"Boss, open a room."
This is a hot spring hotel with two floors. It is not big and cannot be said to be luxurious. The walls and floors are made of bamboo and wooden boards, and the roof is neatly covered with a layer of black and gray tiles. The overall look is very similar to the ancient buildings of the big country next door.
Nobita carried the sleeping Shizuka on his back, put down his luggage, and said to his boss, who was wearing a white vest and lying leisurely on a wooden chair, holding a Japanese fan decorated with patterns and slowly fanning himself.
"Um?"
The boss moved his wrinkled eyelids, and then opened them slightly. The expression on his face looked a little surprised, because he usually didn't see any guests renting a house during the day.
"welcome."
After the boss reacted, he quickly put away the fan, stood up and said to Nobita with a smile: "Come, come, guest, will you rent a room?"
"Um."
"A single room costs 1,500 yen per night, and if you stay during the day, it's 3,000 yen."
Nobita thought about it after hearing this. Before departure, the husband generously gave them a lot of travel expenses. If it was 3,000 yen, rounded up, it was almost equal to free accommodation.
After feeling that the price was right, Nobita was about to ask if there was a larger room when he suddenly noticed that the boss was staring at the sleeping Shizuka on his back.
After a while, the boss seemed to understand something, and the smile on his face was brighter than before. Then he came forward and whispered to Nobita: "This guest, hehe, if there is no 'that', I will You can use this place for free for guests, but..."
However, before the boss could finish speaking, Nobita immediately blushed after understanding the implication of the boss's words. Then he gritted his teeth and angrily said to the boss: "Ok two rooms, want the best!"
The boss was stunned for a moment, not understanding what was going on with the customer in front of him, but he was frightened by Nobita's expression. He immediately stepped on wooden slippers, hurriedly walked to a cabinet, rummaged for a while and took out He picked up two keys, then returned to the original place and handed them to Nobita.
Nobita glared at the boss with a thief look on his face, then took the key directly from his hand, threw down 5,000 yen, turned around and left.
"Hey, guest, let me help you carry your luggage!" Suddenly, the boss hurriedly stood up and asked.
"No need!" Nobita didn't even look back.
...Watching Nobita go upstairs, the boss kept staring at a certain place in that direction, and finally couldn't help but swallow a gulp of saliva.
"It's such a shame to have such a good figure." After Nobita disappeared completely from the stairs with Shizuka on his back, the boss looked away, with a smile on his face that was still full of meaning.
...
Nobita looked at the two keys in his hand, one was No. 3 and the other was No. 2. These two rooms were facing each other. They were not sliding doors, but the classic turn-handle door. They were among the few rooms on the second floor. A mid-center position.
After putting down his luggage, Nobita opened the door to room number two with the key.
However, the moment I opened the door, a smell that I don't know how to describe hit my face. It couldn't be said to be smelly, but it was uncomfortable to smell it.
This room is about the same size as Nobita's room in Nobita's family. There is only a table and two mats on the dark green tatami. On the front is a window that opens from the inside out, and next to it is a medium-sized wooden Cabinet, nothing else.
"Damn... I should have chosen a better hotel."
Nobita sighed. There was only this hotel nearby, and the others were all hotel-like buildings. Staying there for one night would definitely cost a lot, and they didn’t plan to stay there, but they spent two nights on the train last night. No one had even slept for a minute, but the passengers whose lives were hanging on by a thread slept soundly.
Nobita squatted down and touched the tatami. After confirming that it was quite clean, he slowly put Shizuka down.
Then, he turned around and went to get the quilt from the cabinet. After checking whether it was clean, he found a place to lay out the quilt. But after thinking about it carefully, he opened Shizuka's backpack. Shizuka had put a clean set inside. A change of clothes and a large coat. Although Nobita didn't know why Shizuka packed these things at the time, they unexpectedly came in handy at this time.
So Nobita used Shizuka's change of clothes as a pillow and her coat as a quilt. For some reason, he just couldn't trust Shizuka to cover her with the hotel's quilt. Besides, the sun was out now and there was no air conditioning fan in the room. Even if the window was open, it would still be... It's very hot, so wearing a piece of clothing will keep you cool on your stomach and you won't catch a cold.
After settling Shizuka, Nobita went back to his room, not forgetting to lock and close the door before leaving (you can open it from the inside, but you need a key from the outside).
In room 3.
...Nobita's head was resting on the tatami with his schoolbag on his head.
He didn't know why, but he couldn't fall asleep even though he was very sleepy.
He just stared at the dark brown ceiling.
He had no way of getting rid of the white thing in his body. No matter how hard he pinched the arm, he would only end up in pain with no reaction at all.
As a result, he quickly gave up the idea of studying that white thing, at least there was nothing he could do about it now.
After an unknown amount of time, Nobita stared at the ceiling and gradually recalled some things.
"I don't know why, if other boys like a girl, they may try to get close to her, attract her attention, and try their best to let her see how good they are. I did do this when I was a child, but when I grow up... ...I found myself to be the complete opposite.”
"For a useless person like me, the first reaction when I like someone when I grow up is to feel inferior."
"But I have liked her for 13 years."
"Because I like her, I don't know when I started to get nervous when I saw her. I didn't dare to say a few words to her. I couldn't even look her in the eyes. But secretly, I was secretly talking to her. Pay attention to her and watch her every move.”
"Sometimes the seats were assigned, and I always looked forward to sitting with her, but in the end we couldn't even be assigned to the same group. I remember one time, I was at the back of the first group, and she was at the end of the fourth group. In the past, I, who was originally short-sighted, spent most of the semester in painful struggle..."
"I often watched her walking alone on the path filled with sunset from a distance, and peeked at her profile reading quietly in the library. I was eager to attract her attention, but I was afraid of attracting her attention. She didn't look. When I was watching, my eyes always followed her, hoping that she would look at me, but whenever she turned to me, I always hurriedly avoided her sight before her eyes came."
"We seem to live in the same town, on the same street, and even live less than a few hundred meters apart, but I always feel that the distance between her and me has become farther and farther, as if , just like two strangers who have never met before."
"Now that I have grown up, I will not bother my all-powerful good friend with anything. Of course, when it comes to feelings, I think even it can't do anything."
"It's been 13 years, although I still don't understand the meaning of the word "like". But I think it means that I don't ask for anything in return. As long as I can see her, I will be very happy. Once I talk to her, no matter how troubled I am, the corners of my mouth will smile. She smiled unconsciously, and if she glanced at me one more time inadvertently, it would be as if she would laugh out loud with happiness even in her dreams."
Gradually, Nobita fell asleep. He didn't know what the words that suddenly popped into his mind meant. He just vaguely remembered that he had a person he had liked for 13 years, and one day not long ago, I finally made up my mind to confess my love to her...
