"Good boy!"
Tsukuyomi Komoe cheerfully patted him on the head.
"Here, drink up."
Tsushima Kagami put the nipple in his mouth and began to suck away — suck, suck, suck. In no time at all he had drained more than half the bottle.
Hang on — this actually tastes kind of good?
Beside him, Douraku Utage quickly piped up.
"My turn, my turn!"
Douraku Utage swiftly snatched what was left of the bottle from Tsukuyomi Komoe's hands. Then she patted her own lap.
"Come here, Kagami-kun."
Tsushima Kagami immediately turned around and flopped down with his head in Douraku Utage's lap.
"Mama!"
"My, what a good boy Kagami-kun is."
Douraku Utage went faintly red, feeling the tickle of Tsushima Kagami's hair against her leg.
"Neinei!"
"I want neinei!"
Only then did Douraku Utage stuff the rest of the bottle into Tsushima Kagami's mouth. He threw himself back into the sucking with total dedication — and promptly drained it bone dry.
Hm?
All gone?
Tsushima Kagami had by now cast aside every last shred of shame and fully inhabited the role. He looked at the empty bottle in Douraku Utage's hand, immediately sat up, and abandoned Douraku Utage without a second glance.
He made his way over to Hayase Kinue.
Hayase Kinue hadn't even had time to arrange her lap before Tsushima Kagami threw himself headfirst into her arms and held on tight.
"Mama, you smell so nice!"
Hayase Kinue dissolved into giggles at that.
"Stop nuzzling me like that."
"It tickles!"
"That's not fair — Kagami-kun never told us we smelled nice!"
Tsukuyomi Komoe stood to the side, stamping her feet with an indignant pout. Douraku Utage, meanwhile, had already gone off to refill the bottle with milk.
Tsushima Kagami ignored Tsukuyomi Komoe entirely and nestled contentedly in Hayase Kinue's arms, demanding every indulgence he could think of.
"Mama."
"Hungry."
"Neinei!"
"Alright, alright."
"Utage-mama is already getting it ready, okay."
But Douraku Utage discovered that the milk was all gone — the bottle he'd just finished had been the last one. Hayase Kinue said with a rueful smile:
"Oh dear, there's none left."
"We'll make it up to Kagami-kun next time, okay?"
Tsushima Kagami refused to take no for an answer and burrowed even deeper into Hayase Kinue's arms.
"Mama, you smell so nice~"
"Mama, neinei~"
"My, even if Kagami-kun says so…"
"Mama doesn't have any neinei~"
Hayase Kinue laughed, looking flustered.
"I don't care!"
"Neinei~ I want neinei!"
Tsushima Kagami kept rubbing his face against Hayase Kinue's stomach. With each nuzzle, the hem of her shirt was being worked gradually upward from inside, until his cheek was slowly pressing against the smooth skin of Hayase Kinue's uniform.
Hayase Kinue gave an involuntary shiver.
"Mama, hungry!"
Tsushima Kagami had the look of an utterly hopeless, drooling little creature.
Hayase Kinue's eyes were starting to spin.
"But… Mama doesn't have any neinei."
"Hungry, I'm hungry!"
"Mama smells so nice, I want neinei!"
"Oh my, well…"
"Just a tiny little sip then~"
Tsukuyomi Komoe and Douraku Utage, standing to the side, watched Hayase Kinue slide completely out of control.
They stood there, rooted to the spot.
It was hard to say whether they were too stunned to move and had simply forgotten to intervene — or whether they were privately wondering if they'd need to do the same thing themselves shortly, just to keep things fair.
And so, just as Hayase Kinue, eyes spinning, face full of indulgent tenderness, was slowly beginning to undo her buttons —
The front door suddenly swung open.
"Kagami, I got off early today."
"I ran into everyone outside, so we all came back together."
"You weren't home, so I thought you might be over here having dinner at Kinue-nee-san's."
That was Shizuku's voice.
She had barely finished speaking when the front door was pushed open the rest of the way.
Sayuri came in first, holding up a copy of "Forever Mama" with a look of pure excitement.
"Kagami, we got it today!"
Sayuri had just started to speak when she looked into the living room — at Tsushima Kagami buried in Hayase Kinue's arms, at Hayase Kinue who appeared to be in the process of undoing her buttons, and at Douraku Utage holding the baby bottle and Tsukuyomi Komoe with her toys, standing to one side.
