Disclaimer: Hello again. I hope everyone had a lovely day. Ahem, all credit goes to Shingo Nanami and フクロウ. Here's the last chapter of this story. Enjoy!

無自覚関係

Oblivious Relations

Part Three

Kuranosuke x Kasane

"Geez… What happened…?"

Still being tugged along by Kuranosuke, she curiously looked at him.

They soon entered a desolate forest.

"Kuranosuke-sa—"

"I!"

He abruptly raised his voice, cutting off her invocation.

As his behavior now was clearly strange, Kasane widened her eyes.

"I-! I'm not someone who doesn't take responsibility for what I've done! Do I look like an irresponsible guy to you!?"

"Huh? Responsibility…?"

Her eyes now enlarged into two splendidly round circles. She could not comprehend what he was saying, which made her blabber out incoherent sentences.

"I-I…! After that morning, I-I didn't know who to mend things over, and my heart was acting up and was seriously annoying, um, why the hell you're acting as if nothing happened!"

He managed to rattle out all of the things from his mind. Kasane became overwhelmed by his energy.

"Acting…? Responsibly? What are you talking about?"

"L-like I said… This morning…"

Kuranosuke prevaricated at her questions.

He couldn't carelessly talk about it with her. It had not be done more cautiously.

And… he still could not remember what happened last night. It's not like he could even explain everything to her.

Taking Kasane into consideration, Kuranosuke turned toward her.

She blankly looked back at him then soon understood, "Ah." She softly raised her voice.

"Could it be that you're… worried about what happened last night?"

He shrank away from her fast straight pitch.

"That's… It's fine, you don't need to worry about anything."

"Wha—!? What'd you mean by that…!"

For a guy like him to lightly abort a girl, who hasn't been a bride yet, isn't a small problem. From the start, an unmarried girl having a relationship with a guy was deeply frowned upon.

A married woman who happened to separate from her spouse for a reason would receive better reception than an unmarried girl who happens to know about men.

It's not like he knew that he was Kasane's first man, but somehow he was confident that she wasn't aware of men in the first place.

"I…"

Take responsibly as a man.

That's why…

Become my…

"W-…wife…!"

Painfully clenching his fists together, Kuranosuke felt his ears redden.

For a second Kasane's eyes went wide and her mouth gaped open. After a time she stayed that way until she suddenly made a face that looked like she finally understood what he was trying to say.

"You're wrong, Kuranosuke-san! This morning's incident wasn't like that!"

"…Ha? I'm wrong?"

With a forced laugh she looked at him while he blurted out dumbly at her statement.

"…I thought it wouldn't be a good idea to say talk about it to you before, but…. it looks like I should have told you. I'm sorry about that." she bowed her head.

"…'Wouldn't be a good idea'… So something did happen."

"Well… if you say something happen, some did happen… kinda?"

"So doesn't that mean that something did happen last night!?"

"You're wrong! I-I didn't mean it in a weird way! !"

Kasane denied, turning red at his indicating response.

If it's not weird, then what exactly happened?

Fiercely crossing his arms, he glared at the uncertain girl.

"…Kuranosuke-san, you're not going to be angry?"

"Why're you asking that? Are you saying I was angry before?"

"No, it's not like that. Hahaha," she let out a dry laugh. "…Kuranosuke-san, you were rea~lly drunk last night so…" Kasane started to explain. In a irresolute manner he listened to her tale. "Because I didn't drink at all, I was the one who brought you back to your room when you were dead drunk."

"Y-you did?"

"And so, I was just going to leave you on your bed and go back to my room, but then…"

Until then, Kasane's words became unclear.

With short glances, she looked at their surroundings suspiciously before facing him once more.

As he thought, something must had happened. Something that she would hesitate to tell him.

Yesterday's guilty misconduct.

He was now going to fill the blank parts of his memory, he felt himself strain from the tension.

With the truth about to be revealed by Kasane, Kuranosuke earnestly directed his gaze to her chestnut eyes.

"…you grabbed onto my school uniform and begged me not to go like a spoiled child."

"…Ha?" He dumbly blurted out those words.

"Kuranosuke-san is one of those types that acts spoiled when drunk huh. You began pouting when I was going to leave. You kept saying things like 'You should be at my side!' and 'Do you really hate being with me!?', anyway it was so cute and adorable…."

"…! Enough! That's enough! !"

Unable to endure her explanation, Kuranosuke slouched down and restrained from raising his voice. Turning bright red, he covered his face with both hands.

Despite that he didn't remember a second of it and that he was terribly drunk at the time, it still didn't stop Kuranosuke from dying from embarrassment as he heard her story.

"A lot of other things happened, but do you want to hear it?"

"Urgh…!"

On one hand he seriously wanted to know what happened next, but he also didn't want to hear it. These sort of complicated feelings tormented him.

"There's nothing that Kuranosuke-san has to worry about. Kuranosuke is so stubborn, so I thought it's best if I didn't say anything about it…. So that's why I didn't tell you…"

Wryly smiling, Kasane looked back at him.

Kuranosuke, who's face is still bright red, could not return her gaze and awkwardly looked elsewhere.

Seeing that, she crinkled her eyes and smiled.

"Kuranosuke-san, you were thinking a lot about my wellbeing, right? Thank you very much."

"…Tch."

Still frantically avoiding her gaze, his breath hitched as he saw that smile.

"…If something did happen, I don't I'll mind if I become Kuranosuke-san's wife."

Still beaming as she said that, Kuranosuke blushed even more as his face boiled to a higher temperature.

"S-someone like you will never become my bride! Don't get ahead of yourself, you idiot woman!"

"Ahaha, sorry."

Kasane laughed as he desperately tried to object which only made him self-conscious about himself.

After staring at him with that sweet look, she took his larger hand into hers.

Though their physical build weren't that different, but now that she's aware of it, Kuranosuke is certainly, no matter who you look at it, a man.

"If it's Kuranosuke-san, that I feel like we'll create a really nice family."

Hearing that remark from the oblivious Kasane, Kuranosuke spent the following days troubled over the meaning and intention of those words. But that, is a story for another time.

So I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The next story I will be translating after this is 逢瀬日和(A Fine Day For A Rendezvous). Then I'll move onto 10 Strays. I might be able to upload again on Sunday, but we'll see what happens then.