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“Ah, right. I have to give this to you.”
After driving around the area at random, the car stopped in front of the apartment building where Haku is based.
Dorado handed a piece of paper to Haku as she got out of the car.
“What’s this…a bill…?”
“If it were true that the target was an ordinary person like Inami, the job would be over in a second. But since you’re having so much fun flirting, it never ends. I don’t even get paid. Is this good enough?”
“T-that’s……I-I’m sorry about that……”
“So, Haku has to make up for it. It’s not that big of a deal, right? You’ve been saving it without using it at all anyway.”
It is true that it is not a lot of money, but the act of paying her out of your own pocket is somewhat annoying.
However, it is also true that hse cannot get rid of Inami right away.
Haku puts the bill in her pocket and nods weakly.
“Hehe, thanks. While you’re lazing around, I’m gonna enjoy my first vacation in a while. Going to spring bath, climb Mt. Fuji, and I’ll bill you later for the expenses !”
“Ha !? I don’t know about that—“
“It’s decided ! Then, bye-bye !”
The car starts off at a brisk pace.
Haku, left alone, enters the apartment with a gasp.
Soon after, she arrives at her room.
After turning on the air conditioner, she headed for the shower and washed off the day’s fatigue.
After changing into her nightgown, hse messily dries her hair and dives straight into bed. As she hugged the blanket around her, she reminisced about the events of yesterday and today.
[—……I got carried away.]
She was so drunk that she lost her rationality, and she remembered what she had done.
Her face was seen up close. Sweaty body temperature. Then, at the feeling that remained on her lips, she rolled from left to right while exclaiming, [Aaaaaaaaaaaaa ! !]
“T-thank goodness…..! If I had really done it, Inami would’ve taken aback..!”
She presses her face into the pillow, relieved that it was a blessing in disguise.
She relaxed from her limbs and let loose for a moment. She rolls over and lies on her back, holding her palms up to the ceiling.
[…I-I think it would be okay even if we were together for the rest of our lives.]
I wasn’t drunk at the time.
I was completely sober.
Despite that, she ended up saying something like that, and on top of that, she ended up holding his hand.
Remembering the feeling, she bites her lip out of happiness and embarrassment.
She pulls my hand to her chest, thinking of him.
“I’m totally in love ! Totally fallen in love !”
A sweet scream echoed through the room, and she grabbed the blanket and wrapped herself around it.
I had liked Iha for a long time.
Someone who knows that I’m a killer, but who befriends me and even eats with me. Someone who can share his ordinary days with me when I’m helpless. There’s absolutely no reason to dislike him.
But that is just as a friend.
In that sense, I love him.
But this is different now.
This heat, this urge, is clearly different from that.
[….I-it would be fine if we were to live together for the rest of our lives.]
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
Thud.
She dropped herself to the floor, still wrapped in the blanket.
As it was, she cowered like a chrysalis waiting for spring, wriggling and squirming.
She told herself that she could open a store with him in the future. She wanted everything about him.
This love is a love of wanting to be with him.
The urge to touch him.
All parts.
I don’t know from what point it started.
Maybe it was from the first time I met him.
In any case, I became aware of my feelings.
The strength of his arm around my waist made me unbearably happy.
Imagining what would have happened if the call had not come, my face became too disheveled to show anyone.
(……I wonder what Iba thinks about me…..)
I talked to myself inside my chest and thought of his face.
[I also……want to be with you for the rest of my life…….]
Those words made me happy from the bottom of my heart, and as it was, the atmosphere was somewhat strange.
Maybe Inami has feelings for me.
I would like to think so, but at that time I had been drinking and the way I approached him was very forceful. He was a kind man, so he might have just gone along with me.
“Oh my god ! I want Inami to tell me he loves me ! I want someone who really likes me !”
Rolling.
Jittering.
She went wild on the floor, kicked off the blanket, and fell down on her back.
“….I wondered if he would like me if I paid off his debt instead of him.”
She mumbled quietly and immediately shook her head.
It would be an effective move if the other party was a Dorado, but Inami is not that type of person.
It’s more like pitying, and it’s not about love anymore.
“No, no, no, don’t take the easy way out ! There’s something else I could do that would make Inami like me more !”
She let out a powerful snort as she made a fist, but she couldn’t come up with any concrete ideas, so she twisted her head.
“Well, anyway, let’s do my best tomorrow for Inami ! Then maybe things will change ! Yeah !”
With that, she got up and hurriedly went back to bed to sleep.
She wants to show her capable sides to him.
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The next day.
“Uhaa…..this is so good……”
Haku’s voice, which had lost its energy, permeated Inami’s room.
“Haku san, would you like some mandarin oranges?”
“Hm? Mmm,……I’ll eat,…….”
“Then please open your mouth.”
“Mmmm…… yeah, mmmm……mmmm……”
Haku knocked on the door of Inami’s house.
Just that day, a certain piece of furniture was installed in the living room.
The name of the furniture was a kotatsu.
It was the first kotatsu in Haku’s life, and she fell prey to its poison early on, and was pampered by Inami to no end.
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