"Ding-dong."

The doorbell rang at this time, and the ninja foot was a little puzzled by who it would be.

Could it be that a good partner who ran away from home seven times a week? Thinking of it, it seemed that he heard that he was broadcasting the raging battlefield of his eldest sister and his mother again yesterday, and I felt that the possibility of this guess was very high. After thinking in his heart for ten seconds, he felt that he had prepared a hundred ways to fool Yue Ren into going home, so he opened the door with Shi Shiran.

There was indeed a red-haired man standing outside, but the gender was female.

Unexpectedly, Zhenji, who was almost cut off from him in the past few days, actually stood at the door obediently and rang the doorbell.

And...... When did she return home?

His ex-wife's nephew was ordered to go back to school after only three days in Paris, but Mashi Akaji's injury still needed to be observed, so Maki stayed a few more days than him. In the past few days, Zhenji has not heard from him, and he has not made a phone call to talk to him at all. Shinobu asked Keigo Keigo on the side when he was active in the tennis club, but Uncle Shinobu actually showed a rare look of "Uncle Ben understands in his heart, but Uncle Ben just doesn't say it", which made Shinobu have to secretly sigh that Akaji Zhenshi's spiritual pollution ability is so powerful, and he can actually invade the iron and steel uncle in his heart.

Maki put his hands behind his back and seemed to be carrying a box that wasn't too big.

Shinobu felt that she shouldn't have come back to break off her friendship with her, so she simply asked as usual: "Are you back?" ”

"Hmm." Zhenji responded very coldly at first, but then stretched his arm straight forward, stuffed the box behind him into the arms of the ninja soldier, and said in a muffled voice: "Happy birthday!" But I won't apologize! I'm so vexatious and making trouble because of Akaji's true historiography! ”

Birthday Boy Patience Jun: "......"

…… Hey, with so many pots on your dad, you can open a chain restaurant!

He smiled and glanced at the cake box in his arms, which was only about six inches, not very large. At first glance, I thought it was a cardboard box, but when I got it in my hand, I realized that it was too sweet. He'd heard of a bereavement that used top-quality gems crushed into fine sand to create a pikapika effect, and the one he was holding was probably not much worse, if not lost to that extent.

This style of bag can be imagined whose handwriting it is with your eyes closed.

When Shinobu glanced behind Maki, Maki guessed his intentions, and had to sigh at the touching friendship between Keigo and Shinobu Shinobi, and she could actually guess what the other party would do in an instant, she rolled her eyes helplessly, "Don't look for it, the meal that Brother Jingwu came with was rejected by me, I don't think this cake can be eaten yet." ”

Shinobu Yushi, nicknamed "Aunt Osaka", expressed his approval of Maki's thrifty housekeeping, and while placing the cake on the table in the dining room, he asked Maki, who was changing his shoes in the hallway, "Did you forget to bring the key?" ”

Maji shot back sharply: "Lazy cancer! Don't want to take it! Can't you? ”

"Yes, you can." The Ninja Foot Warrior slowly pulled out the included knife, fork and plate from the bottom of the box, raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Oh? Then I guess you don't have the strength to eat it? ”

Maki, who had already changed his shoes, jumped to his side, wanting to snatch the fork from the hand of the ninja foot Yushi, "You want to swallow it alone?" Hum! Yushi, this is the most expensive cake I have ever seen in such a big life, I want to give up the right to eat it, and dream about it! ”

Zhenji didn't expect that Shinobu didn't dodge at all, she easily dragged his raised arm, this guy actually leaned into her ear when she was leaning forward on tiptoe, and said indifferently: "No, Zhenji, I mean - I feed you?" ”

Shinobu had deliberately lowered her voice to speak in her ear like this before, and that time she felt her heart stop beating immediately, and she could only use a slam to block the spread of sound waves. But that time it was just an ambiguous sentence such as "do you want to gamble", which was far less meaningful than the sentence "I'll feed you".

This "hey" hundred kinds of fancy is really terrible.

Zhenji felt a roar in her head, it was the first time she had seen a shinobi playing hooligan like this.

She covered her ears, feeling that she was being dragged down by this sensitive hearing again, just as she was so shocked that she couldn't even look at him at the national competition. But when she glared at him, she realized that Shinobu was just winking at her innocently, as if he was just trying to help her with good intentions.

…… This kid also said that Qian was just hacking him???

Zhenji thinks that the forbearance Yushi came up with this trick, maybe it can really make the confessing girl row from the Ice Emperor School Park to Tokyo Bay.

Shinobu waved his hand, as if he was puzzled by Maji's movements, thinking that she was making a fuss. Instead, he lifted the lid of the cake box, revealing the same exquisite birthday cake inside. The "O**ariYushi" written in Spencer script on the surface of the cake is extremely intricate and gorgeous, and the pen is so delicate and smooth that it is impossible to tell that the material is chocolate liquid.

