無銭乗車？
A free ride?
Sakuya: ......So? Why're you coming along?
Joining with Sakuya-san, whose work calls for a photography hike through the mountains, I head for the Hazama mansion in the passenger seat of her SUV.
Kei: I thought I would take a better look inside the house. I also bought a disposable camera, today, too.
Sakuya: Is that right? Okay, I'll park near the mansion, so you should sit tight inside there until I get back.
Kei: If I use the bus to head back on my own, I'll make sure to call--- wait a sec? Sakuya-san, you don't know my number, do you?
Sakuya: If I did, there's no way I'd have used such a roundabout way to find you.
Kei: Right. You wouldn't normally be looking up Youko-chan's number in the phone book and calling her house, would you?
Sakuya: But since you have a home phone, usually only your friends would know your cell number, right?
Kei: That's true, but the tax counselor has been helping me out so often lately, I let her have it, too. Remember? You introduced her to me.
Sakuya: Ah......
Kei: Who's the careless one now?
Sakuya: Oh, shut it. Just go ahead and key in your number.
She fetches her cell from the dashboard and lobs it in my direction.
......By the way...
I have absolutely no intention of sitting tight in that house.
My goal for today is to go to the Ohashirasama sacred tree.