After Chihaya had gone to great lengths to get rid of Kazawa, the door to the room was slowly pushed open.

Nishiki, who had been going to the toilet for a long time, approached the room from behind the door.

I don't know why I wrinkled my face and looked uncomfortable.

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Nishiki seemed to want to lie down on the bed, but Kasawa was occupying it now, so she sat on the bed next to Chihaya.

Instead of lying down, he lay on the floor in a very strange half-kneeling position, hunched over his legs and holding his stomach.

"First day?"

When Chihaya was a little worried but didn't know what happened to Nishiki, Kasawa on the bed had already jumped down and walked to Nishiki's side to stroke her back.

"Hmmm......"

Nishiki, who was still full of energy when they saw it just now, sounded unusually weak, and it felt like he didn't even have the strength to reply.

"You're too careless...... It's okay to wear it so cold, and I just ate ice. ”

Frowning slightly, after Xiang Ze finished speaking, he opened the cabinet next to the bed, rummaged through it, and took out a small bag.

She rubbed the bag in her hand a few times, then lifted the hem of the front of the Nishiki vest and placed the small bag on her lower abdomen.

Then she went back to the cabinet to look for something.

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Jin didn't react to a series of movements in Kazawa, or didn't have the strength to react.

And Chizao, who didn't understand what was going on, immediately understood what was going on after seeing the relief that Kasawa had given Nishiki.

"Xiao Jin, are you okay...? Do you need me to get you some light food to help drain the blood?"

Chihaya leaned over with some concern and asked softly.

Nishiki's current posture is not suitable for herself to give her a muscle-relaxing massage, and Chihaya doesn't want to force her to sit up and change her position when she is in pain.

With her current condition, she didn't know what to do to help Jin relieve menstrual cramps.

"I'm sorry to ...... that"

Spit out a few words with some difficulty, and Nishiki turned his head heavily and looked at Chihaya.

"No, then borrow the kitchen~"

Chihaya saw Kazawa rummaging through things and took out a box of medicine from the cabinet, the brand she knew, it was a painkiller.

So she relieved herself and smiled at Nishiki.

Get up and get ready to go downstairs to get something to soothe menstrual cramps.

"Hmm..."

Jin Youqi replied weakly.

She suddenly realized that Chihaya was so cute when she smiled.........

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"I'll go get water."

After Chihaya left the room, Kazawa Bang Nishiki, who had read the instructions on the pill box, put on his coat and covered it with a quilt and said to her.

"Hmm..."

The voice of Nishiki under the quilt still sounded weak.

Quickly out of the room, Xiang Ze came to the kitchen next to the living room on the first floor.

Chihaya is boiling soup tea in the kitchen with Koyoung, who doesn't know why she hasn't gone to rest yet.

When she opened the door, she smelled ginger ale.

"I'd like to get some warm water."

Looking at the kitchen, which was already a little crowded, Kasawa went around to the front desk and said to the head of the house inside.

Chihaya was skillfully picking up the jujube kernels with a knife, while Gu Ying was taking out brown sugar and pottery bowls on the cabinet.

"Give."

Taking the cup filled with warm water that Gu Ying handed her, Kasawa looked at Chihaya, who was busy.

"Wuhe, how did you react so quickly?"

Xiang Ze looked at the brown sugar, jujube and ginger slices on the processing table, and asked with some confusion.

Kasawa knew that the reason for Jinlai's menstrual affair was that when she turned back from the toilet, she asked herself to throw a small cloth bag to her.

She had seen Nishiki use it before, so she knew.

But Chihaya reacted so quickly and knew what to do to help with menstrual cramps, but she was surprised.

"Because I have taken care of my sister before."

Washing the core dates and putting them in the boiling soup, Chihaya raised his head and said.

"Really... I thought you were in pain...... I'll go get water for Nishiki. ”

Nodding in understanding, Xiang Ze walked out of the living room with a water glass.

Just like she usually does, she doesn't talk much and acts cleanly.

While waiting for the jujube tea to be cooked, Chihaya turned to Gu Ying, who was still groping around the cabinet for other useful ingredients.

"Brother Gu Ying, who usually uses the kitchen in this family?"

Out of curiosity, Chihaya asked.

While throwing waste such as ginger peel and red date kernels into the kitchen waste bucket, Chihaya looked around the kitchen.

The kitchen is very clean, and it can be seen that the people who used it before are very careful and serious, and there is not even a little dust under the useless bowls and kitchenware cabinets.

Judging from the fact that Brother Gu Ying couldn't even cut apples just now, it should be the type who doesn't usually cook.

Xiaojin's room is not messy, but it is not neat, and it doesn't feel like someone who will clean up the kitchen.

So there are other people who use the kitchen?

"Usually my second brother uses it, but today he got a job temporarily, so he hasn't come back yet...... I was just waiting for him while I was compiling the latest report. ”

Pointing to the laptop computer on the table, Gu Ying said casually.

"It turns out that Xiaojin also has an older brother..."

Oh nodded, Chihaya responded.

She began to imagine in her mind the figure she had never met.

I don't know what kind of person Xiaojin's second brother will be?

