Back from the Bath! An Extra 4,000 Words! (Continued)

Being able to have the place to himself did put him in a good mood.

So Hachiman stopped making things difficult for Yukimura, picked up his clean clothes, and headed to the men's bathhouse.

Unlike the bathhouse on the men's side, the women's bathhouse next door seemed quite lively.

The soundproofing was good, though, so he could only vaguely tell that there were a lot of people there.

When he reached the men's bathhouse, as expected, there was no one inside.

However, Hachiman felt that after entering the bathhouse, there seemed to be some noise near the entrance.

It seemed someone had put up some sort of sign at the entrance to stop others from coming in.

Whenever someone tried to approach, he could vaguely hear—

"Hachiman Hikigaya is in there."

"That guy, yeah, the one with the twenty-two centimeters."

"The one from the training camp..."

"What? Then I'll wash up later."

"Me too!"

"..."

Why did this have to happen?

Hachiman felt like he was being excluded.

Compared to the men's side, the women's side was much livelier.

Naturally, plenty of girls were bathing at this hour.

There were 154 students in the grade altogether. Although they had been split into two groups and placed in different inns, there were still nearly forty girls at the inn they were currently staying in.

If everyone truly yielded to one another, no one knew when they would finally get a chance to bathe.

Classmate Sakayanagi was among them. Naturally, she had her little dog by her side; Kamuro was washing her hair, while Morishita stood nearby holding the shampoo.

It really made Class A's students seem close.

However—

"It seems Horikita, Ichinose, and Kushida haven't come yet."

Kamuro noticed that.

"Everyone has different bathing schedules and habits. It would be