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

“Father…” Hanamaru Yuzuki sighed, “I thought he would be the one most opposed, after all, he taught my eldest brother to be so rigid, but I didn’t expect him to say nothing about this matter to me, and his attitude was very ambiguous.”

"Vague?"

"Yes, it's ambiguous, neither opposing nor agreeing, they didn't say anything."

This is quite strange. As a father, if his son wants to pursue his daughter, he should naturally be the first to object.

However, Masanobu Hanamaru did not comment on this matter, which makes one wonder whether his thinking is more Western or he has a very open-minded personality.

After thinking it over carefully for a while, combined with his previous impressions, Uesugi Kai realized that Hanamaru Masanobu's personality was even more unpredictable.

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A cute smile immediately bloomed on Hanabi's face: "Who is Hanabi?"

"You..." Hanabi Hanamaru wasn't sure, but that cute face was definitely hers.

"But... if you're Hanabi... then who is Hanabi...?"

【Hana-maru Hanabi】moved her slender body and reached for a mirror from the bedside.

"Hanabi is... Kai-kun...?"

Hanabi Hanamaru held the mirror she was handed to her with both hands, looking at her real face reflected in the mirror.

He was an exceptionally handsome man with refined features.

She reached out and pinched her cheek; the tangible sensation conveyed an unreal truth.

Am I... Kai-kun?

Just as she was wondering if she was dreaming, [Hana-maru Hanabi] suddenly pushed him onto the bed, straddled him with her white legs, and climbed on top of him.

"Flower...fire...?"

"Wrong... Hanabi, I'm Kai-kun." [Hanamaru Hanabi] said with a smile, placing her hands on his stomach in a duck-sitting position.

"Kai-kun...?"

Hanabi Hanamaru, now in Uesugi Kai's body, struggled to understand her current situation. She called out again to the girl inside her:

"棣...棣君?"

"Yes."

【Hana-Maru Hanabi】smiled, and even though she was wearing loose light pink pajamas, she couldn't hide the girl's graceful waist.

Now, with such a light-bodied girl sitting on her lap, smiling at her, Hanamaru Hanabi felt shy, but her body couldn't react well. She could only try her best to look away and turn her face away.

"Kai-kun... what... what's going on?"

"I don't know either." [Hanamaru Hanabi] carefully examined her body.

"Kai-kun... doesn't know either?"

"Yes, I don't know." [Hana-maru Hanabi] looked curiously at the body that was originally hers beneath her. She was very curious whether all the functions were still intact under Hanabi's control.

We must test the waters.

The girl who was supporting his stomach quietly slid her hands away, sliding them down his waistline and probing into his stomach through the gap where his clothes met his belt.

His stomach was a little hard and warm, and it felt very masculine to the touch.

It's definitely my own body's sensation.

Kai Uesugi was naturally not interested in her, but as he touched Hanabi Hanabi's girlish body, he couldn't help but blush.

He realized that girls would blush because of a boy's belly.

"Kai... Kai-kun, don't touch my stomach."

"This is my own belly, why can't I touch it?" [Hana-maru Hanabi] pinched the other person's waist twice more.

"But... Kai-kun's hand... it should feel strange to touch Hanabi's hand."

"I know that, it feels very comfortable, right?"

"No, no... it's just strange..." [Uesugi Kai]'s hands and feet were a little uncoordinated.

Is that strange?

Kai Uesugi understood this feeling; when he first woke up, he tried touching his chest and experienced a strange sensation.

That was the first time he experienced the wonder of a girl's body.

Hanabi Hanamaru seemed to understand something, and moved her hands away from Kai Uesugi's stomach, her gaze slowly moving towards his crotch.

There is a... tent.

......

It appears that the functions are working properly.

"Kai-kun..."

"what happened?"

"I feel... a little...required...to use the restroom..."

Hanabi Hanamaru seemed to understand something, and moved her hands away from Kai Uesugi's stomach, her gaze slowly moving towards his crotch.

###Chapter 318 I hope you won't leave because of this###

The sunset today has a touch of gold.

Looking up from the current perspective, passing through the intricate network of power lines in the street also creates a unique atmosphere.

Kai Uesugi was holding onto the handrail when she took the train home from the Nesuji Station at the University of Tokyo.

As the scenery outside the car window moves from near to far, the view slows down.

The city is bustling. A towering building with a stark glass curtain wall, just by looking at its height of over 120 meters, you can understand how much money is contained within it.

