People with Superpowers Don’t Want to Be Popular 821

Title: How Many More Times Will You Hold Hands?

“Holding hands? Did you hold hands at that time?”

Miku interrupted Yotsuba’s recounting.

“That wasn’t holding hands; it was just using his hands to maintain body stability.” Yotsuba immediately defended herself, “Holding hands doesn’t count at all.”

Seeing Miku’s expression realizing something was off, Ichika couldn’t help but ask, “Miku, didn’t you know they held hands while practicing surfing?”

“I didn’t know. I was learning to surf from the staff at that time.” Miku answered in a low voice, “I wasn’t paying much attention to that.”

She wasn’t a genius who could multitask. Learning to surf alone took up most of her attention. How could she have kept an eye on Ren all the time?

At this moment, Itsuki also added, “I didn’t know they held hands.”

“I told you, it wasn’t holding hands.” Yotsuba still emphasized this.

She started to regret recounting the details about surfing, and now she was misunderstood by her sisters.

“How did it feel to hold hands with Ren-kun?” Ichika suddenly asked.

“It felt pretty nice.”

Yotsuba answered subconsciously, but after realizing what she said, she quickly defended, “No, it wasn’t holding hands. I just felt that holding Ren-san’s hand while learning to surf gave me a sense of security, not worrying about falling…”

“Don’t worry about holding hands for now, Yotsuba. Please continue.” Nino urged.

“Right. Quickly tell me what happened next.”

Ichika looked forward to the following content more and more, while Miku and Itsuki also stared at Yotsuba, hoping she would tell them what they hadn’t realized.

“I understand.”

Facing the urging from her sisters, Yotsuba could only continue to speak helplessly.

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“Isn’t it easy to stand up straight now?”

Ren said softly while looking at Yotsuba, who was holding his hand and standing on the surfboard with ease.

“Yes.”

Yotsuba answered subconsciously, her eyes looking around, but she couldn’t look directly at Ren standing in front of her.

“Next is…”

Ren began teaching again, but Yotsuba didn’t listen to a word. Her attention was on various things around her and the hand holding hers.

After explaining all the surfing skills he had just learned in one breath, Ren continued, “I will let go of my hand. You can try standing straight by yourself.”

“Huh? Oh, okay.”

Yotsuba finally came back to her senses and responded in a panic.

“I’m letting go.”

As a reminder, Ren let go of her hand.

As he let go, Yotsuba could barely maintain her balance and almost fell, but she relied on her excellent athletic talent to stand back up.

“You learn quickly.”

Ren said with relief, seeing Yotsuba able to stand on the surfboard without relying on anything else.

“No, I just…”

Hearing his praise, Yotsuba responded instinctively.

Then, the next second, she fell off the surfboard.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean it.”

Now it was Ren’s turn to say this.

“It’s okay; I didn’t learn well.” After retrieving the drifting surfboard, Yotsuba returned and said with guilt, “It has nothing to do with Ren-san.”

She hadn’t listened to Ren’s explanation just now, and now the fault could be said to be all her own.

“Then let me teach you again.”

Ren extended his hand to her again.

“Alright, this time I will listen carefully.”

Her eyes swept over his pale hand, and Yotsuba made up her mind.

This time, she must not let herself get distracted by holding his hand; she must learn diligently!

However...

‘What’s with Ren-san’s hand? Isn’t it strange for a person to be unable to concentrate just by holding hands?’

Feeling the warmth from his palm, Yotsuba thought anxiously in her heart.

“Try again now?”

While her attention was diverted, Ren’s teaching ended again.

“I will try hard.”

In this regard, Yotsuba pretended to understand.

However, the result was still unsatisfactory, and Yotsuba quickly fell off the surfboard.

But fortunately, this time she lasted a little longer than before.

Pulling Yotsuba up from the ground, Ren continued, “Try again. I think you will learn it soon.”

“Um.”

Yotsuba responded weakly.

After that, she experienced a strange cycle.

Because she couldn’t stand straight on the surfboard alone, she needed to hold Ren’s hand to maintain her body stability. However, holding hands made her lose focus and not hear what he was teaching, learning the surfing skills. She lasted for a while before falling.

When she fell, she could only try again, but she couldn’t stand straight on the surfboard alone...

After going through a seemingly endless cycle,

Finally, Yotsuba learned to stand alone on the surfboard.

Wiping away the nonexistent tears on her face, she said emotionally in her heart, “I’ve learned.”

It wasn’t easy, and the cycle finally ended.

Pointing to the slope, Ren continued, “Alright, let’s try on the slope.”

“Okay.”

Yotsuba descended the slope under his guidance.

Facing the impact of the water flow, which was many times greater than that on the platform, Yotsuba wasn’t panicked at all. Instead, she worked hard to control the surfboard and moved it left and right.

Although she eventually fell off the surfboard, the fact that she was able to last so long undoubtedly proved that she had learned to surf.

“I really learned.”

After barely standing up under the influence of the water flow, Yotsuba shouted loudly to Ren, who was standing on the slope watching her.

“Yes.” Ren replied softly.

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“In this way, with Ren-san’s help, I managed to learn how to surf.”

After saying this, Yotsuba clapped her hands.

Ichika interrupted the applause and asked with a very odd expression, “Yotsuba, I actually have a question.”

“What’s the problem?” Yotsuba looked at her in confusion.

“Did you deliberately pretend not to learn surfing so that you could hold hands with Ren-kun a few more times?”