In the anime, who is not a childhood sweetheart?

"I just contacted you but you didn't reply, so I guessed you would be here."

Busujima Saeko knew that Minamoto Chiya traveled back and forth to Okinawa to visit her parents in one night.

Yuan Qianye sat up, stretched lazily, and was about to say something when he heard a noise outside the door.

"Eri, what are you doing? Why don't you just go in?"

"Hey! Wait a minute, Rikka... let's... forget it..."

"What are you talking about? Didn't we come here to see Qianye?"

Following Rika's puzzled tone, she pushed the door open and walked in, holding the embarrassed Eriri with her other hand.

"Qianye, are you feeling unwell?" Rika acted casually. When she saw Busujima Saeko, she politely greeted her.

They had known each other for a long time because of Yuan Qianye, but they didn't often come into contact with each other.

Eriri had already come in, and could only greet Busujima Saeko like Rikka did, but half of her body was hidden behind Rikka.

Yuan Qianye shook his head slightly to indicate that he was fine: "I simply didn't sleep well last night, so I came here to catch up on some sleep. Don't worry."

Upon hearing this, Eriri felt a little relieved. She thought so. Qianye had such a good physique. She remembered that when she and Yukino were young, they often caught colds and fevers and had to ask for leave from school, but he was the only one who had never had such an experience.

"I'm glad you're okay. Since you didn't sleep well, don't practice swordplay this afternoon. Go back and get some rest."

Busujima Saeko stood up from the chair beside the bed and tilted her head to look at the two small lunch boxes placed on the bedside.

"I cut up some fruit at home and brought it here. Let's eat together. I have something else to do at the Kendo Club, so I'll be leaving now. You guys can chat slowly."

After saying that, she smiled gently at Rikka and Eriri, then turned and left.

After she left, Rikka couldn't help but look at him with admiration: "Bushima-senpai really has a good personality. He's beautiful, gentle to his juniors, and doesn't put on airs at all."

Eriri nodded. Although she was reluctant to admit it, the other party was really an excellent person.

She couldn't help but think of what Yukino had said before, and maybe she could really find an opportunity to try to be friends with her.

But how to do it specifically?

When Eriri looks back on her life from the first grade to the present, she suddenly realizes that she has never taken the initiative to make friends with others!

Her current friends, Qianye and Xueno, came to help her on their own initiative, and then she realized that they were just friends!

As for Liuhua, it was because of Qianye that she gradually integrated into their small group...

This is a complete lack of proactive experience!

However, it doesn't matter if you don't know what to do at this time, there is still that trick...

During the afternoon study session, Ying Lili secretly took out her cell phone.

[Yukino, if you want to make friends with others, how do you do it? ]

Yukinoshita Yukino was walking alone on the campus of Eagle Country, when a gust of bleak wind happened to blow past her from behind.

She took out her cell phone, looked at the message, and fell silent.

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042: Flexible Moral Bottom Line

How to make friends?

If Yuan Qianye asked Xueno the same question, she would think that this guy was looking for trouble.

But if it were Eriri, it wouldn't be strange, it would even be reasonable.

But even Snow Raemon is not omnipotent.

It’s not that Yukino doesn’t want to help with some things, but she doesn’t have the relevant experience to refer to.

However, Yukino didn't want to disappoint the girl with twin ponytails who trusted her from the bottom of her heart, so she hesitated for a long time before finally giving her a reply.

【Just be attentive. 】

Yukino felt extremely guilty when she replied to the message, and no one could tell her that it was a wrong answer.

But strictly speaking, the meaning of these four words is broad and can extend to too many interpretations!

However, after seeing her reply, Ying Lili's eyes lit up, and her originally blocked little head instantly became unblocked, and she felt that she had become smarter all of a sudden!

She's enlightened!

"Thank you, Yukino! I understand!"

Yukinoshita Yukino: "..."

Although I don't know what Eriri understood, it seems that she did gain something, and that's enough.

After school that day, Eriri went home together with Gen Chiye again after a long time!

Things that I used to take for granted have returned, and I didn’t expect it to be such a happy thing!

"Eri, Rikka, what kind of gifts would make you girls at this stage happy?" Yuan Qianye suddenly asked this question while waiting to pick up the food at a street milk tea shop.

Ok?

The two little ones who were asked the question immediately became alert and had the same idea in their heads.

Qianye is going to give me a gift?

Compared to Eriri who was secretly happy in her heart, Rika was much more direct. The originally curly ahoge hair on her head now stood straight up!

"Qianye, are you planning to give us something?"

Facing Rikka's expectant gaze, Yuan Qianye smiled as brightly as the clear summer sky, but the words that came out of his mouth were as cold as the winter wind: "I want to give you something, but it's not for you. It's for Busujima-senpai. I just want to hear what you like for reference."

Liuhua immediately didn't want to pay attention to him: "Give her nail clippers, nail clippers are good, every girl likes nail clippers."

Yuan Qianye narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Okay, I'll give you nail clippers next time on your birthday."

Liuhua's face suddenly turned pale.

