“I think this is it,” Minami said, checking the number on the door against the one on the receipt. She was proven right when the key opened it successfully. “Sheesh, it’s dark.”
The moonlight lit a faint way forward for us. When we entered the room and shut the door, the lights didn’t turn on. I’m guessing the switch is somewhere around here. As we walked through the darkness, I noticed a singular full-size bed. I reflexively gulped and moved to the side of the bed, noticing a control console on a side table.
“Is that it?”
As I approached it I squinted, examining the control panel. It seemed that you could control the brightness and colors of the lights from it. It was completely different from normal hotels. For now, I slowly increased the brightness of the lights.
“Whoa!”
Now able to fully see the entire room, Minami let out a sound of amazement. The walls were covered in a tacky wallpaper with flower patterns. The room was overall as big as a studio apartment. There was one bed, a round table, two chairs, and a disco ball-looking type of light above. The room was a tight fit with everything in it, but the even more surprising thing was...
“Whoa, look at this! You can totally see inside!”
The bathing area with the bathtub and shower was right by the bed, and instead of a wall separating the two, there was only a pane of clear glass. The white bathtub was totally visible just from sitting on the bed. Minami, excited, ran inside the bathing area and gave me a peace sign from inside. All I could do was return that with a forced smile. It was completely erotic in here. There was nothing here that wasn’t erotic. Did all adults do dirty things in this kinda atmosphere? I’d thought I understood what it meant to be an adult, but now I wasn’t so confident.
Minami returned from the bathroom and hopped onto the bed to sit.
“I love it! It’s exactly what I thought a love hotel would be like! Hm?”
Minami’s eyes fell onto the pillow. I followed her gaze and gulped, seeing what was next to it. There was a cylindrical shaped object...
“Oh, this is the kinda thing you use for shoulder massages!” Minami said without any hesitation, looking at me with a grin. “What’s this doing here? Do you think people get massages here?”
“You’re messing with me, aren’t you? You know what it is.”
“Do I?” she asked playfully. “Who knows.”
Minami turned it on and it began to vibrate. Just as I noticed that my eyes were gravitating toward her lower half, I quickly looked away. This place is crazy... Every part of this place is practically screaming at you to do it. Then my eyes fell to the side table where there were two thin, square pieces of packaging. When I’d turned on the lights it’d been too dark for me to notice them, but they’d been here the entire time. I could feel myself losing my mind. In order to not be too close to Minami, who had climbed completely on the bed to sit on her knees, I sat in a chair.
“Tired?” she asked.
“Well, yeah, we pretty much walked all day.”
“Yeah, I’m pretty sweaty. I think I’ll take a shower.”
My head spun to her and I saw that she was grinning and giggling teasingly. Behind me was a bathroom which had nothing but a transparent glass wall, which left nothing to the imagination in regard to what was going on behind it.
“You can see everything anyway, so you might as well take one with me, right?”
“N-No way!” I yelled, putting my head in my hand while looking at the blackout curtains that we’d tightly closed. “I’ll face that way, so take your bath.”
“Who cares if you look? I mean, what haven’t you seen at this point?”
“I’m not gonna look! There’s nothing there that I wanna see anyway at this point!”
“There’s probably more for you to see than you think. Come on, let’s go,” Minami said, getting off the bed.
Then she entered the bathroom and disappeared behind the door. She really has no shame... I mean, yeah, I’ve seen her naked before, but who wants to be stared at when they’re naked? Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Minami and the color of her skin as she entered the bathing area. I panicked and turned my back to her. She wasn’t the type of person to think about wearing a bath towel first to see how things were.
“Hmm...how do I turn on the hot water... Oh, is this it? Yeesh, that’s cold!”
In the next moment, I heard the sound of running water from behind me. As long as I didn’t turn around, I wouldn’t see anything, but if I nudged my head just a little bit one way I’d be able to see everything very easily.
I’d be able to see how her hair hung around the nape of her neck. I’d be able to see her breasts. I’d be able to see her tight waist. I’d be able to see her nicely shaped butt. I’d be able to see her legs toned from sports. No! Stop! Don’t imagine any of this! I could clearly imagine all these parts of her because I’d seen them before. But we were only here to sleep for the night. We’re not doing anything tonight. Not tonight. Not tonight. Not tonight. I repeated this to myself over and over again like a chant and eventually I heard the water stop.
“You can look now.”
I sighed with relief. It was like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I turned around, relaxed, but standing behind the glass was Akatsuki Minami in all her naked glory.
“Gah!”
“You fell for it!” Minami smiled like a predator catching its prey by attracting it with a sweet smell. “You won’t get this chance every day, so you should get a good look. You’re gonna make me lose confidence in my body,” she said.
She was somewhat more mature than she’d been in my imagination. She pressed up against the glass as if to show herself off to me. This was the first time I’d seen her naked since the Arima hot springs. Her naked body had more than just sex appeal. She was beautiful—elegant, even. But even so, my body’s primal urges couldn’t help but react. I felt a heat as hot as magma rise up from within me.
“Wh-What confidence? Who would care about your childlike body?”
I was somehow able to tear my eyes away, but Minami began cackling.
“You’re not fooling anyone! You were staring holes into me like you wanted something.”