Love Comes After Learning

As if thinking of something, she suddenly asked.

"... Let me ask you, do you still have troubles now?"

Asada followed her gaze to the neatly arranged books on the bookcase, and answered cautiously.

"As long as you are human, you will have one or two troubles, right?"

He doesn't want to explain his recent troubles, most of them are related to girls...

"Then do you know how to solve your troubles?"

"I don't know." Asada's tone became slightly displeased, just when he was about to urge Tachibana Rui to speak quickly.

She turned her head and stared straight at him.

As if memories were flickering, in the yellowed picture, the young and immature face suddenly replaced the mature face, and the dull, dull-looking boy was holding a book and asked something confused.

(At this time, how did I answer...)

The incandescent light flickered for a moment, returning to reality, the boy was staring at her with frowning eyes, his eyes were piercing.

——He looks smarter and more cheerful than before.

Tachibana suddenly smiled.

The corners of her calmly pursed lips rose slightly, as if spring snow had melted.

"Just leave it to your future self. Your future self must know what to do... It seems that you in the past really did it."

Asada noticed that the fist on her side was slowly clenched, and then loosened little by little.

"Although it's uncomfortable to forget without authorization, it feels like being cheated by a heartless person... But it's okay, it's been so long anyway, if I'm the only one who still remembers it, I'll be like a fool."

Tachibana Ruyi said softly, regained her expressionless face, turned around, and walked towards the door without hesitation.

Asada could not help but stand up from the chair when she saw that she was going to leave.

"Wait a minute, so what the hell happened in the past? Why can't I remember anything?"

She didn't stop, she just spoke calmly.

"Six years ago, I read a book with you here for a month, except eating and reading, that's all."

"Only when we left, did we officially tell each other our names. The relationship was not very good at all... In other words, we didn't talk a few words from the beginning to the end. At that time, it felt like your room was like a library. Quiet and dull.

If it weren't for me, maybe it would directly become the tomb of the Pharaoh? "

Rui opened the door and looked back at him.

"As for why you forget... how do I know? I'm not the roundworm in your stomach."

"But I think that should be the price of getting rid of troubles, right? After all, it's written like this in novels."

Asada stood there in a daze, looking at her ruddy eyes sparkling with waves, as if they were full of loss and memories, and relaxed like giving up.

She shrugged nonchalantly.

"It doesn't matter if you can't remember it, it's not an important past, so be it."

"Good night, Shinichi-san."

The smile on her lips was fleeting, she left the room, her footsteps were as light as a cat treading on the ground.

Asada opened his mouth slightly, looking at the closed door with a puzzled expression on his face.

Chapter 38 Breakfast time with Rui

the next morning.

When Asada got up and went to the toilet downstairs to wash up, he happened to bump into Tachibana Rui who came out of the bathroom, wearing pajamas and with disheveled hair.

"Good morning."

"……Good morning."

After the two were taken aback for a moment, they passed by with a flat expression, just like classmates in the supermarket who were about to check out and were ready to leave but happened to meet at the door, even saying hello in passing .

Asada didn't ask about what happened yesterday, and she didn't intend to bring it up either.

As if nothing had happened, they went to the toilet one by one and walked back upstairs very naturally.

Suddenly, her plain voice sounded behind Asada.

"Breakfast, Western or Japanese, which one."

Asada held the toilet doorknob, opened the door and stood still: "Don't bother, I can do it myself."

"Which one." She asked again without giving up.

Asada raised his eyes and looked at Tachibana Rui who was looking down at him at the stairs. His face was still expressionless, but there was an inexplicable force in his eyes, "If you don't answer, I'll follow you in to the bathroom later".

"...Western style."

Asada turned her head, she really didn't want to argue with this eccentric cousin.

"Yeah." Tachibana Rui nodded, but didn't go upstairs immediately, but said lightly, "I heard that many boys like to smell the smell of girls after going to the bathroom."

Asada's eyebrows twitched: "So I'm waiting for the smell to go away."

