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

Hanamaru Hanabi suddenly blushed.

Kitagawa Sakakisa made a strange sound from the other side: "Eh~~~"

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In the afternoon, at a coffee shop.

Kai Uesugi felt that her life had been completely taken over by coffee shops and going to school.

But this is pretty good too. I can spend the morning learning to draw with Hanabi, and the afternoon I can still spend with Hanabi, and I can even see her in her maid outfit.

A fat cat jumped onto the front desk.

"Meow~"

"Is that so?" Uesugi Kai was focused on correcting the novel, ignoring Coco, the fat cat who was squatting in front of him wagging its tail.

"Meow meow~"

"explain."

"Meow~"

Uesugi Kai then raised his head and looked at the fat cat whose head and tail were practically pointing to the sky.

In this day and age, even cats have such lofty ideals?

"You're just a cat, how can you handle this?"

"Meow~"

Uesugi Kai remembers the cat's time was around ten minutes.

"You're really good?"

"Meow meow!"

“Hmm,” Uesugi Kai lowered his head again to write, “Perfect timing, you’re almost an adult, Akae-san and the shopkeeper are discussing whether or not to have you sterilized.”

"Meow!"

"That's not something I can decide."

Coco the fat cat immediately hopped down from the front desk and rubbed her face against his arm:

"Meow meow~"

Kai Uesugi looked at it: "It's no use. As a cat, once it reaches adulthood, it has to be neutered by humans."

"Meow!"

What are you eating?

"Meow~~"

Where are the mice?

"Meow"

“That’s right,” Kai Uesugi said. “Since you can’t hunt mice yourself, then by accepting food from humans, your reproductive fate will be controlled by humans.”

"Meow meow"

"..."

This fat cat actually has its own reasons.

Kai Uesugi: "Fine, I'll reluctantly give you some time to delay the sterilization process."

Fat Cat Coco interrupted, "Meow meow meow!"

"no."

"Meow meow!"

"..."

Kai Uesugi stopped writing and silently looked at the fat cat wagging its tail at the front desk, not knowing what to say.

Why is it that only this fat cat can talk?

###Chapter 475 Grocery Shopping, Illustration and Character Design###

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

"Hanabi-chan~ Hanabi-chan~~"

Before even getting home, Uesugi Kai was already buzzing and nagging around Hanamaru Hanabi.

In the supermarket, Hanabi Hanabu, holding a cauliflower, glanced at him and said, "Kai-kun, just say what you need. As long as it's not something intimate, Hanabi can help."

Uesugi Kai was taken aback: "My favorability rating is still -5?"

"Yes, that's right."

Why hasn't it gone up recently?

"It only went up by ten points, okay?" Hanamaru Hanabi put the green cauliflower into the supermarket cart he was pushing.

"I didn't feel anything, did I forget?"

"Kai-kun, let's not talk about this. Hanabi just gave you a hug this morning."

"One is not enough."

"Kai-kun, you should be content with what you have."

"alright."

Uesugi Kai couldn't help but glance at her a few more times. His wife was always dressed very elegantly, so much so that just by looking at her, he could even faintly smell her delicate fragrance.

It was as if her fragrance was attached to her beauty, and my body reacted instinctively.

While it may be an exaggeration, Uesugi Kai did indeed have that feeling.

Looking at her slightly rosy cheeks, I wanted to reach out and pinch them.

Ugh...

Kai Uesugi was thinking about why he hadn't taken the opportunity to pinch her a little longer before, and now that he no longer had the chance, he was regretting it.

But if we think about it another way, isn't it precisely because of this sense of distance that the brief moments of contact with her become so precious?

Because you can't have it, you want to have it.

Because they gained the ability to touch her at will, they became accustomed to her presence.

She's too good to herself, always willing to accept her own actions... thinking only of herself...

Uesugi Kai followed behind her, pushing a supermarket cart, watching her slowly walk and select fresh produce...

At this moment, she seemed more like a virtuous wife.

Yes, a young married woman.

She's been so good to me; if I were to treat her indifferently and look down on her so easily, wouldn't I be cursed by heaven and earth?

Kai Uesugi finally understood why the male protagonist in the movie he watched recently, "The Flower Bridge," had ended up with nothing.

Because he didn't cherish either his wife who had shared his hardships or his new love, he didn't learn to cherish either of them. He wanted to have it both ways, and in the end, he ended up with nothing.

"What did Kai-kun want to ask Hanabi just now?" Hanamaru Hanabi turned around.

"It's time for the light novel illustrations, character designs, and covers to get started."

"Oh, is this it?"

Kai Uesugi felt a little flustered looking at her slanted eyes that were staring at the ceiling. "Hanabi, you haven't agreed yet, have you?"

"Hanabi didn't say that," Hanabi Hanabi said, turning her gaze back to him with a smile.

"That's good." Uesugi Kai was relieved; he had thought Hanabi would reject him based on her level of affection.

Actually, my wife should really start drawing illustrations again. She's been resting for quite a while now, and her fans are crying out on her Twitter about where Hanamaru-sensei has gone.

Because during the time she was away, she didn't say anything on Twitter or what she was doing.

Even after getting married, he hasn't posted a single update.

Kai Uesugi sensed that Hanabi didn't seem to care much about running her own Twitter account.

It seems that not long ago, someone secretly took a picture of her going out... which made her angry.

Hanabi Hanamaru: "When we got home, Kai-kun told Hanabi about the character design and other information."

"Ah."

"By the way, what's the female lead's name?"

"Hanabi Chiwa."

After Uesugi Kai said the name, Hanamaru Hanabi tilted her head slightly and winked at him.

"Is the female protagonist really based on fireworks?"

“Of course, I mean what I say.” Uesugi Kai paused for a second, then smiled at her incredibly cute face. “It’s a pity that the heroine in the book isn’t a princess, so it can’t fulfill Hanabi-chan’s princess dream.”

"Princess..."

Hanabi Hanamaru suddenly blushed, turned around in a panic, and muttered to herself with her back to him:

"No, no, that's not true."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true! Kai-kun... don't ask anymore..."

As Uesugi Kai watched her flustered and evasive behavior with a smile, he became even more certain that Hanabi-chan really loved being a princess.

When she was younger, she would call her "Your Highness" and she would—

She really is a little girl who never grows up.

......

Carrying large bags of vegetables home, Uesugi Kai began preparing dinner for Hanabi.