An Exciting Day At Work

When the sun rose over Shuichi’s apartment the next day, the first thing he noticed was the sound of his alarm beeping on his nightstand next to him. This was very shortly followed by the second thing he noticed that day; the pain he felt when he tried to move to turn off the alarm.

“Ah!” Shuichi gasped and just barely managed to stop himself from falling off his bed. His body clearly hadn’t completely recovered from exercising the night before, and he could feel a light bruise on his side where he had fallen to the ground. “Augh… I guess this is what I get for trying to keep up Maki and Mukuro. I’ll have to make sure to pace myself better next time… though, I suppose I won’t be exercising for nearly as long tonight.”

Shuichi groaned slightly as he finished turning off his alarm and pulled himself out of bed to start getting ready for the day. In spite of his soreness, he ate his breakfast, brushed his teeth, showered, and picked out his tie the same as he had every day. He was right about to grab his keys and head down to his convertible when he noticed his phone buzzing with a notification.

“Good morning, Shuichi. How are you doing?” a text message from Mukuro Ikusaba read.

“Yeah, I’m doing just fine, thanks,” Shuichi texted back as he ignored his muscle pain. “How about you?”

“I’m doing well too. Exercise helps me sleep,” she replied before adding “I hope there aren’t any hard feelings about how I behaved last night.”

“Don’t worry, it’s fine. I’m just happy that you and Maki agreed to give being friends a shot,” Shuichi replied. “Besides, I had a lot of fun spending time with you.”

“Hey, what are you blushing about?” Junko asked her sister on the other side of town as they both ate their breakfast. “You’re not texting your boyfriend, are you?”

“I told you, he’s not my boyfriend,” Mukuro replied before texting Shuichi “That’s good to hear. I hope you have a good day at work today.”

“You too,” Shuichi replied. “See you tonight at seven.”

Shuichi then put his phone away and drove to work, a light breeze flowing through his hair as he traveled the streets of the city. Once at his office, he went to his floor and was promptly met by Kaito as he walked to his desk.

“Good morning, Shuichi! It’s great to see ya!” the purple-haired man greeted with his usual wide smile. “Say, you still haven’t made any plans for Monday night, right?”

“Uh… no, I haven’t,” Shuichi replied, confused as to why he would bring that up again. “Why do you ask? Did you want to do something with me that night?”

“What? No, of course not.” Kaito’s eyes glanced away. “I’m, uh, super busy that night. I’ve got a super important project to work on, you know how it is.”

“And they’re forcing you to stay late to work on it? That’s too bad,” Shuichi replied sympathetically. “What’s the project?”

“Oh, you know, they’re making me invent a computer that runs on… uh…” Kaito scratched his beard. “Actually, I can’t talk about it. Company secrets and all that.”

“If you say so.” Shuichi sat down at his desk and turned on his computer. “I’ll talk to you later then.”

“Yeah! See ya around, Shuichi!” Kaito smiled and left Shuichi alone with his work.

It was Friday, so there wasn’t quite as much for him to review that day as he usually did, so he found himself easily finishing it all with an hour to spare before lunch. He briefly considered going to see Kirumi afterward, but he decided to wait on that since he didn’t want to accidentally miss out on eating with his friends. So, he instead took out his phone and began texting Kae, hoping that she wasn’t too busy to talk with him.

“Hey there, Kae,” he greeted, silently relieved that he didn’t have to worry about his voice sounding stupid when he messaged her like this. “How’s it going?”

“I’m doing just fine, thanks for asking!” She replied after a few minutes. “I had to stay up pretty late for work last night, though, so I’m still a little bit tired.”

“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that,” Shuichi replied.

“Don’t be; it pretty much comes with the territory within my line of work,” Kae texted back. “But enough about that; did you get a chance to see that movie I recommended to you the other day? The one about the radio booth and the end of the world?”

