Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 49

Crepe

「Hou……so you got scolded because you got caught staring on breasts. That’s only natural isn’t it?」

Fitness club.

Akito was receiving coaching there by the sensei. He was also consulting to him about various things.

He was imitating the sensei’s movement in front of a mirror while talking.

「Please don’t change the topic. How should I put it, it was just  admiring how well made the game was because they looked so real. It was  just what people called intellectual curiosity.」

Akito explained away his act as a mere intellectual curiosity. The sensei kept coaching him.

「Here, right elbow.」

「Ah, yes.」

He was going to the fitness club at days where he didn’t have part-time work.

Akito had never done sports until now, but he was unusually  continuing to come here. His stamina had also improved greatly since he  started coming here.

He quickly became able to move his body well. Perhaps it was a given for a youth like him to be able to grow that quickly.

「Intellectual curiosity……you’re using some big words but, you still  can’t hide the lewd heart hidden at the depth of it. Sonny, your face  when looking at the breasts of exercising girls here can only be  described as lecherous. You can’t trick the eyes of a super pervert like  me.」

The women here were training using fitness tools.

There was also how their fitness wear was clinging tightly on their  body. Akito was immensely interested with their chest movement.

「Eh, really!?」

「It’s distasteful to stare hard like that. To be able to steal a  glance more casually is the height of eros. Only second rate would get  noticed like that. Well, someone at my level has reached the domain  where I’m forgiven even if I’m acting lecherous openly though.」

「Yes, I’ll work hard!」

They were making this kind of conversation but, he was also reaching a coaching about martial arts.

The trainer who happened to overhear such conversation was sighing in exasperation.

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At the day of the school festival.

The committee members were going around looking at the performance of each class and scoring them.

Other than that they were also doing things like guiding visitors from outside the school or helping lost child.

Akito had been doing chores inside the school building. He got tired  and was in the middle of a break now. He showed up at his class’s café.

「I’m tired.」

The students working at the back who were making sweets like crepe and the like saw Akito.

His friend Riku who was among them was looking at him coldly.

「That’s great. Us here has been making crepe from the morning it feels like we’re going to go insane.」

Akito ate a crepe while listening to Riku’s complaint.

It felt like the sweet snack was blowing away his fatigue.

「You guys were so happy at first tasting the food.」

One of the girls averted her gaze and spoke with a tearful tone.

「Thanks to that my weight now is……」

They ate a lot under the pretext of tasting the products. As the  result just looking at crepe in the kitchen right now already made them  felt sick.

The classmates who were serving the customer at the front came to the back and gave the customer’s order.

「Two coffees and three crepes, one strawberry and two choco.」

The classmates at the back replied with affirmative and began preparing the order.

Akito was watching their movement. It was like they were flowing……or  not, but at least it felt like their movement was quiet good for mere  students doing school festival activity.

(I had this image that things would be messier here but, as expected perhaps this is also thanks to their talent.)

He remembered the school festival of a local high school that he visited when he was a child.

It felt like things were sloppier there and the food that he bought there was also horrible.

(A school festival where students just did it for their own enjoyment, huh.)

In the end Akito couldn’t give any answer when he considered which one was more fun.

(Come to think of it, president hasn’t eaten this crepe.)

Akito remembered Maya who didn’t come to class even though it was  break time. He made an additional order of crepe to the busy Riku and  co.

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He got the crepe wrapped and headed to the classroom that was being  used by the executive committee because he thought Maya would be there.

Akito was walking while greeting with a smile at the visitors from outside school that passed by sometimes.

Sometimes he would also get called because he was wearing the committee armband.

Like that he arrived at the executive committee room and entered inside. There he found Maya was alone.

The other committee members weren’t here because they were on break or going on patrol.

There was only Maya there but…….

「What are you doing president?」

「Hyah!」

Maya was standing in front of a mirror while massaging and lifting up  her own breasts from over her uniform. Akito didn’t know how he should  react here.

Maya got startled and leaped away from the mirror. Near her there was  a magazine for female that apparently belonged to another girl in the  committee.

The magazine had an article that was responding to a girl’s worry. The article was about breasts.

「I-I brought you crepe. Ah, this is the one that our class made. I  thought it will be better if you also give it a try president……enjoy.」

Akito judged that the safe choice here was to escape from this place.  He placed the crepe on the table and moved to get out of the classroom.

However his arm got grabbed and dragged in.

「Why! It’s not my business, or rather it’ll be better if I’m not here!」

「And you call yourself a man!? At this kind of time even if you don’t  go with a development like 『You know what to do if you don’t want this  to spread right~』, you should at least lend your ear for consultation!  Or rather there’s no way I’ll just let you leave after seeing that!」

Akito got dragged into the classroom and made to listen to Maya’s circumstance.

It was mainly centered around why she was massaging her breasts in front of a mirror.

