Izumi-senpai left, and the maid returned to her job.

Today can be described as the busiest day in Naoki Natsume's family since she went to college...... It is also the day that he cherishes life the most in his life.

There was the hum of the washing machine in the bathroom downstairs, and the bedroom door was open so a little vibration could be heard.

He lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling, remembering the gaze that Asai had just taken out of the small basket and stared at, and he couldn't help but shudder.

What a terrifying gaze!

Even though Asai was calm, Naoki Natsume could feel the maid's dissatisfaction with overtime-

The clothes she had finally washed couldn't be rescued, and she died in the gap between him and his senior sister, and the corpses of the clothes piled up and gradually grew a smell.

It took nearly an hour of Asai to re-wash the clothes.

Intimate clothing for two people needs to be washed separately, socks and underwear and underwear must also be washed separately, and even light-colored clothes that are easy to stain must be washed separately from dark-colored clothes......

When Asai Mao finally finished this extra work, she began to carry out today's daily cleaning.

Mop the floor, iron the clothes that the two people will go out tomorrow and hang them on the coat rack at the door, and only then start preparing dinner.

And Natsume Naoki also went from the bedroom to the study with a small crutch, ready to take advantage of the last bit of time before dinner to consolidate the knowledge learned during the day.

After cooking the meal, Asai Mao put out a small portion of dinner that matched Naoki's meal and sent it to him upstairs, after all, Naoki's foot was injured and inconvenient, and the essence of a maid was to take care of her master.

When she went into the study to deliver food, she was also caught by Naoki Natsume and asked, Asai Mao was thinking about something else while having a headache about how to explain these simple questions to him in simpler words.

"The girl who came today is the trading partner that Natsume-kun mentioned before, right?" After Asai finished speaking, he said coldly.

"Huh?"

"There are a lot less Chinese medicines in the refrigerator."

Naoki Natsume thought for a moment, decided not to hide it, nodded and said, "Yes, her name is Mio Izumi, and she is a junior in the physical training department of the Faculty of Physical Education...... He is also the president of a sports club. ”

When he said the last half of the sentence, Naoki Natsume remembered the injury on his foot again, and his eyes were full of mixed tastes.

Regarding the injury on his foot, after Izumi-senpai left, he had already told the truth under the "friendly" questioning of Asai.

Asai looked at Naoki Natsume's expression, and suddenly asked in a serious tone, "Do you really want to join the sports club?" ”

Natsume didn't understand why Asai asked that, but this intention would not be fake: "Yes, I have to join the sports club." ”

Asai asked again, "Because you like that senpai?" ”

Naoki Natsume thought about it, but shook his head slightly: "I don't know if I like it, but I did have a similar idea when I wanted to join the sports club for the first time last year...... At that time, I thought that my senior sister was very sassy and beautiful when she ran and jumped, and I wanted to see more. ”

No one can be sure when they fell in love with a girl, it was two people who casually looked at each other? Or was it the first time I had the thought of "I want to see her more"?

"And what about today?"

"I probably failed last time, so I was very unwilling, and I tried again after exercising for more than half a year."

"What about after this failure?"

"Hmm...... Sure enough, I will still be unwilling, so there will be a next time. ”

Naoki Natsume smiled: "But I can't help it, I'm too bad...... Wait until the injury is healed and continue to exercise. There are still three years left before graduation, and after three years of training, he can't run 50 meters in 9 seconds, right? ”

"I can understand that joining the sports club is Natsume-kun's wish that you really want to realize in the short term?"

Something flickered in Asai Mao's clear eyes.

Naoki Natsume suddenly had a hunch that his next answer would change his life.

It seems that as soon as he says this, some powerful servant will make it his life goal and fight for it.

But he still said it firmly: "Yes, I want to prove myself." Even if I'm a little behind at the starting line, I'm no worse than anyone else. ”

"Moreover, how can there be a reason not to earn back that breath if you lose someone?"

Naoki Natsume showed the temperament of a teenager at this moment.

If it weren't for today's conversation, Asai Mao would have thought that Naoki Natsume had said goodbye to the word Bloody Fang Gang.

After thinking about it, she nodded thoughtfully, and then said, "Since Natsume-kun has this awareness, then please continue to maintain the current self-motivation, as for other things...... According to the contract, it falls within the scope of the maid's work. ”

With that, she looked up at the perpetual calendar on the wall.

