I won't be a loser.

Her arm fell on Xianren's chest, tightly protecting the person beside her. Futaba Rio also had her own desires and her own selfish side...

After spending some time with Futaba Rio in the afternoon, Kento returned to his apartment in the evening.

He took the ingredients he bought from the shopping street, processed them briefly, and started to cook dinner. He stood quietly in front of the kitchen counter, seasoning the miso soup, and from time to time glanced at the potatoes and beef cooking in the pot.

click -

There was the sound of a door opening and hurried footsteps. Sanye came to the living room and quickly came to the bed. She threw herself on the bed and then lay motionless.

"Get ready, dinner will be served soon. Also, don't go to bed before taking a shower."

"I'm so tired. I've been memorizing all sorts of questions and key points all day. I feel like my whole brain is going to completely evaporate!"

Sliding down from the edge of the bed to sit on the ground, Sanye looked back at Xianren who was preparing dinner, closed her eyes silently, sighed, stood up, walked to the refrigerator, and took out some juice.

It was almost time. Seeing that the food was ready, Xianren put it into a bowl and brought it to the table in the living room. The two of them sat around the table.

Xianren didn't like talking while eating, and Sanye, who was also aware of her brother's habit, remained quiet during the meal. She finished her dinner in silence, and before she did anything, she was stared at by Xianren.

"I'm so tired."

"..."

"I want to move."

"......"

She didn't want to move at all, but being stared at by her brother, Sanye and Momo picked up the dishes and started washing them by herself at the sink.

The wise man who made tea for himself sat in the living room, looking at the somewhat resentful Sanye.

“He who does not work shall not eat.”

The dissatisfied expression on her face suddenly froze. After cleaning up sullenly, Sanye went into the bathroom.

However, before the door closed, he peeked into the living room.

"No peeking allowed."

"I'm going out."

Xianren, who was sitting in the living room, heard Sanye's words without any reaction. He walked past her and came to the door.

"I'll be back when you're done washing. Remember to text me."

"......"

The door was closed, leaving Sanye standing at the bathroom door with a grin. He groaned and shrank back into the bathroom.

Even though it was dark, it was still stuffy outside. Walking on the street, a man slowly walked towards Fujiwa Nunu's apartment.

At this point in time, I think Fuji and Nunu are already at home.

"He's probably still awake."

It was only eight o'clock, which was a little early even for bed.

But when I think about Elio's age, it seems that children tend to go to bed early. When he was young, he basically went to bed between eight and nine o'clock.

Think about your current routine where you don’t go to bed until late at night or early in the morning.

It's inevitable that I feel a little emotional.

After walking for a while, which took about ten minutes, I arrived at the downstairs of Fujihe Nunu's apartment. I entered and took the elevator to the door of her room. I first rang the doorbell to greet her, and then used the key to enter the house.

I ran into Fujiwara Nunu who was about to open the door, still wearing a thin black tank top.

"good evening."

"Since you're going to use the key to come in, there's no need to ring the doorbell, right?"

"Just consider it as a notification?"

"......"

He turned back to the living room and closed the door after entering the house. Then he looked into the living room and found that Elio was lying on the sofa, watching a science program about the universe and the starry sky.

He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Fujiwa Nyo-Nyo—Elliot's mother.

"understand?"

"I don't know, but she seems to like this kind of subject matter."

I could tell something from the last time, but I didn't expect that she liked him so much. From the moment he entered the house, Elio hadn't even glanced at him.

"Then I'll buy her a star projector so she can see the starry sky in her room."

"Then Elio should be very happy."

"Do you need it?"

"Hmm? I... forget it. I don't really like it."

Fujiwa Nunu was a little surprised to hear that Xianren wanted to give her a gift, but after hesitating for a moment, she still rejected Xianren's kindness. She was indeed not as fond of this as her own daughter.

"I remember that when you were in Itomori, you also loved lying under the eaves on sunny days and looking at the stars in the sky."

"Because there wasn't much to do, in the summer, whenever I looked up at night, I could see the starry sky. It was quite interesting, but later on, well, I didn't have much time to look up at the sky anymore."

It wasn't just the starry sky. He had unknowingly ignored everything around him. He didn't even know how long it had been since he last looked at the texture of leaves, which he could count for half an hour.

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Another year of budding: 350. The secret was discovered

After walking out of the bathroom, she saw the empty living room. Sanye frowned and walked into the living room with only a bath towel wrapped around her. She first took out a can of juice from the refrigerator and sat down at the desk. Facing the empty living room, she couldn't help but feel lonely.

"what--"

Lift your head and look at the roof above you.

"Living in this kind of environment every day, you'll gradually go crazy, right?"

Every time she came to Tokyo and stayed in her brother's apartment, Mitsuha would have this feeling: the space in the entire room was too small. If she stayed there for a while, she would feel a stuffy feeling in her chest.

He stood up, walked to the window sill, and opened the curtains a little.

There was no brilliant starry sky above her head, but the shining lights in the distance attracted her attention. She looked towards the horizon, not knowing where that direction was.

"Shouldn't it be Shinjuku?"

