear in my dreams.

But his half naked appearance in ofuro made me feel really embarrassed and after that I lost my consciousness right away! Losing consciousness in a dream? Is that possible? but when I regained my consciousness in that dream I was already on the floor when my lips were kissed by him. Once again I passed out and when I woke up I was already in my room. From there I was sure that a beautiful thing like being kissed by Shirou-kun that I was experiencing was just a dream.

But how wrong was my guess when I came out of my room to see my roommate Yuuna's face who was sullen and looked angry at me even when we both had breakfast she didn't want to talk to me. After I kept forcing her to tell me why she so angry at me, Yuuna then said that last night I was taken home by Shirou-kun when I passed out in ofuro. Yuuna even said that I was carried like a princess, and that made her feel jealous of me.

I felt my face turn bright red, the thing that I thought was a dream actually happened! I was kissed by Shirou-kun! Uuuuh how I will react when I meet Shirou-kun in class!

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Fortunately that day Shirou-kun was absent, I really didn't know how to react if I had to meet Shirou-kun at this time. Until this embarrassment is disappears. It would be better for me not to meet Shirou-kun!

When I was doing activities at the swim club, I could see Negi-Sensei was looking depressed. Negi-sensei looking down to the ground all the time, it look like he was looking for something.

After finishing the club activities, I saw Negi-Sensei, who still looked depressed, was sitting languidly in the park. Since I felt anxious about Sensei's condition, I tried to cheer him up by buying him a cold drink. He was surprised by my appearance, but in the end he looked calm and accepted the drink I offered to him.

I asked Sensei why he looked so depressed, then he told me that yesterday he lost an important ring he got from Mc Dowell-san. I did a little by asking if Mc Dowell-san was his fiancé, Sensei frantically replied that Mc Dowell-san was his martial arts teacher and the ring was given to Sensei as an acknowledgment that Negi- Sensei was Mc Dowell-san's student. I don't know why Mc Dowell-san taught Sensei martial arts, it's not my right to find out. My current job is to help Sensei find his ring.

Sensei told me that he lost his ring after he came back from ofuro together with Shirou-kun yesterday. Ooh ooh I didn't realize that Shirou-kun came together with Negi-Sensei yesterday. That's why Sensei and I decided to look for that ring in the big ofuro. I'm wearing my swimsuit of course, I don't want to be completely naked or just wear a towel when helping Sensei! that would be very embarrassing.

We searched for the ring for several hours in the large ofuro, but could not find it at all.

Sensei and I finally chose to rest first, and after that we will resume our searching.

Shortly after Sensei and I rested, my classmates came to take a bath and soaking their body in ofuro.

They all ask what we both are doing in ofuro. Sensei then replied that he was looking for a ring, Yuuna then took out a silver ring from the small bucket where she kept her soap, shampoo and towels. Yuuna said she found the ring in my toiletry bucket. It looks like Sensei's ring was tucked into my toiletries when he panicked after I passed out yesterday.

Sensei then asked Yuuna to return his ring, but Yuuna was playing tricks on Sensei and refused to return the ring. Sensei tried to take the ring from Yuna's hand, but because of his shorter body Sensei had a hard time reaching his ring. To make it more difficult for Sensei to get his ring, Yuuna threw the ring at Haruna. Haruna threw it at Fuuka then Fuuka threw it at Misa, then Misa threw it at Madoka, and Madoka threw it at Sakurako. Negi-Sensei tried to snatch his ring from all of them but failed in the end.

The ring then moved to Fumika's hand and Fumika threw it into Zazie's hand and Zazie threw it into Misora's hand. Misora ​​who was from the running club immediately sped up to avoid Sensei who was running towards him.

Sensei was running at a speed that a 10 year old boy could never have. He could match Misora's speed who was the member of the running club, Sensei's shocking speed made Misora ​​serious and ran even faster. So that Sensei couldn't catching her , I, who couldn't stand seeing Sensei being bullied by my classmates, finally decided to take action. I ran towards Misora ​​grabbing her head from behind using the iron grip I learned from my father who is a professional wrestler and then slammed her into ofuro, as well as Misa, Madoka, Sakurako, Fuuka, Fumika, Zazie, Haruna, and Yuuna. I threw them all in ofuro.

It is wrong to bully someone! My father and mother always taught me not to bully other people even though I have a decent grappling ability because my father taught me. I hate to see that someone is being bullied!

After that I lectured my classmates who had gone too far with Sensei until they all told me that they were sorry for what they did. they all apologized to Sensei and promised to sensei they would not bullying him again. I returned Sensei's ring then stroked his head, aaah Sensei really looked cute when I returned his ring.

The next day Shirou-kun was back in class and when I passed him, I passed out one more time after remembering the kiss he gave me. Uuh I really suck! I haven't had the chance to thank him for helping me in ofuro! If I keep fainted when I see him how can I say my gratitude! I must immediately get rid of the embarrasment that lingers too deeply in my heart! Otherwise I won't be able to study in the classroom!

Author Note: Next is the ending of volume 18

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