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    Sakurajima Apricot’s voice was always so magnetic that it pierced his eardrums like an embroidered needle, entering his mind and turning over in it.

    “You’re kidding again, right?”

    “No, this time I’m telling the 100% truth, oh Aoi.” Sakurajima Apricot smiled like a flower, then stretched out her right index finger and gently tapped the bridge of the frothing Aoi Natsuki’s nose, “What’s wrong? Are you so mesmerized by me?”

    Aoi Natsuki raised both eyebrows and shook her head in a hurry, averting her eyes, “Don’t be ridiculous, it’s just that I’ve usually heard you say too many things in jest, and I can’t tell the difference between the truth and the lie until now.”

    “Ohhh, so that’s how it is, but …… molesting you is my pleasure, Aoi, make sure you don’t deprive me of this pleasure, please.” Sakurajima Apricot folded her hands together, her fingertips pressed tightly between her lips, her churlish eyes rising slightly as she stared at Aoi in front of her, pleading.

    “Are you stupid?”

    Natsuki Aoi teased.

    The next second, when he turned his eyes, but then he saw Sakurajima Apricot with her hands spread wide, her eyes narrowed with a lazy look on her face, and slowly said, “Send me back to my room, I can’t go to so many places when my feet are injured, so Aoi, you’ll keep me company for a little longer today.”

    “Hey hey, you being injured is not an excuse to be able to use me as a tool person.”

    “I’m sure I’ll die of boredom if you don’t stay with me.”

    Sakurajima apricot repeatedly begged, there is no way, Aoi Natsuki belongs to the character of the soft but not the hard, coupled with this injury of hers, today is not able to go, the free afternoon time really should find something to do.

    “Okay …… then I’ll get some chess over later.”

    “Uh-huh!” Sakurajima Apricot’s face was full of joy, and while her hands were spread wide, her body was swinging her body from side to side in a pouty manner, as if she was already impatient.

    Natsuki Arai let out a sigh through his nose, then turned around as Apricot Sakurajima’s body flung itself onto his back, again with that unique Sakurajima scent, and stood up with his hands grasping both her legs.

    “Rina.”

    Calling out to Rina, who was playing a game, she instantly put away her cell phone and took Natsuki’s hand intimately with both hands, slowly and leisurely walking towards the stairway up to the second floor.

    ……

    Looking at the familiar iron gate, Takahashi Mito, who was holding Mako’s hand, couldn’t help but tense up, and her mind kept working on her thoughts, trying to ease the mood of the moment.

    Mako, wearing a hat made of thick woolen thread, glanced up at her sister-in-law, confirmed her eyes, and pressed the doorbell.

    “Rina! Come out and play together!”

    Takahashi Midu’s heart hung in her throat, her eyes never daring to take more than a glance inside the iron door, and before long, a door opening sounded in her ears, and her afterglow revealed that it was Aoi’s father.

    Aoi Ryuuya came to the entrance of the foyer and saw the beautiful girl in front of him and instantly remembered who she was, “Metoujou?”

    “Aye! Good afternoon uncle!” Takahashi Mito clasped his hands together and then bowed slightly towards him.

    Aoi Ryuuya opened the iron door and asked with a curious face, “Is Metu-chan here to see our family Natsuki?”

    He had a smile on his face when he said this.

    “No, no, no, yes, it’s my family’s niece, Mio, say hello to uncle.” Takahashi Mito said in a hurry, lowering her head.

    Mio looked at the male in front of her with wide eyes, her vision gradually overlapping with the figure in her memory, and then she grinned a cheeky grin and said, “Hello! Nice to meet you for the first time, I was in the same class at Rina’s elementary school, my name is Hashimoto Mio.”

    “Whoa! Mio-san is it?” Ryuya Arai narrowed his eyes and smiled.

    Mio let out a surprised “Oh”, she really did look like her big brother.

    “Mio said she was looking for Rina to hang out with today, is she home please? As well as …… is Aoi home as well?” The last half of the sentence uttered by Takahashi Mito was the point, and her heart was beating violently with frequency at the moment as if she were beating a drum.

    “I’m sorry, none of them are home.”

    “Eh?” Takahashi Midu looked back with a surprised face, “They, all ……”

    “Yeah, yesterday, he said he was meeting a friend to go out with him, probably a little far to go, and temporarily stayed at a B&B over there for two days.”

    “Friend …… “Takahashi Midu originally all the conception was broken, mouth chewing the word, actually feel incomparable raw, again, once again fall short? ……

    It was probably Aoi Ryuuya who could see her sudden low mood, and then awkwardly rubbed the back of his head, “Why don’t you come in first and have a seat, I just happen to be making some tea, and Mako-san will come along too.”

    Takahashi Mito was thinking of politely declining, but for some reason today, she just didn’t want to leave this place so soon, she wanted to stay in this place a little longer.

    “Well, then, excuse me aunt and uncle.” Takahashi Mito bowed once more.

    It’s safe to say she was particularly polite today.

    Leading Mio through the iron gate, the scenery before her eyes was all so familiar, the familiar color scheme of the stone steps, the plant in the garden, the delicately constructed kennel, and just as she stepped out onto the lawn, Jijou, who was sprawled far away in his kennel, suddenly opened his eyes, and then got up and took small steps until he saw her, and instantly rushed and pounced in a frenzy, standing on his lower limbs alone, his forelimbs continually clawing at Takahashi Mito’s pants, and his tail wagging so much that he was turning it into a propeller.

