Chapter 12

The next day, around 11:00 AM. I took the train for about 20 minutes and got off at the designated station.

As I recall, I was supposed to meet her at the north exit. Looking at the information board in the station, I headed to the north exit.

There is a girl already standing outside the ticket gate.

It must be Rika. She was using a hand mirror to fiddle with her long brown hair.

She was dressed in a pretty pink cardigan, white shirt, and a navy blue skirt underneath.

I put in my ticket, walked through the ticket gate, and called out to the girl.

“Yo Rika, you’re early.”

Then she looked up hurriedly and said as she flapped her hand mirror and put it into her bag.

“Hmph, I’m not waiting for you at all!”

Rika turns her red face towards me and looks a little angry.

What’s with this date-like exchange?

“I-I see. Yuki’s not here?

I asked, looking around, and Rika glanced at the station clock.

“There’s still time, so she’ll be here soon.”

“Well, we’ve got about ten minutes left. But still, Her place looks like a high-class residential area.”

The view from the station was of a quiet residential area lined with apartments and houses.

I could see some elegant-looking buildings lined up in the distance, and taxies were lined up at the roundabout.

The area was sparsely populated and not very lively.

“She is a young lady, isn’t she, who lives in a place like that? I’m sure she has a big house.”

“That’s right. Anyway, Rika…”

“What?”

“You’re wearing such pretty clothes.”

When I look at the girl’s clothes, Rika frowns.

“What are you talking about? I can dress up too, you know.”

“No, I’m sorry. Except for uniforms, the image of that costume in a different world is strong …”

So-called “battle gear”. Despite the fact that she is a woman, she can’t think about fashion when her life is on the line.

Her blood-painted clothes were feared in the battlefield.

“Can we please not talk about that?　I didn’t dress like that because I wanted to. So, what do you think?”

“Huh?”

When I tilted my head, Linka turned around to face me and spread her hands.

“Do I look good or what?　You are so damn thoughtless when it comes to things like this.”

“Oh, it looks good on you. I think it’s cute.”

“R-right. That’s fine.”

As soon as I said that, Rika turned her face away.

I guess it’s better to compliment a girl’s clothes early.

We just stood idly for a while, waiting for the time to come.

A little while later, some kind of black car approached us.

I wondered if it might be a Mercedes Benz or something.

The car stopped at the roundabout, and the back window slowly opened.

From there, the familiar blonde beauty peeked out.

“Hello, you two, over here.”

Apparently, this luxury car really belongs to the Nishinomiya family.

“What a young lady!”

“She is showing us the difference between our families. I hate it.”

We approached the beckoning Nishinomiya, feeling the disparity of our birth.

“Good day. It looks like you’ve arrived. I’m glad.”

I nodded and replied to the smiling girl inside the car.

“Well, that’s what I promised.”

“So the man in front of you is your private driver?”

When Rika pointed to the elderly man sitting in the driver’s seat, Nishinomiya gave his usual high-pitched laugh.

“Ohohoho. He’s my father’s driver. He’s not working today, so I’m borrowing him. I usually come here by taking a taxy.”

“What, a taxi to school?”

“Bourgeois……”

As our faces contorted, Nishinomiya looked around with a cool face.

“By the way, hasn’t Yuki come yet? It’s already time.”

“No, not yet.”

“I wonder what she’s doing.”

We also looked towards the station, but there was no sign of the petite girl.

“Hah. She’s an airhead, she must have gone to the south exit.”

“Maybe so ……”

Rika nods to Nishinomiya who sighs.

“Then, please get on for the time being. Yuta-san, please go to the passenger seat.”

“Oh”

Looking inside the car, it seems that the passenger seat is on the right side. Naturally it is a foreign car.

When I tried to go around to the right side of the car, the door opened automatically.

“Excuse me.”

“Hello, good morning.”

As I sat down in my seat with a sense of dread and trepidation, the driver took off his hat and bowed to me in a calm voice.

“Good morning. Thank you for giving us a ride.”

“No, this is my job. Please fasten your seatbelts for your own safety.”

“Oh, yes.”

He seems to be kind of friendly. I had a dream last night that all the Nishinomiya family members turned against me and came after me, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be that bad.

“Noguchi-san. Please go around to the south entrance.”

“Understood”

At Nishinomiya’s signal, the driver nodded and the car started moving.

However, I don’t feel a single unpleasant tremor. I felt as if I was being protected by something powerful.

“Wow, what’s this? It’s so comfortable.”

Rika must have felt the same way, because she looked down at her seat and exclaimed in admiration.

“You’re right, it doesn’t shake at all.”

“Of course not. By the way my father said that he wanted me to make Yuta-san walk over because the car would get dirty if he got in, I made sure to keep him quiet.”

