Chapter 152 – Hetty’s Change of Heart

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“Awwww!”

“Have you brought everything? Remember to come back early oh, don’t play too late okay?” Aoi Natsuki sat on the dining room seat, sideways organizing Rina’s clothes, and then checking the backpack she brought with her, which was full of snacks.

“Awwww!” Lina raised her right hand in the air and exclaimed gleefully, today was her first time being a guest at Mako’s house, so she was extra excited, and as she let Natsuki straighten her collar, her feet had begun to stomp impatiently, her whole body falling together, causing Natsuki Aoi a hint of inconvenience in her organizing efforts.

Touching Lina’s head and then giving her a wink, Lina lit up, gripped the straps of her backpack with both hands, turned her head and ran towards the corridor.

Until the sound of the entrance door closing came and a quiet atmosphere returned to the entire dining room, Natsuki Arai stretched long and hard, what should I do on this day off on Sunday? Well ……

It’s either that or lay on the couch and watch TV shows all day.

Why do you always have to envision plans, everyday leisure is still necessary.

The corners of Aoi Natsuki’s mouth rose, then her gaze shifted right and she was about to get up when a dark shadow appeared in her sight at the location of the balcony.

He moved back to his eyes, his gaze at the moment coinciding with Jijang, who was standing outside the glass window door.

“……”

Jijang stared at him with its big, full eyes, as if trying to convey some kind of meaning to him.

Natsuki Arai blinked, the stare-off lasting a good five seconds before he was finally defeated, his high shoulders dropping with him as he moved at a lazy pace to the glass window door and pushed it open to the right.

Yoshi Sauce, who had been waiting on the wooden porch for a long time, entered the dining room with a flutter of his tongue and an enthusiastic straightening up, scratching back and forth on him with both paws.

Natsuki Arai looked at it helplessly, rubbed its doggy head with her right hand, and sighed, “Fine, just take you out for a walk.”

At the mention of a walk, both of Yoshi Sauce’s ears instantly perked up, and it looked like it was just waiting for him to say the words.

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Aoi Natsuki walked down the street holding Yoshizou, thinking of stopping by the supermarket to buy some meat to come, so he left the neighborhood all the way towards the largest farmer’s supermarket nearby.

He currently lives in the district is not considered a busy area of Tokyo, passing through the streets can still feel some of the local people smoke, some shopkeepers dressed plainly in the store outside the head of the sale, the narrow streets on the left and right also placed a variety of sale signage, the ground a piece of floor tiles there are many missing or broken, he looked around and found a lot of seafood prices are quite cheap, and so on will come back from the supermarket, you can also buy He looked around and found that many seafood prices were quite cheap.

Receiving design business manuscripts are basically accompanied by popularity, the fees charged will be increased accordingly, nowadays he has no need to worry about daily expenses at all, and even save a very substantial amount.

Jijang walked ahead of him, spitting out her tongue, and just kept leading him along like a curious baby.

All the way out of this seafood-selling neighborhood, with the farmer’s market five hundred meters ahead of them, and waiting for a traffic light, Jijiang suddenly reacted by twisting around and walking quickly in the direction of the left.

“Not that way! We’re crossing the street now.” Aoi Natsuki hastily pulled on the dog’s leash.

But Yoshizou still took an unrelenting step forward, but because he was pulled by the leash, the whole dog was as if he was stuck in a bug, his feet were moving but his body was not.

Aoi Natsuki was puzzled and followed Yoshizou for a couple of steps, when he noticed that on the left side of the street was an open park, Yoshizou this is wanting to play for a while is it ……

Looking at the time on his cell phone, it was still early before noon, so Aoi, after pondering for a couple seconds, followed Jijou along to the park.

The park is child-oriented, with slides, seesaws, sandboxes, climbing frames, etc. Two or three children were playing in the park.

Seeing that someone was there, Aoi Natsuki had to shrink the length of the leash, there was no way that Jijang couldn’t seem to play with it, lest it cause those kids to get scared, and with that, he pulled Jijang to the wooden bench at the far end, sat down, and ordered Jijang to lie down at his feet, and Jijang obediently did so.

When you come out for a walk, relaxation is the most important thing. Feeling the temperature of the sunshine, listening to the laughter of children, and taking a glance at Jijiang, whose body is lying down but his tail is wagging non-stop, it is not a bad idea to spend a weekend in such a leisurely way.

His eyes gradually emptied, and it wasn’t long before he felt a slight soreness in his bent back before he pivoted violently, turning his head to glance casually, and what he didn’t expect was the appearance of a little girl next to Yoshizou.

At first glance Aoi Natsuki was attracted to the little girl’s head color.

It was a head of pure color silver hair, not only the hair, even the eyelashes were white, the skin all over the body was as white as snow, one meter one, the age looked no more than seven or eight years old, the bones were very narrow, thin arms and legs, if it was not because of the clothes worn on the body was bright and shiny, he really thought that he had met a second Lina again.

When he first met Li then, the other party’s physical condition is not better than the girl in front of him, and now, it has long been a meal by him to raise white fat.

Natsuki Aoi murmured.

