In crossover anime, who isn't a childhood friend?

After they introduced themselves, Yuan Qianye followed their request and came out of the house to the courtyard gate to talk to them.

After washing up, Kazusa noticed the wide-open front door in the entryway. Noticing this, she changed into slippers and came over: "What's wrong?"

While talking to the medical staff, Minamoto Chiya turned her head to look at Kazusa beside her, her expression bitter: "Something happened."

Seeing his puzzled expression, Touma Kazusa was about to ask him another question when...

The lead medical staff member outside the hospital spoke up: "Excuse me, are you the head of the Touma family?"

Touma Kazusa nodded.

"It's like this..."

The medical staff then gave another brief explanation.

It turns out that a variant strain of the flu, which has been a hot topic recently, has been discovered, and those infected may experience more severe symptoms such as persistent high fever, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Hospitals in this area have recently received a large number of such patients, and the hospitals have reported this situation to the national medical institution.

The Japanese government reacted quickly, immediately tracing the source of infection for the patients who were already hospitalized, locating the areas they frequently visited, and immediately implementing isolation measures.

For a period of time, residents in this area are not allowed to go out and move around, and are only allowed to stay at home to prevent the flu from spreading to a wider area and affecting the health of more people.

The measures are good, and they are for the sake of the overall situation.

Unfortunately, the Touma family happens to be located in this area that has been sealed off and isolated.

In other words, not only Touma Kazusa, but also Minamoto Chiya, who was visiting temporarily, is now trapped.

After hearing the medical staff's explanation, Kazusa realized that she would not be able to leave her home for a long time. Like Chiya Minamoto just now, her expression was bitter and helpless.

However, she quickly realized what was happening and turned her head slightly to secretly glance at Yuan Qianye, who was listening attentively to the medical staff's instructions.

Her mood, along with her increasingly rapid heartbeat, became strangely subtle.

She lowered her head, her dark hair falling on either side of her face, and lightly pressed her fist against her lower lip to conceal an emotion that was about to be revealed.

"Touma Kazusa and Minamoto Chiya... I understand... In short, right, there are only the two of you left in the Touma family now?" The medical staff asked, taking notes while holding a tablet computer.

The current quarantine is just the beginning. In the future, the Japanese government will have to prepare supplies based on the population statistics. After all, if people are not allowed to go out, they must be provided with the daily necessities they need.

"Yes."

"Don't take any chances. Don't go out during this period. There are people patrolling outside 24 hours a day. If there is any emergency, just call this number."

"understood."

"We just need to get through this period. This is also to prevent more people from being affected by the flu. Thank you both for your cooperation."

"We understand, you've worked hard too."

The medical staff who came to give instructions left and went to the next house on the street to knock on the door.

Chiya Minamoto and Kazusa Touma returned to the house.

The two sat quietly on the sofa for a while, and when their eyes met, they both chuckled at the same time.

Kazusa said, "I really don't know how to describe your luck. If you had come over at night like you did the other day, you could have perfectly avoided this bad luck."

Gen Chiya shrugged.

Feeling depressed... well, not really, but my mood is definitely a bit complicated right now.

He took out the ominous fortune slip he had exchanged with Eriri at the shrine from his pocket.

He, who was not very skeptical of this before, couldn't help but feel a little uneasy at this moment.

It can't be that supernatural or sinister...

He shook his head vigorously, tore the ominous sign to shreds in a few quick movements, and threw it into the trash can.

"I'm going to make a phone call to my family."

Kazusa nodded as she watched him get up.

Indeed, if something like this happens, you should definitely call your family to explain the situation.

The medical staff were just saying those professional things.

Even if you get the flu, there is an incubation period. The incubation period varies greatly depending on the person's age and physical condition, ranging from about seven to fourteen days.

Kazusa didn't pay much attention to such comments.

She only clearly remembered the result: what the medical staff said in person. The quarantine period was tentatively set for two weeks.

Fourteen days in total.

She is about to begin living under the same roof with Yuan Qianye, until January 17th!

"Hey, Dad..."

Yuan Qianye stood by the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room; the call had already gone through.

