Tuesday arrived in the form of Haruka's knock at 7:50, which was five minutes later than Monday, suggesting that the four alarms had been reduced to three.
"I'm so sorry, Mike...!" she said while bowing her head down when he opened the door. "I overslept by seven minutes."
"You're still ten minutes early," Mike said. 'What the fuck did she mean by overslept...?'
'Some people overslept for over thirty minutes and even an hour longer, until they decided not to wake up at all to go to college.'
'Japanese are something indeed...'
"That's not the point," she said seriously. "The point is... I set four alarms yesterday and three today, and I still got less punctual."
She fell into step beside him as they went downstairs. "How do people just wake up on time naturally?"
"Well, yeah, some people do," Mike said. "But, surprise, I'm not one of them."
"Heh?! You seem like one of them."
"I wake up when I wake up," he said. "It usually happens to be early."