While wondering where that direction was, she took a sip of the juice in her hand, turned back to the living room, and walked back to her brother's desk.

Looking at the clean desk, she put the juice on the desk and her hand fell on the drawer, wanting to see what interesting and new things were in her brother's drawer during the time she was away.

"I didn't find anything last time... No, I found some items that couples often use. What brand were they?"

I remember that there were capital English letters on the outer packaging, something like 'SKY' or something like that, but she has forgotten the last letter and only remembers 'SKY', probably because this word is easier to remember.

The drawer was clean and tidy. I looked down and saw a box of brand new black ballpoint pens, as well as other blue and red ballpoint pens.

Under the ballpoint pen were brand new notebooks, and around the pen box were sticky notes and tape...

"Why is it gone? Did they just run out and haven't had time to buy new ones yet?"

The thing she saw in the drawer last time was square and had a small bulge in the middle. For a middle school student like her, it was a somewhat stimulating item, but now it was nowhere to be found. She searched for a while but couldn't find it.

Sanye, whose face was already flushed and heartbeat was accelerated, showed disappointment on her face when she couldn't find it no matter how hard she tried.

I don't know why I felt disappointed, but when I didn't see the things I expected, I always felt a slight sense of loss in my heart. When I silently took out the notebooks from the drawer one by one, I unexpectedly found a strange envelope at the bottom of the drawer.

The first thing she saw was the word "institution". She didn't care about the rest of the content and reached out to pick up the white envelope. There was a line of blue words on the cover, which said an appraisal institution that she didn't recognize.

"Authentication?"

The words sounded high-end, classy, and full of mystery, which made Sanye nervous.

He turned his head and glanced at the door of the living room. After hesitating for a moment, he reached out and unfolded the envelope bit by bit. Looking at the torn seal, he pried it open with two fingers and saw a folded piece of paper inside.

After hesitating for a moment, she took out the paper carefully and remembered the state of the paper. She was ready to fold it at any time and put it back into the envelope. At least she couldn't let her brother see that she had gone through his drawer!

And when I slowly unfolded the folded paper and saw the contents on it——

"Eh?"

"Eh?"

"Eh?!!"

Her mind was almost blank. Sanye, who was sitting at the desk, widened her eyes, her mind was blank. She looked down at the paper in her hand, and then at the drawer in front of her.

"I took it out of the drawer. This is my brother's apartment, and this is also my brother's desk... This must be someone else's identification result!"

But when she looked at 'Miyazu Kento', a name that was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar, Miyamizu Mitsuha's eyes were shocked and flustered. She hurriedly folded the paper, stuffed it back into the envelope, and then put it into the drawer, putting the notes back into the drawer one by one.

bang——

The drawer was closed, and she hurried to the edge of the bed in a panic, lay down on it, and closed her eyes.

'I was asleep, I saw nothing, I knew nothing!'

"Wait! The lights are still on!"

She quickly got up, turned off the lights in the room, lay back on the bed, closed her eyes, and knew nothing!

After staying at Fujiwa's house for a while, when it was time for them to rest, Xianren did not stay at Fujiwa's house, but said goodbye to the two of them. He watched Elio stare at him silently, and after a while, he said goodbye to him.

Moving.

Although it didn't reach the level of intimacy, it at least made Elio aware of his existence.

When passing by a convenience store, he bought some cool grape juice, returned to the door of his apartment, opened the door and went into the house. Seeing the pitch-black room, Xianren was a little surprised.

"Falling asleep so early?"

Lying in bed, still reeling from the shocking news and unable to sleep, Sanye heard her brother's footsteps and didn't dare to move for a long time.

click -

The lights were turned on, and Xianren, who was standing in the room, glanced at Sanye lying on the bed. Looking at his sister, he always felt that she seemed to be trembling?

"Three leaves?"

But when he called his sister's name, he found that the girl lying on the bed did not react at all.

No.

The body seemed to tremble even more violently.

After a moment of silence, he walked to the edge of the bed, placed his hand on his sister's shoulder and patted her gently.

"......"

No more trembling.

But there was no other reaction. Xianren narrowed his eyes and lowered his head to look at his sister.

I felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the other person. I didn't know what wrong she had done that made her so afraid of me now.

"You're not asleep, are you, Mitsuha?"

He slowly lowered his head and whispered softly in her ear.

"......"

Seeing that Mitsuha was still motionless, Xianren's hand fell on her shoulder, slid forward gently, and gently pinched her nose.

Sanye, who was able to hold it for a while at first, couldn't hold it anymore later. She opened her eyes and showed a confused expression.

"Hmm? Hmm? What's wrong?"

It's like waking up from a dream.

He turned slightly to look at the wise man sitting on the edge of the bed. His dazed expression was quite interesting, but unfortunately, his disguise was too poor. It was obvious at a glance that he had not just woken up.

"You're back, brother."

There were no signs of sleep on the girl's face, and even her eyes were very clear, without any trace of confusion from just waking up.

Watching his sister's clumsy performance, he was silent for a moment, then turned his head to look at her side. There was nothing hidden near the pillow.

"What did you do while I was away?"

"Ok?"