Bathing Rights Transfer [Weekly Short-Short Note]

"Why don't we call it even with a transfer of bathing rights?"
"...Please, let me think about it a little longer."

My son had been swindled by a con artist and was saddled with massive debt. After purchasing a plot of land, we discovered that there was a different legal owner. The person claiming to be the owner had become unreachable. That was when a shady real estate agent appeared.

The real estate agent knew the con artist and claimed that if I transferred my bathing rights, I could wipe out my son's debt. It seemed like it had been set up from the start.

Bathing rights are like an income tax for the Hot Spring Association; if you transfer the rights, the profits are monopolized.

However, the fact that my son was in debt remained unchanged, and I was the joint guarantor.

"It's fine now, isn't it?"
"...Understood. I'll go with this contract."

"The conditions are that the debt is wiped clean and we have absolutely no further involvement with your son, right?"
"That's correct."

"That's fine, isn't it?"

Both parties signed, and the contract was finalized.

...

"What is this 'exit-bathing right'? It says I have to pay the Hot Spring Association profits equivalent to the bathing rights when I leave the hot spring! I've been had..."

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Exit-bathing rights? What are you talking about?
It seems I wandered into a back alley while recklessly taking on an impossible challenge...
By the way, I haven't seen 'The Ground Beneath'...

I am participating in Tarahakani-san's project.
Thank you for every week.

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