--hyacinth

Why not catch up?Obviously that is the only light that can illuminate the darkness...

Why not reach out?Obviously, the palm that can save you is right in front of you...

Bending down to pick up the bracelet that fell at his feet, he raised his head, looked at the embarrassed girl in front of him, opened his mouth, but made no sound.

On December 12, he picked up the third time the person dropped the item again.

"Really, there must be a limit to carelessness." Muttering, he stuffed the things in his hands back into his pockets, turned around, and waited for the boy who was nine times like him to walk towards him step by step.

"What's the matter, Yuxi?" Handing the heated milk in his hand to the boy with flushed cheeks in front of him, Yuu Asaba, the twin brother, looked at his younger brother whose mood index had obviously risen too strangely.

"Nothing, just saw a super stupid husky just now."

"Ah~~~Is that so?"

Yuta Asaba didn't ask much about what his younger brother meant, but just looked up at the girl squatting on the street corner not far away and staring at a stray dog, and all the doubts in her mind were answered.

"It's really a super stupid husky~~~"

"Well, it's really super stupid..."

The steaming ramen always sells out very quickly in snowy weather. After the 200 servings of ramen within the limit were sold out, she greeted other people in the store and went to the supermarket after get off work.

Instant noodles, beer, and potato chip snacks, which belong to young people's favorite foods, she didn't miss any of them. She picked out all the quantities and threw them into the shopping cart.

When she finished paying and went out, she accidentally ran into a customer who was about to enter.

"Ah, sorry, are you okay?"

The sound of the doorbell ringing covered the light ring of the bracelet falling to the ground, she shook her head to indicate that she was fine, she apologized to the man who seemed to be a school teacher in front of her, and left in front of the supermarket.

Because she didn't check the weather forecast, she went out today wearing only a thin sports hoodie.The suddenly cold weather made her shrink back at this moment, wishing she could find a heater to hold her in her arms.

Just wanting to go home quickly, she encountered a red light at the intersection. While waiting for the light to turn green, Asaba Yuki, who was standing at the entrance of the supermarket, picked up the bracelet, looked up and saw someone being thrown down on the street.

Yes, there is nothing wrong with being thrown down in the street.

A few-month-old husky puppy discarded by its owner in a cardboard box on a street corner suddenly ran towards the girl who was waiting for a red light for unknown reasons.

The ten-centimeter stiletto heel on her foot couldn't withstand her poor sense of balance, and she swayed to the side again. She was hit by the huge impact and sat on the ground with a large bag in her hand.Fortunately, this time the heel did not break off like she did when she first appeared in Chapter 1.

Her butt hurts and her eyes are black. She waited for a while to see the culprit who caused her to fall. A husky puppy, only a few months old, was lying on her lap, blinking blue eyes. looked at her innocently.

"En..." She frowned and looked at the husky with its tongue sticking out and panting, her serious expression made the passers-by who were waiting to cross the road swallow their saliva, and each of them moved a few steps to the side.

——Good...so serious atmosphere T_T...

The raised dog cub wagged its tail and yelled happily at the girl sitting on the ground, and Yuta Asaba, who had just approached the girl while drinking milk, reached out to help her up before she heard it. The voice of the girl sitting on the ground suddenly realized.

"It's decided, I'll have dog meat hot pot for dinner tonight!!!"

"..." The twin boys standing behind the girl froze together with the passers-by around them.

- Out...appeared! ! !A dog meat hot pot girl who is hungry on the street! ! !

She had been only concentrating on the front of her eyes and didn't pay attention to the horrified eyes of the people around her. She took off the only coat that was relatively warm and wrapped it around the small animal. She reached out and grabbed all the shopping bags that had fallen aside. In his hand, he picked up the little guy who was still wagging his tail and stood up.

"Yoxi, the decision is up to you, save the girl and the husky from starvation, would you like to come home with me for instant noodles?"

This time even a row of black lines slid down the head of the little animal wagging its tail.

"Woo--" cried out pitifully, and the husky nestled in the girl's arms tried to save his future bad food.

"Ah, I'm joking." With the back of her hand holding the shopping bag, she pushed the glasses that were about to slip off the bridge of her nose, and she walked across the road when the green light turned on.

Without her coat, she could not help but sneezed with only a shirt and fur vest left on her body. Looking at her occupied hands, she gave up the idea of ​​rubbing her nose.

The husky cub, which she named Twelve, lay quietly in her arms, and the speed of her feet accelerated a little. She tried to distance herself from the two teenagers who had been following her.

It is too much to say that they have been following her all the time. After all, as neighbors, they have the same route home.

"Hey—" She was thinking about whether to take a detour home, and suddenly heard the voice of the boy shouting behind her, and the speed under her feet accelerated a little, and she was about to turn at the next intersection and take a detour back. Home.

