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

Hanabi Hanabi, clutching her sleeve, looked at the red bow on Ayaka Rie's collar: "Good morning, Rie-chan, your bow looks beautiful today..."

"Hmph," Ayaka Rie said, hands on her hips, chest puffed out, looking very confident. "Right?"

"Please come in, it's a bit cold outside."

"Ah."

Rie Ayaka went inside, took off her leather shoes at the entrance, and put her black-stockinged ankles on slippers.

"By the way, has Uesugi arrived yet?"

"Uesugi-kun has arrived."

Ayaka Rie peeked into the living room, "Even though I came so early on purpose, I still can't beat him."

Inside the living room, the warm air from the air conditioner filled the air. Uesugi Kai sat cross-legged on the right side of the coffee table, eating cookies that Hanamaru Mieko had baked earlier, while watching the rerun of "Monday Late Night Show" on TV.

He didn't turn around when he heard footsteps, and continued to look ahead.

Regarding the issue of Osaka having the highest crime rate in the country for 15 consecutive years.

Host (handing over the microphone): Do you have anything to share?

Ms. Osaka: Yes! Haha (suddenly covers her mouth and laughs), I was taking a shower at home and felt very hot, so I opened the door and saw a man I didn't recognize standing in the living room.

Host: Hey! Did a strange man see you naked?

Ms. Osaka: Hmm (covers her mouth and laughs), but this is the only thing I lost, hahaha~~~

Ms. Osaka's best friend: (Unable to suppress laughter) This is the only valuable thing in her house.

“Uesugi!” Ayaka Rie called out from sitting by the coffee table.

Hearing this, Uesugi Kai turned around: "You're here. Now that you're here, let's get ready to begin."

"puff!"

Seeing his face, Ayaka Rie suddenly covered her mouth, wanting to laugh, "How come you have another scar on your face?"

"Oh, this?" Uesugi Kai casually touched the extra white cotton pad on his left cheek, "I fell and got it."

Rie Ayaka waved her hand dismissively: "Fell down? That overused excuse doesn't convince me at all."

"I fell at home."

Is there any difference?

"The difference is at home."

"Humph!"

Rie Ayaka held a cookie in her hand. "I didn't expect to get anything out of you by talking to you."

"Liying-chan, here's your tea."

Ayaka Rie accepted the hot tea that Hanamaru Hanabi brought her, then smiled back:

"Hehe, thank you Hanabi-chan."

"Um," Hanabi Hanabi shook her head, holding the plate, "No need."

"Uesugi-kun, this is for you."

"Thank you."

Kai Uesugi took a sip of tea and said to Rie Ayaka, who was sitting opposite him, "Alright, quickly take out the math workbook that Mr. Haneda gave you yesterday, do it once, and then I'll analyze each question for you."

"Uesugi-kun, do you know how boring you are?" Ayaka Rie pouted as she ate cookies and drank tea.

"This is a study session to help you achieve your goal of ranking in the top ten of the monthly test."

"I know! But can't we rest for a bit first? It's been so long since I've been to Hanabi's house." Ayaka Rie looked around.

Kai Uesugi gazed at her, uttering two words softly:

"No."

Hanabi Hanamaru, sitting in front of the coffee table, whispered to Ayaka Rie:

"Rie-chan... let's listen to Uesugi-kun... and finish our study goals first..."

"Well."

Ayaka Rie answered decisively.

After hearing Hanabi's words, he looked at her fair thighs as she knelt down, the beautiful lines outlined by white stockings clearly defined.

"How could you say something like 'listen to Uesugi-kun'? You haven't been tamed by him, so you can't say that."

"What does 'taming' mean...?"

Hanabi Hanabi tilted her head in confusion, then looked at Kai Uesugi, who was watching TV. "If you're tamed by Uesugi-kun, can you say that?"

"No!" Ayaka Rie suddenly stood up. "Absolutely not!!"

"Why...?"

"There's no why, it just means it won't work!"

Rie Ayaka made a big "X" with her hands.

"But Hanabi thinks Uesugi-kun is right. Riei-chan has to finish her studies first."

"Learning is fine, but taming is not!"

"Does taming mean making animals obedient, like a trainer does?"

