"Just put the shoes in the hallway, I'll go get you the spare slippers, wait for me a while."

After Xiao Tao finished talking to Kiriko, she didn't go to look for the slippers first, but sneaked into the kitchen to explain the current situation to me.

"Listen, this is the first time that a friend has come to visit our family, and I definitely want to make the highest level of cuisine to entertain and show my superb cooking skills."

Little Peach whispered in my ear but very firmly.

"Okay, then I'll ask you to guide me."

I promised.

"What? This is my friend's visit, so it's up to me to take charge of your guidance. ”

Momo's eyes widened like a cat.

Hey, hey, that's a joke, right? Little peach to take charge? I'm afraid it's not a friend, but a stupid person who offended Xiao Tao and doesn't have self-knowledge.

"Xiao Tao, this is your guest, how can the host let the guest sit there alone in a daze? So leave the kitchen to me, and you can go and accompany your friends. ”

Noon is very short, and I don't have extra time to deal with the scene after her "experiment" for Xiao Tao, so I definitely have to stop Xiao Tao from going to the kitchen herself for a while.

"But brother, you are not a chef, although you are my royal chef...... By the way, as my queen chef, what do you want to do to make lunch for other girls? ”

It's a bit unreasonable.,Obviously, at the beginning, I had to make the highest level of cooking to entertain you.,Now if it's a little peach to do it, then it can't be said to be the highest level of cooking, but the most tragic "accident".

"Okay, why don't we work together, Xiao Tao, you can help me cut the side dishes."

I knew it wouldn't work if I continued to argue, so I had to take a step back.

"Yes, but my brother has to cut the side dishes."

Peach continued to haggle with me.

"Little Peach! Just pork chops at noon today doesn't show your superb cooking skills! It's a bit hasty to prepare the ingredients now, so let's show your cooking skills after I prepare in advance! ”

For Xiao Tao's friends and for Xiao Tao to be able to eat a normal meal at noon today, I fought hard!

"But......" Xiao Tao hesitated.

It's good, Xiao Tao is already shaking.

"Next time, Xiao Tao can do whatever she wants, and I will never interfere, okay?" I further tempted: "

Xiao Tao can continue to call friends to come to the house as guests or something in the future, there is no need to limit it to today. ”

"I know, I really can't help you, today I will reluctantly give my brother a hand and guidance."

"Thank you very much." I exhaled deeply, at least it was okay today.

"This Saturday is okay, right?"

"What?"

"This Saturday, I want to invite all of you from the restaurant to come to my house."

"Ah...... Yes!? ”

"Brother is not allowed to go back."

"Good...... I know. ”

Will the home still exist after Saturday? I looked at the kitchen utensils with some depression, maybe they couldn't see the sun on Sunday anymore, as if they couldn't see it in the first place? That is, you will never experience the feeling of chopping vegetables anymore.

"Little Peach, go and accompany your friends, I'll call you when I'm ready." I saw that Xiao Tao had been chatting with me in the kitchen, and suddenly remembered that she had called a friend to come to the house as a guest.

"Oh, I forgot."

"You remember......"

"Then I'll help Kiriko get her slippers, and call me when she can cook."

"Hmm."

Well? Kiriko? How do you feel that the name sounds so familiar?

"Eh, Kiriko? What about Kiriko-san? After a while, Peach's voice came from the entrance.

"Bang bang bang."

At this moment, there was the sound of soft footsteps without slippers at the kitchen door.

"It's light, I guessed you are...... I want to see you so much! The girl's excited, incoherent voice came abruptly from behind me.

Not only the name, but even the voice is so familiar, just like an old friend greeting each other, and a little more cordial.

"Hello, long time no see, Hikaru Tento-san. Oh no, I should call him Tendo Kocho now, right? ”

"Is it? No way! ”

Then, the man named Kiriko suddenly appeared in front of me.

"You, you are!"

Looking at the beautiful face of the girl in front of her and the glasses that are a little inconsistent with her temperament, if you are not more familiar with it than "knowing", I am afraid that people who are more familiar with it will not recognize who this person is, and will only regard her as an ordinary dispensable classmate or stranger.

"Don't you know me?"

Kiriko's beautiful face revealed a sadness and disappointment that could not be concealed.