“Yeah, I saw it last night, actually,” Shuichi replied. “It was pretty weird… I wasn’t expecting them to stay in the same room for the whole movie…”

The two spent the next half hour texting casually back and forth with each other, talking about different things they’d watched, their lives, the news, everything they could think of. Shuichi felt like it didn’t really matter what they talked about, though; just speaking to Kae was enough to help him feel happy and relaxed, and he couldn’t help but smile whenever she sent him an emoji or he said something that made her laugh.

“Oh, hey, sorry to cut this conversation a little short, but I need to get going,” Kae suddenly interjected. “My roommate has some errands she needs to run, but she says she’s too tired to get out of bed. Apparently, she was kept up all night by nightmares about wolves for some reason. Strange… she’s usually such a good sleeper.”

“Huh… I, uh, wonder what caused that,” Shuichi wrote, pretending not to remember the glare Maki and Mukuro had given Curie the night before.

“She probably just watched a horror movie again; I’m sure she’ll be back to normal by tonight,” Kae replied. “Anyways, talk to you later, Shuichi!”

“Wait, hold on one moment,” Shuichi typed quickly. “There’s something else I wanted to say.”

“Huh? What is it, Shuichi?” the pianist asked.

“Well, it’s just… it’s been a little while since we’ve hung out in person, hasn’t it?” Shuichi’s hands started sweating as he held his phone. “Do you think maybe we could… spend some time together sometime soon?”

“Oh, sure! That sounds like it would be great!” Kae replied. “There’s a new restaurant opening nearby tomorrow called the Bunny Hop. It’s a few blocks from my apartment, and they’re supposed to serve really good food there! Why don’t we stop by tomorrow and grab a bite to eat together? Say, around noonish?”

“Yes, of course! I would love that!” Shuichi typed out on his phone before hastily deleting the message and writing “Sure, that sounds like it would be a lot of fun. I’ll see you there tomorrow, okay?”

“See you there, Shuichi!” Kae replied, signing her text with a pink heart emoji. “Talk to you later!”

Shuichi didn’t realize that he was holding his breath until he put down his phone and let out a long sigh. He knew he was just asking a girl to have a bite to eat with him but, at the moment, he couldn’t help but feel as if his very life hinged on that conversation.

“Calm down… it’s just a bite to eat, not anything romantic. She is not interested in you that way,” Shuichi told himself as he returned to his work. “I mean, yeah, she did send that heart but… girls send hearts in their texts all the time, right? Right?”

“Hey, Shuichi!” Kaito suddenly called out from across the office, near the exit. “Are you coming to lunch with us, or what?”

“Oh, right! Coming, Kaito!” Shuichi turned off his computer and hastily gathered his things to follow Kaito outside to the World Famous. There, Kazuichi and Makoto were already waiting there for them, sharing a large plate of fries together.

“Hey there, guys! Took you long enough to get here!” Kazuichi greeted through a mouthful of food. “You get lost on the way here or somethin’?”

“Sorry, Mr. Soda. I, uh, got a little distracted,” Shuichi replied as he and Kaito both sat down. “As for Kaito, my guess is that he was working on finishing that special computer project of yours as quickly as possible.”

“Computer project? Wha- oof!” Kazuichi was cut off when Kaito abruptly hit him in the ribs with his elbow. “I mean, yeah, the computer project! It’s a real pain, but we’ve got to get it done one way or another.”

“Yeah, I completely understand,” Makoto added as he kept eating. “Everyone in the company has been a little on edge with the potential merger coming up. You need to show as much productivity as possible to avoid potentially losing your job.”

“Wait, what?” Kazuichi turned to Makoto with a frown. “Merger? What are you talking about? That’s the first I’ve heard of anything like that.”

“Well, there hasn’t been any official announcements or anything like that, but there have been rumors going around that a really big company is thinking about buying out CO Inc.,” Makoto explained. “And everyone knows that with mergers comes synergy, and with synergy…”

“... comes layoffs,” Shuichi finished for him, a shiver running down his spine.

