My love index is at its maximum.

“Let’s come and see the scenery together.” Kurisu played with her daughter’s blonde hair in one hand, twirling the soft strands around her fingers.

Looking at the mother and daughter pressed together, Tsukasa Tazaki asked, "Where should I stand?"

"Don't tell me you want to stand in the middle?" Kurisu asked, feigning surprise.

"What do you think, Yui?" Tsukasa Tazaki asked his older brother.

"You decide for yourself." Qichuan Yui said, her voice sounding both threatening and angry.

"understand!"

Tazaki Tsukasa smiled calmly, strode over to Kurisu Kawakami, and sandwiched her between the three of them.

?

"..."

The blonde girl's face immediately darkened.

Kurisu poked her left daughter's head with her fingertip and said irritably, "When are you going to take the initiative a little?"

Then, his mother turned to look at Tazaki Tsukasa on his right with a pleased expression, and ruffled his hair as if she were an elder: "Well done! Your aunt will reward you later. What kind of gift do you want? A sports car or a yacht?"

"Yacht bar."

"why?"

"There's a big yacht, so when summer comes, I can take my aunt out to sea for a trip."

"Xiao Si is so filial."

"Of course, after all, my aunt is the person I respect most. By the way, when will the yacht be delivered?"

"If you order now, you can receive it in the summer."

“The timing is perfect,” Tsukasa Tazaki said.

"It seems to be fate." Kurisu Kirikawa couldn't stop smiling.

The two chatted and laughed, with Kikawa's gaze fixed on the valley ahead, never shifting. A damp mountain breeze blew up from the open valley, making his blond hair sway like reeds.

"Thank you for the yacht, Auntie. You can't go back on your word, okay?"

After saying that, Tsukasa Tazaki smiled sincerely at Kurisu Kawakami, then gracefully turned around, positioning himself between the mother and daughter as if he were precisely inserting a carefully trimmed bouquet into a vase.

Before the blonde beauty could react, her body was firmly embraced by his broad arms.

"Big brother, praise me." Tazaki Tsukasa's lips brushed against her earlobe, as if he was about to bite it, and he said, "In less than a minute, I got a yacht for free. I can go on a sea vacation with you in the summer."

"Don't be so sudden!" Yui Kichikawa pressed her hands against his chest, her cheeks slowly burning. "Besides, the yacht you got is from my family, why should I praise you..."

"He praised me, saying I wanted to go to sea with my older brother."

"...Isn't this what a boyfriend should do? What's there to praise?"

“Oh, boyfriend,” Tsukasa Tazaki said, amused, staring into her beautiful eyes, “Big brother has admitted that he’s my girlfriend, right?”

"Tasaki!" Yui Kikawa muttered under her breath, "You cheated!"

"As a girlfriend, shouldn't you do some things that a girlfriend should do, like giving your boyfriend a big hug? If you still don't agree to that, then it just means that Xiaowei doesn't care at all."

Qichuan Wei blushed, her eyes filled with panic: "...I didn't mean to take it lightly."

Seeing her daughter's embarrassed and helpless expression, Kurisu Kawakami silently watched, tapping her arm with her fingertips. After a while, her daughter's averted gaze fell on her, and she exclaimed, "Wow, what a beautiful snail!" She squatted down and carefully examined the empty soil, as if she had seen a favorite painting at an art exhibition.

There was a time when I and Rin-nee were just as close.

When was that?

I try to trace back through the distant river of time, but time becomes entangled in my memory, like a tangled mess of threads, losing its straight axis and becoming chaotic in all directions.

Despite the mountain breeze, the young man and woman remained locked in a stalemate.

"Xiao Wei?"

"..."

"Hold me," Tsukasa Tazaki urged.

Qichuan Wei frowned slightly, took a deep breath, and slowly put her hands on his waist.

"Hold my hands behind your back," Tsukasa Tazaki instructed.

"Damn it, don't push your luck!" Qichuan Wei protested weakly, then widened her eyes, bit her lower lip, and with a stubborn expression that said "you forced me," slowly clasped her hands together behind his back.

When the girl's slender fingers intertwined, her perfect breasts, which inherited her mother's good genes, also pressed against Tsukasa Tazaki's body.

Tsukasa Tazaki breathed on her smooth neck: "Yui."

Kikawa Yui buried her burning face in his chest and murmured an almost murmured "Mmm".

