CGBTS Chapter 40

(M?) Chapter 40 – Never Be Apart

Novel Title: あの夏から戻れない (Can’t Go Back to That Summer)

Author：宮緒葵 (Miyao Aoi)

Illustrator：笠井あゆみ (Kasai Ayumi)

Translator: K (@kin0monogatari)

Protagonists: 櫛原夏生 (Kushihara Natsuo -MC) & 四辻柊 (Yotsutsuji Shuu -ML)

*Please read at knoxt.space, the original site of translation. TQ*

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“…Is this okay…?”

Wearing the same clothes he had been wearing when he wandered in from Mount Hinashi, Natsuo peered into the mirror in the washroom.

He had washed his face properly and brushed his teeth. He had somehow managed to tame his unruly hair, which normally exploded into a mess when he first woke up. He gave himself one full turn, but there didn’t seem to be anything out of place with his clothes, either.

“How many times are you planning to check?”

In the mirror, Shuu leaned against the glass door and smiled. Apparently, he found it unbearably amusing that Natsuo had been checking his appearance for nearly fifteen minutes.

“You don’t have to be so nervous. The village chief isn’t the sort of person who fusses over trivial formalities.”

“Maybe so, but… well, this is basically like going to ask for permission to get married, right? There’s no way I can not be nervous.”

His eyebrows drooped helplessly on their own. Natsuo was about to go to the village chief’s residence and obtain permission to marry Shuu.

“Natsuo――marry me, and become my one and only partner.”

Five days ago, when Shuu proposed to him after they had made love repeatedly at the village chief’s residence, Natsuo had thought it would be absolutely impossible. Of course, Natsuo couldn’t imagine being bound to anyone other than Shuu, and he had been happy, but they were both men.

But according to Shuu, same-sex marriages were permitted as long as they obtained the village chief’s permission. That was because the village chief granting permission was the same as Odamaki-sama granting permission. And Shuu was certain that the village chief would definitely approve their marriage. The reason being――

“You are Odamaki-sama’s divine messenger, after all.”

“Ha……?”

According to Shuu, because Natsuo did not die from the poison of the Sacred Flower, he had somehow come under Odamaki-sama’s protection… In other words, the villagers had come to revere him as Odamaki-sama’s divine messenger. No one would object to Shuu, the village chief’s representative, marrying Natsuo, Odamaki-sama’s divine messenger. Not even the village chief.

……Odamaki-sama’s divine messenger…? Come to think of it, after the trial was over, some middle-aged woman had called him that way, hadn’t she……!

When you say a divine messenger of a god, that basically means something like an angel, right? Something excessively sparkly, with a halo of light sitting on its head and white wings on its back. There was no way an utterly ordinary male university student who had merely happened not to die from the poison could possibly be an angel.

“Are you still worrying about it?”

Shuu stood directly behind Natsuo and gently slipped his arms around him from behind. His handsome face reflected in the mirror had been sweetly melting ever since five days ago.

“I told you, didn’t I? Since you’re my angel, you should hold your head high.”

“………… You really can say such embarrassingly cheesy things without a second thought……”

Natsuo’s face flushed bright red. From the moment they reunited, Shuu had been sweet to Natsuo, but now that they had confessed their feelings to each other, he had become so overwhelmingly, ridiculously affectionate that, as someone with no experience in love, Natsuo could only feel bewildered. Did ordinary couples really become this lovey-dovey whenever they got the chance?

Even as he asked himself that question, Shuu gently nibbled on Natsuo’s earlobe. His green eyes, deeper in color than before, held a mysterious gleam.

“I’m only telling the truth, so why are you embarrassed?”

“…Shuu…”

“There’s no one more deserving of being an angel than you. You’re cute, pure, dazzling, and precious, and you make me want to keep you locked away in these arms forever……”

A hand slipped beneath the hem of Natsuo’s shirt with a practiced motion and moved over his bare chest. Just as Shuu was about to find the nipple he located within seconds and press it firmly between his fingertips, Natsuo slapped the mischievous hand through the shirt.

“Th… that’s why, no! You can’t do that! Breaking the promise we made with the village chief would be no joke, right?”

“Do what?”

“…Huh…?”

“I mean, what exactly is ‘that’? I don’t really understand, so why don’t you explain it to me?”

…Sucking on Natsuo’s defenseless nape, Shuu’s lips drew a soft warmth from the skin beneath his clothes. Easily supporting Natsuo’s unsteady body, Shuu made the pair of eyes reflected in the mirror shimmer sweetly.

“…I-I mean saying embarrassing things and touching me wherever you feel like it… that’s what I meant…!”

Being completely enveloped in Shuu’s tall, powerfully built frame inevitably made Natsuo painfully aware of how small he was. But the more he struggled and begged Shuu to let go, the more lovingly Shuu pulled him tightly into his arms.

“I just don’t want to be apart from you, Natsuo.”

“…But we haven’t been apart at all…”

That was true. At least for the past five days, Shuu and Natsuo had not been apart for even a moment. Natsuo always went along whenever Shuu carried out his duties as the village chief’s representative, and once they returned home, they spent almost all their time touching each other except when they were eating.

……No, even during meals……

Natsuo remembered yesterday’s dinner. While he was eating simmered vegetables, Shuu had suddenly pulled him onto his lap, and before he knew what was happening, Natsuo had been stripped naked from the waist down and penetrated by Shuu’s raging manhood. When Shuu told him that watching Natsuo chew had aroused him so much that he couldn’t hold himself back, the dinner had already gone completely cold, while Natsuo was covered from head to toe in semen and unable even to get himself back up.

Shuu had taken him to the bathhouse while they were still joined below, and had fucked him several more times while they soaked in the tub. Even after he was carried to the futon, they had continued making love. Natsuo thought it was a miracle that he had managed to wake up at his usual time this morning. With Shuu having stayed by his side that much, hearing him say he didn’t want to be apart―――.

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*Translator’s Note: Yep. Shuu’s out of control. Haha. -K

Next update: 2026.11.10

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