“Hey, what are you worried about, Shuichi? Your job is the most secure out of any of us! After all, they couldn’t get rid of your position if they wanted to!” Kaito said with a laugh. “Er, not that you’re not an important part of the company, of course.”

“Right…” Shuichi replied, though there was a hint of doubt in his voice. “I’m not worried about myself being laid off, though. I just… don’t want to lose any of you guys.”

“Hey, don’t be like that!” Makoto spoke up encouragingly. “Even if one or two of us have to start working somewhere else, that doesn’t mean we can’t all still be friends.”

“Hell yeah! You’d have to build a fort around this place to stop me from meeting up with you guys for lunch!” Kaito agreed with determination in his eyes.

“Thanks guys… that means a lot to me,” Shuichi replied with a subtle smile on his lips.

“Anyways, I’m sorry I brought that up,” Makoto apologized. “We shouldn’t worry about corporate decisions like that. It’s not like we have any control over stuff like that anyway.”

“I know, but it’s still hard not to get stressed about, you know?” Kazuichi replied as a waitress took Kaito and Shuichi’s orders. “Like, how you can’t control what your sister does, but you’re still worried about her.”

“His sister?” Shuichi blinked in surprise and turned back to Makoto. “W-what about his sister?”

“Oh, it’s nothing, it’s just… I have been noticing she’s been acting kind of strange lately,” Makoto replied. “Like, she’s been sleeping in a lot, so I think she’s been staying out really late at night. Plus, she’s had so much extra money lately, and it feels like she’s been getting so much expensive stuff over the last week.”

“W-well, you did say that she got a promotion at work, didn’t you?” Shuichi asked, just barely able to mask the nervousness in his voice.

“Well, that's what I thought at first, but she really doesn’t want to talk about her job lately for some reason,” Makoto continued. “She’s also been wearing a lot of perfume, and I think I saw her carrying around some lacy lingerie and condoms in her purse the other day.”

“Oh man…. You do know what that means, right?” Kaito asked as bullets of sweat ran down Shuichi’s forehead.

“Yep… there’s only one possible explanation,” Kazuichi added, nodding grimly as Shuichi felt his heart on the verge of stopping.

“Unfortunately so… I think my sister…” Makoto paused and closed his eyes in resignation. “... has a boyfriend.”

“B-boyfriend?” Shuichi stammered.

“Yeah, and a guy who’s spoiling her like crazy by the looks of things.” Makoto sighed and opened his eyes again. “I mean, I know that kind of stuff isn’t any of my business, but I can’t help but be a little worried for her. Especially since she still hasn’t told me about him yet.”

“Hey, relax, man! That kind of thing is perfectly normal for a girl’s first boyfriend!” Kaito reached across the table and gave Makoto a hearty slap on the shoulder. “They always get nervous about how their family will judge him. But as long as he’s not taking advantage of her, there’s no real problem, right?”

“I know, but it still hurts a little that she’d keep that a secret that big from me,” Makoto replied. “I thought the two of us were closer than that.”

“Don’t sweat it, dude! She’ll let you know all about him when she’s good and ready.” Kazuichi smiled and gave Makoto a thumbs-up. “But, if things don’t work out with him and she starts looking for someone else to date… I’m more than willing to help her out with that.”

“Yeah… as much as I’d love to have a coworker dating my sister, I think I’m going to have to pass on that offer,” Makoto replied sarcastically, making Shuichi’s heart jump again.

“Eh, can’t blame a guy for trying,” Kazuichi said with a shrug as Kaito’s burger and Shuichi’s salad arrived. “So, have any of you seen any good movies lately?”

“Uh, no, but I am planning on going to the theater on Sunday,” Shuichi replied, more than happy to help change the subject. “Do you guys have any comedy recommendations?”

The four continued chatting together for the rest of their lunch hour until their food was finished and they had to return to work. But, while his friends all returned to their cubicles like normal, Shuichi once again took the first opportunity he could find to take the elevator up to Kirumi Tojo’s office, where he was greeted by her secretary’s smiling face.

