Kyosuke Hojo returned to Tokyo after finding a suitable store in Miki Okuji, a shopping street near Kasuga Station in Bunkyo Ward. It is a neon old-fashioned shopping street like Yanaka Ginza, a small building with two floors up and down.

Sitting at the only table on the first floor, Miki Okuji, who was wearing a long black dress, turned her head to look at Kyosuke Hojo, who was wearing a black suit:

"Well, I'm sure it's here, investor."

"Hmm."

Kyosuke Hojo also turned his head sideways and looked at the retired female college student with a smile. There was no trace of fear or hesitation about the future in her gentle voice, only anticipation and longing, and her amber eyes shone with excitement.

"Hmm!" As if encouraged again, Miki Okuji stamped his seal.

After shaking hands with the landlord and saying goodbye, the two stood still and looked at the house that would be theirs for years to come.

The contract was drawn up by an administrative scrivener, including the business license. Although you can save some money by doing it yourself, but adhering to the concept of letting others earn the money that should be earned, Kyosuke Hojo decisively stopped the Okuji senior sister who wanted to do everything by herself, and simply found an agent.

And he actually planned to buy it directly, but unfortunately, this kind of shop is generally not for sale, and Senior Sister Okuji also firmly disagrees with his crazy idea.

"Do you want to use the second floor as a living quarter?"

Holding the architectural drawings, Kyosuke Hojo asked.

"The second floor was converted into a café!"

Tilting her head, Miki Okuji looked at the window on the second floor:

"The windows should be made of wood, larger, with brown wooden floors, and the balconies should be planted with azaleas, jasmine, and citrus flowers."

Speaking of this, Okuji clapped his hands: "Of course, there is also Kyosuke's hyacinth, which you like." ”

Raising her hand to cover the sun, she seemed to have seen the flowers in full bloom, and her delicate little nose shrugged cutely, as if she was smelling the flowers, and there was endless longing in her voice:

"As soon as you open the window, the scent of flowers wafts into the house with the sunlight. In the morning, you can sit here and eat breakfast, and the milk with the sun should be more nutritious. The sun doesn't shine in at noon, so it's perfect for a nap......"

Kyosuke Hojo stood beside Okuji with a smile on his face, quietly listening to her plans for the future and his place in her future.

"So let's get started, and we'll see the restaurant open before school starts!" Rolling up the drawings, Kyosuke Hojo took Okuji's snow-white hand and walked into the store.

"Hmm!" Unlike the garden of the word leaf, who always maintains a business-style smile, in this store of her own, Miki Okuji seems to be happy all the time, the corners of her mouth are never calm, and the smile on her face is so bright and moving.

"Considering that my small shop doesn't have that many customers......"

"What nonsense, the people in line must go all the way to the outside of the shopping street, and then the scalpers will be waiting outside your store early in the morning!" Kyosuke Hojo interrupted.

"Hehehe, okay, okay, for the sake of scarcity, the tables in the store are going to use round tables, and the chairs are like this......"

Miki Okuji took out her mobile phone, and she had already prepared the style of the table and chair, not a picture she found on the Internet, but a picture drawn by herself.

"Okay, leave it to me, I'll make it all by myself!"

Kyosuke Hojo said unceremoniously, in his scattered memories, he seems to often do carpentry work in Miyasui Mitsuba's hometown. For a kendo master like him, even if he uses a knife to cut a complete circle, whether it is a manga or glass, he is the best at fiddling with round things!

"Hehe, of course, I was going to do it with Kyosuke from the beginning!" Miki Okuji said with a smile.

It is said that it is decoration, in fact, it is simply decorated, according to their own preferences, the kitchen is already there, and the stove will be done as long as the people on the company side of the order are placed.

"This wall is used to paste menus, and there are two paintings on this wall...... I want to use yellow light here, ...... there."

The crisp voice kept sounding in the empty shop, Miki Okuji held Hojo Kyosuke's hand tightly, jumping like a bird, and she had corresponding arrangements in every corner of the house,

After a long time, she stopped the happy voice.

"Well, am I saying it too quickly?"

Noticing that the hands of the two were still tightly held together, her fair pretty face flushed, but she turned her head and pretended not to see it, and her voice was a little embarrassed.

"Mm-hmm, not at all, I wrote it all down."

