Book 3: Chapter 2: 23rd of August (Sunday)
I woke up to the feeling of oppressive heat. Turning over, I looked at the alarm clock next to my pillow. It was 10am right now, and three… no, just four minutes. Even though there was barely one week left in August, the heat showed no signs of leaving us alone.
“You’ll get heatstroke even in your room,” Akiko-san once told me, so I quickly turned on my room’s air conditioning. Since I had been sweating quite a bit in my sleep, I changed into some clean clothes. Upon opening the door leading to the living room, I was hit by a strong heat wave that gave me trouble breathing for a second.
When I looked up, I saw my old man standing on a ladder, fiddling around with the A/C, as Akiko-san looked up at him with a somewhat worried gaze. Although it was just another Sunday, it felt weird to see both of them in the living room together, but then I realized that maybe this was the reason.
“Ah, Yuuta. Morning.” My old man met my gaze.
“Yuuta-kun, good morning.”
“Good morning. So, uhh, is it not working?”
“We haven’t gotten any cold air from it for a bit now. Akiko-san woke me up, saying that it was rattling a lot.”
“Should I help you?”
“Ah, no, I’m still looking into it. I don’t know what to fix, either. Not to mention that recent A/Cs aren’t even made to be fixed by an amateur anymore.”