I have bound two systems.

There was a dull thud, as if something soft had hit the ground hard.

"Ichiri, what's wrong with you? Why are you coming downstairs so quickly? Are you not hurt?"

"Ah, I'm fine dad, my friend is here! I'll go open the door."

Suzumiya Chisato, who vaguely heard these words, heard footsteps approaching the next moment, and then the door was opened.

"Qian...Qianli, come in quickly."

Suzumiya Chisato looked at Goto Ichiri with disheveled hair in front of her, and roughly understood what had just happened. At this moment, she asked with some concern,

"Are you okay? Your forehead is red."

"Oh, it's nothing! Just a mosquito bite."

There should be no need to correct this kind of lie.

amount……

After being invited by Goto Ichiri to enter the entrance hall, Suzumiya Chisato saw a man on the other side of the corridor, quietly poking half of his head out and peeking over here.

The man quickly retracted his head, but soon appeared again in the same posture, and brought one adult and one child with him.

If I'm not mistaken, the man should be Yili's father.

The woman who covered her mouth with inexplicably moist eyes should be Yili's mother.

As for the short-legged little kid who held the Shiba Inu on his head, she was probably Ichiri's sister.

"Change, change your shoes, let's go straight upstairs to my room!"

Goto Ichiri directly grabbed Chisato Suzumiya's wrist.

This action immediately caused a different reaction from the parents who were peeking openly in the corner.

Dad took out a handkerchief from somewhere and started biting it hard.

And the mother said... Hey, don’t cry!

"That's not very polite. It's my first time at your house, so I should at least say hello to the uncle and aunt."

Goto Ichiri understood what Chisato Suzumiya said, but she was just too shy and couldn't introduce Chisato Suzumiya to her family honestly.

What's more, her parents... should she say it's natural or too enthusiastic, she always feels that if they meet and greet Chisato Suzumiya formally, they will do something to embarrass her.

"No need, they are very open-minded parents and won't mind such things."

"That won't work either. You should greet the host properly when you visit for the first time. This is a matter of basic courtesy."

"Actually, my parents are very difficult to deal with. They will definitely ask you all kinds of questions, which will be very troublesome and will waste a lot of time, so it is definitely better not to say hello to them... Ugh! It hurts."

Suzumiya Chisato retracted her knife.

"How can you say that about your own parents? Besides, I don't have anything urgent to do, so it doesn't matter if I delay for a while."

In the end, Goto Ichiri was unable to change the situation.

When she came to her senses, she had already brought Chisato Suzumiya and officially appeared in front of her parents and sister.

You can say that I am playing the role of a middleman, introducing the two parties to each other.

"Um... this is my mom, dad, and sister Erli. The one on her head is Jimmy Henry, and this one is... Chisato Suzumiya."

Is the only way to introduce yourself is to say your basic name?

After Suzumiya Chisato bowed slightly to Ichiri's family and handed over the fruit in her hand, he looked at Goto Ichiri with a little concern, trying to see from her expression what she was planning.

But Goto Ichiri turned his face away timidly, looking quite guilty.

This reaction is quite interesting.

Without giving Chisato Suzumiya enough time to think, Goto's mother went straight forward and held his hand.

"Suzumiya-san!"

"Ah, yes!"

"Thank you for being able to be friends with her."

"No, it's nothing..."

After the next half hour, Suzumiya Chisato finally understood what Goto Ichiri's advice to her was just now, and what the so-called difficult thing meant.

After a simple greeting and thanks, she asked Chisato Suzumiya to sit next to her, took out an album of Goto Ichiri's photos from childhood to the present, and showed them to him page by page. She annotated each photo with a detailed explanation, and attached various sad and embarrassing stories of her eldest daughter's growth.

He told her every detail, even down to Yili's exaggerated reaction and the exact date when she had her first period in the first year of junior high school.

It was said that Yili ran into her room with tears in his eyes, saying that he was going to die and asked her and her father to take care of themselves.

Chisato Suzumiya didn't feel annoyed, she even found it very interesting, so she wasn't impatient.

I don't know why, but while listening to Goto's mother's speech, Goto's father looked at his daughter and didn't look at him once. His eyes were all on Suzumiya Chisato. Then he suddenly covered his face with his arms, and ran out of the living room with a whimper. No one knew where he went.

"Well, uncle..."

"Don't worry about him. Sometimes this person is too sensitive. Just ignore him for a while."

Chisato Suzumiya was a little worried, but Goto's mother just waved her hand and told her not to worry, and then continued to talk about what had happened to her daughter in recent years.

Goto Ichiri deliberately wanted to put an end to the shameful past that was brought up against her. She actually stood up several times, wanting to interrupt her mother's chattering and pull Suzumiya Chisato back to her room.

But in the end, after meeting Suzumiya Chisato's eyes, she was still extremely weak and pitiful and was defeated. She could only cover her face with her hands and spend this shameful and embarrassing time.

Finally, after almost an hour, Goto's mother closed the thick photo album in her hand.

My favorability towards this handsome, patient and talkative boy next to me is off the charts.

