After a not-so-heated discussion, Ritsu Narose outsourced daily tasks including "preparing breakfast and dinner" and "cleaning", and at the same time handed the spare house key to Shoko Toyokawa.
As the first of countless treaties he would sign, Ritsu Narushe had no idea that this treaty gave someone a perfect excuse to intervene. Naturally, he also had no idea that the living room, which he considered messy and disorderly in the eyes of this tenant, would eventually be cleaned up.
In order to ensure that the various indicators in the blood were within normal range, their blood was drawn before lunch. When Ritsu Narushe was about to start the planetary engine in the kitchen, he heard the doorbell ring in the house.
His first reaction was that the pink-haired girl next door ran over.
But the next moment, he suddenly remembered that he had just seen the selfie sent by Chihaya Aine on his mobile phone.
The girl's sweaty skin sparkled in the sun, and her collarbone was outlined with an urge to lick it - normal people know that mobile phones do not emit odor, so someone who cares about their own image will only give private photos of a sporty girl as a gift, and will not visit her in a sweaty state.
So, the identity of the person knocking on the door is intriguing...
Suddenly, a guess flashed through Ritsu Narushe's mind like lightning. His hand on the knob trembled, and the planetary engine before him erupted in flames, shooting straight at his face. The flames reflected in his pupils, but brought no warmth.
Turning stiffly, Ritsu Naruse saw Shoko Toyokawa and Suyo Nagasaki standing at the door in silent confrontation.
As if sensing his gaze, the two men turned their heads to look at him at the same time.
With an awkward but polite smile, Ritsu Narose nodded and then turned 180 degrees to face the amiable kitchen lady again.
However, fate is always cruel.
Shoko Toyokawa came to the kitchen and announced that she would temporarily take over his job, and his current task was to lead a new tenant to move in.
Ritsu Naruse had no objection to this because he knew it was the only solution that would save the three people in the room from embarrassment.
Picking up Suye's suitcase, Naruse Ritsu just stepped onto the stairs and was in the blind spot of Toyokawa Shoko's vision when he heard Nagasaki Suye whispering beside him.
"Isn't Lu's movement too fast? Is it a little cold?"
"Decisive action should be an advantage, right? Besides, isn't Su Shi also very fast?"
Seeing the ball being kicked back, the gentle brown-haired girl was very dissatisfied with this answer - at least that's what her eyes told Ritsu Naruse. But she wasn't the type to pursue relentlessly... well, at least not yet.
Entering another room that had been tidied in advance, Nagasaki Suyo's mood, which had been a little depressed since she saw Toyokawa Shoko, quickly became brighter.
Although this place is not as spacious as her original bedroom, when she thinks that Ritsu Narose's room is right next to it, she, who is used to living alone, can't help but smile with anticipation.
However, when she saw another room with an open door, the smile on her face quickly disappeared and she returned to her expressionless look.
Nagasaki Suyo didn't have much luggage with her. Before entering Tsuki no Mori and becoming known as a "young lady," she had lived an ordinary life. With no immediate plans to renovate the furnishings of her room, she and Naruse Ritsu, who was waiting outside, left the second floor and returned to the first-floor living room.
"Xiangzi can actually cook..."
Hearing Nagasaki Suyo's whisper in his ear, Naruse Ritsu blinked and asked, "Is Suyo surprised?"
"Because I just realized that I don't know Xiaoxiang as well as I thought." With a self-deprecating smile, Nagasaki Suyo shook her head again and readjusted her expression.
Ritsu Narose had thought that there would be a small dispute between them, but things were far more dull than he had imagined.
From the beginning to the end of lunch, from preparing meals for three people to cleaning up after the meal, there was no scene that seemed to be a tribute to the "Battle of Asukayama Park" that day.
When they returned to their respective rooms, Naruse Ritsu, unable to contain his curiosity, knocked on Toyokawa Shoko's door first, hoping to get her to explain his doubts. When he expressed his doubts, Toyokawa Shoko glared at him before explaining the reason.
——"I don't know how to face Nagasaki Suyo anymore."
What she said yesterday has become a boomerang that hits her head today - Toyokawa Shoko sincerely feels that her ability to get along with Nagasaki Soyo without changing her expression is a manifestation of her strong psychological quality.
At this point, she suddenly noticed the heartless guy next to her, covering his mouth with his hands and laughing. His shoulders trembled, and the corners of Toyokawa Shoko's eyes twitched.
"Well, anyway, I understand." After the girl's ambition value reached its maximum, another seven-point collision was 9-bus Lingmeng's emergency brake, and Naruse Ritsu returned to his serious look, "I'll go ask Su Shi what's going on."
"You just want to have fun, right?"
"No way!" He immediately clarified with wide eyes after being slandered out of nowhere, "I just hope you can reconcile as before."