    “Yoshi-sauce is so close to you, I’ve been with him for the past month and he didn’t even react this much to seeing me back.”

    Takahashi Mito was in a slightly soothing mood, stroking Jijou’s head and turning to her uncle, she explained, “Jijou was the one I asked Aoi to raise for me in the first place; my family’s apartment doesn’t allow dogs, and I was originally going to place him elsewhere separately, but that was when Rina contacted me, and then I kept Jijou here.”

    “Ohhhh, so that’s how it is, by the way, I just remembered that you’re Natsuki’s alumni, Miduchi-san, so how did you guys meet in the first place?” Aoi Ryuuya asked curiously.

    At the mention of that, though, the smiling face on Takahashi Midu’s face froze slightly, clearly it was a memory not worth remembering.

    “Basically, the acquaintance started around Yoshi Sauce, I guess, and then slowly became more and more familiar.”

    “Sure enough, it’s really good na…… Natsuki had almost no opposite sex from before, now suddenly there are so many girls around to be friends with him, I’m a little jealous just looking at it.” Aoi Ryuuya clasped his hands in front of his chest, pretending to be a serious joke.

    “Well …… yeah.” Takahashi Mito’s complexion was slightly downcast, and she murmured softly under her breath without thinking, “Speaking of which, I’m still the first one to recognize Aoi ……”

    “What did you just say, Metu-chan?”

    “Nope.” Takahashi Mito shook her head in a hurry and straightened up, then pulled out two plastic boxes as well as a bag of cookies wrapped in plastic paper from the bag she was carrying.

    “This is a dish that I personally made, before, I did tell Aoi that I wanted him to taste my handiwork as well, there hasn’t been much of an opportunity to do so, and today, taking the opportunity of Mako coming over to find Lina, I made some over, and since he’s not here, then I’ll trouble uncle to accept it.” Takahashi Mito handed it over with both hands.

    Aoi Long was not a self-possessed and uninterested person, and at a glance, he could see the heavy weight of this item, nodding his head while accepting it with both hands, “Thank you.”

    “As for this ……” Takahashi Midu picked up the bag of cookies again, “This is also made by my own hands, the relative shelf life will be longer, if Aoi and the others come back early, I also trouble uncle to help me pass it to him. “

    “Oh, oh ……”

    In this atmosphere, Aoi Ryuuya actually didn’t know what to reply for a moment.

    Looking at the frank purple-haired high-color girl in front of him, Aoi Ryuya seemed to vaguely guess something.

    “Come in and sit down first then, it’s cold out here, and Yoshi’s sauce would be nice to bring in as well.”

    Aoi Ryuuya hurriedly greeted the two of them as they entered the door, the sound of boiling water already resounding in the kitchen room, Aoi Ryuuya carefully placed the things in his hands on top of the dining table before he ran into the kitchen at a fiery pace.

    ……

    “So strong …… Sakurajima your card skills turned out to be so strong?” Natsuki Aoi was incredulous.

    “It’s your tactics that are too simple, Aoi.” Apricot Sakurajima shook off the last three cards in her hand, and the win now came to a big deficit of 7-0, with Arai having yet to take the first set so far.

    “How about a little wager? This way the game is more interesting oh.” Sakurajima Apricot’s seductive eyes struck again.

    “No bets, you’re always coming up with weird bets anyway.”

    “No, it’s definitely normal this time.”

    “No bet!”

    Aoi Natsuki and Sakurajima Apricot were tussling there, while Rina, who was tired of playing cell phone games on the side, was lying down on the tatami mat, the warm air blowing down, the whole state of the person was immensely relaxed, and her fleshy face gradually flattened.

    While this was happening, a text message came in.

    Lina slowly opened her eyes and took a look at her cell phone text message, it was from Mako and it read, “Lina, is it convenient to video?”

    Lina looked to her left and right, took her cell phone to a more distant location, and then dialed the video call, and five seconds later, the other side picked up, and both sides were in a state of surprise when they saw each other in the cell phone screen.

    “Awwww!”

    “Rina!”

    The two little people started with a little excitement, but the small screen of the phone didn’t make it easy to find the writing pad, so Solemn Lina opted to type a reply.

    “I came to your house to play oh, just a shame you weren’t home, my little aunt was there and is talking to my big brother’s dad right now.”

    “What a shame, I went fishing with Natsuki and the others.”

    “Fishing! That sounds like so much fun!”

    “Yeah~” Rina smiled sweetly, her cheeks blushing slightly.

    “But …… my little aunt seems to have something on her mind, and she seems to be very unhappy about not seeing her big brother.”

    Hmmm ……

    Lina stopped typing, thought a little, stretched her neck and looked at Natsuki, who was still concentrating on playing poker in the distance, and then continued writing:

    “Shall we have Takahashi-san video chat with Natsuki?”

    Mio on the other end of the screen shook her head directly and said with a serious face, “Rina, don’t you get it? My little aunt actually cares about big brother, girls are shy at this time.”

    “Well, should I have Natsuki call her?”

    “I told you I’d be shy, listen up Lena, I need you to do me a favor.”

    “What’s the favor?”

    “I, for one, want to have Auntie confess to Big Brother! Lina, what do you think?”

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