Chapter 106: Girls in Distress / From Within the Car Window (2/2)

「Did you seriously measure it!?」

「Yami-chan…sen, sor.」

「There really isn’t anything impossible for you, is there!」

「Well that was but a joke. I was going tah have you move the car once all seven wives had gathered, Husband.」

Kohaku said moving to the driver’s seat, while Taiyou hopped into the vacant passenger’s seat.

「When that time comes, I’ll do ya one better and carry the whole car.」

Along with one of Taiyou’s feasible jokes, this time around the car moved with the power of its engine.

Shortly after leaving the ryokan, the car climbed up a mountain road. There were twisting roads, some of which even curved one-hundred-eighty degrees, but with Kohaku’s trained driving, it was a very agreeable drive. It was so comfortable that Taiyou, sitting in the seat with the highest chance of death, nonchalantly thought about how interesting Kohaku’s change of personality was as soon as she gripped the handle. There was a gift shop when they had come halfway up the mountain, so they decided to take a break and go inside. With the car stopped in the parking lot, the females got out and entered the shop one-by-one, while Pochi was the only one remaining in the car. Just like how she was in the morning, she was acting like a dog, peeking only half her face out of the window.

Taiyou called out to her, trying to invite her into the shop.

「Husband.」

At that moment, Kohaku had suddenly emerged from the shop. It seemed that she had quickly bought a cone of soft serve ice cream, holding it in her tiny hands.

「What’s the matter, Kohaku-san?」

「Ya gotta try a bit of this.」

「Soft serve ice cream? Okay, sure.」

He stooped down to where she was holding it, trying it just a little bit. Perhaps it was the effect of being on a trip, but it had a rich flavor and was pretty tasty.

「How is it?」

「Yeah, it’s tasty. But I sort of get the feeling that the flavor is a bit different from your average soft serve ice cream; sort of like vanilla but not exactly vanilla…」

「Right, right!」

Kohaku said, grinning. Surveying her reaction as well as…the soft serve ice cream, for just an instant, something horrible ran through his imagination. Though he was pretty sure that they wouldn’t do that sort of thing, he timidly inquired.

「…You didn’t have any weird scheme with this, did you?」

「Ah, I’ve been found out.」

「Hey!?」

「Glomp.」

Indifferent to Taiyou’s rough voice, Kohaku ate the soft serve ice cream with a chomp.

「Huhu, I just shared an indirect kiss with Husband.」

「That was your scheme!?」

Not minding his quip, Kohaku, who was now in a good mood from succeeding in an indirect kiss, returned to the inside of the store. After seeing Kohaku go inside, he turned toward Pochi, whose glittering eyes were visible from within the car. He thought to ask her if she had wanted to eat ice cream and was going to offer to buy some, but…

「「「Taiyou-san!」」」

This time the three sisters approached him. Just like Kohaku, they were holding soft serve ice cream. Not one ice cream per each of them, but instead all three of them gripping one ice cream.

「Umm…could you…」

「Try this real quick?」

「It’s fine if it’s just a little bit, okay?」

「You guys too? Let me ask just in case, but there’s nothing strange inside the ice cream, right?」

「「「No, just normal cheese soft serve ice cream!」」」

「That’s questionably normal! Oh, so it was cheese flavor…」

No wonder it was rich. While thinking that, he bit on the tip of the cranium-spiraling soft serve ice cream.

「Thank you!」

「Koto-chan, Kaza-chan, let’s eat over there.」

「’Kay!」

With satisfied smiling faces, the sister trio went off pitter-pattering to a remote location, licking down the ice cream all at once. The image of them surrounding the soft serve ice cream and dragging their tongues across it was very erotic. Having the feeling that he shouldn’t just stare at them, Taiyou regained his composure and turned back to Pochi. Her eyes were gleaming even more than earlier. Taiyou was pretty sure that she was interested in the soft serve ice cream.

「Po――」

「Umm, Natsuno-kun.」

An obstacle got in his way of talking to Pochi for the third time. This time it was Aoba’s voice. He had somewhat predicted this, so he turned around thinking「Yeah yeah」to himself.

「Okay, I’ll eat it so bring it here.」

「Eh?」

But contrary to his expectations, Aoba wasn’t holding soft serve ice cream. Actually, she wasn’t holding anything in her hands at all. As Taiyou was perplexed by that, she nervously began to talk.

「Umm…there was limited lip balm…so…」

「Lip balm…」

Looking at it, her lips had become just a bit glossy. She had probably applied it to her lips and came to show Taiyou. It was Taiyou’s misunderstanding; jumping to the wrong conclusion. The misunderstanding picked up speed with the likes of a snowball rolling down a slope.

「So you’ll, eat it?」

Aoba said while red-faced and fidgeting. Of course there were no alternatives that existed within him, so placing his hands on her shoulders, he leaned forward just a tad bit.