142, The Strange Man

At nine o'clock, Jin's eldest brother --- Gu Ying was really punctual and waited at the place where he saw him at that time.

Chihaya suddenly felt that Nishiki actually attached great importance to time, and when she called herself out, she also threatened her that she would post yesterday's events to the class chat room before five o'clock.

"Yo, you're done shopping?"

When Nishiki, Chihaya, and Kazawa walked over, Brother Gu Ying was leaning on the car and playing with his mobile phone. He had a cigarette in his mouth but didn't light it, and when he saw the three girls, he took it off and put it in the pocket of his jacket.

"You haven't quit smoking yet, have you?"

Jin, who was not polite at all when talking to his brother, opened the back compartment and greeted Gu Ying.

Kasawa followed Nishiki and threw the newly added luggage into the back compartment, and waved at the man leaning against the door.

"I want you to take care of it............ Miss Rivers Luggage...... I'll help you bring it to Xiaojin. ā€

Gu Ying replied, and then said to Chihaya, who was standing aside.

Before he could react, he took over the heavy object in Chihaya's hand, and his attitude was respectful and kind, a little unbelievable.

"Brother Takesaki, please call me Gokawa...... Be sure not to use honorifics... That one... It's a bit unaccustomed to being treated like this by older people. ā€

Chihaya, who was a little cold, hurriedly said to Gu Ying.

And Gu Ying, who was about to hand the luggage to his sister Jin to take it in, seemed to be stunned for a moment after hearing it. But when Chihaya wanted to take a closer look to see if he was wrong, the expression on Gu Ying's face changed back to that cool smile.

"Okay, I got it. Then I'll call you Xiao Wuhe. ā€

He nodded at Chihaya, then opened the door and got into the driver's seat.

She always felt that there seemed to be something strange about Takesaki's eldest brother......

There was an indescribable sense of strangeness in him.

Chihaya can't tell what this feeling is... It's just that Brother Gu Ying has an unnatural taste on him.

"Wuhe, get in the car."

A faint voice came from inside the car.

Chihaya found that she seemed to be in a daze for a while, and now everyone was waiting for her to get in the car.

"yes, I'm sorry..."

Realizing that he was very rude like this, Chihaya hurriedly got into the back seat and apologized to the others.

The Takezaki siblings, who were sitting in the driver and passenger seat, both smiled at her and seemed to tell her not to care. And Xiang Ze, who was sitting next to her, had no expression as usual.

After the car started, the brothers and sisters in the front seat chatted without a word, and they were all some unnutritious bickering.

When talking to Jin, the strange sense of disobedience in Brother Gu Ying's body disappeared.

But she really didn't understand what it was......

Or is it because there is too little contact with social people? I'm not used to this set of etiquette......

"You seem to care about Brother Gu Ying?"

Kazawa, who was sitting on the sofa in the car chair like a statue that didn't move, suddenly appeared next to Chihaya and asked.

Suddenly, a sound came out of his ears, and Chihaya couldn't help but jump backwards......

Xiang Ze's silent way of appearing and speaking is really like a ghost... In particular, her voice has always been flat and undulating, and it sounds even colder.

If one day he was scared out of a heart attack, it would be clear who the murderer was.

Kasawa didn't care at all if she scared her classmates, or stayed where she was just now and waited for Chihaya to answer her question.

"Uh... Well...... A little. ā€

Chihaya looked at Kazawa, then at the two people in front of him, and saw that they hadn't noticed what was happening in the back seat and were still chatting, Chihaya replied.

In terms of the degree of suspicion alone, Xiang Ze is actually no less than Gu Ying's big brother...... It's just that Kazawa's suspicious way is very similar to origami, so Chihaya is already immune.

Brother Gu Ying is suspicious from the perspective of a normal person, and Xiang Ze is completely suspicious that will make people wonder if she is a ghost or not.

The latter is suspicious that ordinary humans cannot understand, and is very similar to the incomprehensible shape of origami.

"Where?"

Kasawa asked again.

A pair of eyes looked at her as plain as water.

Chihaya really thinks that the more Kazawa looks like a ghost......

Does Fujino like the ...... of the thriller department?

Uh....it seems rude to Kazawa to think like this.

