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Chapter 292: Yuki Onna

"This is the room for you two." Shirley stopped, then inclined her body slightly to introduce it to them.

Shinomiya Kaguya removed the snow goggles from her face and asked, "Is there only this one room?"

"Aren't you two lovers?" Shirley tilted her head, her delicate face full of doubt.

"No." Sakurai Saki shook his head.

"That's great then… ahem, I'll prepare two rooms for you."

Sakurai Saki disagreed: "No need to bother, we can stay in one room."

Shinomiya Kaguya was about to say something, but when she saw Sakurai Saki's eyes, she let it go.

"This is the room key. I'll bring dinner up in a moment, please wait a bit. Payment can be settled when you leave tomorrow." After speaking, Shirley bowed slightly and very politely left the hallway.

Sakurai Saki held the key, opened the door in front of them, and stepped inside. The place was very clean: one bed, a private bathroom, plus a wide table and a sofa.

He closed the door.

Shinomiya Kaguya asked the question she had wanted to ask earlier.

"Sakurai-san, why only one room?"

"Because I like you, and I'm planning to do some unspeakable things to you."

"Even at a time like this you're still joking, really…" Shinomiya Kaguya said in annoyance.

Hmph, I won't bother with you anymore.

Kaguya removed her ski clothes, revealing an elegant body line; aside from one slightly regretful spot, her figure was quite beautiful.

After taking them off, she casually placed the skis on the empty floor.

Sakurai Saki did the same.

After finishing with their equipment,

Sakurai Saki took out his phone—there was signal here.

Opening LINE, sure enough, there were already hundreds of messages.

Hayasaka Ai the most, followed by Shirogane Miyuki.

He replied, saying that he and Kaguya had found a ryokan and told them not to worry. To prove he wasn't lying, Sakurai Saki took a photo and sent it to his girlfriend.

He set the phone down.

Looking at Kaguya sitting on the bed, Sakurai Saki explained the reason he had done that earlier:

"In weather and circumstances like this, I think it's safer for two people to stay together."

"Sakurai-san, are you afraid of ghosts? Yesterday during the courage test you were screaming all over the place, I even saw you with shaky legs hiding behind Hayasaka—so embarrassing." Kaguya teased.

"..." Sakurai Saki said nothing.

Seeing him silent, Shinomiya Kaguya secretly praised her own deduction.

So that really was the reason?

Indeed, with someone as timid as Sakurai-san, faced with a snowstorm like this and a lonely ryokan, of course he'd be scared.

Hehe, really don't know what to do with him~.

"... If you don't want to, we can ask that receptionist girl to open another room." Sakurai Saki thought that way it would be harder to protect her, but if Kaguya really didn't want to, he would still respect her choice path of courting death.

If not, then later he'd call Shiro to stand guard in her room— that ghost brat really should do some work for 'Sakurai Company,' instead of eating off the boss and living in the boss's body without working. What kind of thing is that?

"It's fine. Just staying with you one night, I won't mind."

"Man and woman together, sleeping under one blanket, are you sure you can accept that?" Sakurai Saki had never taken advantage of someone in a difficult situation.

"Sharing one blanket?"

"It's winter now, and there's no heater here. Do you expect me to sleep on the sofa?"

"Uh…" With his reminder, Shinomiya Kaguya realized the oversight.

Wait a second, why is he saying these things to me? In the end does he want to sleep with me or not? Boys are really strange, and Sakurai-san is even stranger!

"Of course not."

Making someone sleep on the sofa in winter—isn't that murder?

Outside the temperature was probably near minus twenty degrees, and even inside the room it wasn't much warmer.

But for a ryokan not to have heating was indeed strange. Clearly there were many electrical appliances, yet only the heating was missing.

"It's good that you agree."

"Sakurai-san, could it be that what you said earlier wasn't a lie?" Shinomiya Kaguya suddenly seemed to realize.

"If I really intended to do something to you, would you resist?"

"Of course, you idiot." Shinomiya Kaguya said irritably.

