Editing Mahou Sensou:Volume 2 Chapter 3 (section)

===Part 10===
Kurumi ran into the school building. She was exhausted and came tumbling down the hallway, bumping between several boys until she finally jumped into the classroom where the gazes of her classmates immediately turned to her at the same time. Takeshi was already there.

-Isoshima?

Takeshi was surprised to see Kurumi exhausted and with tousled hair at the back door of the classroom. She was panting heavily from running so hard. But still, when she approached Takeshi she leaned towards him and raised her face.

-O-hey, what do you think you're doing?

Takeshi involuntarily stopped her by holding her shoulders. For if he didn't, Kurumi's mouth would have touched his.

-Don't you want to? -Kurumi asked sadly.

-It's not about that.

-Then what? -Kurumi exclaimed more uneasy than usual. Then Takeshi whispered:

-What's wrong with you today?

Kurumi raised her gaze indignantly, caught her breath and said:

-Why Takeshi...? Tell me why you didn't tell me you made out with Mui...?

-Aah?

- "AAaaahh...!!!!!"?

The sudden statement immediately caused a commotion in the whole classroom.

Takeshi was shocked so he replied:

-BE.... be...what, Mui and I...?

-Mui herself told me...

-You didn't misunderstand?

-No. She told me clearly that their mouths had touched.

-That our mouths touched?

Hearing that kind of interpretation, Takeshi understood and remembered.

-Ah was that...

Kurumi didn't lose sight of Takeshi's reactions for a second.

-So it did happen..." Kurumi muttered.

-No, it's not how you imagine it....

It was the accident that happened in the infirmary when Takeshi and Mui first met. But for both of them, it had been just an accident. However Kurumi's words pointed to her giving it a different meaning.

-So you kiss a girl and then forget about it just like that as if it was nothing? Is that the kind of man you are?

At Kurumi's terrible confrontation, Takeshi replied quietly:

-It's not what you think....

-That's the worst thing you could say.....

-And why are you so angry? -Takeshi asked confused. Kurumi answered violently:

-It's obvious that she did it. We are a couple. Remember?

-Of course I remember, but you're forgetting that that's foul....

Takeshi tried to speak, but she quickly covered Takeshi's mouth with her hands and said:

-Y.o.u. a.r.e. m.y. b.o.y.f.r.i.e.n.d. Get it through your head.

Normally Takeshi would accede to any tantrum from her, but this time was different. What he had heard in the gym was still going around in his head. And, on top of that, there was Ida and her problems.

-Listen, since you bring it up....

Takeshi grabbed Kurumi and walked out into the hallway with her to avoid the prying eyes of all his classmates.

-Look... I've agreed to go out with you and everything, but these days you've been a little heavy....

Kurumi who didn't expect a refusal from Takeshi, stared at him and said:

-You don't want to do it anymore?

-It's not that. It's just that... I want you to stop being so clingy with me.

Kurumi was completely shocked to hear that and Takeshi took the opportunity to take out everything he had in store:

-Besides, aren't you going to detach yourself from me even for a second? To be honest, sometimes I feel like you're just playing with me. We've known each other since we were kids and back then, we didn't know what it was like to have your own space.

For a while, Kurumi didn't react as if she was already expecting those words from Takeshi, until she suddenly looked down to the ground and muttered:

-You mean... I'm... playing with you?

-Something like that...

Takeshi was aware that she wouldn't do that to his childhood friend and thought:

"Maybe I went a little too far..."

However, now that she had said it, there was no turning back now.

-I-isoshima... e-listen....

But, while thinking about how to continue, Kurumi said:

-It's okay...

She just said that sentence and went back to the living room, entering as if nothing had happened. But Takeshi could not do the same. While it was true that what he said might have been very harsh, it was what he really felt. His intention was not to hurt Kurumi.  Or rather, he shouldn't have. Although, she wouldn't have to get hurt either since they were only pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend. Still, for some reason Takeshi felt as if he had done something very wrong and felt so angry that he wanted to hit himself.