The girl who had been sleeping quietly raised a small voice.
Looking at it, her jade green eyes were dimly open.
She looked as if she was still in a dreamy state of delirium.
“Are you awake, Arisa.?”
“…es.”
Arisa rubbed her eyes sleepily and slowly raised her torso.
She stared at Yuzuru with a dazed gaze.
“Arisa, are you okay?”
“Mm… Why is Yuzuru-san…?”
She mumbled something like that in her sleep.
And the next moment.
“Yu-yuzuru-san!? Why?”
Arisa backed away in a panic.
She was confused and didn’t realize that she would fall off the bed if she moved back.
“Arisa.”
“Fu~e? Hi~ya”
Yuzuru hurriedly grabbed Arisa’s arm and pulled her body forcefully.
As a result, Arisa was able to avoid falling off the bed, but she had to leave her body in Yuzuru’s hands.
“Wh, why…”
“Calm down. This is my room. …You fell asleep in the middle of your massage.”
“…eh?”
When Arisa heard Yuzuru’s words, she made a peculiar sound.
She then scampered around … and finally realized that this was not her own room.
Her face instantly turned beet red.
“This is… I’m sorry for the inconvenience.”
She shivered.
Seeing Arisa like that …Yuzuru was a little relieved.
(Thank God …she was asleep after all.)
After Arisa had fallen asleep,
Yuzuru, who was overtaken by evil, did various kinds of mischief to Arisa.
He was aware that he had done something rather akin to sexual harassment, something that could not be excused if he were to be caught in the act.
At that time, he had such a light-hearted feeling that Arisa would forgive him, but when he thought about it, it was an act that he could be hated for.
… He didn’t want Arisa to hate him.
“Well… no wonder. You must have been tired.”
Yuzuru said something plausible to cover it up.
Then Arisa asked him,
“What time is it?”
“It’s… just before five o’clock in the afternoon.”
To be exact, it was 4:45.
Just in time to start preparing dinner.
“Is it that late? I’m sorry… Shall I make you dinner?”
“…Well, it would be nice to be able to have dinner with you.”
Today is a weekday.
It’s not a good idea to keep Arisa around for too long. …Above all, she should be tired from the marathon today.
“If it’s okay with you, why don’t we eat outside?”
Yuzuru suggested.
That’s how Yuzuru and Arisa went to a famous high-class French restaurant… Not. Instead, they went to a famous family restaurant chain in the neighborhood.
With Yuzuru needing a lot of money, and Arisa having a limited amount of spending money, their options were inevitably limited.
When they finished ordering food for both parties…
Yuzuru asked Arisa, who looked strangely fidgety from earlier.
“… Is there something you want to ask me?”
After all, could it be that she was awake at that time?
Such anxious thoughts passed through Yuzuru’s mind.
However, when Yuzuru asked, Arisa’s jade green eyes slightly turned away, and her white skin was dyed rose-color… and she asked reservedly.
“Etto, when I was asleep…”
“…Yeah?”
Thump, thump, thump.
Perhaps from nervousness and fear, Yuzuru’s heart thumped violently.
No way. Did she notice it?
“Y-you know… did you notice anything unusual when I was sleeping …?”
It was an odd question, to say the least.
Just what would happen differently while Arisa was asleep? Normally, nothing would happen, or you would think so.
That’s why one doesn’t ask such questions.
But since she was asking as such, she thought that something unusual had occured.
In other words…
It was equivalent to asking, ‘While I was asleep, did you do anything? ‘
(…Let’s calm down.)
Arisa had been awake at that moment and had noticed his prank.