Chapter 178 – Even Sister has no chance of winning

Nia licked the ice cream from the plastic spoon with the tip of her tongue, moving so sluggishly that Rina was almost done with the box, and she was only just a third of the way through this.

Aoi Natsuki looked at her, her silver hair glistening under the sunlight, and the sides of her head were purposely tied in an inward twist braid, a skill that spared him from helping Rina tie her braids for the better part of a year.

Aoi Natsuki ate the cookies placed on the coffee table, and after accompanying the two children to watch the TV for a while, she opened her mouth and asked, “Nia, why did you appear in our neighborhood? I remember that your family doesn’t live three or four kilometers away.”

Nia stopped eating, her eyes looking at the plastic spoon, and muttered under her breath, “Moving ……”

“Eh! Moving? To our neighborhood!” Aoi Natsuki, who had been lazily leaning against the couch, immediately sat up.

“……” Nia’s little head lifted slightly, her long white eyelashes fluttering as if organizing her speech, and after a few moments of work, shook her head.

This filled Aoi Natsuki’s head with questions.

Then he asked Nia some other questions, all of them were asked, he had no choice but to make a phone call to Hetty, and I do not know if she is busy at this time ……

Walking to the balcony entrance, he dialed Hetty’s phone, and after a dozen rings, the phone was picked up.

The first of many noisy voices on the phone, “Hello?”

“Hello, this is Aoi, please, is it me?”

“Of course it’s in person, what can I do for you? I’m on a variety show right now and I’m a little busy.”

“Well, I just wanted to let you know that Nia is at my house, I accidentally bumped into her on Lena’s walk today, did she accidentally get lost? I ran into her in our neighborhood.”

“Nia is at your house? Well, then please take care of it for me, I just moved Nia to a nearby neighborhood a few days ago, so maybe she went to the wrong place and got into your neighborhood.”

“So that’s how it is, then I know.” Sure enough, Nia was right, they really had moved, and that stuttering just now was just a case of not knowing the name of the neighborhood.

“Thank you, then when I finish my work, I’ll come and pick up Nia, it’s really troublesome.” Hetty on the other end of the phone thanked her again, probably because of her working condition, Hetty’s attitude was particularly one-dimensional.

Aoi Natsuki then hung up the phone, crossed her arms, took a deep breath at the outside of the house, glanced at the two dogs that were chasing and fighting, and turned to re-enter the house.

After inquiring, Lina’s age is just about to be one month older than Nia, that is the older sister, after learning that she is the older sister Lina, suddenly a kind of inexplicable protectiveness towards Nia springs up, even the small snacks that she loves to eat the most will take the initiative to let her eat them, looking at the two little ones so loving, Aoi Natsuki also feels that the education philosophy that he has always been is how correct.

Just, he is still a little curious, before Hetty live in the lot is more upscale class, on the rental price at least double than their own here, but accordingly all the facilities are complete, the best schools, the best hospitals and so on, and their own this neighborhood is nothing special, like Hetty such a top idol, should not be lack of money, right? Even if they moved, they should have moved to an area of the same class, how could they come here?

Aoi Natsuki thought for a moment, then her gaze went to Nia at the side, where Rina was gently wiping her lips with a tissue.

Want to ask? ……

He stared for a while, still unable to resist his curiosity, the corners of his mouth turned up and he asked, “Nia, was the previous place uncomfortable to live in? How come you moved with your sister?”

Upon hearing this, Nia’s gaze at the cartoon on the TV wavered a bit, turned her head, and said softly, “Comfortable …… but the money is gone ……”

“Hmm? Money?” Aoi Natsuki felt the most most unlikely reason appear, her body came closer and continued to inquire, “Is it that Hetty has been having financial problems lately?”

Nia shook her head and confessed, “It’s Daddy ……”

“Dad.” Aoi Natsuki chanted under his breath, before he did hear that Hetty came out to be an idol because of her sister’s health and her family’s lack of money, and now that Nia’s condition had recovered well and she herself had become a top idol, he had thought that life should be getting better and better but he hadn’t thought that there was even a reason for her dad’s existence in this.

“Yes, Dad …… need help financially?”

Hearing this, the always droll Nia slowly lowered her head, tightly knit her light eyebrows for the first time, and after three or four seconds of silence, she murmured as if in a mosquito voice, “Dad …… bad guys …… “

Natsuki Aoi’s pupils dilated, this was the first time he had ever heard a child describe their dad like that in reality, there had to be a lot of unknown reasons for this, he envisioned many possibilities in his head but he never asked any more questions, he could see sadness on Nia’s face and he was done trying to make her even more sad.

