CHAPTER 14: CHAPTER 14: RIKO KOHINATA’S PAST

Zayden had a slight hunch about why these two were standing in front of his locker.

"Valtrex-sama!" The girl with glasses and long, straight black hair said his name while tightly closing her golden eyes.

Her long eyelashes became more evident now with her eyes closed.

The trembling of her body showed how nervous she must have been at that moment.

Zayden heard a sigh beside him.

It was a sigh of resignation. And, it became clear when he looked that it was Erika who had made it.

Catherine, on the other hand, had a smile as if she was expecting to see something interesting.

Shifting his gaze to the two girls, fixing on Inoe, he asked: "Need something from me, Nadeshiko-chan?"

Inoe opened her eyes, blinking them, looking very surprised.

"You know who I am?" She asked, incredulous.

"You’re Inoe Nadeshiko from class 1-B, right?" Zayden asked with a smile.

Like a rattle, she nodded in agreement, making her hair sway, until it got a bit messed up: "Yes, yes, that’s me! I’m surprised you know who I am..."

"Huh? It shouldn’t be weird, since you’re pretty famous..." Zayden said, touching his chin thoughtfully.

"Me? Famous?" This time, Inoe was completely confused, denying: "Impossible, impossible..."

"Really? I don’t think it’s impossible, whatever, you seemed to want something from me." Zayden stepped closer, standing just two steps away: "So, what is it?"

"I..." Returning to the reason she was there, Inoe turned red with embarrassment.

She stole a few glances at his face and bit her lower lip.

Riko, beside her, sighed and said: "Valtrex-san, right? Is it okay if you share your contact with us? My friend here really wants to get closer to you, if it’s not a bother."

"Riko-chan..." Inoe looked at her as if she were a Goddess.

"Haha, it’s no bother at all." Zayden took his smartphone out of his pocket and showed the QR Code: "You can scan it."

Wanting to help her friend, Riko also ended up adding him so it wouldn’t seem any weirder than it already was.

With trembling hands, Inoe added him too.

When she succeeded, she jumped happily, forgetting she was still in front of Zayden, saying: "I managed to add Valtrex-sama!"

Laughing a bit at her cute reaction, Zayden asked: "Need anything else?"

"No, that’s all. Inoe, let’s go." Riko started pulling her by the arms.

"Riko-chan, wait...!"

After the two walked away, Catherine, Erika, and Yamagi approached.

"Wow, that girl was something!" Catherine said while outlining her own large chest with her hands, which was also quite big.

"Yeah, she’s got some serious boobs." Erika spoke without holding back.

...

Outside the school, Inoe still couldn’t believe she had gotten Zayden’s contact information.

She was the type of girl who liked handsome and talented boys, and when she saw him playing basketball, she couldn’t stop thinking about how cool he seemed to be.

Before, she might have had some reservations about him, since he had a bad reputation, but she believed people could change, especially teenagers who were still developing.

Maybe his rebellious phase was over, like those who suffer from eighth-grade syndrome?

Whatever it was, she wanted to get closer to him.

Contact information wasn’t enough. She wanted to get even closer. She wanted to know him more deeply.

’First, I’ll start by keeping in regular contact with Valtrex-sama~!’ Inoe thought with a determined expression while still being dragged by the arm by her friend.

Snapping back to herself, she stopped, holding Riko’s hands: "Thank you so much, Riko-chan. Thanks to you, I see the light at the end of the tunnel!"

"Such an exaggeration~" Riko didn’t take her words too seriously and laughed a bit.

Of course, it wasn’t like she didn’t understand Inoe’s feelings of wanting to get closer to the boy she liked, but she didn’t think she had done that much to deserve so much gratitude.

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Riko arrives home.

All her cheerful disposition was gone.

She seemed to turn into a block of ice, so cold.

Upon opening the door with the key, she announced in a neutral tone: "I’m back."

No one responded.

When she entered and swapped her shoes for slippers, she passed through the living room hallway and saw her mother and older sister watching television.

"You’re back," her older sister said with disinterest.

Unlike her, her older sister, Sakura Kohinata, wasn’t as short and didn’t have such large breasts. At 1.63 m tall, she had D-Cup. They weren’t small by any means, but compared to Riko, who was I-Cup...

She was four years older than Erika and was currently attending college. Since it was close to home, she commuted back and forth.

Her mother didn’t even bother to look in her direction, saying: "Go change already and don’t forget it’s your day to do the household chores."

Riko pressed her lips together and said: "I wanted to study, the first trimester exams are coming up, so..."

