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

"So comfortable..."

"what?"

Kai Uesugi heard it, almost inaudibly, but he definitely heard it.

But how could that be? How could Hanabi, who is so shy and timid that she blushes even when she says she likes someone, answer such an embarrassing question?

"So comfortable..."

Hanabi Hanamaru's answer followed immediately after Kai Uesugi's question. Her voice was shy and weak. Her fair legs, which were pressed together beneath her skirt, twitched slightly after she answered. Her pink and delicate skin reflected the soft glow of a young girl.

"Really?" Uesugi Kai still couldn't believe it.

"Hmm..." Hanabi buried her feverish face in her hands, clutching the hem of her skirt tightly.

She actually admitted it.

She actually admitted it in order to be an honest girl.

Kai Uesugi didn't believe she would admit it, so he wanted to tease her.

Now that she's brought it up herself, she's left him speechless.

But one thing is certain—Hanamaru-chan is indeed an honest girl.

Kai Uesugi lost this confrontation, but he was not completely defeated.

Hanabi Hanabi looks so cute, blushing to the extreme under the wall-slamming.

Originally, Uesugi Kai was on his way to the dojo to find his cheap master, but he was so captivated by Hanabi's cuteness that he unconsciously swallowed and couldn't move.

I long to hold her, to embrace her slender, graceful waist, and to hold her above me, revealing her endless cuteness and shyness.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.

Quickly recite a mantra in your mind.

Kai Uesugi now understood what it meant to be distracted and restless.

“Kai-kun…you’re so mean…” Hanabi Hanamaru said, her head bowed.

Kai Uesugi understood that she was saying he had deliberately mischievous, deliberately asked that question, and deliberately teased her.

He released his hand from the wall.

Just as I was about to cough twice to ease the awkward atmosphere...

Hanabi Hanabi clenched her little fist and punched it against his chest:

"Bad, bad man... bad Kai-kun..."

Uesugi Kai let her fists pound on him; it didn't hurt anyway.

"Ahem, Hanabi-chan, you don't hate me, do you?"

"I hate it...I hate it! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!" Hanamaru Hanabi punched him repeatedly with her little fists.

When I looked at her again, her eyes were brimming with tears, and her gaze was as delicate and fragile as water.

"Fireworks?"

Kai Uesugi could tell his wife was angry, but the problem was, how could he stop her from being angry?

"Kai-kun's help for the past month has all been gone!"

Kai Uesugi then realized he had gone too far and quickly said, "No, Hanabi, I can't live without you... Actually... I didn't originally intend to ask that question."

“Bad Kai-kun…” Hanabi Hanabi glanced at him and muttered softly.

"Hanabi-chan? Little Hanabi? You're not angry, are you?"

"No."

"You're not angry with me, are you?"

"No."

"Really?"

"Really, I just hate Kai-kun!"

Hanabi Hanamaru clutched her skirt tightly.

Kai Uesugi was relieved.

The thing about fireworks is that they're not annoying.

I actually quite like being inside.

Kai Uesugi leaned down and whispered a few words in her ear. As time went by, Hanabi Hanabi's face began to turn much redder.

She subconsciously gripped the hem of her skirt, squeezed her thighs together, and lowered her head.

Kai Uesugi glanced at the morning sun outside the window, then turned back and whispered to the girl in front of him:

"It's still early... Little Firework, would you like to take a bath?"

Hanabi Hanamaru's cheeks flushed red as she weakly said, "Kai-kun...you can't peek..."

"Okay, I won't peek."

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Emotions are strange feelings.

For example, Kai Uesugi's state of mind is quite different now than when he first entered the bathroom after taking a shower.

How to put it? Peaceful and serene, life is filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers everywhere.

"Did you take a shower this morning, brother?"

Ai's voice interrupted his gazing at the sky.

"Taking a shower in the morning is the best choice; it will make you feel refreshed all day long."

"But Ai saw that Hanabi-neechan seemed to be inside as well."

Kai Uesugi said in a serious tone, "Brother is massaging Hanabi's shoulders. She went out yesterday and went for a run this morning, so she's a little tired."

"I see." Ai nodded.

"Did you go on a date with Hanabi-neechan yesterday, brother?"

“I’d call it a date, half of it,” Kai Uesugi replied.

He did not tell Ai-yi about his meeting with Ms. Iwashita.

The main reason was that he didn't trust Iwashita Sumiko and had a bad personality.

"Aiyi, has your mother ever hit you?"

"I've hit him."

"Where's your butt?"

No~

Oh, that's good. She's not a woman who abuses her daughter.

"Does she cook for you when she gets home tonight?"

Ai shook her head.

That's true. Before coming here, Qian Aiyi didn't know how to cook at all, which means that their mothers never taught them how to cook.

"Mom will bring back cold rice balls and instant noodles in the evening."

"Nothing else?"

“There are also some strange older brothers and uncles.”

"..." Uesugi Kai suddenly remembered something, "By the way, how old is your mother?"

Ai Yi counted on her fingers and held up ten: "Thirty years old."

Why do people hold up ten fingers at thirty?

Kai Uesugi couldn't understand.

Iwashita Sumiko is thirty years old, Chii is thirteen, and Ai is eleven.

It seems that Qian Aiyi was born when her mother was still very young.

Their father, Kyusaku Ohara, is fifty-two years old this year. Fifteen years ago, he gave Sumiko Iwashita a newly built house, the kind of suite reserved for couples, with only one master bedroom.

These houses are mainly built for DINK (Double Income No Kids) couples, but because they only have one master bedroom, they are also a place where many wealthy people keep mistresses.

Iwashita Sumiko often met with Ai and the other girl's father in that house.

Kai Uesugi looked at Ai and asked, "Where did you sleep when you and Ai lived in your own house before?"

"On the big bed in the bedroom!"

"Is there only one bed in that house?"

"Mm." Ai nodded.

The two little girls slept together in that bed at night...

All I can say is... it's fate's cruel joke.

"Aiyi, would you like to live with your brother and Hanabi-neechan from now on?"

"I want to." A lazy tone.

"I met your mother yesterday with Hanabi-neechan."

"Did my brother see Mom?" Ai Yi's eyes quickly lit up with joy.

"Ah."

The light that had been there quickly dimmed again.

"What's wrong?" Uesugi Kai asked.

"Mom ignored Aiyi... That day Aiyi found her... but she ignored me..."

Kai Uesugi remembered and understood that Ai was referring to the rainy day.