Ding Ding Ding
"Finally." Issei sighed deeply as he left class, exhausted.
As soon as he reached the classroom door, he immediately looked for Asia, who was chatting happily with Aika and her classmates.
Issei smiled when he saw her laughing.
"Asia, I'll wait for you in the club room," he said, walking ahead.
"Sure!" she replied with an excited smile.
Without rushing, Issei walked through the school corridors and soon arrived at the club room, which he entered without a care.
"Ara~ Issei." Akeno looked at him in surprise, a plate of expensive pudding in her hand. "You caught me at an embarrassing moment..." She blushed for a moment.
Issei frowned before walking over to the opposite sofa and sitting down with a sigh.
"Why, Akeno-san?" He looked her up and down and couldn't understand the reason for her embarrassment.
"Diet... I was supposed to be on a diet..." She blushed even more. "But I gave in to the temptation to eat pudding today, it just looked so irresistible from afar."
She stared intently at the pudding before pushing the plate away.
"It's not very feminine of me, right? I'm already overweight..." Issei laughed, finally understanding what was going on, but sighed again.
"Honestly, I think it would be even more feminine to eat that pudding until the end." He said, pushing the plate back to her.
"Your fat has gone to the right places, and that sounds pretty feminine to me." He said boldly about her embarrassed look.
"Wow..." She looked him up and down too. "Do you really think so?" She looked tempted at the pudding, it looked so soft and fluffy, so nibbleable.
"Akeno-san... how do you feel about this pudding?" She looked at him and then at the pudding before swallowing hard.
"It looks like the most delicious thing in the world, it looks divine—no, actually it's demonic because it's so good." Issei laughed at those childish words coming from such a serious face.
"When I look at you, I think the same thing, you know? You're so perfect that I can't think of anything else more wonderful." Akeno blushed again.
However, this time she took her focus off the pudding, trying to understand what Issei had just said.
"What did you say?"
"That you're the most wonderful thing in this world and that I can barely control myself when I look at you." He laughed amusedly. "You can buy pudding at the market, but there's no store that sells an Akeno."
He shook his head from side to side and sighed.
"It's a shame I can only wish..." He laughed again before pushing the plate back to her.
"Eat up, be happy with your pudding." Akeno lowered her head, her ears burning, then pulled the plate toward her and quickly ate the pudding with pleasure.
"Pudding... right?" She said, stopping her spoon for a moment. "You see me as I see pudding... it would be a very bad world to see pudding and not be able to eat it."
Akeno swallowed hard, slowly looking up to find a smiling Issei, who was simply watching her quietly.
"It's not such a bad world..." Issei said again. "It's still a wonderful pudding, even if I can only watch it." He smiled gently.
Akeno lowered her head again, eating the pudding, completely blushing.
"Thanks for the food..." She put the plate aside and tried again to look up, but she simply backed away halfway.
"Is just looking really enough?" She played with her fingers as she spoke shyly. "I mean... in a world where pudding isn't for sale, I'd just steal it for myself."
She swallowed hard, still trying to meet his eyes.
"Stealing is wrong, Akeno-san..." She nodded slowly.
"But... if it's that good, maybe it would be better to just attack it at once. Eat it all without anyone seeing... and then... and then..." Her mind raced wildly while Issei just smiled amusedly.
He knew what was going through her mind, but seeing her so awkward was fun.
"Akeno-san." Issei grabbed her hands, Akeno's heart skipping beats. "Is there something you want to tell me?"
She swallowed hard again, her heart beating faster and faster and her body getting hotter and hotter.
She gently bit her lip before looking up to meet his gaze.
"You!" She looked at his innocent gaze, ready to say many things, but then lowered her head again. "You're very aggressive today... or is it just me?" She murmured.
"I was just talking about pudding... is something wrong?" He looked at her more closely, her shrinking under his gaze.
"Do you have a fever?" He then suddenly placed his hand on her hot forehead, leaving her wide-eyed. "You're burning up, Akeno-san... do you need some medicine?"
He backed away as she looked shyly at him before sighing.
"Issei... if I gave you a bite of this pudding... would you be satisfied?"
"Never! If I'm going to eat it, I want to eat every last bite with maximum pleasure, savoring every little piece until the end." She swallowed hard.
"And if this pudding gave itself to you and asked to be eaten... how would you react?" He laughed amusedly.
"If it's not stealing, I'd eat it with pleasure." She swallowed hard once more.
"You don't want to try it now... do you?"
"Yes, I want."