"I—I can't tell... It just feels... Well... Not used to it?"

Chihaya said after thinking about it.

She wasn't sure if she was right, and she didn't know if it was just because she was just a wavelength match with Takezaki Koei, or if there was something really weird about his performance.

Is he distancing himself...... Or are you guarding yourself......

In short, his attitude is not quite like the feeling of treating his sister's friend.

Just now, he seemed to be deliberately not allowing himself to personally take his luggage to Nishiki......

What is wrong ...... there?

"That's ......"

Kasawa answered the unclear answer, and then sat back down in the same place.

As a result, Chihaya still didn't know what the meaning of Kazawa's question was in asking herself......

And how did she find out that she was a little strange about Big Brother Gu Ying?

Chihaya felt as if she had overlooked something......

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"Xiao Qianzao~ It's time for you to take a bath!"

After coming out of the bathroom, Nishiki said to Chihaya, who was helping to cut fruit in the kitchen.

Because a group of people had just returned from outside and were covered in dust, Nishiki planned to wait for a few friends to take a shower before letting them into the room.

And the first priority is herself, then Chihaya, and finally Kazawa.

As for her eldest brother, he was left to fend for himself, and Jin had no intention of caring at all.

"Good~"

Putting down the knife, Chihaya took off the apron and smiled slightly at Gu Ying, who was helping to put the plate next to him.

Why is she, as a guest, helping with the cooking?

That's because...... Surprisingly, Gu Ying, the eldest son of the Takezaki family, and Kazawa, the head of the class, never went to the kitchen at all.

When he saw that Gu Ying actually held a knife in his backhand and wanted to cut an apple to entertain guests, Chihaya stopped him in a panic.

Then he saw his classmate cutting fruit, so Xiang Ze, who wanted to come to help, actually used the same way as Gu Ying with a knife.

Chihaya, who is an authority in cooking, blasted out the two guys who were in the way, and only after Gu Ying brought the plate did she ask the other party to complete the work without using a knife --- arrange the cut fruit.

She didn't want to eat a white apple when she noticed a finger on the plate......

It's too dangerous to give these two people a knife.

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Gu Ying, who understood that the other party was smiling at him and telling him not to make trouble with the knife, didn't say anything, and obediently put the apples on the cutting board one by one to the plate and took them to the table.

Kazawa, who was kicked out of the kitchen, took an apple and put it in her mouth while watching TV.

"After washing, you can go directly to my room, and I'll go up later."

Nishiki, who was wearing a vest and shorts as pajamas, opened the refrigerator and said to Chihaya who was passing by the hallway.

"Hmm!"

After answering, Chihaya walked through the passage and up the stairs to the second floor to Nishiki's room.

When she first came back, Nishiki threw all the things they bought and the luggage they had just brought back to her room, and she also brought Chihaya here, so she knew where Nishiki's room was.

Because of the rush of tidying, she didn't prepare much except pajamas, underwear, and a change of clothes.

"Strange...... Did I tidy up so well when I went out?"

Chihaya opened her bag and suddenly felt a little confused.

At that time, she could almost say that she threw things into it in one go. It's not that it's not untidy, but she doesn't have the impression that it's neatly folded, and even pajamas and ordinary clothes are well separated.

Her first instinct was to be turned over.

Hurriedly checked, Chihaya's doubts suddenly deepened again.

Nothing less...... There are no traces of wrinkles or anything like that. Could it be that she subconsciously tidied it up when she collected her things, but didn't she notice it?

Sometimes it's really hard to remember such trivial things.........

After thinking about it, Chihaya, who still convinced himself not to think too much, shook his head and prepared to find his pajamas and go to the bathroom on the first floor to wash himself.

"Wait...... It's...!"

When Chihaya tries to find her pajamas from inside her bag, she suddenly notices that something is wrong.

Something is indeed less! I don't know when her original pajamas were rewrapped into nightdresses that she resisted a little!

And the nightdresses are still the ones that Jean forced to buy for her!

Is it Kotori who turned over the contents of her bag like that?!

But when would that be....she remembered that she had been teleported by Phlaxinas along with her luggage......

Could it be that the piano was secretly changed during the teleportation?

