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

Pingchuan.

Takahiro Tsubokawa looked up and pushed up his reflective glasses with his middle finger:

"What? I'm about to meet my wife. Nothing important is interrupting my date, but you have to compensate me for emotional distress."

The phone was still calling out, "Onii-chan, Onii-chan?"

"..."

“Don’t you think it’s embarrassing to play that sound out loud?” Kai Uesugi said.

“As long as I’m not embarrassed, they’re the ones who are embarrassed,” Takahiro Tsubokawa said. “See, aren’t you embarrassed for me?”

"..."

Uesugi felt that compared to him, he was incredibly thin-skinned.

"Did you see the fireworks?"

"Hanamaru-kun?" Takahiro Tsubokawa continued to slap his new wife, a little white-haired loli. "I saw her come in with a lunchbox and then leave with a lunchbox."

Thanks.

Why bring in something empty and then take it out again?

Kai Uesugi quickly left the classroom to find her.

The moment he stepped out the door, Takahiro Tsubokawa's wailing rang out:

"Why?! It's off-center again!!!"

Shenyue is very large; its back garden alone is the size of an entire school.

If you want to find fireworks here, you have to ask people.

The playground, the courtyard, and the banyan tree.

He asked all the women he met—Kyuuji Rika, Kawase Nana, and Ayaka Riei—and they all said they had never seen her before.

Rie Ayaka, dressed in her sportswear and getting ready for the afternoon sprint, looked at him and asked:

"what happened?"

"Looking for fireworks."

"Can't this kind of thing just be resolved with a phone call?"

“No, we can’t use the phone,” Uesugi Kai said.

"Why?" Ayaka Rie asked, sitting on a bench at the classroom rest stop.

There's no reason why.

How can you use a phone to track her down?

"Shall we go take a look at the back garden?" Ayaka Rie tentatively suggested.

"Do you have a clue?"

"No, but the places girls like to rest are either under that banyan tree or in the back garden. You can go and take a look."

"Row."

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The back garden is serene and tranquil, shaded by towering green trees.

People who walk in here unconsciously lower their voices, as if they were in a library.

"Thanks......"

Kitagawa Sakakisa, dressed in a black dress, ate the exquisite meal from her bento box, unconsciously lowering her voice to express her gratitude.

Hanabi Hanamaru sat beside her, dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves overhead, sometimes swaying in the breeze.

"Sakaki Sae-chan, why did you run away from home?"

“I don’t know how to describe this feeling,” Kitagawa Sakakisa said, taking a bite of her food as her lace skirt swayed under the bench. “I always feel like my brother is hiding something from me.”

The breeze carried with it the fragrance of grass, trees, and flowers.

###Chapter 192 Friends and Help###

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

(Still not finished today... Please wait a moment while Qianqianzi makes revisions...)

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"It's alright, Hanabi doesn't care about these things."

A gentle breeze blew through the summer garden, carrying her soft voice, "Sakaki-chan said she's disliked, but Hanabi feels the same way..."

"How could that be? Hanabi-chan, you're such a kind person," Kitagawa Sakakisa said, holding up the bento box in her hand, "and you even made a bento for someone like me whom you've barely met."

The lush shade, translucent in the sunlight, cast a green glow on the girl's downcast face.

Hanabi Hanamaru sat upright on the bench, her head bowed, her gaze fixed on her clasped hands draped over her pleated skirt.

"People used to say that fireworks were disgusting, and I hope... they disappear soon..."

Kitagawa Sakakisa could clearly sense that something was wrong with her. "No, no way, why would they say that?"

Don't just help whatever you're told; what is that if not being pathetic?

Stop acting like this all the time, playing the victim? It's disgusting, you know?

Why act all soft and delicate? For the guys to see?

【nausea.】

【nausea.】

【nausea.】

......

"Hanabi, Hanabi, Hanabi."

Kitagawa Sakakisa kept waving at her, and finally seemed to respond, her eyes gradually regaining their luster.

"Are you okay?"

"It's alright..." came the usual weak voice.

“I felt like something was off about you just now,” Kitagawa Sakakisa said.

"Hanabi... I just thought of some things..." Hanamaru Hanabi clasped her two small hands tightly together.

"Things that are disliked?"

"Um......"

"I'm sorry... I think I asked a question I shouldn't have."

"N-It's okay...Hanabi is used to it..."

Kitagawa Sakakisa can sense a feeling of alienation in Hanabi's eyes.

She herself felt the same way.

"It's fine!"

Kitagawa Sakakisa, holding a bento box, spoke loudly, causing Hanabi Hanabi to turn her head and look at her.

"Let them hate me if they want, just ignore them. I really like Hanabi-chan!"

After saying that, she puffed out her chest, which made Hanabi Hanabi smile slightly: "I always felt that this was something Kai-kun would say."

Kitagawa Sakakisa found her smile particularly heartwarming, but she could still vaguely see some deep-rooted impurities in her eyes.

"Hanabi, have you been unhappy lately? Did that cold-hearted guy, Uesugi Kai, bully you?"

"N-No, Kai-kun is very kind to Hanabi..."

Hanabi Hanamaru looked around and saw only classmates of similar age taking a normal stroll and having lunch in the back garden. "But lately, it seems like someone has been following me..."

"Stalking you?"

"Hmm," Hanabi Hanabi took out her phone and opened the text messages, "These... seem to be from that person..."

"Let me see."

Kitagawa Sakakisa placed the bento box aside, took the phone from her hand, and swiped the screen repeatedly with her tiny fingers.

"These......"

The more he looked, the more he frowned, and his expression became serious.

She turned off her phone screen.

"What a pervert! This is definitely harassment, right? Does Uesugi even know about this?"

"Hanabi was afraid Kai-kun would be very angry, so she didn't tell him..."

"It would be best to say something, since he seems pretty impressive." Kitagawa Sakakisa handed the phone with the chili pepper charm back.

"Hmm..." Hanabi Hanamaru answered absentmindedly, clutching her phone with both hands.

Fireworks have already caused Kai-kun a lot of trouble... I still can't let Kai-kun worry...

"But don't worry," Kitagawa Sakakisa said, "As your friend, I'll definitely help you!"

"Sakaki Sasa-chan, it's dangerous, isn't it? Maybe we shouldn't..." Hanabi Hanamaru said worriedly. "Hanabi will be more careful."

"Don't worry!" Kitagawa Sakakisa said confidently. "This is what I should do as Hanabi-chan's best friend!"

Upon hearing the words "good friend," Hanabi Hanabi smiled and said, "Thank you, Sakaki-chan."

"Um...no need, no need."

In the small pavilion surrounded by flowers and plants in the back garden, Uesugi Kai, standing inside, also saw two people chatting and laughing on a bench in the distance.

When did they meet?