Back to her daily work at the studio, Louise arrives on time to attend their team's daily meeting in the morning only to discover a huge delivery box from Ojiro that made the turning necks of her neighboring workmates like giraffes again.

Don't forget the omiyages. A text from him reads.

"Ugh, of course," her shoulders droop, throwing her head back lazily.

As much as she's not a fan of her workmates, Ojiro too is quite hesitant of giving them omiyages from Nagoya. In their culture, it is the Japanese ways of giving a souvenir to workmates by a coworker who just got back from a vacation. It was like an obligation as a way to thank their family, friends or coworkers for doing a piece of their work while they are away on a vacation.

Louise unboxes the whole package full of different snacks from Nagoya: manju, rice cakes, and the famous golden carp-shaped cake with a red bean paste filling. It's famous for its shape because it was inspired by the golden carp curving at the top of Nagoya castle that became a preeminent symbol of the city.

"Douzo o meshi-agari kudasai." Louise utters in her fake angelic voice while she offers the snacks to her workmates that she stacked neatly on their pantry's table. "Please help yourself."

"Arigatou Louisia-chan. Wow, these are first class!" a workmate points out while munching on a manju.

"Yeah, and this is a lot. You really did a whole shopping craze huh?" another one says.

"Of course! You can get as many as you like. You know how much I think about all of you even in my vacation," she lets out a princess laugh, covering her mouth with a hand.

"Did you go to see Melody on Ice? I remembered they had their last stop in Nagoya," Sherry, her senior commented.

I swear to all the dark Lords, I'm gonna buy mochi next time so she would choke on them.

Louise lets out a chortle. "Of course not! I can't even afford therapy, how much more an overpriced ticket? So ridiculous," she laughs.

"Aww, we should go together with the guys next time," a coworker said. "I watched the Yokohama stop and oh my God, Korishima-senshu was smoking hot,"

"Oh my God, really?" she gasps in a fake thrilled tone listening to them as they ramble about Ojiro and the ice show.

She silently lets out a great sigh of relief, confirming that no one that she knows has recognized her from the crowd.

Louise drops by to her director's office to give him her layouts to be checked so she also takes the chance to give him a special omiyage, an expensive sake from Nagoya, which he receives with total delight.

Ojiro revealed to Louise one time his secret on how he made her director set her up for the event that's why he can be able to meet with her in his hotel room and ask her to go out with him and well, the magic is just...gift. He finds the director to be fond of them.

Clever muchacho.

"Is it just me or do you look younger now Ms. Diaz," he looks up to her from shuffling the layouts that he's checking.

"Oh, really?'' she's a little bit surprise, touching her face.

Just as she thought that their director doesn't pay attention to any of them, thinking about her past self in the first few months of her working, Louise wonders what the hell does she even looks liked back then for her director to comment something like that.

"Well, that vacation changed me buchou-sama. It made me feel like a blooming, newly watered flower." she says dreamily.

She never thought that breaking her hips would be the best skin care ever.

A frown is on her director's face as she excuses herself to go back to her work station, wondering about the newly watered plant that she mentioned.

***

A white, thick liquid squirts in the air, shooting directly at Louise in the face.

"Congratulations on losing your virginity!" Martha chants in the background, popping a confetti to her while Jackson lazily blows his party flute.

Louise wipes her face with a tissue not knowing if she'll find this a genius idea of her friend or she'll be grossed out by it.

She's seen a lot of weird inventions in Japan and the fondant cake molded to look like a penis that if the candle got blown on top, something white would squirt from it, imitating a cum.

She has gotten off from work as soon as she finished meeting her deadline to catch up with her friends. They meet in a karaoke room, only to find out that her friend Martha is surprising her with a party.

"Not drinking tonight?" Jackson asked, eyeing her limon flavored agua fresca.

"Err... I promised Ojiro I'll slowdown from drinking from now on,"

"So, he's trying to control you now, huh?"

"What? No! Listen, I'm finally living a healthy lifestyle now Jacky,"

Jackson rolls his eyes to her shaking his head. If there's someone who can't be bought by her acting skills, its her friend Jackson as they'd known each other since she started working in the studio.

"I already warned you about this guy. Just look at what happened to Martha,"

Martha shoots him a sharp look for making her an example of misfortune.

"And this industry he's in.... of all people, you should be the one who understands not to trust this kind of guy,"

Jackson has been like this since she started dating Ojiro but considering all her experiences with men in the city, she can't blame him for not trusting him easily.

"Cut it out, Jackson! It's our friend's night. Can't you just be happy for her now?"

She turns to Louise. "Tell me about your first time. How is it? Did you like it?"

Louise didn't drink any alcohol but just remembering that night in Nagoya makes her whole-body blush. The moaning, the climax, how her body aches when she woke up in the middle of the night to go pee and she can't feel half of her body and how Ojiro discovers the stains of blood on the sheets in the morning.

Louise only managed to smile and nod to her friend, a response that made Martha squeal from her seat, shaking her friend's shoulders uncontrollably.

Jackson just shakes his head, watching the two girls, and gulps down all the beer from his drinking glass.