However the premise before they reached the matter of massaging breasts was long.

「First, I have an acquaintance.」

She started from there.

「That person is, is, with breasts, he……」

Five minutes had passed just as the clock showed just for the talk to reach that point.

(In other words, the person she’s liking like breast, so she tried  that after reading an article. I wonder who is this enviable man?)

Akito thought after Maya finished explaining things in general.

(Rather, wouldn’t it be better if she doesn’t tell me any of these?)

Maya took a deep breath, straightened her back, and looked at Akito’s  eyes. Her cheeks were slightly red, but she herself must be unaware of  that.

「You get it now? That’s why, I’m not being sexually frustrated or  anything like that. I absolutely won’t forgive you if you spread any  strange rumor. I’ll take revenge using any kind of method.」

Maya was tense without any slackness, but based on her red face, she was clearly feeling very anxious.

「President……first do something with your bright red face. It’s not intimidating at all.」

Maya covered her face with both hands. Seeing that made Akito felt amused from teasing her.

「I won’t tell about this to anyone so don’t worry.」

Maya looked at Akito doubtfully, but she then nodded after a while.

「Well, you look like an alright person Naruse-kun. But, thank god it  was you who entered. Another person would threaten me for real.」

Akito thought there was no way that would happen while standing up from his chair.

「The break time is over now so I’m going.」

「Wait. I’ll also come with you.」

Maya said that and hurriedly ate the crepe. She stopped moving after taking a bite.

She was staring on the crepe without moving.

「Eh? Does it taste bad?」

「It’s the opposite. I’m surprised. This taste really delicious.」

Akito recalled their classroom’s state.

「Now that you mentioned it, there were a lot of customers in our class.」

Was this also the result of prioritizing talent over the student’s own wish?

Akito thought like that while waiting for Maya to finish eating the crepe. Then the two left the classroom.

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Inside the game.

Ponsuke’s party met up with Nanako and Sierra at a bar in the Capital of Temperance.

Sierra talked about school festival.

「My school will hold a school festival soon, but there’s a nearby  high school that is holding a school festival first so we went there to  look around.」

Mariela fell into thought about something when she heard that.

「School festival huh.」

Alfie drained the content of her tankard and placed it on the table  before she looked like she remembered something and made a tired face.

「I only have awful memories about that.」

Ponsuke looked at the two and thought.

(Did something happen at their school festival? If only I too could get a more bittersweet memory from it)

He didn’t feel like he had done anything together with his class because of his role as committee member.

In addition, he witnessed boys and girls who had worked hard together  entering a good mood between them. It made him feeling gloomy.

(Or what……do I have to count myself lucky because I was able to see president massaging her breasts?)

But Nanako alone was listening to Sierra’s story with sparkling eyes.

「I really want to experience school festival. What are you going to do in yours Sierra-san?」

Sierra muttered with a small voice.

「A café. But, the level of the café at the high school we visited was  high……I don’t think our café will be able to be like that.」

Sierra said that the crepe there was apparently really delicious.

It seemed that it wasn’t the level of a crepe in school festival. Because of that she already felt defeated now.

「I don’t think that something like this is a competition or anything.」

Ponsuke consoled her but, Sierra shook her head.

「We also planned to put crepe in our menu. But, the one in charge of cooking got depressed after that.」

That’s difficult, he said. But that kind of word wasn’t of any help for Sierra.

Mariela gave her a simple advice.

「Come to think of it, school festival these days usually goes for two days isn’t it? Is that high school also like that?」

She asked whether the school festival that Sierra visited had the second day. Sierra nodded.

「Then, how about you ask them to teach you. You can also ask them for  some advices. Your café will become slightly better with that.」

Sierra looked troubled hearing that.

「Will they teach us?」

Ponsuke recalled his class’s atmosphere.

「I think they will. But, I think they won’t be able to talk for long with how busy they are.」

Alfie laughed.

「They will happily teach you if you help them out with the clean up. You can ask them after they finish up.」

Nanako was imagining various things after she heard about school festival.

「It must be fun to open a café with everyone in the class.」

Alfie looked like she found it hard to reply to those words.

「Y-yeah.」

Sierra stood up looking like she had resolved herself.

「I understand. I’ll try going there tomorrow at RL and ask!」

Ponsuke tried asking Nanako while Sierra was showing her enthusiasm.

「By the way where’s the orc group?」

He was feeling worried because the perverted group wasn’t anywhere to be found. Nanako told him with a pure smile.

「They told me that they’ll go around to thoroughly investigate the  Capital of Temperance because this place is a mountain of reward.  Everyone looked really eager, so I told them to prioritize doing that.」

The Capital of Temperance was the capital of the elves.

This place was oppressive for orc. Depending on the situation it  wouldn’t be strange for them to run into malicious NPC like the famous  Clara.

Them treating the players violently was normal.

