In Tokyo: They are heavily dependent on me

Chapter 90. Scent

"No...no...that's not how it is!"

"I didn't do that... It was Airi-chan... It was Airi-chan who did it!"

Kaoru took a few steps back, her back striking the piano keys with a crisp sound that disrupted the surrounding tranquility.

"You're so naive, Hoshino-kun."

A victor's smile appeared on Airi's face.

"Just talking about it won't do any good. The police only look at the evidence. When they find your fingerprints on my clothes, the truth will come out. You'll be attacked by my fans... Even if you're forced to drop out of school, that's just the easiest step. Indecent assault is condemned by Japanese society, you know that, right, Hoshino-kun?"

His fingertips lightly traced the protruding Adam's apple before lingering on that disoriented face.

"Make a decision, Hoshino-kun. If you don't want your future to be ruined, you'll have to listen to me from now on."

Kaoru's Adam's apple bobbed as it was touched, and her face wore an expression of instinctive fear.

However, he held a completely different view from the current situation he was facing.

This plan is indeed very clever.

However, in the end it still didn't have any effect.

If he hadn't turned on the recording beforehand, he might have lost the opportunity to fight back.

"As long as I listen to you... you won't tell anyone what just happened... right?"

Kaoru is trying to play the role of a timid character.

Only in this way can he gain the other party's complete trust.

"Of course! If Hoshino-kun behaves well, I can grant you anything, including your dream of performing on stage... and..."

Sweet yet hot breaths kept hitting my face.

"Hoshino-kun is a boy, so if your favorite idol were to set aside his prestigious status to satisfy you... most boys wouldn't refuse that, right?"

"I...I promised Airi-chan...I'd do anything as long as you don't tell anyone!"

"It's so good that Hoshino-kun is so obedient. I knew I hadn't misjudged you."

Airi pulled back from her forward-leaning body.

Her face regained its usual sweet smile.

"Well then, Hoshino-kun, please take care of me from now on."

......

"Brother, welcome back."

"I'm back, Rin."

It was like a dialogue from a sitcom flashing through my mind.

After putting down her bag, Rin jogged over to him and carefully wiped his sweaty forehead with a towel.

"Brother, you came home earlier than usual today."

"Because I didn't participate in any club activities, I came back after borrowing the books."

"Didn't my brother invite any other girls today? He was so busy before... He even had to make time to visit Chio's house, and now he's back so soon. That's suspicious."

"Brother...you definitely didn't do this because you wanted to spend more time with your sister, did you?"

Rin uttered these words with a dissatisfied tone.

The feeling of being caught cheating by one's current partner... Kaoru was so stared at that she couldn't speak or even move.

"Rin...you didn't hire a private investigator to follow me again, did you?"

He hadn't mentioned that to Rin.

The situation was unprecedentedly chaotic. Clothes were filthy with vomit, and there was a strong smell of alcohol emanating from them. If they weren't cleaned up, they would be in trouble if they appeared on a busy street and attracted the attention of the police.

The scene was as follows: shortly after Kobayashi staggered into her arms, she became unresponsive. Kaoru changed her soiled clothes and then used the dryer function of the washing machine before leaving.

Aside from Kobayashi, it seems impossible to think of anyone else who knows all this.

"No, Chio told me herself."

Rin put away the towel, her face completely calm.

"Did Kobayashi tell you this on her own initiative? Besides this... did she say anything else?"

The moment those words were spoken, an electric shock-like sensation immediately coursed through my entire body.

Under Rin's gaze, Kaoru instinctively sensed a dangerous aura.

"Chio only mentioned this to me. She said that her brother drank at her house, and she got drunk. After that, she lost consciousness and didn't know anything. According to her, nothing happened. But... her brother's reaction was very anxious. Is he deliberately hiding something?"

Reality is starting to develop in the direction I least want to face.

Rin is slow to notice some things, such as often forgetting the food she put in the refrigerator a second ago and turning the whole kitchen upside down, but she is surprisingly perceptive when faced with other things.

Just like now.

The words she uttered unintentionally became the reason for her suspicion.

"No, nothing's wrong!"

"But my brother's face doesn't look like 'nothing's wrong'... Is he planning to lie to Rin?"

I don't know when it started, but Kaoru had that intuition.

Something that had never been seen before appeared on Rin.

It cannot be touched, nor can it be described.

The only thing you can feel is that abruptness so intense it makes you want to vomit.

"Rin... are you really alright?"

Xun placed her palm on her forehead, then leaned her face closer.

The temperature felt was perfectly normal, with no abnormalities whatsoever.

But if there's nothing wrong with my body, where does that clear feeling come from?

At the moment he felt the body temperature with his palm.

Rin's gaze remained fixed on his collar.

At that moment, he was unaware of the woman's hair tucked into his collar.

"I'm fine, I'm just a little bothered by these things."

Rin slapped away his hand that was covering his forehead.

"Go take a shower, your brother stinks."

After leaving those words, she went into the kitchen.

She also took the towel inside.

"It's nothing... but I did feel something was off."

Her silhouette was obscured by the curtain separating her from the kitchen.

Xun leaned down and smelled her own scent.

I could only smell a faint perfume scent.

When was it left behind? He didn't care about that and scratched his face as he went upstairs.

Upon entering the room, he closed the door and sniffed the familiar scent floating in the air.

He sniffed hard a few times and quickly found the source of the smell.

It was the single bed he used to sleep in.

The sheets on the bed showed signs of having been cleaned.

"That's strange. I've been changing the sheets much more frequently lately. It used to be once a month, but now it's suddenly once a week... When did Rin become like a germaphobe?"

Feeling a little strange, Kaoru didn't pay much attention and began to enjoy a warm bath after entering the bathroom.

With my eyes closed, the first thing that appears before me is Rin's figure.

His heart suddenly started pounding wildly, and the answer he had been searching for appeared in his mind at that moment.

What struck him as odd about Rin was...

It was a desire to possess him that had never been shown before.