In this hot water, with you.

"I don't feel like I could ever live with someone else—" Tsubaki Igarashi, 32 years old. She spends her days worn down by her colleagues' comments like, "Isn't it cutting it close if you want to get married?" or "Kids are so cute." Then one day, at the public bathhouse that serves as her only solace, she meets Izumi, an innocent and carefree idol girl. Though Tsubaki is wary of the pushy Izumi, she gradually begins to open her heart... A story of two women's ways of life and love, brought to you by the team of Kumako Nanbu of "Saint Cross Girls' Academy Story" and the talented author Yachika Haruki.