"Ah, Leigh, good morning."

The next morning, when Rei Ayana, who was wearing light green pajamas, passed by the living room, the black cat, who had already put on her apron and started preparing the meal, immediately greeted her quite warmly.

“？”

Although the main god had already changed the black cat to "I only arrived this morning and lived with Chu Xuan...... Another EVA driver who was under Chu Xuan's custody", but Rei Ayanami was still frozen.

After waiting for more than ten seconds, Rei Ayanami lowered her head slightly, and said in a voice that seemed to be a little lacking in qi:

"Good morning."

The black cat had already known Rei Ayanami in her "previous life", but for Rei Ayabaami, who had not yet recovered the memories of her previous life, that is, she had not kissed Chu Xuan on the premise of opening her heart, she was a stranger she had never met.

"Breakfast will be ready soon, you go wash up first."

The black cat, who looked like a good wife and mother, gently commanded the "sister", who was thinner than herself, and then turned her face back to look at her soup pot.

“……”

Rei Ayanami seemed to be unable to accept this strange woman who suddenly appeared as a hostess or something for a while, and she stood silently by the door and watched the black cat for several minutes before quietly moving her steps towards the bathroom.

"Leigh, you're up."

Opening the door of the bathroom, Chu Xuan, who was brushing his teeth inside, turned his head and greeted Rei Ayanami vaguely, and then continued to move the toothbrush in his mouth up and down.

"......, yes."

It took more than ten seconds for Ayanami to get used to this very ordinary, but very unfamiliar "picture of life" to her, she lowered her eyes slightly, whispered a word in a flat tone without emotional fluctuations, and then began to wash up as if Chu Xuan didn't exist at all.

But even if she turned a blind eye to Chu Xuan, sharing a washbasin with others and feeling completely different from the feeling of having a washbasin by herself, the blue-haired and red-eyed girl unconsciously turned her body slightly sideways under the reflection of Chu Xuan's weird glasses, and she could be regarded as taking care of Chu Xuan a little.

Rei Ayanami didn't ask about the girl who was busy in the island kitchen in the restaurant, she just completed the routine washing work quickly and mechanically, and the existence of "that person" had nothing to do with her at all, and there was no need to take the initiative to ask.

"Leigh, from today onwards, the Fourth Qualified Person will also live with us."

After Chu Xuan finished washing, he only lightly informed Ayanami Li, and then turned around and left the bathroom, and this girl who was too silent seemed to have heard Chu Xuan's words at all, and still continued to wash her face step by step.

“……”

After Chu Xuan closed the door, Ayanami Li silently raised her head, her eyes looked at the indifferent self in the mirror with an unusually calm gaze, and suddenly stretched out her two index fingers and pushed the corners of her mouth diagonally upward.

"Click!"

At this time, the door of the bathroom was suddenly twisted open again, and the black cat in the apron looked at Rei Ayanami who was grimacing at the mirror with an expressionless face, and couldn't believe her eyes.

"Ah...... Hold, sorry, you continue to ......"

The black cat, which reacted quickly, swept behind Rei Ayanami with some embarrassment, and quickly jumped into the bathroom just across the door from the bathroom as if it had escaped.

The girl, who was probably practicing her smile, withdrew her index finger from the corner of her mouth with a blank face, and took a brand-new towel to dry her face casually, and then walked to the frosted glass door of the bathroom, politely raised her hand and knocked lightly a few times.

"Woo Woo ......"

"W-What?"

In the bathroom, there was the nervous voice of the black cat, and Rei Ayana, who didn't seem to think that there was anything wrong with her behavior, replied very calmly:

"I need to go to the bathroom."

"Please, please wait a minute, it's in use!"

Since the black cat had already said so, Ayanami Rei stood in front of the frosted glass door in a daze, not considering whether her shadow on the door would make the black cat inside nervous and unable to control some muscles in her body, nor whether she would hear some embarrassing sounds when she stood at the door.

……

After about two or three times longer than "normal", there was a little rustling in the bathroom, and the sound of the toilet flushing, and then the shadow on the other side of the frosted glass door grew louder and louder......

"It's been a long time, it's been a long time, please use it."

The black cat, whose cheeks were a little red, finally opened the door and said a polite word to Rei Ayanami in a slightly stiff voice.

She can no longer maintain that gentle, graceful and down-to-earth image, like everyone else's ladies, but this is probably not a bad thing.

It's good to want to make a good impression on your new friends, but let them see their most honest side, so you don't have to continue to hide some of your shortcomings in the future, right?

“……”

Rei Ayaami's gaze silently followed the black cat's red eyes, which were the same as hers, until the black cat passed by her, and then fled the bathroom in a panic.

"Li, this is the fourth qualified person who only arrived this morning."

When Rei Ayanami reappeared in the hallway, Chu Xuan stopped her at the door of the restaurant and officially introduced her to the name of her new companion.

"Huh-hu-hu-hu...... I am a friend of your previous life, the fallen black cat of Chiba, who came to this world at the call of my lord.

The five watches are just my name in the world, and you can call me a black cat. ”

Perhaps in order to redeem the dignity he had just lost in front of Rei Ayaba, the black cat danced and performed a dazzling appearance over there, with the last hand hidden on his face, and the five fingers of the other hand spread out to point to the expressionless blue-haired girl, who appeared in a typical middle two pose.

“……”

Rei Ayaba, who was expressionless, narrowed her eyes slightly, looked at the black cat without saying a word for a few seconds, and then silently turned her head to look at Chu Xuan's face, not knowing what she wanted to express.

But Chu Xuan deserved to be Chu Xuan, he only pondered for a short while, and then he completely understood Ayanami Rei's silent inquiry.

"It's good to call her Black Cat normally, but when you mention her to people outside of us, you call her by her last name."

Ayanami Li nodded lightly to Chu Xuan, then moved her gaze back to the black cat's face, and greeted the black cat who was actually a little nervous with an expressionless face:

"Hello, I'm Rei Ayana, the first qualified person, please take care of me."

Although Rei Ayabaami's words were very programmed, as if she didn't have any real feelings, and she didn't show a smile to the black cat that she hadn't yet cultivated to her home, the black cat was still immediately greatly relieved.

After all, she is not a very sociable person, even in the face of friends she once knew in her previous life, she is a little uncertain, and it is great that she can smoothly reconnect with each other now.

"Whew~"

The relaxed black cat finally put away his secondary pose, showed a sincere smile to Ayanami Rei, and said to her in a rather gentle and kind voice:

"Please take care of me in the future, come and eat, I don't know if the breakfast of the Japanese wind is to your liking.

- By the way, I know you don't like meat, so there's only tofu in the miso soup. ”

"Thank you."

Ayanami Rei said the polite words she had only learned from Chu Xuan yesterday to the black cat with an expressionless face, and then walked straight to the table that was already full of food, and sat down in her place yesterday.

But then, she immediately picked up her chopsticks, not knowing what table etiquette was.

"Wait, Leigh."

At this time, the black cat hurriedly chased after her and stopped Rei Ayanami before she could stretch out her chopsticks.

The blue-haired girl turned her head to look at the black cat for some reason, and the black cat sat down beside her, as if she had taught her youngest sister Gokan Zhuxi in the past, and said to her in a gentle but firm voice:

"It's not okay to start without permission, you have to wait until everyone is seated before you can start eating.

And Chu Xuan is the head of the family, only after Chu Xuan moves the chopsticks, others can move the chopsticks, remember? ”

“……”

Rei Ayanami stared at the black cat for a few seconds with her red eyes that didn't shine, and then put down her chopsticks obediently.

"Yes." (To be continued.) )