Hikigaya, the Son-in-law of Three Surnames

This place is quite interesting. Opposite is the dark and deep sea. The cool breeze at night makes people feel cool.

The wooden floor has become smooth and black due to long-term erosion. There is no fence on the terrace facing the sea. Instead, it is like a springboard where people can sit on it with their legs hanging down naturally. It would be a bit dangerous if they fall down.

This is probably the boss's private land. It is really comfortable to sit here at night.

But when he looked up, he saw a girl standing behind him. Her cool denim hot pants just covered her entire buttocks, revealing two white beautiful legs. Without wearing black stockings, Shiyu's legs also had a unique charm.

Moreover, his current perspective was indeed a bit bad.

"What are you looking at?" Shiyu said with some pride.

"You are wearing such thin clothes, isn't it for people to see?" Hachiman said.

"I can wear it, but you can't see it. This is our right as women." Shiyu raised her head slightly.

Fortunately, she didn't add a word about the stinky Guo Nan, otherwise it would have almost ruined the show.

"So you women, you have to dress cool and sexy, but you don't allow others to look at you. It's my freedom to put my eyes wherever I want."

As Hachiman said this, he gave up his seat. Shiyu took out an acoustic guitar from somewhere, sat on the side of the terrace, and swung her feet in the air.

"Where did you get the guitar?" he asked.

"I don't know. I saw it at the stairs and brought it here." Shiyu gently plucked the strings.

Maybe I haven't played it for too long, so I need to tune it up a little. Seabirds are flying across the night sky. In this slightly unfamiliar place, there is a sense of tranquility and comfort.

"Do you know how to play the guitar?" Hachiman asked curiously.

Shiyu said absentmindedly, "Well, I wanted to write a romance novel with musical instruments as the theme, so I did some research. What about you?"

"Me? I didn't have the time to study music before." Hachiman said with a smile.

Shiyu's hand that was adjusting the strings of the guitar couldn't help but stop for a moment and looked at the man. In fact, in Shiyu's opinion, he was already versatile enough. He was not short of money and was also good at martial arts. Today she found out that he could also play basketball. It seemed like a treasure that could never be exhausted no matter how hard she tried.

But in Shiyu's opinion, the skills that Hachiman knows are too urgent. They are skills that he is forced to learn based on survival. For example, basketball. Because he has passed the best age to practice weapons, he must work hard to practice basketball to practice his body's coordination and flexibility. All of this is to gain strength in his hands.

This is different from most people who learn basketball or play the piano for fun. He has always been tense in the past.

Thinking of this, Shiyu actually felt a little pity for the young man, poor child.

Shiyu knew that compared to when she was in Ying Country and was immersed in love, she now understood Hachiman better.

"We didn't have this kind of spare money before, but we should have it now," Shiyu asked.

Hachiman thought about it, then smiled and said, "You're the first girl to ask me this... I'll try to get used to it."

Compared to the vigilance and shrewdness he shows in intrigues, he seems much more clumsy when he is close to life.

"Do you want to learn? I'll teach you." Shiyu said in a low voice.

"You guys, remember to be careful up there." In the courtyard in front of the door, the boss shouted to the two people sitting on the terrace.

Hachiman waved his hand in response, and the boss continued to practice basketball with a few middle-aged men of similar age at the basketball court not far away.

Kamakura and most cities in Japan are the same. All the young people have fled to first-tier cities such as Tokyo and Kyoto. Those who remain in the local area are either children studying or middle-aged and elderly people.

So the atmosphere here has more of a sense of life than being busy.

The sound of a guitar began to play, but the song Shiyu chose was a little sad. Shiyu said, "This is the theme song from the game Final Fantasy 10."

"I don't like it. It's too sad." Hachiman said.

Then Shiyu changed to the simple and soothing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", and Hachiman was happy: "I don't want to go to bed yet, let's change to something more cheerful."

So Shiwa started playing Two Tigers (The Jacques Brothers) and Hachiman simply started singing beside her.

The sound of the sea breeze hitting the waves; the chirping of seabirds cutting through the sky; the buzzing of insects in the grass; the clean touch of the basketball as it passes through the net; and the simple and light sound of the guitar in their ears, all of this made the two feel comfortable.

After a while, Shiyu put down the guitar reluctantly. After all, the atmosphere just now made her feel very wonderful. However, compared to these, she had more important things to talk to Hachiman.

She asked, "Do you know what happened to that woman recently?"

"That's your mother. What that woman is? You're really used to it." Hachiman put on the attitude of a senior and taught her maturely.

"You can't be my stepfather yet, so leave me alone." Shiyu rolled her eyes at him.

