Anna Kinomiya walked out of the school gate holding an umbrella.
The car door parked by the roadside opened. The driver quickly got out to open the back door for her.
Anna Kinomiya closed her umbrella and got into the car.
The car began to drive. The street scenery outside the window receded. The driver turned on the car stereo, playing the soothing light music Anna Kinomiya liked.
"Mika-nee, you don't need to specially get out of the car to open the door for me in the future. I can still do such simple things myself."
"You're too kind, Anna-sama. Your studies are already very hard, and you also serve as student council president. Your physical energy consumption every day must be very great. I can't help you with much, but at least let me do these small things for you.
Please rest well in the back seat. It will take about thirty minutes to reach the teacher's home. I'll try to drive as smoothly as possible."
Come to think of it, there's still the foreign language lesson today...
Anna Kinomiya looked out the window, somehow feeling a trace of irritation in her heart.
For a full ten-plus years, it had been like this since she could remember - accepting the arrangements of family elders. Proper conduct went without saying. Ranking at the top in studies was the most basic of basics. Every day, school, private tutoring, and home - three points in a line.
Every single day, following rules, making no mistakes, unchanging uniformity.
Like a precisely operating instrument, only passively working according to pre-set commands and instructions.
Like a train that can only move forward on pre-laid tracks.
But even the most precise instruments have moments of malfunction and pause. So too with Anna Kinomiya.
Her mother, Sophia Kinomiya, had always taught her that interaction with the opposite sex before university graduation was impure, was obscene.
She must stay away from males, couldn't have any physical contact with them. In necessary situations, she even had to maintain a distance of two to three meters from the opposite sex.
When a puzzled Anna Kinomiya asked why, she was unwilling to explain the specific reasons in detail, only very strictly forbidding Anna Kinomiya from having contact with anything related to it or that knowledge.
Obsessively believing that as long as things went according to her ideas, Anna Kinomiya could grow up healthy and pure.
Anna Kinomiya, who had always been a good girl, didn't know when she had begun to feel somewhat at a loss. But this feeling was only latent, hidden in the deepest part of her heart. She herself hadn't noticed it and had never had thoughts of resistance.
Until that time a few days ago when Murakami Yuu fell to the ground together with her to protect her - the position of man below, woman above.
After that experience, Anna Kinomiya began to have somewhat different feelings toward Murakami Yuu.
It wasn't particularly strong gratitude, but rather that throbbing feeling brought by their bodies fitting together. That unprecedented feeling that spread throughout her entire body, even making her brain strange, made her feel as if she had opened a door to a new world she'd never known, stepping into entirely unknown territory.
The feeling of trembling heat throughout her body continuously came. The tingling sensation after her whole body tensed was only momentary. After that came incomparable pleasure, whether in her heart or her body.
Pressure was relieved, her spirit emptied. Like leaping into the air and rolling freely among the clouds, unrestrained as if reborn.
The decaying, dark world became vivid.
This experience made her clearly recognize that what her mother had strictly forbidden her from was actually such a wonderful existence.
That feeling brought much more happiness than her calligraphy works winning awards or ranking first in monthly exams.
It made one willing to become addicted to it, savoring it again and again.
So on the day the accident happened, she didn't choose to tell her mother about it. Instead, she concealed it calmly, maintaining her usual words and actions as if nothing had happened.
Only when night fell and she finished the day's studies, when Anna Kinomiya was alone in her room preparing to enter dreamland, would that deeply impressive scene and feeling perfectly replay in her head.
IMAX ultra-clear plus 5D immersive effects made it feel real. Her consciousness and senses returned to that afternoon. For two consecutive days, she fell asleep trembling all over with gasping and flushed afterglow. When she woke up in the morning, she felt especially refreshed and full of vigor.
This situation left her puzzled while her curiosity was pulled to its extreme.
Time came to Monday. From the moment she stepped into the classroom, Anna Kinomiya's gaze would occasionally fall subtly on Murakami Yuu sitting at the back of the class.
During class, she discovered something. As long as she was within Murakami Yuu's line of sight, she would have a tingling trembling sensation throughout her body. Very slight, but impossible to ignore its existence.
Finally, the after-school period arrived. Following him to the student council room, after sending away irrelevant people, she had only wanted to ask him and get the answer she wanted.
But when they were truly alone together, she didn't know why she followed her instinctive thoughts and locked the door, and lifted her skirt.
His gaze made her emotions soar. What came from the bottom of her heart was excitement, pleasure, exhilaration...
The following explanation time left her dazed and confused. Knowledge she had never encountered obviously couldn't be fully understood through oral transmission. But fortunately, her comprehension ability was strong, barely reaching a state of partial understanding.
After Murakami Yuu left, she went to the library and obtained books on physiological knowledge, along with a collection of romance novels. These two things strictly forbidden by her mother were now in her bag.
"Mika-nee, let's just go home today. I'm feeling somewhat unwell and want to return to my room to rest early."
Stroking her bag, Anna Kinomiya deliberately made her voice sound weak and hoarse.
"I'll take you to the hospital right away!"
The driver's tone sounded very nervous.
"No need. Today's lesson had a large amount of knowledge, plus the student council work was somewhat tiring. I'm just simply feeling tired. I'll be fine after going back, taking a hot bath, and resting early."
"Alright, I'll ask for leave from the private tutor for Anna-sama. As for Lady Sophia..."
"No need to specially tell her. Mom's work out of town has been very busy these days. I don't want her to worry about me."
"Understood."
Anna Kinomiya closed her eyes, emptying her thoughts.
...
Returning home, she dove straight into her room.
She took out the physiological knowledge book and began the serious learning process.
Knowledge she had never encountered before was suddenly understood, slowly absorbed, stored in her mind.
The knowledge in the book wasn't comprehensive. At least it didn't explain her own situation of her body only reacting to Murakami Yuu alone.
It was already very late, past midnight. A time when she should have long been in bed. But today she still wanted to be a bit more willful.
She opened that romance novel collection she had casually brought back. She was quickly attracted by those words, immersing herself completely in them.
The experiences of the male and female protagonists made her empathize with them. The delicate and nuanced emotional portrayal made her heart flutter chaotically.
Finishing the novel, it was already past 5 AM the next day. Having not slept all night, she didn't show fatigue. Instead, her eyes were bright and full of spirit.
Anna Kinomiya understood basic physiological knowledge and developed beautiful yearning feelings for the "love" depicted in the novel collection.
She unconsciously inserted herself and Murakami Yuu into various scenes depicted in the book. They watched the sea together, wore yukata to stroll through fireworks displays together, cooked together, cared for each other - inseparable like true lovers as described in the book.
Covering her face with both hands, Anna Kinomiya understood for the first time that the phrase "blushing to the ears" could be used not only to express the embarrassment of doing something wrong, but also to embody this intense emotion that was about to overflow from within her now.
Books contain knowledge, words also have power. Through one night's time, Anna Kinomiya was reborn and understood too many things.
After bathing and eating breakfast, the instant she arrived at school and stepped into the classroom, she unconsciously looked toward Murakami Yuu's position.
The boy sitting by the window had magic that kept her gaze from moving away. Having roughly understood the reason, in that instant, she understood the introductory quote from the novel collection—
Love exists in everyone's genetic chain. Usually it lies quietly dormant, revealing nothing,
Until,
You meet that person you're willing to change for.
...