Kyosuke Hojo shook his head and opened a blank sheet of paper, starting with a simple perspective view of the store, that is, only two walls and floor. Then the tables and chairs were painted according to the size of the tables and chairs that the senior sister of Okuji showed him before, and then the menus, light bulbs, and hanging pictures on the walls......

It's exactly the same as what Senior Sister Okuji described before.

I don't know if it's because of the excellent spatial imagination brought by science, or because design is an interdisciplinary discipline, although he has no artistic ability, but it was not difficult for Kyosuke Hojo to draw such a simple design drawing according to Okuji's description.

"That's amazing!"

As the content on the paper grew, the surprise in the eyes of the great beauty Okuji Miki became stronger, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and her small mouth opened wide to exclaim.

"Haha, I'm also a cartoonist, I can still do this kind of thing." Looking at the adoration in the eyes of the senior sister of Okuji, Kyosuke Hojo waved his hand casually.

"I've never heard of a manga artist doing such a thing except Kyosuke!" Miki Okuji's originally empty hand also held Hojo Kyosuke's hand, and there was undisguised adoration in her tone.

"Hahaha, it's average. Senior Sister Okuji, let's see if there is anything else to add, if not, we can go and start purchasing. ”

Enjoying the praise of the beauty, someone who was secretly happy in his heart said.

"Hmm~ Kyosuke, your painting is so good, it's exactly the same as I imagined, I really can't find anything to add."

After staring at the design for a few seconds, Miki Okuji raised her little face and pretended to be distressed.

"Hahaha, really, you're too exaggerated, senior sister."

"That, Kyosuke, I'm not a female college student anymore, so it's almost time to change my name, right?" Miki Okuji lowered her head and whispered.

"Huh?" Kyosuke Hojo was stunned for a moment, turned his head, and could only see a faint flush on the face of Senior Sister Okuji.

"So, Okuji?"

"......" Miki Okuji's rich mouth deflated.

"Hahaha, let's go, Miki, today's task is very heavy!"

It was rare to see the gentle and lovely Miki Okuji revealing that little girl's appearance, and Kyosuke Hojo was in a good mood and stood up holding her hand.

"Chief!" X4

The people who came were the Oni Explosion duo who were in charge of driving, as well as Goro Hahata and Yoshima Mitsuhashi, who were in charge of cleaning.

"I'm going to have to work hard for you today."

Kyosuke Hojo nodded, Miki Okuji, who was still being held by him, was still a little shy when he first saw these strangers, but after feeling the strength of his hand, he calmed down and bowed slightly to express his gratitude.

"I don't know how happy I am to be able to play for the chief again before I leave Tokyo." Hideyoshi Onizuka said it.

In fact, the house is already very clean, and the company responsible for managing the house after the last family quits the lease has been cleaned up, otherwise Hojo Kyosuke would have hired a housekeeping company a long time ago, instead of bothering his subordinates, and now it is said that it is cleaned up, and it is just that many people will help later.

Onizuka drove and the group came to Chiyoda Ward and gathered shops selling indoor and outdoor decoration materials, but there are no such shops in Bunkyo Ward.

The car driven by Onizuka is a small truck, which is responsible for pulling some loose things like lamps, such as tables, and things that need to be processed will be done at the sales template, otherwise you will have to be careful not to disturb the people after taking them to the Kasuga Station shopping street.

The renovation work was carried out in an orderly manner, and it was almost completed in a week.

"Now the technology is amazing, and you can buy flowers in full bloom at any time." Reaching out and gently touching the hyacinth on the balcony, Miki Okuji sighed.

"Isn't that what scientific and technological progress means?"

Kyosuke Hojo holds a glass of iced Coke, although it is a café, but for him who loves to sleep and likes that kind of lethargic feeling, coffee has never been the first choice for drinks. Miki Okuji obviously knows what kind of person he is, not to mention anything else, as soon as the refrigerator was bought, she purchased a batch of carbonated drinks and put them in it.

"Speaking of which, I don't know the name of the store yet." Putting down the glass, Kyosuke Hojo suddenly thought of this important matter. He asked Miki Okuji this question from the moment he started registering the store, but the other party kept selling Sekiko.

"Huh." Miki Okuji, who was also holding a glass of iced Coke, turned the glass, and her bright and gorgeous face was full of triumphant and playful smiles.

"Kyosuke, smell what I'm smelling right now."

"Cigars." Kyosuke Hojo didn't hesitate to speak, even if the scent of flowers on the balcony kept wafting into his nose, it only added some changes to the fragrance that belonged to Miki.