Hachiman frowned slightly and asked in confusion: "Why do you ask that?"

"Don't you think that woman's behavior has been strange these two days?" she expressed her doubts.

It was strange in itself that Xiangzi would take the initiative to seek me out for an academic discussion.

And her sudden behavior of getting closer to her this afternoon, as if she was trying to repair the mother-daughter relationship, made her feel even more puzzled.

At least, they have been living like this for more than 20 years, with a dull relationship and sharp words. But Shiyu herself doesn't think there is anything wrong with it, and she feels more comfortable and at ease. Xiangzi must think so too, so why is she thinking about changing it only now?

"Well, what you said does make some sense." Hachiman also noticed Kaori's strange behavior to some extent. If it were in the past, she would not have said directly "I miss you". At least she would have expressed it in a more awkward way.

"I think my mother must be hiding something from us." Shiyu said softly.

In fact, she already had many guesses, and the clue was in the topic of academic research that Xiangzi asked her to explore.

When will the mother and daughter be willing to commit themselves to the same man? After excluding the light novel or porn-style developments, there are not many possibilities.

Shiyu's heart tightened, but she was still unwilling to believe it.

At this time, Hachiman, who was still confused, asked, "So, what do you think Xiangzi is hiding?"

"I won't tell you." Shiyu said as if she was arrogant.

In fact, she wanted to confirm it with Xiangzi in person.

Chapter 99: Gradually Diligent Thinking

After Shiha tricked Hachiman, she ran away, leaving the young man alone, strumming the strings of his guitar.

But he thought about it, took out his cell phone, took a picture of himself holding the guitar, and sent it to Yukino.

"Yukino-chan, you're not still working overtime, are you? I'm in Kamakura now. The seafood here is super delicious, and the night view is super beautiful. You're not still working overtime, are you? No way, no way, you're a great leader, and you're actually doing it yourself?"

Then he sent it, and then he picked up the guitar, played the strings, and wondered if he could learn it by himself, only to find that he was overthinking.

On the other side of the radio wave transmission, Yukino, who had just met with the believers' representatives, was still dealing with paperwork.

At this time, Tianxuan came in with some midnight snacks and said on the phone: Miss Xueno, you have been busy all day, please take a rest.

Yukino gently raised her head, her face indeed showing fatigue, but she smiled faintly and said: "It is really not easy to recompile the sect's charter left by my father and make the current believers accept it... I will go to rest later."

But Tianxuan also knew that the "later" that Xueno mentioned would probably be after midnight.

This is also the strange thing about Tianxuan. They are obviously sisters, but if Yangyan were to come, all these things would probably be thrown to her and her subordinates.

This Miss Yukino is indeed a worrywart.

Then Yukino received a text message from someone. She almost had a cerebral hemorrhage late at night and her expression was distorted with anger.

Just when Tianxuan was puzzled, Xue Nai took the milk that Tianxuan brought in and drank it, then said: "I have decided to go to bed early tonight and be nicer to myself."

Tianxuan sent Yukino back to Yukinoshita's house with a puzzled expression. Yukino remembered halfway, replied to Hachiman's text message on her mobile phone, and went to bed angrily.

Hachiman was still on the terrace, strumming the guitar and singing love songs with a hoarse voice, until he received a reply with the word "climb". Then he put away his phone and guitar and prepared to take a bath in the hot spring.

At this time, the phone rang again. He originally thought that Yukino couldn't stand the grievance and called to scold him, but he didn't expect it was his mother-in-law.

"Hey, mother-in-law, what's wrong?"

As a result, this suicidal name caused the other side to make a lot of noise for a while, as if this guy would not speak unless he was irritating others.

After a while, Qingxue calmed down and told Hachiman about business: "I bought two new sets of underwear today. If you want to see them, put them on now."

Hachiman took a deep breath, doing his part to contribute to the ozone hole, and said, "I want to!"

At this time, Yukino sneezed in bed, found it a little cold, and wrapped the quilt tightly.

"I was just kidding, you little idiot and pervert." Qingxue said proudly.

Hachiman was silent for ten seconds, then hung up the phone. This kind of woman is so annoying. His daughter is cuter. She is so easy to deceive.

It's truly a scum of the world.

But soon she received another call from Minamoto no Raikou: "The bar Halo Moonlight is about to open again, are you interested in coming over for a drink?"

Hachiman shuddered, his heart beating much faster, and said, "I want to!"

"I'm just kidding, you little fool, you little pervert." Minamoto no Raikou said with a pitying tone.

Hachiman was silent for ten seconds, then hung up the phone. Hate it, hate it. That’s why I say all married women are hateful.

