Ms Semba likes going to local onsen pretty frequently, five or six times a week. Sometimes she goes to the onsen I’ve been to near my apartment, Himehiko Onsen. Last week, while coming back into the locker room, she saw one of our students.
A male student.
His mother was finishing getting ready to go out to the pools while he stood there waiting for her. They were both also wearing their birthday suits, but the boy was the only one looking around. Semba-san realized he was one of our young students after she realized he was looking at her oddly. He’s eight or nine years old, and the cross-gender bathing limit is ten years old, so technically they weren’t breaking any rules.
Personally, I think this is a bit tacky. I don’t know of any students at my school whose parents are not married, so I have to assume it was a choice rather than a matter of necessity. At any rate, Ms Semba was understandably mortified. She was still a bit flustered the next day, which was, perhaps unfortunately for her, Parents’ Day. The boy’s mother ended up leaving halfway through the lesson without saying a word to anyone on her way out of the school.
She must have had to make a really important phone call.
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