574 574. Happy New Year?




If you wore that, did they stop you from taking ...... off?
Yes.
'You mean you can't make a girl take off her own clothes?
I don't know about that.

 Sakura flipped through her sketchbook as she said this.
 On other pages were drawings of kimonos with slightly different patterns and styles.

'I tried all sorts of things, but the only one that didn't get taken off was the one with the nihonium.
It's not so much the kimono as the clothes, is it?
I see.
Thanks, that's all you need to know for now.
Yeah.

 Sakura nodded and closed her sketchbook with a smirk.
 I turned my gaze to the side to Alice, who was quietly listening to me.

'So that means it's strongest for Alice to dress up as Nihonium.
We all did.
'What? Everyone?
"Sakura-chan.
Okay.

 At Alice's request, Sakura opened her closed sketchbook again.
 She cast Genesis and summoned from the open page of Nifonium.

'Honehone.'

 At the same time, Alice also called her fellow monsters.
 The small plush-like skeleton on her shoulder returned to normal human size.

''Oh, oh.''

 I was at a loss for a response.
 The skeleton Hone Honehone, deformed looking it, is wearing a nihonium kimono.
 Perhaps drunk on the good looks (...), Hone Honehone posed in the kimono in a "yo yo" kind of way.

It's like this.
Yeah, right. Everyone?
Yeah, guys.

 Alice nodded, and her fellow monsters on her started to ramble (、、、、、、) all at once.

 The skeleton is still humanoid, so that's good, and the little devil and the zashikiji are just as well suited to it.
 But the slime doesn't look good in any way, and then there's GauGau and the giant dragon.

...... gauGauGauGau?
I wasn't frightened.
No way!

 The shocking fact that popped out of Sakura's mouth.
 It was the kind of fact that I wouldn't have wanted to know if I could.

 I decided to quickly forget about it and returned the conversation to its natural (、、、、、) direction.

'But if that's the case, I should have gone too.
Did you want to see me naked?
'I wanted to see the kimono! Everyone--especially Emily and others--look good.

 I remember the New Year's visit when I was still free, when I was a student.

 I remember thinking that it's not enough to have girls in sundresses that look three times prettier than usual and that it's not enough to be revealing.

I'm not sure if that's the case, but if it is, then go ahead and do it.
"Huh?
Alice, go tell the others.
Yes, sir!

 Alice saluted and ran out of the salon.

'So I'm going to Vanadium-chan's place.
Huh? Hey, hey--

 Even Sakura ran out of the salon without having time to call her back.

 My hands are gnawing vainly as I grab the sky.

 What starts ......?

     ★

What's starting ......?

 My doubts grew deeper, and I couldn't help but utter the same words.

 Vanadium Dungeon, first basement floor.

 The dungeon's spirit, Vanadium, had created the interior of the temporarily expanded space.
 The interior was an exact replica of what Sakura had drawn.

 Sakura's drawings were shown to me, and they had a super technique that rivaled the super assistants in a certain manga artist manga.

 This space, which was based on this drawing, was also faithful to reality (、、、、、).

 Shinto shrine.

 A group of friends are gathered in a place where a miko might be sweeping with a bamboo broomstick.

 They're not just there, they're all dressed in kimonos.

 Emily and Alice in the adventurer's group, Celeste and Eve and Sakura in the adventurer's group.
 Elsa and Ena from the merchant group.
 Aurum and Vanadium, the spirits, and Vanadium.

 Almost everyone living in the mansion was dressed in their sunny clothes.
 Incidentally, each of them had slightly different sunny clothes.
 To think that Sakura had waded through all of this, one could only marvel at her talent.

 By the way, Carbon refused and is still huffing and puffing from the shadows a bit away.

'Uh ...... Sakura-san? What is this?

 I was still a little unable to grasp the situation, so I asked Sakura fearfully.
 I even gave her the nickname.

"New Year's event.
I'm sorry.
Uncle, you didn't come over here to do this. Isn't this a good opportunity?
Haha. ......

 It's true that I haven't done anything New Year's-like: .......
 Well, if that's what you mean.
 Maybe it's okay to have a festive event like New Year's.

 That's why I decided not to interfere and let Sakura take care of it.

I'll leave it up to Sakura.
No, you can't do that!

 I knew I couldn't leave it to him.