I have bound two systems.

Touma Hesa ​​was a little dazed as she watched Suzumiya Chisato take out a small square box from her pocket.

Touma Yoko, who was watching from a distance, smiled happily.

Suzumiya Chisato opened the small square box, and in the center of it, there was undoubtedly a gorgeous and exquisite diamond ring.

"Ms. Touma Kazusa, would you... accept this?"

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The flight to Vienna took off on time.

Touma and Sa sat in their seats, lowering their heads and gently stroking the diamond ring on the ring finger of their right hand.

She used to feel that she didn't care much about such formal things, such as the trophies and certificates of honor she received in piano competitions.

But today she found out that she was wrong. It’s not that she didn’t care about formal things, but she just hadn’t met someone she really cared about.

Dong Ma Yoko looked at her daughter who was still laughing foolishly, shook her head helplessly, and reminded her,

"You can't practice the piano with a ring on."

"..."

After hearing this, Touma Kazusa immediately clenched her right hand with her left hand and stared at her mother vigilantly and aggressively.

"I didn't mean to confiscate it."

"I can't take it down, what if I lose it?"

"..."

How could it be lost if it is put away in the new home?

Touma Yoko was at a loss.

"Then I'll buy you a necklace when we get to Vienna, and you can wear the ring around your neck. It won't matter, will it?"

She gave a compromise plan, and this time Touma and Sa had no objections.

Chisato Suzumiya stared at the azure sky until the plane disappeared from her sight.

"Let's go back, Suzumiya-kun."

"kindness."

With a light sigh, Suzumiya Chisato turned around and left the airport with Kudo Miyoko.

…………

Chapter 37 The Conflict Between Them

Touma and Sa did leave, taking a plane from Neon to Vienna, and they will probably not come back for a few years.

Chisato Suzumiya returned to the apartment and told Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri the news.

Ying Lili nodded to show that she understood.

As for Kasumigaoka Utaha, when Suzumiya Chisato said these words, she was leaning on the sofa with her chin in her hand, looking down at the collection of novels in her hands the whole time. From beginning to end, she did not show any special expression, let alone raise her eyes to look at him once.

From any perspective, their behavior can hardly be called normal.

If it were the two people a week ago, knowing that one of the competitors, Touma Kazusa, had volunteered to temporarily step down for a long period of time, even if they would not be so ecstatic, they would at least show a happy expression, and would not be like now... without any expression and looking like they were worried.

The problem still comes from what happened when I went to Eriri's house before...

Chisato Suzumiya roughly understood.

The next afternoon after that day, Eriri asked Kasumigaoka out and told her what happened that day. As a result... naturally she got angry, and this time was different from the past.

According to what Eriri reported to Chisato Suzumiya via cell phone afterwards.

When Kasumigaoka learned all this, her eyes looked dangerous as if she was about to emit death rays at any time. Her forehead also had blue veins bulging out for the first time in memory. She looked as if she was about to pick up the small spoon used for stirring the coffee cup in front of her and poke it into her eyes at any time.

Eriri said with lingering fear at the time that this time, Kasumigaoka Utaha seemed to think that she had fooled her, and Chisato, you'd better be prepared for a protracted war this time, because she probably won't listen to our explanation for a while, and even if she does, she probably won't be able to accept it.

Chisato Suzumiya didn't take it too seriously at the time. After all, Shiyu was a sharp-minded person and would occasionally overthink various things, but as long as the misunderstanding was resolved afterwards, it would be fine.

Also, when they were on the phone, Kazusa was about to leave him, so she was extremely excited and kept clinging to him. During the whole process, she kept her head down and stammered to him, so Suzumiya Chisato just comforted her superficially, saying that he would take care of everything later, and after saying good night to Eriri, she hung up the phone.

At that time, he didn't care about Eriri's worries, and had a great time with Kazusa without any psychological burden.

But now when he faced the two of them, he realized that he was blindly optimistic. The situation between them seemed to be much more serious than he had imagined.

Suzumiya Chisato glanced at Eriri secretly, and when she met her gaze, she sighed lightly, revealing an extremely helpless expression.

The next moment she stood up,

"I'm going to prepare lunch."

According to the way they usually get along, Kasumigaoka Utaha should put down her book and follow her to the kitchen to help.

When three people live together, even some trivial matters in life may turn into irreconcilable conflicts over time.

So when the two of them made up their minds to get along in this way, they had already planned in advance the division of labor between them in daily life after they were together.

For example, they are each responsible for washing and hanging clothes, taking turns each week. Cooking is done by whoever has time, so they have to cooperate with each other. Purchasing goods from the supermarket and cleaning the apartment require all three of them to work together, and so on.

All of the above may sound like small things, but they are actually quite necessary.

Just like work, setting rules and dividing responsibilities and powers in advance is both efficient and reduces the possibility of friction during cohabitation.

Judging from the warm atmosphere that always came from this apartment in the past, we have to say that the two of them were foresighted and the implementation of this measure went smoothly.

But today, Kasumigaoka Utaha seemed to want to unilaterally tear up the "clear division of labor table" that the two of them had agreed upon.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Kasumigaoka Utaha also stood up, holding a book.

