I could only stare in disbelief at the person who suddenly showed up. Yumi-san was standing there, next to the door to the stairs. She looked..... surprised, to say the least. It's probably because of the fact that I'm currently right above a nearly-naked girl looking..... suspicious. Haaahhh..... I'm gonna make an educated guess and say that she came here looking for me, right? It's so obvious. Ugh, I should have seen this coming, then! Right after Musubi-san asked me to spend lunch break with her, I should have told her that I won't be at the cafeteria today! If I had done that, she wouldn't try to find me! Okay, I know that we're not in an official relationship, but I still spent two weeks doing..... 'stuff' with

"Taidama......." I spoke in a long, drawled-out tone as I opened the door to my home, walked inside, and closed it while taking off my shoes. I expected to hear my sister's or even my mother's voice to welcome me home, but what I got wasn't either of those. "Tenko! Welcome home, son!" I turned to the couch, where I saw a man sitting with his right leg crossed over the other. "Otou-san?" My father, Sawaru Yusei (触る優誠), waved his hand lazily in my direction while giving me a big grin. On the other hand, I only stared at him in surprise, my tired eyes widening for a brief moment in response to seeing him here. Last Updated : 2022-04-20

Things were quiet between me and Hori-san while we worked on the books we had, as I wrote down everything that was about the Edo period and read them along the way.By the time I was done with a third book, I snuck a glance at Hori-san. I was a bit surprised to see that she had already finished reading through a sixth one, leaving only two books still untouched.I felt a bit embarrassed that she finished way more stuff than me, but this is what she's good at so I shouldn't be surprised.Anyway, I figured we're going to be done here soon so maybe I can talk to her for a bit? It wouldn't hurt to get to know her better, right?I mean, Hori-san is already treating me as a friend, unless I'm an idiot by mistaking her actions for something else."Do you spend most of your time here?"Hori-san looked up from the book that she was reading and stared at me for a few moments, a confused look appearing on her face.I was certain that she didn't know what I meant by those words so I was going to