I have bound two systems.

"The result is that after Touma and Sa left, Eriri took the lead in consolidating her relationship with you and became your girlfriend in public. She also got the blessing of your parents. Now, she is your official girlfriend and can walk home with you arm in arm. Then what am I? I also want to introduce you to my family and tell them that you are my proud boyfriend."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's tone gradually calmed down, but the more she spoke like this, the more distressed Suzumiya Chisato felt.

"But I can't, because my mother is in contact with Aunt Sawamura, and sooner or later she will know that Eriri's boyfriend is you. In this case, if they find out that I have even a little bit of intimacy with you, I will be labeled as a playboy and a fickle person! I clearly agreed with that guy at the beginning that we would always stand together, but what is this now?"

The fact that Eriri became Chisato Suzumiya's official girlfriend was not the fuse for Kasumigaoka Utaha's emotional outburst.

After all, her biggest dissatisfaction was that Eriri broke the agreement they had made.

Although I understand intellectually that it was an uncontrollable accident, emotionally I just can't simply turn the page and pretend nothing happened, and continue laughing as before.

She didn't want to make things complicated as everyone had their own careers to attend to.

She herself is a light novel writer with strict deadlines.

Eriri not only has to regularly post books online to maintain the popularity of the account "Kashiwagi Eriri", but also has to spend energy on illustrating her novels.

The same is true for Chisato Suzumiya. Touma and Sa left him to study piano abroad, and he also decided to officially start his own performance company, which was indeed the first step for their future.

I know that my temper will only bring trouble and quarrels, but I can't suppress the irritability in my heart, and it explodes unscrupulously...

In the end, everything remained the same as before and I hadn't grown at all.

I am still the same person I was at the beginning, leaving that family and abandoning Qianyu and her husband.

Because of this extremely stupid temper, he personally overturned everything that carried his own happiness...

"Then, as long as we are back on the same starting line, there should be no problem."

The words that Sawamura Eriri said when she pushed the door open surprised both Suzumiya Chisato and Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"Thousand miles."

Eriri looked at Suzumiya Chisato with gentle eyes, and the latter understood and moved away from Kasumigaoka's body.

Kasumigaoka stood up and met Eriri's gaze, taking a deep breath to calm her slightly excited mood.

"What do you mean by 'back at the starting line'? That's something a winner can say with ease from a high position."

"No, I don't mean to comfort or appease you."

Ying Lili shook her head firmly.

"Let's go to our parents right now and tell them the truth about what's going on between us."

…………

Chapter 38 Dislocation and Growth

"Thank you."

The driver drove the car and disappeared around the corner.

Suzumiya Chisato took the change and put it into her wallet, then turned around and looked at the Sawamura residence where she had just visited not long ago, wondering why things had suddenly developed to this point.

He turned his head to look at Kasumigaoka Utaha and Sawamura Eriri beside him. Both of them had very normal expressions, as if the building in front of them was just an ordinary convenience store, and what they did next was also very simple, just going in to shop naturally.

But in reality, things are not that simple at all.

The time now is a little after five in the afternoon, and within an hour, in their apartment.

Chisato Suzumiya was trying to persuade Kasumigaoka Utaha not to be angry, saying that what happened between him and Eriri that day was beyond his control.

Eriri walked in directly. Perhaps she had been standing outside the door and listening to their conversation since Chisato Suzumiya entered the room. But thinking back on it now, it wasn't a big deal.

The main problem is that Sawamura Eriri made an explosive suggestion to the dissatisfied Kasumigaoka Utaha -

That is, to confess to her parents that the three of them have crossed that line over time, and after experiencing some initial difficulties, they are now able to sleep in the same bed on a regular basis.

At that moment, Suzumiya Chisato broke out in a cold sweat, but he looked at Eriri with a determined gaze, then turned his head to look at Shiyu with a deep look in her eyes, and sighed lightly.

He thought that if this could alleviate Shiyu's dissatisfaction and allow the two of them to reconcile and stop arguing, then he would be able to accept even such a solution.

Anyway, this is something you have to confess sooner or later. If you do it now, it will be much easier in the future.

As expected, Kasumigaoka Utaha met Eriri's gaze and nodded in agreement.