Even if she liked the other party a little, they had barely even held hands a few times, and already moving on to the letter C in the ABC of love—that was way too fast.

Moreover, Kaguya basically didn't understand those things at all; the sexual knowledge she knew was mainly from words, while images and films were almost nonexistent.

The textbook that Hayasaka Ai had once given her was also quite simple, only a bit more daring than the classical literature Kaguya had read.

In short, Shinomiya Kaguya was still not mentally prepared.

"Then that's fine. This kind of thing, if one side doesn't agree, there won't be a good experience anyway." Sakurai Saki sat down on the sofa.

Around them was warm amber light; the atmosphere wasn't bad, carrying a strange tranquility. Outside, the wind and snow continued with no sign of stopping.

Listening to the sound of the snowstorm, the night would probably be very peaceful for sleeping.

Sakurai Saki felt this sound was very similar to rain, and he liked sleeping when it rained.

After hearing his words, Shinomiya Kaguya let out a breath of relief.

Sakurai Saki said he wouldn't touch her, and Kaguya felt much more at ease.

A few minutes later.

"Dear guest~ the meal is ready."

Outside the door, Shirley knocked.

Sakurai Saki went to the door and opened it, then saw the girl in a kimono with hair as white as snow.

"Thank you."

He took the food tray and placed it on the small table.

"Dear guest, please enjoy your meal. I will come to collect the dishes in half an hour." Shirley bowed and left.

After that, the two finished their meal.

At eight in the evening, Sakurai Saki prepared to go to the hot spring bath. Although there was a private bathroom in the room, bathing in front of Kaguya was, honestly, a bit embarrassing.

After leaving Shiro to protect her, Sakurai Saki left the room and walked into the hallway.

Coincidentally, on the way he met Shirley.

"Dear guest, are you going to the hot spring?"

"Umu." Sakurai Saki nodded.

Shirley said happily: "Let me guide you, please."

"Thank you." Sakurai Saki felt that if this ryokan had any problems, the greatest danger was exactly this girl in front of him.

Taking her along should make Kaguya a bit safer.

The two walked toward the entrance of the ryokan; at the door they turned and entered a lounge. From behind the curtain marked male and female, steam from the hot spring continuously wafted out.

"These are clothes to change into, all clean. Later you can change into them." Shirley took out a set of warm clothes from the nearby cabinet.

Sakurai Saki nodded, accepting the clothes she handed over.

The service here was really very good.

...

The hot spring of this ryokan was not outdoors, but the water source surely came from a natural underground spring. Sitting on a wooden stool, Sakurai Saki scooped a basin of hot water and poured it over himself; the pleasant temperature made him slowly close his eyes.

Until footsteps sounded behind him, he opened his eyes.

Turning his head, Shirley, who earlier was dressed, was now wrapped only in a thin bath towel; her fair pink skin faintly visible through the rising hot-spring mist made it hard to see clearly.

"Dear guest, let me help you scrub your back." Shirley slowly approached, her delicate face full of shy charm.

"Umu."

Sakurai Saki had no big reaction.

Until her soft white body pressed close, Sakurai finally felt something, but his willpower was strong and he didn't show any abnormality.

Halfway through scrubbing, Sakurai Saki turned to look at her and asked:

"Shirley-san, you're not human, right?"

"Dear guest, you discovered it?" Shirley covered her chest.

Sure enough, she still wasn't good at seducing men.

"Living on the snowy mountain, are you a Yuki-onna?"

"Mm~ dear guest, could you not look there?" Shirley lowered her head, her snow-white skin and flushed face clearly seen by Sakurai Saki.

"Why are you doing this to me?"

"…A Yuki-onna cannot bear children herself, she needs to borrow the seed of human men."

Sakurai Saki turned his head away, not looking at her anymore, then picked up the wooden basin beside him and poured the hot water over himself.

Then he stood up and stepped toward the hot spring.

"Even if you have such a reason, don't casually entrust your whole life to just any man, or you'll regret it."

"Mm..."

Shirley looked at his back, slightly dazed.

As expected of the son of Lady Duckweed, truly gentle.

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