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

......

Time flew by and everything seemed to drift into a daze. After the last customer left the shop, Uesugi Kai saw Hanabi Hanabi tidying up a table by herself. He went over to help her.

“Let me do it,” Uesugi Kai said, extending his hand.

Hanabi Hanabi stared at him for a long time with her purple eyes, then continued wiping the table and said, "Yuki-chan seems to be studying very hard with Kai-kun."

Upon hearing this, Uesugi Kai paused for a second, then, after understanding, laughed and said, "Is Hanabi-chan jealous of her own sister?"

"No."

Glancing at her pouting little face, Uesugi Kai continued, "Don't worry, Hanabi-chan, there was absolutely no physical contact, it was just normal work communication."

"Of course Hanabi knows..."

Hanabi Hanabi's hand, which was wiping the table, suddenly stopped. She understood why, but she still felt a little uncomfortable.

"Firework Sauce".

"What's wrong..."

"If I hug Aiyi and the others, will you be jealous?"

No, it doesn't.

"Then why did you get jealous when I only exchanged a few words with Yuuki?"

"I don't know..." Hanabi Hanamaru, dressed in a maid outfit, said softly, "Hanabi and Yuuki are very close, but when I see them by chance, it just makes me a little sad... Kai-kun, can you understand?"

“Okay,” Uesugi Kai replied.

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. I wouldn't feel comfortable if I saw other men smiling at you alone."

"That's the feeling!" Hanabi Hanabi picked up the plate on the table. Her maid outfit made her rosy cheeks look even cuter, and she also looked like she was puffing out her cheeks. "Kai-kun, it's good that you understand. So, you need to restrain yourself even more, understand?"

Kai Uesugi even detected a lecturing tone in his wife's voice.

There was a time when I thought that one day Hanabi would take the initiative to lecture me.

However, this feeling is not bad either, as if she cares about me and loves me.

Have we made up now?

Hanabi Hanabi raised her bright purple eyes and stared at him for a moment before saying in a soft voice, "No."

After saying that, he immediately picked up the plate and walked past her into the coffee shop's kitchen.

As Uesugi Kai looked at her slender figure, her maid dress swaying slightly, and her hair gently fluttering, a sweet warmth welled up in his heart.

Sometimes, just watching her back is a kind of happiness.

I want to hold her in my arms and make her blush again...

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When I got home at night, the air was crisp and cold, and snowflakes were falling softly in the pitch-black night.

Looking at the Tokyo night view, Uesugi Kai thought to himself that Christmas was just around the corner.

It's Christmas again.

Although he doesn't particularly like the festival, he still feels obliged to participate when he's in Tokyo and everyone around him is in a cheerful and joyful atmosphere.

In other words, nothing else matters.

Mainly, Kai Uesugi wants to take Hanabi out for a walk, see the snow on Christmas Eve, give her a Christmas apple, and if things go well, he also hopes to take her to see a movie.

...Life is actually that simple, isn't it?

Repeating each day, experiencing the subtle differences in each day, and then feeling love and family affection in the ordinary yet warm daily life.

Kai Uesugi got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, sat down on the sofa, grabbed his phone from the coffee table, and glanced at the time.

It's already 1 a.m.

It was very cold at night. The snowflakes falling outside the window seemed to seep into the room through the cracks, making people shiver uncontrollably.

He went to the toilet comfortably and then washed his hands.

I habitually turned on the cold water, but as soon as my right hand touched the cold water, I immediately pulled it back.

No, it's too cold!

My fingers stung as if I'd been injected with a needle, and I instinctively shuddered all over.

Kai Uesugi, who was about to go back to the living room to sleep, wanted to find the air conditioner remote next to the TV. In the middle of the night, if the air conditioner wasn't turned on, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to stay awake, given his physique.

Kai Uesugi rummaged through the cabinet under the TV for a while, shivering from the cold, and finally found the air conditioner remote on the TV.

He turned around, glanced at the sofa where he was sleeping, and was about to turn on the air conditioner.

The door to the inner room opened.

Hanabi Hanamaru, wearing a shark-themed pajama, stood at the door. Because her back was illuminated by the bedroom light, her face was somewhat blurry in the night.

"Fireworks?" Uesugi Kai watched as she walked out of the bedroom door, then took his hand and led him into the bedroom.

"What's wrong?" Uesugi Kai asked her from behind, smelling her fragrance.

