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Chapter 176 Part 1

Hot Spring Resort of Dreams! (2) ~Door to paradise~

As a matter of fact, there was a bit of a fuss at the time they entered.

It seemed that usually this was where the man and the security personnel parted ways.

And they were supposed to come and pick him up on the day he left.

It was explained that there was no opening in the facility’s security, with surveillance cameras monitoring those who entered and left and plain-clothed security guards patrolling the premise, but Kanako and Touko showed some reluctance.

That was because if they were to be informed by phone or pager that something had happened to Yuu, it would take three hours, even if they sped through the expressway, to get there.

They were probably used to security personnel worrying about being separated from the man who was visiting for the first time.

The compromise offered by Satsuki was that since they had reserved a room in the adjacent resort condominium, she asked the security personnel to stay there.

If it was from there, they would be able to rush there within 30 minutes.

Kanako and Touko agreed to it, albeit reluctantly, and decided to go to the condominium via the underground parking lot, so they parted ways there for the time being.

It was decided that once they knew the number of the room where they would be staying, they would contact him later.

After that, Yuu was shown into a small conference room that looked like it could be found in any office.

There was a rectangular table with about ten chairs.

When Yuu and the others entered, two women were sitting in two of them.

「Sorry to keep you waiting!」

「Ah, no…?!」

The one sitting on the opposite side of them showed a surprised look on her face when she saw Yuu.

The woman sitting in front of them was also stunned with her jaw dropping.

「Ufufu. First thing first, let’s have you, elder sisters and younger brother who are meeting for the first time, introduce yourself to each other. Come over here.」

As Yuu walked into the room while being led by the hand by Satsuki, the two women also jumped and got up from their seats.

Across the table, the woman on the left from Yuu’s perspective was in her early twenties. She was more than 5cm taller than Yuu and had broad shoulders, giving her a well-built figure.

She was dressed in a plain white polo shirt and tight-fitting three-quarter length jeans.

Her dark brown hair, which barely reached her back, was tied up into a single bundle, and her face, with exposed forehead, was beautifully tanned to light brown color. She was an athletic-type person who gave off a lively impression.

And yet she radiated no intimidating air and gave off a gentle impression, which was probably because she was a likeable, beautiful woman with round eyes.

In fact, once the initial shock wore off, she looked at Yuu with a friendly smile on her face.

The woman on the right didn’t seem to be that much apart from Yuu in age, and was short, probably less than 160cm tall.

Having only looked at him once, she was looking down, unable to look Yuu in the eye. And perhaps because of her hunched back, she looked a little chubby.

Since a while ago, she had been constantly playing with her long black hair and was restless.

She was wearing a ladylike outfit consisting of a loose-fitting pink with a small floral pattern and a long light blue flared skirt.

Although the two of them give off very contrasting impressions, it felt like they shared a certain similarity in appearance.

「Now then, let’s start with you two.」

「Alright. Then, I’ll go first. Nice to meet you. I’m… Mana. I’m 23 years old. I work in sales for a sports manufacturer in Yokohama. And this is my younger sister, c’mon.」

「I… I’m… Rina. T-t-t-… this year, I, I’m going to… a vo, vo, vocation! Vocational school.」

「Oh my, you’re as stiff as a board.」

「It can’t be helped, Satsuki-san. Rina has no experience with men at all, after all.」

According to them, they were sisters born to the same mother in Gifu Prefecture.

After graduating from high school in March this year, Rina went on to a voice acting school in Tokyo, and they started living together.

Hearing that, Yuu was convinced.

He thought the reason why Rina’s voice sounded childish, or rather high-pitched, was because she was nervous, but it turned out that she had the so-called anime voice.

It seemed that, even without needing to consciously make it that way, she had always had that kind of voice.

The shock from meeting someone who spoke with an anime voice in real life ended up making Yuu freeze, but as he was being stared at by those around him, he realized that it was his turn now.

