"Mmhm~ Today is the day Ken stays over~"

Laphne hummed cheerfully as she prepared dinner, clearly delighted by the situation. It seemed like she didn’t mind me staying the night at all. In fact, given her usual lack of restraint with physical affection, maybe she didn’t even think of me as a man at all.

Well, to her, I probably feel more like a pet than anything else, being this chubby lump.

It stung a little, knowing my favorite character didn’t even see me as a man. But I shook off the feeling. What mattered right now was repairing the …