I loaded the dream game

He complained, sighed helplessly, walked forward, and squatted slightly.

Xiao Xiazhi originally wanted to reply "What's it to you?", but the next moment, she suddenly felt someone gently grabbing her ankle, causing her body to tremble slightly, and then her whole body stiffened.

"Really? You're such a grown-up, but you still can't take care of yourself..." Xia Zhi complained helplessly as he patiently took off the girl's little leather shoes.

Whether it's now or in the future...

“…That’s why I’m always worried.”

Xiao Xiazhi didn't say anything, but just lowered her head and watched the boy's patient and gentle movements.

Feeling her feet being controlled by a not-so-heavy force in the boy's arms, watching his gentle movements that were different from his usual carelessness, and the warm touch from her ankles, the girl only felt that her body temperature seemed to be gradually rising with this temperature, and her heartbeat began to speed up uncontrollably.

Whether it was anger, annoyance, or dissatisfaction...all of them disappeared at this moment. Or rather, such things were no longer important.

"That's all I need, right?"

After placing the girl's shoes beside the bed, Xia Zhi breathed a sigh of relief.

As for her socks, she didn't need to take them off, right? After all...she was wearing knee-high socks.

Xia Zhi hesitated for a moment, shook his head and raised his head, only to find that the girl was looking at him intently, her little face flushed, and he didn't know what she was thinking.

"Natsuori?"

He called out the girl's name.

The girl came back to her senses and quickly pulled her feet out of his arms and huddled under the quilt. Her face became even redder than before and she stammered, "What's that?"

"Brother...Brother came to see me, what's the matter?"

"I want to talk to you about the recent international situation." Xia Zhi thought for a moment and replied.

"...?"

Several question marks popped up in Xiao Xiazhi's head.

"I lied to you."

Seeing her cute appearance, Xia Zhi couldn't help but chuckle, rubbed her head and said, "I just came to care about my sister's mental health."

"I don't have any psychological problems that require your concern." The girl turned her head away and answered in a low voice.

“Most people don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.”

Xia Zhi sat down next to the girl and continued, "Actually, at your age, it's normal to have some peculiar thoughts or to feel rebellious towards the people around you. As long as you communicate in time and are willing to communicate, there won't be any problem. Don't worry about it."

"…Don't talk like you're much older than me."

Xiao Xiazhi wrinkled her nose and said dissatisfiedly.

Xia Zhi didn't care. He just ruffled her hair and asked, "So, can you tell me why you are suddenly interested in getting married?"

The girl's body stiffened slightly, she hugged the quilt tightly in her arms, looked away unnaturally, and said with a guilty conscience: "...Don't girls have to consider this kind of thing when they reach a certain age?"

Having said that...

Xia Zhi hesitated for a moment before hesitatingly saying, "But... Kaguya is only three months old?"

Xiao Xiazhi:?

"I was talking about me!" she shouted angrily.

"you?"

Xia Zhi looked the girl up and down, but he couldn't associate her with the term "marriageable age".

"In ancient times, it was normal for girls to get married at the age of twelve or thirteen. Wasn't that normal?" Xiao Xia Zhi muttered softly.

"That was ancient times, and you are modern."

Xia Zhi tapped her head gently and said unhappily, "Children, don't think about these adult matters... Come to my room tonight and I will give you homework."

Even in ancient times, one cannot fall behind in studies, after all, one will have to go back someday.

Xiao Xiazhi: “?”

Are you the devil?

……

In the future, the girl's diary records what happened today.

"103rd day, weather: sunny"

"Today I tried to talk to my brother about marriage for the first time, but it failed and I have a lot of homework left."

"It's annoying... It should be like this, but for some reason, I can't bring myself to hate it."

"I...seem a little reluctant to dislike him."

.......

Chapter 475: My sister is actually an excellent student?

Xia Zhi felt that he had been deceived by Xia Zhi.

Using the word "cheated" might be a bit serious, but he was indeed deceived by Xia Zhi.

After looking at the homework the girl submitted the next day and comparing it with the answers, Xia Zhi couldn't help but fall into silence after finding that the accuracy rate was also surprisingly high.

"Did you finish all this last night?" he asked the girl with some suspicion.

"Well, is there any problem?" Xiao Xiazhi yawned, rubbed her eyes and answered vaguely, with a little sleepiness on her face, as if she had not woken up yet.

But...I arranged it according to a week's worth of supplies, right?

Xia Zhi thought to himself.

He also specifically told the girl that it was okay to write slowly.

Although it is not impossible to finish a week's worth of homework in one night, it is usually done under extremely special circumstances, so~...