When Nishinomiya suddenly said something disturbing, anxiety ran through my brain again.

“I wonder it’s okay to shut him up. I don’t mind walking.”

“Well, that’s also interesting, but I’d rather not listen to my father.”

“Oh, yeah ……”

Nishinomiya, who frowned and said something snippy, seemed to be in a rebellious phase.

Mr. Noguchi, who was driving next to me, looking at her from his rearview mirror.

“Young lady, Master may be extreme, but he says that because he cares about you.”

“But it’s too much.”

“Certainly, I don’t think the boy is such a bad person. Oh, excuse me.”

“N-no. It’s okay.”

Mr. Noguchi seemed to be quite a gentleman as he smiled lightly and bowed to me.

As we were talking, the car was turning to the south side of the station.

At the ticket gate of the station, I saw a petite short-haired girl as expected.

She looked alternately at the clock and inside the station, and wandered around the place in a wobbly fashion.

This is strange, they haven’t come even though it’s time. I can hear her voice.

I guess she’ s worried because no one is coming. She doesn’t even have a phone.

“Haa, that girl…”

As Rika sighed, the car came to a stop at a roundabout and the rear left window opened.

“Yuki! This way, this way.”

Rika looked out the window and called out, and Yuki turned around quickly.

“Rika-chaaaan!”

Yuki runs towards us with some tears in her eyes.

The door opened and Rika stepped out to greet her.

“Uwaaaaa. I wanted to see you so much!”

Yuki jumped into Rika’s arms and clung to her, perhaps moved by the reunion.

“Just hurry up and get in. We’ll be late for lunch.”

They hurriedly climbed into the back seat and the car drove off toward the mountains.

“Wow, so many mansions.”

As we drove up the hill, all we could see were large houses that were obviously inhabited by people with high incomes.

“Speaking of which, what kind of work does Alisa’s father do?”

Rika asked, and Nishinomiya answered while looking out the window.

“My father works for the Metropolitan Police Department.”

“Is he a police officer?”

“Well, he doesn’t seem to be doing the kind of work that most people think of when they think of a town cop.”

He’s a big shot in the police department. That’s not good. I wonder if I’m going to end up in some kind of prison cell for a crime.

Just when I was getting delusional about the worst case scenario.

The car stopped in front of the door of a vast, old-fashioned Japanese mansion.

The driver rolled down the window and pushed the intercom with a monitor on the right side of the door.

A few moments later, a woman’s voice rang out.

[Yes, Noguchi-san, isn’t it?]

“I’m back. Also with My lady friends.”

It seemed that Mr. Noguchi was talking to the intercom and started a conversation with the people in the house.

[Welcome back. I’ll open the door now. Oh, Master, what’s the matter ……]

The woman’s voice trailed off as if she had noticed something.

There was some kind of clattering on the other end of the intercom, and then a thick voice began to echo.

[Hey, Noguchi. After all, I can’t let that man cross the threshold of this house. Go ahead and dump him there. You can run him over if you can, as long as it’s not intentional.]

I’m hearing some incredibly savage words, or is it my imagination?

“My Lady. Master has told me this…”

When Noguchi-san asked for confirmation, Nishinomiya folded her arms and shook her head.

“You can ignore it. Let’s go in like this.”

“Hey. Is it really good? It’s better to go back…”

When I panicked, the lady showed a stubborn attitude.

“It’s all right. My father can’t do anything that would make me angry, anyway. But he’s so bossy with his subordinates. Noguchi-san, please open the gate with your own card.”

“Yes …..”

The driver took a card out of his pocket and put it through the machine next to the intercom.

Then, with a rattle, the door began to open. It’s Japanese style, but cutting edge.

“Whoa, wow, automatic door!”

Yuki stuck her hand to the window and started making noise.

“No. This is not that kind of thing.”

Rika seemed to be trying to keep her cool, but her eyes were still wide open.

“It’s a ridiculous mansion ……”

As we drove inside, we were greeted by an atmospheric Japanese garden. The garden seemed to be well taken care of.

At the end of the garden, a large two-story building with a Japanese-style tiled roof was waiting for us.

“It’s so Japanese ……, how can I say this, it’s totally different from the image of Nishinomiya.”

Nishinomiya is a completely Western girl in terms of her long blonde hair, her atmosphere and her personal clothes. The way she speaks is also aristocratic.

I’ve heard that her mother’s side is foreign.

“I don’t like my father’s obsessive hobbies. He used to make me wear kimonos when I was a child, and I was fed up with the heat. My mother was born in Norway, so I have a lot of Norwegian blood in me.”　

“Oh, really? That’s a big gap.”

Rika was surprised by the young lady’s explanation.

While they were talking, the car stopped at a garage. Then a woman in some kind of Japanese maid’s uniform was standing there.

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