There was nothing much to say after that. After changing their clothes, the three of them went downstairs and took a taxi. Suzumiya Chisato sat in the center seat of the back seat, with her hands held by the two of them respectively. She looked like a criminal who had committed a heinous crime and was being sent to the execution ground. The atmosphere was extremely heavy and no one spoke along the way.

And now, he is about to face the moment of his "judgment".

"Let's go."

Ying Lili didn't stay for long. She took the lead and walked towards the front door of her house.

Kasumigaoka Utaha followed with an expressionless face.

Chisato Suzumiya was half a body behind and at the back.

As a man, he has to control the overall situation. Regardless of whether the solution proposed by Eriri was a decision made in a fit of anger, he has to think of various countermeasures to ensure that what happens next does not harm both of them.

However, no matter how ideal your thinking is, you cannot convince yourself that the situation that follows can be resolved invisibly by passive response measures alone.

Mrs. Sawamura seems easy to talk to, but no matter how you think about it, she will not accept that her daughter shares a husband with another woman, even if the other woman is her daughter's best friend to some extent. Because the problems happening to them are no longer something that can be reconciled and accepted through communication, it seriously challenges the ethics and morals in the heart of a normal human being.

Later, Mrs. Sawamura, as a mother, will be so shaken the moment she learns the truth from her daughter's mouth that her worldview will be shaken.

Being in this kind of mood, her next actions may inevitably be impulsive.

Chisato Suzumiya had already made a plan in his mind. If Mrs. Sawamura threw tea on him, he would just stand still and bear it all. But if it was boiling water, at least he would have to avoid it with his face.

All in all, the worst-case scenario has been anticipated, and the determination to face death has been almost fully prepared.

Eriri inserted the key and opened the door. Kasumigaoka Utaha and Suzumiya Chisato changed into slippers and followed her into the living room.

After the sofa was settled, Eriri looked back at Kasumigaoka Utaha for the last time to confirm her specific thoughts.

"You are indeed ready?"

As a result, Kasumigaoka Utaha remained silent and unmoved, and even yawned with her hand covering her mouth.

"What are you waiting for? After you finish here, you have to go to my house and explain our relationship to my mother. Hurry up."

According to the process they agreed upon, the steps were indeed like this.

First confess to Eriri's family, and then go straight to Kasumigaoka's house. Since you are going to do it, do it completely and solve all the problems at once.

However, Chisato Suzumiya felt that such an arrangement was completely unrealistic and unrealistic.

After they confessed their affair like this, there was a high probability that Eriri would be imprisoned at home by the angry Mrs. Sawamura, and she would not be able to continue to rush to the Kasumigaoka family.

In more serious situations, it is not impossible that their mobile phones will be confiscated, the network will be cut off, and they will be locked in the room.

But so far, they don't seem to be aware of this problem.

"it is good."

Ying Lili looked around and didn't see her mother, but her mother's shoes were definitely in front of the entrance, so she should be on the second floor at the moment. Combined with her previous habits...

"mom!"

Ying Lili first moved all the items on the coffee table, such as the vase, fruit knife, ashtray, etc. to the kitchen, then came to the stairs and shouted loudly towards the second floor.

"Eiriri?"

Mrs. Sawamura's vague response came from the second floor. The next moment, she poked her head out from the second floor and saw her daughter.

"Eri, why are you back? Didn't we agree to eat out today? Mom hasn't even prepared dinner yet."

"Well...something happened suddenly, and I wanted to talk to my mother for a while."

"What can't we talk about on the phone? If you need pocket money, why not just swipe dad's card?"

"It's not about that kind of thing."

Mrs. Sawamura thought that her daughter was the only one at home besides her, so she walked downstairs without any precautions in her bold summer pajamas. Eriri was full of thoughts, so by the time she noticed it was already too late.

Mrs. Sawamura saw two people standing up in the living room and bowing their heads slightly towards her, one of whom was her daughter's boyfriend. She immediately closed her legs like a frightened rabbit and covered her chest with her hands.

She is obviously a young woman in her thirties, but when faced with such a thing, her reaction is like that of an innocent girl.

To be honest, it's a bit cute, and such behavior doesn't seem out of place on her.

"Really? Eriri, you need to tell mom if there are guests at home!"

Complaining, Sayuri Sawamura turned around quickly, and put her hands that were originally covering her chest over her buttocks behind her back, and went upstairs again with a "thump thump" sound.

