Yor stared into his face for a long moment, as if searching for the truth in his words... before finally giving a small nod.
"Hmmm..."
She slowly relaxed in his arms, her death grip on his shoulders loosening at last. Just as Akifumi let out a relieved sigh
"Mmmgh... Mugi-sama... I don' feel so good..." Yor mumbled, covering her mouth with her hand, her face turning pale.
Akifumi's eyes went wide in panic.
"W-wait, Yor! Please! Hold it back!!"
"I can't Hmph!"
"Yes you can! Just a little longerplease hold it in!!"
Realizing the danger level was critical, Akifumi abandoned all thoughts of opening Yor's apartment door.
He spun on his foot and dashed toward his own apartment instead.
Frantically, he punched in his PIN code, threw the door open, and rushed inside.
'SLAM!'
The door shut behind them with a loud bang, he didn't care about breaking his door, all he care now is to avoid this new crisis.
But what Akifumi didn't know... was that someone else had been peeking to the entire commotion from the shadows.
A door down the hall creaked open, just a little.
A beautiful young girl with dark-purple hair and bright pink eyes peeked out curiously, her gaze sparkling with excitement as she witnessed the scene.
"Is this... what they call a shuraba?" she muttered aloudthe word meaning 'love battlefield.'
Unfortunately for her, the distance and the dim lighting in the hallway made it impossible to catch exactly what the two had been saying.
But the juicy drama unfolding right outside her door was more than enough to spark her interest.
She had only ever heard about such situations from gossip or magazinesnever had she actually seen or experienced one in real life.
But now, right before her eyes, was a scene straight out of those scandalous articles: a drunk older woman being carried bridal-style by a younger man.
Her mind immediately jumped to all those tabloid stories about bored housewives sneaking around with the guy next door while their husbands were away.
"Is that what people called... adultery?" she wondered.
But before she could let her imagination run wild any further, the sound of a baby crying echoed from inside her apartment.
"Ahyes, yes, hang on just a second," she said softly.
She stood up from where she'd been crouching behind the door, giving the closed apartment door outside one last glance before gently closing her apartment door behind her.