"A slight fruity aroma, with a little sweetness, and a little bitter under the tasting."

This is the peculiar cigar aroma that Kyosuke Hojo "smelled" on Miki Okuji when the two first met, and he was not familiar with his peculiar "sense of smell" at the time, and he thought it was left after Miki smoked, but the other party's hot girl has not smoked since she retired, let alone a cigar.

But now, that smell has changed. I don't know if it's because of the color of the floral fragrance or what, the bitterness under the fine taste is completely gone, replaced by endless softness. As long as she closes her eyes, the fragrance of Miki Okuji envelops him like silk, just like her own gentleness.

"Ah~ really, isn't my perfume sprayed in vain?" The owner of the new beauty shop said in distress, obviously every time he goes on a date, he carefully selects the right perfume, but every time this guy says that.

"Hahaha, but that's the smell of Miki, no matter how long it takes, you won't get tired of it. At this point, even the best perfumes can't compare. Kyosuke Hojo said with a smile.

"It's like a fantasy story, should I say that I really deserve to be a cartoonist?" Miki Okuji said helplessly, looking like she really can't do anything about you, but the smile on her face became more and more flattering.

"Oh, here it is!" From the balcony, she saw a car with a "Nagai advertisement" on it driving into the shopping street, and she stood up and let out a sound of excitement.

"Oh, it's a sign." Kyosuke Hojo also stood up.

"Well, come on, come on."

Miki Okuji, who was wearing a white dress, grabbed Kyosuke Hojo and ran to the stairs.

"Smoke Pavilion"

The black solid wood plaque has two square Chinese characters on it.

"Smoke Pavilion?" Kyosuke Hojo said softly.

"Well, I'm a cooking pavilion, and I'll definitely be covered with the smell of cooking smoke by then, and Kyosuke, you said that I smelled of cigars, so I just used that name." Looking at the boy standing in the middle of the street and looking at the signboard carefully, Miki Okuji said playfully.

"It's going to get even tastier."

Looking at the beautiful girl standing at the door of the store, wearing a white dress with her hands behind her back, and her amber eyes full of happiness looking at her, Kyosuke Hojo also laughed.

The next day, the restaurant was quietly opened, but the entrance was still full of wreaths, and in addition to Hojo Kyosuke's, there were teachers and good classmates from Okuji Miki's school, and of course, Hiratsuka's. It's just that she has something to do at school today and has to come a little late.

Yes, the opening of the neon store and the birthday celebration are all wreaths, which look basically the same as some white wreaths, but the color is bright and festive such as red, but it can also be a wreath.

The glass door of the store hadn't opened yet, and Miki Okuji didn't feel nervous about the upcoming opening, just looked at the boy opposite with a sweet face and tasted his own food.

"Is it really okay to leave it out like this?" In front of him was a large plate of steak, which was sent by Kyosuke Hojo to his old family, and his family would be Miki Okuji from now on.

"Of course, you have to satisfy the investors first, because didn't Kyosuke say that if you eat with me, the food will become more delicious?"

With her hands on the table supporting her little face, Miki Okuji's eyes were full of happiness, and she looked at her investor without blinking for a moment.

"Haha." Looking at that glamorous and charming face, Kyosuke Hojo grinned toothily and raised his knife to cut the steak.

"Then I'll go."

The two seemed to have returned to the time when they first met in the Court of Words.

At that time, the yellow light was ambiguous and blurry, and Miki Okuji pursed her plump lips tightly, and sat aside a little at a loss, looking at the boy who didn't look angry at all because he was misunderstood by himself. He was shy, saying that eating with him would make it more delicious, but he looked like he wanted to swallow himself in one gulp.

At this moment, under the same yellow light, sitting in his own dining room, watching him cut the steak he fried by himself, wrapped it in his own sauce, and slowly stuffed it into his mouth to chew. Miki Okuji only thinks that she is so lucky, the two met due to a misunderstanding, but he became a part of his dream.

There was nothing but the man in her amber eyes.

And Kyosuke Hojo's head is full of brilliant fireworks.

"Received a gift from 'Miki Okuji' - artistic talent"

Can I be saved for my aphthia? This was the first thought that popped into Kyosuke Hojo's head.

"Kyosuke, you're about to graduate from high school now, have you figured out where to go to college?"

Waking up from her fantasies, Miki Okuji thought of Kyosuke Hojo across the table, who should be in his third year of high school now.

Write more tomorrow!!

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