Hikigaya, the Son-in-law of Three Surnames

Hachiman slowly stood up and said, "I'll go find a coat..."

Although he thought that a lady like Mrs. Yukinoshita would not like other people's coats, it would be more troublesome if she caught a cold.

There are only clothes left by Saki here, but Mrs. Yukinoshita's figure is similar to Saki's, so she can make do with them.

"No need, Hikigaya-kun, there is hot water here, I can just take a shower." Mrs. Yukinoshita said softly.

"There is hot water in the bathroom, which was cleaned a few days ago." I originally thought it would be the last cleaning before checking out, but it worked in an unexpected place.

Mrs. Yukinoshita nodded gently, but she was a little worried about the wet kimono on her body. This high-quality silk was very absorbent and she was already feeling a little uncomfortable.

She packed up her medicine box and slowly stood up, preparing to go to the bathroom, but Hachiman called her, "Madam, please wait a moment."

Then I saw Hachiman open the wall cabinet, and after a while, he took out a set of blue button-front pajamas.

"This is..." Hachiman originally said Saki's name, but he felt strange talking about his first love in front of his wife.

"Ex-girlfriend's pajamas?" Mrs. Yukinoshita's expression was calm, making it hard to tell whether she was joking or unhappy.

But Hachiman thought about it carefully and felt that it was somewhat problematic to use his ex-girlfriend's pajamas to dress Yukino's mother, so he froze there.

"That's thoughtful." But Mrs. Yukinoshita quickly took the pajamas on her own initiative.

"If you get a chance, say sorry to that girl for me." Of course, she was not referring to the matter of borrowing her pajamas, but to the Yukinoshita family, which took Hikigaya Hachiman away from her.

Hachiman shook his head. Saki had become another scar in his heart and he was unwilling to mention it.

Mrs. Yukinoshita quickly entered the bathroom, and the sound of running water gradually came from the bathroom. Hachiman pursed his lips. The fact that Yukino's mother was taking a bath in his own apartment always made him feel a little uncomfortable, so he decided to divert his attention and not think too much about it.

Hachiman took out a set of bedding from the cabinet. This small apartment did not have a distinction between the living room and the bedroom, so the bedding could only be placed next to the bed. He would let Yukino's mother sleep on the bed while he would sleep on the tatami. It would be enough to get through tonight.

Just as he was thinking this, there was a strong flash of light outside, which made Hachiman close his eyes involuntarily. The sky and the earth suddenly became dark. Then there was a "puff" sound coming from the bathroom, followed by thunder and a clear shout coming from the bathroom.

Hachiman took out his cell phone, and relying on the light from the flashlight, he walked to the bathroom in the dark and gently knocked on the door.

"Ma'am, what happened?"

"The light bulb suddenly exploded just now..." Mrs. Yukinoshita's voice came from the bathroom.

"Are you injured?"

"...I accidentally stepped on some fallen glass fragments."

Mrs. Yukinoshita's voice sounded like a gasp, which must be quite painful.

At this time, the light that had been off came on again. It seemed that it was just a brief power outage caused by the thunderstorm just now, but the bathroom was still pitch black.

The person in the bathroom seemed to be in trouble as well. Hachiman thought for a moment, took out a flashlight from the drawer, and said beside the bathroom: "Madam, you can use the flashlight for now, and come out as soon as you get dressed."

After the light bulb explodes, there is actually a risk of electric leakage in a humid bathroom, which is quite dangerous.

"......Okay." Mrs. Yukinoshita's brief voice came from inside, and then the bathroom door opened slightly, and a delicate arm stretched out with water droplets on it. Under the light, the hand looked particularly white. Hachiman was stunned for a moment, then handed the flashlight to the other party, and then closed the bathroom door again.

Soon, Mrs. Yukinoshita, who was wearing Saki's pajamas, opened the door, but she held on to the door frame in a somewhat embarrassed manner, with her right foot slightly bent and blood dripping from her ankle.

Hachiman quickly moved her over to sit on the bed. Mrs. Yukinoshita said calmly, "I felt glass fragments left in the sole of my foot."

"Wait a moment." After saying this, Hachiman took the medicine box. Unlike before, it was his turn to treat Mrs. Yukinoshita.

Taking out the disinfectant and cotton gauze, Hachiman sat down and looked up at Mrs. Yukinoshita: "I'll help you clean the wound."

Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki hummed softly, and Hachiman gently lifted up her right foot. Her pink and tender toes were well-maintained, like those of a girl, and he felt soft and tender when he touched them. It was the first time for him to touch a woman's feet. After all, he was still an adolescent boy, and although he was a little different from his peers, he still couldn't avoid the hazy hormones.

However, his mind soon became focused. After all, in his mind, Mrs. Yukinoshita was not equated with "female". He began to clean Mrs. Yukinoshita's wounds and blood stains. Perhaps it was the stimulation of the disinfectant, Mrs. Yukinoshita's little feet would shrink back from time to time, which made Hachiman feel a little novel. It turned out that Mrs. Yukinoshita would also have this kind of reaction of an ordinary girl.

After cleaning the wound, Hachiman discovered that there were indeed three purple cuts on the sole of her foot. They were probably caused by broken glass. This was rather troublesome, but Hachiman had helped his sister deal with such wounds before. So he took out the sewing needle and thread from the drawer, took out the sewing needle and disinfected it with a lighter at high temperature.

Then he said to Mrs. Yukinoshita, "Madam, I am going to take out the broken glass from the bottom of your feet. It will be a little painful, please bear with it."

Looking at the tiny, sharp sewing needle, Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki's heart skipped a beat, but in order to maintain her usual dignified image in front of Hachiman, she simply nodded lightly, but her palms were slightly sweaty due to nervousness.

Chapter 53 Chapter

Kiyoyuki Yukinoshita suffers from sharp objects phobia. As the name suggests, it means that she will have psychological fear and other discomfort towards sharp objects, such as needles, toothpicks, knives, pen refills, etc. Kiyoyuki Yukinoshita is extremely afraid of needles that will pierce into the flesh, even though she knows clearly that it will not cause much harm to her.

But she couldn't control the psychological discomfort, and so she had been afraid of injections since she was a child. She would be extremely nervous every time she had an injection, and her palms would sweat. However, no one in the Yukinoshita family knew about this, not even her daughters or her dead husband. When she married into the Yukinoshita family, she understood that her husband wanted her to be the perfect Mrs. Yukinoshita, so she hid all her shortcomings, including this little problem.

But at this moment, whenever she thought of the sharp needle in Hikigaya-kun's hand piercing her feet, her heart would beat faster involuntarily. Her palms tightly grasped the quilt, her fingers were a little white from being pinched, but her face still maintained a calm and slightly majestic expression, exactly the same as usual.

"I'm going to start. Just bear with me for a moment." Hachiman said calmly. Then Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki watched the tip of the needle slowly sink into the sole of her foot. Perhaps in order to find the broken glass, the needle controlled by Hachiman kept searching up and down, causing a slight but unbearable stinging sensation in the sole of her foot.

Beads of sweat appeared on Kiyoyuki Yukinoshita's forehead, and the muscles all over her body began to tense up.

"I found it. I'm going to pick it out. It's going to hurt a little."

After the boy under her said this, the tingling sensation from under her feet became more intense. The double stimulation, both physically and mentally, made it impossible for Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki to maintain the expression on her face, and she couldn't help but let out a light hum.

"Umm...ah...gently..."

Hachiman's cheeks turned red due to the psychological tension, and soon he picked out the foreign object from the sole of Mrs. Yukinoshita's feet.

"Okay, it's taken out." Hachiman looked at the transparent fragment stained with blood and breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, he heard the slight panting sound coming from Mrs. Yukinoshita, which made him feel a little strange.

He raised his head and found that he had miscalculated. Although Saki was of similar height to Mrs. Yukinoshita, the body of a woman who had given birth to two daughters was different from that of a young girl. It was fuller and plump, which made her somewhat small pajamas bulge out. Especially at this moment, her chest was heaving up and down with her breathing, making it even more bulging. Hachiman quickly lowered his head and said.

"There are still two more cuts. Madam, please be patient."

"......Yeah." Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki, who had just recovered from her gasping for breath, seemed to have no strength to answer, and did not even notice the boy's slight psychological abnormality.

Soon, the itching and tingling feeling came again, and her muscles tensed up again. Mrs. Yukinoshita was no longer able to maintain her dignity. She could only let out a few muffled groans, which was the maximum she could show in restraint.

"Slow down...it hurts..."

But she didn't know how strange this muffled groan sounded to the ears of the boy who had already realized something. The boy didn't have any bad intentions, but that didn't mean he was heartless. On the contrary, he was very sensitive. Looking at the mature face that was 60% similar to Yukino, soon, not only his cheeks, but even his neck and ears turned red.

