"Why are you here?" Isha was surprised
They are in a aquarium, strolling and following the couples enjoying their date.
"What do mean why, i should be the one asking."
The person in front of her is Takumi, the one who's also involved with Furuwari
"What is your relationship with Reika Heisir."
"Oh that guy? I'm a part timer in their restaurant, and also a so called friend."
"....." Isha gritted her teeth internally.
How come would she able to interrogate Reika if he isn't here
But he can asked this guy but not that much.
"What do you think of Reika." She asked him in a serious tone
"I'm not gay, what the fuck are you on."
"Is he a good person for you or not."
"..." He remained silent as he stopped clicking the camera.
"What do you think, you already seen what's inside the restaurant, why are you asking such unnecessary question, and it's not your business to ask about their personal agendas, all i can say is that, everything you've seen so far about him is genuine."
Takumi took a shot but he looks dissatisfied.
Isha didn't notice it, it's because it isn't Reika Heisir who's in front of her anymore.
Takumi glanced at Isha and there's also a glint in his eyes.
"If you don't want to be here anymore, go leave, i don't need an assistant like that guy said, it would be better that way, i'm used to work alone."
Isha is conflicted, she wants to go and seek out Reika and ask her colleagues or the association about their gathered information, but she also wants to see the ending of Isha's date.
"....." She's hesitant
"Go on, i will send you the film after this, give me your email."
"..... Are you picking me up." Her monotone voice reappeared.
"No, why would i pick up on a ferocious officer like you."
She gaze at his eyes, and in the end, she gave her email.
"Make sure you send the film." Isha ran walk out and climb upstairs to observe Reika once again.
"Sure...."
Meanwhile Takumi looked at the couple and narrowed his eyes.
He focused it on Furuwari who has indifferent face, full of doubt, anxiousness and fear while her husband is fully enjoying the show inside the aquarium.
".... That is if this film, goes according to the script, would it be a happy ending or not, would it be a different ending or not, i would never know, i just captured part of their life in this camera, even i wouldn't be able to determine if everything would go according to plan... It may give us a plot twist right now or maybe soon, but.... I hate this."
Takumi which is a soul linked Reika used his camera and deleted everything they have recorded so far.
Every photos, every video clips, are deleted.
Even if it all of those scenes gives a different blissful aesthetics and happy emotions, there is a character in this film that never changed face.
That is Furuwari's insecurity that ruins every shot.
....
Night time....
In the restaurant....
"How was your hot spring bath mister and miss Hakai?"
"Ah- it's you! How come.... Oh, so you are his friend?" Osomi was surprised and asked him a question.
"Yes, i am his replacement for a while."
"Hah, well as for your question, the hot spring is good, i feel like a baby." Osomi pinched his cheeks to demonstrate the bounciness of his skin.
"How about you miss Hakai." This time, there was no tone of asking, Takumi's eyes narrowed down yet she didn't noticed it.
"I'm fine, the hot spring is great."
"I'm glad you enjoyed it, 9 pm is going around, so this might be the end of the film."
"Haha, thank you for the hardwork and him too, please send our thanks to him." Osomi smiled at Takumi with heartfelt appreciation
"No problem, have a great night, adios..."
Osomi and Takumi waved a good bye but Furuwari still doesn't changed.
********
In the hotel.....
Osomi and Furuwari are finally alone, the two of them are silent, but Furuwari was the only one who wasn't looking at the view but then she encour herself to keep an act.
"Mister Heisir did really take a good care on this date, i got a lot of fun haha, even it feels like shameful since everything is free.... Haa, if it were you, this date would probably end at 2 hours." Osomi chuckled while looking up in the dark sky.
"....."
"Hmm, maybe not really 2 hours, you're wise at money so probably just 1 hour? You won't let me spend at excessive amount afterall."
There is a little lights that face the sky so the light exposure is not a problem, making the stars much more visible.
For Osomi, this is one of the best moments in his life, but for Furuwari, this is the worst.
She can see her husband approaching, but she can't look at him in the eyes.
She's guilty, her stomach hurts, her hands are sweating, the cold make her shivers, her ears are hot.
Osomi can recognize it too, so he held her cheeks and squish it and smile.
"Urgh- wharte, arwe you doinmb?" Furuwari held his hands
"That's not very you, what happened to my wife? I don't know, but speak up whenever you want, i will listen."
"...."
'It's not thay easy....'
Osomi hugged his wife, and soon pin her in the bed.
He tried his best to pleasure her, starting by removing her clothes, and reaching her underwear and reaching her place.
Furuwari reacted to it yet she felt nothing but disgust.
She can't erase in her mind the face of that man.
Osomi gave her a kiss, Furuwari accepted it but she's trembling, all she see is the face of that man.
Furuwari came, it isn't so skillful like Dorogi yet she came.
She wants to erase everything and tried to cope by approaching her husband's pants and removing it, she's going to suck through it but she's remembering the smug of that person.
She felt like she's puking but instead push away her husband.
