Chief! Hello!
Hi, Toi-kun. Your feature tour’s finally tomorrow, huh?
The final checks for mahorova are going pretty well so far… Well, I say that, but Nayuki-kun’s the one handling most of it.
I don’t mind doing it, but Manager Daniel, I would appreciate it if you could put in some effort instead of just standing there and watching.
Oh, I couldn’t. It’d just be awful if we couldn’t log into mahorova like the other day again. Allow me to give you a shoulder massage, Nayuki, sir.
Looks like things are going just fine… So was there something you needed from me, Toi-kun?
Yes. I wanted to give you my weekly report tape before the tour started.
Thank you. I’ll give it a listen later.
Okay, I’m going to head to Nagi-kun’s bouquet-making class!
…I’m really glad that Toi-kun’s feeling better now.
I heard that he was hospitalized with a terrible case of hypothermia on the last day of your study trip…
He made a full recovery the next day. Even the doc was surprised.
It’s good that it wasn’t anything too serious. Let’s keep working hard so the tour succeeds without incident.
You said it. I’m gonna take a quick break and listen to Toi-kun’s tape.
(I still remember how Ryui-kun and Toi-kun came home from the study trip completely worn out… I wonder what kind of stuff Toi-kun talked about in his report.)
*click*
<Um… Hi, Chief. I’m so sorry for all of the trouble I’ve caused.>
<I remember how you and Yodaka-san worried for me when I ran barefoot out of my hotel room without asking any questions. Just like you did when me and my dear brother were stranded in the storm.>
<Because of the conversation I had with you that night, I think I finally started to understand some of the things I was worried about.>
<I think you helped me find the courage to tell my dear brother about the things that I’ve never been able to bring up to him. Even though…I didn’t really say it in the nicest way.>
(Yeah, I’ve never seen Toi-kun and Ryui-kun have an argument like that before.)
(But it’s normal for siblings to have little fights every now and then. I have them with Momiji sometimes too!)
<I… Just like I mentioned to you and Yodaka-san, I think I was scared of changing.>
<But my dear brother helped me think about the things that could happen after my change, just like Yodaka-san said. So…>
<I finally know how I truly feel. I don’t want my dear brother to be by my side, I want to be by his.>
(…He must’ve realized that on the day they got caught in the storm.)
<It might not sound like a huge difference, but that little difference is important to me.>
<So I want all of the guests who attend this tour to enjoy “a trip where you can come to terms with yourself”.>
<Chief, I hope you’ll be there to watch over the both of us until the end.>
Toi-kun… He really has gotten better. Both in body and in mind.
(There’s still a lot of stuff I don’t quite understand about Toi-kun and Ryui-kun’s family situation, but…)
…Fine, I guess ignorance is bliss or whatever.
(I think they don’t want us to know because they’re trying to be kind to us.)
(So if the day comes when they feel like they can lean on us, I want to do everything in my power to help them.)
(But until then, I’ll make sure the both of them have the greatest time possible here…!)
Ah, Ryui.
What? I gotta wake up early tomorrow, so I wanna get to sleep.
I’m sorry that I didn’t pick up the phone.
Huh?
When you and Toi got caught in the blizzard, you tried to call me too, right? Not just the chief. I saw your name in my missed calls.
……
Has anyone been able to call them yet?
Not yet. I’ve been trying to reach them this whole time…!
I can’t get through either.
I was wondering why none of my calls were going through, but I realized afterward that my phone was on airplane mode the whole time.
…Yeah, thought so.
So I’m sorry. But thank you for relying on me.
…Don’t get the wrong idea. I only called you ‘cuz you were at the top of my call history.
Ah, but I think you should apologize to the others for leaving the hotel without telling anyone where you were going. We were all worried for you.
Well… You don’t gotta tell me to do that. I’m gonna do it eventually.
Then do you want to practice just in case? I’m sorry I apologize I was wrong please forgive me I’ll do anything please have mercy—
What are you, doin’ a tongue twister?!
Hm… I see the Ward 15 tour is also held in the metaverse, similarly to Ward 11’s previous tour.
That tour featured a desert escape room, so I wonder what this one has in store for its guests…
Hmmm? Oh, are you that one guy who came to our bar during the team’s first tour?
Hrm… And you are?
I work at Yumejuya, the bar in Ward 17.
Hoh. I’m surprised you remembered who I was, especially considering how young you are.
Thank yooouu. Hope you’ll come visit us again.
You’re here to participate in the tour, right? Do you come to HAMA often?
*cough, cough* Well, yes, for my job.
Welcome to HAMA Tours’ “Self-Made Snow Hut Cocooning Tour”! The entrance is right this way!
The tour area’s kinda cold, so make sure to equip some warm clothes onto your avatars before you go in.
Oh, Hiroshi’s actually doing his job.
Well, shall we go?