Picking up the somewhat shy suspender nightdress and spreading it out, Chihaya looked back into the bag with a somewhat complicated expression after confirming that it was really the one that Kotori gave him.

Kotori is really! What's the point of doing this kind of thing!

Biting her lip, Chihaya wrinkled her delicate face with some grievances.

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"Nishiki ......"

Sitting on the sofa drinking ice water and waiting for her hair to dry, Nishiki suddenly heard what seemed to be someone calling her.

As she looked down the hallway leading to the living room, she noticed a figure waving carefully behind the crack in the door.

Raising her eyebrows, seeing Chihaya's sneaky appearance, she thought that she had to walk out naked after entering the bathroom and found that something was missing and Nishiki didn't make much movement. She moved to the door with a light move, and in a flash she slipped straight behind the door, closing and pinching the door of the living room.

"What's wrong?"

After coming to the corridor, Nishimi Chihaya was neatly dressed, not the unsightly appearance he imagined, but his clean and delicate face showed a trace of trouble.

She asked as she let go of the doorknob and brushed her beautiful long hair, which was still a little watery.

"Can you lend me a pajama......?"

Chihaya clasped her palms together and made a requested motion.

A pair of watery brown eyes looked at her pitifully.

"You forgot to bring it?"

Asked casually, Nishiki walked to his room on the second floor.

Chihaya followed her.

"That...... It's actually my sister's prank...... Put me... My pajamas... Give ........."

Chihaya, who is not good at lying and doesn't like to lie, hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether to talk about his pajamas being transferred.

But the moment the words came out, she realized that sometimes she should learn to lie. Truth doesn't necessarily apply to everything...... Sometimes.

Nishiki stopped going upstairs and turned to look at Chihaya who was walking behind her stairs with a pair of interested eyes.

Chihaya suddenly had a bad premonition.

"Xiao Chihaya~ I'm so sorry, I just suddenly remembered that I don't seem to have many pajamas to borrow from you."

Nishiki said with an apologetic expression.

If it weren't for the look in her eyes that wanted to fix her just now, she might have thought that Nishiki really didn't have pajamas to lend her.

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Chihaya looked up at a friend who didn't know what to say at all.

She now regrets that she just told Nishiki the real situation.

Sometimes she genuinely feels like her head is hopeless.

Once or twice I don't know how to learn the lesson...... I kept throwing the handle to the naughty ...... Isn't this just forcing her to play with herself......?

In the end, she was pulled back into the room by Jin.

When Chihaya reluctantly took out a nightdress from her bag that was too cute and a little shy, she seemed to hear her friend's laughter.

"No, that's good...... Puff... It's perfect for you... feelings. ā€

Someone who had already finished taking a shower slapped himself on his bed and snickered.

She remembered the hesitation she had shown when she pointed to the princess nightdress in the store.

It turns out that Xiao Qianzao usually wears this kind of thing!

"Little Brocade...... Don't laugh... I'm very bothered. ā€

Originally, it was just a little regretful.,Now it's super regretful to tell Jin's Chihaya said in annoyance.怂

Chihaya, who was already a little dead-hearted, held the nightdress in his hand and looked at his friend who was smiling very rudely.

When she was a classmate before, she never knew that Jin was such a character...... I just think she's a cheerful and close person.

Now it seems that it is actually a masculine beauty of the remnant department.

"Hah... Ha..... alright, alright...... I stopped laughing. ā€

Wiping the corners of his eyes that were laughing until he burst into tears, Nishiki shook his hand and said that he would not make fun of Chihaya again.

"But what I just said is the truth, you really look like you're really suitable for such cute pajamas."

Although Chihaya is now wearing a very mature black dress, Chihaya's own soft and gentle temperament still can't be concealed.

As she said at the time, Chihaya would definitely be a weapon with great lethality when she wore this kind of dress. She dared to guarantee with her credibility.

"If you really can't wear it~!, I'll borrow you other clothes tomorrow to wear."

So, Nishiki also became curious----- what Chihaya would look like in pajamas. She said in a tone that bordered on persuasion.

Chihaya glanced at Nishiki, who was smiling and completely unsympathetic. I have no choice but to compromise.

She decided to call Koto and complain later!