「Ah, sorry. My name is Yuu. I’m in my first year of high school, and I’m 16 years old. Nice to meet you. Um, big sis Mana… is it fine if I call you that?」

「Big sis Mana… fine, totally fine! Dear me, to be able to meet a little brother who’s still in high school, big sis is so happy.」

When Yuu extended his right hand, Mana shook it firmly, though she blushed a little.

Perhaps it was due to the nature of her job, she seemed to be able to interact naturally with men.

Next, he turned his gaze to Rina.

It seemed that it was true that she had no immunity to men, because as she got stared at head on by Yuu, she appeared to be falling into panic, going 「Awawa」.

「C’mon, Rina, pull yourself together! You’ve taken the trouble to come here, after all.」

「I, I mean, big sis, for such a prince-like sparkling boy to suddenly appear… He’s too dazzling for a mob character like me, my eyes are going to go blind.」

「O, oh you, this isn’t a manga or anime.」

「Uu, unlike through the monitor, how do you interact with a boy in real life… A, are there no choices?」

「Big sis Rina.」

「Ah, yesh!」

When Yuu put his hands on the table and leaned forward to stare at her, Rina, flustered, pulled away instead.

Perhaps she had never had any opportunities to interact with men, and only ever spoke to them in so-called otome games.

She was like an otaku in Yuu’s previous world who was addicted to gal games and had no luck with women in real life.

But to Yuu, she, who was rambling on with a strangely childish voice, looked cute.

Here, I’d love to get close with her, by all means.

Thinking so, Yuu quickly walked around the table and approached Rina.

Surprised, Rina tried to back away in a panic, but Mana, who understood Yuu’s intention, held her back, so she and Yuu ended up facing each other up close.

Yuu immediately took Rina’s hand and held it tightly with both of his.

It was a girlish, small and soft hand.

Yuu peered into Rina, whose face turned bright red and looked as if it was emitting steam, and whispered.

「You’re so cute, big sis Rina.」

「Hau! Huh… c-c-c, cute?」

「Yeah, you’re older than me, but you’re cute. I want to get to know you better, so let’s get along well, big sis.」

「Ya…」

「「Wha!」」

The ones who let out a cry at the same time were Yuu and Mana.

This was because Rina’s eyes rolled back and she was about to fall.

Then again, Mana was holding her back, so she didn’t fall, though.

「I had heard about it beforehand, but I can’t believe he’s used to dealing with older women at that age. It’s just like…」

「Yeah…」

Yuu could hear some voices whispering about something, but when Rina, who had regained consciousness, raised her elbows and crossed her arms tightly, her cleavage swelled up, and seeing that, his eyes ended up getting glued to it.

According to what Rina said, albeit in a stammering manner, it seemed that having him whisper those words, which was the exact line from an otome game in which the heroine was a young girl who was adopted into a family with brothers, to her had made her brain heat up.

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「Well then, can we get into it now?」

「Yes.」

「I, I’m sorry.」

Once Rina had calmed down, Hiromi stood at the very back of the room.

Near her sat Masaki and Satsuki, and Yuu, Mana, and Rina were sitting facing each other around the center of the table.

Rina’s face was still bright red.

T, that’s…

With the lights in the room turned off, a rounded rectangular light appeared on the screen hanging on the back wall.

In front of Hiromi, who was standing in the corner of the room, was a square device, from which an arm-like object extended upwards and broke in the middle. And the lens on the top of the device was emitting a warm white-colored light.

It was an overhead projector (OHP) that was once used for briefings and presentations but had become extinct, replaced by projector equipment that could be connected directly to a PC via a cable.

It was no longer in use at the company Yuu joined as a new graduate, and he once saw it covered in dust in the back of the storage room.

He heard that since there was no longer any opportunity to use it, it was discarded when they reorganized the storage room a few years later.

However, here in 1990 it appeared to be still in active use.

「Yusu-sama, Rina-sama. Since both of you are visiting this place for the first time, allow me to give you a general overview of Hesperis.

To begin with, Hesperis is the name of the Greek goddess of twilight, and the 『Garden of the Hesperides』, which is looked after by her daughters, is said to be the model and origin of the word paradise…」

According to her, the idea was originally conceived by the late Toyota Sakuya.