CH 97

Chapter 97: Split The Date!

We were wandering around the Shibuya intersection looking for a restaurant, when Igarashi gave me an ill-advised smile and said,

"Hey, hey. You want to go to Suo's, don't you, Tokiwa?"

"Well, yeah. That's the plan for today."

I have to do a lot of probing and work on separating her from Hagiri. I have to go to her place. I want to charge her so badly.

"Well then! Let's rent Suo for a split!"

"Hey, wait a minute. There's too many things to tweak, right?"

"I mean, it's a W-date!"

"More lucky dates...!"

Igarashi quickly took her phone out of her bag and called somewhere.

"Hello? Suo? Hey, hey, can I rent you now?"

The person on the other end of the line seemed to be Suo. I put my ear close to Igarashi's phone to listen to the conversation.

||  "I'm not a rental girlfriend, you know? And why do you want to take me out?"

"I'm with Tokiwa right now and we're kind of in the mood for a date night. We talked about it!"

I didn't talk about that. But Igarashi doesn't get that kind of commentary. She has already decided to do this.

||  "Kanata is there? .........It might be a good opportunity... I understand. I'm going with you. You can rent me if you want."

"Well then, come soon, soon! I'll be in Shibuya. And bring your swimsuit!"

||  "Swimsuit? I got it."

Somehow the conversation came together. Suo is coming here from now on.

"What are you going to do by making her bring a swimsuit?"

"Let's go to the pool! I bought a swimsuit! I'm in the mood for a swim!"

"Wow, you're living in a very flirtatious mood. I don't have a swimsuit. Where's the pool?"

"I don't know, maybe the pool at the gym. I'm sure you can pay for it! Oh, we'll split the cost of Suo's! Let's go buy Tokiwa's swimsuit! Let's get one that will surprise Suo!"

"Um. Well, okay."

And so we decided to go shopping for a swimsuit while Suo was waiting for us in Shibuya. Men's swimsuits...

I entered a nearby clothing store building. The men's swimsuit section seemed deserted, or rather, really deserted. It's quiet, isn't it? It was quiet. There, only Igarashi was happily picking out a swimsuit.

"How about this one? It's sexy, isn't it? Hahaha!"

Igarashi was having fun holding a boxy men's swimsuit in both hands and pulling it off with a yank.

"As expected, I don't have the courage to wear that."

"Well, it looks good on you, doesn't it? Let's put it on and strike a macho pose like this to make Suo excited!"

Igarashi was acting like a bodybuilder. It was kind of cute.

"I'm just an ordinary college student, so I'm going to go with something safe."

"What! Isn't it unfair that you're a sex man who asks a lot of me, but you don't do sex?"

"Mwah! I'm getting fried! I can't help it. I'll wear anything, even a naughty swimsuit!"

"Yes! How about this?"

Igarashi brought a tight-fitting bikini type swimsuit. The lines of the cut again are very naughty...

"Wow...I'll try it on anyway..."

That was when I was about to go to the fitting room. Igarashi was looking at the store across the aisle with surprised eyes. There was a beautiful gal with blonde hair and red mesh, and a beautiful girl with pink hair in a gothic lolita outfit, enjoying their shopping. I mean, I know...! They are Igarashi's friends like Mashiba. I have seen them in the future many times. I remember they annoyed me a lot, not as much as Mashiba, but they said a lot of things to me.

"Oh no! I have to hide!"

Igarashi pushed me back. Then she went straight into the fitting room with me and closed the curtains.

"Phew. That was close. I am in danger."

"Why was it dangerous?"

"Those two. They've always made horrible comments about me whenever I talk to a boy. If they see Tokiwa, they will definitely say terrible things about him!"

"Oh, that's what you mean. By the way, do you do that to Hagiri?"

"No. Those two are being helped by Chusho and I, so they said they wouldn't do that kind of thing."

