Chapter 60: Next Playdate

My outing with Kaya-san a few days ago was pretty dangerous… something like… I couldn’t get rid of the question if Kaya-san that type of person or not.

There wasn’t anything strange about the way we played itself. I was called to the Oogimachisanjou family’s villa, we barbecued, and after that, we talked. It was just normal playing. But…

No… let’s stop… it was nothing. Let’s ignore it. There was no point in complaining about others.

In the first place, did I hate Kaya-san? I didn’t, right? I liked Kaya-san. Kaya-san probably liked me too. Wasn’t it okay to leave it at that? Was anything more that necessary?

More importantly, today was the day I’d be playing with Azami-chan. If I didn’t prepare for that… hey, speaking of that, what and how should I prepare? Clean my room… was what I thought of doing, but the maids had already done that, so I had nothing to arrange or clean up.

Change… but I’d already finished doing that… Drinks… but I wouldn’t be bringing them out. I’d already told my family and my family’s people that Azami-chan was coming to play today, so they’d already prepared the needed items and the programme. I didnt need to do anything now. All I could do was wait.

I wasted my time worrying until someone paid me a visit. That was probably Azami-chan. Momiji went out to meet them, but I stood at the entrance.

As I waited at the entrance, Azami-chan came with Momiji accompanying her. As expected, Azami-chan had been the one to pay me a visit. She said she wanted to enter my room today, so I led her to my room.

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No way Azami-chan would bury her face in my pillows, hug the duvet and roll around in my bed. That was something a guy would do when entering a girl’s bed or futon. But that was just a product of fantasy; I’d never see a guy do something like that in real life. I hadn’t heard of it at all. That was just a product of fantasies. That was why what was happening in front of me was a daydream…

“Lady Sakuya, if Tokudaiji-sama is feeling unwell, I shall look after her. I will guide you.”

“Oh~…”

Momiji even said something. Then Azami-chan quickly stopped. It looked like what had happened wasn’t a fantasy or delusion.

“Big sister Sakuya! Nothing happened! Please pretend like nothing had happened!”

“Umm…”

Azami-chan’s head slightly emerged from my futon as she said that. How to say this… her gestures and facial expressions were really cute. But what happened earlier was a little… well, maybe it was fine… Azami-chan was cute. And I liked Azami-chan. 

Azami-chan liked me too. There wasn’t any problem with it, right? I was fine if she had some weird habits.

“…”

“Huh? What? B-Big sister Sakuya?”

I didn’t know what to do, so I first laid down on the bed with Azami-chan. Azami-chan was wrapped up in the futon, so I didn’t have any, but… for now, let’s lie down together. Yep. This wasn’t bad.

“Let us remain in this position until you have calmed down.”

“Y-Yes! However, this will not calm me, but instead excite me further!”

Wasn’t Azami-chan acting too honest? Was it normal to say that it’d excite me more? Well, okay. If a guy said that, I’d hit him, but a cute girl was saying it. It wasn’t something to care about. And also…

The fact that Azami-chan was wrapped up in my futon now meant that I’d be sleeping in the futon that Azami-chan was wrapped up in tonight. Did she know that? Wrapping yourself in another person’s futon meant that said other person would be wrapping themselves up in the futon that you had wrapped yourself in earlier; maybe an er*tic, German philosopher said that. 

“What about it? Have you calmed down slightly?”

“Yes! I did not think my first goal would already be achieved!”

…what was her first goal? Was she actually planning to get in my bed and futon from the beginning? This development was a coincidence. She couldn’t have been aiming for that…

“I will be disturbing your bed again, so I shall exit now!”

Be disturbing your bed again… why did she want to get in my bed that much? Did she want to sleep in the same bed with me…?

“U-Umm… what shall we do now? Shall we converse?”

We both got out of the bed for now and I asked her that. It was great that Azami-chan had come over, but I didn’t know what to do.

“May I see your desk, big sister Sakuya?”

“Huh? Yes, go ahead?”

Why’d she want to see my desk… In this life, I didn’t have any p*rn lying around, so there was no problem if she saw… probably. …was this okay? I didn’t have anything weird lying around, right?

“As expected, there is nothing…”

“Huh?”

Nothing? I had writing implements and notebooks, though…?

“Huh? But this is…”

As she said that, Azami-chan found the small glass ball lying on my desk and touched it. That was part of the set that I’d bought with Satsuki-chan. That was the set we’d bought to remember the time when we’d escaped and went to the shopping mall.

“That is part of a set that I had bought with Satsuki-chan when we went shopping. It is not expensive, but both I and Satsuki-chan have one.”

“This is…”

“Azami-chan?”

Was Azami-chan listening to what I was saying or was she not? Azami-chan began grumbling for some reason.

“Saionji Satsuki… when I thought that you’d been acting weirdly, this was why… but now that I know why, it’s nothing…”

“Umm…?”

Azami-chan still hadn’t returned from her little trip even after a while. As I was still thinking of what to do…

“Big sister Sakuya! Let’s go buy a set together!”