"Look up."

"……don't want."

"It's not the first time, why are you so shy?"

"I……"

"Okay, I understand."

Tazaki Tsukasa pressed his cheek against her long hair, gently and tightly enveloping the girl's graceful body with his strong frame.

“My brother is proud and doesn’t want to show weakness,” he said softly. “I can understand that.”

“…No,” Yui Kikawa suddenly opened her eyes and looked up, “I…I’m just…not used to it…”

Tazaki Tsukasa lowered his head, looking at her delicate and beautiful face.

No matter how strong and proud she is inside, her face still shows that of a sixteen-year-old girl in the prime of her youth.

"I love you."

"Ah."

Gently pinching the blonde girl's chin, Tsukasa Tazaki lifted her delicate little face, his lips landing on her soft, alluring pink lips.

It's sweet.

It's hard to say whether it's the feel or the taste.

This indescribably wonderful taste reminded Tsukasa Tazaki of the kiss he shared with his older brother last summer after they finished dessert at Jiyugaoka.

The air in the mountains and forests is crisp and cool after a winter rain.

The wind that swept through the oak trees blew the thick clouds in the sky westward, and the clouds in the sky had become very thin, as if the blue sky would soon be visible.

Kurisu looked up at the sky, then turned to look at Tsukasa Tazaki and Yui Kurisu, who had just finished their passionate kiss, a faint smile playing on her lips. "If you've had enough kissing, how about you accompany this old man to the top of the mountain while we still have some time?"

"I'd be more than happy to!" Tsukasa Tazaki smiled happily.

Qichuan Wei pushed him away and took her mother's hand: "Let's go, don't worry about this person."

Kurisu reached out and affectionately pinched her daughter's nose: "Are you only realizing now that your mother is the person you can trust the most?"

"mom!"

Are you angry?

"no!"

"That's shyness."

"...I'm ignoring you now!"

Kikawa Yui gritted her teeth, shook her head, and started walking up the mountain.

"Waaah, my daughter's rebelling, I'm going to be heartbroken ToT..." Kurisu's tone and expression were filled with exaggerated disappointment.

"Don't be sad, I'm here for you." Tsukasa Tazaki stepped forward to comfort her.

Kurisu immediately broke into a cheerful smile: "You two should register tomorrow, and then Xiaosi, as the husband, should properly educate your wife, otherwise your aunt really doesn't know what to do on her own."

"Xiaowei and I are not yet of legal marriage age."

"So you're saying you'll side with your aunt after you get married?"

"Of course."

Kikawa Yui, who was walking ahead, immediately stopped and turned around to glare coldly at Tazaki Tsukasa, demanding, "Are you helping her or me?"

"I'll help those who are reasonable, not those who are close to me!" Tsukasa Tazaki replied with great conviction.

"Hahaha~"

Kurisu laughed so hard she couldn't stand up straight, so she had to put one hand on his shoulder for support.

“Auntie, your attitude is not right.” Tazaki Tsukasa sighed and said in a lecturing tone, “You have a pretty face, but you behave in a careless manner and don’t know how to set a good example for a junior like me.”

"I can't stand it, I can't stand it..." Kurisu complained to her daughter with an exaggerated tone, her pretty face contorted in pain. "This old-fashioned look of his is just as annoying as his dying old man. Please, have mercy on me..."

"Is there?" Tsukasa Tazaki asked.

"He talks about his aunt like that all the time."

"I'll teach him a lesson for you later?"

"Beat them to death!"

"It's settled then!" Tsukasa Tazaki cheerfully extended his palm towards her. "Give me power!"

A warm smile appeared in Kurisu's eyes as she extended her fair and delicate palm and gave him a light high five: "They're all for you!"

In this situation, even though Qichuan Wei was initially quite jealous, her expression softened.

The palms that had touched loosened.

Kurisu looked at Tsukasa Tazaki's strong body for a few moments, blinked her clear eyes that were still filled with longing, and said in an unusually innocent tone, "Auntie's stamina isn't very good, and she's wearing high heels. If you get tired later, remember to carry me."

Tsukasa Tazaki: "...?"

This……

You wouldn't have been urging me to come out with you since this morning with such bad intentions, would you?

"Cough cough!" Qichuan Wei coughed twice forcefully.

Tsukasa Tazaki looked at her.