--hyacinth

"Twins are two people no matter how they look, just like oranges can be sour or sweet, and meals can be light or salty. In this world, there are no identical people."

The crystal snowflakes fell quietly in the cold wind.Reach out and catch the little piece that fell from the sky.The cold touch spread out in the hand, leaving a small drop of water.

"It sucks!!!"

In the park, a little girl in a red cotton-padded jacket and cheongsam, with two cute haircuts, angrily threw flowers heavily on the face of the boy opposite, then turned around and ran away with red eyes.

On a winter day, 4-year-old Asaba Yuta was told for the first time by a girl she just met that she was bad.

The thick door curtain was raised and lowered, and the rusty copper bell also made a crisp sound under the action of the red-haired girl.The light brown wooden door was slammed shut, and the girl plunged into the arms of the man who was clearing the table under the gentle eyes of the customers in the store.

"What's the matter, Nobuko?" The young man who looked eighty percent similar to the girl put down the rag in his hand when the girl entered the door, rubbed his hands on his clothes, Feng Xiangyang put his hands on his daughter's shoulders and asked softly .

The girl named Xinzi buried her head in her father's arms and rubbed vigorously, even if her hairstyle was ruined by her mother's tossing for more than half an hour, she didn't care.Even through a thin sweater, Feng Xiangyang could feel how cold his daughter's little hands were holding onto the hem of his clothes.

"Alala~~~ Is Xiaoxinzi being bullied by someone's brat? It's okay, tell uncle, uncle will help you bully him back."

The regular customers in the store who were waiting for the food to be served waved their hands to tease the little girl who was lying in her father's arms and acted like a baby, but they didn't expect that the other party raised her head fiercely after hearing her words.

"No!!! Xiaoxinzi wants to protect Chunjiang and Yuxi's knights, so I don't want help from a wretched uncle like you!"

"..."

The uncle who was still waving changed his style of painting instantly to white.

Feng Xiangyang, who opened his mouth to point out his daughter's rude words and deeds, suddenly heard the sound of a copper bell ringing at the door.Raising his head, he saw a familiar little boy standing at the door, looking around the store.

"Nobuko, Yuki-kun is here to find you~~~"

The girl who heard the voice buried her face in her father's arms again, and under the guilty eyes of the boy opposite, she puffed her face and said to her father in a muffled voice.

"Liar, he's not Yuxi, he's a liar."

Until that moment, Asaba Yuta didn't understand why the girl became so angry in the park.

"Well... for Yuxi, he should be unable to go out because he is sick."

The girl on the opposite side raised her head from her father's arms and looked at him with a puffy face, her round eyes were full of distrust towards him.

"This..." He scratched his face and handed out the blue paper bag in his hand. "Yuxi said he met you in the park yesterday, so I wanted to try my luck there. But I didn't expect you to be there. I'm sorry I didn't explain clearly to you when we met. I'm Yuxi's twin brother Asaba Yuta."

The chestnut-haired boy bent over at ninety degrees and apologized to the girl opposite.

"This is the scarf you threw away yesterday, Xinzi~~~" Taking the things in the boy's hand, Feng Xiangyang flipped through them and handed them to his daughter. "Hurry up and thank me, it's not easy to stay in the park in such a cold weather."

Opening the paper bag, it was indeed the scarf that I had thrown away, and it had been washed and put into the bag.

"Why? Since you are not Yuxi, you can refute me when I call you in the park. Why do you pretend to be Yuxi and talk to me?"

Amber eyes blinked, and the girl who left her father's arms poked the boy's face strangely.

"It's true, brother Yuta who is exactly the same as Yuki."

"..." Asahane Yutaguro, who was poked in the face to test the authenticity, "It's just giving you something back, whether it's me or Yuki, it's the so-called, and it hurts to say that the two of us are exactly the same——"

The steamed stuffed bun's face, which had just been deflated, swelled up again.

"It's different!!!" The girl who was a head taller than the boy looked at him seriously.

"Twins are two people no matter how they look, just like oranges can be sour or sweet, and meals can be light or salty. In this world, there are no identical people."

……

"Besides, if you have been treated as someone else, you will be sad."

The guests who had been watching the interaction of the two children laughed out loud because of the girl's words "chi chi -" and Yuta Asaba, who closed the door to cut off the outdoor air-conditioning, felt the heat in the room instantly.

The store, whose decoration style is very different from what I know, is filled with the smell of all kinds of food. Yuta Asaba, who had been making a fuss for a long time, suddenly felt her stomach move after entering the room.

"Goo-"

The boy's shy expression made the red-haired girl beside him laugh.

"Dad, can we invite brother Youxi's family to my house for dinner today?"

"Oh? No need, I'll go home and eat..."

"Well...no problem, let's call Xiaochun and the others by the way, anyway, mom made a lot of delicious food."

The father and daughter, who ignored their opinions, reached a realization in an instant and finalized the menu for the evening, and then with the help of the other adult, Asaba Yuta told his parents about the other's parent's invitation.

When the restaurant closed, Asaba Yuta, who had been staying in the girl's bedroom, also welcomed his family, and by the way, his future friend Matsuoka Haru's family.

Children of the same age are naturally able to make trouble when they meet together. During this period, even Yuki Asaba, who was ill, was in high spirits and joined forces with his brother to keep making the girls on one side go crazy and then go crazy again.

During the meal, the three children sighed at a table full of dishes they didn't know.

"Well—for the children, this is the first time I have seen such authentic Chinese food." Songgang's father, who is the girl's neighbor, smiled and patted his son's head.

"Well...you can come here often if you like, as an acquaintance, I can give you a [-]% discount~~~"

"Hey~~~ Why don't you just get free of charge soon~~~"

The only curry rice on the dinner table that the three children could recognize became a hot food, and the dishes such as fried chicken wings and sweet and sour fish also quickly emptied.

In the single-decorated dining room, the teenagers suddenly lost their appetite in the face of the food on the dining table.

The same meals as 15 years ago were all sent to the refrigerator by the young man.During the period, only Tsukahara pushed his glasses and wanted to ask something.The four teenagers present besides him are obviously familiar with the girl who suddenly lost her temper, otherwise they would not let the cries not far away be ignored.

Reminded by his good friend Matsuoka Haru, he vaguely remembered the red-haired figure who had been following them all the time, but what he wondered was, since they were so familiar with each other, why would he come to this place in just four years? Forget about the existence of the other party.

— No, not right.

Thinking about it carefully, as early as four years ago, he had already lost the memory of that girl who was like the wind.

——Where did I go wrong...

After drinking and eating, the adults gathered together and chatted because it was still early.The four children nestled together in the children's bedroom were lying lazily on the carpeted floor in twos and threes.

The girl who was tired from playing closed her eyes under the friendly voice of the male voice, and she was curled up on the carpet, full of cuteness like a pet dog a few months old.

The boys who heard the girl's steady breathing consciously left the bedroom with light footsteps, and then said goodbye again, and they left the ordinary-looking house.

Tired of crying, the girl curled up on the blanket in front of the bed and fell asleep at some point.The huddled sleeping position is as cute and insecure as when I was a child.

After quietly opening the door and making sure no one in the room was awakened, the teenagers tiptoed into the girl's bedroom.

Under the fiery red sunset, Asaba Yuki picked up the girl and gently placed her on the bed, while Tachibana Chizuru gently covered her with a quilt.

Reaching out to unscrew the lamp on the bedside table, a group of teenagers rolled over together with their stomachs screaming, and jumped from the girl's balcony to the next door.

Tsukahara Kaname, who had never expected his teammates to go back to the normal route, turned over quickly.

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