"...You're not going to treat it as your summer homework, are you?" Xia Zhi couldn't help but complain.

"How can it be so exaggerated?" Xiao Xiazhi wrinkled her nose and replied, "The questions are not very difficult and do not take much effort. I finished them all by accident..."

I should say, because I hadn't done homework for a long time, I was a little unfamiliar at the beginning, but after I gradually became proficient and got into the state, I had already finished all the work when I came to my senses.

On the other side, Xia Zhi fell silent again.

It was not until then that he realized that his sister was actually an excellent student.

But if her grades are really good...

Xia Zhi's mind flashed back to the scene where Xia Zhi came to his room again and again with an embarrassed look on his face, using the excuse of needing tutoring. He couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

...Oh my god, I always ask Xubi to help me with my homework for free, but it turns out that my own sister has been taking advantage of me for free?

Beside the boy, Kaguya picked up a test paper curiously and took a look at it, then put it back after a moment, pretending nothing had happened.

"Xia Zhi..."

After thinking for a while, Xia Zhi decided that it was time to think about his main mission, so he looked at the girl and asked, "What are you going to do when you grow up?"

"Eh?" Xiao Xiazhi was slightly stunned, revealing a puzzled expression: "Why are you asking this?"

"Caring about my sister's future plans is also one of my responsibilities as a brother." Xia Zhi answered casually with an excuse.

“Even if you say so…” The girl hesitated.

When suddenly asked about this, she really didn't know how to answer... After all, she had never seriously considered things like "the future" in the past.

In other words, at her current age, it is still too early to think about her future. They have not even formed a complete understanding of the world, let alone making choices that will determine their future lives.

"It doesn't have to be in the distant future." Xia Zhi thought for a moment and added, "For example, something I want to do recently or right now..."

Or should it be called "dream"?

Xia Zhi realized that there might be something wrong with his original statement... "Planning for the future" is too formal. Even adults don't think about such things. But if it is replaced with "childhood dream", everyone should have it, right?

For example, Xia Zhi, when I was a kid, I dreamed of having a super cool robot... Now, I think it's halfway accomplished.

Although it’s not cool, but... pretty and cute enough?

Looking back now, Xia Zhi didn't quite know why he had such a strange idea at the time. Isn't such a cute girl like Xiubi much prettier than those iron lumps?

"What I want now..."

Xiao Xiazhi murmured softly and lowered her head slightly.

If she were to ask what she wanted most right now...

"I don't want to be separated from you..."

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"Huh? What?" Xia Zhi, who had just come back to his senses, raised his head and asked in confusion.

"No, it's nothing."

The girl hurriedly turned her eyes away and changed the subject: "By the way, why did you suddenly ask this, brother?"

She asked almost the same question again, and it was obvious that she was really panicked.

"You always have to consider your future." Xia Zhi answered again indifferently.

The reason why he said this was not entirely out of consideration for the mission... As mentioned before, as an older brother, he still cares more about Xia Zhi's thoughts on the future.

Be it study, life, which school to go to in the future, which subject to choose, or even what job to do when you grow up...these are things he can only give some advice on at most, and in the end it is still up to Xia Zhi to decide.

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after all……

"It's unlikely that I'll always be by your side."

The girl's body suddenly stiffened.

She didn't listen to what Xia Zhi said later, only the boy's words echoed in her mind.

Impossible... to always be by my side...

One day I will leave...

Such a thing……

"I don't want to..." She lowered her head, her body trembling slightly.

"What?" Xia Zhi looked at her puzzledly.

"I do not want!"

The girl raised her head, stubbornly trying not to let her tears fall. She pursed her lips and glanced at him, then turned around and ran back to her room without looking back.

What don't you want?

Xia Zhi felt a little strange... He just mentioned the issue of the future division into arts and sciences. There was no need to react so strongly, right?

Or... Xia Zhi doesn't like science?

He turned around and looked at the black-haired girl beside him in confusion.

Kaguya shook her head slightly, did not answer his doubts, and said softly:

"Father, you are such an idiot..."

Chapter 476: The Promise of Not Leaving

"Brother, this idiot."

In the boy's room, Xia Zhi was lying on the bed with her legs crossed, looking at the words displayed on the diary, hugging the quilt and mumbling softly.

Although she had not experienced it personally, she could probably empathize with the "self" in the diary just through the description in words.

If it were me now, although I would feel angry and aggrieved, I would probably just lose my temper and it would soon pass. But I couldn’t do that in the past.

Xia Zhi is very clear about her previous personality. She loved to show off, was stubborn, kept everything to herself, and loved to get stuck in a rut...

With this kind of "self", it is impossible for her to take the initiative to find someone to confide her feelings to.