Tokyo: I took in a homeless girl

While thinking this, the massage for the three of them was over, and when they came out of the shop it was already around eight or nine o'clock in the evening.

As night fell, the street lights came on. It looked no different from Tokyo, but there were very few pedestrians. It was extremely quiet and cold.

Sennan City is actually a fairly large city in Osaka, but most of the residents here left more than ten years ago, and it is one of the cities that has been most affected by the aging population. Even though it is the busiest time at night, it is rare to see people shopping outside.

The three people were tired from playing and had no intention of going anywhere else. When they were taking the tram back to the town area, Sawayama Haruno looked at the darkness outside and couldn't help but sigh.

"Sure enough, there aren't many people here. This used to be the old town, but almost no one lives here anymore."

"It was pitch black, without even a light."

Miyazawa Maki looked back curiously, but soon lost her original interest.

It was too dark, I couldn't see anything at all. There was really no light outside, it was like a ghost town.

"No, it's normal. There are not many people living here originally." Zeshan Haruno comforted her and explained, "Because of the mountain, the government hasn't had time to develop that area yet."

According to his estimate, it would conservatively take at least 20 years to fully develop this area.

This is even if nothing has happened in the past twenty years that has affected the economy of the island nation. After all, the current economic situation is really not very good. Although I have made a lot of money by writing novels, it is not difficult to see from the looks of other people that their lives are really difficult to the point of being speechless.

The island nation of this era has completely become an economic colony of Western countries, as can be seen from the fact that the average national wage has remained unchanged for nearly three decades.

However, these things do not have much to do with Sawayama Haruno. After all, after the new year, "Norwegian Wood" will be released overseas, and he will be able to make a lot of money by then. The dividends alone will be enough to guarantee his future life.

"Haruno"

While he was still daydreaming, Miyazawa Mana, who was sitting next to him, called his name softly.

Zeshan Haruno subconsciously turned his head and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

"No, I just want to ask, I hope it won't cause too much trouble to your family?" Miyazawa Mana touched her hair a little embarrassedly, and said gently, "I suddenly said that I want to stay overnight at your house. I think your uncle and aunt are not mentally prepared?"

No, they must have done it, Sawayama Haruno complained in his heart helplessly, you have no idea how excited your mother was when she heard that Mana was coming to stay overnight tonight, she urged you to go back early through the phone.

"You still come here even though you know it's troublesome, huh"

Maki Miyazawa, who had been eavesdropping nearby, was a little unhappy. She cleared her throat and pretended to be indifferent and said, "But there are no beds in Haruno's house, so I guess you can only sleep in the living room."

"That's not the case."

Sawayama Haruno quickly tried to smooth things over.

"We still have several sets of mattresses that can be used for sleeping on the floor at home. I can just stay out for one night. Mana can sleep on the floor in my room, right?"

"what?"

Before Miyazawa Mana could say anything, Maki was the first to protest with her eyes wide open: "Why should I share a room with her?"

"Have no idea"

Zeshan Haruno pretended to be innocent and said, "It would be weird if you two didn't sleep in the same room, right? How am I going to explain it to my parents then?"

"you"

Miyazawa Maki gritted her teeth in anger, but what Sawayama Haruno said was also true.

If I really let Mana go out and sleep on the floor alone, it would be difficult to explain. If Haruno's parents knew that I had always had some kind of conflict with Mana, they might be extremely disappointed in their future daughter-in-law.

It was probably like, what? So Maki is such a rebellious girl.

Absolutely not!

Miyazawa Maki felt that it was okay for her to feel aggrieved for a whole night. After all, she had slept in the same room with Mana before entering junior high school. She could just go to bed early, close her eyes, and pretend that she was the only one in the room.

"Actually, Haruno and I can sleep on the floor together outside."

When Miyazawa Mana saw her sister being embarrassed, she immediately became playful.

She said leisurely, "If I really let Haruno sleep on the floor outside alone, I would be embarrassed."

“Pushing the limit”

Miyazawa Maki became even angrier.

She kept staring at Sawayama Haruno with a fierce look, as if she wanted to kill him with this knife.

Scary eyes

Zeshan Haruno didn't dare to meet her eyes. He turned his head away and coughed lightly and said, "Let's stay in the room. Although it's winter, I don't know if there will be mosquitoes outside."