Seeing the back of the girl who seemed to be running away, Asaba Yuki pursed her lips, and her mood index that had just risen should have dropped a little because of the slender figure not far in front of her.

The hand holding the metal bracelet in his pocket tightened, and under the gaze of his brother beside him, he gave up the idea of ​​returning the things to the other party.

"That guy is still as unlovable as before."

The amber eyes should be covered with a layer of shiny luster due to anger, and under the tight body of Asaba Yuki, Asaba Yuta looked at the girl who suddenly turned at the intersection ahead and slightly raised the corners of her mouth.

"Really? I really like the wind now."

The air around his body should have been a little colder because of his speech, but Yuta Asaba continued to walk forward as if he didn't notice it.After returning home, the younger brothers who were following him were talking to him. Yuta Asaba, who took out the key from his pocket to open the door, looked at the closed milk-colored wooden door opposite him, and then sighed.

"If Feng knows that you still remember her, he will be moved and cry, Yuxi."

"The kind of guy who fights crazier than boys who will remember him."

"..."

——Don't you remember this clearly? The tsundere boy...

Yuki Asaba didn't see the lights in the next room turned on until after dinner, and after packing up the dishes under his brother's nagging, he went back to the bedroom and threw the things in his pockets into his vacant drawer.

It was too much to pretend that he didn't know anything the next day when he obviously greeted himself yesterday morning.

The girl’s cheerful smile like a sunflower when she was young still remains in her memory, and her thoughts turned and she recalled the words her elder brother said on the way home. on the head.

——Even if Yu likes it too much, he won't admit it...

While thinking wildly, Asaba Yuki suddenly heard someone coughing outside the balcony.Pulling down the quilt, he looked at the still dark scenery outside the balcony and held his breath.

After a long detour, she returned to the empty house an hour after the twin boys came home, put down Twelve, who had already fallen asleep in her arms, and in the dark sorted the things in the shopping bag and put them where they belonged.

I poured the milk I bought later on a clean plate and placed it in front of Twelve, opened the beer and drank a few sips, and then ran into the toilet quickly in a strong sense of nausea.

After vomiting, she opened the glass door of the bedroom balcony out of breath, and she couldn't help coughing a few times after being exposed to the cold air.Leaning on the balcony railing, she saw the scattered lights of the next door and surrounding residents.After taking a breath, she looked at the white mist floating in the air and showed a slight smile.

When her eyes touched her wrist, she was stunned for a moment. Annoyed that she was missing a certain familiar ornament, she bent down and picked up Twelve, who ran to her feet at some point and rubbed her head against the bottom of her trousers.

Reaching out and rubbing the little guy's furry head vigorously, she spoke in a frustrated tone.

"Ah~~~Why have I been losing things in the past two days? How can I fix them!!! I haven't found the car keys I lost yesterday~~~"

It wasn't until the girl couldn't bear the air-conditioning that she returned to the bedroom that Yuki Asaba put down the curtains in her hands. He turned around to get his clothes to take a bath just now, and when he turned around, he saw his brother standing behind him with a calm expression on his face.

Patting his younger brother on the shoulder with a look of "I know all about good brothers", Asaba Yuta spoke under the dodging gaze of Asaba Yuki.

"I understand, Yuki. Belated puberty..."

Asaba Yuki, who was caught peeping, picked up her clothes and went to the bathroom under the teasing gaze of her brother, while the latter took out her futon and made up the bed in the shadow of her younger brother Tsundere's back.

Yuki Asayuki and Yuta Asaba were not able to sleep in separate rooms until university. Without the bunk beds at home, the two brothers who lived in a rented room naturally used the tatami mats commonly used in Japanese homes.

Something happened in the bedroom next door and there was a loud noise, and then Asaba Yuta, who had made the bed, heard the faint laughter from the girl next door.

No, that's not right... Asaba Yuta got up and pulled the curtains to open the balcony door.

The lack of a layer of barriers allowed Asaba Yuta to hear the movement from the next door more clearly, and the faint laughter before now clearly became the sound of a girl crying.The sound of the bathroom door closing could be heard outside the bedroom door, Yuta Asaba turned her head and closed the balcony door to restore the bedroom to its previous state.

The worried faces of my friends who grew up with me are still in my heart.And I can't forget the stiff body of the girl in the ramen shop.It's just been a few years since I've seen each other. What made that introverted and shy girl turn into a person who is not close to strangers now.

When the bedroom door was opened, Asaba Yuta found his clothes from the cabinet, and when Asaba Yuki entered the door, he walked sideways to the bathroom.

——Sometimes, doubts are better left to another person to solve.

The author has something to say: Yo Xi! ! !The male protagonist is one step closer to making a wish, haha! ! !

Guess what will be thrown next time?