CH 5

TL: Kanenashi

ED: SevenTails

“So, without further ado… the bath should be ready by now, so please go ahead. I’ve also laid out the bath salts, so you can use whichever you like.”

“Oh, bath salts?”

“Have you ever used them before?”

Even when I was living with my family, I wasn’t interested in such things, while when I started living alone, I couldn’t afford to buy them.

In fact, I don’t think I had ever soaked in a bathtub before.

“I guess I’d better explain then.”

I walked after Tojo-san, who wanted me to follow her and headed towards the bathroom.

As I walked into the changing room, she showed me the numerous small bags on the sink.

They all came in colourful packages with names written in English.

At a quick glance, it seemed that many of them were names of flowers.

“I’ve got the standard ones like rose and lavender, but…”

“Well, I’m really not familiar with this kind of stuff… Which one do you often use, Tojo-san?”

“You want to use the same scent as me?”

Tojo-san’s tension instantly rose.

I was almost pressured by the atmosphere again, but I nodded my head while I looked away because I didn’t mind if it was taken that way.

In fact, I thought it would be better if it were something that someone else knew so I wouldn’t make any mistakes.

“Then use this yuzu. It’s my favourite scent.” [EN: A citrus fruit.]

“Oh, thank you very much. I’ll take your word for it.”

I picked up the yuzu-scented bath salts and put my hands on my clothes as I was about to enter the bathroom, but,

“Um… Could you please leave the changing room?”

“Heh? You don’t want me to see you…?”

“Of course not! It’s embarrassing!”

“Don’t worry about it! We might become husband and wife someday!”

“We’re not married yet, so it’s not something for now!”

Tojo-san seemed to have finally relented after my strong rejection.

Her cheeks were puffed up, and she was quite unhappy, but she seemed to have given up and walked out of the dressing room. 

“Fu…”

Once I was alone, I finally took off my clothes.

I was sweating so much that the shirt I was wearing under my work clothes smelled slightly sweaty.

As I was leaving, she told me to put all these clothes in the washing machine, but to be honest, I didn’t feel comfortable. However, there was nothing else I could do.

“… It can’t be helped.”

I put my work clothes and shirt in the washing machine, feeling very sorry for myself.

I couldn’t leave these clothes dirty because I have to return them later.

I opened the bathroom door and stepped inside.

“Wide…” 

I couldn’t help but mutter to myself.

Compared to what I knew, the bath in this house was almost twice as big.

The bathtub was so big that two adults could fit in it, and for some reason, there was a monitor on the wall.

Curious, I pressed the button on the monitor, and it seemed to turn on and start playing the same TV program I had been watching.

(I didn’t know there was a TV in this place…)

Feeling strange, I sat down on the bath chair and started the shower.

The shower’s temperature, which was low at first, gradually became warm and soon reached the right temperature.

“Oh, wait.”

I was so amazed by the size of the bath that I almost forgot that I had to put in the bath salts.

With slightly wet hands, I broke the seal and poured the powder inside into the tub.

The water turned yellow with the sweet and sour scent of yuzu.

That was enough for the tub.

I went back to my chair and washed my head with shampoo.

After all, a shower after sweating is refreshing for both body and soul.

Just as I was about to reach for a towel to wash my body, the bathroom door slowly opened, and a pair of unblemished bare feet appeared.

I couldn’t help but raise my head at this point, and that was my biggest mistake.

My eyes met Tojo-san’s, who had only a towel wrapped around her body, and my mind went blank.

“Inamori-kun, will you let me wash your back?”

Her cheeks turned slightly red, and she slowly walked into the bathroom.

Although I said she just had a towel wrapped around her body, if you looked closely, you would notice that she was holding it with her hands, and it wasn’t tightly secured.

Perhaps because she was holding the towel around her chest, Tojo-san’s large b*****s, which were impossible to ignore, were almost spilling out.

In addition, the towel only covered her thighs a little. It was hard to find a place to look.

“W-What are you doing here!?”

“It’s okay! There’s nothing to be afraid of! I won’t hurt you in any way!”

“That’s not the point!”

“Don’t panic! You’ll make the towel fall off…”

“Ah, sorry.”

Tojo-san’s comment was a trap.

The moment I came back to myself and became quiet for a moment, she took advantage of the moment and moved behind me.

“The floor of the bathroom is slippery, so don’t flail about, okay?”

“B-but…”

“No ‘but’s. Don’t worry. I’ll make sure to not cross the line so you can relax.”

That’s not it, and I think we’ve already crossed the line at this point.

Before I could get her to somehow stop, Tojo-san dripped body soap on a towel to wash my body.

She lathered it up with her familiar hands and started rubbing my back with the towel.

“If it’s too rough, let me know.”

“Just right, though…”

For a while, the only sound in the bathroom was the scraping of the towel against my skin.

I wanted to say something, but the abnormality of the situation, having my back washed by the school’s idol, made me speechless. I wasn’t able to say anything.”

“Punyun~” Suddenly, I felt something soft on my back.

“Eh, HAA!?”

“What do you think? I’m confident in my size and softness.”

With her words, I realized what the object against my back was.

Although it was through a towel, there would be few things in the world that could match its softness.

It was a man’s dream.

A dream filled with desire, with two mountains that could drive one crazy.

The feeling was extremely clear. Even more so than when I touched it with my hand earlier. 

(This is br— No, the softness of br***sts?)

I’ve reached the truth of this world, and the horizons were expanding in my mind.

To be precise, though, I was just imagining the universe and escaping reality.

“If you marry me, you’ll be able to love me, right?”

“I thought you said… there was a trial period.”

“Yes, it is. I have to make you fall in love with me in this one month. So I’ll use whatever I can.”

Tojo-san’s voice was so earnest that it sent a chill down my back, as I had only been thinking about the immediate future.

—She’s serious.

She had more determination than I thought, and she wasn’t going to back down just because I refused her a little.

Tojo-san’s behaviour, which should have been unhealthy by any stretch of the imagination, suddenly seemed sincere.

No, perhaps I’m overstating the case when I say she looked sincere.

I think it’s just plain unhealthy.

“Fufu, it’s getting really hot, isn’t it? Is there steam, or is it my imagination?”

“Th…This is too much.”

“….You’re right. It’s out of the scope of the trial.”

The feeling on my back is fading away.

I was relieved, but at the same time, I realized that I was reluctant to part with it, and I wanted to punch myself in the face.

“I’ll wait outside this time, so please take your time to soak in the bathtub before leaving. Oh, I’ll borrow the shower for a bit at the end, okay?”

Tojo-san took a light shower to rinse off the bubbles on her body before leaving the bathroom.

I was left alone, holding my head in agony.

I’m not sure what to do… but I think there were no advantages to refusing.

“Uuuuu~!”

“Did he think I was a sl*t…? But I’ve read on the internet that this is the way to win men over… I’m embarrassed, but I’m trying! I am!”

Outside the bathroom, I had no way of knowing that Tojo-san was going through the same agony as I.