After saying that, he didn't wait for Miyazawa Mana to refuse again, and turned to talk about Ayano Yui and Esaki Suguha.

The two girls naturally sent a message to Sawayama Haruno via LINE about their outing at noon today, but unlike the three of them, Ayano Yui took Esaki Suguha to the junior high school he had attended.

I heard that Ayano Yui managed to get in by showing her face, and took Ezaki Suguha around for an afternoon, and it seemed that they also visited the junior high school's kendo club.

In Sawayama Haruno's very vague memory, the head of the Kendo Club who was at the same level as him seemed to have invited him to participate in club activities, but he ruthlessly rejected it.

As for why the minister wanted to invite Sawayama Haruno, he certainly had his own little thoughts.

As a kendo club in a small place like Quannan City, its image significance is greater than its practical significance. After all, those who cannot receive professional training cannot go and wave the Jade Dragon Flag. If they do, people will probably be curious about which mountain you came from.

The greater significance of the kendo club in a small place like theirs is to eulogize the boring youth life. In other words, it is an extracurricular circle of friends. The people in the kendo club are basically there to spend time. What they think about all day is not how to hone their skills, but how to use kendo to show off and pick up girls.

In fact, this starting point is not bad. However, no matter how they practice and act cool, there are still too few girls they can attract. But it was different for Sawayama Haruno at that time. Sawayama Haruno at that time was a dimensionality reduction attack on other girls in junior high school.

So the extremely clever head of the Kendo Club hopes to attract more girls to observe the Kendo Club's daily training by recruiting Haruno into the club. Even though he knows that most of them come for Sawayama Haruno, but with so many girls, there will always be one or two who will be blindly attracted to others, right?

Unfortunately, although the plan was great, Sawayama Haruno did not agree to join the kendo club.

The minister's flawless plan was declared bankrupt and died in the womb.

"What? Your minister is really talented."

After listening to Haruno's story about junior high school, Miyazawa Maki said speechlessly: "If we don't train well, the school will be ruined, right?"

"Of course the clubs in a small place like ours are different from the clubs in Tokyo schools."

Sawayama Haruno shook his head and said casually, "Even the club's funding is based on voluntary donations from members. The school is just providing an empty space. Of course, there is no need to abolish the club or something like that."

"What's more, it's better for students to have a stable and safe environment to stay in after school than for them to not study hard and run to the chess and card room in town to learn how to play cards or mahjong, right?" he added.

"Has Haruno ever been to that kind of place before?" Mana Miyazawa keenly caught the point.

Facing the curious looks from the two girls at the same time, Sawayama Haruno scratched his face guiltily.

“I have been there before.”

He coughed twice and explained, "Because I was curious at that time and wanted to know the difference between inside and outside, so I went to the billiard hall to play for a while."

He really went there out of curiosity. After all, he was born in a big city in his previous life and had little exposure to such things when he was young.

After living in a small town in this life, he developed a slight curiosity about these chess and card rooms and billiard halls. Finally, under Ayano Yui's unintentional instigation, he took her over to play for a while.

Well, generally speaking, it's just a chess and card room and a billiard hall.

There's nothing special about it, everyone is just having fun normally.

The only thing that left a deep impression on Sawayama Haruno was that he saw many boys in his class in that kind of place. He didn't expect that they would play here on a regular basis. But on second thought, the entertainment projects in the small town were pitifully few. There weren't even Internet cafes before. Most people seemed to have nowhere to go except places like this.

After explaining my junior high school life to the twins, the train was almost arriving at the station.

The three of them were familiar with the way home. After walking for a while, the Zeshan family's old house came into view.

Sawayama Haruno walked in front and after opening the door with the key, he took the two girls to the living room. However, after they came in, they were a little surprised to find that Sawayama Haruno's parents were not there.

"Uncle and aunt have gone to rest."

Noticing Sawayama Haruno's slightly puzzled look, Ezaki Suguha, who was sitting on the sofa, took the initiative to explain: "It seems that I have been outside all day, and I am a little tired, so I went to bed early."

"Yeah"

Sawayama Haruno was a little suspicious. Could it be that because there were too many girls in the family, the two elders used tiredness as an excuse?

He thought it was very possible.

"Suguha, long time no see."

Miyazawa Mana was the first to greet Ezaki Suguha. Her face was extremely calm, as if she was not affected by the Macau incident at all.