Kazusa thought about it and felt that she also needed to explain the current situation to her mother.

She didn't dial the number directly in the living room, but instead went back to her room to make the call.

After two beeps, Touma Yoko answered the phone.

Before she could say anything, she let out a big yawn.

After hearing her daughter explain the situation, she instantly lost her sleepiness and fell into a long silence.

Touma Yoko's feelings were complicated at this moment.

She was quarantined in the United States, and her beloved daughter, who stayed at home, met the same fate a little later.

Could this be considered another form of "mother and daughter being of one mind"?

However, the situation is somewhat better for the daughter, since she is in a familiar home and has other people with her.

But that's where the problem lies.

Both Kazusa and Chiya are in their adolescence, a stage when they develop curiosity and interest in the opposite sex.

Previously, she had deliberately asked Minamoto Chiya to accompany and take care of Kazusa in place of her, since she couldn't return to the country. This was partly because she couldn't find a more suitable candidate.

Furthermore, she actually admired this clever and precocious little boy and intentionally wanted him to develop a close friendship with her daughter as early as possible.

She asked for help twice before, and later took the initiative to offer Kazusa the role of teaching him piano.

Although these situations involved the two of them being alone, she wasn't worried at all. After all, at most they would meet once and spend only a few hours together.

Even if something were to happen, it would only be a hug, holding hands, and going further... There probably wouldn't be a suitable opportunity.

And now that they have to spend more than ten days together without stopping... she is really worried.

With the rapid development of modern technology, children are exposed to a wide variety of information from various sources, making them increasingly precocious.

What used to be a rare sight for elementary school students to date in pairs is now commonplace.

If this is true for elementary school students, then it's even more true for middle school students.

Moreover, I don't boast; I simply stand from a fair and objective perspective.

Kazusa has a very delicate face, just like her mother, and she is also developing very well.

She is the kind of stunning beauty who, even without playing the piano, could easily shine in the modeling world.

As for Minamoto no Chiya... let's put it this way, hypothetically, just hypothetically!

Touma Yoko thought that if she had met him in junior high school...

She felt that she would most likely develop feelings for him uncontrollably, and it would be almost inevitable that she would take the initiative to pursue him.

These two good-looking teenagers, brimming with youthful hormones, live under the same roof, yet spend time alone together.

Won't passion lead to some unexpected situation?

Although I did have the idea of ​​becoming family with that boy, but...

Yoko Touma really doesn't want to become a grandmother so early!

Putting aside everything else, this would be a considerable burden on the body of Kazusa, who is not yet fully developed!

Kazusa was unaware that her mother's brain was currently in a chaotic storm, with associations overloaded to an absurd degree.

Seeing that there was no response on the other end of the phone for a long time after she finished speaking, she called "Mom" twice more before the worried Yaozi finally came back to her senses.

"Ah...ah! Kazusa, how are you feeling right now?"

"I don't feel uncomfortable anywhere, it's normal."

"That's good. It's really unfortunate that something like this happened, but it's also good that you have Chiya taking care of you, so I can rest assured."

"Who needs that guy to take care of them... I'm perfectly fine on my own..."

Kazusa sat on her bed, her rosy cheeks lowered, her other hand slowly drawing circles on the sheets.

Touma Yoko couldn't see her daughter's movements, but she could still keenly sense something from her trembling and increasingly soft tone of voice.

Isn't this the perfect shy and bashful posture of a girl in love?

Touma Yoko's heart sank to the bottom.

She had always thought her daughter was the aloof and cold type, but how come this personality trait, which she had displayed for more than ten years, suddenly collapsed and crumbled in front of Yuan Qianye?

Touma Yoko suppressed her worries and chatted with Kazusa for a while longer.

Finally, she asked to speak with Minamoto Chiya.

When Kazusa returned to the living room, Chiya Minamoto had just hung up the phone.

Upon hearing Kazusa's words, Chiya naturally took her phone without objection.

"Aunt Yaozi."

"Little Chiyo, how unfortunate, you've been locked up just like me."

Gen Chiya glanced at Kazusa.