The next day.
After getting off the Shinkansen, Sakurai Saki boarded a bus back to the countryside.
"Where are you now?"
Hearing Nino's doubtful voice on the phone, Sakurai Saki looked at the scenery outside the window and said: "About to get off. But your mothers choosing to bury her in the hotown cetery is really rare."
"Bringing her back to her roots, but the countryside is such a hassle, you have to wait two hours for every bus. I went back a few days ago and almost cried. I forgot to bring sunscreen, and that idiot Miku wouldn't even lend hers, even though I was the one who recomnded that sunscreen to her. That girl is seriously too much…"
Nino chattered nonstop, complaining about her best friend.
Sakurai Saki looked at the scenery outside through the bus's yellowed window: "I see a lot of rice fields, way more than when I went to Kobe."
"Right, that's normal. After all, this is complete countryside, boring as hell. … Even the fan at ho keeps making annoying clacking noises. Oh right, oh right, I already chilled the waterlon, once you get off the bus you can eat it right away!" Nakano Nino said.
Their family had a large villa in the countryside—well, not exactly a villa, not too big, although compared to the houses of ordinary families in Tokyo it is indeed much larger, a normal thing in the countryside, just average by countryside standards — it was where their maternal grandparents used to live. In recent years the two elderly had passed away one after another, so now hardly anyone lived there; only the five sisters would return to stay for a few days every sumr vacation.
"Waterlon?"
"Waterlons are super cheap in the countryside, they're grown by the neighbors. I just talked to that auntie a bit and bought a few."
What kind of "neighbor hunter" are you? Always using your cute face to scam people for food... But fruits in supermarkets are indeed expensive, almost like luxury goods.
Every bite is money, delicious or not, you still have to say it's delicious.
"Yeah, okay."
"Eh! Miku, what are you doing? It's noon right now! It's scorching outside, and you still want to go to the bus stop to pick him up?" Nino's voice suddenly grew louder, hurting Sakurai Saki's ears.
"Tell her not to co, didn't you already send the map? Even though that simple drawing gives a headache just looking at it, don't let Miku co."
Sakurai Saki felt the hot air blowing in from outside the bus— rural buses obviously don't have air conditioning.
It was nearly 40 degrees today, after all it was mid-August...
In this weather, letting Miku go pick him up— even a scumbag like Sakurai Saki would feel bad.
"You're too late, Miku already took an umbrella and went out. Don't expect to go too, I'll die from the heat. Only Miku likes you so much she's beco obsessed, that's why she gets so excited... We're at ho bathing the waterlon... Pfft, bathing the waterlon, that wording sounds so funny."
Nino spoke while laughing at herself, letting out a crisp giggle.
Sakurai Saki only felt the joke was ice-cold... After all, is that even considered a joke? Bathing a waterlon?
"What about Ichika? Is she back yet?"
"No, she'll be back tomorrow. She's a big celebrity now, super full of herself. I called her yesterday and she even scolded ." Nakano Nino glanced at the electric fan beside her shaking slowly, making a "clack—" sound, feeling like this weather was unbearably hot.
She rembered the days from half a month ago when she went to Hokkaido.
That place was cool year-round, way better than this countryside near Kyoto.
"What did she say?"
"She said she didn't want to be a 'sheep entering the tiger's mouth.'"
"Huh? I'm the tiger?"
"She thinks I'm the tiger." Nino said unhappily.
"I think you're a cat." Sakurai Saki offered a different opinion.
"Well, they're both felines, right? But cats are cuter than tigers, so I'll forgive you."
"What about the others? Are they all at ho?"
"Itsuki is sleeping, Yotsuba is doing her sumr howork." As she said this, Nino turned to look at the tatami in the living room behind her — Itsuki was sleeping with her belly exposed, while Yotsuba was sprawled on the floor doing howork. She asked:
"Yotsuba, how much do you have left?"
The "bunny ears" on Nakano Yotsuba's head trembled twice, and she said in a despairing voice: "... Nino, I just thought of an idea, and now you interrupted ."
"Then what should we do?" Nakano Nino asked back.
"Uwu… You're asking ?... I'll have to ask Sakurai-san to teach later!" Yotsuba felt this was the one thing that could anger Nino, but she didn't know — Nino was already preparing to carry out the [Grand Happiness Plan of the Five Sisters], pulling all five sisters into the harem!
Nino withdrew her gaze and continued talking on the phone with Sakurai Saki: "That's what she said."
"Then it looks like she still has a lot left. She clearly said she would give up the sports recomndation and work hard for university exams, but now she's not even doing her sumr howork." Sakurai Saki comnted.
"She still goes running every morning, she's about to beco the Forrest Gump of the village, no one knows why she keeps running. Anyway... a lot of kids follow her, Yotsuba has beco the 'kid king', she's really happy..."
Before she could finish, Sakurai Saki interrupted: "Nino, the bus reached the stop, we'll talk later."
"Umu."
...
The small village called Asahiaki was full of natural beauty, untouched by the noise of the city — summarized in two words: remote countryside.
But only such a place deserved to be called a "hotown"; the Nakano sisters weren't originally from Kyoto or Tokyo.
Stepping off the swaying bus and pulling his luggage, Sakurai Saki used his free hand to shade his forehead from the harsh sunlight.
"Saki-kun."
Hearing a familiar voice, Sakurai Saki looked over and saw Miku walking toward him under an umbrella. She wore a short-sleeved top and a short skirt, but nothing revealing. The tights she always wore before were now gone… honestly, wearing tights in 40-degree weather had been a bit much.
At this mont, Miku looked at him like a little dog waiting for its owner.
"Co here quickly."
"Didn't I say you didn't need to co pick up?"
Sakurai Saki walked toward her.
"Once we get ho, Saki-kun will definitely be monopolized by Nino again, so… let enjoy this a little."
"I won't."
"Really? You can't lie to your lover."
"Umu."
This way of calling soone "lover"… was quite stimulating, but since Sakurai Saki had agreed to Miku before, calling her that wasn't wrong.
He could only have one girlfriend, but aside from a girlfriend, having one lover seed legal too?
After all, it was monogamy. If he interpreted it as one "wife" but ten "lovers", that wasn't impossible, right?
"Then tonight I want to sleep with you… but there's only one room with air conditioning in the house."
Miku revealed an important detail.
In the place they were headed, in such a large house, only one area had AC installed.
"It probably won't be that hot at night, right? Just turn on the fan."
"Umu. I'm fine with anything, as long as I'm with you."
Miku tilted the umbrella to cover both of them, shading him from the sun.
...
They walked down the narrow countryside road.
Nearly ten minutes later, Sakurai Saki arrived — an old-style house, not very large.
'So I'll be staying here for three days…'
He raised his head and sighed internally.
Hopefully nothing unexpected would happen.
...
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