Chapter 230

Returning home, the house was still devoid of any light, but this was something Ran Mouri had long known. Her mother had been following a case, and recently it had reached a critical point, so she would be home late.

The sky outside had turned completely dark, and Ran Mouri walked into her room almost without turning on the lights.

Arriving at the bedside, she buried her head directly into her quilt.

"Thud!"

The whole bed made a muffled sound, and it took a while for the room to fall into silence again.

After a while, a glimmer of light appeared in the dim room, illuminating Ran Mouri's slightly flushed face.

She operated her phone and dialed that number, and the other end of the line was answered quickly.

"Ran, is something the matter?"

A gentle voice, with no discernible ups and downs, but it was enough to make one slowly calm down.

Ran Mouri had also built up her mental preparation before she began to speak:

"Ren-ren, has the plan for this weekend been decided yet?"

"No. Do you have a suitable plan?"

"Mm... this weekend is my father's class reunion with his old classmates. There are many hot spring inns there, and there are also festivals and fireworks displays at night. A lot has happened around us recently, and I think everyone could go on a hot spring trip this weekend to relax."

"That's a pretty good choice. During this period, everyone has indeed been keeping their nerves on edge. We should have relaxed after Moon Shadow Island, and then we went to a private island for training. In that case, let's have everyone go to Limu County for a hot spring trip this month."

Hearing that her suggestion was accepted, Ran Mouri's mood also relaxed a lot. She suddenly remembered what Aunt Yumi had said about mixed bathing.

"By the way, many hot spring inns in Limu County are open-air and mixed-bathing. Ren-ren, remember to tell Miss Shijo and the others to bring swimsuits."

"Open-air? Mixed-bathing? Can't we choose the separate kind?"

"That's why I said to bring swimsuits, right?"

Ran Mouri knew that Amamiya would find it hard to accept this aspect, so she mentioned swimsuits. Even if it's mixed bathing, as long as you're wearing a swimsuit, it's actually not a big problem; the girls' side can accept it, and Amamiya should be able to accept it too.

"Besides, if the trip is arranged by Miss Shijo, then she will definitely book the entire hot spring inn directly. If it's just us, we don't need to consider so much, right?"

"Furthermore, even if it's mixed bathing, you're actually wearing a swimsuit. That situation is actually the same as going to the seaside and swimming in a swimsuit. Ren-ren wouldn't be unable to accept even a swimsuit, right?"

"...That, that wouldn't be the case."

Women's underwear tends to be private, and some underwear isn't waterproof, becoming transparent upon contact with water, but swimsuits are different. As long as it's not a very revealing style, it's actually not a big problem.

Ren Amamiya could still accept the swimsuit setting. Just like how you would encounter many girls wearing swimsuits when going to the beach, swimsuits are still acceptable.

"Then it's decided. I'll contact Miss Shijo; I accompanied my father to Limu County five years ago, so I know more about it and can explain it more clearly to Miss Shijo."

"That's fine, I'll leave it to you."

Hanging up the phone, Ran Mouri finally breathed a sigh of relief, her body turning over on the bed to lie on her back.

"Ren-ren's side is done, next is Miss Shijo's side."

"This weekend is everyone's relaxation holiday; if we're lucky, we might be able to run into Dad and the others in Limu County."

[Taking my boyfriend to give Mouri a surprise.]

Aunt Yumi's suggestion still made Ran Mouri, who was thinking about it now, very shy.

She doesn't deny that she has a good impression of Amamiya, but she isn't dating him yet. Suddenly being told this by Aunt Yumi, if she really brings Amamiya over and runs into her father and the others, wouldn't Aunt Yumi just treat Amamiya as her boyfriend?

But soon Ran Mouri calmed down a bit.

At that time, it should only be Aunt Yumi who thinks so. In that case, it's not a big problem. I've already laid the groundwork with Dad and Edogawa today; they both know Ren-ren is dating Sonoko, so they definitely won't think I'm dating Ren-ren.

Calming her mood, Ran Mouri felt that her head was no longer as hot as it was just now.

"In that case, the weekend is booked for a hot spring trip."

"By the way, is the one I bought before already too small to wear?"

Speaking of the hot spring trip, Ran Mouri suddenly thought of a very important question: her body had undergone a more comprehensive upgrade, and her body had grown further, so perhaps the swimsuit she bought before could no longer be worn.

She immediately got up, turned on the lights, drew the curtains in the room, and began to search for the swimsuit she bought last year.

Then she found the lonely, very skimpy swimsuit in the corner of the wardrobe, which could also be called a bikini.

The style wasn't particularly flashy, with a blue base, but the fabric used to cover the essential parts was just too little.

Ran Mouri's face twitched, and there was a hint of heartache in her eyes at this moment.

"I shouldn't have been talked into buying such a swimsuit by Sonoko last year. We didn't even go to the beach last year, so this swimsuit didn't even get a chance to be worn. This year... this year it's not appropriate."

Although she said that, Ran Mouri still took off her underwear and tried on the swimsuit to see.

Looking at the swimsuit straps on her back in the full-length mirror, which were almost impossible to tie.

"Ah, it really was a waste. This swimsuit wasn't cheap."

The key is that it wasn't cheap.

Considering that her own pocket money wasn't very much, Ran Mouri also felt a headache. This swimsuit from last year could no longer be used, and she still needed to buy a new one before the weekend arrived, otherwise, she wouldn't have the guts to enter the mixed bath wearing nothing.

Of course, there was another reason. The coverage of this swimsuit was still a bit too low.

Ran Mouri struggled for a moment, then dialed Amamiya's number again.

"Ren-ren, I want to ask you a question. If we let you choose a swimsuit, would you choose one that highlights the figure more, or one that is more conservative?"

"Eh?"

Suddenly asked this question, Ren Amamiya was also stunned. The image of the girls around him wearing different styles of swimsuits couldn't help but appear in his mind, especially Kaguya and Sonoko. But the background was very abrupt, it was at a public beach, which made him raise an eyebrow.

"Cough, I'd choose a more conservative one."

Looking at herself in the full-length mirror, she knew Amamiya would choose that way.

"Is it that Ren-ren doesn't like to look?"

"...This question isn't very appropriate to ask, right?"

"It's not a very private question either. And we'll be wearing them in a mixed bath this weekend, so I'm asking to understand so I can go buy a swimsuit."

"It's not that I don't like to look..."

Ren Amamiya was a bit embarrassed to say so. In fact, he was also a very worldly boy, and it wasn't that he was truly uninterested in those things; he used to just climb over the wall to take a look, but he had never really seen real people.

"It's just, if you girls wear beautiful swimsuits to the beach, won't you be seen by others? So, I think it's better to be a bit more conservative."

Ran Mouri, standing in front of the full-length mirror, stared blankly at herself in the mirror, and then she burst out laughing.

"Then I know, I'm hanging up."

— Author's Notes —

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