My Taboo Academy

The moment school starts I’ll seduce him without mercy and make him mine!

But Aria’s bold courage shattered the instant Monday morning arrived...

The moment she saw the real Ren, her resolve cracked like glass.

’Wow... he’s so handsome...’

The fantasy version she had carefully nurtured all weekend vanished like dust the second the real Ren Asahi appeared.

All those mental simulations proved useless.

Just looking at his face filled her with happiness and stole her breath.

Aria’s passionate, one-sided love had already spun completely out of control.

Ever since she learned that Elle had taken him and that he was now out of reach

the regret mixed with her feelings and erupted like a volcano.

She only barely managed to keep it from showing on the surface.

Could she really seduce a man who already had a loving girlfriend?

That kind of thing only worked in fantasies. In real life it was impossible.

The more you cared about someone, the less you were able to do something like that.

Aria had never once tried to tempt a man who already belonged to someone else...

She only comforted herself by imagining a hopeful future with Ren.

In reality it was all an act.

Aria knew that better than anyone.

The thought of actually stealing him away made her cheeks burn with shame. She had been posturing the whole time.

In front of the "real" Ren Asahi, Aria...

wanted his love, yet remained nothing more than Friend A who could never confess.

What if her attempts only made him despise her?

Just imagining it made her want to disappear from the world.

In the end her mind settled on the most realistic and "beautiful" conclusion.

Keep the status quo.

"You didn’t come with Elle? I thought the two of you would arrive together."

"I fainted..."

"...Fainted?"

Aria finally understood the truth hidden behind those unanswered messages.

"You’re fainting too...?"

Ha... haha...

Fainting... to that degree... the two of them must have been that passionate...

Fainting...

Ren must have held Elle so tightly and for so long that she actually fainted...

It’s over. Yeah.

"Uh-huh. I see... uh-huh..."

There’s no place for me between Elle and Ren.

I barely manage to hold back the tears.

"Sorry for ignoring your messages. Let me treat you to a meal as an apology."

"Hey. Are you trying to make your girlfriend unhappy? We can’t just eat alone together."

Once she realized the real problem wasn’t Elle but herself,

she couldn’t stop playing the role of the "good female friend."

But that wasn’t how she truly felt.

I want Ren to love me...

Yet barging into the middle of a happy couple is wrong.

"Then let’s clear a dungeon as a duo today. I’ll help you earn a lot."

"A man and a woman alone? You know what could happen inside."

I’m such an idiot.

I put on this mask because I don’t want to lose even the position of Ren’s reliable female friend.

I can’t show my real feelings.

Ren was already buried happily between Elle’s large, soft breasts.

’Ugh... heheheeng.’

"You promised to help me until I reached 10,000 points."

"Did I? Really?"

"How am I supposed to hit 10,000 without you? You said the same thing."

Yes... stay by Ren’s side as a friend...

I’m satisfied with that much... yes... force this heart to stay quiet like a corpse...

Tightly.

In that moment their hands intertwined.

The thick veins on the back of Ren’s large, masculine hand completely covered Aria’s slender fingers.

"What... what are you doing..."

Ren Asahi’s clumsy attempt at flirting, his awkward courtship set Aria’s mind on fire.

Let’s get married. Let’s get married. Let’s get married. Let’s get married.

The instant their eyes met, love flooded her so strongly it felt like a drug.

"I-I’ll go to the dungeon with you... just... don’t do this again..."

"We can at least hold hands, right?"

"No we can’t... you idiot...!"

She ran.

Aria still couldn’t understand why Ren Asahi was acting this way.

Isn’t Elle enough for him?

He made love to her until she fainted... am I just a spare?

A wave of emotion hit her.

It was a little frustrating, yet...

’Ren held my hand... ’

She couldn’t stop the tiny twitch at the corner of her mouth.

Just hug me tightly and ask me to be your girlfriend! I think I would say yes.

’...Okay. Pull yourself together.’

I don’t know why he’s doing this, but I can’t let it continue.

What if I were the girlfriend?

Would I calmly watch him do the same thing to Elle if our positions were reversed?

I don’t know his reasons, but I have to stop him. It hurts, but I have to.