“Hello again, Mr. Saihara,” Azura greeted with a light bow. “It’s good to see you again. I trust that you’re doing well.”

“Yes, thank you for asking,” Shuichi replied casually, feeling a lot more comfortable around the blue-haired woman than when he first met. “How about you?”

“Oh, I’m doing just fine, but I think we both know that you didn’t come up here just to see me,” the secretary replied, a hint of playfulness in her voice.

“W-well, yeah, but… that doesn’t mean I wasn’t still curious,” Shuichi confessed.

“Thank you for being such a gentleman, then.” Azura smiled and stood up to open the door to the CEO’s office for Shuichi. “Ms. Tojo doesn’t have any appointments this afternoon, so you should have all the time you need.”

“Thanks, that’s good to know.” Shuichi blushed and headed into the office to meet Kirumi. Azura then shut the door softly behind him and returned to her desk to continue the work she was just doing.

“Goodness, the effort I go through in helping those two out,” she said idly to herself as she typed out a memo to upper management at the company. “I never thought that I’d be helping to arrange my boss’s sex schedule when I first started this job five years ago, but here we are. I guess I should consider myself lucky that Ms. Tojo isn’t the first odd boss I’ve had.”

She continued typing on her computer for a few minutes, the sound of her keystrokes being the only thing there to keep her company in the small lobby.

“Hmm… now that I think about it, I can’t help but wonder… are they really making love in there whenever Shuichi stops by?” Azura asked herself after a few minutes, turning towards the office door. “I mean, I know the office is supposed to be soundproof, but you’d think I’d at least hear something if they were really going at it.”

Azura bit her lip as she stared at the door and her curiosity slowly ate a hole through her mind. Eventually, temptation got the better of her and she walked to the door once more.

“You know what… taking a peak right now wouldn’t be that bad, right? It’s perfectly fine for me to just check on them for a moment to make sure that everything’s alright in there,” Azura told herself. “Yeah, just a quick, totally innocent peek.”

Azura carefully gripped the handle of the door and turned it, opening the entrance to the office just enough for her to glance inside. The instant she did so, however, a cry of ecstasy suddenly reverberated through the lobby as Kirumi’s bottled-up screams of passion were suddenly let loose. And, through the door, she could see Kirumi, CEO of the company, bent over with her pants discarded and her hands pressed against the glass of her office window as Shuichi gripped her bare ass cheeks and slammed his cock as hard as he could into her. Azura’s jaw practically dropped to the floor as her ears were met by a cacophony of explicit noises and, in the reflection of the office window, she could see the most **** look of pleasure she had ever seen grace her boss’s face.

“Oh my!” Azura gasped, shut the door, and returned to her desk as quickly as she could, face blushing red. “Yep, they are most definitely having sex in there! Very loudly, too! I guess the soundproofing on that room really is top-notch…”

Azura tried her best to return to work and pretend as if nothing had happened but, in spite of her best efforts, her mind kept wandering back to what she had just seen. The indecent position that Shuichi was using on Kirumi… the way he could make her moan… how he gasped and groaned so cutely with each movement… the way he could make Kirumi’s hips sway with his powerful thrusts… She had only witnessed a few moments of their lovemaking, and yet it stuck to the forefront of her mind even minutes later.

“Mmm…” Azura bit her lip and rubbed her thighs together as she glanced at the office again. “Well… since I already peeked once, it wouldn’t be such a big deal if I looked again, right? Plus, it’s my duty to make sure Ms. Tojo has everything that she needs; I’ll just be… checking up on her.”

Azura continued to repeat excuses to herself inside her mind as she walked to the door and slowly creaked it open again. Inside, she could see that Kirumi and Shuichi were still going at it hard, but they had changed position since she last saw them. Now, Kirumi and Shuichi were facing each other, with Kirumi’s legs wrapped tightly around his waist while he held her up by her soft rear and pounded her against the window. Azura could see that they were kissing as well, their lips locked so hard that she could hear the slurps and gasps that escaped their lips even from where she was watching.