“Huh!? Now?”

When I looked at Momiji, who was arranging the bed, she glared at us. A lot of things had happened lately, so Momiji got annoyed whenever I went out. I was at fault when I went out with Satsuki-chan, but it wasn’t my fault with Kaya-san, or so I thought… even so, Momiji was highly-strung, so we couldn’t go out right now.

“Yes! Let us exit right this moment! Let us go buy goods! Now! Immediately!”

“Wai-Wait…”

Azami-chan went up to me without hesitation and started dragging me. But I couldn’t do that. Momiji’s expression was turning terrifying. She looked like she absolutely wouldn’t permit it.

“Right now today is a little…”

“What about it? This is time that you are using to play with me, yes? Then, there shouldn’t be any issues, correct?”

I knew what Azami-chan was saying. Since we were playing together now, why not just go out to buy some small accesories? When you normally thought about it, that should’ve been okay, but I didn’t have any reason to say that we couldn’t go out.

It wasn’t late and I had money. We were playing now, so I couldn’t say that I had anything else to do. We had people accompanying us, so I couldn’t say something about kids walking around at night.

It was normal in the upper-class for kids to be wandering around at night. After school and tutoring ended, they’d probably go outside or attend a party they’d been invited to. There wasn’t something like “You have to get home before five” that normal kids had.

“I am sorry, but Lady Sakuya cannot go on night expeditions unless they have been previously arranged. Please schedule the excursion on another day.”

“Momiji…”

“…”

As expected, Momiji was still angry. Mom hadn’t said anything like that. But since Momiji said that, I now had that rule. I didn’t know if Momiji was inventing that right now, or if my mom had told her to do that before, but… Anyhow, it seemed that I couldn’t go out at night on my own volition.

“Is that so? Understood. Then, big sister Sakuya, would you like to go and buy things with me? When are you available? Tomorrow, perhaps? The day after tomorrow?”

“No, um…”

It’d be better to go out now than tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. We had to make all the preparations for going out to buy things once again tomorrow, and I had to get mom’s permission again, so it was easier to go out now.

“At this moment, Lady Sakuya is spending all her time in idle amusement. I am afraid that she will not be able to take that time as she has to make up for the delay.”

“Doesn’t easily saying the failures of your mistress disqualify you as a maid? Big sister Sakuya, do you not think it would be better to change the maid you have accompanying you to someone else?”

Uwah… there were antagonistic sparks between Azami-chan and Momiji now… Please forgive me… I didn’t care why there were sparks flying here and there, but I didn’t know what to do when two girls were fighting.

If I left them alone, it might become troublesome, but I couldn’t take the middle ground. What on earth should I do…

“Then, big sister Sakuya, would you like to use one afternoon of your summer break to go shopping? That should be alright, yes? Let us then buy a set at that time?

“Y-Yes, let us do that…”

Since she’d said that much, I couldn’t refuse. In the first place, I didn’t have any reason to refuse. The only problem was if I had a day when I could do it.

“That should be fine, yes? Momiji-san?”

“…if Lady Sakuya is available, then there is no issue. However, it is not my business as to whether the lady of the house will permit her wasting her time playing, so I cannot answer.”

Understood… that was a good reply. She didn’t say anything bad here and instead left the decision to my mom… even though Azami-chan could talk overbearingly when against Momiji, she couldn’t do that with my mom.

“Kuh!”

When Momiji brought up my mom, Azami-chan flinched just a little, but she immediately fixed her expression. I really respected Azami-chan with these kinds of things; she had courage and judgement that you wouldn’t assume a first-grader would have.

“Understood. I will then mention it to her.”

“Oh! Azami-chan…”

Saying that, Azami-chan headed to where my mom was with Momiji leading her. I stared blankly and was the only one left behind in the room. What was this…

Even so, the shrewd Azami-chan managed to secure permission from my mom, and Azami-chan and I were now going out to buy things over summer break. They’d decided something for me while I wasn’t even there.

Well, Momiji had checked my schedule and they picked a day where I was free, but still, making a decision and leaving behind the actual person you were deciding for…

Then, Azami-chan returned home satisfied. At the dining table on that day…

“Tokudaiji Azami has promise. The ability to clearly say what she wants when in front of me… I did not have good feeling towards her because the previous incident, but I feel as though I have understood why you wished to keep relations with this girl named Azami despite that, Sakuya.”

“Is that so…”

My mom seemed to have gained some interest in Azami-chan. It looked like she was prejudiced towards Azami for her connection to the previous incident at the party, but she was only talking about Azami-chan during today’s dinner. Azami-chan was also pretty amazing to be able to spark my mom’s interest like that.

“You may go and buy goods, but do not waste your money, okay?”

“Yes.”

My mom said the same thing again. I remembered hearing this line in my past life too; I felt like she wasn’t that different from a normal parent.

Anyway, it had been decided that I was to go shopping with Azami-chan during summer break. I’d skilfully rejected the Konoe family’s invitation, we had a family trip, and I was going to go out with Azami-chan; it looked like summer break was going to be fun.