He raised his left hand and gently rubbed Nia’s head for the first time, and this time Rina on the side wasn’t jealous, it was as if she felt her sadness as well, and with a heartfelt face she came up and cupped Nia’s cheeks with her fleshy hands, ah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh and muttered.

“The future will get better, now that Hetty is so successful, I believe that difficulties are always temporary, good!” Aoi Natsuki slapped the sofa and stood up violently, “I’ll prepare dinner first, tonight, we’ll have fried pork cutlet!”

“Woo!” Lina raised her right hand high in excitement, Natsuki’s fried pork cutlet that was quite crispy and juicy, just thinking about it, her mouth was already starting to water, and then reacting, she immediately grabbed her writing pad and wrote down a sentence before flipping it over, “I’ll help!”

The right side of Aoi Natsuki’s mouth turned up as she held out her left hand and gestured for her to sit down, “It’s better if I come alone, Rina will stay here with her sister.”

After that, he walked to the kitchen.

Sister …… Lina repeated these two words over and over in her mind, froze for a while, and then welcomed a burst of ecstasy, glanced at Nia, and then moved her butt and sat down at a distance that was almost body to body with her, smiling as the two of them continued to watch the cartoon together.

The time was approaching seven o’clock.

Aoi Natsuki family eat dinner on weekends are quite early, usually six o’clock is basically finished, this time the dinner of fried pork cutlet let Lina very satisfied, writing to ask Nia’s feelings, she is also said that it is very tasty, Lina’s face is written full of pride, obviously she is only responsible for eating just ……

Aoi Natsuki glanced at the clock on the wall, it’s this time of the day and it hasn’t come yet?

It was completely dark outside, and the two dogs outside the house were tired of playing by now, lying next to each other on the lawn to rest.

Pulled out my phone and didn’t get any texts either, Hetty is really slow ……

Luckily, Nia didn’t show any crying, but lay on Lina’s coiled lap like nothing, the two little cuties took off their shoes and were barefoot on the sofa, Lina, as the older sister, had her right hand intentionally curled around her silver hair, her eyes were still intently staring at the “Hundred Change Sakura” being played on the TV, and the plot was being played at an interesting point, and both of the little girls were tightly clenching their fists, with a face of nervously cheering for the main characters in the cartoon.

Natsuki Aoi sat in a chair in the dining room, quietly waiting for Hetty to come over.

Have been waiting until the time close to nine thirty, this point in time has been to the two little girls to sleep, watching cartoons too absorbed, and now is really can not carry each other, head against each other to snuggle up and fall asleep.

Another five minutes passed before Natsuki Aoi’s cell phone finally rang, and he got up and stood up, walking quickly to the entrance door of the foyer, opening the door, walking down the path to the iron door, and opening it, Hetty was already standing in the doorway in the dim light outside.

“Please.” Hetty was the first to express her gratitude.

“It’s okay, Nia is in the living room, she just got too sleepy and has fallen asleep.” Aoi Natsuki said as he led Hetty through the door, it was still rare for a female to show up in his house on a big night, while Hetty was changing her shoes, Aoi Natsuki went ahead and walked into the living room, ready to shake Nia awake.

“It’s okay, let her fall asleep.” Hetty said from the back.

Natsuki Aoi stopped moving and nodded.

Right after Hetty came over and was about to wrap her arms around Nia and pick her up when suddenly a flash of pain appeared on her face, “Hiss ……”

“What’s wrong?”

“Nah, just accidentally twisted my hand today, it’s fine.” Hetty said as she rubbed her wrist.

Hearing this, Aoi Natsuki froze, then stepped forward and said softly, “Perhaps, I can help out a bit ……”

……

“A big help, it turns out that there is this shortcut in this neighborhood, it will be much more convenient in the future.”

“I also found it by accident earlier, go straight ahead for another three hundred meters and you’ll reach the main gate.” Aoi Natsuki pointed ahead, with the huffing and puffing Nia on her back, the two of them walked together towards Hetty’s current neighborhood.

This shortcut is next to the park, so the street lights are still quite bright, summer night, still very hot, Aoi Natsuki chatting with Hetty at the same time, the eyes also slowly noticed the changes in her facial state, under the curtains are still black, it is obvious to remove the make-up and did not remove the clean run, forehead sticky blonde hair, compared to the usual her, but it is a bit scruffy.

“Are you looking at something?” Hetty asked rhetorically, turning her head when she suddenly sensed something.

“Oh, I’m sorry, it’s just, it’s rare that I’ve seen a real blonde girl, sorry.” Natsuki Aoi scratched his head awkwardly.

