When they came back to the classroom, most students had gone to the cafeteria. Only a few stayed to eat the bento they had brought from home.
Amamiya Iori pulled her desk to the back of the room and joined it with Shimizu Ken's desk. She sat down close beside him.
She then took two full bento boxes from her bag. One held saba onigiri (rice ball), and the other also held saba onigiri.
Ken looked at them with doubt. Even if she made too many by mistake, it was hard to believe she would have a whole extra box.
Suddenly, he remembered how Kondo Yuuichi had a bad stomach this morning.
"Shimizu-kun, please try one," Iori said with a sweet and pure smile as she held out an onigiri.
The kind smile that could charm a crowd almost sank Ken, but he managed to stay calm.
"Iori... did Yuuichi eat this this morning?" he asked.
"Of course not. I would never give him this kind of 'import food'," she said.
Import food?
Her words made Ken curious.
Could this have some sort of aphrodisiac inside...?
As he hesitated to take the onigiri, he felt something touch his foot. He looked down.
"Iori?"
"Hehehe..."
Under the desk, Iori had taken off her indoor shoes and gently rubbed Ken's foot with hers.
It tickled, and doing this in the classroom made it even more embarrassing.
The room was quiet. The other students ate without noticing what was happening under the desk.
Ken felt Iori's eyes on him, warm and full of energy. She kept looking at him and touching him. Maybe he was wrong, but this way of looking and acting must mean something.
"...Iori?" he said.
"Yes? What is it?" she asked, lifting her face to look right at him.
It was not bad to be looked at by such a pretty girl, but it was too bold in class, and Yuuichi might not like it later.
"What is it? Is it not to your taste? Or... does Master want me to feed you~?"
Master?
For a moment, Ken thought he misheard.
There was no way classmates would call each other that.
Iori gave a helpless little smile, moved even closer, and brought the onigiri to his lips.
"Sorry, I drank too much coffee. I don't have much appetite now," he said.
Iori did not look happy with that answer, but she seemed to think about his feelings and soon let it go.
"Alright then."
She put the onigiri back and took one from the other box. She began to eat.
Very strange...
Soon, she finished the whole box by herself. Ken was surprised that someone so slim could eat so much.
He saw a grain of rice near her mouth and reached out without thinking. He wiped it away.
"Eh!?"
Iori froze like a scared deer. Her face turned bright red.
"What is it?" Ken asked.
"N-nothing," she said, turning away to hide her face.
"If it's nothing, I'll go to the restroom," he said. He really needed to go after all the tea and coffee.
"Please wait!"
He stood up, but Iori grabbed his arm.
"Is there something else?" he asked.
"Next time... can we choose a place with no people? Then, after we eat, I can 'serve' you."
"Serve how?" Ken asked, only curious.
In that instant, Iori's whole mood changed. Her eyes moved left and right, her cheeks turned red, and her breath grew fast.
While Ken stared in confusion, she twisted a little and whispered so only he could hear:
"Serve is serve. I will let Master use my body until he is happy. When I think of it... aaah!!"
Her voice was small, but Ken understood well enough.
But he had no time to think.
He was at his limit!
He nodded without thinking, pulled his hand free, and rushed out of the room to the restroom.
* * *
A few minutes later,
The classroom was empty, except for one small figure.
Iori sat in Ken's seat at the back and looked at a grain of rice on her handkerchief—the one he had taken from her mouth.
A soft pain hit her head. A memory flashed in her mind, like it was from the past or maybe the future.
Her eyes turned hazy. She put the rice in her mouth and swallowed. Then she licked her fingers as if tasting candy, her tongue moving slowly.
"Dear... so good," she whispered.
Her voice sounded like it could melt everything. Her red cheeks no longer looked shy, but more like a strange and scary kind of joy.
Notes:
• Amamiya Iori - JK heroine; targeted; her mother is the hostage. Long-haired and busty.
• Kondo Yuuichi - Original main protagonist; timid; Iori’s childhood friend; freezes despite push.