Teacher Kaibe smiled and said, "This resort's main selling point is authentic forest living, and it's scheduled to open next year. But it's mostly finished now, so the organizers released a batch of trial-stay slots. I just happen to have a few."
When Suzuki Sonoko heard the phrase "authentic forest living," she felt a little tempted. She had always liked trying new things.
But...
She took the envelope and looked it over, then turned to Teacher Kaibe and asked curiously, "If it's such a good opportunity, why don't you go yourself?"
Teacher Kaibe stiffened slightly, then shook his head. "I still have to help the children rehearse—before I took on this job, I didn't expect everyone's progress to be this slow. Now I can only work overtime."
Suzuki Sonoko looked at him sympathetically. "Then good luck."
She rummaged through the invitation letter in hand again. "Hm? The gathering time is noon today, and the meeting place is right nearby?"
Teacher Kaibe did not join the discussion. He left behind an invitation letter and walked away.
Once he was far enough away, he arranged for the children to board the bus while quietly letting out a sigh of relief.
Looking at the high school students enthusiastically discussing their trip to the resort, Kaibe Shigeru could not help muttering inwardly, "I do feel a little bad for them, but if I think on the bright side, maybe I'm just overthinking it."
As a fanatical lover of horror novels and mystery novels, Teacher Kaibe was very much the kind of person who loved dragons only from a safe distance—the more terrifying a scene was in a novel, the more he liked it, but when it came to similar scenes in reality, he only wanted to run away as fast as possible.
And this