Beautiful Barking Tsundere

Chapter 8

Original Author: ひのはら (Hinohara)
Date Submitted to Kakuyomu: 2021/09/13

Even on a weekday evening, the shopping district is filled with people. There are salarymen in suits, office ladies in casual office attire, high school students who are probably close to Aira's age, and many others.

Aira trudges along the streets by herself in this crowd.

She doesn't have the keys to her house on her. She left her wallet behind and doesn't even have her smartphone.　

"Achoo..."

They have just entered autumn recently, so it's chilly out.
She ran out in her loungewear, so the fabric on her clothes is thin.

Just looking at her clothes which were forcefully rolled up earlier makes her remember the feeling of the hands that fondled her.

Aira instantly begins to shiver and she forces herself to look upwards to avoid being reminded of that.

"I'm just shivering because it's cold."

Being touched by someone that's the same sex isn't that much of a deal.
That's what she wants to think, but that doesn't dispel the terror she's feeling.

She should have been able to push that woman away if she put in all her strength, but she couldn't do that.

When she looked at those lustful eyes, Aira turned pale in fear.

She could only plead in a feeble voice, "Stop, don't touch me."

In truth, she was deeply relieved when Ema appeared.
When she saw how worried Ema looked, she cried even more, but out of relief.

Even though Ema got angry at that woman and protected Aira...

Aira was upset and said those horrible things before running out of the apartment.

With nowhere to go, Aira eventually ends up in a deserted park.

Wearing her loungewear in the shopping district made her stand out too much, so she looked for a place with no people and found herself here.

Sitting on a bench, she gently rubs her arm.

"Last time, Ema came to pick me up..."

On that day when she felt guilty for avoiding Ema because of her sexuality and couldn't go home, she also ended up in this place before Ema came to pick her up.

Ema didn't abandon Aira, who was caught in her childishly narrow views.

She knows Ema is not a bad person.

Knowing that is exactly what makes the fact that Ema has multiple sex friends stand out so much.

With no other sign of life, this park feels creepy at night.

Aira decides to leave the park before she ends up getting caught up in any trouble, but she comes across a black van parked near the entrance.

The window slowly rolls down and the man in the driver's seat calls out to her.

"What are you doing? Running away from home?"

Aira's warning alarms instantly ring at this man wearing a black sweatshirt.

This doesn't feel like just a simple pick-up attempt. This situation feels more like a crime.

No decent man would call out to a woman from his car at nighttime like this.