Hanabi Hanamaru didn't answer, but led him into the house, then leaned against the closed bedroom door, placed her arms outstretched on the door, and looked up at him.

Perhaps it was because the indoor lighting was warm-toned, but her little face looked rosy and had that kind of cute shyness.

Hanabi Hanabi only looked at him for a moment before turning her face away, leaving only her head facing him, and mumbled in a weak voice:

"If it were the old Kai-kun, he would definitely sneak off to Hanabi's place at night..."

Night...a night raid, right...?

Indeed, if it were the old Uesugi Kai, and it was so cold outside, he would have crawled into Hanabi's bed no matter what.

It's so warm and cozy when two people sleep together.

But now, the situation is different.

"Hanabi, aren't you still angry with me? I think I might be too impulsive, wouldn't that be a bad idea?"

"Fool......"

"..."

Hanabi Hanamaru's slightly reproachful "idiot" really hit Uesugi Kai in the heart.

It's so sweet that it melts your heart.

The cold I had just endured in the living room seemed to have been thrown to the ground and vanished without a trace.

"..."

The air was quiet for a while.

Kai Uesugi raised his head again. "I understand."

Then, Hanabi Hanabi watched him walk towards her, closer and closer, until his face was inches away, and she could hear his breathing. "Kai... what does Kai-kun want to do?"

Uesugi Kai simply smiled, then bent down, put one arm around her back and the other on her smooth, pink thigh, and lifted her petite body up, placing her back on the large bed in a princess carry.

He turned off the light, leaving only the hazy moonlight filtering through the gauze curtains in the room.

It illuminated the girl's rosy cheeks, and everything seemed so familiar.

Kai Uesugi placed his hands on either side of Hanabi Hanamaru, looking down at the beautiful girl lying on the soft bed beneath him.

Hanabi Hanamaru was a little lost. She desperately wanted to hug something, and after pacing around for a while, she finally grabbed the shark plush toy that Uesugi Kai had given her at the beginning, and clutched it tightly to her chest.

Kai Uesugi stared at her for a while longer, until her face, with its eyes tightly closed, was completely hidden by Sharak, before saying to her, "Hanabi, you said that because you didn't want me to be cold outside, right?"

"No... Hanabi just suddenly wanted to drink water."

“There’s a separate water dispenser in the bedroom, so your excuse doesn’t hold water at all.” Uesugi Kai paused, then reached out and pulled away the shark-shaped hair clip that was covering her face. “Actually, Hanabi forgave me a long time ago, didn’t she?”

"No." Hanabi quickly grabbed Shark again and covered her face once more.

"Hanabi-chan, don't be hypocritical. I know that sometimes when girls say no, they actually mean yes."

......

......

After Uesugi Kai spoke, there was no sound for a long time. Hanabi Hanabi couldn't help but steal a glance at him through the shark's fin. She should have just kept quiet, because what she saw made her blush with embarrassment.

"It's just taking off your upper body clothes, why are you so shy?"

"Kai-kun is a pervert."

"..."

Uesugi Kai thought to himself, "We've had so much fun together, and all I did was take off my shirt. Why are you calling me a pervert?"

"Every day...every day I think about H."

Uesugi Kai smiled wryly: "You've wronged me about this."

"Why is Kai-kun taking off his clothes?"

"Go to sleep."

Hanabi Hanabi suddenly poked her eyes out from the shark's dorsal fin: "Kai-kun, you want to sleep here with Hanabi?"

"no?"

"Hanabi didn't allow Kai-kun to sleep in Hanabi's bed..."

"But Hanabi-chan clearly pulled me into the room herself. I don't care anymore, I'm sleeping here tonight." Uesugi Kai threw off the covers, plopped down on the bed, and bounced quite bouncyly twice.

"No way! Kai-kun is a stinky man, he didn't shower today!" Hanabi Hanamaru used Shark as a shield and pushed him away forcefully.

"It's been so cold these past few days, it's okay if I don't shower every other day, right?" Uesugi Kai explained while fending off Shark's attacks.

"No! You smell!"

"It smells bad?"

Kai Uesugi got out of bed, sniffed around, and said, "No, there isn't anything there."

Hanabi Hanabi sat on the large bed in a duck-like position, holding Shark Shark. Her small face, which was not clearly visible in the moonlight, was full of resentment. She muttered softly, "The smell of a fox."