The owner of this building may be an entrepreneur or a real estate developer. What is certain is that its owner must have considerable wealth in Tokyo and live a life that many people can only dream of.

Uesugi Kai didn't envy those kinds of people. He wondered if Hanabi's uncle and aunt, who also ran a building, had already been blinded by the high-end lifestyle.

At least from the current perspective, yes. They can even use their own niece as a bargaining chip to send out for a marriage alliance. It really shows that the whole family is of one mind.

He turned his gaze away from the fiery red horizon. Inside the tram, there was an advertisement for the light novel "The Shrine Maiden is a Fox Spirit?!"

In the painting, the fox spirit is mysterious and stunningly beautiful; her confident yet alluring eyes can greatly attract men's attention.

This is the original promotional artwork for the novel, which was released on July 1st. Judging from the ubiquitous advertisements, the first few volumes of the novel must have sold very well.

Kai Uesugi smiled, which meant that his previous efforts had not been in vain; he had helped the author analyze the plot, leading to the book's great success, and Hanabi had also benefited from it.

Illustrations attract new readers, good storylines retain readers, and word-of-mouth spreads, thereby continuously attracting more attention.

Readers have a demand, so they want to see more portraits of the female protagonist.

This indirectly helped Hanabi.

Perhaps soon she will become even more famous and achieve a prominent position in the entire circle of concept artists.

This is what she deserves; Uesugi Kai knows she often works overtime behind his back.

A few days ago at the hospital, she was also working by his bedside with a tablet.

He lay unconscious on the hospital bed, his tablet still displaying his drawing interface beside him. The girl, exhausted, slumped down beside him...

Just thinking about this scene makes my heart flutter inexplicably.

In both of his lives, apart from his family, no girl had ever cared for him like she did.

The tram swayed and came to a stop at the station. Uesugi Kai, carrying a spicy cake he had bought for Hanabi, strolled home under the gradually darkening sky.

The clouds at sunset were beautiful, but he had no heart to appreciate them; he was already exhausted enough from catching up on several weeks' worth of lessons in one day.

Summer vacation is almost here, and Uesugi Kai still plans to take Hanabi on a trip.

He collapsed halfway through that day, and didn't even have a chance to apologize to her through the wisteria blossoms, which is ultimately a regret.

Aiyi and Qian Aiyi have already returned home from elementary school.

Not long after Uesugi Kai entered, Ai ran out and asked, "Didn't Hanabi-neechan go home with brother?"

"No, your sister Hanabi is quite busy; she's probably still at school."

"What did your brother and sister do yesterday?"

"Let's go find Hanabi's grandpa," Uesugi Kai glanced into the living room. "Is Chiai doing her homework?"

"Hmm," Ai replied absentmindedly, her focus actually still on the orange cat from a few days ago, "Can brother turn into a big orange cat again?"

"What big orange cat?"

“It’s the one my brother turned into.” Ai Yi gestured the shape of a cat and its long tail with her hands.

Kai Uesugi wasn't sure if Ai had really recognized him, but he didn't want to lie to a child, so he gave her the strawberry cake he had prepared in advance.

Although Ai is smart, she is still a child after all, and once her attention is diverted, she stops asking about the cat.

"Alright, go cook the rice first, and then we can prepare the dishes and have dinner when Sister Hanabi comes back."

"What happens after it's cooked? Brother, do you want to play games with Aiyi? Sister is doing her homework and can't play with Aiyi."

Kai Uesugi could sense that she was very close to him; this was perhaps the attribute that Chii had mentioned as "being very popular with children." He patted her head and said:

"Brother must be tired after a long day. Go take a nap first. You can play by yourself today, or watch TV is fine too."

"Okay, Aiyi is going to watch TV now."

Aiyi looked very energetic as she turned to go to the living room, and the house became much more lively because of her presence.

Although it was a makeshift team assembled on the spot, none of them were actually related as family.

After washing the rice and setting a timer in the rice cooker, Uesugi Kai went upstairs to her bedroom to cook it.

He lay on the bed, pulled over the shark plush toy that Hanabi liked, and gradually fell asleep from exhaustion.

......

"Brother, brother, brother, wake up."

A pair of tiny hands were waving at her. Uesugi Kai opened her eyes groggily and realized that Ai was already riding on her stomach, with Chi Ai standing beside her.