CH 15

Chapter 15 – Take Good Care of Your Hair

“Welcome home, master! … Eh, it’s Yuji-sama! Hey Kotone-chan, Yuji-sama’s here!”

I go to the maid cafe on the days when Kotone-chan has a part-time job. If I keep doing that, the other maids will surely remember my face.

“Ah, Yuji-sama. Welcome home.”

The other maids call me ‘Yuji-sama’, so Kotone-chan seems to have gotten used to calling me that. Well, at first Kotone-chan called me that and the other maids copied her.

“Yuji-senpai” at school, “Yuji-sama” at the maid cafe. Both are perfect in terms of treatment. In fact, they are twice as good, so do more!

Kotone-chan, who is treated as my personal maid, took me to my seat.

I think she explained that she knows me, and when she’s available, Kotone-chan will serve me. I’m glad for this special treatment.

“It’s been raining all the time lately and it doesn’t feel nice, does it?”

A staple conversation and that is, weather talk! The weather card is the strongest.

“It’s the rainy season, so it can’t be helped. But I certainly don’t like the high humidity. It makes my hair unruly.”

Kotone-chan strokes her twintails. The perfect twintail as usual. The fact that her hair looks effortlessly smooth is a sign that she works that hard on her hair.

“My sister isn’t like that. I’m always in love with her hair, it’s so smooth.”

Isn’t that a boomerang? I’m falling in love with your smooth hair.

“Hmm… Kotone-chan with a smooth twin-tail would say something like that? I saw it as a declaration of war against me and my messy hair.”

“Eh, n-no. Yuji-sama’s hair is nothing like that at all…”

And then her eyes went to my head.

It’s a disastrous situation like a small explosion. I even tried to be fashionable and put on wax, but how did it end up like this…

“…Yuji-sama’s hair, isn’t your hair getting quite long?”

“Hmm? Well, maybe I should cut it soon.”

When I plucked my bangs, they were long enough to cover my eyebrows. The back feels longer. Maybe it’s time to cut it.

Do fashionable people go to the hairdresser often? For me, I go when I feel my hair’s gotten long enough. It takes me a few months to feel that way.

“Do you want me to cut it?”

“Eh?”

“Yuji-sama’s hair, I’ll cut it if you’d like.”

She suggested she cut my hair.

Hair is said to be a long friend, or a woman’s life. Hair is an important part of a person’s life.

To be touched by her, to have her touch that important part… Somehow it’s kind of exciting.

“Then, I’ll accept your help…”

“Yes! Then let’s discuss our plans again.”

I was saluted sharply with a smile. Why? I won’t make such a crude comment.

Kotone-chan withdrew from the salute to the back of the room as if she was flowing. But she soon returned.

“I-I’m sorry! I forgot to ask for your order…”

Yes, this is a maid café. Let’s contribute to sales for Kotone-chan’s sake and pretend that this carelessness never happened.

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I live with my father in our house. My mother passed away when I was very young. My father lives with me but is so busy with work that it’s rare to see him.

It’s not that different from living alone.There was a time when I was a little nervous because I felt like the main character in a school light novel, but I couldn’t see the slightest prospect of living with a beautiful girl in the future, so I was able to maintain my composure.

But now…!

“S-Sorry to disturb you!”

Kotone-chan came to my house. It’s not a dream or an illusion. This is reality. It is undeniably real.

Kotone-chan said she’d cut my hair.

I was very excited when I asked for it, but the problem was the location.

We couldn’t go to Kotone-chan’s house. Cutting it on the street would look like a weird performance, and above all, it would be embarrassing. The same goes for the park. Or rather, it’d be better not to do it outside.

So we talked about my house.

Even though we are boyfriend and girlfriend, it was my home we were talking about. I was afraid she’d resist, but Kotone-chan agreed with a smile, as if to say it was a good idea. With that, it was decided.

I wonder if her vigilance is working properly? Despite my worries, I invited her into my house today.

Naturally, my father is away on business. So it’s just the two of us… A young man and woman alone together!

Please hold on to my reason. I couldn’t help but make this wish, even though it’s about myself. I couldn’t trust myself to the point that I wanted to rely on God.