Chapter 87

Extra Case File 87 Buoyancy Shot

福利镜头!

At Aizaki’s backyard private pool, Ash and his cheerful companions were enjoying the leisure of the wealthy. The slender and graceful figures of the ladies sliced through the water like graceful fish. The scene of beautiful girls frolicking and playing was quite eye-catching.

However, the only male member, Ash, did not join in. Instead, he wore only swimming trunks and sunglasses, fishing by the edge of the pool and occasionally glancing at the ladies in the water with exclamations of surprise. After all, he wasn’t some meek light novel protagonist. He enjoyed the buoyancy and the scenes that came with it.

“Swish ~”

He tried putting his feet in the water, feeling the cold sensation from the bottom of his feet. Soft and formless water buoyed up his weight.

Ash, who was wading and trying to catch fish, took a deep breath.

He indeed had the urge to dive into the water and feel the joy of being enveloped by it, but after a moment of consideration, he decided against it.

“After all.” As his soaking feet lifted up instantly, Ash raised his legs from the hips, pulling himself closer to the edge of the pool. Then, he reached out with his left hand and grabbed the hand that stealthily emerged from the water.

With his legs suspended, the kinetic energy from pushing down on the ground pulled him up. His exceptionally muscular spine tightened, driving every muscle fiber, and he quickly transitioned from lying down to standing straight.

“Aaaah!!!”

Completing a series of acrobatic movements, Ash pulled her out of the water like he was lifting a radish.

Obviously, Wild Flower, who had been sneaking up to pull Ash into the pool as a prank, was instead pulled out of the water just like a kitten with its neck held.

His right hand instinctively wrapped around her waist, pulling the briefly suspended Wild Flower into his embrace. Despite the ungraceful collision, her chest, which could feed a child, landed squarely on Ash’s face.

Beautiful girls, an open-air pool, and soaked swimsuits—these words together formed a sight that could even make a macho man’s eyes glisten. However, for the short Wild Flower, these seductive terms were too much. Being one of the Pretty Cures, who always cheered others on, she was a bit too early to appreciate such external allure.

In a word: It felt awkward, and his nose hurt a bit.

“If you’re going to try to ambush me, at least reduce the bubbles on the surface. You almost made me think you were drowning.”

The man’s fingers pressed onto the fabric of her one-piece swimsuit, the thick fingertips rubbing against the material, producing sounds that stirred his imagination. Only after admiring the bloom of her appearance did he respond.

“At least I’ve learned how to swim… Don’t treat me like a total waste of space! Swear!”

The swimsuit he had bought carelessly before was clearly of poor quality. Ash’s sense of smell could smell the cheap polyurethane mixed with the pool’s chlorinated water, creating a subtle yet sharp scent intermixed with the fresh, moist fragrance of her skin under the sun. This odd mingling resulted in an intriguing “stench.”

“?”

She brushed aside her wet bangs to one side, tilting her head and blinking her pinkish-white eyes in confusion, wondering why Ash was holding her motionless.

Feeling a surge of arousal that almost made him look away, Ash silently recited the Ice Heart决, letting go of her and changing direction. He lifted the somewhat heavy and soft Pretty Cure towards his stomach, adjusting her position so they faced each other.

“What do you plan to do if you pull me down?”

“Well… Since you don’t seem to want to get into the water, I thought it would be amusing to pull you in.”

Previously, Doctor Ash teased and bantered with me. Now, it’s my turn for some playful revenge!

“Oh, you’ve learned to apply the same principle to different situations, haven’t you, Miss Wild Flower?”

Her already dim-witted face looked even more foolish when wet, making her responses equally silly.

“Miss Wild Flower has really caught on!”

But Ash still smiled and praised her.

“Hana, I always knew you’d never succeed,” said Saaya, who was still in the pool, wiping away water that had splashed onto her eyebrows. Compared to Hana’s naive behavior, her wearing a skirt-style swimsuit showed more maturity. He could see through her wet translucent dress…

Ah, no wonder she’s one of the friends of the Pretty Cure.

“Hehehe, you won’t come in?”

Yu lay in a huge turtle-shaped float, seemingly to provoke, pulling down the zipper of her sports swimsuit to reveal a hint of her cleavage in pure white.

“Gururu~” Himizuki, pretending not to notice their friends’ shameless behavior, dunked herself under the water, repeatedly blowing air out of her mouth to resurface.

Hmm, isn’t it annoying that men are so great? I envy them so much…

“Wanna play with me? My side’s still pretty fun.”

“YOU!” This was the desperate cry from Fujifloss, a ditz with pink hair hanging off Ash’s back.

“Are you afraid I might dissolve like a water-dissolving assassin?” Ash pretended seriously and scowled at Wild Flower.

“Ash didn’t swim very much!” Just as Wild Flower was about to spill the details of what happened that night in front of everyone else, Ash sealed her mouth with his own.

It wasn’t that she looked more foolish; she had genuinely become more foolish than before.

When they separated, Wild Flower had turned red-faced, gasping for breath in a safe state.

“You’ve become a woman.”

“You’ve become a cute woman.”

“Senpai Hana… is indeed a woman.”

The three immersed in the pool nodded, feeling a sweetness in their mouths, searching for some dark coffee to cut the sweetness.

“I’m a woman already…”

“So let’s go change clothes first. We shouldn’t disturb you.”

After the others, who had been in the water long enough, gave them a lingering farewell, the backyard pool was left with only the two facing each other, their breaths mingled.

“Why is my heart confused So time’s mysterious…”

Just as Ash was about to say something, his phone beside him rang. Considering how few people knew his number, he was about to answer when Flower pressed his hand onto the “end call” button.

“Flower?”

“Did you watch the whole time? You watched Saaya, Yu, and Himizuki longer than you watched Hana?”

“Well… I’ve seen every part of Hana’s body down to the last detail.”

Faced with the intense gaze, Ash helplessly looked upward.

“I’m a man too.”

“How disappointing.”

At this moment, however, Flower unexpectedly rested one hand on the lounge chair next to her, almost pressing her entire body against him.

“Hana, are you serious? Do you know where we are?”

“Yes, I’ve played here with Himizuki several times. There are no surveillance cameras, and no one comes besides during the water exchange intervals.”

This intimate closeness allowed Ash to clearly see her slightly dilated pupils filled with desire, along with a stronger aroma assaulting his senses, making him want to rise up inside and out.

“Huh~”

Hana purposely blew air onto Ash’s nose, her bright and enthusiastic eyes emitting a captivating charm.

“It’s all because of you, Ash. Whether it’s the tall Yu or the beautiful Saaya, even the cute Himizuki-san, they’re all far more enchanting than me. It’s all because you chose me among so many lovely girls. Thus, I worry about losing your affection, making me feel insecure.”

Her delicate fingers curved slightly, pressing against the man’s chest. Adjusting her seated position, Wild Flower suppressed her urge to settle down, smiling as she licked her pink lips.

“Moreover, yesterday, riding you, you exploited your monstrous body with impunity, didn’t you?”

Ash opened his mouth, speechless in the face of such naked jealousy.

“So…”

“You need to realize how capable little Flower is as a woman!”

Ash could not utter a single word in response.