251 – Did
Korea’s PC cafes and Japanese Internet cafes have a very different feel.
Unlike Korean PC rooms, where various age groups, from elementary school students to college students, come to play games, Japanese Internet cafes have a strong feeling of being a resting place where you can enjoy various things, including games, movies, comic books, and magazines, all in one place.
It is OK to go to bed if you pay.
There is also a paid shower facility attached, so if you miss the last train, there are even cases where office workers go to work after staying at an internet cafe instead of a motel.
“Ryu-chan, let’s go in.”
“Yes.”
At Rika’s recommendation, we decided to take a break for an hour at an internet cafe, so we entered an internet cafe near Shibuya Station.
This is the second time I’ve been to the internet cafe, and it’s a bit expensive for student pocket money, so it’s usually like a piece of cake.
“Welcome. Are you two?”
“Yes. I’d like to use it for one hour by pre-paying.”
“There are single rooms, couple rooms, and VIP rooms. Which one would you like?”
“The couple’s room, please.”
“Yes. It’s 600 yen.”
Hearing the staff’s words, I hurriedly took out my wallet from my pocket.
“I got dinner, so I’ll pay for it this time.”
Then Rika covered my hand and said.
“Sweet! Stay still. Today is our first date, so my sister will shoot.”
“…….”
The staff standing in front of her looked at her as if she was dumbfounded, but Rika was confident.
But why is it my share to be ashamed?
Anyway, after receiving the card key handed over by the staff, we headed to the room we were told.
Rika seems to have been to the internet cafe many times, and is walking around the store without hesitation.
On the other hand, since it was only my second visit, I couldn’t help but look around curiously.
“21… 21… Ah! Here it is!”
When I opened the door with the card key and went inside, I could see the dark interior at a glance.
“It’s quite roomy.”
When I said that and turned on the lights in the room, Rika nodded in agreement.
“I didn’t know because I usually only rented single rooms, but the couple rooms are bigger than I thought.”
As I entered the room, I sneakily checked the time on my smartphone.
8:48 P.M.
Minors are usually allowed until 10 o’clock, so there’s plenty of time.
We sat in the couple’s seat with two computers side by side and discussed what to do for an hour.
“Games… Wouldn’t work? Because there aren’t any games to play together. So, comic books?”
“You read it as usual.”
When I said that and pointed to her luggage in the corner, Rika hit her head and bit her tongue.
“…What did you do?”
“Pretending to be cute?”
“It gave me a little goosebumps.”
“It’s trending on social media these days!”
Rika said it as if it was unfair, but she couldn’t help it because her hands and feet shrank from her point of view.
Anyway, after excluding games and comic books, the only thing left was to watch dramas or movies.
“Time for a movie is ambiguous, should I watch a drama?”
“Okay! I heard that this drama is popular among high school girls these days.”
Rika naturally creates an OTT site on the Internet.
Browsing through the list of dramas in her ranking, she turned on the first episode of a melodrama called ‘I want to get revenge on you!’.
“Oh, it’s started.”
“Should I put out the fire?”
“Yes.”
So we sat with our backs against the wall and quietly started watching the drama.
***
The contents of the beginning of the drama were more stimulating than I thought.
The main character, a freshman in college, attends a club meeting and spends the night with a female senior she has never seen before.
That was her first experience, the main character developed a crush on her senior and confessed right away the next day, but it turned out that she had a boyfriend.
The main character, whose confession was blatantly black, pledged to become a man so cool that the woman who dumped him would regret it, and jumped into the world of the host.
“Hey, what a shame.”
This is what Rika muttered after watching the first episode.
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“…That’s right.”
It’s not even a drama with a 19 gold label, so I would have thought that a bad scene would appear naturally.
But I could understand why high school girls like this drama.
As the main character, Tanaka, is set to enter the host industry, a lot of pretty boys appear.
Since all the handsome actors you know by name appear as hosts, it is natural for women to go crazy.
“Then shall we play episode 2 right away?”
When I said that and took her hand, Rika shook her head and said.
“I’m thirsty. Can I bring you a drink?”
“Ah, if that’s the case, wait a minute. I’ll be back.”
“Huh? It’s fine.”
“I’m sorry if I just get it, so let me run errands like this.”
When I said that and stood up, Rika said that she was sorry but that she would understand.
“Then I’ll have a Coke!”
“Okay.”
After receiving her order, I immediately opened the door and headed for a nearby drink bar.