"Hmph, just keep your sleep talking in your dreams." With her arms folded across her chest, Toyokawa Shoko's temper flared up without any courtesy.
In response, Naruse Ritsu could only throw up his hands and say, "To be honest, I've witnessed enough of you two quarreling with each other as a bystander. Now, just feeling that atmosphere makes me feel uncomfortable. For the sake of our future lives, Xiangzi should quickly reconcile with Su Shi."
Faced with Naruse Ritsu's sudden softening, Toyokawa Shoko felt as if she had punched nothing. With nowhere else to turn her strength, she could only angrily say, "That's so easy... as if this kind of thing can be easily resolved with just a little effort."
"You were obviously just an outsider at the beginning, why did you have to get involved?"
"If I don't get involved, how can I win over Xiangzi?"
At that moment, Toyokawa Shoko was like a champion who couldn't predict a bronze player's movements. Naruse Ritsu's "Nonsense" move not only evaded her prediction, but even put her ready-to-use skill on cooldown.
"Those involved are often confused, but those on the sidelines can see more clearly—it's often like that." Ritsu Narushe smiled and didn't resort to the same unorthodox tactics. "If you want to reconcile, how about saying 'good morning' and 'good night' to each other every morning when you wake up and before you go to bed? Breaking the ice in a relationship starts with the smallest things, and eventually it will all work out."
"It sounds like a child's talk." Toyokawa Shoko frowned slightly.
"Isn't someone who can't even control his temper just a child?"
I always feel that this guy has something in mind, but when she heard this, Shoko Toyokawa was speechless.
"Okay," she finally said after a long silence, "I'll try, but the result may not be what you want."
"that's enough."
Seeing the smile on Ritsu Narose's face, which was like a mother seeing her child reconcile with her friends, Toyokawa Shoko couldn't help but look away.
When he left the bedroom, Shoko Toyokawa sat alone on the soft and comfortable bed.
She first sat up, then lay on her back on the bed, letting the strongest midday sunlight shine into the room from the window and sprinkle on her long hair scattered on the pillow.
14. Food, sex, and nature are all about indulgence. (Two in one)
It was a new Monday, and only Ritsu Naruse and Riki Shiina were in the cafe in the afternoon.
One is Gu Long, a lonely widower who stays in an empty room after his two roommates leave for school in the morning; the other is a dedicated worker who is not good at socializing and follows the lone wolf principle in school.
The worker looked through the glass and saw the only customer left in the cafe.
"Do you do nothing like this every day?"
"I have some serious things to do."
Shaking the test report in his hand towards the girl, Ritsu Narose looked particularly calm.
Although she couldn't understand what the data meant, she knew what he was busy with when she saw the title at the top. Thinking of her experience the day before yesterday, she didn't say anything more, not even asking about Toyokawa Shoko.
"By the way, be careful when you walk." Naruse Ritsu said without looking up from the data in his hand that would make an outsider dizzy. "Ms. Rinrinko hasn't had time to mop the floor yet, be careful not to slip."
"Rinrinko-senpai?" Shiina Riki looked around the cafe but didn't see the familiar figure. "Where's she? Did she go to the staff lounge?"
"She went to change her clothes."
As he casually mentioned the clerk's whereabouts, Naruse Ritsu suddenly felt a shadow loom over him from behind. He looked up and turned to see a sullen-faced girl standing before him. With a forced smile, she said, "Can you explain this matter in detail?"
"It's a long story..."
"Then let's make a long story short!"
Seeing that Shiina Riki's momentum was getting more and more intense, Naruse Ritsu had to temporarily give up the idea of teasing her.
"That happened a few minutes ago—Miss Rinrinko was adding ice to her Coke. No one expected that hidden among the ice were several frozen Mentos."
At this point, Naruse Ritsu shook her head in a seemingly heartbroken manner, and said with a tone of regret, "Poor Miss Rinrinko didn't know this, so she turned around and went to get dessert for me. Who knew that when she came back, the ice cubes had already started to melt."
At this point, Shiina Riki already understood what was going on. Her face paled slightly at the mere thought of that volcanic eruption.
"Finally, Miss Rinrinko, who was momentarily careless, was bombarded head-on by Cola. She's probably still busy now." After describing the human's experience, Naruse Ritsu's dark blue eyes shifted to Shiina Riki. "Also..."
As if realizing what he was going to say next, the guilty Shiina Riki couldn't help but take a step back.
"Li Xi's thoughts are not pure," said Ritsu Narose, who had successfully turned the situation around after explaining what happened. "You clearly know that some things will not happen, but you still think in that direction. Has it been a little h lately..."
"Okay, I was wrong!" The black-haired girl held onto Ritsu Narose's shoulders tightly, her smile looking extremely forced. "I apologize! Please stop talking!"
——"Wow, Riki-chan is so bold!"
