Manor.

Spacious place and a big house.

Originally, there were three people living here, a teenager, a big girl, and a little girl.

Three people live together.

Is it family?

No, not really.

The people who live together are not necessarily the family, just like the people who sleep together are not necessarily couples or couples, but they may also be (beep~) guests and (beep~) women.

So although they live together, the three of them are not family.

At least, teenagers weren't.

The two girls, the eldest girl and the younger girl, are sisters, and the teenager is just ......

Just the people who adopted them.

This house is not a home, just a place to eat and live, because it is not a family.

So the boy didn't come back.

Qingming has been living in the coffee shop recently, not only has he not come back, but he has not even made phone calls, and he may not have thought about talking to them at all.

Akane called that night.

But no one answered.

I waited all night and didn't see Qingming back, and the next day I called again.

This time someone picked it up.

But it wasn't Kiyoshi who answered the phone, but Azusa Enomoto.

Qingming decided to live in the coffee shop, so she had to work a little harder, getting up early every day and coming over to make breakfast after washing.

And then work.

"The owner has decided to stay at the coffee shop recently, so you don't have to worry about him."

That's what Azusa Enomoto said.

Other than that, I didn't say much, maybe because I was busy.

But getting such a sentence can also make Akane feel a lot more at ease, so she waited patiently in the manor.

I waited for a long time.

Qingming still hasn't come back here, still lives in the coffee shop, and seems to have completely forgotten about the things here in the manor.

This made Akane a little uneasy.

Obviously, it was fine before, and after thinking about it carefully, I didn't do anything to make Qingming unhappy.

Could it be that Gray Plains is upsetting him?

That's what Akane thought.

That's what I asked my sister about.

But Gray Yuan just shook his head.

"How is that possible?"

It's good if Qingming doesn't make her unhappy, where does she have the ability to make Qingming unhappy?

And the opposite is true.

She didn't make Qingming unhappy, it was Qingming who didn't want to see her, and she made her unhappy three times.

Like what......

Well, Qingming is a hentai anyway.

But as for why Qingming didn't come back, she had her own ideas.

"Maybe it's not that I won't come back, but I just don't want to come."

"What do you mean?"

Akane didn't really understand.

Gray Yuan just turned his head and looked at the courtyard behind him through the floor-to-ceiling window.

The wind blows the leaves and falls.

In the backyard forest, there are all kinds of trees, many types, almost every one is different.

It doesn't belong here.

Fallen leaves are like the thoughts of the trees, drifting away with the wind.

But it will eventually fall in an unknown place, gradually decaying.

"Sister, where is our home?"

“……”

"In the world, everyone wants to have a home of their own, me, my sister, you, him, and many more people want to."

Saying this, he sighed lightly.

"We live here, but unfortunately, this is not our home, nor is it his home, so there is no saying that he can't come back, only whether he wants to come or not, and it's clear that he doesn't want to come here recently."

Retract your gaze to look outside.

Pick up the cup of tea on the coffee table and take a sip.

He shook his head again.

"I didn't see him as family or friend, and he didn't see me as a family friend."

Raise your head and look at Akane.

"Sister, what about you?"

“……”

……

Qingming does not return to the manor.

He's been busy fighting with witches lately, Taoism and magic, and you've been greeting each other back and forth.

Sometimes one uses it, and the other tries to crack it; Sometimes it's through a certain Grim Reaper schoolboy or a strange thief who likes to pretend to be 13; In other cases, it is through the customers who come to the coffee shop.

After the restrictions were lifted, the number of customers was not full, but it was back to its previous state, and the turnover was still considerable.

Among them, some people drink Meng Po soup coffee.

Some people can't drink one sip, while others are able to drink three glasses in a row.

Of course, that's only a tiny minority.

Qingming helps the other party realize their wishes, while Koizumi Hongzi tries his best not to let his wishes come true, which can be regarded as a kind of duel.

To put it bluntly, it's because of boredom.

Qingming felt bored, and Koizumi Hongzi also felt bored.

Two people who have the ability and feel bored use ordinary people who don't know anything as pawns to engage in the so-called "duel".

The result is that Qingming wins more and loses less.

The result of the duel between the Taoist priest and the witch is that the Taoist priest has the upper hand so far.

Time passes slowly in this duel.

A new day.

Afternoon.

School hours.

Naihe Bridge Coffee Shop.

The current coffee shop, the customer flow is relatively normal, and Enomoto Azusa is also a little busy, running around by herself.

Qingming still didn't do anything, just sat at the counter.

"Huh!"

chuckle.

The fingers gently scratched the black cat's body, and the smile on his face seemed to be happy.

"Looks like I'm still a little bit better!"

"Meow~"

"Okay, okay, I know magic is also very powerful."

"Meow~"

"Speaking of which, why don't we learn from each other? I teach you Taoism, you teach me magic, and if combined, maybe we can become more powerful. ”

"Meow~"

"Can't teach? Therefore, it is because of this view of the portal that Taoism and magic will gradually be lost. ”

Qingming shook his head.

Lately, he's been talking to this black cat, saying that it's through the black cat talking to a witch in the distance or something.

Azusa Enomoto is incomprehensible.

Sonoko Suzuki can't either.

Pushing open the door with Xiaolan and coming in, I saw Qingming talking to the black cat, and I thought it was amazing.

Walked to the counter and looked at the black cat curiously.

"International student, do you still know how to speak the language of cats? What else can't a Taoist priest do? ”

"Huh? Can a Taoist priest do many things? ”

Xiaolan was a little incomprehensible.

Although she is friends with Qingming, she has not seen the magic of Qingming with her own eyes so far.

Actually, Sonoko Suzuki hasn't seen it either.

It's just that because Qingming fortune-telling was very accurate in the past, and her sister Suzuki Ayako hasn't been entangled in blind dates and other things since then, so she thinks that Qingming does have some skills.

There are some unknown skills.

"There's a lot you can do, and there's a lot you can't."

Qingming said.

Then he looked at Sonoko Suzuki.

"Second Miss, why are you free to come over today? Don't you go shopping and watch movies with Miss Kataki Katado and open a room by the way? ”

Katagiri Kaede.

It's the one that was used by Qingming to pit Suzuki's garden.

But it's okay if Qingming doesn't say it, but saying this makes Suzuki Sonoko unhappy again.

"Are you too embarrassed to say this?"

A few days ago, Katagiri Kaede really went to her home as a guest.

She went alone.

Maybe she wanted to explain the relationship between her and Suzuki Sonoko to Suzuki's parents, but it didn't turn out very well, and she didn't know what was going on, so she told the two of them kissing at the coffee shop.

So the more you depict it, the darker it gets.

Shiro Suzuki and Tomoko Suzuki seem to be increasingly convinced that their second daughter has a problem with her sexual orientation.

It's really annoying to ask her about this all day lately.

I just thought about going to find a boyfriend to come back, and when the time came, I didn't need to explain my boyfriend to my home.

A boyfriend is not something that can be found casually.

So decided to go out hunting.

"How about it, international student, do you want to go play with us?"

"To play? Where to go? ”

"Izu, the weather is right now to go to the beach to play, and there is a fireworks display over there, it's very lively, Miss Ben doesn't care about the past, adults don't remember villains, if you want to go, let's go together."

“……”