Hetty didn’t mind this, ruffling her blonde curls on the side and smiling slightly, “Yeah well …… it’s peculiar isn’t it? A normal person would grow blonde hair, my dad also has blonde hair oh.”

She took the initiative to mention her father, but at this time Aoi Natsuki did not hear any bad attitude in her tone, it’s hard not to be different from what he thought.

Natsuki Aoi let out a breath through the tip of his nose and nodded softly, he still didn’t inquire about anything but continued to casually gossip with Hetty about something else, soon enough there was something about Hetty’s dad that the two of them put behind them.

Maybe it’s the empty surroundings and the quiet atmosphere, Hetty extraordinarily talkative, this is the first time this year, except to the agent, spouting out the bad things that happened at work, and the more she said, among them today she participated in the variety show called “Master of the Whole”, obviously it’s all about acting, but to play the real play to be shocked, please, just give me a break! ……

“And and and and, on that last show ……”

“Downstairs, already.” Natsuki Aoi suddenly interjected, pointing to the door of the building to the side, having just chatted with Hetty and not only followed her through the front door, but even all the way around to the downstairs of the house she rented.

Hetty’s gaze was stunned, immediately realized, her body stiffly swinging the upper half of her body in a row, looking a little flustered, “Yes, yes, I’m sorry, I accidentally chatted too much, what I just said ……”

“Promise you won’t tell anyone.”

“Great ……” Hetty sighed in relief, followed by a “Nia transfer” with Aoi, making her carry Nia, but despite the small movement, Nia twisted her body and opened her sleepy eyes two seconds later. Two seconds later, she opened her sleepy eyes.

“Sister ……”

“Looks like we’re ahead of the game.” Aoi Natsuki spat, and the two looked at each other with a helpless smile.

“Right, I suddenly remembered that I still owe you a meal, tomorrow …… after …… another day! I have time to treat you to a meal, today you also helped me so much, I must let you eat a good meal before.”

“No, no, no, no, ordinary is fine, no need to break the bank.” Aoi Natsuki laughed lightly, but after listening to those words she just said along the way, he did have a deeper understanding of the hidden rules of the idol circle, it turns out that the glamorous top stream female idols, in fact, behind the scenes, they have to do so many trivial things, some film and television people always borrow the excuse of making a movie, but in fact the plot is with exposure and implied perspective shooting, this is still the top stream idols, if it’s some of the second-tier idols, it is very likely to agree to shoot some photo magazines. In order to prevent themselves from going out of fashion, it is very likely that they will agree to shoot some photo magazines, that is really a road of no return ……

“I’ll go back too, you go up with Nia.”

“Good.”

Hetty answered and then looked at Natsuki Aoi as he turned to leave, watching until he left the corner before she withdrew her eyes and a smile slowly grew at the corners of her mouth.

Feeling heavy on his back, he turned back and looked at Nia, who was staring at him blankly, and couldn’t help but snicker, “Nia, it’s been a while since I carried you, it’s gotten heavier.”

Nia was startled; the subject of women getting heavy was a taboo, no matter how old they were.

“No it didn’t no it didn’t!” She swung her little fist and landed quickly on her sister’s back, not hurting at all ……

“Okay, okay, just kidding.”

Hetty scrunched her neck and confessed.

Only then did Nia stop, gasping for breath under her breath, now on the contrary, it was the one who was hitting the others who got tired first, her little head leaned helplessly against her sister’s neck, resting for a long while, her mouth full of airy sounds, “Brother Natsuki is very gentle oh ……”

Suddenly mentioning this, Hetty opened her mouth slightly, her eyes looking back in the direction Aoi Natsuki had left, and replied, “Yes? ……”

“So, will Natsuki-san become my sister’s boyfriend?”

“Eh!” Hetty burst out laughing, fanning her right hand in quick succession, “No, no, no, absolutely not.”

“Why?” Nia asked dully.

“That goes without saying, Aoi is Sakurajima sister’s favorite person, if I snatched her away, then Sakurajima sister will not be very sad, right? So in order not to let Sakurajima-san be sad, I naturally won’t let this happen.” Hetty carried Nia into the building and spoke with her head in her mouth.

Nia fell into silence after hearing that, and it wasn’t until the two of them entered the elevator that she understood and nodded, “Yeah …… Natsuki brother is the object of Sakurajima sister’s affection… what a pity… if it’s Sakurajima sister, even if it’s her sister, she has no chance of winning… …”

Hetty’s cheeks twitched as she slowly turned back, “Nia …… I’m the one who’s your real sister yo ……”

“Yes, you’ve always been my real sister, but compared to Sakurajima-san then ……”

“Nia!!!”