CH 62

Supporting High School Student Talks to his Manager

I entered the changing room and changed out of the yukata. I had a hard time putting the yukata on earlier since I was struggling with the obi but it took less than five minutes for me to take it off.

That being said, when I tried wearing it I clearly realized the difference between yukata and casual clothes. Just like Ichinose-san said, it doesn’t look like anyone can run well in one.

But well, if we wear it to a festival then we really don’t have any reason to run. Besides, yukatas are fashionable not to mention that they would suit the festival atmosphere better, especially for a firework show.

“Ahh…..so hot…….I want to stay in a fridge…..I don’t even want to swim but I want to go to the pool……”

“Ara, Kousei-kun is surprisingly lazy aren’t you.”

When I left the changing room and waited for Suzuka, my manager came to talk to me

Perhaps due to the thick clouds covering the sky, the air is particularly humid and damp today. Feeling the heat of summer, I couldn’t help but wants to laze around lazily.

Besides, with the sudden message that the shooting schedule was moved up, I ran all the way here in a hurry today. With the fatigue from that, the heat finally caught up to me.

“Don’t you think that it’s getting hotter and hotter lately? I heard on the TV that the temperature today is recorded high you know.”

“Well, it’s certainly getting hotter but the thing that TV and newspaper showed was only the record from the last 100 years right? I think that they are just exaggerating it though.”

Well, you would get no one’s attention if your headline isn’t catchy enough after all. Still, there are indeed some news outlets that intentionally cut out some information or made the news interpretable in a certain way.

“But isn’t the heat kept rising because of global warming? Well, from what I learned, it seems that the heat is accumulating more because of the greenhouse gases though.”

“Hmmm……I’m no expert so I don’t really know much but you get those greenhouse gasses from burning oil right?”

“Well, generally. I usually heard that the world is heating up because of the widespread use of underground resources.”

“Right. But since those underground resources were originally plants and animals that lived on earth a long time ago, maybe global warming is just a process the world goes through to revert itself back to how it originally was?”

“Sure……wait, I wasn’t planning to have such a difficult conversation. Can I ask for my shooting schedule? I can’t make a plan with my friends if I don’t get that settled so–.”

It is not even an exaggeration to say that I came here today to ask that question. Ichinose-san already posted her club schedule on the group chat so everyone is waiting for me.

That’s why I want to quickly settle my schedule so that I can organize my days off including my schedule for Obon.

“Well, generally you would have a shoot every weekend…..ah, you are going out to play? Kousei-kun……are you going with the girl you told me about before? You know, the one who found out your secret.”

“Well, I’m planning to go out with 3 friends including that girl.”

“Ara, is that so…..”

Manager-san said in a slightly teasing tone.

Still, I never thought there would be a day when someone would tease me about this.

They were making plans by themselves before I knew it and I do feel like I am being swept away by their pace but it’s true that I am looking forward to going out to play with them.

I often have to work during summer vacation and when the vacation is almost over, Masato would come crying to me because he couldn’t finish his homework after all.

“You don’t have to come in on festival days okay. Well, there’s no work on those days from the beginning but I will make sure that your schedules are open on those days so don’t worry.”

“Thank you very much. That’d be helpful.”

After I replied, Manager-san suddenly said something as though he just remembered.

“Ah, that’s right. About your next shoot. It’s been changed to an outdoor shoot, you know.”

“Two outdoor shoots in a row is it. That’s rare. I will keep it in mind.”

“I will send you the details later okay……..also, this might not be that important but the next shoot will take place next to the pool behind the mall. Why don’t you go there with Asuka-chan afterward?”

“Eh, with Suzuka?……I don’t mind but won’t it be awkward between us to see each other in swimsuits? We do work as models together but won’t it be weird for us to visit the pool together like that……?”

Eihashi-san and Ichinose-san were saying that they have to take a raincheck on the pool. If that’s the case then I think that Suzuka would feel the same way as well.

“Seiya, thanks for waiting! Manager-san, here’s the yukata…….eh, what are you two talking about looking so serious?”

Suzuka just finished changing and came out of the changing room. She looks puzzled at me and Manager-san.

“At first, I was only complaining about the heat and somehow it turned into a talk about global warming, right now we are talking about the next shoot though.”

“Next shoot?…….you mean tomorrow?”

“No, Suzuka is shooting alone tomorrow right? This one is about next Thursday.”

“Hmm, wait a minute okay.”

Saying so, Suzuka takes out her schedule book and flips through the pages. I can’t help but get impressed that she has one.

“Ahh, the one with this season’s outfits at the studio right?”

“That’s the one. But the location was changed to a place behind the mall. So, since there’s a pool just next door, I was talking with Kousei-kun that he should bring Asuka-chan there, you see.”

“FumuFumu, go to the pool with Seiya…..eh……EHH!? PU PU, POOL!?”