I never expected that my eldest daughter, who I worry about the most, would not make a move, but once she did, it would be of such top-notch quality. This thing absolutely cannot be let go.

At this moment, Goto Ichiri had his mouth slightly open and his eyes were confused and dazed.

This is due to the mental "injury" suffered, and it is estimated that it will be impossible to recover in a short period of time.

His mother was too generous. She didn't treat Qianli, who came to their home for the first time, as an outsider at all. She even took out the family passbook and shared it with him.

"…I'm sorry, I was too excited today and forgot to prepare the meal. Other friends from the mile will be coming later, so I have to prepare it quickly."

"You have worked hard."

"It's not hard. It's okay for Suzumiya-kun to come here every weekend from now on."

Goto's mother finally came to an end, feeling satisfied.

The numb little kitten mechanically took Chisato Suzumiya to the second floor and walked into her room.

Seeing that Ichiri was still in such a depressed state, Suzumiya Chisato wanted to tease her and picked up the piggy bank on her desk. He had just heard from Goto's mother.

This piggy bank was given to her by her grandmother a long time ago. At that time, her grandmother half-jokingly teased her that the money saved in it would be used for her marriage in the future.

Over the years, this piggy bank has been full and feels heavy in the hand.

"It seems that Yili has been thinking about his future since he was very young. It is really admirable."

"Oh! Please stop talking..."

Goto Ichiri rushed to Chisato Suzumiya, but did not extend his hand. Instead, he chose to shake his head continuously and attack him with his hair.

Of course, this light attack was completely ineffective, and instead caused Chisato Suzumiya to laugh foolishly.

"Okay, I won't bother you anymore, but Goto's mother is really quite talkative."

The two sat down face to face, picked up the air pumps they had bought in advance and played with the balloons to set up the scene for the surprise party.

"Because... I have never had many friends since I was a child. I have always been alone and don't like to talk to others. I stay at home alone on weekends. She has always been worried about me, so she was so excited and happy when she saw Qianli-kun."

"She's a good mother. I could already feel it when she told me about your past. Speaking of which, I have a question."

"what?"

"Before I came here, I didn't hear you explain my identity to your parents in detail just now. You just simply said my name."

"boom!"

The balloon in Goto Ichiri's hand exploded, and her whole body was shaking slightly, with a tendency to turn gray.

"You must have done something bad behind my back."

Suzumiya Chisato tied the balloon in her hand with amusement, reached out and pinched Ichiri's face, which brought her back to her senses.

"No, no, listen to my explanation!"

"Well, okay, I'll listen to your explanation."

"…I, I told my parents that Chisato-kun you are…a good friend at school."

"..."

"..."

Suzumiya Chisato looked at Ichiri.

Ichiri looked at her and they were silent for a while.

Finally, it was Suzumiya Chisato who asked in surprise,

"End?"

"Well, I'm sorry..."

"What is there to apologize for?"

"Because... I didn't tell Mom and Dad the truth about our relationship, and I thought you would be angry."

"..."

It was a familiar conversation development.

Chisato Suzumiya found that she didn't quite understand the thinking of the girls around her. The same went for Kazusa and Ichiri. Was she so easily angered in their eyes?

Just as Suzumiya Chisato took a deep breath and was about to explain to Ichiri that he would not be angry about such a small matter, he suddenly found that the door had been pushed open a little, revealing a small pink braid, and also a furry tail.

Why does this child seem so cute for some unknown reason?

Suzumiya Chisato pointed towards the door.

Goto Ichiri looked in the direction he pointed, and hurriedly stood up and walked to the door.

"Erli, you can't eavesdrop on your sister's conversation."

"..."

Goto Jiri, who is five years old this year, is small with short legs, but he runs very fast.

Since she was discovered, she simply stopped pretending and ran over from her sister's side, standing in front of Suzumiya Chisato, and asked crisply,

"Brother, after my sister fell asleep, she was drooling and repeating the words 'Guheihei' with a silly smile. Are you the Qianli?"

"cough!"

what?

"Hey! Erli!"

Goto Ichiri was going crazy. How could such a thing be told to others?

"Chisato is indeed my name."

Chisato Suzumiya, who had come to her senses, was quite happy.

"Does your sister usually talk in her sleep?"

Erli thought for a moment, put his fingers on his chin, looked up at the ceiling with his big eyes, and recalled,

"It wasn't like this before. She would just curl up and cry pitifully when she dreamed before. The situation I just told big brother about only started recently."

Suzumiya Chisato nodded, and held the wrist of her younger sister Goto Ichiri who was about to come over to stop her. While stopping her elder sister, she also gently persuaded her younger sister.

"What about the specific content? Your sister can't just keep saying my name in a monotonous way."

"Yeah, by the way, my sister would tremble all over and kick her legs from time to time, saying things like 'no' or 'no'. It felt like she was being bullied."

"Uuuuuu——"

Don’t do that kind of thing!!!

Goto Ichiri was already rolling on the ground with her hands covering her face. She thought that being told about her past by her mother was embarrassing enough, but she didn't expect that even after hiding in the room, her sister would not let her go and gave her another big one.

Erli looked at her sister who suddenly went crazy and felt very strange.