Thud.
The copy of "Forever Mama" slipped from Sayuri's hands and fell to the floor.
"Pardon the intrusion."
"Sayuri, why'd you drop the book?"
Kosaka Akane and Machida Sonoko came in after her, and both of their shoulder bags slid off their shoulders and hit the floor.
Then Ijichi Seika walked in, and the guitar she was carrying clattered to the ground.
Hiroi Kikuri walked in, and her cased bass dropped to the floor.
PA-san walked in and covered her eyes.
Hiratsuka Shizuka walked in and let out a low whistle.
Last came Yukinoshita Shizuku and Shimizu Nayotake, who had tidied up together — the two of them puzzled by why everyone had just walked in and frozen in place, so quiet.
They came in too.
Shimizu Nayotake's expression remained as unreadable as ever. Yukinoshita Shizuku's brow furrowed, and something unpleasant stirred in her memory.
"This is…"
At that moment, Tsushima Kagami's eyes instantly cleared.
Oh no — he'd gotten way too deep into the role!
Tsushima Kagami quickly pulled away from Hayase Kinue and got to his feet.
"Ahahahaha."
"Oh hey, perfect timing, everyone."
"I was just in the middle of asking Kinue-nee-san, Moe-sensei, and Utage-sensei to be my godmothers."
"You've all arrived just in time to witness it!"
"That's right, that's right."
"We were playing Old Maid earlier, and since Kagami-kun lost, we all played Baby Bus together!"
Tsukuyomi Komoe and Douraku Utage had snapped back to their senses by now too, and hurried over to Hayase Kinue's side, hastily tucking her shirt back in for her before she had a chance to come back to herself.
"So why exactly were you playing that kind of game?"
Yukinoshita Shizuku pressed on.
"Oh my, the fault is entirely ours."
"We'd just been reading Kagami-kun's 'Forever Mama,' you see."
"So we thought we'd try playing mama ourselves."
Douraku Utage hurried to explain from the side.
At that, everyone's gaze shifted to the copy of "Forever Mama" sitting on the coffee table — and then to the copy Sayuri had dropped on the floor.
On the way back they'd already heard Sayuri going on about how popular the little loli Tsushima Kagami had drawn was turning out to be.
Now, Sayuri included, everyone had only one question on their minds.
Every pair of eyes slid back to Hayase Kinue, Tsukuyomi Komoe, and Douraku Utage, narrowing slightly.
"My, everyone is giving us such scary looks."
"Please don't look at us like that."
Tsukuyomi Komoe and Douraku Utage hurriedly protested.
Then everyone looked at Tsushima Kagami.
Tsushima Kagami looked as though none of this had anything to do with him at all. He had already settled back onto the sofa, crossed one leg over the other, picked up his copy of "Forever Mama," and was flipping through it with a faint smile at the corner of his lips.
The question forming in the girls' minds was growing clearer by the second.
Kagami-kun wasn't really… a lolicon, was he?
And if he was — what on earth were they supposed to do about that?
In the end, as if by some unspoken agreement, they all exchanged a confirming glance.
"Excuse us. Sorry to bother you."
And then every last one of them stepped back out of the room and gathered in the hallway.
Sayuri was the first to speak.
"Kagami-kun's thing… isn't really loli mamas, is it?"
"That's not okay!"
"Being a lolicon is wrong!"
"Even if they're legal loli mamas!"
Yukinoshita Shizuku said firmly.
"I'm with Shizuku on this!"
"Same!"
Kosaka Akane and Machida Sonoko were quick to agree.
"High schoolers should healthily like other high schoolers — that's how it should be!"
Hiratsuka Shizuka suddenly chimed in from the side.
Everyone turned to look at Hiratsuka Shizuka.
"Oh? Was I wrong?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"You're absolutely right!"
Ijichi Seika nodded in agreement from beside her.
"But what if that really is his thing?"
Hiroi Kikuri suddenly raised her hand and ventured a small, uncertain remark.
PA-san nodded too.
"He did seem like he was really enjoying himself just now, senpai and all."
Everyone turned to look at Yukinoshita Shizuku, as his older sister.
Yukinoshita Shizuku took a deep breath.
"Being a lolicon is something that absolutely must be corrected!"
The circle of girls nodded as one.
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