Although she said thank you, her cold expression didn't show that she was grateful at all.

She had no intention of offering to help. She lowered her head to look at her book, never looking up at the two of them, and walked straight back to her room.

"Click."

The door was closed.

Ying Lili clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, but soon she became deflated and shook her head in self-mockery.

She looked at Suzumiya Chisato,

"I called her many times after that day to explain, but she didn't believe me at all. Every time I responded in a perfunctory manner, I couldn't communicate with her effectively."

Suzumiya Chisato understood and reached out to pull her over.

"I understand. Leave it to me. I'll go talk to her and make sure she's back to normal."

"kindness."

Ying Lili went to the kitchen feeling a little relieved.

Chisato Suzumiya came to the door of Kasumigaoka's room and put her hand on the door handle.

Pushing down hard, the door opened.

This is a good thing. The door is not locked, which means that Shiyu is at least willing to listen to me. Maybe she is not as angry as she shows on the surface.

Suzumiya Chisato walked into the room. Kasumigaoka Utaha was sitting at the desk, reading a book with her head down. Her back was straight and her posture was standard. She looked as serious as a good student who was reviewing hard the night before an exam.

"Shiyu."

Chisato Suzumiya walked up to her, put one hand on the desk and the other around her shoulders.

"..."

Kasumigaoka Utaha didn't react at all, as if she couldn't hear his voice or feel his movements, and she slowly turned the pages of the novel in front of her.

Seeing this, Suzumiya Chisato was silent for a moment, narrowed her eyes, took a deep breath, and touched her chin.

"The situations described in those 18+ comic books are actually true? I have become a transparent person that no one else can detect? Do I really have such a superpower? Let me give it a try..."

As he said this, he reached out and unbuttoned the first button of the shirt that Kasumigaoka Utaha was wearing.

The neckline was instantly widened for some unspeakable reason.

"...!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha raised the corner of her eyes, but still showed no expression.

"It's actually true..."

Suzumiya Chisato murmured in disbelief, then squatted down and lifted up Kasumigaoka's skirt.

"Well, Shiyu seems to be in a good mood today, and Bai is rare..."

"Suzumiya Chisato!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha finally responded.

She opened her mouth with gritted teeth and then slammed the novel shut, moved her chair back and slapped away his hand that seemed to want to perform some specific action.

"My superpowers are gone."

Sighing, Suzumiya Chisato looked at her hands with a lost expression.

Eighty percent of the disappointment on his face was pretended, and the remaining two percent came from the heart. He did have some hope that Shiyu could hold on to the end.

I just kept ignoring him and was carried to the bed by myself. The whole time, I maintained that feeling of wanting to do something but trying not to show it... It seemed like a good appetizer before lunch.

Forget it, there will be plenty of time to implement such delusions in the future. The most urgent thing right now is to explain clearly what happened at Eriri's house that day and not let the current atmosphere between the two of them continue. You know, it will be very uncomfortable for him to be caught in the middle.

"If you're okay, get out."

As she smoothed the hem of her skirt and re-buttoned her shirt, the blush on Kasumigaoka Utaha's face slowly faded away, and she regained her toughness in her words.

"Shiyu, Eriri never intended to lie to you..."

"I don't want to talk to you right now, and I don't want to hear that guy's name."

Suzumiya Chisato's words were coldly interrupted by Kasumigaoka Utaha.

Suzumiya Chisato scratched her head.

Even though the two of them didn't get along well from the beginning, she wouldn't be so blatant and straightforward even when they were not getting along well.

"I can't help it. I didn't want to do this..."

Chisato Suzumiya picked up Kasumigaoka Utaha.

The moment she was picked up, she subconsciously wanted to reach out and hug his neck. When her hands were halfway out, she realized that she was angry.

So the next moment she began to pound Chisato Suzumiya's chest with both hands, and her calves wrapped in black stockings began to kick around in the air, and both slippers fell to the ground.

However, even though she struggled so hard, as a literary girl she had almost no strength, and such actions could not affect Suzumiya Chiri in the slightest.

"let me go!"

Kasumigaoka, who was laid on the bed, glared at Chisato Suzumiya who was holding down her wrist.

"Don't let it go."

Suzumiya Chisato responded with a smile,

"Now Shiyu can finally look at me and talk to me."

"……snort."

Kasumigaoka Utaha turned her head and looked to the side, intending to show that she was still angry, but she didn't realize how much men would want to conquer her when she was so angry.

Restraining the urge to kiss her, Suzumiya Chisato got down to business.

"Neither I nor Eriri has ever told Aunt Sawamura that we are dating. Aunt Sawamura made her own inference based on the signs Eriri showed in the past and some of your actions."

He used the most concise language to reconstruct what happened that day.

Shiyu turned her head and looked at him again, and spoke coldly,

"Are you trying to say that the current situation is caused by my own overconfidence?"

"I never said that..."

“But it is indeed related.”

"..."

There seems to be no way to refute this.

From what Eriri said about the conversation between her and her mother that day, we learned that if Kasumigaoka had not played those fabricated and truncated recordings to Aunt Sawamura, she would not have been able to come to the conclusion so quickly that the two were indeed dating.