Holding her skirt, Chihaya remembered that there was another man in the room besides the three of them, so she hurriedly took out a change of underwear from her bag.

Glancing at his friend who was still smiling very dirty, Chihaya slipped out of the room and went to the bathroom.

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When she came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, Chihaya took a moment to make up her mind to put on her nightdress. But thinking that if she didn't wear it now, she would only be naked, so she still closed her eyes and put it on.

With a change of clothes and a towel in hand, Chihaya walked to the living room at the end of the hallway.

Behind the closed door there was a flickering television light, and the sound of a conversation that was completely inaudible.

Chihaya opened the door, and a man and a woman, who were supposed to be talking, stopped talking at the same time and looked in the direction of the living room door.

"Kao, Kazawa...... The bathroom is empty..."

Chihaya, who was a little flinching at the moment of being looked at by the two sudden sights, whispered to the girl with glasses.

She didn't stand in the living room, but spoke through the small gap between the door and the wall.

Now this dress-up... If she could, she wanted to try not to let the boys see it......

Very shy......

"I see, thank you for the reminder, Wuhe-san."

Kasawa replied to Chihaya, and then glanced at Gu Ying who was sitting on the sofa opposite.

Gu Ying nodded at her.

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I always think these two people are a little weird.........

There is an indescribable sense of incongruity.

Shaking his head vigorously, he shook the strange thoughts that suddenly came to his mind, and he exited the door after finishing the work of passing the word.

Then she heard another conversation coming from inside the living room, and she couldn't hear the content of the conversation.

With this indescribable doubt, I came to Nishiki's room on the second floor in the morning.

When she opened the door, she saw someone lying on the floor playing a game console and munching on a snack.

"Eat?"

Lying on his back on the ground, he didn't mind whether his thin vest and shorts would go out, and Nishiki turned back in an indecent posture and handed out a box of biscuits to Chihaya, who was standing at the door.

"Uh... Thank you. ā€

Although eating snacks at this time is not healthy, Chihaya still did not refuse to take a cookie stained in chocolate and put it in her mouth.

What a bitter ......!

"Would you like milk or juice?"

Turning off the game, Nishiki, who got up from the ground, didn't ask Chihaya if he wanted to drink, but jumped directly to the question of what he wanted to drink.

"Milk is good ......"

didn't hesitate to say the other party's strong words.,Chihaya can only speak weakly.怂

After a few times, even if she was sluggish, she could notice that Nishiki's enthusiasm was different from that of ordinary people.

It feels a bit European and American style, very hearty and direct, but it doesn't bother people.

"Then I'll go back when I go~"

After saying that, Nishiki smiled and walked over Chihaya, who was standing at the door, to the stairs below.

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Nishiki had planned to take out a drink and a snack and go back to her room, but it took her a lot more time than she expected.

The reason is that she was stopped by her eldest brother, and then the eldest brother, who is usually very serious, doesn't know why she asked her a very strange thing.

He asked her to help get Chihaya down, saying that he had something to look for her......

The point is to also talk individually.

Jin immediately choked with her eldest brother.

It's not because the eldest brother is jealous of other girls because of the cuteness of talking to other girls, it's just because of his weird behavior today.

Chihaya is indeed cute and attractive, which even Nishiki, who is also a woman, has to admit.

She is her friend, but this does not mean that Jinhui allows Chihaya to be harassed by her eldest brother.

"I'm not going to do anything lewd...... I swear by this ring!"

Looking at her angry sister, Gu Ying scratched the back of her head in annoyance.

The neat short hair was caught a little messy by him.

He held out his left hand and showed the wedding ring on his ring finger, declaring that he would not have any thoughts about Chihaya.

And for some reason, he didn't think he would see Chihaya as something like that......

"Well... I'll help you call her...... But then I'll ask Chihaya to see if you did anything to her. ā€

glared at his eldest brother fiercely, Jin shook off and picked up the end plate and walked out of the living room.

She was unhappy...... Because the eldest brother is reluctant to tell her what he wants to say to Chihaya.

After the death of their parents, the siblings no longer separated themselves from each other and relied on each other.

It was also after that that she was always straightforward with her family, because she thought that politeness was too much for her family.

She also doesn't like the feeling of being xenophobic, so she has almost no secrets from her family. And she thinks that her eldest brother should treat her like this.

