Wandering around the small hot spring street, Naruse and his party ate, drank, and bought a few souvenirs. Finally, it was three o'clock in the afternoon.
"In one afternoon, no, one or two hours, you can almost enjoy this place... No wonder many sightseeing groups come here at noon and go back in the afternoon." Morimi said.
Takigawa Hikaru smiled, "Although there is nothing to see, there are still hot springs where you can soak."
"After checking in, you can take a bath in the hot spring in the hotel." Naruse walked in front and led a few people back to Ancient Silver Pavilion.
It was already check-in time, and there were several pairs of guests waiting in the lobby of the hotel.
"Just a moment."
Sitting on the sofa in the lobby, through the entire glass wall, you can see the snow-capped hillside behind the hotel.
In spring and summer, when the branches are lush and leafy, they may be very beautiful, but in winter, you can only see endless snow and dead trees.
"Fortunately, our room is on the street side."
"So the price is a little more expensive."
"Stop talking about money now, just focus on enjoying..."
"How long will Haixing have to pay off the debt this time? Isn't it even going to be over when he enters second grade?"
"Ah, stop talking——"
Naruse listened next to him with a smile on his face. He soon noticed that the front desk was almost empty, so he got up and went to check in.
After completing the formalities, another hotel staff standing nearby bowed slightly and said, "Please follow me."
Naruse said hello, and Naoko immediately called a few people to follow him.
Their room is located on the third floor of the hotel facing the street. Standing by the window, you can almost see the entire hot spring street.
The internal area is not too small, and can accommodate up to six people. Therefore, when Takigawa Hikaru proposed to increase the number of guests, the hotel quickly agreed - of course, the additional food and accommodation expenses must not be less.
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The room is divided into two parts. There is a small living room at the entrance, and a sliding door opens into the bedroom. It is fully furnished and has all the necessary electrical appliances.
And when you open the closet, there's a safe inside.
Haixing looked at it twice and said, "How to use this?"
"Open the safe, put the things in, close the safe."
"...I mean how to open it."
Naruse went over to study it, quickly opened the safe, and looked back at her:
"Do you have anything to put in?"
Haixing thought for a while and handed over the Zashiki Warashi in his hand.
"..."
Naruse glanced at her, then took it and put it in the safe.
"Where's the password?"
"Well...1231."
Didi didi——
Naruse closed the safe and pressed it a few times.
"Is this okay?" Haixing asked.
"Yeah. It's already locked. You can only open it by entering the password. Try it yourself."
He got up and walked around the room, then came to the window and looked at the street scenery outside the window with Shangzi for a while.
"Change the angle and the ordinary scenery becomes more beautiful."
"At night, it will look better when the lights are on."
"Hmm."
After staring at the window for a while, when he looked back, Haixing was already able to open and lock the safe skillfully, and also put the Daruma Morimi bought in.
"Well——"
Takigawa Hikaru lay on the tatami, stretched out, and put his head against her sister's thigh.
"What's next?"
"Don't you want to go to the hot springs?"
"Yeah, I almost forgot..."
After resting for a while in the room, a few people took towels and yukata and went downstairs to soak in the hotel's open-air hot spring.
Of course, the men's and women's baths are separated, and Naruse can only bathe by himself.
I took off my clothes, cleaned my body, and came to the open-air hot spring pool. There were already several old men bathing in it, all of whom had come by car with them before.
Naruse doesn't talk much. He didn't communicate with them much when he came here, and he didn't really want to be talked to.
Fortunately, the old men didn't like to talk. They soaked quietly, even a little too quietly, with their eyes closed and motionless. Instead, Naruse began to worry that one or more of them had fainted.
"Well, it moved... there should be no problem."
Putting aside distracting thoughts, he sat in the warm spring water and looked at the flying snowflakes outside, and he sighed with contentment.
After running around all day, I can finally relax and enjoy it for a while...
While Naruse was soaking in the hot springs and taking a peek at the old men, in the women's bath next door, the girls were chatting happily with the mature women who had arrived early.
"It's great to be young..."
An old aunt, who looked to be in her fifties or sixties, looked at the girls sitting together with a complicated expression.
"Auntie looks young," Hikaru Takigawa said with a smile.
She also smiled, shook her head, and changed the topic to cover up the envy and nostalgia she blurted out.
Beside Takigawa Hikaru, Haixing squinted his eyes and looked sideways at Naoko's chest;
Mori Jian, leaning against the stone, had already closed his eyes and concentrated on soaking.
"The room on the mountain side seems to have a private bath inside." Hikaru Takigawa said.
"Really?" Takigawa Yue looked at her sister, "Then you can soak in the hot spring in the room."
"But the bathtub in the room is closed... Although I can see the outside through the window, I still prefer the feeling of an open-air hot spring."
Shangzi smiled, "Me too."
A few people soaked in the bath for more than 20 minutes. When they saw that the old ladies who had come in early had almost all gone out, they also came out of the bath.
After putting on the hotel's yukata and returning to the lobby outside, Naruse, who came out first, was sitting on the sofa, drinking milk and reading a magazine.
"Ah, is there any milk here?"
"Well, there's also ice cream."
After looking at the people who had just come out of the bath, Naruse's eyes stayed on Naoko for a while, then pointed to the service desk next to the hall, "It's over there."
Several people went to buy a bottle of milk, and Takigawa Hikaru and Haixing also ordered an ice cream.
"Good ice..."
Starfish shrank his neck, took another scoop of ice cream and put it into his mouth, "Good ice——"
Naoko sat down next to Naruse.
"How do you feel?"
“It’s a very comfortable soak.”
"Are there many people over there Shangzi?"
"Not many, just the people I met on the way here."
She leaned back relaxedly, holding the milk in the glass bottle in her hand, and drank it in small sips.
The yukata on the chest is held up high, and the neckline is not too tightly covered, slightly exposing a little of the milk-white skin under the neck.
His body was relaxed by the hot springs, and so was his spirit. Following his instinct, Naruse looked at it a few more times unconsciously.
"..."
Surrounded by his companions, Shangzi changed his hand to hold milk, his face felt a little hot.
"Cough."
Morimi suddenly coughed lightly, "Can the milk be taken back to the room?"
"...Okay."
Naruse came to his senses, "Just remember to bring the milk bottle down."
"Then let's go back to the room." She stood up, and the other people had no objection.
As they passed each other, she glanced at him and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Pervert."
"..."
Naruse was speechless and took a sip of milk.
Before going upstairs, he thought of one more thing, "What time are you going to have dinner?"
Several people had already reached the corner of the stairs, looking at him at the bottom and then at each other.
Haixing said: "Now?"
Naruse ignored her.
"They need to make a reservation in advance for dinner here, and the time is between six and eight o'clock."
"Then let's go to seven o'clock." Shangzi said, "It's not early or late. You can go out for a walk before dinner. What do you think?"
"No problem." Sen saw that everyone agreed.
"Well, then seven o'clock."
Naruse went to the front desk to make a reservation for dinner and followed him upstairs.