"Welcome home."

In the old rental house, the girl lay on the sofa and said the warmest words expressionlessly.

Shiina Kiri had changed her shoes in the hallway, and she had already leaned back on the couch, holding a stack of white paper and watching quietly.

She was wearing a loose bubble skirt today, huddled in the corner of the sofa, and stepped on the sofa with two bare little white feet.

The bottom of the skirt looms, and the small pants are white.

Sensing Shiina's gaze, the girl folded her legs together and leaned diagonally on the armrests of the sofa.

"Inspired to write today?"

Shiina Kiri picked up the pillow that was put aside, and the pillow sank slightly, she should have been lying on the sofa just now.

Knowing that he was going to sit over, he changed to a sitting position now.

"Hmm."

Write in the people you like, and of course the inspiration will become more and more as you get along.

And, those few dreams yesterday.

She also wrote down.

Marrying him should be the best solution.

"Hmm." Shiina Kiri looked at the balcony with a pillow and thought about how to speak.

The living room was quiet, save for the sound of girls flipping papers.

"What do you want to eat tonight?" She suddenly accosted and said without raising her head as she looked at the manuscript.

Shiina Kiri came back early or late, so she had to wait for him to come back before cooking, lest the food get cold.

And she's just learned, and with Shiina Kiri, she'll be much more down-to-earth.

She doesn't taste salty, she needs him.

"There's no ingredients in the fridge, are you, are you going out to eat tonight?"

Although they bought a refrigerator, they didn't buy too many ingredients at once every time.

And I'm going to see Megumi Nakano later.

"Okay." Aakura nodded. "Shall you go now?"

"Go now."

It was already eight and thirty, and he and Megumi Nakano had an appointment to meet at eight thirty.

"Then I'll go change my clothes." The girl put her feet down, stepped into her slippers and walked towards the bedroom.

The white bubble dress on her body is in the style of pajamas, which she wore when Shiina Kirishi first saw her before.

The dress is beautiful, probably because she is good-looking.

"Go ahead."

Shiina Kiri watched her leave, and the figure closed with the bedroom door.

Three minutes later, the girl opened the door and walked out.

She wears white graffiti short sleeves, loose denim trousers on the lower body, and her long hair is naturally tied to her chest.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Shiina Kirishi staring at her again, Aakura lowered her head suspiciously.

She didn't notice anything wrong, and she wouldn't be as naked in her trousers as she had just been.

"Asakura is so beautiful." Shiina said with a chuckle.

"Oh."

The girl was not shy about his compliments.

When he took her out for the first time, he asked her if there were many boys chasing her when she was at school, and the girl agreed.

But she was still a little happy.

Girls will be happy when they are praised for their beauty by the people they like.

"Aren't you going to change your clothes?"

Shiina Kiri is also wearing the uniform of Yuuki High School.

"Yes." Shiina Kiri nodded.

"But I still have something to tell you, Asakura."

He patted the couch and motioned for her to sit next to him.

When the girl sat down, Shiina Kiri groaned.

"Just when I was working part-time, Aunt Nakano called me."

Aakura frowned. "What did she say?"

"Auntie said she wanted to meet me, but she told me not to tell you, saying that she wouldn't let me see her if she knew." Shiina Kiri told the truth.

He said as he observed the girl's expression change.

She didn't look much surprised.

That's right, she should have met Megumi Nakano.

Even if she hadn't seen it, she was woken up by the landlord's aunt that morning, and she knew from his conversation with the landlord that her mother had come to her.

"You're not allowed to go." Aakura looked at him and whispered.

Shiina fog. “……”

Not to mention, Megumi Nakano's words are really right.

Aakura really refused to let him see her, no wonder she was so excited before.

"Asakura, there are some things that must be faced."

The girl was silent for a moment. "Didn't she tell you why I ran away from home?"

"No, Auntie said she wanted to tell me in person." Shiina Kiri shook his head and continued. "Are you going to tell me?"

Shiina Kiri still remembers the girl's expression that day, her eyes were very hollow, and she didn't seem to think about anything.

With an indifferent attitude, he took off the bath towel and got into his arms at night.

Shiina Kirishi felt at that time that her running away from home might not be common because of the pressure.

"You want to go?" Instead of answering, she asked rhetorically.

