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

"Bread and toast."

"Is bread and toast enough?" Uesugi Kai thought she wanted to eat kaiseki cuisine or something.

"Strawberry cake is good too." Ai Yi put her hands behind her back and stood on tiptoe.

Hanabi Hanabi squatted down in front of her. "Ai-chan, didn't you want to eat your sister's cooking? You're welcome to come anytime."

“Okay.” Ai Yi nodded immediately, her little hat almost falling off.

Qian Aiyi watched her younger sister silently from behind.

After spending the afternoon planting vegetables with the children in the small garden, today is almost over.

When the children saw that the fireworks were about to leave, they were all very reluctant to part with her and gathered around her.

Kai Uesugi also received some snacks from the little girls. Although they weren't anything expensive, they were all kind gestures.

After catching up with Ms. Imanishi, Kai Uesugi waited outside the classroom for Hanabi to finish saying goodbye to the children.

As the sun sets, the fiery clouds on the horizon scorch Tokyo, and another day is about to end.

Aiyi and Qian Aiyi walked in front of her. The two little girls were both very pretty, with light-colored eyebrows, light red lips, and fair skin. They had a childlike innocence and different personalities despite wearing the same uniform.

Uesugi Kai: "Have you said goodbye to Hanabi-neechan?"

"Will my brother come to school again?" Qian Aiyi's voice was soft and seemed to carry a sincere emotion.

"I'm afraid we'll have to wait until next time. Bai Qiu invited us, so we don't get many opportunities. Today, I've spent most of my time playing with you."

“If you come next time, you’ll see that the cabbage we planted together has grown taller!” Ai Yi looked up at him with her hands behind her back.

"Cabbages mature about once every two months, so there probably won't be another chance for them to ripen within the next two months."

"Hey, why can't you come see us?"

Ai's eyes were fixed on Uesugi Kai, and Chi Ai was also silently watching him from behind her sister.

In those few short seconds, the sisters' eyes seemed to be filled with anticipation.

Even after just one day together, they would feel longing and even a desire to depend on each other.

"Okay, I'll come to visit you at school when I have time."

A smile appeared on Qian Aiyi's innocent face: "Thank you, brother."

"It's nothing. Didn't Sister Hanabi say that you can come to our house as guests? We're usually home in the afternoons."

Ai Yi: "Bread, toast, strawberry cake!"

Kai Uesugi smiled and said, "Okay, I'll make you something to eat."

"What would you like to eat, Qian Aiyi-chan?"

"Me...me?" Qian Aiyi seemed surprised that he would ask her that, and lowered her head shyly, her voice soft, "If...if it's okay...I want to eat...tamagoyaki..."

"It will be all right."

"Thank you, brother..."

Afterwards, the two children talked for a long time with Hanabi Hanabi, who had come out, and after saying goodbye to each other, they boarded the train home.

The tram swayed and rattled, carrying mostly students heading home.

Their youthful energy seemed to leap off their flowing skirts.

"Kai-kun".

"Sorry," Uesugi Kai quickly looked away and turned to Hanabi Hanamaru, who was even prettier than him, "I was just thinking about what Hanabi would look like in her high school uniform."

"Kai-kun...do you want to see?"

"You're willing to wear a sailor uniform now!?"

"Hanabi just thinks Kai-kun's quirks are weird, why does he always have to wear high school clothes...?"

Kai Uesugi embraced her slender waist, his fingers able to feel the softness of her skin even through her clothes:

"It's just that you look cute. Besides, you should actually be considered a high school student. We just started school a year earlier."

Hanabi Hanabi leaned against his shoulder in the carriage and whispered in his ear, "Kai-kun, you just really like touching things randomly..."

"It's very easy to understand. For example, you feel good when you lean on me, or you might secretly take my clothes to wear."

Kai Uesugi glanced around the carriage, making sure no one was watching them, then secretly bit her ear and whispered:

"Can I lend a hand today too?"

"Kai-kun... you're only really enthusiastic about things like this..."

"Fireworks can be cute too, can't they?"

"Liar, what's cute about it..."

"Hmm~ Let me think. It's when you grab me and press your little face against my chest, and when I look at the nail marks on my arm, I think, 'Is Hanabi really that comfortable? You don't even realize you're hurting me.'"

