After my father, a neighborhood youth-baseball coach, was injured in a traffic accident, I unexpectedly had to take over the team. Coaching itself was manageable, but dealing with all the parents was another matter. After a tournament, we held a social gathering that rolled into a second and third round of drinks. In the end, only Mrs. Kuroki and I remained. Tipsy and long without a girlfriend, I could not stop staring at her body—until she was the one who invited me to a hotel.