That kind of place was surely a wonderful place for the orcs.

Ponsuke stopped thinking about it and reached at the food in front of him.

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Real world.

The second day of the school festival had ended without trouble.  Akito had work as committee member so he was doing the work of that  side.

He was walking around inside the school building to check how the cleanup was going and if there was any problem.

「It’s a pain that there’s still a lot of things to tally up even after the festival is over.」

Maya who was walking beside Akito replied to his complain with a sound argument.

「That’s the work of executive committee. Tomorrow is holiday but, we’ll still need to come to school for work.」

Akito’s mood fell down. He felt like now he could understand at least  a little about the feeling of adult who had to work during holiday.

His work as committee member would affect the school’s evaluation on  him somewhat, but he felt that the reward was just too small.

While they were walking like that, they saw middle school students walking in front of them.

One person among them was something who Akito knew.

It was Yukine.

「Eh, Asano-san?」

Yukine looked at Akito, then she looked at Maya who was walking beside him and felt surprised.

「Naruse-san? So this is your school.」

She was carrying various things in her hands, but there was something familiar among them.

It was the crepe that his class made.

「The festival should have ended some time ago.」

Maya was making a troubled look. In respond the middle school students shook their head.

Yukine explained to Akito.

「Err, we have asked permission from this school’s teacher too. We  helped out in exchange of asking advices. Our middle school is going to  hold a school festival too after this.」

Both Akito and Maya understood from that.

「So it’s like that. It’s already dark now so be careful on your way home.」

Akito said that and saw off the middle school students. Meanwhile  Maya was holding her chin in her hand while falling into thought.

「What’s wrong president?」

「……No, I’m just a bit curious. It’s nothing.」

Akito tilted his head while looking at the back of the middle school  students――especially Yukine. It looked really similar with the back of  Sierra inside the game.

(Well, there’s no way that’s the case.)

Considering how big the total number of the player there, the  possibility of meeting an acquaintance there in real world was very low  unless they made plan to meet beforehand.

Besides, Sierra’s avatar looked too similar with Yukine.

(Surely that’s not her. Sierra must be making her avatar to be a bit  slimmer or having bigger breasts or butt than in reality, so this is  surely someone else.)

Akito and Maya resumed walking through the school building that had gotten dark.

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At the part-time workplace.

The part-time schedule didn’t care about the school festival schedule.

He had to come to work just as had been decided in the work schedule. That was also the bitter part of work.

Yakumo looked amused seeing Akito’s tired face.

「What? So your first school festival as high school student ended  with you doing boring works? Even though I wanted to listen to a funnier  story.」

Yakumo was expecting to hear bittersweet story that was befitting for  a high school student, but she still looked happy after knowing that  Akito had nothing to do at all with that kind of thing.

「Please don’t make fun of me. Even I was hoping for that kind of  thing, but now there’s a distance between me and everyone in the class  because of my committee work……haa」

The boys and girls in the class had become far closer with each other  due to the school festival. And then after that they immediately  started going out together.

In contrast there was nothing that particularly stood out happening to Akito.

No, there was, but it was something that he couldn’t tell anybody.

(There’s no way I can talk about president massaging her breasts)

Yakumo talked about her own school festival.

「My school is all-girl school so there are a lot of troubles. Even  boys from other school can simply come in so there are also a lot of  them hitting on the girls. Though there are also those who enjoy that.」

「Come to think of it senpai is in all-girl school. What is your class doing?」

Yakumo looked disinterested with the topic.

「We looked up the history of the local area, then put it all together  into an exhibition that is easy to understand. It took a lot of effort  to do, and yet it’s not popular at all. Makes us wonder just why we  bothered at all……well, our teacher evaluate it highly, and we can play  around during the school festival, so it’s all good.」

Akito thought.

(……All-girl school’s school festival huh. I wanted to go. If only senpai invited me.)

While he was thinking that, Yakumo was looking at Akito with a grin.

「Just now, your face said that you wanted to get invited.」

「N-no, that’s not-!」

「It’s obvious from your face. You just want to go there to hit on  girls anyway, but it’s better if you don’t. The boys who came to our  school are all young masters after all.」

In other words, she was saying that the girls wouldn’t even look at him even if he came.

Akito dropped his shoulders.

「The elite boys huh. I get it. I can’t win against them.」

Yakumo was smiling from seeing Akito’s dejected face.

「That’s alright isn’t it? Besides, how should I put it, the festival  at our school is boring, so it’s better to not come. Besides, girls in a  place like girls’ school doesn’t need to worry about the eyes of  opposite sex so usually they――」

Yakumo closed her eyes when she reached that point.

She sensed a customer was coming into the store so she straightened up her posture and put on a smile.

Akito was sorting the shelves so he simply continued what he was  doing. He made an energetic greeting at the same time when the customer  entered.

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