Kai Uesugi seemed to remember something else and added with a smile.

"By the way, Hanabi's body would be especially tense during that time. Her back would press against me, her thighs would tuck in, her little feet would curl up tightly, and her rosy voice would become intermittent and faint~"

"Kai-kun!" Hanabi Hanamaru became increasingly embarrassed by his words, and her little hands gripping her skirt grew more and more nervous.

"Okay, I won't say anymore, I won't say anymore."

###Chapter 278 A Happy Life###

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

A few days later, on Friday.

Compared to high school, college life is definitely more leisurely.

Academic success depends entirely on self-discipline; whether or not to take a course depends entirely on one's own will.

Of course, this is on the premise that you can pass the assessment.

With nothing to do in the afternoon and her advisor not around, Uesugi Kai hailed a taxi and went home first.

The city street scenes along the way gradually receded outside the car window, and the less important scenes only lingered in my mind for half a day before disappearing in an instant.

If the memories of these scenes are so vivid, then the past twenty-odd years seem more like a dream.

Only a few fragments remain, along with that gear-like life.

After getting off the bus and arriving at his front door, Uesugi Kai took out his keys from his pocket and opened the door.

"I am back."

.....

No one responded. In fact, it was only a little past noon, and it was normal for Hanabi to still be at school.

A few days ago, a video of the small band was posted online. Perhaps because Hanamaru Hanabi's presence was so prominent, many people left comments asking for her contact information.

Is there anything like SNS?

Unfortunately, Hanabi Hanamaru only has an artist account on Twitter and has never shown her face, so no one can recognize her.

I changed into slippers in the entryway and stepped inside.

It's not so bad to shout 'I'm back,' what's bad is when no one responds.

The feeling of actively reminding someone but getting no response can be disheartening and lonely.

In other words, Uesugi Kai felt very insecure because he didn't hear Hanabi's weak "Welcome back".

If you can't live without someone, you might feel empty inside when they're not around.

The first thing I do when I get home is make myself a cup of coffee, and then I sit at my desk and start studying.

This kind of slow-paced life is actually not bad.

The bedroom smelled of fireworks, which alone made it more pleasant than the study room.

Some problems seem simple, such as 2^p + p^2 = prime number, prove that the prime number p.

The result is obviously 3, but proving it is not as simple as just substituting the numerical assumptions.

After studying for two hours, Uesugi Kai stretched, washed the cup he had finished drinking coffee from, and then went to the balcony for some fresh air.

A gentle breeze caressed my face, and the warm sunshine filled the air with the scent of June summer.

It wasn't cold, nor was it hot; it lacked the unstoppable scorching heat of July and the icy chill of December.

Hanabi Hanabi's clothes were hanging to one side, one on each side of Kai Uesugi's clothes.

She washes all his clothes, and as for his underwear... Hanabi doesn't mind, but he still thinks it's better for him to wash them. If he actually did, Hanabi would probably blush.

With his arm resting on the balcony railing, he was thinking about how she would blush and be shy in front of him.

Why aren't they back yet?

Kai Uesugi looked down at the pedestrians on the street below, trying to find her figure walking back in the crowd.

But after looking around for half an hour, I still couldn't see her.

I'm a little sad.

"I am back."

Hanabi Hanamaru had just taken off her shoes at the entrance, revealing her small white-stockinged feet, when she saw Kai Uesugi standing in front of her.

"Kai-kun?"

"Don't you have class today? Why are you back so early?" Uesugi Kai said, noticing that she was carrying groceries she had just bought from Don Quijote.

This should be tonight's dinner.

"Yes, but didn't Kai-kun say that Ai-chan and the others were coming today?"

“They’ll probably come over tonight; there’s still some time before their classes end.” Uesugi Kai helped her carry the plastic bag.

"Thank you, Kai-kun. Actually, Hanabi wanted to start preparing earlier," Hanabi said, putting on her slippers and looking up to find him looking at her. "Kai-kun?"

Kai Uesugi put the plastic bag aside, stepped forward, took her hand, closed his eyes, and pressed his head against the girl's soft lips, giving her a light, swirling kiss.

He gently held her soft lips in his mouth with his teeth, and the wonderful taste lingered in his mouth, like eating a whole piece of honey. The sweet feeling was unforgettable and made him reluctant to leave.