“Oh my! He’s picking her up off the ground!?” Azura thought to herself in shock. “I didn’t know that Shuichi was that strong! I wonder if that feels any good…”

Azura rubbed her thighs together again as she kept watching, her eyes fixed on where Shuichi’s slick shaft penetrated Kirumi’s eager sex.

“Wow, she’s absolutely soaking! I didn’t even know that girls could get that wet… and I’ve never seen a man kiss a woman so passionately!” Azura thought to herself as she watched Kirumi’s juices drip down Shuichi’s cock and onto the floor. “No wonder she keeps setting aside time to do this.” Her hands began to move down towards her groin without thinking. “And Shuichi seems really big too… it’s hard to tell from here, but he has to be about seven or eight inches long… I bet he can reach all of a girl’s sweet spots.”

Azura’s right hand was right about to slip underneath her skirt, but she managed to stop herself at the last moment.

“Ah! What am I doing!” Azura shut the door again and returned to her desk, even more red than before. “I can’t invade their privacy like that! I’m not a common Peeping Tom! I need to just calm down and keep my mind on work.”

Azura typed away furiously on her laptop, finishing several memos in record time as she did her best not to think about the two having wild, animalistic sex only a few yards away from her. But, of course, the harder she tried not to think about them, the more the Kirumi and Shuichi kept popping up in her mind regardless, making her feel hot as she imagined what positions they could be trying out now.

“Aaah…” Azura sighed, her breath so hot and heavy that she could almost see it. “Well… that’s all the memos I had to write done… and they’re still going at it hard in there, I’m guessing.” The blue-haired woman glanced at the office door again, and then at the elevator nearby. There didn’t seem to be any activity coming from either of them. “You know… it really isn’t fair that they’re the only ones who get to have fun during work hours.” Azura hiked up her skirt a little in her seat and spread her legs, revealing the blue pair of satin panties that she was wearing. “And I’m already ahead of schedule… surely Ms. Tojo won’t mind if I take a little break, right?”

Azura swallowed nervously as she reached down towards her groin and touched her clit through her panties. It was just a light touch, but she was so turned on by this point that she still had to stifle a moan as she began to rub.

“Mmmgh!” Azura moaned into her free hand as her thoughts returned to Shuichi and what he might be doing at that moment. She wondered if he was still fucking Kirumi hard against the window, or he’d moved to her desk or her couch. She thought about how many times he might have already made her boss finish, or if perhaps he was building Kirumi up to the strongest orgasm of her entire life.

“Aaah!” Azura moved her panties to the side and began to rub her pussy directly now, no longer satisfied with just rubbing herself through her underwear. She told herself that she needed to control herself, but that grew harder the more she stoked the flames of her own lust. Before she even knew it, Azura was masturbating herself even more shamelessly than she would have at home; and all because of a man that she barely knew.

She’d known that Shuichi worked at the company before, of course; they would occasionally walk past each other, and Azura would sometimes read or file his reports, but they had never really gotten to know each other. But when Kirumi began to talk about him, and the potential he had, she began to take more notice. At first, the secretary thought Kirumi meant potential as an employee, but she quickly learned she meant more than that.

Another loud gasp escaped from Azura’s mouth as she gripped one of her breasts through her shirt and thought back to when she noticed him changing over the past week. He walked with more confidence in his step, his eyes were bolder, and he looked so much better without his hat. He was starting to get more visibly fit too, though that change was a lot more subtle.

Azura slipped one of her fingers inside herself as she focused on the memory of the brief glance she had at his mostly-naked body a few minutes ago, and how beautifully it moved. As she imagined how hard and fast he must have been fucking Kirumi at that very moment, she couldn’t help but piston her finger faster to match the pace of the Shuichi in her head.

And then, a loud knock suddenly rang out through the room that nearly caused the secretary to jump out of her seat. At first, Azura thought she had somehow knocked something off her desk, but when it happened again she realized where the noise was actually coming from.