Naoki Natsume didn't understand what she wanted to do, but found that Asai's mental value had risen a few points again.

"Oh yes, I want to confirm again," Before Asai was about to get up and leave, he seemed to remember something, and turned to him and asked, "Natsume-kun just said that he likes that senior sister of the sports club?" ”

Naoki Natsume's cheeks flushed, "Watching my senior sister running and jumping on the playground and sweating, I will feel that time has slowed down, and there is a hint of coolness in the summer heat...... The mood will also improve. I'm not sure if it's like. ”

"That's a good answer, 60 points to pass." Mao Asai said expressionlessly, "Then leave this matter to me." ”

"I'll come back in ten minutes to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Natsume-kun, please hurry up and eat, don't let me wash the dishes twice and increase the workload."

Naoki Natsume realized that he had been pulling Asai to consolidate the knowledge he had learned in class during the day, and he had forgotten to eat.

The rice is already much colder.

Suddenly, he thought of something and shouted outside the door: "I'm sorry, your food over there is also cold, right?" ”

"I've already eaten it."

Asai went downstairs, looked at the table of food without moving chopsticks, thought for a moment but didn't sit down to eat.

She lifted her finger, and there was a strand of hair wrapped around her index finger.

Asai Mao didn't know that he had forgotten to take care of the sofa and was found by Mio Izumi, and Mio Izumi couldn't have imagined that her ponytail would also lose her hair.

And she didn't expect that her hair would be discovered by Naoki Natsume's professional maid.

Asai compares it to his own hair, convinced that it was left by Mio Izumi.

So she didn't eat anymore and went into the toilet to lock the door.

Her maid had a small box in her jacket pocket at all times, and when she took it out and opened it, there were a few delicate little matches, and a tuft of hair—

The hair is Naoki Natsume's fetal hair when she was born.

Mio Izumi's hair and Naoki Natsume's strands of hair were intertwined and ignited, and the smoke after the flash of fire emitted an indescribable smell.

The smell of burnt feathers is probably something that anyone who has ever been to high school has ever smelled.

The smell isn't the key, the smoke is.

Asai Mao looked at the inky black smoke ball, and he already had a bottom in his heart.

Naoki Natsume, who was enjoying a meal that was also delicious even when it was cold, remembered the notes while looking at Asai today while picking up rice.

He would never have thought that this was the case for the first time between Senpai and Asai.

………………

April 9th, Tuyao Day.

Naoki Natsume, who has removed the plaster cast and bandages, no longer needs a small crutch to go out, and the extremely inconvenient crutch life some time ago made him dream back to the time when he was injured in high school.

This time, the injury healed very quickly, so fast that Naoki Natsume felt that it was a miracle!

It was Saturday, and he was in a better mood after the injury, and he rarely wanted to go out, and when Mao Asai asked him if he needed to be accompanied, he also said he didn't need it for the first time.

"Of course not, this time I went out to buy a sequel to Teacher Nanami's "Jockey Ancestor", how can I let a girl accompany me?"

Naoki Natsume got on the train to Akihabara in the dazzling sunlight.

Something like a book is legal in Japan, but it can't be sold on the street in a big way.

But for Naoki Natsume, a veteran otaku who grew up, he could find the store that sold this thing in Akihabara with his eyes closed, and he couldn't have known better which one was cheaper and which one was fast to buy and which one might have new books.

After the train turns to the subway, and when you come out of Akihabara Station in Chiyoda Ward, you will see the huge posters outside the towering buildings of Akihabara, and he recognizes the posters of "Bone King" and "Moe King" at a glance, followed by "Re:0" and "Blue Sea", which is suspected of poster fraud.

It's obviously a drinking fan, and it has to be advertised as a diving fan.

On weekends, many stores in Akihabara hold comic exhibitions to attract popularity, and there are large and small comic exhibitions that really make Akihabara a much more lively than weekdays, and the breath on the face and various visual impacts will still make Natsume Naoki, who has come here many times after being reincarnated, feel a lot of emotion.

This is worthy of being a holy place for a house!

Naoki Natsume followed the crowd of fancy clothes to the door of an ACG store that collects books, games, and manga.