Chapter 30 The weight of respect

Takahashi Mito’s gaze shook, then instinctively her body turned halfway to the left, “Don’t speculate, it’s just a normal girl’s home.”

“Really?”

“Me you still don’t believe.”

Takahashi Ayano beamed and thought about it, it was true that the probability that her sister, a person who hated boys so much, would linger to eat at a boy’s house was indeed unlikely, it seemed that she was being too sensitive.

She shrugged and didn’t say anything else as she continued to gulp down her meal.

Seeing that her sister didn’t press the issue, Takahashi Midu’s original nervousness calmed down a bit, and her gaze went to the large 72-inch television hanging on the wall to her right, which was resting on the drama’s casting station while everywhere else but the living room was pitch black.

“Mom and Dad still not home from working late today?”

Takahashi Ayano nodded, crossed her legs and said casually, “I just texted and asked in the afternoon, dad said it was a weather problem, the plane was delayed, mom’s words should still be working overtime at the company, and called me 20,000 yen and said for me to order takeout, if it wasn’t for the fact that I was waiting for you, I would have already called for sushi to eat.”

“Haven’t you gotten tired of eating sushi after all these years, I haven’t wanted to touch it in recent months anyway.”

Ayano Takahashi wasn’t bothered by this, mostly because she was used to it.

“It can’t be helped yet, Mom and Dad are both busy at work, and the two of us will surely starve to death if we don’t eat takeout.”

Hearing this, Takahashi Maidu’s eyes flashed with a touch of displeasure, now that she was sixteen, she was able to understand how hard it was for her parents to make money, but she still looked forward to her parents being able to spend more time with the two sisters.

At the thought of companionship, the scene of dinner at that guy’s house tonight gradually came to mind, the smell and taste of the steaming rice and shrimp burger, and even the white air from the heat as it rose to the surface made her feel comfortable, and that’s what a home should really taste like.

And in front of her, there was only her own sister, who was almost nothing but beautiful, snacking and then spreading on the coffee table, which was called unconventional in a big way, but in a small way, it was just plain lazy.

There is no harm without comparison, looking at this sister bite by bite eating egg fried rice with a happy face, she is instead more and more angry.

“Ayano!”

Her sudden cry startled Ayano Takahashi, aborting the continuation of her meal.

“What, what’s wrong?”

Takahashi Mito’s gaze became serious and determined.

Takahashi Ayano also put away her hangdog look because she knew that when her sister appeared with that look, it meant that she was going to start lecturing.

The family’s potential status sort looks like Takahashi Ayano is in a very high position, mainly because she’s the younger sister and usually has someone to cover her mischief without going too far, but when her older sister, Takahashi Mito, gets angry, then her status quickly humbles to that of an ant, respectfully listening to her sister’s next words.

After all, this six minutes early birth is really not a cover, what do you mean by lagging behind academically and physically all the way, God you’re not being fair!

Ayano Takahashi gulped, then put down the egg fried rice in her hand and set it on the edge of the coffee table.

Takahashi Mito’s eyes gazed straight at her, then said slowly, one word at a time, “Starting tomorrow …… let’s try to cook together.”

“Eh …… huh?”

Ayano Takahashi tilted her head, a bucket of question marks appearing on top of her head.

……

Back to Campus.

Aoi Natsuki’s contact with Takahashi Mito was a lot more, but he always felt that something was missing, and finally realized that it was the fact that he rarely saw Hayakawa Keiko lately.

It wasn’t hard to guess if it was because of that last incident that she had started avoiding herself.

Mainly Aoi Natsuki doesn’t want to hurt her, and the deeper he gets the worse he’ll get, which is why this is the next best thing.

And campus life seems to be nothing more unacceptable than the usual cursed letters from some girls in the morning and the extremely malicious spoon shaking from the cafeteria aunts at noon.

Inner tolerance is greatly increased!

When he first entered the doorway of the school building in the morning, he and Yusuke went back and forth, carrying the trash can against the wall all the way to his shoe locker, and when he opened it, a clattering pile of letters poured down, dropping into the trash can in the process.

“Eh, there are quite a few more letters today than ever before.” Aoi Natsuki lamented.

“There’s been quite a few private pictures of you chatting with a few girls at school in the forums lately, with hundreds of posts under each one, so I guess that’s why.” Yusuke had gotten used to this scene a long time ago as well, and used to be interested in opening a couple of them to take a look, but it wasn’t until he’d seen more than a few of the large swaths of cursed words on the letterhead that he lost interest.

Aoi Natsuki took out her graffitied shoes from the shoe cabinet and was about to change into them when the rest of her vision saw a girl poking her head out of the leftmost corner of the entire shoe cabinet, but shrank back immediately afterward.

That’s Hayakawa.

“Yusuke, go put the trash can back in its place, I have to go first.” Aoi Natsuki greeted and walked over in a hurry.

He came to the corner of the shoe cabinet, and there he bumped into Keiko Hayakawa, who was planning to take another peek.

Colliding with him, Hayakawa Keiko buried her entire head in an instant, her one meter five height was already not very tall, and this shrunken body, the whole person looked very small.

After the last trip to the barbershop, Hayakawa Keiko’s image had changed drastically, before her beautiful pupil color was rarely noticed, now that she had lifted her bangs, that pair of dark green pupils directly added greatly to her face value.

“Yo, long time no see.” Natsuki Aoi took the initiative to greet her, “Haven’t seen much of you lately.”

“…… Yes, what about ……”

Keiko Hayakawa continued to bury her head.

Aoi Natsuki noticed at this time that after not seeing her for a few days, her favorability towards her had decreased, it should be the effect of the last incident, but it was good news, perhaps the two of them could still be friends.

He didn’t intend to mention the last time, but instead started a new topic, “Are you catching up on any of the new ones right now? I’ve been watching quite a few lately oh.”

“Well …… most of all, I’ve been watching all the recent releases ……” Hayakawa Keiko quietly raised her eyes to glance at him and added in a low voice, “Aoi-san today Looks like he’s in a good mood ……”

“Yes, it’s also a pleasure to meet you here, I know you’re probably being hit on by a lot of guys right now, but if you really want to talk, feel free to text me, we’re still friends.”

“No, no.” Hayakawa Keiko felt like her head was in disarray, wanting to explain but not knowing where to start, she could only stammer and slowly grind it out.

“I didn’t add other boys, I, I ……”

Ding ding ding.

The bell rang for morning study and it was time to rush back to class.

However, Aoi Natsuki remained standing still, quietly waiting to hear her finish her sentence.

They remained motionless as countless students ran past them on either side of them.

His eyes went straight to her.

Keiko Hayakawa’s face blushed to the extreme, thinking that the bell of the morning study would interrupt the ensuing conversation, but what she didn’t expect was that Natsuki Aoi in front of her was still waiting for her to finish her sentence.

This respect made her otherwise tense mood relax and she nodded heavily.

“Aye! I, I’ll be sure to contact you again!”

Arai Natsuki listened with a relieved look on her face, “Thank you, I look forward to your text message then.”