“Oh my word… they’re… they’re actually…” Azura trailed off in disbelief as she watched the door to Kirumi’s office thump and move rhythmically on its hinges. “They are! They’re actually having sex against the door! Aaaah!”

Azura gripped her breast firmer and sped up her fingers even more, causing her arousal to drip onto her leather seat. The thought of the two being even closer now seemed to light a fire in her loins, and now even if she couldn’t see him, she could hear exactly how hard he was thrusting into her boss. She once again imagined all the different positions he could be doing her in; perhaps he was holding both her legs up like a wheelbarrow? Or maybe he only lifted one leg to help spread her extra wide? Or maybe he was kissing her throat as his hands ravaged her chest and he pounded her back relentlessly into the door?

“Dammit… I can’t believe they’ve been doing this every day! They’re like… animals! Mmmph!” Azura whined to herself and silently wished she had a toy to make her fantasies even more realistic. “Why does she get to be the one who does this with him? W-wait, what am I saying? I’m not jealous of her… am I?”

She kept repeating to herself that she would never do something as crass as lust over another woman’s man - especially if that woman was not only her boss, but also her best friend - but no matter what she told herself, there was no denying the fact that she was masturbating to the thought of having sex with him at that very instant. She was practically drooling at the thought of having his dick stretch her folds, his groin hit her clit, his arms holding and caressing her body as he told her how much he cared for and appreciated her.

“Aaah! O-oh no! I… I actually do want to be with him, don’t I?” Azura gasped, her fingers not slowing despite how much her rational mind wanted to tell them to. “I want him to… to… to…!”

It was at that moment, just before an orgasm was about to rip through her body and cause her to cry out in pure ecstasy, that the light above the elevator in front of her suddenly turned on. Realizing that meant that someone was on their way to her floor, Azura hastily slid her panties back into place, made herself presentable, washed her hands with sanitizer, and sprayed some extra perfume to help cover the scent of her sex. She was about to knock on Kirumi’s door as well to tell them to quiet down, but luckily for her they moved on to have sex somewhere else right as she was about to get up.

Then, about a minute later, the elevator doors opened up and company engineer Kazuichi Soda walked into the room with his usual toothy grin on his face.

“Hey there, Ms. Nakano! What’s up?” Kazuichi asked casually as he strode up to her desk.

“Oh, you know, just the usual,” she replied, doing her best to keep her demeanor professional despite how hot she still felt. “Was there something that you needed?”

“Yeah, actually there was.” Kazuichi took out a small piece of paper that he had scribbled something onto. “I’ve got an idea for a new invention that I think will make our company millions! It’s a new kind of manufacturing robot that’s capable of repairing itself from almost any damage! I know there’s a whole approval process I should go through for this kind of thing, but I thought maybe if I just showed it to Ms. Tojo myself she could help me get a jumpstart on a prototype.”

“Well, as great as the invention sounds, I’m afraid Ms. Tojo isn’t taking any visitors at this moment,” Azura replied. “She is very busy right now.”

“Busy? Really?” Kazuichi scratched his head in confusion. “That’s weird; she usually has plenty of time to meet with employees, and I didn’t think there were any big meetings today.”

“Yes, well, in the business world things like that are sadly subject to change on very short notice,” Azura explained. “I can give her that note later if you’d like, however.”

“Alright then, here you go.” Kazuichi handed Azura his slip of paper and walked back to the elevator. “Oh, and wish Ms. Tojo a good day for me as well, okay?”

“Sure thing, Mr. Soda.” Azura waved casually at Kazuichi, but the instant the elevator doors were closed she hopped up from her seat and planted her groin down hard onto the corner of her desk.