You're obviously trying to get rid of the guy who approaches Igarashi. And you said you were saved by them. Maybe, just maybe, you're the type of girl who is swamped by ecchi thing by Hagiri? I guess I don't want to be looked at like Takinose. I guess I'll just stay here for a while and get it over with.

"Hey, Tokiwa. Since we're here, why don't you change your clothes? I want to see if it looks good on you!"

"What? What are you talking about?"

"What am I talking about? Well, this is a fitting room, right?"

"No, it's not what I mean."

"Oh, yeah, you're right! It's a little embarrassing, isn't it? Don't worry! I've got my back to you, so don't worry!"

Saying that, Igarashi turned away from me. What's this? Huh? Hmm? What's so funny? Aren't men and women usually reversed in this kind of situation? Isn't it?

"Tokiwa! I'm a gentleman, so don't worry, I'll never look at you!"

"Eh? Thank you. Huh?"

Something feels wrong, but since she said she wouldn't look at me anyway, I decided to take off my clothes with peace of mind. The sound of our clothes rubbing against each other was the only sound between me and Igarashi. Then I took off my clothes and slipped on my swimsuit.

"That's enough."

"Ah, yes."

Igarashi then turned around. In her eyes, she saw me in my bikini shorts, my skin exposed and sexy. I hid my chest muscles with my hands.

"Don't stare too closely at me... it's embarrassing..."

"Boo-hoo! Hahaha! It's the other way around! Hahaha! What's so funny! Hahaha!"

I knew it was the other way around! If it were the other way around, there would be some beauty in style, but it's just plain dumb.

"Tokiwa! You have a nice body! You look so sexy in your swimsuit!"

Igarashi gives me a thumbs up with both hands. She seems to like my swimsuit.

"Really? I'm cute?"

I strike a muscular pose to show off my muscular beauty.

"No! You're not cute at all! You're a super muscle dude! Haha!"

Igarashi is giggling. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Then we peek out through the fitting room curtains. The gals and goths were gone. After leaving the fitting room and paying the bill, we left the clothing store and headed to Shibuya station to meet up with Suo.

We met up with Suo at the Shibuya station and first had to pay for the accompaniment, or rather the rental.

"Since you guys have taken care of Ricardo the other day, so yoday's rental fee will be exactly 10,000 yen."

She would only let me pay 10,000 yen? How can this be so terrible! And we're splitting the bill today!

"Tokiwa. Do you have 5,000 yen?"

"I don't have any money for details either. Do you want to buy some candy at a convenience store or something?"

"What a waste! I don't have 5,000 yen either! I'll do what I always do!"

Igarashi pointed to a nearby lottery ticket booth, looking very pleased with himself.

"You're not going to win any lottery, are you? Wouldn't buying gum be a more constructive way to spend your money?"

Suo looked a little taken aback. But Igarashi is not the kind of woman who cares about such things. Igarashi and I bought lottery tickets in the usual way. We bought a single ticket for 10,000 yen, so we were able to break up the bill nicely. We each took 5,000 yen out of the change and gave it to Suo. Then we sharpened the scratch. And the result.

"Yay! I won 200 yen!"

"I won 200 yen, too. And the scratch-off itself was 200 yen. Plus or minus zero. What's the result? I just exchanged money!"

"But a win is a win! Yay! Haha!"

Igarashi was innocently happy. Suo, on the other hand, was surprised and at the same time looked at Igarashi suspiciously.

"...Hmm. What is this indescribable feeling of discomfort...?"

Suo looked somewhat thoughtful. It looked somewhat serious. So I clapped my hands and made them both look at me.

"Let's go to the pool then. There's a heated pool open to the public at a nearby gym, they said. Why don't we practice our swimming for the summer!"

"Yay! I'm so excited!"

"Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's have fun."