"Huff... I... I can't do it...."
"Un?"
'I can't do it...'
"Oh... So you can get embarrassed too, ha... I think we both are still not ready for this... Even i myself is embarrassed as well." Osomi blushed
He totally misunderstood.
"It's still early, i will buy some midnight snacks for us." Furuwari said and wear back her clothes
"Thanks honey.... While your at it, i think i will just choose a great movie."
"Un."
Furuwari left Osomi in embarrassment but he's totally naive and didn't understand his wife's reaction.
He thought that even her wife has a cold and strict attitude, he would never guessed she could be embarrassed too.
.....
Furuwari ran away, dropping her tears down.
In Furuwari's mind, she can't remove the times she did that with Dorogi, she can't remove it in her mind, even if she knows he's not here, but once she returned to her work, it will happen again, she just can't remove him in her mind, the guilt is overtaking her yet she felt sorry for being aroused despite it's her husband who's front of her.
The times she did it with that kind of man, she can never forgive herself, yet she's aroused when thinking about it.
'I want to be with my husband.... Why can't i think about it! Why are you the one who's in my mind.'
She left outside the hotel, it's dark and no one would dare to venture outside due to darkness, yet she hope that those memories can just disappear the time she walk out there.
Her eyes are blurry, the road is dark ahead since the lights are dimmer in the back of the hotel which looks like a park
She ran away and then she crashed at someone.
She looked up and saw it was Takumi.
Yet, he was glancing at her as if she's a pathetic girl.
Her tears dropped even more yet she's anxious.
This person saved her multiple times yet also criticize her actions multiple times, her guilt suffocate her that she can't breathe properly anymore.
"You still didn't admit anything, am i right."
"....."
She looked down as she has no courage to meet his gaze.
"You're probably guilty now aren't you, thinking that this is too good to be true."
"....."
She's shaking, as she can't refute the fact, she wants to argue but find no words to say
"I offered this date so you can forget everything even for a while, you have people that support you including me and that police woman yet what did you do."
"....." She wants to sniff yet she's ashamed
"The whole date was wasted, your husband might felt this is the best day in his life yet the camera can't say so about her wife who never looked at anything or even smile.
"....."
"You ignore everything that your husband painstakingly worked hard to choose which place, which food and where would this end, everything was wasted yet he didn't realized."
"..."
"That his wife never looked at his efforts."
Those words punctured her like a knife.
She indeed never enjoyed the whole day, she didn't even remember what places, names or even the taste of food they ate except going back to their parents home, aquarium and hotel
"We have done everything in this day to help you, and only your choice can make difference, yet you've done nothing, you only realized everything when i just started to talk right? Everything i said never came in your mind and you are feeling guilty about everything what your husband done for this date."
People helping her, her husband choosing the places and foods, and a great film it never came to her mind.
A great film, wait... So everything in my expression are captured?
"You don't need to be worry about the film, i deleted everything, it would be waste of my time and my friends time to create a film with someone with long face, even him didn't even bother to make you smile for every photo he captured."
She can't do it anymore she feels like she's about to collapse but when he saw the Takumi put a plastic bag filled with foods and turning his back, she felt much better, like a child being relieved that her punishment is done as he's about to leave, yet it can't stop the tears and pain he inflicted.
"What a shame, your husband call you a super wife for being a practical girl and knows how to conserved properly, he praised you for being able to make everything work and convenient for a happy go lucky person like him, he's thankful that he have a super wife..."
She remembered the times where she discipline her husband to what things they should spend on, and everytime, she feels like she's schooling him, yet ever since Dorogi arrived in her life, those times changed that much where she wished she could return to.
"...."
"Too bad, i don't even see you befitting a title of a wife.... You abandoned your responsibility as one, so i will never acknowledge you as one."
Takumi's back fades away on the darkness.
A sturdy person like a rock yet every words was carved in her mind.
She even has no courage to pick up the bag or even go back to their room, she just wants to disappear and die.
She didn't know anymore if thst is also his intentions at saying this.
And then....
"Honey!"
A voice woke her up in her dilemma
It was Osomi who's shouting, he saw that her wife is crying so he rushed.
"Are you ok?"
"Sniff...."
Osomi cuddle her once again.
"Take your time, i received a message on Takumi saying that your buying food alone where the streets are dark so he wants me to escort you...."
Furuwari was surprised yet ashamed.
It was obvious that he hated her choices, and he might even know that she can't really be mentally stable with her anxiety, he's angry for all efforts of the person she loves the most was wasted, yet...
She never expected that he would buy a food for their sake despite insulting her and create a well made scenario to not make his naive husband worry.
It was a dark night, Osomi can only see a dim light in his eyes that he would never know that it is as dim as his wife's struggle and Furuwari facing windows of bright light yet it feels unacceptable and unwelcomed.
Only silence remained until one decided to stop gazing at different lights.
Inside the plastic bag contains the foods they would eat, and a light blue ticket that has summer vibe and the name of a restaurant.