Chapter 86: There are only three people on the balcony at the moment.

“What are you doing?” Hayakawa’s mother watched as Natsuki Arai cut the fish into pieces and later placed it in a dish of marinade and wrapped it in plastic wrap.

“Auntie, I’m going to fry a fish block, now marinate it for half an hour, and for the fish soup, does the family have any contraindications, is the taste on the salty or light side?” Aoi Natsuki turned her head and asked.

“Oh …… you can still cook so many dishes.” Hayakawa’s mom was a bit surprised that young people nowadays could know how to cook by themselves instead of waiting for their parents to do it.

“Well, after all, there’s only two of us at home, my sister and I, and I’m sure I have to look out for her usual nutritional balance as well, and take-out is definitely not an option.”

Aoi Natsuki’s explanation did make Hayakawa’s mother change her mind about the boy in front of her.

“You’re quite the brother, then.”

“Favorability +4”

“Favorability +3”

Hayakawa’s mom’s goodwill is also gradually picking up.

And Hayakawa, who was helping to cut the side dishes on the side, slowly put a smile on his face when he heard that his mom’s tone seemed to have eased up a bit.

As long as one really gets to know Natsuki’s heart, I’m sure no one will ever hate him.

The atmosphere in the kitchen slowly became cordial, while in the living room a few people sat around the couch and watched TV, Rina and Ayano were attracted by Koizumi to play the video game console, and Koizumi was the one who realized that the little girl didn’t know how to speak, and her gaze went to her dad.

Hayakawa’s father nodded softly.

Koizumi was also enthusiastic and invited her to play games.

“Nah, this joystick is to move, this button you have is to attack, and this one is to jump far, I’ll play through it first to show you oh.” Koizumi sat cross-legged on the stool while on the side Rina probed very carefully and watched.

Lina can’t help but gasp when she sees a character in the game unleash a cool move.

Koizumi couldn’t help but feel a little sheepish even as she listened, reaching up and clasping her cheeks.

“It looks so interesting, can I borrow it to play?” Takahashi Ayano said with glowing eyes.

But what met her immediately was a pair of lifeless gazes.

“Big sister you look at least four or five years older than me, and you still want to play this kind of game that only children play, it’s too childish.” Koizumi finished speaking then turned her head to Rina, her expression changed instantly and became a bit nervous, “You, you want to try?”

“Awww!” Lina signaled with her right hand raised high, while picking up a pen and writing 「Thank you」 on the writing pad.

When Koizumi saw it, the blush on her face stretched all the way to her ears.

On the contrary, next to Takahashi Ayano, the entire smile she had maintained froze.

This was still one of the rare times she, an S-rank beauty, had been rejected!

On the other end, Takahashi Mito clenched her legs tightly, her mind still very much torn between the kitchen and the cartoon playing on the TV.

The whole heart feels empty and occasionally feels a gust of coolness.

At this time, the sky outside was also gradually darkening, and after another half an hour, an exquisite and fragrant dish was put on the table.

Because of the relatively large number of people, Hayakawa’s father also made a special effort to set up a large round table from the storage room, sandwiched between the original small table, and all of a sudden there was more room, and by moving the extra chairs, Aoi Natsuki was even halfway seated in the living room.

Hayakawa’s father opened a bottle of beer and Mai poured herself a glass, then looked over at Natsuki Aoi, “Want a drink?”

Aoi Natsuki was about to reply, but Hayakawa was the first to snatch the words, “Dad! Natsuki is only sixteen! He’s not old enough to drink yet!”

“Oh, that’s so, I almost forgot.”

“I can drink with you uncle, I’m already nineteen this year.” Yugiri Ryuzakura said with a smile.

Hayakawa father looked at the girl whose height was comparable to a giant, in fact, he had already noticed him, after all, the other party gave himself such an expensive health care product when he entered the door, as well as …… the height that was almost half a head taller than him.

“That’s fine, a small drink or two then.” Hayakawa’s father got up and poured a glass of wine for Ryuzakura, who looked like she knew the rules and got up and bent down to take the glass with both hands, except that it was too formal and gave the appearance of a very strict family education.

Aoi Natsuki guessed that martial arts families probably had this.

“At the risk of asking, what is your height?” Hayakawa’s father finally managed to ask.

“Right now it’s one meter eighty-two.” Dragon Sakura replied.

The words came out, directly attracted the presence of other people’s exclamation of surprise, the biggest reaction is no more than sitting on the edge of the Ayano, close to sitting on the feeling that this height is very magnificent, but I did not expect that there is actually one meter eighty-two!

Ayano looked at her with her mouth always wanting to say something to compliment her, but after holding it in for a long time, it eventually turned into a longing gaze along with an unmistakable nod of approval.

“Then let’s all stop watching and get cracking!”

When Father Hayakawa, as the head of the family, said this, everyone else also put their hands together, “I’m going to start!”

With that, he picked up his chopsticks and began to eat the food.

Outside the house the wind was cold, but inside it was warm, and the heat of the food traveled down the mouth into the esophagus and then into the stomach, and the whole person then became warm.

That’s how Christmas Eve is supposed to be.

We all get together and have a fun meal.

“Is this matsutake? Mmm! So delicious!” Koizumi said happily, clenching her fists.

Aoi Natsuki, on the other hand, helped Rina with her food first, and watched her eyes light up as he narrowed his eyes and smiled back.

“What is it?”

“It’s a steamed egg with sea urchin inside.” Aoi Natsuki gave Sakurajima a smooth sandwich.

But the next second, a pair of eyes looked over from three different directions.

Amount ……

Aoi Natsuki now knew how stupid she had just acted, so she hurriedly lowered her head and ate her own meal.

“That’s nice nah …… I also want Natsuki to give me a dish ……” Hayakawa thought in his mind.

Just such an action of pinching the food was enough to make her jealous.

……

After the meal.

Natsuki Arai also offered to do the dishes, and despite mother Hayakawa’s successive refusals, he volunteered to go into the kitchen. The group planned to play a little longer.

Koizumi had completely handed over the use of the console to Rina, and no matter how well she played it, she was always there to teach her with great care.

Ryuusakura and Sakurajima Apricot, on the other hand, wanted to blow off some steam, and stepped out of the glass doorway of the living room, and outside was the balcony where the clothes were hung to dry, one by one on the overhead hangers, with a guardrail around the outside of the balcony, and the open space outside of the balcony was filled with rows of greenery, planted in pots and arranged in an organized fashion, from left to right.

The reason why there is a guardrail is because the house design seems to have a problem, balcony to the outside of the open space between the upper and lower distances of half a meter, many times easy to danger, so it is installed on the guardrail, plus the open space itself adds up to less than five square feet, just used to plant some greenery to feed the eyes.

Ryuusakura and Sakurajima Apricot leaned their bodies against the parapet, Ryuusakura stretched out comfortably, she had a very comfortable meal today.

Turning her head to look at Sakurajima Apricot, she too was greedily sucking in large gulps of air, feeling the coolness.

Just then, Keiko Hayakawa pushed her way out as well, and now it was a total of three people on the balcony.