Although Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki was trying her best to resist the discomfort brought by her fear of sharp objects, she still noticed something strange about the boy. Her mind was full of thoughts, and soon she tried her best not to make any sound and just groaned softly.

"Everything has been taken out. I'll go to the bathroom and throw away the broken pieces." After an unknown amount of time, Hachiman announced that this torturous time for both parties was over.

He stood up and turned around immediately. In Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki's eyes, Hachiman's walking posture seemed a little strange for some reason, and her eyes flickered.

In the bathroom, Hachiman threw the broken pieces into the toilet and flushed them away. Then he stood in front of the mirror on the washbasin, looking at himself in the darkness with some blush still on his face, his expression terribly gloomy.

With a "slap", the sound of a heavy slap echoed in the bathroom, and Hachiman's cheek soon became swollen.

"Beast." He cursed himself under his breath, then turned on the faucet and continuously washed his cheeks with cold tap water to subside the physiological reaction that he could not control.

Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki was still sitting on the bed, still feeling a dull pain in the soles of her feet. When she heard the loud noise coming from the bathroom, she felt a little complicated, but she did not feel disgusted or aversion.

It was her extreme allergy to needles that caused her body to have such a strong reaction, and the other party was, after all, an energetic high school boy.

In a sense, she knew this boy named Hikigaya Hachiman very well. Both in the past and now, she had read his information many times when looking for an "accomplice". He had a self-denying quality that was even like an ascetic monk. If she had to ask how to punish him, the guilt that surged in the boy's heart at this moment was enough to punish him.

He even wanted Qingxue to tell him "don't care".

But Qingxue is his elder after all. If she were to make it clear at this moment, it would probably affect their future relationship, so Qingxue could only pretend not to know.

Suddenly, she thought of the feeling of Hachiman holding her little feet just now. Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki hated direct skin contact with others, but just now she accepted it very naturally without any feeling of disgust. Thinking of the boy crying on her knees just now, she felt a strange and charming feeling in her heart.

Soon, she drove away all these complicated thoughts, because Hachiman had come out, and except for some redness and swelling on his right cheek, he looked normal.

"I'll bandage your wound, madam." Hachiman said calmly.

This time, the treatment was completed quickly. After all, he just wrapped the wound with gauze. He packed up the medicine box and said, "If there is nothing else, turn off the lights and rest now."

Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki nodded gently without saying anything. She believed that after a good night's sleep, she would be able to dilute the inexplicable emotions at the moment, provided that she could sleep peacefully.

Soon, Hachiman turned off the lights. Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki lay on the bed, and Hachiman lay on the tatami. Neither of them spoke. Apart from the sound of rain and thunder outside, the only sound was their breathing.

Originally, Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki thought it was going to be another sleepless night, but when she came to her senses, the light of morning light slightly stimulated her eyes. She opened her eyes and found that it was already early morning.

I actually...fell asleep again?

She was surprised. At this time, Hachiman came out of the bathroom, his cheeks still wet. He put the key on the table and said, "Good morning, ma'am."

"Good morning," she said quietly.

"I'm going to the hospital to visit Yukino now. Just lock the door when you leave here." Hachiman said softly.

A hint of surprise appeared in Qingxue's eyes. To be honest, continuing to meet Yukino now would undoubtedly be a torture for Hachiman. It would only remind him repeatedly of his sin and hypocrisy.

"You don't need to go every day..." she said calmly.

"I've said it's my responsibility to help Yukino recover." There was a trace of painful struggle in Hachiman's eyes, but he soon calmed down, turned around and left. Even to Qingxue, his steps seemed a little heavy.

Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki got out of bed. The sole of her right foot was fine after a night's rest. She stood in front of the entrance and looked at the departing figure, feeling a little distressed.

Chapter 54 Chapter

The days that followed were relatively peaceful. Hachiman visited Yukino in the hospital every day, and the girl was gradually recovering in a stable condition.

But one thing is certain, the girl could not let go of her innocent father who died. In her cognition, her father was a very gentle and kind person. It must have been the other party's fault that he was killed, just as the police reported, turning the case into an unsolved case where the murderer had not been caught.

Every time the girl said this, Hachiman would express his approval, and then he would receive a reassuring smile from Yukino.

In addition to taking care of Yukino, his daily study task is to familiarize himself with everything about Yukinoshita Construction Company as quickly as possible. Mrs. Yukinoshita quickly sorted out the documents and handed them over to Hachiman. Excluding the time for cooking and eating, he would study until the early morning almost every day, exhausting himself so that he would fall asleep easily and not think about Yukino's questions.

