Monday, August 23
Unlike the girls of room 106 who were enjoying their summer vacation, Koutarou was busy with his part-time job.
However, since Koutarou was receiving his Knight's salary from Theia, he didn't actually have to work. Totaling up all of the money he had received from Theia so far, he had enough to buy a small house.
However, Koutarou had no intention of using that money for himself. He would save it up and use it for everyone when they went out to play. He didn't have it in him to see the salary he had gotten out of his relationship with Theia as actual money. It didn't feel right to him to see the money he had gotten from Theia turning into instant noodles or toilet paper. However, he didn't feel any resistance if that money was used so everyone could have fun. He felt it was natural that something appeared from a relationship should be used for relationships.
So, Koutarou continued his part-time job despite having a vast fortune for a high school student. The girls around him laughed at him for only being able to live so awkwardly. However, while they laughed, they loved that awkward side of him, because they knew that him continuing his part-time job was his roundabout of treasuring them. Knowing that, the girls didn't stop him from working, they simply watched over him with smiles.
“Koutarou, it's your turn.”
“Ok.”
Koutarou slowly reached out to throw his die before moving his own piece the amount of steps the die showed. Koutarou was currently playing a board game with Sanae, Yurika, Kiriha and the two haniwas. They had already finished everything for today and were currently killing the time until it was bedtime by playing a game.
“It says to draw an event card.”
The objective of the board game was to escape from an old European manor. Many of the accidents in the manor were decided by event cards. The space that Koutarou's piece had stopped on had instructions to draw such a card.
“Then take this.”
“Thanks.”
Koutarou drew a card from the pile of event cards that Kiriha presented to him.
“What did you get?”
“Uhm... 'You broke down a wall and are attacked by a zombie. You can fend it off by discarding a weapon card. If you don't discard, or can't discard, you are chased around by the zombie and lose a turn'.”
“What will you do Ho?”
“Zombies are scary Ho.”
“I don't have any weapon cards. Guess I'm sitting out a turn. Haaah...”
Koutarou glanced at his hand and shook his hand. The next moment he let out a loud yawn. It was getting late and he was exhausted from work, so Koutarou was getting really tired.
“Next is Karama-chan.”
“Brother, the die Ho.”
“Be careful Ho. There are monsters everywhere in this manor Ho!”
“HoHo-!!”
“The haniwas are really into it.”
“They're probably happy because they usually only get to watch.”
Once Koutarou's turn was over, the turns moved from the haniwas, to Yurika, to Kiriha and to Sanae before returning to him. However, since he was skipping a turn he had to wait for another round. The game continued for another round and passed over to Koutarou once more.