Although the memory cannot be said to be as exaggerated as being opened like dust, it still recalls some similar friendships in the past, but it cannot be clearly said that this is the memory fragment of friendship. The Kiriko in memory is that she doesn't wear glasses, and she has long curly hair with some slight curls. But the girl in front of her not only wore glasses, but her long curly hair had also turned into a double ponytail, and the only thing that did not change was her black hair, which was as pure black and shiny as the same as the endless night.

Just thinking about her hair is almost able to endorse black sesame paste.

But I can't be wrong, I definitely can't be wrong, no matter how the appearance is decorated, that delicate face will not change, why would I be so deep about her?

Freemasonry.

"Didn't Little Peach go get you slippers?"

At that time, my brain felt like it was going to crash and I could only think of this dispensable sentence.

"Well, but she told me to wait for her but didn't say where to wait, so I came to the kitchen and waited for her."

In addition to the clever explanation, Kiriko also overflowed with some cunning that was not malicious.

It's still such a good argument, people who don't know her won't know, this is Kiriko's biggest secret.

"But don't you usually wait where you are?"

"Generally speaking, that's true, but I want to make sure that I'm bothering seniors?"

Kiriko said in a pitiful tone.

With a pleasant voice and a deliberate cuteness, I'm afraid a boy can't resist it.

"Senior...... Something, we used to be classmates! ”

I reminded Kiriko.

"Sure enough, you don't remember...... Or is that all you can remember? ”

Kiriko muttered quietly in a voice I couldn't hear, and all I could see was her slight movement of her pink lips like fresh cherries, tender and delicious.

"And your glasses......"

"Oops, you found it!"

"I have to be nearsighted to be blind to see your glasses......"

"That's right, it's flat glasses."

It's not the answer to the question.

Kiriko took off her pink glasses and lowered her double ponytails, and Kiriko's former image reappeared in front of my eyes.

"Kiriko, are you in the kitchen?"

Xiao Tao's voice came suddenly.

I was so immersed in the conversation with Kiriko that I didn't even notice Momo's footsteps, but fortunately Momo came.

"Shh Kiriko holds her index finger in front of her lips:

"Keep it a secret for now!"

After Kiriko said it softly to me, she responded to Momo while dressing up back to her new image:

"Well, I'm in the kitchen."

"Really, didn't you wait for me in the hallway?"

Xiao Tao complained.

"Momo-san, how did you know I was here? And you didn't say anything specific, let me wait for you there! ”

Kirito's mood is obviously happier than just now, and even the air seems to be exuding an element called "pleasant".

Is that why you met me?

"I don't think I really said it...... But forget it. Kiriko-san, do you know what the physical reaction is when cold meets heat? ”

"Hmm...... Come to think of it, it's liquefaction, right? Last year's physics knowledge. ”

"Huh? Last year? ”

I looked at Kiriko but didn't make a sound.

"yes, so what marks will be left on the cold marble you walked barefoot?"

"It will leave a 'white mist', ah, I see, Tao-san is so smart!"

Kiriko's heartfelt praise.

"That's it, aren't your feet cold? It's not winter yet, but it's already late autumn. ”

"Well, it's a little cold, but I still want to see what the kitchen at Tao's house is like, and the first impression of a well-equipped kitchen is that this chef's cooking skills are definitely extraordinary."

"Yes, I see. Anyway, let's change into slippers and go to the living room. ”

Momo puts her slippers at Kiriko's feet, and when Kiriko is ready, she quickly takes her out of the kitchen. As Kiriko went out, she suddenly turned her head back at me and playfully blinked her left eye, her lips silently closing up and down.

I read Kiriko's lips, which was saying to me, "Be sure to keep it a secret!" ”。

Momo originally wanted to bring Kiriko into her room, but when she was about to open the dormitory, she suddenly realized that there were secrets in her room that no one could tell at the moment.

"Why don't you take her to my brother's room?"

Xiao Tao thought so, but the next second began to deny herself:

"No, no, no, you can't let other girls into my brother's room, no matter how good my friends are!"

"What are you talking about by Momo-san?"

Kiriko walked over and asked curiously.