The little girl, with a sun hat still on her head, her eyes fell longingly on the Akita in front of her, and upon noticing the adult looking at her, she turned her eyes to him as well.

The second thing Aoi Natsuki saw was a pair of light blue pupils, crystal clear, and she didn’t say anything, just met him at eye level.

It was logical that any female who met him for the first time would have an aversion to him, from and distance themselves from him as much as possible, but the little girl in front of her did not do so, in her eyes, Aoi Natsuki only saw the longing that came from a child of that age.

“Touch it if you want, it’s okay.” Aoi Natsuki said with a smile.

Hearing this, the little girl’s mouth surprised “oh” sound, voice full of air, sounds very soft, followed by slightly awkward movements crouched down, tentative little hand gently nodded its head.

After a few strokes, and seeing that the dog did not resist, he became even more aroused, and finally was up to stroking.

Seeing that she seems to be very happy, Aoi Natsuki narrowed his eyes and smiled faintly, and did not ask questions, nor did he care too much about the existence of this little girl, but just quietly felt the languid warm wind blowing against his face, so comfortable ah ……

“Why don’t you sit? I’ll let Yoshizou, no, the dog lie down on the stool.” Natsuki Aoi turned to the little girl.

The little girl tilted her head, again with those special white eyelashes and light blue pupils.

She just stared at him, then nodded softly.

Rising, he politely stepped aside.

Natsuki Aoi leaned down and picked up Yoshi-san, bringing her up on the stool and getting her down, followed by the little girl’s eyes glowing as she approached once more, this time in another viewpoint, looking at it with a very different feeling than just now.

The little girl sat on Jijang’s right side and stroked her hands through Jijang’s fur, it liked being petted so it smiled extra happily, lolled its tongue out and licked her cheek every now and then, the little girl didn’t hide from it, just a surprised look on her face when it licked her.

After a minute had passed, the little girl finally spoke up, pointed to the dog, and asked, “Yoshi sauce?”

The voice is still more airy.

“Well, that’s its name.” Aoi Natsuki also reached out and rubbed the fur on its back, it’s gotten so fat from raising it, it still doesn’t exercise.

The little girl nodded, little changed in her expression, but a faint smile hung on her lips, and Aoi knew after all that she was in a happy mood right now.

At this time the time has come to eleven o’clock, almost should buy meat home, but looking at this poor little girl in front of him, but always let Aoi Natsuki recalled when Lina, a moment of some heartache, after thinking, opened his mouth and said: “Little friend, big brother is going to go to the Farmers Supermarket over there to buy some vegetables, you can help me here to look after the dog? “

The little girl, with a bewildered look on her face and not sure if she understood, looked at Jijang, who was showing her belly towards her, and then at her big brother, and turned to nod her head.

“Well then, thanks la, what do you want to eat, after a while big brother by the way to buy it for you as a reward.”

Aoi Natsuki smiled affably.

The little girl, on the other hand, fell into a ten-second-long contemplation this time, with all sorts of clamor around her telling Natsuki Aoi that this wasn’t a pause in time.

“ice……”

Ice?

How can this little body stand ice in the middle of March?

Natsuki Arai froze, but agreed, and then verbally instructed Yoshi Sauce a couple more times, whether he understood or not, but it looked like he did.

Getting up and moving his muscles, he walked towards the Farmer’s Supermarket not far away, and bought some discounted soy sauce bones, and some raw marinated chicken thighs, soy sauce bones are still a good thing, after eating them at your own home, the bones can still be saved for Jijiang to gnaw on for a couple of times, once in a while, and it should be quite enjoyable as well.

The time before and after took almost twenty minutes, Aoi Natsuki returned the same way, back to this park, and at this moment, the other children in the park had already left, he had just stepped on the steps, his eyes had not even looked in the direction of the wooden bench, from that end came the shouting of Yoshi Sauce, and the voice was still very urgent.

Aoi Natsuki immediately looked over to find Yoshizou up and yelling repeatedly in his direction, while the little silver-haired girl on the side collapsed onto the bench.

Aoi Natsuki’s heart tightened, and he hurriedly switched the plastic bag with vegetables in both hands to one hand, at the same time, he quickly rushed over to the little girl, and when he reached the little girl, he saw that her face was flushed red, and her body was hot, which was obviously sick, and he couldn’t care about so much, and he pulled out his cell phone, and immediately called a cab to come over, and then picked up the little girl, and then he put the dog’s leash on his own right wrist with his other hand, and flew to the outside of the park.

The little girl lay on his shoulder, her burning nostrils spraying on his neck, and his brow tightened with it, and inside he was overwhelmed with self-loathing, even stomping his feet anxiously because he was so angry at himself that his own face was red.

Five minutes later, the cab arrived, Aoi Natsuki rushed to get in, explaining the situation to the driver, originally the cab was not allowed to get on the dog, but the driver was a hothead, hearing about this didn’t care about the cleaning fee, and pulled the two of them to the nearby big hospital at a rapid pace.

It had been a long journey, waiting for him.