Ruyi suddenly realized: "So, I thought it would be more exciting to hear it at the door..."

"..."

The doorknob was creaked, and Asada wanted to take a deep breath to calm down his inner trough, but Rui was staring at him silently in the stairwell, holding his breath in his chest in a daze, not daring to vomit or Sucking, the expression is as tangled as constipation.

It wasn't until the sound of steps going upstairs that he walked quickly to the bathroom, closed the door, took a deep breath, and did stretching exercises to dissipate the stagnant anger and calm down again.

Then he went back to the toilet, held his breath, brushed his teeth and washed his face as fast as he could, and the mirror reflected his face that was so tense that he gritted his teeth.

——This damn cohabitation life!This inexplicable cousin!

I would rather live with Uesugi!

Feeling a little bad early in the morning, after Asada came out of the toilet, he happened to meet Rui who had changed into home clothes and came down from upstairs.

"Will it stink?" She tilted her head and asked without any malice.

"..." Asada was silent, passed her and walked directly to the living room, picked up the pen on the cabinet, and wrote a new rule in the blank space under the life agreement on the wall.

『No.16: Do not ask about your feelings after going to the toilet. 』

Rui looked behind him, and nodded flatly.

"I see."

Then he turned around, went to the kitchen and skillfully put on his apron, and started to make breakfast.

Asada put down his pen, rubbed the center of his eyebrows, and let out a tired sigh silently.

When Rui was using the kitchen, he went back to his room to change, took the schoolbag he packed last night, locked the door of the room, replied Fumino's good morning message, and returned to the living room to sit down at the dining table.

Not long after, the humming of the range hood gradually weakened, and Tachibana Ruyi came out with two simple Western-style breakfasts, one was placed in front of him, and she sat opposite him with the other.

Asada put down the phone.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"I'm gonna start now. "

Reticent and few words, the quiet atmosphere seems to blend with the pale golden morning light coming in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, and the sound of knocking chopsticks and dinner plates is more crisp in the water chestnut light.

Asada took a bite of the crispy toast, took the tone that his brother should have, and spoke lightly.

"Don't you sleep longer during the summer vacation?"

The scattered sunlight made Rui's little face look like milk, and she answered vaguely while nibbling on bacon.

"Originally... I was going to sleep in the cage... I happened to meet you..."

Asada paused, then took a sip of coffee as if nothing had happened.

"Don't be so troublesome, I can cook too."

"It's the rent. Cooking is also my hobby."

Although it can be annoying at times, her casual and straightforward attitude makes it impossible to misunderstand, which makes Asada relax a little.

Ruyi suddenly asked back.

"What about you? What are you going to do when you get up so early?"

"Go to cram school, I remember I said it yesterday."

"Really? I'm not listening."

"..."

The atmosphere was silent again.

Although there is no misunderstanding, but many times, this guy is really annoying.

Asada can understand why she said before that she has no friends.

Time flowed slowly like this, and when breakfast was almost finished, Rui asked plainly while picking up the dishes.

"Last night's dinner, is there any room for improvement?"

Asada looked at her suspiciously.

"Sister Yangcai has a head that can only eat and a chest that can only compost. I can't expect her to give you any good advice... Since you can cook, then give some useful advice."

Rui glanced at him, then shifted her gaze away, and her voice became slightly softer.

"...After all, you are the only person who has eaten my food besides your family."

"..." Asada frowned and sighed again.

"Okay, I'll get straight to the point."

When he put on the thin coat, his eyes sharpened suddenly.

"The oil temperature of the fried chicken pieces is too high, so that the chicken loses its smooth and tender taste at the moment when it is put into the pot; the sugar of Tamagoyaki is also 5.00% more, and the stewed beef takes too long to cook, and almost every piece of meat is burnt. It's too soft!"

In Tachibana Rui's slowly widening eyes, Asada picked up her schoolbag, glanced at her lightly, and said cold words.

"Especially the last pot of seafood soup, it's like freestyle with killer whales in the elementary school swimming pool, didn't you try it first?"