“Fuck! I can’t believe he walked in right when I was so close!” Azura groaned, the hem of her skirt in her mouth as she furiously assaulted her clit through her panties with the hard desk. And, as she used her place of work into her makeshift sex toy, she thought back to the conversation she had with Shuichi the day before when she had asked him what Kirumi saw in him. Looking back, she now thought she knew the answer to that question; even if he could be meek at times, Shuichi Saihara had the potential to be an incredible man - and lover. The fact that Ms. Tojo had taken to him so quickly now seemed to make perfect sense.

“Aaaah! I’m… I’m getting close again!” Azura moaned, her hips moving her groin on auto-pilot as she groped her breasts with both hands. “S-Shuichi… Shuichi… Shuichi…!”

And, right as she was about to climax, Azura was abruptly interrupted once again, this time by the handle of Kirumi’s office door starting to shake. Thinking fast, Azura sat back down in her seat and pulled down her skirt, but she didn’t have enough time to wipe away the arousal on her desk corner before the door opened and Shuichi walked out.

“Thank you for stopping by to visit me once again, Master Saihara,” Kirumi said with a polite bow as she walked out of the room with Shuichi. “I had a wonderful time with you.”

“Th-thanks! I’m happy to know that you still haven’t gotten tired of me yet,” Shuich replied with a blush.

“Nonsense, Master Saihara; I don’t think me tiring of you is something you’ll have to worry about anytime soon,” Kirumi said, walking by the juices on Azura’s desk as the secretary did her best to pretend to work. “Please, have a wonderful weekend. I look forward to seeing you again on Monday.”

“You too, Ms. Tojo.” Shuichi walked into the elevator and waved his boss goodbye. “See you Monday!”

“Phew…” Azura let out a subtle sigh of relief as the elevator left.

“And how have you been doing, Ms. Nakano?” Kirumi asked, turning to her secretary. “Have all the memos been finished? Including the ones to our potential buyers?”

“Wha-!?” Azura gasped in surprise. “Er, yes, of course, Ms. Tojo! Everything is on schedule!”

“Good….” Kirumi moved as if to head back into her office, but she stopped in front of Azura’s desk. She then removed one of her gloves and used a finger to wipe up and examine some of the juices on the desk corner next to her. “It looks like you’ve really enjoyed yourself while working, Ms. Nakano. You should keep better care of your workstation, though, and it is rather rude to listen in on private moments.”

“Y-you knew I peeked!?” Azura blushed so red that she was practically on fire. “I-I didn’t mean anything by it, Ms. Tojo! I was just checking up on you, and one thing led to another, and, and… er, I’m so sorry! Please forgive me!”

“Well, it’s not as if there is any official company policy against voyeurism, so I suppose I can let this slide just this once.” Kirumi cleaned off her hand and put her glove back on. “After all, you have been a great help to me over the years. And the face you made when you peeked in on us was rather cute.”

“W-well, you’re one to talk!” Azura retorted. “Have you seen the expressions that you make when you’re with Shuichi? Completely shameless! So much for always being professional, huh?”

“I’ll have you know that I am always professional; it’s just that circumstances require that I be a professional slut sometimes too,” Kirumi replied, not even the least bit ashamed as she adjusted her tie. “Regardless, your uninvited spying on us really must cease. If you were to do something like that, then the least you could do is get our permissions first.”

“Yes, Ms. Tojo.” Azura gave a bow so deep she nearly hit her head on her desk. “Wait… next time? Do you mean that you’d actually let me…?”

“Perhaps - but only if it entertains Mr. Saihara, of course,” Kirumi replied, walking back into her office. “By the way, is there anything you’d like to do together this weekend? Perhaps go out for tea, or go shopping?”

“Shopping? But don’t you have your other work this weekend, Ms. Tojo? Why would we-” Azura’s eyes widened with realization. “Oh, I see! You want to get ready for that on Monday, don’t you? Well then, I’d be more than happy to help you shop, Ms. Tojo!”

“Thank you, Ms. Nakano.” Kirumi bowed and moved to close her office door. “Please let me know if anyone else comes by to see me.”

“Oh, actually, there was someone earlier…”