Chapter 328: Sobering Up
“Mmm…”
In the guest room of the Hamano house, the sleeping young girl slowly opened her eyes. The strange dizzy feeling gradually faded, replaced by a special feeling unlike any sleep she had before, as if she had slept a good night’s sleep after a long time.
“Huh?!”
As her consciousness slowly awoke from her dream, Kazumi, who had fully recovered her senses, was startled to find that the ceiling in front of her seemed different from the worn wooden planks in her bedroom.
She abruptly sat up from the bed, and what greeted her sight was a room layout like a high-class hotel, completely different from the bedroom in her memory.
“Hiss— What’s going on?”
The sudden movement brought back some of the fading dizziness, but the girl didn’t have time to care about that now and began to try to recall what exactly she had gone through.
[Last night… ate a late-night snack with Shinichi… then drank some fruit beer…]
“What?!?!”
“I’m drunk?!?!”
A terrifying conclusion became clearer as the young girl thought, it seems she was really black-out drunk yesterday?
[Kazumi, are you a paper person??! A normal person wouldn’t get black-out drunk from drinking fruit beer!]
Complaints grew in her heart like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, this setting was a bit too ridiculous.
You know, in her past life, Kazumi used to drink a small cup of white wine before bed to spice things up, but after coming here, she was taken down by a single can of fruit beer?
No, it should be half a can, with the other half poured into Sato Shinichi’s cup.
Holding her hair with a slight Headache, no matter how much Kazumi denied it, her current reaction seemed to be the same as her previous state of being black-out drunk after a hangover.
She had only wanted to drink a little to relax because she had experienced a life-or-death crisis before, but she got drunk before she even started drinking?
“No, no, now is not the time to think about this, how did I get here?”
She reached out and patted her cheeks, perhaps due to the alcohol, Kazumi’s mind was still a little messy, and she forced herself to keep thinking by patting her cheeks.
“So, Shinichi must have brought me here, how thoughtful of him, to book such a high-class hotel for the first time.”
“Like hell he did!!!”
At this moment, the young girl realized the seriousness of the situation. She seemed to have gotten drunk while eating a late-night snack with her boyfriend, and he had clearly not taken her home but to a hotel, so her intentions could be imagined.
Without bothering to carefully observe her surroundings, the girl threw off the blanket and checked her clothing.
Although Kazumi had gradually adapted to her female identity after being in this world for so long, this adaptation clearly did not include having her first time taken away by a man in such a dazed state.
Even Sato Shinichi couldn’t do that!!
For now.
“Phew— The clothes are intact, and there are no signs of my underwear having been touched, so nothing should have happened.”
The result of the inspection made the girl breathe a long sigh of relief. On one hand, she was relieved that her virginity had not been taken away in a confused state, and on the other hand, it proved that she had not misjudged the boy’s character.
“What does it have to do with me whether I judged him correctly or not!! He just has the desire but not the courage! Otherwise, why didn’t he send me home and bring me here.”
Hugging her arms, she confronted the strange thoughts that popped into her mind. The girl, who couldn’t hold her liquor and still insisted on drinking, unreasonably shifted the blame onto her innocent boyfriend.
“Kazumi.”
“Ah!!”
The sudden cry in her ear made the young girl, who was sitting upright and muttering, jump up in shock. The pillow beside her was thrown unhesitatingly towards the direction of the sound.
And when the girl shifted her gaze back, she saw a familiar figure with a pillow smeared on their face.
“Shinichi?”
The boy didn’t seem to mind her actions. He pushed the pillow back onto the bed with his head and walked to Kazumi’s bedside with a small bowl in his hand.
“Yes, how did you sleep yesterday?”
“Wait! You… don’t come over yet! What are you going to do!”
The boy’s approach made the girl panic a little. She had just been thinking about his intentions for bringing her to the hotel, and now he had appeared so directly.
She retreated to the corner of the bed in a flustered state. Although it was broad daylight and nothing was likely to happen, the current environment still made the girl’s thoughts turn strange.
“Okay, okay, I won’t move. Come and drink this.”
Seeing the girl’s highly reactive behavior, a trace of helplessness appeared on the boy’s face, but he still sat down on the small chair beside the bed and placed the small bowl in his hand on the table nearby them.
“What is this?”
“Hangover soup, specially made by Aunt Mieko. Emm, it should help, I guess.”
Sato Shinichi pondered for a moment and then handed over the hangover soup he was holding. Although the fruit beer yesterday had almost no alcohol content, judging by the girl’s reaction, she must have been drunk.
“Huh?”
Staring at the bowl of yellowish soup handed to her by the boy, the girl hesitated for a moment but still brought it to her lips and drank it down.
A faint aroma mixed with the sweet taste of vegetables exploded in her mouth, making her feel much better. Kazumi put down the small bowl in her hand and looked up at the boy who was smiling at her.
“Shinichi, where is this? Yesterday I…”
“This is my guest room. You were drunk yesterday, so I brought you back.”
Sato Shinichi nodded in response.
“Your house?? Then why didn’t you send me home?”
The boy’s answer initially relieved Kazumi, but she quickly became vigilant again. Although it wasn’t a love hotel, bringing her to his house could be considered very dangerous in a way.
“Because… when I took you to your doorstep, you said you didn’t have your keys.”
Sato Shinichi scratched the back of his head with a hint of embarrassment. After all, in his opinion, bringing her back to his house without her consent was quite inappropriate.
“Keys? That’s not right?”
She tilted her head in confusion and reached into the small pocket of her skirt, only to find it empty.
“Yeah, and you were talking nonsense about putting them in a coffin.”
“Kazumi, you can’t drink casually in the future, especially not when I’m not around, it’s very dangerous.”
“Mmm… okay…”
She nodded stiffly. Upon hearing the boy mention the word “coffin,” the girl froze for a moment but then forced herself to relax, plastering an awkward smile on her face and responding awkwardly.
“Alright, I’ll go out first. You go wash up, and we’ll go down for breakfast together.”
Seeing his girlfriend obediently nod, Sato Shinichi, being considerate, prepared to leave. Although he wanted to be more intimate with his girlfriend, the boy also knew that his girlfriend was particularly unwilling to meet anyone in the morning before washing up and dressing up. He gently reminded her a few times and turned to leave.
Only the young girl remained in the room, sitting on the bed with her brows furrowed tighter and tighter as she looked sternly at the carpet in front of her.
[What exactly did I say yesterday?]
