"That's quite all right. Mine is also a rooftop garden, so if you do want to brave it you can take the fire escape and bypass the interior entirely, but don't make yourself suffer needlessly." For all Haru enjoys the irony of staying in the love hotel, for her it's only irony; for Akako, it's a minefield. If she's going to walk through it, she deserves to go in prepared for it.

At least the cognitions aren't terribly interested in play-acting the whole... love-hotel thing.

"I don't doubt she would. Her relationship with her Goro is... more fraught, but most of that is down to the sort of things his father demands of people. She wouldn't hold it against you."