During this period, classmates from Sobu High School held a reunion. Unexpectedly, Hachiman agreed to go. However, looking at his classmates who were excitedly preparing to go to college, he once again confirmed that he and they were from two different worlds.

Perhaps it was because of the rainy night, but even at Yukinoshita's house, except for meals in the morning and evening, Hachiman would try his best to avoid Mrs. Yukinoshita. Even when he sometimes wanted to consult her about matters related to Yukinoshita Construction Company, he would choose to do it in open places such as the terrace or the living room instead of in the room.

Hachiman realized that even though the other person was an elder, she was still a beautiful mature woman, so if it was not necessary, he should try to have as little contact with her as possible.

Mrs. Yukinoshita was very accurate in her judgment. At this moment, Hachiman indeed had the temperament of an ascetic monk.

More than half a month passed like this. In the morning, Hachiman was preparing breakfast for two people in the kitchen. Mrs. Yukinoshita's breakfast was already on the table, but she had gotten up a little late recently. However, when Hachiman brought out his breakfast, he found that someone was already sitting there enjoying it.

"Hello, big-breasted brother." That slightly playful tone definitely did not come from Mrs. Yukinoshita or Yukino.

Hachiman frowned subconsciously: "Why are you back?"

"That's true. After all, I am the eldest daughter of this family, the legitimate daughter. At best, you are just a son-in-law. In ancient times, a son-in-law was a farmhand." Yukinoshita Haruno said while tasting the grilled bamboo fish of Hachiman.

"It tastes good." She said with a smile.

At this moment, there was a sound of someone coming down the stairs behind her. Mrs. Yukinoshita also got up and looked at the girl sitting in her usual seat. Mrs. Yukinoshita also frowned and said, "Why are you back?"

Yukinoshita Haruno was stunned for a moment after hearing this, then she looked back and forth at the two people in front of her and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "How come you two are so in sync, hahahahaha."

Mrs. Yukinoshita frowned even more when she heard her daughter's frivolous tone: "The rice is spitting out."

After a while, Yukinoshita Haruno stopped smiling exaggeratedly and looked at the two of them as if examining them: "Mother, are you getting along well with Hikigaya-kun?"

Mrs. Yukinoshita ignored her, so Hachiman said, "You eat this first, I'll make another breakfast."

"No, I don't have much of an appetite this morning. Please heat me a cup of milk, thank you." Mrs. Yukinoshita said in a calm voice.

Hachiman nodded and went into the kitchen.

Yang No said to herself, "Oh, it seems like you're getting along well. That's good news. Mother didn't like Hikigaya-kun when she first saw him."

Mrs. Yukinoshita stood there, quietly looking at her daughter who had been undisciplined since childhood, or rather, she did not feel much respect for her mother from her.

"Aren't you going to meet the concrete supplier today?"

"I'm tired of seeing you. Come back and have a sleep." Yang Nai said with a smile.

In fact, even when Yukino's father was still alive, Haruno seldom came back to this mansion. The Yukinoshita family is in the real estate business, so they naturally have a lot of properties in Chiba, so Haruno can stay wherever she wants.

Just at this moment, Hachiman brought out the hot milk. Mrs. Yukinoshita drank it in a few sips and prepared to go out.

"Mother, you should make sure to get a good rest. After all, the Yukinoshita family still needs you to support it." Yang No said to Mrs. Yukinoshita who was passing by her.

Yukinoshita Kiyoyuki paused for a moment, then looked towards the entrance and left, followed by the sound of the door closing.

Hachiman also sat opposite Yukinoshita Haruno and started eating breakfast, but Haruno's mouth seemed like it would die if she didn't speak for a moment.

"When your mother passed by you just now, did you smell anything?"

Hachiman really didn't want to pay attention to her, so he just lowered his head and ate.

As a result, Haruno continued, "Such a strong perfume smell. She is obviously a widow whose husband just died. She has no shame, don't you think so, Hikigaya-kun?"

"The dead man was your father." Hachiman replied calmly.

"Didn't you kill him too?" Yang Nai replied with a smile.

Hachiman felt that he would definitely not be able to keep up with the other party in terms of talking, so he did not respond.

"I almost got off topic. What I was talking about was that the smell of my mother's perfume suddenly changed. It was as if she was trying to cover up some smell on her body. What do you think, Hikigaya-kun?"

"I don't know." Simple answer.