He doesn't have any obsession with desserts, so Maji ordered one of her favorite strawberry mousses.

It's his birthday today.,But it's not too popular among boys to celebrate each other's birthdays.,Ryo Shishido is more careful.,I said happy birthday to him when I was working today.,Xiang Higaku, a careless ghost, didn't react until a second before leaving school.。 As for Ninja Foot Erina and his parents, he didn't react at all, he originally guessed that it might have been disturbed by his aunt's distress, which made Shinobu himself have no real sense of celebrating his birthday.

But now he can probably think of who made his biological parents and sister so cold and heartless.

Hmm, so is this a deliberate attempt to create a surprise?

However, even if it is a tyrant's cake, the basic role is to light a candle and be eaten. Maki snatched the candles and carefully poked them into the cake one by one, as if condensing all his attention, and fiddled with them for about four or five minutes before the 17 candles were inserted.

After the shinobu had lit the candles, she ran over and turned off all the lights in each room.

For a moment, only flickering candles were left in the whole apartment, and she and Shinobi stood at opposite ends of the dining table, and in this bright and flickering light, they could only see each other's faces faintly, and their expressions were also vague. In order to prevent himself from being led astray by this guy today, Zhenji took the lead in sitting down, and gave another order: "Yushi, make a wish." ”

Shinobu sat down together as if he were good, and saw Maki demonstrate to him the wishing action of clasping his hands, and although he thought it was actually stupid and unpoetic, he did it. He was silent for only ten seconds before he opened his eyes, which happened to collide with Zhenji's gaze staring at him, probably not expecting his person's wish to be so convenient and fast, Zhenji was so suddenly startled, and was stunned for four or five seconds before glaring at him in disdain.

However, the warm-toned candle flame had already concealed part of her pupils, and she was usually very powerful and domineering, so the ninja warrior finally failed to appreciate the violent red eyes again.

When Maki was stunned, her whole expression was dumbfounded, which was completely different from her usual radiant appearance.

didn't rush to turn on the lights, and the ninja foot warrior put on a sighing expression by the candlelight, "Zhenji, so you want to buy me like this?" ”

Zhenji was dumbfounded: "This still can't stop your mouth?" It's better to eat money directly! ”

Shinobu pointed out the facts disapprehantly: "This is a gift from the trace department, right?" ”

"......" The dumbfounded girl really didn't want to say that she just asked Jingwu to order a cake, but he unknowingly put a big move on himself with such a fierce firepower, so that the first time she saw the box, she chewed it for the first time, "How much is Brother Jingwu, I'll go back to you" for the time being. She had heard the Shinobu Yushi warn her that Keigo Keibe had a cruel taste, but she didn't remember it in her mind at all, and now she could only say confidently: "My father's medical expenses in Paris are still paid by the Keibu family, and together with them, they will be counted in his account." ”

…… Hehe, he must always have a noble consciousness of being ready to sell himself (← whether anyone wants it or not) to save his daughter.

Shinobu raised his eyebrows, obviously thinking that this answer was too perfunctory. Zhenji immediately slapped the table and said suddenly: "Hey, I said you don't have to get an inch, obviously you concealed it first, if that bastard is really favored by the lord, I don't have time to ask him in person where he hid all the stolen money?" Isn't this a loss to death? You're embarrassed to pretend to be pathetic here??? I have mercifully forgiven your sins, what do you want? You said! Didn't I just strangle you, it's a big deal to let you strangle back, come! ”

Zhenji also defiantly grabbed his collar and raised it, not believing that he could really pull it back shamelessly.

"Maji, you invited me here, please note that you have given up the right to regret it."

But before her smug smile could fade, she stood up directly, looking like she had really come to ask for her life to pay off her debts. Maki also subconsciously pushed her body back and stood up, because she was in a hurry, and her ankle accidentally hit the leg of the chair, so that she took a small breath.

That was an instinctive reaction just now, but seeing that Shinobu really stretched out his right arm towards his neckline, with Maji's understanding of him, it was expected that he didn't dare to really do anything to himself, that is, to scare people with evil taste. She stood in place with a gloomy face, ready to repay the debt she owed when her previous relationship was out of control, and then settle the account with him later, the big deal is to ask Lord Erina to go out of the mountain to see if he still has the ability to fight back?

Shinobu Yushi's fingers touched her collar, and Maki thought he would pull it twice in meaning, but he didn't expect this guy to unexpectedly walk forward in front of her, and with the movement of his outstretched arm, he actually hugged himself from the front.

