Third person POV
After that, at 2:21 p.m., Hoshi and his group went back to the main house in the estate. Hoshi's grandfather and older sister, meanwhile, stayed in the factory working, with Mariya doing some more taste testing on more fresh batches of newly made sake. But Mariya did promise to go back to the main house once her part-time work was done. So, Hoshi leads his friends to an area on the second floor in the huge house where their guest rooms are waiting to be occupied.
"Here we go," he said to them as he turned on the lights in the hallway, revealing 4 doors leading to 4 guest rooms, "this floor will be your rooms for your stay here in this city."
His friends were amazed to see such a part of the floor being offered by the family head's grandson.
"For us?"
"Really?"
Their friend then nodded with a smile. "Yes, each room can hold 2 to 3 people, too, so you guys may use them however you like."
While Hoshi's friends are considering it, three household servants come to drop off their belongings nearby.
"Here's their stuff, Hoshi-san," one of them said to him.
"Thank you." Hoshi bowed his head quickly and slightly.
With that, the three household servants left the area.
Then, finally, his friends noticed their belongings piling up against the wall.
"Oh, our stuff…" Saki commented.
"Yes, enjoy your stay here," Hoshi said to them positively, before giving them the keys to those 4 rooms.
And so, Bokuto, Saki, Sha, and Taro decided to have one room for each one of them.
They did so and carried their belongings to their new and separate guest rooms.
As they entered, Hoshi looked in each of their rooms.
The rooms are roomy, big, nice, and traditional in the style of the interior.
His friends are very appreciative of the rooms they have for their entire stay in Osaka city.
They didn't do any harm to any of the available amenities in the guest rooms out of respect for their friend's status as the family head's grandson.
And after that, Hoshi left the area and went somewhere else as his friends settled in their new rooms.
Shortly thereafter, Hoshi went to the family estate library to read some books and do some research on yokai he and Kuro might encounter in the near future. There in the huge library, he gets some books on Russian literature and Japanese folk and mythology and goes to a table to put them down. Once those were done, he sat down and opened them, before starting to flip the pages and read them. As he reads, Kuro starts to manifest because he wants to read the texts, too. So, Hoshi allows him to do so for him. And because of that, both sides of him are now reading books together while conversing with each other in a single body.
Then, 7 minutes later, while reading a book about Japanese yokai, they stumbled upon a yokai known as the Shuten Dōji, which was a ferocious, wine-loving ogre who terrorized modern-day Kyoto with his nightly rampages. They also found out that, in most versions of the folktale, he also kidnapped young women, for nefarious purposes best left unsaid, so the reasons behind those kidnappings are left unwritten in the books.
"Woah, that yokai is ferocious…" Hoshi commented.
Kuro then nodded in agreement.
So, they kept on reading about the yokai's description and origins.
Then, they saw a picture of it, which was taken from a historical document from Kyoto.
"He looks scary…" Hoshi said.
"Yeah," Kuro responded in agreement.
The huge family estate library was owned by the Takada family for generations, and it contains some of Osaka city's historical documents stretching way back to the Heian period.