Then we headed to the gym. At the reception desk of a large gym, Igarashi and I split the cost of the pool for the three of us, including Suo's. When I think about it, it's a very surreal split. I mean, it's called a "double date," but there are two girls and I'm the only guy. The definition of the term is a bit of a mess, isn't it? Then we split up in front of the changing rooms, changed, and went out to the poolside to wait for the girls. I had seen Igarashi's swimsuit at lunchtime, but I was still looking forward to it. And Suo. I know she has a good style. I was looking forward to seeing how glamorous they would look in their swimsuits.

"Hello again!"

For some reason, a low-tensioned Igarashi came to my side. Her green swimsuit and pareo were still very cute, erotic, and sexy by the poolside. The bikini covering her large breasts was enough to make my eyes wander. The soft impression of her thighs peeking out from her pareo was dazzling. Igarashi has a beauty that I never get tired of seeing, even though she was married in her previous world.

"That swimsuit is cute and lovely, isn't it?"

"Umm, yes. Thank you, Tokiwa."

Igarashi blushed a little and curtseyed cutely while fingering her pareo. Perhaps it was Igarashi's way of covering up her embarrassment. It really is adorable when you think about it.

"By the way, where's Suo? I thought she would come with you."

"...Suo is...yeah. That's true. It's individuality..."

Somehow Igarashi awkwardly turned her eyes away from me. What's with this attitude?

"I'm sorry. I made you wait."

I turned around at the sound of Suo's voice. There was Suo, dressed in a swimsuit. The lines of Suo's body were also very beautiful. She had large breasts, a sharply defined waist, and a glamorous waist. Her white, smooth arms and legs stretched out from her navy blue swimsuit. Although her swimsuit wasn't very revealing, Suo had an atmosphere that strangely stirred up the hearts of men. But there was one thing that bothered me. There was a white cloth with "Suo" written in large letters on the front of her chest. He was also wearing a mesh swimming cap and goggles on her forehead. If you went to school in Japan, you have probably seen the design of the navy blue swimsuit.

"It's not cute...it's not cute, Suo..."

Igarashi lamented, shaking her head. It's true that Suo's true charm is hard to convey in that swimsuit. But for someone like me with an adolescence complex, the situation is different. It's a memory from junior high school. A boy and a girl in my class started dating. I heard that they graduated together soon after. And when I saw her in her swimsuit at the summer pool class, I felt something mature or sexy or something like that. The swimsuit Suo is wearing now is the same as the one she is wearing. That's what people call a school swimsuit.

"Suo...you look so saudade in your swimsuit...!"

I smiled with a wisp of a tear in my eye. Suo fidgeted somewhat restlessly, but then she opened her mouth, her cheeks tinted.

"obrigada!"

[TL: Thank you in Portuguese. (In addition, if the vocalizer is male, he says obrigado.)]

"I don't know what you two are saying in so many ways!"

Igarashi is groaning with her head in her hands. Well, for normal girls, school swimsuits aren't cute, are they?

"Why is Suo in a school swimsuit!"

"School swimsuit? You mean this swimsuit? I got it from a customer. I heard it's a traditional Japanese swimsuit."

"He's lying! You're being deceived! That customer is banned! I'm ashamed to be a Japanese! That person! It's terrible to recommend that swimsuit to a foreigner who doesn't know anything about it!"

Suo looked at me strangely. I guess she doesn't know much about school swimsuits. So I explained to Suo in a very casual manner. Then Suoh stared at the swimsuit with some affection.

"I see. So this is what students wear. I envy you. I wish I could have gone to school too...I wonder if I can just taste the feeling of it...wonderful."

There's some serious darkness in here! Neither Igarashi nor I could say anything more. I heard that Suo was from a slum called favela and worked without going to school. I had to pay him a lot of money (mission statement).

"Anyway, let's go swimming!"

"Yes, yes, let's swim! Let's go swimming!"

Igarashi and I stood on either side of Suo and pulled her by the hand. Then the three of us dived into the pool, holding hands together.

***Author's musings***

I'm most interested in the customer who paid Suo a scrumptious tribute!