I Was Sleep-Deprived at a Matchmaking Meeting and Ended Up Engaged - Chapter 16

“Can I ask you to do something dangerous?”

When Ayato was called out to the hallway by Midori, for some reason Keiki was waiting there with Yuya.

He suddenly came out with that.

“D-dangerous?”

Various dangerous scenarios raced through Ayato’s mind.

Most of them were things that would probably make Keiki say,

“No, that wouldn’t happen in normal life in Japan,”

but still.

“Would you come to my apartment today?”

That’s what Keiki asked.

Hishikawa, the president’s secretary who was walking down the hallway, spotted Shiragane Keiki.

…Should I report this to the president?

No, no, he’s just a regular employee now.

He probably wouldn’t want special treatment.

But marrying Fujimiya Ayato—

As she watched them thinking this, Keiki asked Ayato who had just arrived,

“Can I ask you to do something dangerous?”

I’d prefer if you didn’t put Fujimiya Ayato in danger,

she thought, when Keiki said:

“Would you come to my apartment today?”

Hishikawa tilted her head.

…Does that mean you’re the dangerous one?

At Keiki’s words, Ayato, Yuya, and Midori gasped.

“You’re not planning to check, are you!?” said Yuya.

“Do ghosts come out!?” said Ayato.

“Does that mean Shiragane-san is dangerous!?” said Midori excitedly.

…Huh?

So, I have the same thought process as that weird-haired girl?

Well, at least it’s better than Fujimiya’s “Do ghosts come out?” she thought, when Keiki explained the situation.

He said he wanted to check how a woman who seems interested in him knows about his activities inside his apartment.

“I want to confirm whether she’ll find out immediately when you come to my place.”

But if that woman is a stalker, then Fujimiya would be in danger.

However, if Shiragane-san is just saying this to lure Fujimiya to his home, it would be bad to interfere.

…Fujimiya.

I kind of liked her.

Well, if her partner is Shiragane-san, I guess there’s nothing to be done.

The first time I saw her up close was after she joined the company, when we happened to sit at nearby tables in the company cafeteria.

I thought her laugh was cute.

Many female employees like that have joined over the years, but Fujimiya left a particularly strong impression on me.

Back then, at the next table, Fujimiya smiled cutely and said:

“This morning, my little sister said—

she couldn’t sleep because her muscles had turned into kappa.

“…Turned into kappa!?”

Everyone asked back, and I mentally asked back too.

“I thought, no wonder she couldn’t sleep.

But when I listened carefully, it turned out she meant they’d become active~”

Sometime after that, I passed Fujimiya walking down the hallway talking with her colleagues.

There were other pretty and cute girls too, but for some reason, only her voice reached my ears.

“Hey, can I eat that undersandagy from earlier?”

It’s sata andagi!!

Recalling this, Hishikawa reached a conclusion.

…This isn’t love, is it?

Be happy with Shiragane-san—.

Hishikawa passed the corner without going over to the four who were still arguing.

In the end, Ayato ended up visiting Keiki’s apartment that night.

After work, they met up at a nearby shop, had a meal, and then went.

After dinner, while driving toward the apartment, Keiki said:

“Sorry about this.

Getting you involved in something troublesome.”

“No, it’s fine.”

After all, I am your fiancée.

If there’s some strange woman lurking around you,

it feels unsafe, so I think it’s my duty to check, Ayato thought.

“It’s better to clarify these things quickly, right?”

“Yeah, I guess so.”

“They say ‘strike while the iron is a holiday,’ don’t they?”

“…It’s ‘strike while the iron is hot.'”

…Oh, right.

But then Keiki said:

“I like that.

Strike while the iron is a holiday.”

He laughed brightly and said it means every day’s a day off.

At that moment, for some reason,

it suddenly occurred to her.

Days like this, riding in the car with Shiragane-san, having trivial conversations—.

For Ayato, it was the first time she could imagine married life with Keiki, which had felt so distant, without any sense of discomfort.

Keiki’s apartment was different from the high-rise she had imagined.

It wasn’t that big, but there was plenty of greenery in front of the building, with a park next to it.

The exterior had a chic, calm atmosphere.

After emerging from the underground parking lot, the two somehow found themselves looking up at the building from the front garden.

“My room’s on the fifth floor.

It’s not very high, so the view isn’t great.

If it were too high up, if something happened, you couldn’t jump down, right?”

Oh no.

He thinks like me…, Ayato thought.

“But you’d still die from the fifth floor, right?”

“That’s why I think you could jump from there to that tree, then to the entrance roof over here.”

“There’s a small building over there, isn’t there?

Maybe you could jump onto that too.”

“True.”

“…But with this route,

if someone followed it in reverse, they could break in.”

“True.”

Even as she said “burglar,” in Ayato’s mind, the woman from the red car was standing on Keiki’s balcony, peering inside.

…Sorry.

Falsely accusing you…

“But anyway, you probably couldn’t jump to the tree, so I’m thinking of moving.”

“Huh?”

“I think a detached house might be better for living with you.

Let’s go see some soon.”

“You’re going to live with me?”

“…It would be a problem if I lived with someone else, wouldn’t it?”

He was about to say, since I’m marrying you.

Oh, that’s right…