We had no choice but to stay overnight at an inn near the station.
It was already 8 o’clock because I was floating around, and I wanted to wash up as soon as possible.
But it’s nice to have an inn, but something unexpected happened.
“Yes? There’s only one room?!”
When I demanded a question, the staff crouched down with a frightened expression.
“Yes. This is because the reservation was canceled…”
“How do you do it?”
I asked Li Meiling next to me in English.
Then, as if nothing special, she reached out to the staff at the counter.
“Give me that.”
It was a slurred pronunciation, but perhaps because the meaning was clearly conveyed, the employee held out the key in his hand.
I looked at her in embarrassment.
“Are you okay?”
Then Li Meiling waved the key in her hand as if it was nothing.
“There’s only one after all. The other inns are full, and I barely managed to catch this one, but if that’s the case, there’s nothing I can do about it.”
It certainly wasn’t wrong.
“I see.”
I bowed my head to the staff and followed her back as she walked ahead.
***
Tickle!
When I opened the double-closed door and went inside, I saw a room measuring about 10 pyeong.
Quite spacious than expected.
The bedroom is separate, and there is a small living room and bathroom, and a terrace with a view of the outside.
It’s a high-end inn with an open-air hot spring in a touristic area, so it cost about 50,000 yen just for the two of us to stay overnight, but it seems to be expensive.
After all, once you spend money, you can’t get it back, so you decided to enjoy it because you’ve already been to a good place.
I put down my backpack and asked.
“Are you going to eat the rice after washing it?”
“yes.”
She nodded and put down her bag, just like me.
“It is said that meals are only prepared by 9 o’clock, so I think I should wait a while before taking a deep soak in the hot springs.”
“Okay. I’ll just wash up and come back.”
I picked up a yukata from the living room table and handed it to Li Meiling.
“Here you go.”
“This?”
“It’s a yukata worn at a traditional Japanese inn. You can change into this after washing in the bath.”
Then, Li Meiling looked at the yukata with a puzzled expression and asked a bit late.
“How do you wear it?”
“……”
I was momentarily speechless.
I don’t know that either?
That was then.
Knock! Knock!
Someone knocked on the door in the hallway.
When I opened the door for something, a well-dressed female employee bent over and asked.
“Sir, what would you like to eat?”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
After I said that, I checked the time on my phone.
It was 8:10. Even if it was a simple wash, it would take at least 30 minutes considering the time it takes to go back and forth, so the time was quite tight.
“Can you prepare by 8:50?”
“all right.”
After answering that, the female employee bowed her head, closed the door again and tried to leave, but I hurriedly grabbed her.
“Oh, wait!”
“yes?”
“I don’t know how to wear a yukata because my party is a foreigner, can you please tell me?”
Then the female employee’s gaze turned to Li Meiling, who was standing behind me, and she smiled softly and nodded.
“Of course I should.”
lived
I sighed in relief and told Li Meiling.
“Then I’ll go wash up first. When you’re done, you can come back to your room by 8:50.”
“Okay.”
After leaving a message to the female staff who entered the room, I went to the bathroom with a change of underwear and a yukata.
***
sway!
“Uh, good~”
These were the first words that came out when I soaked in the hot springs after rinsing off the sweat and dirt covered in all day with cold water.
It was an ambiguous time to take a bath, so I was the only person using the bath.
Thanks to that, I enjoyed the feeling of being a little bit chartered, and leaned my back against the rock behind me.
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺!
When you close your eyes and hold your breath, you can hear the quiet sound of leaves swaying in the night breeze from the coniferous forest behind the hot springs.
While it was cold above the navel, and warm below the navel, I scooped up the hot spring water with my hands, enjoying the antagonizing feeling.
It was a sulfur hot spring, so the color of the water was a bit cloudy compared to the general hot spring.
Well, it doesn’t matter because it’s good for the body.
Whoops! Whoops!
After washing my face lightly, I dipped a little deeper.
Body completely submerged except for the neck.
Now, I felt the pain all over my body go away.
If you hadn’t soaked in the hot springs, there’s a 100% chance you’ll feel muscle pain in your body tomorrow.