But now she realizes that that's just what she thinks......

In the absence of his parents, the eldest brother, who is the eldest son, shoulders the responsibility of the family. He satisfies his own and the other sibling's financial needs and lack of affection.

Even after getting married, he often went home for dinner and visits, so Jin has always thought that his eldest brother is an extremely reliable person.

So she was very unhappy about his concealment.

With such an angry mood, Nishiki came to the door of his room.

"Little Chihaya, I ............"

opened the door, and before Jin could speak, she saw a scene that made her stunned.

The girl in an elegant white nightdress that looked a bit like what she would only wear in front of her lover sat in an extremely unnatural stiff position and knelt on the floor of the room, facing the door, with an expression of indescribable surprise and surprise on her face......

There's also a bit of shy redness.

Across from her, a few steps in front of the doorway to the room, stood another woman who had come out of the shower, wearing only a set of sexual/sensual but cute stroking underwear.

When this image appeared in front of her eyes, she had a moment when her head froze and she couldn't tell what was happening.

Two people froze in the entire space, and the rest of the man was motionless like a rock with his back to the doorway, as if time had stopped.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the girl dressed in a violent dress with her back to the door turned around, saw her friend who appeared behind the door, and said something that made her want to hit her in the head to make her sober.

"Is it pretty?"

The moment he heard this, Nishiki almost slapped the plate containing snacks and drinks instead of the paper fan that she usually complained about to the head of the girl with a wooden expression.

However, thinking that the snacks and drinks that were placed after the fan were put down would make the room all over the room, and it might also affect a few girls who had just taken a shower, so Nishiki endured it.

"Please, you have some normal behavior, okay...... You're not going to walk out of the bathroom like that, are you?"

For the time being, I left Chihaya, who had been petrified, in its place.,Nishiki questioned a friend who didn't have common sense.怂

Xiang Ze's eyes were sharper than usual, as if they would exude cold, and her beautiful phoenix eyes were slightly hooked, but she herself did not match this cold impression at all.

At least for Jin, who has been with her for a short time, Kazawa is like a burlesque actor with the appearance of a big beauty, as if others will be uncomfortable if they are not angry with her uncommon sense behavior.

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Kasawa still maintained the habit of not liking to speak, and only nodded slightly.

Jin was dizzy.

Although I heard Kasawa ask, "Is it good-looking?" She guessed the original intention of the other party's suspicious behavior, but she hoped that in the future, the friend could ask for advice in a less intimidating way.

In addition to the three girls, she had a lively male in the house, and he was in the living room next to the bathroom!

What if I walk out of the bathroom wearing only underwear and is seen by my big brother?!

Although it is not you who suffers...... But she also doesn't want to see her friends being looked at inexplicably.

"It's okay."

Xiang Ze saw Jin caressing his forehead and showing infinite helplessness, and said something that he didn't understand the situation at all.

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Nishiki decided to educate the friend well.

She was very skeptical about how the other party had survived in this society to this day.

"Xiao Qianzao, the eldest brother seems to have something to look for you, do you want to go down?"

Thinking of his eldest brother, Jin suddenly remembered what he had been told about. Although she was reluctant, she said to Chihaya who was frozen on the floor like a stone statue.

She had to teach another friend who didn't have common sense first, so Chihaya might be able to use this time to meet her eldest brother.

But she always felt that it was strange today, whether it was her eldest brother or her friend Chunmei.

Usually the eldest brother doesn't treat her and her friends like this, he is very reliable and takes care of her emotions. Today, however, it gave her a strange feeling...... And it's also related to Chihaya.

Xiaomei is too, although she is usually very natural, she doesn't do these things that only a kite origami can do, and no one else is around.

Jin felt that today, she couldn't understand these two people she was familiar with. This feeling made her very bored and unhappy.

"Oh... Oh, good! I'm going to go down ......."

Chihaya, who was named and came back to her senses, looked at Nishiki who wanted to teach Kasawa a lesson, and at the same time, she was a little reluctant to look directly at the girl who was dressed so that she didn't fit in, and there was just a reason for her to get out.

For a moment, she didn't notice the unnaturalness in Jin's words, including her angry tone and strange content.