Because of the height gap, Zhenji's whole person was buried in his arms. I don't know if it's because it's dark now, I feel that the space of the whole apartment has shrunk suddenly, and other things in the dining room, such as the chair that hit her just now, the bottles and cans she bought on the dining table, the soda crackers that were caught in the middle of the meal, the refrigerator not far away, etc., both large and small, have magically disappeared.

It was as if the two of them were the only ones left in the world, just as she had when she had been sick and had quietly watched his back.

But the light was bright at ten o'clock in the morning, and Maki just felt that the shinobi sitting there seemed to be blended into a painting, like the compositional structure that his grandfather, who was known as a rare genius, used in the film. But now she felt that she was no longer a bystander, but was dragged into the world he dominated by an uncontrollable force, so that the tip of her nose and ears were filled with his breath and voice.

This kind of aura was strange and familiar, and she was suddenly able to understand the constituent factors of this contradictory statement, she was familiar with the Shinobi Shinobi, and the stranger was the seventeen-year-old Shinobi Shinobi.

Not the helpless boy who was hit by her bike, but a man somewhere between teenager and young adult.

These thoughts were actually fleeting, and had occasionally flashed through her since the day she moved into the apartment. But because they're so familiar, it's hard to look at these trivial feelings differently. She felt that Shinobu and Shinobu were also different, but that was a long time ago when she was five years old, and she used to attribute it more to the difference in personality, but now she realized that this difference was her subjective judgment, and it represented her subtle emotional tendencies.

But does that feel like it's done right? Especially when they're still so young.

She didn't know how many years it took her father to discern whether his mother's admiration for Aunt Shiori was a mother's affection or a longing for love, so much so that he seemed so capricious in his marriage to his mother.

This series of thoughts flashed through her mind like fast-forward film, from the feeling of amazement to the complex tangled, but it only happened for a moment. Just as she was about to use her parents' lesson as the final judgment, the right arm of the ninja warrior suddenly rushed past the crook of her leg.

Maki seemed to be able to clearly feel the muscles on his arm that protruded from the force, and she wasn't usually such a sensitive person. Although Shinobu is often ridiculed as a scumbag of wrist strength due to the flying shooting incident in the third year of the country, he is an athletic teenager who has played tennis for ten years after all, and it is effortless to pick up the "either flat-chested or short" type of Maji, and quickly take her around in the air.

Zhenji never knew that she also had the ability to remain calm in extreme situations, and what she was good at was sorting out thousands of clues in the calm and calm.

But now she seemed to be able to hear his and her heartbeats.

Maki has never been able to run and fight in a competitive arena, and she just stands by Momoi's side with her excellent dynamic vision to assist in recording, keeping an eye on all the movements of the arena, every feint, every shot, and every success of the coordination strategy. She liked the all-high school league in her second year of junior high school, and felt that the five people on the field had a wonderful charm. This year's National Championship of the Ice Emperor revived this feeling, whether it was Shinobu Yushi and Takeshi Momojo, or Keigo Keibe and Seiichi Yukimura, what they were chasing was not just that little yellow ball, nor was it a stereotypical score and victory, but in such a period of youth, there was a goal to pay for without regrets, and the wonderful moment of discovering the "other world" in the process of climbing.

Is that probably how it feels?

Because of what she has also done, she was able to experience this unusual joy and charm at a moment so close to this goal.

It wasn't until her feet hit the ground that Zhenji forcibly cut off these nonsense thoughts that didn't listen to control.

They were some distance away from the candle flame of the cake, and Maki could only vaguely see the silhouette of the ninja Yushi. She bit her lip and said nothing, only a symbolic "hum", as if waiting for him to give her an explanation.

She saw the Ninja raise his arm in the dark, presumably to help the damn flat mirror again.

His deep voice spread out with the ripples of the night, and his tone rose slightly.

"Gifts."

…… What gift? Is it a birthday present to play hooligan to yourself? Or a passive skill! Why don't you go to heaven???

In a fit of rage, Maki touched the wall and really touched the nearest switch for her. The light suddenly turned on, and she sat directly next to the cake, unceremoniously trying to blow out the candle flame that the ninja had not had time to extinguish just now, but her lung capacity was very limited, and her small heart beat wildly for a while, and it was very annoying that the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and it was only four or five that could be blown out. I was mad and angry, but I still pretended to be calm and full of anger and made up for it twice.

…… Happy birthday? I call you raw!

The real season girl did not forget to slander her unreliable parents who were in early love when her consciousness was wandering, and they really lived up to their expectations and repeated the amazing speed at which they got married at the age of 16 and gave birth to her at the age of 18. A month later, Maki saw the picture sent by Mashi Akaji from the line of Shinobi Yushi.

Oh yes, she's always refused to make Mashi Kachiji a friend.

The picture is a family registration document.

The column with her name on it became the four words of five years.

- Maki Akaji.