Chapter 319: Peeping at Shiori taking a hot spring bath?
"One beef rice bowl, one clear ramen, and one cod rice bowl."
"Okay, please wait a moment."
The waiter nodded politely to Sawayama Haruno, then took the menu and prepared to report to the kitchen.
"Shiori, are you going to have noodles for lunch?"
Seeing that the other party had left, Sawayama Haruno shifted his gaze back to Mine Shiori.
He asked curiously, "If you only eat noodles at noon, you will be hungry soon in the afternoon, right?"
"It's okay, I had breakfast late, so I don't have much appetite now." Mine Shiori said softly.
She got up much later than usual today. After all, she didn't have to go to work at Kodansha or go back to school for classes for the next two days.
After occasionally relaxing, the whole person no longer felt tense as before, so Mine Shiori slept until after nine o'clock before slowly getting up to eat breakfast.
The breakfast she ate was different from the noodles that Sawayama Haruno ate.
Mine Shiori was eating a very authentic Japanese breakfast, the kind with real rice, so it would be strange that she felt hungry now.
"Excuse me, I'm going to the bathroom."
At this moment, Ezaki Suguha suddenly stood up.
Seeing this, Sawayama Haruno subconsciously made way for the other party.
"Haruno, are you dating two girls at the same time?" Mine Shiori suddenly asked.
"Eh?"
The sudden question made Sawayama Haruno freeze in place.
But he quickly reacted and smiled awkwardly, "I guess so. Does Shiori already know?"
"Yeah, I heard Mana talk about these things when we were having dinner at school."
Mine Shiori pursed her lips and whispered, "She didn't tell me on purpose. Maybe she thought I already knew it. After all, she mentioned before that her sister lived in your house."
"Yeah."
Sawayama Haruno suddenly felt a little guilty.
Talking about this topic with Shiori was more difficult than he had imagined, after all, both of them knew that she had a crush on him.
As a result, not only did he date Miyazawa Maki, he also got together with Esaki Suguha, who had the closest relationship with Mine Shiori.
"It's incredible that we're together."
Mine Shiori didn't notice Sawayama Haruno's embarrassed expression, and continued to mutter to herself, "I thought this kind of thing only happened in TV dramas, but after it really happened to me, I don't know why I didn't feel surprised, as if I had already expected it."
"Various things happened along the way, and I don't know how to tell you." Sawayama Haruno whispered.
“It doesn’t matter if you don’t tell me.”
Mine Shiori suddenly clenched the corner of her clothes.
After being silent for several seconds, she suddenly said, "Haruno, I have an unreasonable request. Can you agree to it?"
"what?"
Sawayama Haruno looked up in confusion.
What does the other party want to say?
It's not that kind of thing, right?
Although he hasn't thought much about what's going on between him and the other party yet, the current situation is obviously not a good time to discuss this matter.
Find an excuse to reject the other party?
Sawayama Haruno was a little hesitant, but what Mine Shiori said next quickly made him dispel his previous thoughts.
"These few days, I dreamed about my mother."
Mine Shiori breathed a sigh of relief and whispered, "I don't know why, but I suddenly miss him a little, so I want to take some time to go back and visit his grave. It would be great if Haruno could go with me."
As soon as she said that, Mine Shiori suddenly regretted it.
I was talking about something, asking the other person to accompany me to visit the graves, etc. It sounded very strange.
They weren't in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, and if Suguha or Mana's sister knew about this request, they would definitely be troubled.
In addition, the place where I want to visit the grave is not in Tokyo, and it would be troublesome to ask Haruno to go with me. He is usually very busy.
Thinking of this, Mine Shiori felt as if someone was grabbing something in her heart.
She opened her mouth, wanting to ask Haruno to forget what she had just said, but before she could say anything, the other party agreed without hesitation.
"Okay, when?"
Sawayama Haruno looked at her very frankly, as if the two of them were discussing something that had to be done, seriously.
"Will we go right after we get back to Tokyo the day after tomorrow, or the next day? Or maybe during the holiday after that?"
"what"
Mine Shiori let out an "ah" in a daze, as if she had not expected the other party to agree so readily.
Of course, Zeshan Haruno had his considerations for agreeing to the other party's request.
Although he didn't know what happened between Mine Shiori and Miyazawa Mana at school during this period, he vaguely noticed some changes in Mana.
Combined with the previous system tasks, it can be speculated that Mine Shiori secretly played some role in a place where he couldn't see.
As far as this matter is concerned, it seems that I still owe the other party a favor.