After running into the corridor, Chihaya suddenly realized that it was not normal for Jin's eldest brother to find him to have something to say.

When she wanted to turn around and ask Jin if she knew what Brother Gu Ying was going to say to her, a thin black coat suddenly flew into her face from the hands of the person standing at the door of the room.

"Dressed! Unless you don't mind going to see Big Brother like this. ā€

After Nishiki finished speaking to Chihaya, he went back to the room, and then Chihaya heard the nagging sound from the room.

Most of the content is Nishiki's incomprehension and lesson to Xiang Ze's outfit.

Looking down at the clothes on his body, Chihaya's white face flushed slightly.

Jin Bu said that she didn't expect that her current appearance was really not suitable for meeting other boys directly......

Quickly put on Nishiki borrowed his black coat to cover the white nightdress that was a little transparent, and Chihaya came to the door of the living room.

Opening the crack in the door slightly, she saw that Big Brother Gu Ying was still sitting in the same seat she saw when she came here just now.

With a little unease, Chihaya pushed open the wooden door.

"You're here...... Poof..."

Seeing Chihaya walking out from behind the door, Gu Ying greeted her.

After speaking, he choked on a smile for some reason.

"That's... It was Xiaojin who asked me to come to Brother Gu Ying......"

Chihaya, who was a little strange, glanced at the TV that was on.

Evening News... She didn't know what it could make people laugh about.

"I did command Nishiki."

Gu Ying turned off the TV with a smile and stood up from the sofa.

Leaving the couch, he walked over to the dining table and opened the closed glass.

"What do you want to drink...... Xiao Wuhe? I brought some Honokyoro from Yame in Fukuoka the other day, and I also have some Blue Mountain coffee at home...... All good drinks. ā€

After rummaging around, Gu Ying took out two jars and showed them to Chihaya, and then asked.

"I ...... I'll just drink water..."

Seeing that Gu Ying didn't get to the point immediately, Chihaya's whole body became nervous.

She wasn't used to being alone with someone she didn't know like this, especially if the other person was looking for her and didn't know what to do.

And Brother Gu Ying himself ...... It made her feel a strangely unnatural, unpredictable feeling.

"Okay."

Gu Ying saw that Chihaya was not interested in the drink he mentioned, and shrugged his shoulders and was not reluctant.

He put down one of the small cans and turned to the kitchen. Soon after, Chihaya smelled the brewed coffee.

Originally, she was a little suspicious that Gu Ying would not give her water to drink, but then she saw the tall man pour a glass of water from the kettle while waiting for the coffee to be brewed.

There were no words for two minutes, only the boiling sound of boiling water echoed in the quiet living room.

In such an atmosphere, Chihaya couldn't help but become more nervous.

After a short time, Gu Ying turned off the fire and poured a small cup of coffee from the coffee pot. He picked up a cup of coffee and water and walked over to Chihaya outside the kitchen.

"Let's go sit on the couch, it's really not appropriate to stand like this."

Gu Ying said to Chihaya with a polite smile, and then he took the lead by the door and sat down in the seat he had been sitting in just now.

After hesitating for a while, Chihaya still followed Gu Ying and sat opposite him.

Seeing Chihaya coming, Gu Ying pushed the water glass on the table over in front of her seat.

"I don't really mean anything special when I ask Xiao Jin to call you, but I just have a few questions I want to ask Xiao Wuhe...... Please don't be so nervous. ā€

Chihaya's whole behavior of huddling in the corner of the sofa like a hedgehog made Koyoung find it funny.

He turned on the TV and turned his voice up to a level that wouldn't interfere with Danaba's words, trying to dilute Chihaya's nervousness.

However, his next sentence made Chihaya's whole person tense even more.

"Please relax, Chihaya Gokawa...... No, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call you Mr. Gokawashido?"

Sitting across from Chihaya, Gu Ying picked up the coffee and took a sip of it, asking with a smile.

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The author of this one, I wrote, wrote, deleted, deleted and repeated it several times ==

Because there are many places that will be the key to connecting, I don't dare to come casually~

Then in order to sort out the plot, I re-read the fifth chapter.........

Such a shame/shame thing......... Author: How the hell did I write it (cover my face