Let The World Burn For You [Amamatsu]

7. Progress Made

"I think that's a love hotel."

"A love hotel as in..." Kaede made a suggestive gesture with her hands as she wore a smile, her boyfriend stifling a laugh.

"Guess so, unless you know of others that aren't just rooms filled with BDSM gear."

"Why do you know what's inside a love hotel's rooms?!"

"Calm down, Saihara." Rantaro chuckled. "We all have...experiences and some might be more, uhm...unique than others."

"Unique is one way to put it." Kokichi snickered.

"Oh look, there's a casino over there." Shuichi pointed out, desperate to change the conversation topic.

The Ultimate Supreme Leader immediately ran towards the building, giggling all the while his partner jogged behind him.

"Now I wanna hear that story about you in a love hotel." The blonde laughed, intertwining their fingers.

"Kaede..." He was almost completely red as his girlfriend teased him.

"You know, your ears get red before your face does every time you blush. Even with my blurry vision I can see it." The pianist pointed out

The adventurer turned away in response, covering the ear now facing his partner.

"Let's see what's going on at the casino before Oma blows it up or something."

Rantaro burst out laughing, causing the couple up ahead to turn around. They both exchanged surprised glances, it was the first time since Kaede's injury that they had witnessed their friend laugh after all. The most they had gotten was a chuckle here and there.

The inside of the casino wasn't anything extraordinary, simply what one would expect a casino to look like.

"This is the most underwhelming area of the school...what would we need a love hotel or a casino for?" The adventurer asked.

"Wha?!" Monophanie exclaimed in response, causing the group to wince. "Daddy worked really hard on these for you all!"

"Don't think we really need a love hotel though. If anyone really wanted 'private time' with somebody else, we've got our dorms." Kokichi pointed out.

"Which makes the fact that there's a price even more useless." Shuichi added.

The 5 monokubs tried arguing with the group for a bit longer before they disappeared.

"Let's go gambling!" The shortest group member yelled, ready to jump down the flight of stairs.

Then their monopads received a message.

—
-M. Harukawa has created the chat-
-M. Harukawa has added S. Saihara, K. Akamatsu, R. Amami, K. Momota to the chat-
-M. Harukawa has made K. Momota admin-

K. Momota: We should add Oma, he is Saihara's partner after all

M. Harukawa: ...

-K. Momota has added K. Oma to the chat-

M. Harukawa: Something's off about Shirogane today.
—

"Harukawa's suspicious of Shirogane." Rantaro summarised for his partner.

—
R. Amami: What's she been doing?

K. Momota: HaruMaki noticed she's been asking everyone really weird questions about your plans today

M. Harukawa: The main one is asking if you and Akamatsu are ever going to be on your own today.
—

Shuichi looked at his friends with a concerned look on his face, the adventurer knowing exactly what he was thinking.