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Chapter 4-1: After School
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One day after school.
The classroom dyed by the sunset, Kazutaka and Haruka were facing each other.
No one except them was in the classroom, only a single desk between them.
“Did you understand that part they taught in maths?”
“Yeah, please help me with this one.”
They were currently in detention, forced to study over time.
In the end, the school pretty much found out about them skipping classes and they were punished with a mountain of homework.
Kazutaka’s great escape plan which involved him carrying Haruka on his back and running around town had been a great success, but unfortunately, when they went back to the arcade to retrieve the wheelchair, the teacher had been just waiting for them.
“Since I saw your wheelchair, I knew you guys would come back eventually… But seriously, aren’t you stupid for running away and leaving the wheelchair behind like that?”
The teacher threw a tsukkomi.
“Yeah I know right…”
At that time, both were just a bit annoyed that their great time together had been interrupted. It’s an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
(TLN: It’s kinda similar to ‘you reap what you sow’)
After that, they received a very long sermon and of course, the school was contacted and they were punished with this mountain of homework.
As Kazutaka and Haruka worked their way through various school subjects, they heard the voices of the sports club members who were doing their activities outside.
“Hm… I wonder if it’ll work like this…”
Haruka who sat right in front of him groaned as she stared at her notebook.
Kazutaka raised his face from the textbook and asked:
“Is there something you struggle with?”
Haruka was actually quite smart. So if there truly was something even she struggled with, he couldn’t help her at all and it was all over.
“No, it’s not that, it’s just…”
“What is it?”
“It’s about the toilet.”
“Toilet?”
Kazutaka tilted his head and asked:
“Need to go to the toilet’”
“Ah, no, I’m good for now. But each time I have to go, I have to ask someone to accompany me which makes me feel kinda guilty…”
Kazutaka had boldly abolished the Haruka Duty, saying he’d take care of her from now on but naturally, having a guy accompany a girl to the toilet each time might be rather problematic. So at least for the toilet, he had some female student or teacher helping them out.
Kazutaka talked while spinning his pen around.
“But won’t the toilet problem be solved soon?”
Haruka was able to do her business by herself as long as there was enough space for the wheelchair, a handrail was there and the toilet was Western style.
(TLN: So if you’ve ever been to an Asian country, you might have seen those toilets which seem like a slight improvement of a privy. That’s why he used the word ‘Western-style toilet’ to refer to the ones we use. Though, in my head, I think of toilets with bidets when I think of Japanese toilets.)
Because of that, the school decided to install toilets for people in wheelchairs on the first and fourth floors. It seems they have received a subsidy from the government.
It seems that there had been an appeal to get an elevator as well but that one was too difficult after all.
Regardless, this was undeniably a step forward towards Haruka’s comfortable school life.
“But it’ll still take a while until those toilets are installed, so I still have to trouble some other girls for a bit longer which makes me feel bad…”
Haruka said this while feeling uncomfortable.
Kazutaka stared at Haruka’s expression.
Was she perhaps worrying about something all by herself again?
She tended to be quite harsh on herself in her quest to not under any circumstances cause trouble for others. Insisting on ‘I will do what I can do by myself for sure.’
Heck, she even tried to lie to teachers, saying stuff like: ‘I forced Akasaka-kun to accompany me’ and taking all the blame for herself this time.
But before the teachers could say anything, Kazutaka immediately interjected: ‘No, I was the one who forced her to come with me’, trying to shield her at all costs.
“No, it was me.”
“No, me.”
Since they kept trying to take the blame themselves, both ended up having to do the supplementary lessons.
Kazutaka sighed and replied:
“Can’t you just leave it at that? I mean, it’s a natural phenomenon, you can’t just go to the toilet.”
(TLN: Women have smaller bladders than men, so it’s physically hard for them to hold it in.)
“But…”
“So please stop doing stuff like drinking less water or holding it in until you physically can’t bear it anymore, okay? It’s also bad for your health.”
Kazutaka thrust his mechanical pencil towards her and admonished her. She groaned in response.
“Ah!”
Having apparently come up with something, a lightbulb lit over Haruka’s head.
“What’s up? Have you come up with a good idea or something?”
“Yes! Wouldn’t all issues be solved if I just started to wear diapers?!”
“Eh?”
That idea was a bit too unexpected.
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“So, if I want to avoid going to the toilet, wouldn’t I be just fine wearing diapers?”
She made a face that seemed like she made the breakthrough of the century or something. As if she was praising herself for that ‘nice idea’.
Kazutaka couldn’t help but remain stunned for a second.
“Y’know… Although you’re smart, sometimes you really can be an idiot.”
“But why?”
She made a face as if she couldn’t believe it.
“I mean, isn’t it practical? If I started wearing diapers, I wouldn’t have to trouble the other girls anymore.”
“Ah…well…I guess you’re right…”
Kazutaka scratched his head.
Seriously, don’t make a high school boy talk about this stuff with you! Kazutaka thought that to himself, trying to rid himself of the weird imagination that had just floated in his head.
“Come to think of it, there are indeed diapers for adults if I’m not mistaken.”
“Well, they sell those in pharmacies and stuff, mainly caregiving.”
Although they were available, that doesn’t mean high school girls attending school in diapers should become an option.
“Wait, are you seriously considering it?”
“Is it not good? I thought it was a good idea…”
She made a rather serious face. Apparently, she took this very seriously.
“Uh…”
Kazutaka put his hand on his chin and thought for a bit.
When he first heard about this, he could do nothing but retort to the idea of a high school girl wearing diapers but when he thought about it a bit more deeply, astronauts wore diapers as well and none of them felt embarrassed about it, it wasn’t considered shameful either. It could be even considered convenient.