Today, I literally overused the muscles of the whole body, almost squeezing them, regardless of whether they were voluntary or involuntary.
If you look up at the sky, you can see the clear autumn sky.
Countless stars floated overhead, which could not be seen in the city due to the smoke.
“It’s pretty…”
After I uttered such sentiments, I immersed myself in searching for the constellations without realizing the passage of time.
***
The 30 minutes spent in the sulfur hot springs passed quickly.
When I returned to my room with a towel on my wet hair to soothe my regrets, dinner was already prepared in the living room.
Basically, what is served for dinner at these traditional inns is a high-class dish called ‘kaiseki’.
The table was filled with specialties from Mt. Fuji and a la carte dishes made with fish caught in Lake Kawaguchi.
It’s definitely because I can’t eat except at times like this, so even I, who doesn’t normally take pictures of food, realizes that I take out my cell phone and take pictures from various angles.
It was when I got up from my seat and was just taking an aerial shot.
Tickle!
The door opened and Li Meiling entered.
“Oh, you came first. Did you wait long?”
“No, I just came.”
As I said that, as I sat down again, I found her in a yukata.
“It suits you well.”
“Yeah? I don’t know.”
Wearing a plaid blue yukata and waving her sleeves, she came in with something in a black bag.
“What is that?”
“Ah, beer. It’s sold at the kiosk in front of you.”
Saying so, she showed me the contents of the bag.
There were loads of white and yellow beer cans of a familiar brand.
“…do you want to drink?”
“There are good snacks like this, but if you don’t drink it, it’s a waste.”
Obviously, it wasn’t wrong.
She asked as she sat down across from me.
“Would you like to drink one too?”
“What do you recommend to minors?”
“Oh my gosh, you said you’re still 17.”
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Meiling tapped her forehead as if she had completely forgotten, and immediately smiled and opened the lid of the beer can.
Chi profit!
“Then I’ll drink alone, okay?”
gulp-
Seeing that scene, I swallowed saliva without realizing it.
After possessing Kim Yoo-sung’s body, I didn’t drink even a single drop of alcohol.
Since my house is a restaurant, I could eat whatever I wanted, but I did not want to lose muscle, so I put up with it.
But now things are a little different.
After working out in a sweat all day, with a cool shower in the bath, a glass of cold beer with good food that is difficult to eat normally.
Isn’t that literally the perfect combination?
I was afraid of the taste I knew, but it was hard to bear the beer being poured right in front of my eyes.
In fact, it was funny to even come up with an age now.
Before I took possession, my real age was 27.
In the end, I succumbed to the devil’s temptation.
“Only one can is suitable.”
As I said that and reached out, Li Meiling smiled as if it was fun and held out the bag.
“You don’t think you’re just a model student?”
“I think that’s normal, though.”
“Ahahaha! You know how to joke!”
She clapped me on the shoulder while joking.
… I’m not kidding.
After muttering to myself, I opened the lid of the yellow beer can in my hand.
Chi profit!
Then the white foam comes up.
He’s a guy I haven’t seen in a long time.
When I was pouring it out to my parents at home, I never thought of wanting to drink it, but why does she look so adorable these days?
As I hurriedly opened my mouth to drink the foam, Li Meiling reached out and stopped me.
“?”
“It should be salty, salty.”
oh It did.
It’s been a long time since I drank alcohol, so I had forgotten common sense for a while.
When I held out the can of beer in her right hand with a bewildered expression, she also held out the can of beer she was holding.
container!
They lightly bump each other’s cans, then open their throats and pour beer.
“Great!”
This is the taste.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had it, but the taste of beer still hasn’t changed.
‘Well, here.’
I put down the beer I drank halfway at a time, and when I put the strong stewed fish in my mouth, it literally melted.
Looking at Meiling’s expression sitting across from her, she also had chopsticks in her mouth with a happy expression on her face.
Fortunately, the inn’s cuisine seems to suit your taste.
I was worried that it might not suit her taste, but it turned out to be nothing to worry about.
I decided to enjoy a hearty meal with peace of mind and joy.