"..."

The funny behavior of the mother softened the almost frozen atmosphere between the three of them a little.

"She's gone to change her clothes. Wait a moment. I'll go get you some tea."

Eriri turned and headed for the kitchen.

Noticing that Mrs. Sawamura's clothes were inappropriate, Suzumiya Chisato lowered her head and dared not continue to look at her, then sat down again.

The tea was served quickly.

I don’t know if Eriri had anticipated the uncontrollable “danger” that might happen after she told her mother the truth. In any case, the tea she poured was not brewed with boiling water, but iced oolong tea directly from the refrigerator.

The three of them sipped their tea, sitting in a row with different thoughts in their minds, without any conversation.

Mrs. Sawamura didn't keep them waiting for long. She came down from the second floor again and changed into a normal dress.

"Welcome, Qianli-kun, long time no see, Xiao Shiyu."

She came to the side of the sofa and sat down with a gentle smile, without any embarrassment on her face for being seen in inappropriate clothing.

Although she knew that her daughter's friend Kasumigaoka Utaha had feelings for Suzumiya Chisato and had unspeakable motives, she thought that no adolescent child would be completely free of mistakes.

Even if she has always been the "other people's child" praised by her neighbors, and is as outstanding as Kasumigaoka Utaha, it is understandable that she would make a mistake like competing with her friends for a boyfriend.

After all, she was somewhat similar to Kasumigaoka to some extent. She also intervened and won the final victory when her husband had a childhood sweetheart. She can be considered to have some empathy, but this empathy seems so insignificant compared to her determination to support her daughter.

Chisato Suzumiya and Utaha Kasumigaoka bowed their heads slightly towards her politely.

"Haha, don't be so polite. You are all Eriri's friends. I have long regarded you as my children, so there is no need to be so restrained. Just treat this place as your own home."

Mrs. Sawamura's half-joking words came true to some extent.

Their current relationship is mediated by Eriri, and the remaining two are her "children", it's just a little messy.

"Mom, I have something very important to tell you. I want you to stop interrupting me and listen carefully."

Putting down the teacup in her hand, Ying Lili suddenly spoke at this moment.

Her expression was serious, not as lively as usual, and her tone of voice was deliberately steady.

At the same time, Suzumiya Chisato and Kasumigaoka Utaha clenched their hands slightly on their knees and straightened their backs involuntarily.

Seeing the three people in front of him show such behavior, even the most dull person would have been able to notice something unusual, not to mention Mrs. Sawamura who had a very keen sense.

She accurately realized that something seemed to be wrong between the three people in front of her.

She nodded slightly, her eyes passed over Kasumigaoka Utaha and Suzumiya Chisato, and finally fell on her own daughter.

She still maintained that warm smile that made people feel relaxed, and spoke,

"Yeah, I understand Eriri."

Ying Lili lowered her head and took a shallow breath, as if to cheer herself up. After all, it did take a lot of courage to tell her mother about the current relationship between the three of them.

She didn't think for long, and soon raised her head and looked at her mother firmly, and took that step bravely.

"It's about the three of us, actually..."

Chisato Suzumiya on the side understood.

At this point, all the previous conditions before confession have been met, and all that remains is to tell the actual situation truthfully.

But no matter what, in this kind of situation, as the culprit, he did not explain the actual situation, but instead hid behind Eriri like a turtle. This really went against his beliefs as a man. Therefore, without too much hesitation, he interrupted Eriri's speech as he had thought at the beginning.

"Wait a minute, Eriri, please let me explain."

Eriri looked at him with a complicated expression. After noticing the determination in Suzumiya Chisato's eyes, she understood what he meant. She nodded slightly, closed her lips and said no more.

Mrs. Sawamura's expression changed from one of attentive listening to a hint of confusion.

She thought that things might be more complicated than she had originally thought.

"Aunt Sawamura..."

"I've always felt that your way of addressing me is too old-fashioned, Chisato. You can either call me Mother Sawamura or Miss Sawamura."

Just when Chisato Suzumiya was mustering up the courage to speak, Mrs. Sawamura suddenly interrupted her, complaining about Chisato Suzumiya's dissatisfaction with her address and gave her a choice.

"..."