Living in Tokyo, all I want to do is laze around.

"I'm really looking forward to your performance," Uesugi Kai said to her with a smile.

"Mm!" Hanabi Hanabi returned his smile with a beautiful one. "Thank you, Kai-kun."

"nothing."

A girl like Hanabi Hanamaru, even with just the slightest encouragement, will do her best to achieve her goal.

The prerequisite is that the person must hold a very important place in her heart.

Otherwise, no matter how much encouragement you give her, she will still remain the same sullen and cautious person.

Hanabi suffered too much bullying when she was a child, and apart from Kai, no one helped her at school, which is why she has always been this frail and weak.

Her inferiority complex was difficult to cure, but it is improving now.

Uesugi Kai gazed at the clear, azure sky and asked the girl beside him:

"Little Firework, do you feel happy and content right now?"

Hanabi Hanabi turned her head to look at him, and her voice, as always, was that soft, gentle, and weak tone:

"As long as Kai-kun is by Hanabi's side, Hanabi will always be as happy and joyful as she is today."

What if we suddenly break up?

"Hanabi will go to find Kai-kun and will keep searching for him."

"What if I hate you?" Uesugi Kai said seriously.

"Hanabi will leave... she'll secretly watch Kai-kun from afar..."

###Chapter 159 Some things are so clichéd they're boring###

Many people disliked her dullness and her fragility.

But Kai Uesugi never had the heart to bully her. If she hadn't received encouragement and help back then, that bright, summery smile might never have bloomed in this world again.

Kai Uesugi could understand why Uesugi Uo had been nagging her so much before, because she had seen her looking so distressed before.

As her older sister whom she had only recently met, she often communicated with her through letters sent from Ehime Prefecture to Tokyo.

And some oranges were served with it.

If those close to her no longer care about her, who will?

My cousin often said the same thing to me.

There was no longer her weak voice calling his name, no longer her smile, no longer the bento boxes and meals she made every day.

It lacks the vibrancy and color that make your heart flutter.

I'll probably end up like I did in my past life, quietly and uneventfully ending a boring life.

—When closing a book she had no interest in reading, Uesugi Kai would always have this sudden feeling.

It was shortly after math class ended.

Takahiro Tsubokawa suddenly ran out the door and said that someone outside was looking for him, and that it was a beautiful girl.

"Okay, I understand." Uesugi Kai stood up and prepared to go to the door.

"Hey, wait a minute, Uesugi." Tsubokawa called out to him, his eyes full of suspicion. "Are you alright?"

"What? I'm fine?"

Takahiro Tsubokawa gestured towards the door a few times, then lowered his voice and said, "You're a married man, don't—"

Kairi Uesugi ignored him and walked straight out of the classroom.

Looking around, he saw Uesugi Shio leaning against the wall of their classroom on one leg, waving at him with a lollipop in her mouth.

Kai Uesugi walked in.

"What's the matter?"

"It's nothing much, I just wanted to invite you to join the kendo club."

"Don't go."

"Okay, I understand." Uesugi Shio glanced at him briefly, then immediately turned and left.

Kaiya Uesugi returned to the classroom and sat back in his seat.

The two siblings sometimes communicate so cleanly and decisively; if they say no, then no is no.

Tsubokawa and Goto were chattering away, talking about something.

"Uesugi, who was that just now?"

Who do you think she is?

"From what I've heard, he's a transfer student who just enrolled yesterday," Goto said.

"To be able to become a transfer student at Shingoshi High School, her background must be extraordinary." Tsubokawa pushed up his reflective glasses and said, "The daughter of a businessman? Or the daughter of some official?"

"Hey, Uesugi, how did you meet her? What did she want from you just now?"

The two of them started to imagine things again.

Takahiro Tsubokawa: "I'm not saying this to be mean, but Uesugi-kun, you already have Hanamaru-kun, isn't it better to just quietly be a popular person?"

Goto Iwakatsu: "That's too cruel, Uesugi! Even the main character isn't like this, how could you do this!"

"so?"

"So please tell us about your relationship with her."

"..."

Uesugi Kai was speechless.

"I think it's a real waste of your talent that you guys don't go into the news department to gossip about the whole school."

The green leaves outside the window swayed gently in the breeze, and Uesugi Kai casually glanced at the two of them.

"She is my older sister, Uesugi Shio."

"..."

A gaze that questions the meaning of life.

"When did you get an older sister?"

"Believe it or not, she just enrolled yesterday, a special recruit for the kendo club."

Goto Iwakatsu seemed to have a clue. He rested his chin on his hand and looked up to recall: "From what you're saying, it seems that a new captain was parachuted into the kendo club yesterday."

Kai Uesugi was unaware of this; he thought his cousin had simply joined the kendo club.

The main problem is that he doesn't have many friends at school and isn't well-informed.

I was too lazy to ask my cousin at home.

"Oh," he replied calmly, indicating that he understood.

Goto and Tsubokawa knew that he was just outwardly cold and indifferent to everything.

But if it really comes down to it, I'll still keep an eye on it.

"Uesugi, do you know anything about the kendo club?"

"do not know."

Kai Uesugi remembered how angry those kendo club students looked at noon.

My index finger stroked the hard edge of the book.

Did Sister tide beat up everyone in the kendo club?

Tsubokawa glanced around the noisy classroom, placed his hands on the desk, and turned back to say, "So, Uesugi-kun, he's been parachuted in as a club president. Even though the principal appointed him, how can those guys in the kendo club accept him?"

"They want to fight at school?"

"It certainly won't be done openly, but as you know, it's very normal to get injured while practicing swordsmanship."

Kai Uesugi inexplicably wanted to laugh.

Tsubokawa continued, "Furthermore, according to my inside information, they seem to want to give your sister a warning after school today."

"What era are we living in?" Uesugi Kai rested his chin on his right hand, completely unconcerned about the matter.

This is as commonplace and mundane as having milk and eggs for breakfast.

Based on Sugishi Shio's personality, Uesugi Kai can even predict what will happen next in the story.

As for the guys in the kendo club, Uesugi Kai could only say they were as boring as someone trying to figure out why 1+1 equals 2 in advanced calculus class.

"By the way, how do you know all this, Tsubokawa?" Goto Iwakatsu asked. "I'm not as well-informed as you."

"I overheard it while those guys in the Uniform Research Department were chatting."

The Uniform Research Department is actually a very capable department.

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After school in the afternoon, the archery club hasn't had much to do lately, and Hanabi's art club also didn't have any activities today.

Crows flew over the school, their long, dark cawing creating an apocalyptic atmosphere under the trailing rays of the setting sun.

"Aren't we going home first? Sister tide said she has something to do today and told us to go home by ourselves first."

Hanabi Hanamaru was carrying a shoulder bag with a small shark charm, waiting for him to change his shoes.

Kai Uesugi closed the shoe cabinet, which hadn't received any love letters recently, and said, "Let's go check out the kendo club."

"Kendo Club?"

Hanabi Hanamaru tilted her head slightly, revealing her slender and adorable legs peeking out from under her pleated skirt.

"Is it... about Sister tide?"

She made a guess after contacting the person she had bumped into in the student council before.

“Yes,” Kai Uesugi replied, “You saw how the Kendo Club students were unhappy that Shio-nee was appointed as the club president as a special admission student.”

Hanabi Hanamaru has a special kind of concern for Uesugi Shio.