There are so many geniuses in Omni-Anime! What's wrong with adding me?

But if it had been Ashiri, she probably wouldn't have hesitated to sweet-talk her into giving her some pocket money at this point.

Was Sakayori Iroha strong-willed, or surprisingly clumsy with her feelings...?

"I-is this your car? Can you drive?" Sakayori Iroha immediately fastened her seat belt in trepidation, nervous beads of sweat seeping out at her temples beneath her neat bun.

Without a word, she tossed over the driver's license she kept in the car.

Sakayori Iroha quickly opened it and carefully checked it twice, confirming that everything was in order—just kidding. She hadn't seen a driver's license in nearly ten years. How would she know whether anything was wrong with it?

Who knew how many years it had been since she'd last looked through her parents' licenses out of curiosity?

She could only pretend to be reassured as she handed it back, then pray that her companion wasn't awful enough to forge documents.

"W-where are we going?"

"Mount Takao."

"Whaaat?! We're climbing that high?"

"It's 599 meters. That's pretty reasonable for this area, isn't it? More importantly, the trails are well developed. Or would you rather climb Mount Kumotori?"

"I'm sorry! Takao is fine!" Restrained by her seat belt, she could only lean forward in a half bow of apology.

Himemiya Chihaya glanced at the area the belt made rather conspicuous—which was probably about average in size—and slowly started the car.

Incidentally, Mount Kumotori stood 2,017 meters above sea level, making it the highest peak nearby, spanning Tokyo, Saitama, and Yamanashi.

Although Tachikawa City lay toward the western side of the Tama Area, it didn't have much in the way of mountains, just like Tokyo's wards.

Mount Takao was on the outskirts of Hachioji City, almost twenty kilometers away from them even in a straight line.

That was