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Chapter 121 Part 2

When it came to tourism in the Chichibu region, a lot of them were stuff that you enjoyed in the midst of nature.

However, it was one thing on weekdays, but on weekends, where there were a crowd of people, if you put into consideration the worst-case scenario, the number of places men could go was limited.

As much as possible, you ought to choose places with good security.

And then, the forecast was for the weather to turn for the worse in the afternoon.

After meeting up with two support security personnel dispatched from the local branch, Yuu and the others first headed to Hodosan, which was nearby.

Hodosan was just under 500 meters above sea level, but the path to the mountaintop was steep, so Yuu and the others used the ropeway.

If it had been early spring, the plum orchard would have been in full bloom, but now, in early summer, it was completely covered in greenery.

Once you made it to the mountaintop, you could visit the shrine there.

It was a holiday, so as expected, there seemed to be quite a few visitors.

Many were groups of elderly people. It seemed that parent and child groups, in which the children were still small, preferred to go to the zoo, which was located some distance away.

It was to such an extent that a group surrounding a man like Yuu’s was a rarity.

「That’s right! Let’s go buy a charm.」

「Ah, we’re at a shrine, after all.」

Yuu, flanked by security personnel on all sides and Martina and Elena on his left and right, made his way to the sales office next to the main shrine.

Incidentally, today Yuu was casually dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, but he was also wearing the safari hat and sunglasses given to him by Riko and Eimi as a birthday present.

Even so, he could tell that they were attracting the attention of women, from the elderly to children, perhaps because they noticed that there was a young man in their group.

What Elena and Martina took the initiative to pick and hand over to Yuu was a charm to ward off evil spirits.

For Elena was a charm for success in entrance exams, and for Martina was a charm for domestic safety.

However, Yuu didn’t notice that there was a charm for safe delivery among the ones Elena had secretly picked.

After getting into their car at the parking lot, the place they visited next was the Chichibu Meisen Silk Center, which exhibited textiles and other valuable folklore materials.

「Wow, it’s so pretty!」

「Oh my, it sure is.」

Chichibu was surrounded by mountains and was not suitable for rice cultivation, so the sericulture industry flourished, and until the first half of Kobun (which corresponded to the Showa period that Yuu knew), when many Japanese people still wore kimono, a large number of kimonos were produced not only for formal occasions but also for everyday wear.

Therefore, it was said that sericulture and textiles were Chichibu’s key industries.

Inside, the dyeing and weaving processes were exhibited in an easy to see manner, and a variety of colorful textiles, from plain to flashy, were on display.

「It’s nice, but I don’t think it suits me…」

Although she was half-Japanese, Martina had a Latin appearance inherited from her mother and preferred to wear clothes in bright primary colors.

However, as far as Yuu was concerned, he remembered that in the 21st century, there were Japanese culture lovers of foreigners who wore kimonos, and they looked surprisingly good on them.

「That’s not true at all. I’m sure it would suit you, too, mom. Back at the inn, you also looked good in a yukata, after all. You have a good figure, so I think it would suit you well, mom.」

「Um, what about me?」

「Hmm, I think you’re too thin, big sis. You’re tall, so a Western-style dress would look good on you, but I’m not sure about a kimono. If anything, I feel like it would suit mom, who has a glamorous figure, better.」

「Is, is that so? It makes me so happy!」

「Omph?!」

Martina, with a radiant smile on her face, suddenly hugged Yuu.

Not only were her two ripe fruit-like breasts squishily pressed against him, but given that she was wearing a dress with a wide open chest area, her deep cleavage was inching closer right below his eyes.

The memory from last night, where he fondled them thoroughly and released his semen into her womb, came back to him vividly, and he felt like blood was gathering in his nether region.

「M, mom… I get it, so…」

Yuu, who not only felt like he was going to get an erection, but also noticed that they were attracting attention from everyone around them, pulled away.

「She hugged such a cute boy without being rejected!」

「Hissss! So enviable!」

That was because the group surrounding the middle-aged man had left earlier, so now there was only one man in the hall.

Coupled with the fact that he had taken off his hat and sunglasses, revealing his true appearance, as they were indoor, Yuu, who was a handsome man to begin with, became the object of envy.

As Kanako and the other security personnel tightened their encirclement to block their gazes and gave a stern look to those around them, the women who were slowly surrounding them looked away and dispersed.

After that, they went to a nearby restaurant for lunch.

They went to a popular soba restaurant that they had checked out in advance and had their specialty dish, kurumi soba.

The fragrant soba noodles, made using the traditional rough-grinding method, were chewy, and the sauce made with grated walnuts was aromatic, rich, and delicious.

Then, they continued on foot and entered the Chichibu Local Products Center adjacent to Chichibu Station.

Naturally, it was for souvenirs.

The Chichibu Local Products Center was an imposing five-story building that not only sold local products and provided tourist information, but also had a restaurant, coffee shop, railway information corner, specialty products exhibition corner, and as a public facility.

Now that it was time for shopping, the color of the women’s eyes changed.

Not only did it take patience to accompany them there, to begin with, it would be reckless for Yuu to enter a place crowded with numerous female customers.