"Huh?" Sakura got up from the couch and looked at her with disdain: "What’s the point of an idiot like you studying? In the end, your results will be mediocre at best, so stop talking so much nonsense and do what you have to do, got it?"

Suppressing her anger and discomfort, she didn’t even try to seek help from her mother; she was already used to it.

Lowering her head, she nodded in an emotionless tone: "Alright, I’ll go change."

"Tsk, you should’ve done that from the start. Useless thing!" Sakura spat and sat back down.

Heading to the room she shared with her sister, Riko wanted to scream but held back, murmuring in her mind: ’Just two more months, just two more months...’

She knew she had no place in this family.

Of course, it hadn’t always been like this.

It all started in her pre-teens.

As she stopped growing in height, her breasts began to grow absurdly.

Because of this, she started facing harassment, even almost being molested by an elementary school teacher.

But instead of worrying about her, her mother blamed her for being vulgar.

From then on, she began to be treated like a stranger in her own home... No, even a stranger was treated better than her; she started being treated like a burden living off their charity.

At first, her father tried to speak up for her, but even he began to look at her like other men, with those vulgar and disgusting eyes...

’I never asked for this!’ she screamed in her mind.

The fact that her breasts had grown so much made her family hate her and her father look at her as if she were a piece of meat, just like other men.

Until that day...

She was at home, alone, and her father came back early from work.

She was relaxed, so to speak, wearing a thin blouse that still covered her body well.

When she went to her room, her father followed her.

Before she could react, her father lunged at her, pinning her to the bed.

"It’s your fault, it’s not my fault, it’s your fault... Who told you to seduce your own father..."

She still remembers the words he said to her with those terrifying eyes.

She was scared, terrified, screaming for her father to stop, but he just held her with those crazed eyes.

Then the door opened, and her older sister, Sakura, appeared.

"Dad, what are you doing to Riko?!" she shouted.

For the first time in years, she felt familial warmth coming from her older sister.

Her father panicked.

He stammered and said he had fallen by accident.

Riko, who was in tears, ended up agreeing. She was simply terrified, she didn’t know what would happen if she had told the truth, told all the dirty and disgusting words her father had said to her.

Because of that, Riko stayed silent.

For the first time in years, her sister hugged her tightly.

She was 14 years old at the time.

When she was hugged like that, she cried a lot. All the repressed feelings she had been holding in poured out that day in rivers of tears.

However, she who believed she could at least receive familial warmth from her older sister, after that day, she became colder, more demanding, and Riko began to be even more excluded in the family by Sakura.

Since that day, Sakura’s presence at home became greater.

She didn’t go out with friends and stayed home most of the time. Aside from the time she wasn’t at university, she was at home.

In a way, that brought a sense of relief and security.

As much as her sister hated her, at least with her there, her father didn’t dare try anything ’funny’ with her.

...

’I want to get out of here!’

Her body trembled.

Only when she turned 16 would she gain independence and be able to live on her own.

She already had a plan. Without telling her family, she started writing a novel.

She began by imitating her friend, Inoe Nadeshiko, who earned a few thousand yen.

Strangely, when she tried, she became popular and had some fans of her story.

However, she hadn’t monetized it yet. She knew that if she did and her family found out, it would be hard to leave this house. She knew her family well enough to understand they wouldn’t let her leave if she could bring them profit.

But if she waited two months until she turned 16, she could leave home and live on her own without their permission. She could open a bank account without needing her parents as guarantors.

Even for renting a place, she had already talked to her friend Inoe’s mother. She owned a boarding house and would rent her a room without needing a guarantor.

Thinking ’Just a little longer...’ she finished changing.

Even at home, she wore a lot of clothes. This was because, if she wore even slightly light clothing, her mother would hit her, saying she was trying to seduce her own father.

For a while, she herself felt it was her fault, that she was to blame for her father becoming that way—desiring his own daughter.

’I want to get out of here...’ She sighed as she opened the door.

When she passed through the living room, her mother looked in her direction. That look... It was a look she wouldn’t even give to a stranger, as if she were looking at something dirty, filthy, not at her own daughter.

Snorting coldly, her mother turned her gaze away and returned her attention to the television.

Riko shuddered under her gaze and took a deep breath as she continued walking to the kitchen.

What she didn’t see was Sakura holding her mother’s hand.

And when Riko left, she said: "Don’t worry about that trash, at least she can do the housework."

Her mother looked at Sakura, smiling coldly at her and snorted again, but strangely, a satisfied smile adorned her lips: "Yes, that thing is useful for at least that." She said venomously.

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