***
One of the biggest advantages of Internet cafes is that the drink bar is free.
At some locations, ice cream and toast are provided free of charge, but this place doesn’t seem to have that much.
After pouring cola and cider into two glasses, I returned to the room, and Rika sat quietly and waited for me.
“It’s fine if you look first.”
“Ah~ I decided to watch it together, but how is it?”
Rika smirked as she said that, then took the coke I handed her to her.
After confirming that, I sat down next to her again, and Rika pressed the play button with her mouse.
Then, the second episode of the drama begins, and silence returns to the room.
As I was watching the drama with concentration, Rika suddenly opened her mouth.
“Hey, Ryu-chan.”
“Huh?”
“Am I not that attractive?”
“…What do you mean by that?”
Rika, who thought she was watching a drama because she was so focused like me, turned her body to her side and looked up at me.
“Isn’t it normal for a man and a woman to feel so close together in an enclosed space?”
“…….”
The moment I heard that, I felt like I had been hit hard in the back of the head with a hammer.
Did you come here with that intention?
To be honest, I was dumbfounded because I thought I had come to an internet cafe to rest for a while because my feet really hurt.
And I don’t know how my reaction was received, but it seems that Rika was dissatisfied.
“If you said you did everything with the president, why don’t you lay your hands on me?”
Now, with her upper body leaning halfway over, Rika talked seductively.
“That, that’s it, I just decided to go out with you, and I never thought I’d be doing something in such a small place…”
Malkan!
“!”
I was taken aback by Rika’s sudden surprise kiss and made her body rigid.
Either way, Rika forced her to kiss her with her eyes tightly closed.
Has it been about a minute since we started kissing like that?
“Puha!”
Rika asked me if she was out of breath, taking a deep breath and stepping back from her.
“How are you?”
I stayed in a daze for a long time before finally replying.
“…It smells like garlic.”
Ah.
Rika, who became dotted with my answer, turned her face red like an apple.
It seems he was busy kissing and didn’t even think about that.
***
“Rika, you can sit next to me.”
“I don’t like it…”
It must have been shocking to hear that her kiss, which she had bravely kissed, smelled of garlic, so Rika clung to one side of her wall and poked her head.
I told her to come closer because the way she looked was quite pitiful, but Rika didn’t think to listen to me, as if she had fallen into her own world.
In the end, I made a decision.
“Excuse me.”
“Oh!”
I picked up Rika from her clinging to the wall and sat her on my lap.
Then, Rika struggled with her limbs to escape from her arms, but I blocked her movements by hugging her tightly from behind.
Then, perhaps realizing that she couldn’t defeat me with her power, Rika’s resistance gradually diminished.
I whispered into Rika’s ear.
“Have you calmed down now?”
Then Rika was startled and covered her own ears with her hair.
“Oh, it tickles me, so don’t talk too close.”
As a result, the white nape of her neck is exposed, as if looking at her baby skin.
Suddenly, playful, I blew on the nape of her neck.
Then Rika’s flinching grew a little bigger.
“Ah! Seriously! Don’t do it!”
She turned around in anger.
“…….”
“…….”
I didn’t mean to, but we hit it off.
It was unavoidable since the two of them were sitting on top of each other in a small space.
But even if it started by coincidence, fire is bound to catch on at some point.
I asked, looking straight into her green eyes.
“Can I kiss you?”
Then Rika stuttered her words and avoided her gaze.
“I heard it smells like garlic…”
“It’s okay. Koreans like garlic.”
After I said that, we kissed each other without hesitation.
***
It was just before 10 o’clock when we left the Internet cafe.
Originally, it was supposed to come out around 9:50, but it happened thanks to a 10-minute extension due to a slight lack of time.
“…Are you okay?”
“Yeah, it doesn’t hurt that much.”
I was worried about Rika walking with a limp, perhaps because of the aftereffects of the pain.
“Don’t overdo it.”
“It’s a pain you have to go through someday. Let’s say I did it a little earlier, well.”
While saying that, Rika drew a V with her fingers. It was hard for her to walk alone, she said, naturally leaning on my forearm.
“But now I think I know why the president said that.”
“What do you mean?”
“There is such a thing. It is a secret between women.”
After making people curious, Rika put her index finger to her mouth while saying that and gave a playful wink.
“I can’t dry it.”
She was so cute that I decided to pass it on. I moved the shopping bag to her other hand, then lifted Rika with one hand and went down to the subway station.