But there was a single problem.
Kazutaka raised his hand.
“…Can I ask a question?”
“Shoot.”
“Suppose it’s fine for you to wear diapers… who the heck will help you put them on? And who will change them for you?”
“Ah…”
She was stunned and looked at the ceiling with an open mouth. It seems that thought hadn’t come to her yet.
“So in the end, I can’t do it by myself after all?”
“Well, who knows…?”
Kazutaka tilted his head. He wasn’t too well-versed with diapers.
“Suppose you could change them yourselves. You’d still need a place to do so. It’s not like you can just quickly change them into an empty classroom or something.”
“Ah I see, that would be another issue as well.”
Haruka folded her arms and seriously tried to figure out this problem.
Kazutaka put his elbows on the desk and proposed with a mischievous grin.
“In that case, I could lend you a hand with that.”
If she wore diapers, she could even do the number one during a lesson.
Kazutaka tried imagining it.
Suddenly, in the middle of class, Haruka was assaulted by this urge to pee.
Holding her skirt down, fidgeting her body on top of the wheelchair, she glanced at the clock and realized that it’d be a while until the lesson ended.
Fortunately, she was wearing her diapers. So no problem at all.
Her classmates were diligently listening to the teacher, staring at the blackboard, and thus not taking any notice of Haruka’s actions.
While mindful of her surroundings, Haruka slowly starts to loosen the muscles around her crotch region.
Even though no one would notice, peeing in class was an action that required quite some courage.
“Nnn…”
Haruka’s face turned red and her voice leaked unintentionally as she peed into her diaper.
While holding her skirts, her body shivered and she basked in the afterglow.
“Haa…”
Having released everything, Haruka plopped onto her desk with red cheeks.
After that, Kazutaka would take her to the infirmary and change her diapers.
Rolling up her long skirt, her lower half was exposed and so were the diapers.
“…Ah, it’s so embarrassing… Akasaka-kun…”
A girl with a beet-red face.
Not minding that girl, Kazutaka saw himself taking the diaper off her.
Of course, he would also politely wipe her crotch area carefully and thoroughly so it wouldn’t become itchy.
— A play of her peeing herself in class.
— And then a play of him exchanging her diapers while she was embarrassed.
What an abnormal white paper.
He unintentionally got himself excited there.
“Okay! Let’s have a serious debate on whether you should use disposable paper diapers or cloth diapers.”
Actually, the panty-like ones were not bad either.
As Kazutaka suggested with a serious face, Haruka shouted with a face that resembled the evening sunlight.
“A-Akasaka-kun you dummy!”
She threw an eraser at him.
“Oi, it was you who brought up diapers in the first place!”
“Yes but not like that! Not like that at all!”
Both were throwing tsukkomis at each other.
Haruka’s face was still red. She groaned and glared at him.
“…Akasaka-kun, didn’t you imagine something weird just now?”
“How rude. I was just seriously trying to think of something I could do for a girl who couldn’t use her legs”
Kazutaka tried to answer like a gentleman.
Haruka didn’t buy it and inquired further.
“Really? So you really didn’t think of anything strange?”
“Of course.”
“Really, really? Would you even swear to God?”
“I swear, I swear.”
“But you DID think of something slightly perverted, right?”
“…I’m sorry, just for a bit.”
When he admitted it, Haruka’s face let out some steam and she quickly turned away angrily.
“Mou! I was seriously worrying about this, you know!”
She was making a face.
(TLN: She was doing an ‘akkanbee’ which is this gesture of pulling down one eyelid and sticking out your tongue. I swear this is something also common in the West but idk how it’s called.)
It was somewhat childish yet endearing.
“Well, what about this? How about using a urine bottle?”
“Well, yeah, I wouldn’t need to go to the toilet anymore but where would I pee?”
“Couldn’t you just quickly hide it under your lap blanket and do it there?”
“Nono, they’d totally find out.”
She looked dumbfounded and wondered if Kazutaka was seriously thinking about it and glared at him with a pout.
“And in the first place, even if I used a bottle. I’d still need to ask someone to dispose of it for me and… I don’t want to do that. Like, how could I casually give someone else the bottle I just peed in.”
“Ah, I guess you have a point.”
The color and quantity would most likely give it away as well.
And if you touch it, it’ll feel slightly warm.
“Just thinking about it makes me wanna die in embarrassment.”
“And yet you’re alive.”
He then suggested also the urethra catheter but she quickly rejected that one because it was scary.
(TLN: It’s something connected to your bladder, basically emptying it for you and collecting your urine in one of these drainage bags for medical purposes I guess.)
Kazutaka concluded.
“In the end, you should just rely on the girls of the class for a bit longer.”
“I guess you’re right…”
Haruka dropped her shoulders and sighed loudly.
To cheer her up for a little, Kazutaka told her in a casual tone.
“I think you’re actually too reserved. You’re too focused on doing everything by yourself. Feel free to rely on others for a bit more.”
The distance between the two of them had shrunk quite a bit.
The fear of ‘Will I accidentally hurt her if I tell her that?’ was long gone and they didn’t hesitate anymore. They stopped being reserved with each other.
Of course, it’s not like they could tell each other everything and anything but their relationship had grown to one that reassembled two close friends that have known each other for a long time. That’s how intimate they had gotten with each other.
They could be themselves with each other and joke around without feeling like they were walking on needles.
However, it is questionable if it was a good idea to casually bring up dirty topics because of that.
Translator’s note:
LMAO, what the heck was this chapter?
But again, there was a visual novel that kind of convinced me that ‘holding it in’ might be kinda ‘nice.’
(It has a sweet and also spicy route.)
A Novel Reader Attempts Translating 
Thank you for the chapter!
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