On the way he also found the little girl’s wrist wearing a bracelet, bracelet written on a string of phone numbers, he was anxious to call the end of the phone, answering the phone sounded like a nanny, and then immediately told him to come over immediately.

Cab parked at the front door of the hospital, Aoi Natsuki paid the car money, quickly carrying the little girl into the hospital, the nurses at the nursing desk to see this situation, there is no hesitation to immediately contact the doctor, almost Aoi Natsuki wandered around the hospital for most of the hour, and finally understood the situation, followed the hospital’s large team to receive the medication, and after that, sat in the infusion hall, the nurses hang the IV drip.

And it was only then that the little girl’s family finally called back and appeared in the infusion hall, a …… hmmm wearing a mask with sunglasses?

The other party saw the little girl from afar and walked over quickly, and as they drew closer, their attention fell on Natsuki Aoi at the edge.

“It’s you?!”

“Well ……,” Aoi Natsuki looked at her long blonde hair and recognized her as Hetty at first glance.

It’s a coincidence.

“The doctor said that she’s just weak, wearing too many clothes and sunbathing for too long with some heatstroke, she should be fine after the IV.” Aoi Natsuki informed truthfully.

“That’s great ……” Hetty let out a long breath, looking at the frail little girl with eyes full of heartache, and when she turned to Aoi, her eyes were even more grateful, “Thank you for sending my sister here, I really appreciate it a million times over! “

Hetty bowed deeply at him.

Sister ……

Aoi Natsuki showed a difficult face, then he didn’t hide it, this matter is actually he also has a great fault, after organizing the wording, he told Hetty what happened today one by one, if Hetty wanted to scold him, he would also take it without any complaint, after all, it was really he who was too ill-considered.

The two sat down next to each other, and Hetty listened to the whole thing, and was surprised that she did not blame him, but thanked him again for being able to bring her sister to the hospital so quickly.

The little girl’s face gradually turned better, and Hetty stood guard, resting on her left hand, and I could see that she was really anxious in her mind; at least an hour had passed between his call and the drip, and it seemed only right that Hetty should have come from a great distance.

“Sister ……,” the little girl finally said, and the two men on the sidelines followed with a sigh of relief.

Hetty physically moved up and asked with concern, “How is Nia feeling physically? I’m sorry, I sent the babysitter home to get the medicine and will be over soon.”

The little girl shook her head and turned her eyes to continue to look at Jijiang, who was lying on the ground, and Jijiang, after seeing the little girl’s state turn for the better, also acted very happily, getting up and jumping side-to-side horizontally, wagging her tail non-stop in an attempt to make the little girl happy.

There was a smile on the little girl’s face, and then she looked at Aoi Natsuki by her sister’s side and said in a weak voice, “Sister, he seems to be the big brother on Sakurajima-san’s cell phone screensaver ……”

“Well, he is oh.” Hetty clasped her hands in hers.

“Sakurajima-san has told me so much about Big Brother ……”

“It’s big brother who brought you to the hospital, so you should thank him.”

“Thank you big brother ……,” Nia said in a slow voice.

Aoi Natsuki’s heart trembled, actually feeling very guilty about today’s encounter.

The meat in his hand was completely thawed and dripping down through the plastic bag.

He, on the other hand, didn’t care about that and lost his head, pursing his lips and bobbing his head gently.

“You’d better go back first, leave this place to me.” Hetty noticed the plastic bag he was carrying in his hand, and there was more gentleness in his eyes, now she somewhat understood why Sakurajima liked this boy in front of her so fervently, compared to the seven or eight various types of face-value-bearing males within the circle that she had come into contact with, this boy in front of her stood out in two words, truthfulness, and this truthfulness gave her an incomparably down-to-earth feeling.

“Well …… well, I’m really sorry about today.” Natsuki Arai got up with his hands on his knees, the leash loop strangling his wrists with several red marks already, and disengaged it from the wrist opening, leading Yoshi-sauce right to the door.

But before he could take two or three steps, suddenly Hetty called out to him from behind him, a bit of panic on her face.

“About the fee I’m going to pay you.”

“That won’t be necessary.”

“Yes, please you must take it!” Hetty’s attitude was a bit tough, and Aoi Natsuki ended up just having to take it.

“And take my phone number, never mind, give me your cell phone and I’ll make my own notes.”

Aoi Natsuki, who was in a bit of a wooden state right now, pulled out his own cell phone without even thinking about it and handed it over, followed by Hetty taking it.

“Screensaver password.”

“Oh, sorry.”

Natsuki Aoi unlocked it and handed it over again.

Hetty opened her address book, and while losing her cell phone number, she said, “This is my private cell phone number, so if you have any trouble in the future, feel free to call me.”

“Oh ……”

Natsuki Aoi watched as she dialed back a call to her cell phone, and after a few more words, Hetty turned her head and went back to taking care of her sister again.

Aoi Natsuki tightened the cell phone in her hand, not really caring too much about the matter of exchanging cell phone numbers, and cast her gaze over to Nia’s side, waving goodbye towards her before leaving the infusion hall, holding Yoshizou in her hand.

Volume 2: Confessions of the Whole Staff