Episode 70 – This dump is a trap!!!

When I woke up in the morning, there was no way that Mia san would be …… in front of me (because I slept on the couch), and she woke up so late that I had to go out of my way to wake her up.
I had trouble keeping my eyes open because her clothing was somewhat disheveled, but I got over that with a spirit of steel.
I don’t know if I was just getting used to it or if I was just a little less excited because it was morning, but I want to praise the fact that it wasn’t that hard.
I am growing up. Definitely my tolerance for blondes is getting stronger.

So today was breakfast with Mia san.
I have rarely had breakfast with other people since I became a college student, so it was a bit of a breath of fresh air.
Mia san bites into her toast with a vacant eyes, as if her brain has not yet fully awakened.

“Um, Mia san,…….what about your job?”
“Hmmm?”
“It’s already 8:00 in the morning….. have you heard from your manager?”
“Hmmm”

This is no good. She is completely sleepwalking.
She’s still a bit sleepy and bouncy in some places.

I mean, I wonder if the manager is not a bit too carefree?
Just letting such a beautiful girl stay at a man’s house would normally not be approved, but she didn’t hear from her until the morning.

“People in the U.S. must be fast-paced, I’m sure they are”
“Hmmm”

I leave Mia san, who is completely sleepwalking, alone and get myself some breakfast.
Because today is today and I have plans too.

In fact, I had a meeting with Harushita san today to discuss the next song.

It is not that Harushita san is the only one who is special I have plans to have meetings with Mirei, Kotoha, and also with Azusa.
It’s indeed time to get serious about composing music.

Well, I still had some time before my appointment, and I wasn’t in any particular hurry, but just as I was thinking …….

What was the brutal sound of a ding dong.

“Eh………..?”

There should have been no plans for someone to come this early in the morning.
It is not yet time for the courier to arrive.

A chime rings, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

“Rin, it’s ringing.”

And there is one person in front of me who has no sense of crisis at all, and yet is leading the situation into crisis.

“Not that!!! Go hide somewhere else!”

The way I forced Mia san, who still doesn’t know what’s going on, to come to my room and say …… is out of order!
For now, I hide her in my room and hurry to the front door.
Visitors are impatient or ringing unusually often.

“Yees! Yess! I’m coming!”

At any rate, I open the door at the very least, keeping in mind not to let them in the house, even by accident.
I’m trying to make the inside of the house as invisible as possible, of course.

As the door slowly unfolded, a familiar face appeared from below.

“Senpai! Good morning!”
“It’s you….”
“Eh, aren’t you being rude!? You’re obviously in a bad mood!”

There was Azusa, her cheeks puffed out.
The morning was 100 percent full of energy.

“What is it, it’s early in the morning.”
“It’s already 8:30! Isn’t it too late to get up?”
“I was up an hour ago myself.”

For the time being, I was watching to see what the other party would say, and thinking of excuses not to let her into my house in case of all kinds of situations.
If she asked me to eat breakfast with her, I already did.

It would be something like this. Yes, it’s perfectly correct.

But then I realized a fact.

–Mia’s heels are left at the front door!!!

There is indeed no excuse for this.

If I said that Kotoha forgot something, I bet that would be interrogated as to when that woman got here, and as expected, we would not be business partners when I said that I wear them as a hobby.

Fortunately, the location is still just barely a blind spot from Azusa.
As long as I don’t open the door any more strangely, I’ll be fine.

Okay, perfect.

“…… senpai, you’re sweating?”
“Oh, yeah? Well, it’s hot. It’s a hot day.”
“It’s February though”
“Haha, for me, it’s hot and humid all year round. Always summer, huh! Ha-ha-ha.”
“………”

She gave me the eye. No, that’s right. I’m a better liar than that.

“S-S-So, what can I do for you?”

When I asked her why she had come, Azusa’s clouded face cleared up and she answered.

“No, I was going to take out the trash, and I was wondering if you’d like to join me!”

On the right hand side, combustible garbage. It was packed inside.

“Oh, yeah, okay.”

Apparently, she doesn’t even ask to be let into the house.
At least for the moment, I am relieved and indicate my understanding to Azusa.

The garbage area of the apartment is outside the apartment. It is not inside the house by mistake.

“Yeah, I was just getting full of trash too, so it was just as well. Just give me a minute.”
“Roger that!”

I watch Azusa salute me, then lock the door to the house before going to get the garbage bags.
It’s a measure to prevent Azusa from opening the door in case she does.

I am just somewhat anxious, so I don’t waste any time and immediately go to get the garbage bag.

I just checked on Mia san in her room, but she was sleeping peacefully on the bed again, so I guess she is fine. All I had to do was wake her up again.

“Hey, thanks for waiting.”

“I’m totally fine!”

I Go outside while matching the heels of our shoes.
Azusa was politely waiting right by the door.

“Well, let’s go.”
“Yes !”

I was accompanied by Azusa there, and I was completely caught off guard and did not hang the door of the house. I thought it would be all right because I would be back soon.
Azusa, who had been checking her cell phone, finishes typing her message and puts the phone away, and the two of us head for the elevator.

As the two of us were getting off the elevator, which had mirrors in vain, Azusa broached the subject.

“By the way senpai, I heard that Mia Brooks came to Japan.”
“Buhaa!!!………..Aaah is that so?”

I couldn’t help but raise my voice at the sudden mention of Mia san’s name, but it was as close as I could get to fooling around.

I can’t help but feel that Azusa’s mentioning Mia san’s name at this point in time has a deeper meaning, but that’s just me being overly conscious of it.
There is no way Azusa would know that Mia san is at my house, and Mia san is a very timely topic in Japan right now. It would be of no particular significance.

“Senpai, What kind of person do you think Mia san is?”
“What is it, so suddenly?”
“Welll”

Hmmm, what kind of person is she?
Someone who has the audacity to walk into the bathroom, but is surprisingly new to the world.. but that might be too specific!!

“Well, she’s beautiful, isn’t she? I don’t know, I’ve never met her.”

I said something bland for now and then lied.
I should not have had to tell a lie, but somehow I wanted to appeal to her innocence. I really don’t know why.

“So, why all of a sudden you’re talking about it?”

I ask her while taking out the trash for me and Azusa.
The elevator was still on the first floor when we returned, as no one else seemed to use it.

“Hmm. Well, yeah.”

When the elevator stopped at the floor where my room was located, Azusa followed behind me for some reason.
Huh? Azusa’s room was one floor above mine, right?

“Well, simply put, it’s an affair investigation.”

I suddenly noticed Azusa’s mysterious look on her face.

This trash outing is a trap!!.

I run to my room, talking to myself in my mind about something I’ll never be able to put into words.
It was not a sprint, but an all-out dash.

“Mia san!!”

There is one pair of women’s shoes in the foyer that I don’t know.
With the white sandals, I’m down to two candidates in my mind.

Kotoha or …….

I toss my shoes into place and hurry to my room.
I could see that Azusa was following behind me, but as she was coming slowly, I thought I might be running out of time.

Still driven by impatience, I open the door to my room.

“Aah….”

Mia san was there, of course.
But her eyes were already popping open and she was already staring at the other woman.

On the other hand, the woman on the staring end looks a little surprised.
At least she didn’t even react to my opening the door, her eyes were glued to Mia san’s.

“Oh, Rin. Welcome home.”
“Well, you see, ……, there’s a reason for this. ……”

Mia san called out to me, but I brushed it off and started making excuses to the other woman.

That’s when the woman on that side finally notices my presence.

“Good morning, Nagishiro san.”

There she was, still in her white coat, Harushita san.