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

Hanamaru Hanayu looked very happy. She knew who the two people sleeping in front of her were, and her lively hands and legs kept crawling on the blanket.

Soon the little one crawled between the two of them, stared blankly at his older brother and sister's still sleeping faces, seemingly considering who to wake up first.

In the end, she chose her older sister, gently grabbing Hanabi's face with her soft hands and calling out in a childish voice:

"Sister~ Sister~"

It can really hurt when a child grabs you because they can't control their strength.

Hanabi Hanamaru had no choice but to sit up, her face still flushed, urged on by her younger sister.

Mrs. Hanamaru stood at the door and smiled: "Wake up Xiaokai and come out for dinner. Get up, get dressed, and then bring Hana out to feed her. Aren't we going to the school festival today?"

After saying that, she closed the door again after Hanamaru Hanabi nodded in agreement.

Seeing that his mother-in-law had left, Uesugi Kai sat up in bed, took a tissue from the bedside table, and handed it to Hanabi.

Her younger sister was fidgeting restlessly in her arms, and Hanabi Hanabi still looked shy when he handed her the tissue.

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After breakfast, I took the tram and got off at Todai-mae Station.

The two ladies accompanied me on the trip; they also visited the Hongo Campus Festival at the University of Tokyo today.

The University of Tokyo holds two campus festivals each year: the Komaba Festival in November at the Komaba Campus and the May Festival in May at the Hongo Campus.

The main activity involves student groups from the school opening simulated shops.

Showcases of research findings organized by specialization or research lab, engaging scientific experiences, and lectures.

Stage performances by school clubs, individuals, and other arts groups.

Uesugi Kai originally planned to just participate in a mock shop activity, but since Kujo and the others wanted to participate in a stage performance, he, as an old classmate, decided to join in as well.

Of course, the biggest reason he agreed to participate in the performance was that Hanabi wanted to perform on the same stage with him once.

He had never participated in any of the school cultural festivals held in his senior year of high school or junior high school, and he was also unable to participate in the cultural festival in his senior year of high school because he was going to the archery competition.

Upon arriving at the University of Tokyo's main gate, a large sign for the May Festival was erected, announcing the 95th University of Tokyo May Festival.

Many parents bring their children to visit and play on this day, so it's not unusual to see the two ladies carrying Hanamaru Hanayu and Uesugi Shin while they play.

The two little ones had never seen so many people before, and their eyes kept staring at the people in strange costumes.

"So many people from the University of Tokyo do cosplay?" Mrs. Hanamaru asked.

"Quite a few, I suppose," Mrs. Uesugi said.

"We had this back in our day, Xiaozhao, guess what it was?"

Kai Uesugi stayed close to Mrs. Hanamaru. His stage performance with Hanabi wasn't until the afternoon, "like Dragon Ball or Cardcaptor Sakura."

Mrs. Uesugi smiled and said, "Actually, girls mostly play roles like Pikachu."

Mrs. Hanamaru: "I remember there was a red robot with long horns who wanted to take a picture with me. That robot was shaped like a round bucket."

Mrs. Uesugi: "Aren't they just a bunch of boys wearing golden armor?"

Mrs. Hanamaru: "That happened later. Didn't you have one too? A red-haired boy with a chain around his waist and a white shirt covering his legs."

Mrs. Uesugi: "What were we playing again?"

Mrs. Hanamaru: "I think it's Team Rocket, the one with a big 'R' on their white shirts."

As Uesugi Kai listened to the two ladies chatting, he even imagined what they used to be like as delinquent girls, and couldn't help but wonder:

"Does your aunt have any old photos?"

“Kai, let me show you your mother. She used to be a very ‘trendy’ person,” Mrs. Hanamaru said with a smile.

"Mieko!" Mrs. Uesugi didn't want her past exposed in front of her son. That look... would be too outrageous by today's standards. "Believe it or not, I'll show Hanabi the photos of you chasing after Takuya back then."

Hanabi Hanamaru asked in confusion, "Did Mom used to be a fan of celebrities?"

"Your mother was a teenage girl too." Mrs. Hanamaru grabbed Hanamaru Hanayu's small hand and waved it at her.

###Chapter 256 Tokyo University May Festival (2)###

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

There are a total of 285 simulated shops at this year's May Festival.

The most numerous of these are milk tea shops and grilled beef skewer shops, accounting for almost half.

Of course, the goal of opening a shop is to make money!

With such fierce competition from other vendors, why would anyone want to patronize their own grilled beef skewers shop?

"I was reincarnated into another world and became a beef skewer?"

When Uesugi Kai saw the handwritten sign of the shop, he was taken aback. It had a light novel vibe to it.

Looking back a few more times, I saw posts like, "May is your month of the Ox," "The Ox's job!", "About the fact that I accidentally discovered my family's milk tea is super delicious," and "Milk tea brewed from scratch."

The scattered handwritten characters convey a sense of deliberate emphasis.

The University of Tokyo's campus festival is also highly competitive.

Mrs. Hanamaru asked Kai Uesugi, "How's the food at these restaurants?"