"I want you to go with me." He took the girl's little hand that was placed on the couch.

He didn't know why Aakura Yin ran away from home, but from his point of view, he wanted to handle things well.

Aakura lowered his head.

"What if she wants to take me away? Would you say yes? ”

Shiina Kirishi subconsciously wanted to refuse.

But he thought about it carefully, she couldn't be the only one in her life.

He couldn't really treat her like a kitten and be locked up in this old rental house for the rest of her life.

Where has her life gone, she still has to meet many people, friendship, family...

"Asakura, your family should be in Tokyo too, right? I can go to you then. ”

The girl's body trembled slightly, and she wrenched his hand away.

"I'm not satisfied with this answer."

"What?"

Shiina didn't think it was wrong.

"I'm not going back."

She didn't look at him, but looked at the coffee table in front of her and said word by word. "I want to follow you."

"Preferably for a lifetime."

She's made this home for a long time.

Even if he was ambiguous, he never gave her a promise.

But she still didn't want to leave.

Shiina Kiri looked at her side face for a moment of trance. "Then let's not go back."

"Hmm."

Aakura felt that he was actually really good, and although he was quite, he wouldn't force her to do things she didn't like.

By his side, she could sleep soundly.

Actually, she wasn't so sleepy before.

She hadn't slept well for more than a month before she met him.

In the past half month, she seems to have made up for all the sleep time she lacked in the previous month.

He was torn between her and the girl named Gensheng Yuxia, so she would accompany him.

If she had been with him the longest, he would have been hers.

"Shall we go, then?" Shiina Kiri got up, looked at the girl and said.

Asakara tone reminder. "You didn't change your clothes."

"Oh yes, wait a minute, I'll change it now." Shiina Kiri also realized this, and hurriedly walked towards the bedroom.

……

This bakery café is located on a corner of the old street.

It's actually quite distinctive.

The bakery café has two floors, the first floor is a bakery that sells freshly baked bread, and the second floor is a café with a professional coffee bean roaster.

After purchasing bread on the first floor, the waiter will hand over the bread tray and recommend coffee according to the bread you have selected.

Shiina Kirishi walked into this café with the girl.

He chose jam toast downstairs and looked at the girl.

"I want this too."

Aakura Yin looked at the waiter in black overalls and said calmly.

"Okay."

The waiter was a middle-aged foreigner wearing a white mask, with deep-set eyes that looked like he had dark circles.

Surprisingly, he didn't speak English, but spoke Japanese fluently.

"Jam toast with 'dusk' can make the dining experience even better for two."

"Why?" Shiina Kiri came to interest.

He didn't know what "dusk" was, so he thought it was the café's specialty coffee.

"Sir, this set is a combination of the chef's and baker's opinions on the flavor of the bread, and then through the selection of coffee bean varieties, processing methods, roasting degrees, extraction methods, etc., ......"

"Of course, this is just advice, you don't have to order it, sir." After the introduction, the waiter said politely.

"Okay, let's do what you recommend."

Shiina Kirishi heard what he said, so he was happy to try.

He summed up the waiter's words, probably that the sweetness of the jam toast in this shop is not very high, and the bitterness of the "dusk" is not strong, but the mellow is very high.

Well, he didn't know why the sweetness was not so high.

"She's the same." He glanced at the girl beside him and added.

Shiina Kiri suddenly thought of a point, is Asakura Yin drinking coffee the same as boiled water?

I just don't know if she can taste the burnt taste of coffee?

Maybe you can taste a little different depending on the taste, right?

"Okay, please wait." The waiter picked up the notepad on the side and stood and quickly wrote down a bunch of words.

Then he turned and walked into the bakery behind him.

After the meeting, he brought the fruit plate with two servings of jam toast and handed it to Shiina Kiri.

"Sir, the stairs on the second floor go straight this side and turn left to see it."

"Okay, thank you."

Shiina Kiri walked towards the stairs with a bread tray, and the girl silently followed him.

The café on the second floor looks like a lot of space.

It's on the corner of the street, so if it's daytime, it's a sight to behold with gray glass on all sides.

"This way."

There are not many people in the café, and it is not too little.

Seeing that Shiina Kiri was still looking around, the girl pulled the corner of his clothes.

Shiina Kiri looked in the direction she was saying.

