The sixth night of the Six Kings Festival. Tomorrow is the last day of the Six Kings Festival which has been filled with various things…… There are also lots of troubleso things, but thinking about how it’s going to end makes feel sad. However……
Well, enough about that…… Let’s put that matter aside. There are more important things I have at hand.
[……I can already kind of guess why, but can I ask you sothing? Why was I “kidnapped to the Sanctuary” as soon as dinner was over?]
[It’s my turn today.]
[H- Huhh……]
[Kuro and the others made the rule that the person who would go on a date with Kaito the next day can take a bath with him the night before. Then, of course, I should have the right to do the sa.]
Before I had ti to bask in the afterglow of the night before the final day, I had been kidnapped by Shiro-san, bringing to the God Realm. Unnn, well, how should I say this…… It really was just as I had expected.
[……Well, since Kuro didn’t stop Shiro-san, that ans they’ve also included you too…… I don’t have the option of refusing anyway, right?]
[Yes. That’s right.]
Alright…… but “there are so conditions”.]
[Hmm?]
Yes, I had predicted this situation. I knew that if Kuro and the others had established such a rule, there was no way that Shiro-san wouldn’t take advantage of it. So, I’ve been thinking about counterasures for it.
Well, I didn’t expect that she would bring to the Sanctuary rather than staying with in the Central Tower……
[Shiro-san, do you rember the last ti when we went to the beach?]
[Yes, of course.]
[Then, please “wear the bathing suit” you were wearing that ti. That’s the conditions I’m offering.]
[Mhmmm…… However, no one other than Phantasmal King wore a bathing suit when bathing with Kaito. Kuro wasn’t a bathing suit either. That’s unfair.]
Shiro-san’s voice was as inflectionless as ever, but she protested in a sowhat dissatisfied manner…… which was a response I had expected.
[Yes, that may be true. However, please think about it. I don’t know how Shiro-san feels about yourself, but Shiro-san is an incredibly beautiful woman. If I were to take a bath with you while you weren’t wearing a bathing suit, I would feel nervous.]
[…………………]
[If that were the case, I don’t think I’ll have the composure to enjoy my conversation with Shiro-san. I want to enjoy this opportunity to be alone with you, Shiro-san.]
[Mhmhmhmmm……]
In response to my words, Shiro-san was unusually hesitating to say sothing. How should I say this…… It feels incredibly refreshing to have the upper hand against Shiro-san in a conversation.
Anyway, my point seed to have been conveyed, and Shiro-san remained expressionless and silent for a while.
[……I understand. I’ll put on my bathing suit while we’re taking a bath.]
[Thank you! Ahh, and please don’t think of trying anything witty like “wearing your bathing suit only when you get in, and remove it after you’re in the water”.]
[………………..]
I warned her just in case, but it seems like Shiro-san really was thinking of doing that, as I saw her eyes briefly blinked twice. This is how Shiro-san reacts when she’s surprised.
For once, my advance planning and preparations paid off, as Shiro-san obediently put on her swimsuit.
Together with Shiro-san, who was wearing a bathing suit, I soaked in the onsen that I had also bathed in when I visited the God Realm before. However, hmmm…… I really think that Shiro-san is unfair. Not sure if it’s because she’s really just too beautiful or not, but even when she’s wearing a bathing suit, all the blood will gather on my face.
[……I sohow feel like I lost. I am displeased.]
[I’m not entirely sure how you decide if you won or you lost but…… if I win, would that an this would be my first victory over Shiro-san?]
[……No, it’s your second victory.]
[Arehh?]
Huh? It’s the second ti I’ve won against Shiro-san? She had always been pushing around so much that I don’t rember ever winning against her…… Ahh, is she talking about that ti when we first t?
[That’s right.]
What Shiro-san is referring to is that conversation Shiro-san and I had when we first t…… that ti when I rejected Shiro-san when she told “she would give what she wants”.
To be honest, I don’t feel like I’ve won at that ti, but it seems like from Shiro-san’s point of view, that was another loss.
[……I couldn’t prepare what you really want after all. Then, I guess I lost.]
[Is that how it is?]
[That’s right.]
After telling this, Shiro-san made a sake cup and a tokkuri out of nowhere, handing the sake cup without saying a word. Speaking of which, back when we were taking a bath in an onsen together, she also handed a cup of sake like this…… Sohow, I feel strangely nostalgic, even though that shouldn’t have been that long ago.
[……It’s delicious.]
[I’m glad to hear that.]
[……By the way, Shiro-san?]
[What is it?]
[I’m sorry if I’m mistaken…… but I kind of feel like you’re “a bit depressed”……]
[Why do you think that?]
[I’m not sure. It’s just a hunch.]
[………………….]
From what I heard from Kuro, Shiro-san never lies. In other words, I could take her silence as affirmation.
To be honest, I wasn’t really sure, and just as I told Shiro-san, I had no proof. I’ve never seen Shiro-san depressed before, so it really was just a hunch.
[……Kaito-san, are you able to read my emotional changes from my facial expressions?]
[……Ehh? Y- Yes, well…… I could sohow read them.]
Shiro-san’s expression certainly hardly changed, and her voice had no inflection. However, since I had been conversing with her to so extent, I have co to understand her emotional changes to so extent.
When she’s having fun, the corners of her lips turn up a few milliters. When she’s surprised, her eyes would quickly blink twice. When she’s sulking, her mouth would beco smaller by a few milliters, and when she is confused, her eyelids would drop a few milliters.
I guess I’ve gotten the hang of it to so extent, and now, I can read the changes in her emotions from her facial expressions.
[……You…… really are……]
[Shiro-san?]
[No, it’s nothing.]
[…………………]
Shiro-san was about to say sothing, but she stopped mid-sentence and shook her head.
Then, after shifting her gaze to the skies of the God Realm…… She quietly whispered.
[……If……]
[Unnn?]
[……If I try to…… take away “your most precious thing”…… will you…… hate ?]
Dear Mom, Dad————— Was it just my imagination? Her voice was as inflectionless as usual, and her expression almost unchanged…… However, hearing Shiro-san’s voice right now, for so reason—————– She sounded like she was about to cry.
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