Suguha Esaki also nodded slightly at her as a greeting, while Ayano Yui on the side excitedly welcomed Mana.

She hasn't forgotten the agreement between her and Mana. No matter whether the other party will help her now or not, the result doesn't matter. After all, Haruno has begun to waver.

She felt that it was only a matter of time before she could take down her brother.

"What's going on? Are you all so energetic?"

At this moment, Miyazawa Maki, who had been following behind, couldn't help but yawn.

Tears of sleepiness welled up in her eyes, and she said listlessly, "You guys chat, I'm a little sleepy, I'm going to take a shower first."

"Go ahead, just use the blue towel."

Sawayama Haruno comforted her with a few words, then sent Maki to the bathroom and came back to wash some fruit for everyone.

There were quite a variety of items in the refrigerator, even quite a few small cakes. Upon asking, I learned that they were bought by Ezaki Suguha and Ayano Yui when they returned home in the afternoon, and they were just the right time to take them out as a night snack.

However, if the snacks are all sweets, it is easy to get sick of eating too much, so after hesitating for a moment, Sawayama Haruno decided to make a few glasses of fruit juice drinks.

Listening to the sounds of busy work in the kitchen, Ayano Yui lay on the sofa and said with a smile: "Brother, you are so virtuous."

"If it's a girl, I don't know who will get the advantage."

Miyazawa Maki also joked on the side.

In her opinion, men who are willing to cook are rare, let alone men like Haruno who are willing to cook, can cook delicious dishes, and are even proficient in drinks and desserts.

Of course girls also like men who can cook. It’s actually a big plus and quite rare in the island country.

After all, this is a country where male chauvinism prevails. There are many boys among the younger generation who don't know how to cook. Scarce items are of course more likely to be more popular.

"That's really strange."

Ezaki Suguha glanced at the kitchen and asked curiously, "Actually, I asked my uncle and aunt last night if Haruno had learned to cook when he was a child. But they all said that he had learned to this level by himself in just two or three years in Tokyo."

"No?"

Miyazawa Maki looked over with some confusion.

She was curious about this question when she was dating Sawayama Haruno in high school. She asked him how he learned Chinese cooking. Sawayama Haruno replied that he taught himself when he was a child because of his interest.

Forget it. Maybe Haruno learned it secretly. After all, he was very independent before and wouldn't even tell his parents many things. The same is probably true for his cooking skills. After learning it, he seldom showed it off.

Thinking of this, Miyazawa Mana quickly put the matter behind her.

After chatting with the other two girls for a while, Sawayama Haruno, who had prepared the juice drinks, also came out with the night dessert.

But just as he put his foot down, Ayano Yui suddenly said something.

"I say, do you want to see something?"

Chapter 350: Relatives come to visit, Haruno decides to temporarily separate

The next morning, Sawayama Haruno was the first to wake up.

He had already sat up from the mattress when he heard the quiet conversation in the bedroom on the first floor.

Touching his messy hair and recalling what happened last night, his expression gradually became subtle.

Last night, he and the other three girls put almost all their cards on the table, and everyone knew each other's little moves.

Although there was an indescribable strange feeling, fortunately everyone chose to forget it afterwards, as if nothing had happened. After turning on the lights, we chatted normally about the content of the movie. Everyone sat and played for a while before going to rest.

And Sawayama Haruno also spread out the mattress in the living room and made do for the night.

I just don't know if there was any conflict between the twin sisters in her bedroom on the second floor. It shouldn't be possible. After all, Maki was very tired yesterday and she wouldn't wake up so quickly this morning. Maybe she didn't even have the chance to say anything to Mana.

While she was daydreaming, Zeshan Ako had already come out of the bedroom on the first floor. Seeing that her son also looked like he had just woken up, she said unhappily, "Hurry up and clean up, we have guests coming to our house later."

"Ok?"

Sawayama Haruno immediately frowned.

"Who's coming?"

"Neighbors next door, and your aunt's family are coming over too."

While cleaning up the remaining food in the living room, Ayako Sawayama muttered, "You can stay home for lunch. In the afternoon, you can send Maki Mana back to the hotel and then have dinner with the Miyazawa family."

"Is my schedule so full?" Sawayama Haruno felt helpless.

"What do you think? It's because you haven't been home for a long time. It's rare for you to come back, so your relatives at home must visit you."