Hanabi Hanamaru still couldn't understand what those two words meant, her little head filled with questions. "If Rii-chan were tamed by Uesugi-kun like Hanabi, would she also listen to Uesugi-kun seriously?"

Ayaka Rie started to get flustered and demanded angrily of Uesugi Kai, "Uesugi! What did you feed Hanabi?!"

Kai Uesugi took a sip of tea, completely calm, and continued watching "Monday Late Night Show" on the television:

“It’s not that I’m instilling anything in her, but that you’re instilling something strange in her. In her mind, ‘taming’ is nothing more than listening attentively to what people are saying.”

"I...was I wrong?"

"Does that mean...is that not how it is?" Hanabi's pure gaze kept shifting between the two of them, completely unable to understand why they had become like this.

"..."

Kai Uesugi's words left Rie Ayaka speechless.

"Cough cough!"

She paused, unsure how to explain, and could only nod in response to Hanabi Hanamoto's questioning gaze:

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean."

Chapter Fifty-Six: The Undiscovered Weekend###

Hanamaru Hiroki was busy with work, so he went to the police station early.

Hanamaru Mieko also knew about the group's study session on Saturday, so she went shopping with Uesugi Noriko, who was free during the day next door.

The two women's mothers were close friends and classmates during their university years, so they often went out together.

When they were little, they would often take Kai and Hanabi on a cot together and take them to various parks in Tokyo.

It was through this series of interactions that the little girl gradually became familiar with him and they began to be inseparable.

Uesugi Kai sat in the center of the coffee table, looking at the two people in front of him:

"Menelaus' theorem, I'll say it again, don't forget, this is knowledge from last semester."

He pointed with his pen to the two intersecting triangles above the exercise.

"Any straight line that intersects the sides of a triangle or its extensions such that the product of three non-adjacent line segments equals the product of the other three line segments."

"For example, in this problem, we need to prove that P, Q, and R are collinear. We can use the triangle and angle bisector theorem to know that BP and PC are equal to—"

Uesugi Kai suddenly frowned:

"Ayaka-san, are you even listening?"

"Of course!"

Ayaka Rie immediately responded, pointing her phone at Uesugi Kai, "But look! It's almost 1 o'clock, how about we take a break? You're not tired, but Hanabi-chan and I are."

Kai Uesugi didn't look at the time on her phone, but instead glanced at his own watch.

12:55:23

It is indeed almost one o'clock.

“Alright,” Uesugi Kai lowered his hand and faced the two of them. “Four hours straight is barely enough to meet your learning goals. Hanabi is alright, but why can’t Ayaka even remember the formulas and theorems?”

"If you learn math this way, you'll only understand a bunch of lines when you see a problem."

"I know, I know, you're even more old-fashioned than Professor Jiang Chuan." Ayaka Rie waved her right hand in front of her.

Uesugi Kai didn't refute anything; quick success must be taken seriously, and being rigid is a must.

"Aunt Mieko won't be coming back for lunch today. Are you going home for lunch?"

"Uesugi-kun, Riei-chan will be staying here all day."

“Then we’ll have to take care of lunch ourselves,” Uesugi Kai said, picking up his teacup and tentatively asking, “Should I make it?”

"Please don't!"

Rie Ayaka immediately called out to him, her expression filled with fear, "We've seen your masterpieces in cooking class before, those are works of art that even Sanae-sensei praises."

Ms. Sanae is their home economics teacher. She is very gentle and speaks in a refined manner. After tasting Uesugi Kai's cooking, she still gave him a lot of encouragement.

“Uesugi-kun,” Hanabi Hanabi stood up from her duck-sitting position, her white stockings showing a hint of pale red at the knees, “Rie-chan and I will go cook. Mom left some ingredients at home, I remember there were some noodles.”

"Then let's make bacon and egg sauce pasta! And some salad too!" Ayaka Rie stood up, very happy.

"Humph!"

Ayaka Rie looked up at Uesugi Kai, who was sitting cross-legged, with the bow on her collar. "Uesugi, just wait and see. Even though you forced me to study math for four hours, I've still decided to reluctantly make you a nice meal."

"Oh, thank you."

Uesugi Kai responded, and after the two women ran to the kitchen to prepare the food, he turned on the TV in the living room.