Moreover, Mine Shiori's mother was also related to her long-standing knot. Although it was not very related to her, if taking time to accompany Shiori would make her happy, Sawayama Haruno felt that it didn't matter. Anyway, he could still arrange it later.
"We're going to go to Shiori's hometown then, right?"
Sawayama Haruno crossed his hands on the table, leaned forward a little, and said with a smile: "I remember that Shiori's hometown seems to be not far from Tokyo. If it is convenient, remember to entertain me at your hometown."
"Of course."
After reacting, Mine Shiori agreed in a panic.
Feeling the other person's extremely serious gaze, she lowered her head somewhat embarrassedly.
"Um, thank you Haruno."
"You are welcome."
Sawayama Haruno smiled gently.
He originally wanted to say a few more words to Mine Shiori, but Ezaki Suguha, who had gone to the bathroom, had already returned.
In addition, the dishes that the three of them had just ordered were also brought over by the waiter. Seeing this, Sawayama Haruno did not choose to pull the other party to talk about tomb sweeping anymore, but decided to talk about it privately when he was free later.
The meal was quite good. Sawayama Haruno ordered beef rice, which was average.
The cod rice made by Suguha Ezaki was very delicious, but because Mine Shiori was sitting opposite him, Sawayama Haruno felt embarrassed to keep eating from Suguha Ezaki's bowl. After all, doing so would give people the feeling that a couple was showing off their affection in front of him.
After finishing their meal, the three of them took their things and returned to their hotel room to rest.
As a family-style hotel room connected to a courtyard, the room on Sawayama Haruno's side is naturally the largest.
There are two soft beds that are slightly larger than a normal single bed, separated by bedside tables.
However, after Sawayama Haruno got the hang of it, he put the two beds together in a few moves.
"This should be fine, and there's a lot more space than a normal large bed."
Sawayama Haruno patted the soft bed and looked at Ezaki Suguha with a smile.
The latter rolled his eyes at him and said nothing, instead opening the glass door leading to the courtyard.
Outside is a very standard Japanese-style courtyard, surrounded by wooden fences on all sides, and countless flowers are planted on the outer layer to cover the gaps tightly to ensure that people outside cannot see what is going on inside at all.
Beach chairs for people to rest are placed in the four corners of the courtyard. There are even huge white canvas parasols, as well as large tables and chairs for four people to sit together to chat and drink tea. These are all very standard hotel configurations.
In the most central area, there is a hot spring pool that looks like it can accommodate seven or eight people at the same time, and even at noon, it is constantly emitting wisps of white steam.
"So big?"
Zeshan Haruno walked out and took a look, and was also stunned.
The pools in ordinary hot spring hotels are not that big. They are called hot spring pools, but in fact most of them are probably just slightly bigger than a bathtub, and the prices are shockingly expensive.
But the hot spring pool before them obviously exceeded their expectations.
Although it is still not as good as a large public hot spring bath, it is understandable as it is private and exclusive to the room.
“It’s very hot.”
Naoha Ezaki walked to the edge of the pool and curiously reached in to touch it. The temperature inside was a little higher than when a normal person takes a bath.
But when you take a hot spring bath, the temperature is almost the same. It would be better if it were a little warmer, after all, it is still winter.
Although today's weather is milder than before, it is still easy to catch a cold if you don't pay attention to keeping warm.
"Haruno, do you want to take a dip?"
"Forget it. I just had enough food."
Zeshan Haruno subconsciously refused: "Let's talk about it later, or soak it after sleeping."
"Then I'll go down and soak for a while."
Suguha Ezaki stood up and suddenly smiled at Haruno Sawayama.
"I'll go get the master to come along, Haruno, are you sure you don't want to soak?"
".You guys go to the bar, I'll talk to you in the afternoon or evening."
Sawayama Haruno stroked his chin and said uncertainly: "Although I don't want to soak, I kind of want to watch it, is that okay?"
He saw Suguha packing the bikini into the suitcase in the morning.
Although he didn't want to go down to the hot spring to soak right now, he really wanted to appreciate the other person's bikini.
What's more, there is Mine Shiori. What kind of clothes will she wear to take a hot spring bath? According to her personality, she will definitely be as conservative as possible. She won't just go in and take a bath in a bathrobe, right?
"Want to see it? As long as the master has no objection."
Naoha Esaki gave a coquettish cry, then ignored Sawayama Haruno who was in a dilemma and walked towards the room where Shiori Mine was.
She knocked on the glass door twice and it quickly opened for her to come in.
"If I were to watch this, Shiori would probably feel dizzy after taking a dip, right?"
Looking at her leaving figure, Zeshan Haruno said to himself: "Let's talk about it tonight."
(End of this chapter)