As a result, his phones rang at the same time, and both cards were busy. He simply pulled a joint voice and said, "So what's the matter with you? Don't mention that you took a compilation photo... If you did, it's not that I can't see it."

"You're wishful thinking." Qingxue snorted coldly.

"Well, I don't care. I'm just worried that someone might be insecure about their body shape." Minamoto no Raikou said slowly.

"What did you say? Do you know what symmetrical beauty is? When you put on a leather jacket, you look like a balloon, don't you understand?" Qingxue started to yell.

Gradually forget the original purpose.

"Haha, don't you know? Bigger is better. Bigger is more beautiful." Her Royal Highness the Princess never cares about such sour and slanderous remarks.

"So you called me late at night just to keep me awake?" Hachiman said speechlessly.

"Hey, it's all your fault. You made me stray off topic." Qingxue jumped out to accuse first. No matter whether she was right or not, she had to make up her mind first.

"Hachiman-kun, this old hag bullied me, sob, sob, sob." Her Royal Highness the Princess said in a coquettish manner.

"Please don't act cute maliciously, okay?" But what to do because she's so cute, Hachiman is a little moved.

"You...a brainless, big-breasted, powerful woman." Qingxue yelled.

"She is anxious, she is anxious..." said Her Royal Highness the Princess.

The two "mature", "dignified", "elegant" and "noble" ladies quarreled like a vegetable market, and Hachiman finally couldn't help but asked: "So what's the matter?"

The two mature women finally remembered to inform Hachiman, and then they pieced together the facts for him one by one.

After listening to this, Hachiman looked up at the starry sky and thought to himself, how could these two women be so troublesome.

But if you think about it carefully, it can't be... this is... could it be... worthy of being... a good guy...

"I see." Then he hung up the phone, and things were getting more and more interesting.

This also explains why Xiangzi became strange.

On the other side, Shiyu returned to the room and saw Xiangzi wearing a thin yukata. A hint of snow-white cleavage was revealed under the loose collar. She was leaning alone by the window, looking at the waves in the night, and drinking the clear sake alone.

Hearing the sound in the room, Xiangzi looked at Shiyu coming in, and then said: "How is it, have you finished talking about ideal life and music with Hachiman-kun?"

Xiangzi's voice seemed a little depressed, and there was also a hint of resentment and helplessness.

Shiyu was frozen for a moment, but soon she calmed down and said, "Mom, why did you bring us to Kamakura for a trip? Why did you study such a strange topic? Why do you want to mend the relationship between you and me?"

Xiangzi's drunken eyes showed a trace of clarity, and she said, "As expected of my daughter, you have guessed so many things. What should I do before I have time? So what is the result of your guess? Let me hear it."

Then, Shiyu clenched her fists and said, "Because you actually want to bring me and Hikigaya Hachiman together. That's your purpose. You want to find a place for me to belong. As for the reason, it's hidden in the topic you want to study. Under what circumstances would a mother and daughter be willing to commit themselves to the same man?"

The reason, of course, is that the mother is about to die, and she can only find someone she trusts to entrust her daughter to.

Chapter 100 After I die, you can live together

Xiangzi was slightly stunned. To be honest, although she didn't intend to hide it, she didn't plan to tell Shiyu so early. She didn't expect that she had already guessed it.

"You are so smart.....Follow me."

"Can you please stop being so conceited at this time?" Shiyu said impatiently.

"Then can you tell me how you guessed it?" Xiangzi said with a smile.

Shiyu turned her cheek away and said, "Didn't I tell you that, excluding the unrealistic comedy of light novels and the weird development of Xiaohuangyou, the only reason that could make a mother and daughter commit to one person is that the mother had to entrust her daughter to someone else. Our family is not short of money, so I think the only reason you had to leave me is... a terminal illness."

Xiangzi took a deep breath and said, "It's advanced breast cancer. I just found out."

Shiyu was stunned for a moment: "Can't I just cut it off?"

Tsk... Xiangzi almost choked to death and said calmly: "I have both..."

"Then cut off both pieces. Is there anything more important than life?"

As soon as Shiyu finished speaking, Xiangzi straightened her waist and said DUANG.

The girl swallowed her throat and was about to say something, but Xiangzi asked back, "If it were you, you would only have a 20% chance of survival after surgery, and there's a high probability that the cancer has already spread, or you would die completely, what would you choose?"

Shiyu blurted out that she definitely wanted to live, but if she thought about it carefully, if her two pieces were to be cut off, could she really be so calm?

This is full of sense of superiority.

"But what about that guy Hikigaya Hachiman?" Shiyu persuaded from a different angle.