Although Eriri was a little disappointed, she immediately realized that this seemed to be what Yukino said, a good opportunity to "try hard" to make friends with Busujima Saeko!

"Qianye, is Senior Busujima's birthday coming up soon?"

"No, I just wanted to thank her for taking such good care of me during this period of time and for teaching me all kinds of kendo knowledge in detail. This is a token of my gratitude."

"That's it..."

If that's the case, I'm in no position to give gifts. I have to think of other ways...

Eriri offered a serious suggestion: "As for Busujima-senpai, it seems she's very interested in kendo. How about considering a suitable gift from that perspective?"

Well, you know what, thinking about the other person's interests and hobbies is indeed a good idea.

"I understand. Thank you, Eriri."

"It's okay, it's okay, I just want to help!"

Ying Lili blushed and turned her eyes away when she saw Yuan Qianye's smile. Only when he looked away did she dare to slowly turn her gaze back to the right side.

Although Eriri knew that Qianye was handsome when she was in elementary school, after he started learning kendo, she always felt that his smile became more and more dazzling, and she felt dizzy when looking at him directly at close range...

It must be an illusion, right?

Gen Qianye and Rikka returned home, and it just so happened that Touka also came back early today.

She had a stern face and her expression didn't seem as casual as usual. It was obvious that she was in a bad mood.

Yuan Qianye calculated it in advance, and these days happened to be the days when Touka was feeling irritable.

He had made preparations in advance, and the first thing he did after returning home was to hand her the hot drink he brought back from the milk tea shop.

However, Tohka's expression didn't soften at all at his thoughtful gesture.

Even when looking at him directly at close range, the feeling of discomfort was expressed more clearly.

This made Yuan Qianye feel uncomfortable, and some bad guesses emerged in his mind.

Liuhua went home and went into the kitchen to wash some fruit for herself. She said she was going to do her homework and went back to her room. Now there were only the two of them in the living room.

"Tohka, why are you..."

Without waiting for Yuan Qianye to finish his words, Shihua took a step forward, forced him into the corner, and with a "pop" of her right hand, gave him a wall-bang like a domineering CEO.

The height comparison is a bit funny. Rika is a freshman in high school, but she is not as tall as her non-blood-related brother who is only in the first grade of junior high school!

"Don't point your nose at me."

“…” Yuan Qianye lowered his head speechlessly.

But Shihua still disliked him. Why was this kid so tall?

She grabbed Yuan Qianye's arm, turned around and pushed him to sit on the sofa. She leaned down, supported the back of the sofa with her left hand, and held his student tie with her right hand.

This time she was in a superior position and finally felt that she had the upper hand in momentum!

I also have the dignity of being a sworn sister (not a blood relationship)!

Finally, she spoke: "Qian Ye, tell me the truth, are you hiding something from me?"

"Ah? What do you mean?" Yuan Qianye's reaction was flawless.

"Stop pretending. I just got home and the phone rang. Guess who it was?"

“…” Yuan Qianye shook his head blankly.

"The store manager where my dad works, guess what he said to me."

“…” Yuan Qianye didn’t need to guess, as he seemed to already understand the ending.

Shihua gritted her teeth and said, "He told Dad to rest and recover, and to tell him as soon as he's better so he can arrange his shift schedule and get him back to work."

Stupid Comrade Minamoto, how could you make such a low-level mistake?!

"Didn't Mom and Dad say we should play outside for a while longer? What's going on with recuperation?!"

Facing Shihua's anxious and worried questioning, what else could Yuan Qianye say? Seeing that he could no longer hide it, he could only confess everything truthfully.

After hearing this, Shihua's brows suddenly frowned, her face showed pain, her head rested on his shoulder, and her body shrank limply!

"Hey, you're already feeling unwell, so don't be angry."

Yuan Qianye helped her sit down on the sofa and turned to go to her room to get the piggy hot water bottle.

Liuhua was sitting with her back to the door, looking at her phone with headphones on. She wasn't doing her homework and didn't even notice Yuan Qianye came in.

After filling the hot water bottle, Yuan Qianye handed it to Shihua. She held it against her lower abdomen through her clothes, and her frown finally relaxed.

"You're trying to hide such a big thing from me. Don't think I'll forgive you so easily."

"It was my father who instructed this. It actually has nothing to do with me." Yuan Qianye has a flexible moral bottom line. In this situation, he has no psychological burden at all when selling out his own father.

But he was his father after all, so he still added a kind word,

"He didn't mean anything else, he just didn't want to make you worry."

Tohka fell silent.

After a moment of silence, she spoke again, "In other words, in order to prevent that idiot Liuhua from blaming herself too much, Dad will not come back until his leg is completely healed."

"Ah."

"Mom also has to be by his side to take care of him, so during this period, it's just the three of us living together."

"Ah."

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043: Touka is worried

The master bedroom of the Yuan family.

The door is locked.

Gen Chiye and Touka Takanashi were sitting on the edge of the bed, each holding a passbook in their hands.

Shihua said, "Mom has over 600,000, how about you?"