At a table of four by the window, a woman dressed in black sits.

The woman looks in her thirties, visibly haggard to the naked eye.

The appearance has a four-point resemblance to Aakura tone and is stylish, too.

She looked at him in surprise at this point.

Oh, it should be Asakura Yin who looked at him with surprise on his face.

When Shiina Kiri and Aakura Otomi walked up to her, the woman got up to greet her.

"Mr. Shiina Kiri, tone."

Although she called Shiina Kirishi first, her eyes never left Asakura Yin from beginning to end.

Shiina Kiri said. "Aunt Nakano, just call me Xiaowu."

Megumi Nakano called him sir, feeling weird.

This feeling is like being older than Aakura Tone's generation.

Although he wanted to let Asakura Yin call him "Dad" in private.

Megumi Nakano finally set her sights on him. "Huh? Okay, little fog, you sit down. ”

The girl took the lead and sat down across from the woman.

Seeing this, Shiina Kiri also sat down opposite the woman and sat with Aakura Tone.

He put the bread tray down, then turned his head to look at Aakura Tone, who had been grim since she came to the café.

She sat on the other side of her mother, as if to take a stand.

"Tone."

Megumi Nakano tried to reach out and grab the girl's hand on the table, but was dodged.

"You tell him he's my boyfriend now."

Megumi Nakano's face was slightly ugly.

I don't know if it's because of the girl's resistance, or because of what she said.

It's her boyfriend.

This kind of thing is self-evident.

Megumi Nakano really regrets it, her daughter is still so young, but...

But fortunately, this boy doesn't look bad, and he also has a part-time job at night, which shows that he is quite diligent.

If Shiina Kiri was the kind of gangster with yellow hair and no idea how to do anything, she would definitely go crazy.

Her own marriage had already failed twice, and she didn't want her daughter to repeat it.

"Auntie, let's settle the matter first." Shiina Kiri answered.

He was actually a little strange why Megumi Nakano was the only one who came.

What about Aakura's father?

"Okay."

The woman began to scrutinize him.

He was very clean and polite, so she had a pretty good impression of him.

Shiina Kiri was a little uncomfortable with her, and took the initiative to say.

"Auntie, didn't you say you were going to tell me everything?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the woman's face turned much paler.

She looked at the boy at Aakura's side, and the girl looked at her with a blank face, as if waiting for her to tell her about her crime.

Megumi Nakano stared at the black coffee in front of her.

The coffee in the white porcelain cup can empty the mind, and the mellow black coffee seems to be a bottomless abyss.

"Let's go." Aakura Yin suddenly got up.

"No, don't, Yin, Mom really knows it's wrong." The woman hurriedly got up and stopped the girl.

"Mom has divorced him, and Mom went to divorce the day after you left, I really know it's wrong."

Shiina Kirishi was surprised to find that Megumi Nakano was actually crying.

He turned his head to look at Aakura, only to see that she was looking at him too.

She had already said that she was leaving, and now she is not leaving, she is waiting for him to make a decision.

Megumi Nakano seemed to notice this, too, and looked at him.

Shiina Kiri really found it tricky.

He didn't know what was going on between them, and now he was sure that Megumi Nakano had done something wrong.

Even she admitted it herself.

But now that they have come, if they leave in such a vain, won't they come in vain?

"Wait a minute, Asakura." Shiina Kiri reached out and pulled her left hand, and the girl pursed her lips.

"Okay." She sat back down beside him.

Shiina Kiri suddenly realized that she hadn't let go of his hand as before.

Instead, take the initiative to clench.

He felt dependence on it.

"Auntie, you sit too."

"Okay, thank you, thank you." Megumi Nakano breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the waiter had already come from a distance with two servings of coffee, and he placed the coffee on the table in front of Shiina Kiri and Asakura Oto, and bowed slightly politely. "Please take your time."

It seems that there is no unusual thing between the three of them.

After the waiter left, the woman took a sip of coffee and then took the initiative to tell the cause and effect.

After listening to Shiina Mist, he only felt that the three views exploded.

No wonder Aakura looks indifferent.

In front of her and her stepfather, her mother chose her stepfather, and she heard it word for word.

He couldn't help but clench the girl's little hand.

I thought I would have to treat her well in the future.

(End of chapter)