Episode 2 – When I get home….

After finishing my college lectures, I immediately went home.

I had been so absorbed in listening to Harushita Suzune’s music since then that I realized I had forgotten something crucial.

“I forgot to reply!”

You can call me an idiot or you can call me a fool. By the way, I personally find the latter more damaging.

It doesn’t matter.

If I don’t hurry, she may give up. I can’t let this opportunity pass by.

But, my house is in the heart of the city, and even more, the university is located more than 30 minutes from Shinjuku where I have to take a train, so it takes me a long time to get home.

If I thought about it calmly, there was no way that the other side would have declined, but at that time I was driven by a sense of frustration that made no sense to me.

I run from the station to my apartment and put the key through the keyhole.

But it doesn’t open in any way, whether it is rushed or not.

No, no.

— already open.

But that doesn’t mean I suspect the thief.

“Hey, Kotoha! Don’t come into my house without permission! And lock the door!”
“Ara-, sorry~. Rin kun”

The one who replied in a voice that sounded not at all offended and even had a glamorous tone that tickled men’s desires was Shirakawa Kotoha.

someone who has provided music before.

At 24 years old, she continues to attract men in this world, and I, who have never been in love before, would have been beaten to the punch in a second.

Even now, the voice melting in my ears and the glimpse of her legs even from afar is cutting into my rationality with excitement.

“Good grief! You broke in here without permission!”
“That’s okay~, I got a little time off.”
“Wouldn’t that be a scandal, going in and out of a man’s house?”
“If Rin kun did something to me, it might happen, right? Pregnancy? Oh no, Rin kun, you’re so naughty.”
“I haven’t done anything yet!”
“I’ll be waiting for you anytime~”

This way of treating younger people like fools. She probably thinks of me as a younger brother.

“I mean, I’m the one who rents a room in this apartment. The landlord can come and go as he pleases.”
“I can’t say I’ve been very grateful for that.”
“I could have chosen a nicer apartment, Rin kun was so adamant that the rent should be less than 50,000 yen.”
“I can’t have three bedrooms for 200,000! Don’t destroy the financial sense of a normal college student!”

It was Kotoha who provided assistance when I said I was going to live alone.

My parents were against it, and I was a minor, so there was nothing I could do, but then Kotoha reached out to me.

I can honestly say that I can’t thank Kotoha, the actress, enough for all the help she has given me, including money.

“I’m not sure if Rin kun is a normal college student or not, but you don’t have to pay for it. Instead, you can pay me with your B O D Y.”
“I-I’ll pay you back when I’m a working adult! Just wait for a while!”
“Ahaha~, Rin kun is cute~. Do you want to live with me?”
“Nope !”

It was a strong temptation. I later regretted it to death.

Wait, That’s not what I’m talking about.

“I’ve got a few things I need to take care of, so make yourself at home. Until then, I’m sorry, but I can’t offer you any hospitality.”
“Ara~, Rin kun, you are a gentleman after all.”
“What?”
“Well, okay.”

She look at my computer and says, “This is not important”

Oh, it’s close. It smells good. Oh no, reason.

“I’m just a child in that respect.”
“Uuu”

She saw through it.

“But could it be…?”
“Oh, I was thinking of asking this person to do the song I put out today.”
“Hmmph~”

There, Kotoha becomes furiously grumpy.

“So it’s not me?”
“Et-to, this”
“So, it’s , not, me?”

An attitude of disapproval. An atmosphere in which an appropriate response is never tolerated.

Kotoha is the type of person who gets all hot and bothered when it comes to songs. Is she really an actress?

I try to put up a lot of theories, but it seems that she is not going to be convinced by my mended excuses, so I tell her honestly.

“Listen, Kotoha. This song is not suitable for you. That doesn’t mean that Kotoha is not good enough, it means that Kotoha can’t perform with this song. The song I’m asking you to do, I want to write just for you.”

I answer with a serious expression, looking straight at Kotoha.

I tried to tell it like it is, but the response was ……?

“F-Fuuun, J-Just for me? O-Okayy, you have convinced me.”

For some reason, Kotoha subtly averts her gaze and says in a superior attitude.

The face appears to be flushed, but this is a self-interpretation peculiar to Otaku.

For a guy like me, with a rugged face and no relation to the freshness of life, such talk is irrelevant. It’s a waste of time to get my hopes up.

“So, please do me a favor.”
“Yeah, just this once, just this once! Mine’s next.”
“Yes yes”

With a bitter smile, I contacted Harushita Suzune about the offer.

While waiting for a reply, though, Kotoha was strangled when she found out that I had made an offer to a woman.