Xiaojin is so similar to Gu Ying's eldest brother, could it be that the second brother has also inherited such a strong gene?

Slender eyes and eyebrows, sharp face shape and free and easy personality, Jin and Gu Ying's big brother have these things in common......

Imagining the picture of three brothers and sisters who look similar standing together, Chihaya doesn't know why it's a little funny.

"If I have the chance, I will introduce it to you, the second brother is relatively flexible in terms of personality and appearance among the three of us."

Gu Ying smiled slightly as she spoke, and then suddenly walked out of the kitchen area.

"I should have found a photo, I'll show you first."

Coming to the sofa next to the living room, Gu Ying picked up the laptop, and then swept his eyes and took out a bag of things from under the glass tabletop.

Placing the bag under the laptop, Gu Ying used her right hand to operate the trackpad under the keyboard with one hand.

"I remember putting it here... Well...... Ah, there we have it!"

Frowning slightly, she fumbled around on the computer, and after a while, Koyoung turned the screen to Chihaya and showed her the picture displayed on it.

It was a group photo, set in the background on a mountain somewhere, and the time was summer in the current season.

Chihaya found Xiaojin's figure in the photo, wearing a light mountaineering outfit and a high-bunched purple ponytail, which made her usually energetic and energetic. She also had a large backpack behind her.

In the photo, Gu Ying's big brother is wearing a large backpack similar to Xiaojin's backpack, a straw hat on his head, a simple T-shirt with a male anime character printed on it, and casual hiking sweatpants and hiking shoes on the lower body. His sturdy figure and sunny smile with the sun on his back make him look very young and energetic.

The last person in the photo is a man I haven't seen before.

At first glance, that person gave Chihaya the feeling that it was indeed as Gu Ying's big brother said, feminine and somewhat neutral.

His figure is different from that of Brother Gu Ying, who should be exercising, very slender and slender, and slightly thin for ordinary men. There is no heroic momentum and silhouette like Gu Ying and Jin on his face.

In the photo, he stands in the shadow of a tree, wiping his sweat and looking at the energetic brother and sister with a wry smile. He wears a square hat on his head to cover his slightly longer black hair, his arms are unusually white over his short-sleeved shirt, and he wears casual pants and sneakers on his feet.

It doesn't look like the type that would like to go out.

Then Brother Gu Ying pressed the button again and showed Chihaya a few photos that should have been taken when he was climbing the mountain that day.

Chihaya noticed one thing......

That is, in those photos, only one or two of their siblings are always present, and their parents are not seen.

Was it because their parents didn't go that day...?

But it doesn't seem to be.........

Generally speaking, do family trips go when parents are not home?

"This is a photo taken by our three siblings when they went to Gunma Mountain Climbing during the summer vacation."

After showing Chihaya the photos of the entire folder, Gu Ying pressed back the first one.

"He is my second brother, Takezaki Ichinoxiang."

Pointing to the man hiding under the shade of the tree, Gu Ying said.

Although he had already guessed it, Chihaya still felt that the boy didn't look like Gu Ying and Jin's siblings no matter how he looked at it.

The appearance and temperament are too different from the brother and sister.

"What about summer vacations?"

Looking at the photo of two energetic siblings and another panting man with the sun hanging high on the mountain peak, it was hard for Chihaya to imagine that he and they were siblings.

"yes."

After Gu Ying responded, she put away the laptop and put it aside.

Chihaya saw what the bag was supposed to be underneath the computer.

It was a packet of red beans.

"Didn't your parents go with you that day?"

Picking up the bag of red beans, Chihaya blurted out almost subconsciously with the doubts in his mind.

After saying that, she suddenly felt that she shouldn't do so much.

It's easy to cause an awkward atmosphere if you ask about other people's things at home, and Chihaya doesn't know this.

For example, if someone asks why there is such a big difference in hair color between her and Kotori, she doesn't know how to answer......

If you tell others that you are an adopted son, the whole atmosphere will drop directly below the freezing point.

Sure enough, what you can't ask shouldn't be asked. After hearing Chihaya's question, Gu Ying's movements obviously froze.

"Didn't Xiao Jin mention it to you?"

Looking at Chihaya with a strange look, Koei put the laptop back on the glass table.

"Our parents died a long time ago."

With unknown emotions in her eyes, Gu Ying just looked at Chihaya.

It was like telling her that she brought up something she shouldn't have brought up.

"This, this... I'm sorry. ”

Knowing that because of the unwanted curiosity, Bei Guying remembered bad memories, and Chihaya lowered his head guiltily and didn't dare to look directly at those sharp eyes.

She hadn't heard Jin mention it, and she thought that if she hadn't just asked about this kind of thing, most people wouldn't have mentioned it to others casually.

Not to mention that they have only known friends for two days.

"Uh-huh...... By the way, I'll tell you something. My parents ......... They all died from space quakes. ”

Noncommittally accepted Chihaya's apology, and the corners of Gu Ying's mouth hooked up a cold arc.

"And the elf that caused the space earthquake is the 'princess'---- the night sword god Shika."

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The results are so miserable......

Author: Should I read or give up?

(Mysterious voice: If you give up now, the summer vacation will begin?)

But that's a matter of whether or not you can get into college...