’Let’s try to think about this as calmly as possible.’

Why would a man who already has a girlfriend suddenly act like this?

If the reason is...

What if Elle felt sorry for me and asked him to show me a little attention?

Like the winner taking pity on the loser.

Another surge of emotion!

’I don’t think that’s it, but...’

Phew. Okay. I didn’t absorb a single word of the lecture, but

organizing my thoughts made my heart feel a little colder.

Aria had no idea. She couldn’t possibly know that the small ripples she believed would never return were about to become overwhelming waves.

"I still like you, Aria. That’s why..."

"Have you lost your mind? What is this act?"

Stop it. Don’t say that.

Don’t you understand how hard it is for me to push you away?!

Make Elle happy.

I’m the one who should be discarded!

"...You’ve already chosen Elle."

That’s enough now.

Take back what was lost. You did well, Aria.

Your parents would be proud.

I acted without any shame.

And yet I pushed away someone I already care about so much... so cruelly.

’...I can’t even stay his friend anymore.’

He even used violence all of a sudden.

By now Ren Asahi should have gotten the message.

’But why isn’t he going into the dungeon? Why is he just standing there alone?’

He could easily go by himself. He’s more than capable...

’Could it be... is he waiting for me?’

No. Impossible.

Aria kept watching Ren from a distance as ten minutes, then twenty minutes passed.

It really looked like he was waiting for someone...

She stood alone in the corner, lost in thought.

’Why...’

Why is this happening...?

Why are they giving me another chance?

I feel like I’m going crazy...

’Ugh...’

I never expected things to turn out like this when I was just enjoying the thrill of flirting.

I never knew I would become this emotionally attached.

If I had known Elle would suffer after I made a move, I would have begged her to choose me without any hesitation.

"Don’t go, Aria. You can’t leave."

I tried so hard to push him away. Now I should just ignore him.

Ren Asahi is waiting for Elle, not me.

If I go over there and Elle appears, and the two of them walk away hand in hand... how miserable would that be?

’Maybe that would be better.’

At least then I could finally give up.

"What are you doing all by yourself?"

But today Ren seemed possessed by something.

He freely gave Aria the love and attention she had been starving for.

"I’ve been waiting for you."

’Ah.’

Ren smiled.

Aria gripped her thigh, feeling as if she might ovulate on the spot.

’Again... I’ve fallen in love all over again...♡’

In the end, like a pet wagging its tail as it approaches its master, Aria slipped in beside him.

Even though she had kicked him earlier, less than an hour later she shamelessly moved closer just to feel his scent and body heat.

’I don’t know anymore... hehe. I like Ren...’

The reason Aria started treating Ren like a dungeon wife was completely natural.

’Because you’ve been so kind to me.’

Because Ren treats her well.

Because he opens his heart to her.

She ends up doting on him without limit.

’I’m completely like a dungeon wife...’

In this world "Lustbound" is a new term, an alternate version of the office wife.

It means a colleague of the opposite gender who shares a spouse-like bond inside the dungeon...

But sometimes it becomes completely literal... like an actual wife...

’Ah!! This is adultery, Aria!’

As Ren kept making space for her, the line between delusion and reality began to blur.

That day in the locker room...

"In the end I chose Elle..."

Ren’s expression hardened.

Aria suddenly realized she had made a terrible mistake.

’What am I doing?’

From the couple’s point of view I was nothing but a nuisance, and yet I still had the nerve to criticize him.

The words I spoke weren’t rational at all.

"Ah... that was wrong of me. I’m sorry. I have no right or reason to say something like that."

"If we were dating, you could get as jealous as you want."

"Wha... what?"

That was the moment Aria finally understood.

The true nature of the shameless game Ren Asahi was proposing.

If it had been any ordinary jerk, a hard slap and a vow never to see him again would have been enough.

"Aria, date me as well."

"Are you joking? What about other people’s opinions...?"

"Don’t worry about that. As long as the two of us are happy, nothing else matters."

But why?

Ren’s flirting was clumsy.

His request was undeniably vulgar, yet underneath it there was a pure, almost innocent sincerity.

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