Xiao Tao's face couldn't help but turn red, and she quickly said:

"Huh? Nothing, nothing. ”

In the end, Momo takes Kiriko to the living room.

"Wait here for a while, I'm going to prepare our lunch."

After pouring Kiriko a glass of water, Momo turned around and quickly came to the kitchen.

"Say, did Kiriko say anything to you? Tell me every detail of your guys in the kitchen! ”

Xiao Tao put me in the corner of the kitchen wall and pretended to be very fierce and fierce.

"Nothing happened!"

I whispered to soothe my sister, who was a little uneasy.

"Really? It feels so suspicious. ”

My sister looked at me suspiciously.

"Really, really." I wanted to reach out and touch my sister's brain, but I was afraid that she would be angry, so my hand stopped in mid-air and quickly retracted it.

"What did you just want to do?"

"I didn't want to do anything."

"Really, hurry up and cook, you don't want to see what time it is!"

Little Peach shows the watch I gave her on her wrist and reminds me to pay attention to the concept of time.

"Okay, okay, let's do it."

"Okay, just say it once!"

"Good ......"

"Don't drag out the sound!"

"Good!"

"Bang!"

Suddenly there was a crisp sound of a glass falling to the floor in the living room, and Kiriko accidentally dropped the glass on the floor as if startled by my voice.

Kiriko was at first a little confused, nervously staying in place, but soon regained consciousness and began to bend down to pick up the broken pieces of glass with her hands.

"I'm really sorry, that, I'll compensate for the original price."

Kiriko's voice was full of apology and uneasiness, and tears seemed to be dripping from her eyes like a broken pearl necklace at any moment.

"Don't pick it up with your hands!"

I hurried to stop it, but it was too late.

"Ahh

Blood dripped from Kiriko's white fingers like a bewitching rose, and under the reflection of the glass, it seemed that the marble was full of fine red blood beads.

"I'll make amends."

Kiriko repeated again, not paying any attention to her injuries.

Timidity is exactly the same as the original.,The fog hasn't changed without you.。 Ahh Just now, such a thought flashed in my mind, but it was only a flash, and such a memory is not even vague, but it makes me even more painful, because the more I can't think of it, the more I want to know.

Kiriko, what were the moments before that started to make our relationship a little closer than most others, and what have we experienced before?

"No, it's my brother...... It's all Mr. Light's bad, hurry up and apologize, Hikari! ”

Xiao Tao naturally threw all the fault on me.

I changed my tune again...... But it doesn't have much effect on Kiriko, who not only can easily see through this fragile lie, but I also seem to be ......

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault......"

Because this is Xiao Tao's fault for me, I can only accept it all, and I can see that Xiao Tao is also a little sorry for this, but I'm embarrassed to say it well, before Xiao Tao is willing to say what is in her heart, I will bear all the mistakes and hurts for her, leave it to me, Xiao Tao, my brother has always believed in you the most.

"I ...... I'll go chop vegetables. ”

After Xiao Tao finished speaking, she quickly fled to the kitchen.

Big things are wrong! Little Peach is in the kitchen! I seem to have a hunch of what's going to happen next.

"I'm sorry to frighten you."

I apologized for finding a piece of Band-Aid and carefully placing it on my finger that had been cut by the glass.

"Sure enough, the light is still so gentle."

Kiriko whispered to me.

Still is? In other words, there have been times when I was more gentle to her before.,What the hell is it?,No matter what I think, I just can't remember.。

I took out a broom from the kitchen and carefully cleaned the glass shards and small residues on the floor, as well as some of the blood that had turned dark red and was about to clot, and in the process calmed Kiriko for a while, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, I hurried back to the kitchen, just now I saw the tragedy of those side dishes on the dinner board.

The potatoes are small cubes, the carrots are only the core in the middle, and not only that, but Momo seems to be tearing bitterly over the fact that she can't clearly express her apologies just now while chopping the onions.

Carrots, potatoes, onions, is this to make curry pork chop rice? Yes, I can still do this, why didn't I think of it, it's quite capable, little peach! This also shows that Xiao Tao is the best proof that friends are sincerely welcome to come to the house, but ......

"I'll take care of the rest! You are not allowed to kill the vegetables anymore! ”

I'm upset about the horribly cut side dishes.