The two men facing each other turned their heads simultaneously to see two other fighters from the "RING Cafe Part-time Rangers" appear in front of the glass door. The cat-haired girl covered her mouth, her eyes gleaming as she gazed at them. The other girl, her pigtail tied up with a bow, poked her companion awkwardly, signaling her to stop.
"Wait……"
"Well, Lixi, don't worry too much about us." The common sense man who understood the atmosphere grabbed his companion who suddenly became excited and smiled at his stiff back.
Walking towards the counter entrance near the door, the cat-headed girl waved to Shiina Riki while being taken into the staff lounge by her companions.
"Wait a minute, Kasumi-senpai, Saaya-senpai—"
His outstretched right hand fell down weakly, Shiina Riki muttered to himself, and in the end he could only stare blankly at the door closing.
Hearing a burst of exclamations and playful sounds coming faintly from the room, her mind went blank. She looked down and saw the culprit in front of her covering his face with a stack of paper, making his attempt to hide his smile even more obvious.
"It doesn't matter. This kind of thing will be known to others sooner or later anyway. "
Comforting words came from his ears, and someone who felt socially dead glanced at Ritsu Narose, then walked behind the counter as if he had given up.
"I said, the floor over there is more slippery..."
The warning from behind hadn't even finished when the distracted Shiina Riki stepped on the ice-water mixture on the floor. Her body suddenly became suspended in mid-air, and the girl, lying face up, stared blankly at the pure white ceiling, letting out a sigh that sounded like a dream:
"Eh?"
However, the pain she'd imagined didn't come from her back or limbs. Blinking, Shiina Riki faced the boy who had caught her from behind.
"What's that 'eh'? I told you the floor here is slippery."
"Long-winded..."
Before his brain could react, his mouth had already become as stiff as a platypus. Realizing this, Shiina Riki's face began to turn red.
Even though she knew she couldn't hide it from the guy in front of her, she still pretended to be calm and acted as if she didn't care.
At this moment, the door that was originally closed was opened from the inside.
The girl Shiina Riki called "Saaya-senpai" sighed and lamented something as she walked out of the room with the tea she had poured. Seeing the two people standing on the ground in an odd posture, she was startled at first, then walked towards them with a confused look on her face: "What are you doing..."
"Saiya-senpai, wait a moment!"
“What… wuwa——”
The second victim appeared, and the cup and saucer in her hands rose into the air like a floating umbrella.
Seeing that the still steaming tea was about to spill on everyone, Naruse Ritsu didn't have time to think too much. Holding Shiina Riki with one hand, he had to stretch out his calf in a difficult posture to act as a cushion to prevent the girl from hitting her head on the ground, while using his right hand that was barely free to catch the saucer, and then used the saucer to steadily catch the bottom of the teacup.
"call……"
The accident that happened in an instant was resolved, and he finally had time to breathe a sigh of relief. Even for an ancient dragon with superb reflexes, it was not easy to do this perfectly.
But the next moment, the sound of the door opening, which made the three people present tremble with fear, rang out again.
Looking up, they exchanged glances with the third clerk.
"What are you playing at?"
The girl tilted her head and walked over to them in her work clothes. The more terrible thing was that she also held a plate of matcha cake that looked like the sword of Damocles.
For a moment, the other two hurriedly tried to persuade the girl named "Toyama Kasumi" to stop and not to enter this cursed area. Naruse Ritsu also urged the other two hanging on him to stand up quickly, predicting the worst possible outcome.
however--
"So what are you playing?" Stepping on the broken ice, Kasumi Toyama opened her eyes wide with curiosity and repeated her previous question.
"Well...anyway, please help us up, Kasumi." As a long-time friend, Yamabuki Saya was the most embarrassed at the moment.
"okay!"
Clenching her fist to flex her air muscles, Toyama Kasumi took a long step forward. Successfully expanding the area covered by the ice-water mixture beneath her feet, she transformed herself, her face brimming with doubt, into an unstoppable bowling ball, crashing into the three people whose expressions suddenly changed.
Looking at the matcha cake flying towards her face, Ritsu Narose chose to close her eyes and look at nothing.
When Rinrinko finally changed her clothes and walked out of the room, she saw all four of them lying on the ground, a horrific scene with no one left alive...
……
"sorry Sorry sorry!"
Looking at the clerk who kept bowing her head and apologizing to him, Ritsu Narose motioned her to stop and said that he accepted the apology.
"Not only was the meal free, but I also got free matcha cake - no matter how you look at it, I'm making a profit."
After persuading the cat head to leave, Ritsu Narose pressed down another white cat that was close to his face.
“Matcha!”
Facing Kaname Rakuna who kept sniffing at him, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to the end of social death.
——Save me, Lixi!
--hehe.
In response to his call for help, another breeder in the band had a playful look on his face.
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