Chapter 63 - Resting in a Private Room (1/2)

Juwah juwah, juwah, jiiiiiii… It was now afternoon, with the screeching of the cicadas growing louder.

“Seiji-kun, it’s hot…”

“Yeah. I’m in complete agreement.”

Hiiragi-chan elegantly wiped of sweat with her handkerchief, then as if she was a surgeon or a nurse, she wiped the sweat off my forehead as well.

Going to a town far away would mean that we wouldn’t need a disguise, but that was the only good thing about it. In this town that we did not know, the two of us wasted all our energy walking around for no reason at all.

“If only there was a café, or someplace that was cool…”

We were an hour early in saying that. While becoming covered in sweat, we walked around here and there.

“Seiji-kun, over there. Resting for two hours is 1900 yen!”

“What? Did you find a café?”

No, Hiiragi-chan shook her head and pointed, “It’s that.”

Just as Hiiragi-chan had said, there certainly was a sign that mentioned two hours for 1900 yen. However, isn’t it weird that it’s time-limited. It isn’t a café, then…?

As we moved closer to the sign, we noticed other things written besides resting like free time, accommodations, and other systems that charged for more.

… Yeah, I thought so. Looking at our surroundings more closely, there were stores that looked like plain unnatural buildings and also stores that seemed to be built in a tropical look, however, the one thing in common between all of them was that it wasn’t clear where the entrance or exit was.

“Haruka-san, around here…”

“??”

As expected, she doesn’t get it.

“This isn’t a place where you rest in the way that you are thinking of…”

“We haven’t found a café, and it’s cheaper here anyways. Let’s go, let’s go ♪”

She started pulling on my arm, making as if to enter the building with the sign. If you’re talking about rest, then this is technically for rest, but it’s more of an indirect way of saying, or rather, it’s a break that causes you to expend a bunch of energy…

Once we found the difficult to find entrance, Hiiragi-chan plodded on forward. Well, it’s probably fine since we have no intention of doing that anyways. It’s a good thing that Hiiragi-chan didn’t know some other devious man before me.

“Huh? There’s no one working the store…?”

“That’s the kind of store it is after all…”

“Is that so?”

“You can think of it as automated karaoke.”

“I see!”

In this way, it became the first time I entered a store like this. Over there, there was the rumored panel that you use to choose rooms with.

“Haruka-san, it seems that you use this to choose what type of room you want to hang out in.”

“Hoeeh~ there’s a lot of different types… I wonder if the darkened rooms are ones that people are already in.”

“I think that’s what it is.”

Out of the 30 rooms, half of them were already occupied. They were all in the middle of enjoying themselves I guess.

The reason we came here was to take a break, I am 100% certain that Hiiragi-chan didn’t come in here with the other thing in mind. That’s why, I never intended to get weirdly excited, but still, coming to a place like this with Hiiragi-chan, somehow makes my heart beat faster…

Then how about this one, Hiiragi-chan pushed a button, and picked up the key that dropped. Then, we got into the cramped elevator, and headed towards our room.

“Two hours for 1900 yen is cheap, right? Normally at a café, two people ordering a cake set and then maybe one more thing after that would come out to around that.”

“You have a pretty good sense when it comes to money… is it because you live alone?”

“What’s wrong?”

“Haruka-san, you’re a teacher, but you don’t really seem to have common sense.”

“I doooo!”

I’m sorry about making you pout like that, but seriously thinking that this is a place just for resting already shows that you lack common sense, Sensei.

Using the key, we entered the room. It was like a one-bedroom room at a business hotel with no suspicious feel to it.

I patted my chest in relief.

“Waaah! It’s amazing! There’s a bed here! It’s even super big!”

Well, of course there would be one…

Hiiragi-chan became excited, like a child going on a trip.

“They even have a TV and games! Over here is…”

Gacha, she opened a door and confirmed what was inside.

“Fuwaaaaaah! It’s a bath! It’s really big, Seiji-kun!”

“No… well… of course they would have one…”

Is it better for me to actually tell her what this place is? As an adult. However, she came here thinking purely of taking a break, for now, not telling her is probably fine.

Bii, Hiiragi-chan grabbed the remote control and turned on the television.

“If it’s at this time, they might be rebroadcasting the drama. I liked it quite a bit. Huh——”

“Ah, ah ♡ Nn, nn, nn, aaahh ♡”

A woman was on the bed, looking in quite a disarray.

Bii.

At an incredible speed, I quickly turned it off.

“…”

Hiiragi-chan was frozen with a serious face.