"I don't know, but I've heard from some of my classmates that they all buy their raw materials from one place."

"That's just industrial production; they all taste the same." Mrs. Hanamaru looked around in the noisy crowd. "There seem to be a lot of people over there. Shall we go take a look?"

With her two younger sisters in her arms, Uesugi Kai replied, "Okay."

Holding the two little ones for a long time, they were quite heavy.

Continuing further in, besides these milk tea and beef skewer shops, there are also specialty snack shops run by international students, offering Pakistani cuisine, Indian roti, and Chinese steamed buns.

By the way, things sold here are much more expensive than outside.

Mrs. Uesugi: "Hey, Kai, doesn't your class have one of these little cubicles?"

Kai Uesugi remembered that they bought oden dumplings. "Yes."

"How about it?"

"How is it...?" Uesugi Kai wanted to take a look at Hanabi, but then she noticed that Hanabi had run to the other side to sell spicy tornado potatoes. "It should be alright... I'm not sure, they bought the ingredients from Ikebukuro."

Ikebukuro is a predominantly Chinese area, with many Chinese restaurants and a dedicated underground market.

When they arrived at the class store of their liberal arts class, group seven, there was a mango doll swaying in front of the store, trying to attract customers.

Nana Umezu and a few of her rare female classmates were busy making oden dumplings.

Judging from the number of people in the queue, it's quite lively.

However, as soon as Uesugi Kai arrived in the vicinity, many people's attention was drawn to him—not only by his appearance, but also by the inexplicably comical sight of him holding two children on either side of him.

Fortunately, both little ones are quite cute and very attractive, making you want to hold them.

The two ladies really wanted to eat oden-flavored dumplings, so they went to the back of the crowd to join the queue.

"senior?"

Kai Uesugi looked around and realized that the sound was coming from inside the mascot costume.

He looked at the large mango, then glanced at the approaching June sun, and said with some concern, "Qingzuo, aren't you hot? It's probably 30 degrees Celsius today."

"It's hot... but Totsuka-kun said this will help us sell better." His voice sounded muffled through the hood.

"Then why mango?" Uesugi Kai couldn't figure out the relationship between dumplings and mangoes. Maybe they were both oval-shaped?

"Time was too tight, and we couldn't rent better clothes, so we all worked together to learn how to make dumplings on YouTube overnight."

Uesugi Kai glanced into the small drawer of the oden pot. The dumplings... didn't look very appealing, but thankfully they didn't leak during cooking.

Uesugi Kokoro was a little scared of this yellowish thing, while Hanamaru Hanayu reached out her little hand to touch it.

“Senior, you…” Kiyosuke Takeshi also saw him holding two children.

“They’re both little girls.” Uesugi Kai lifted her arms to make it more comfortable for her to hold the two little ones.

"..."

Sometimes... I really envy my seniors...

“I’m a very ordinary person, and I don’t have any particularly high aspirations,” said Kai Uesugi.

"My senior is already a celebrity in the archery world. I think he has a perfect life and there is nothing more to pursue. All that is left is to enjoy life."

"Senior, I want to ask, isn't a mundane life really boring?"

"Perhaps. Some people say they like the mundane, but very few people truly enjoy the mundane. The ability to accept stimulation is innate, just like the many literary stories you've read, where the word 'contradiction' runs through them all."

"Kai-kun." Hanamaru Hanabi ran over with two skewers of tornado potato chips, one fully spicy and one mild.

She saw Uesugi Kai talking to the person inside the mango mascot costume, realized they must be classmates, and politely greeted them.

"Hello."

"Y-hello." Kiyosaki Takeshi, who hadn't spoken to many girls before, stiffly lowered his head slightly. This was the first time he had been so close to such a beautiful girl.

"Kai-kun, let me hold the flower rain, you take this string of potato chips."

"Well, okay."

So, Kai Uesugi traded Hanamaru Hanayu for 200 yen worth of tornado potato chips with Hanamaru Hanabi.

Seeing that he couldn't get a word in edgewise, Kiyosaki Takeshi politely offered to continue helping to attract customers.

After he left, Hanabi Hanabi asked, "Was that Kai-kun's classmate?"

"Yes, we're in the same class, and we're also in the archery club."

Hanabi Hanamaru noticed the two ladies were still in line, and Kai Uesugi asked her, "Haven't Tsukumo and the others arrived yet?"

"They should be at school by now." Hanabi Hanamaru took out her phone to check and found a message from Kitagawa Sakakisa saying that they had arrived at the school gate and asking where the two of them were.

The younger sister, Uesugi Shin, wanted to eat the potato slices with chili peppers on Uesugi Kai's hand. She stared longingly at them from his arm, but didn't dare to reach out and ask for them.

Kai Uesugi felt that she was a bit like Hanabi when they were young. The care between siblings made him feel inexplicably close to this little one, so he broke off a small piece of potato without chili and fed it to her.

Seeing her nestled in his arms, so tenderly dependent on him, Uesugi Kai hoped she wouldn't become a so-called "brother complex" in the future; he was just an older brother, after all.