As such, entrusting the souvenirs to take to school to his family, Yuu decided to relax at a coffee shop with the security personnel.

「Phew. Once we’re done with the shopping, all that’s left is go home, huh. Fun time sure flies by so fast, doesn’t it?」

「Fufufu. Maybe that’s just how it is.」

After drinking his coffee, in which he put neither milk nor sugar, Yuu let out a sigh, and Kanako, who was sitting in front of him, smiled.

Inside the large coffee shop, about 1/3 of it was partitioned off and turned into a space for men to enter with their security personnel.

「Just knowing you are having fun makes it worthwhile for us to serve as your guards, Yuu-sama.」

「「Yup, yup.」」

The two security officers who rushed over to support them, one in her twenties and one in her thirties, also nodded their heads.

It was a fact that among all the men they had ever guarded, Yuu had an exceptionally good attitude, and they were able to do their jobs comfortably.

On the other hand, Yuu was grateful to Kanako and the others who had held back the groups of women who were trying to forcibly approach him while they were on the move or inside the building.

「It’s thanks to Kanako and the others that I was able to enjoy this trip. The two of you who went out of your way to support us, too, thank you.」

Yuu went out of his way to get up from his seat and extended his hand to the two security personnel sitting at the table next to theirs.

「No… That’s….」

Up until now, they had almost never had a man give them words of gratitude in such a manner, so they couldn’t help but be at a loss what to do.

But then, as if urging them, Kanako nodded her head, so they timidly put out their hands towards him.

「Hyan!」

As Yuu gripped it tightly with both hands, the security personnel was surprised, but when she felt the touch of the young man’s hands, her lips broke into a smile.

The women’s shopping was not done in a short time, and it was only after another 30 minutes of waiting, refilling coffee and chatting all the while, that Martina and Elena finally arrived.

After shopping so much that they had to carry the goods with both hands amidst the crowd of people, the two were exhausted, so they decided to take a short break.

In the end, it was a little past 3:00 pm when they left the parking lot of the local product center.

In the car on their way home, Yuu recalled his memories from about 20 years ago.

He once visited the Chichibu area during the night festival season.

He went there in a group of four with his close friends from his school days, all male. Swept by the festive mood, they looked around aimlessly.

Compared to then, his experience this time was more colorful as he was surrounded by women, but it came with the inconvenience of not being able to stop by somewhere for a bit along the way if he ever felt like it.

Some might call it the disgrace of traveling or whatever, but it was a fact that there were women who would forcefully approach men if they found them.

This, too, was an effect of the overpopulation of women.

What if the male to female ratio improved from 1:30 to at least 1:10 or 1:5?

He felt like couples and families with sons would be able to enjoy sightseeing more comfortably than they did now.

Perhaps his father, whom he believed to have known of a world where the ratio of men and women was not skewed, was aiming to bring them closer to such a world.

In this world, just being a man was enough to make you popular and be held dear, even if you didn’t put any effort at all.

However, it came with the risk of being attacked if you were a little careless or unlucky.

As expected, he felt the distortion of the relationship between men and women.

Just recently, Yuu himself had come to understand and empathize with what his late father wished for.

He once heard from Inui Rumiko, an official at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, that the male-to-female ratio in Japan was widening.

Thinking that the DNA he inherited from his father might hold the key to solving the problem, he was working hard to make babies with his half-elder sisters in a kind of human experiment.

However, was there anything else that he could do?

In any case, he needed to learn about this world more.

Perhaps they played around too much during the day.

Both Martina and Elena, who were sitting on his left and right, were starting to doze off and breathe peacefully in their sleep as they rested their heads on Yuu’s shoulders, and after taking a glance at them, he fell into thought while looking at the scenery outside the window.

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The following was an after story.

In the spring of the following year, after the cherry blossoms had all fallen and revealed the young leaves, Manami gave birth to her baby.

She had a difficult delivery that lasted all night, but she managed to give birth to twins, a boy and a girl.

Even though the probability of giving birth to a boy was low, the probability of giving birth to male and female twins was even lower.

At this news, not only the Nishizawa family, where she was born, but also Johokaku, where she served as the proprietress, and those related to Manpou hot spring were all excited.

It was even reported in a local newspaper in the Chichibu region that the saying that if you soaked in Manpou hot spring, you would be blessed with children was indeed true.

The boy was named Yuuma and the girl was named Mayu.

The reason why they read the same if you reversed their names was because they were twins.

Although the letters were different, it was due to a reason known only to the mother, Manami, that they had 『Yuu』 in their names.

It was said that when Yuu visited Johokaku again on June 30th of the following year, he was very happy to meet Manami and the twins.

Taking into consideration that Yuu had a fiancée of the same age, Manami was content with only getting an acknowledgment.

Years had passed since then, and Mayu, now 20 years old, had succeeded her mother as the fifth proprietress of Johokaku.

Yuuma, who entered the Department of Business Administration at university, married five wives while still a student, and after graduating, he took part in the management of Manpou hot spring, including Johokaku.

He later demonstrated his ability in promoting plans for a large leisure land where men could enjoy themselves outside of the hot springs.