--hyacinth

The subordinates did not hesitate to swipe the keypad lock on the screen, and the well-regulated screen should reveal the background set by the boy's actions.

In the season of cherry blossoms, the four of them stood side by side at the door of the classroom, smiling or serious, leaving their youthful faces on the screen of the mobile phone in front of them.

Yuta Asaba glanced at the unfamiliar mobile phone in the boy's hand out of curiosity, and then a hint of understanding appeared in his light-colored eyes.

Glancing at the time on the phone, Asaba Yuki picked up the phone under his brother's slightly painful eyes.After a few beeps from the microphone, a soft female voice appeared on the other end of the phone.

"Hi—this is the Windmill Ramen Restaurant, what do you need?"

The tone of each word was clear but not slow, and Asaba Yuki proficiently reported what he wanted to eat under the continuous takeout offensive.After hearing the four words goodbye from the girl opposite, he closed the phone weakly.

"Yuki..." Yuta Asaba, who was washing clothes, walked to the living room with a coat in his hand. "What is the mark on your clothes?"

A large red mark on the light-colored clothes is particularly eye-catching. If you sniff it carefully a few times, you can still smell the smell of disinfectant that comes from the hospital.Yuta Asaba, who has always been the unshakable brother-in-law for a hundred years, can't let such a thing go before her eyes, and let the problem be concealed.

As for his brother's question, Yuki Asaba just yawned and bent over to climb into the kotatsu. Under the serious scrutiny of the former, he just blinked and said "I accidentally picked up a husky with a broken leg..." He coped casually with excuses.

Anyway, it's good that my brother is fine.Asaba Yuta made sure that the lazily looking boy flipping through manga on the opposite side was fine, and then walked into the bathroom with his clothes.

After rejecting the boy's intention to send herself home, she walked into the ramen shop calmly.Qianhe went out to deliver food, and she could only do some small tasks such as cleaning the table and washing dishes when there were other chefs.

Occasionally, when she was free, she recalled the scene in the hospital in the morning. When Watanabe told her about the development of the disease and the control of the dosage of the drug, the teenager beside her kept an indifferent demeanor.

I don't know if it's because the doctor's overly professional vocabulary made him unable to understand, or because that boy has always been like this when it comes to things that he doesn't care about.Until her leg injury was bandaged, Yuki Asaba didn't ask her what kind of disease the medicine in her hand was for.

When she returned to the store, she didn't see Tachibana Chizuru until she got off work. After asking the temporary part-time chef in the store, she rummaged through her mobile phone in her skirt pocket to make a call.

"Huh?" She couldn't find her mobile phone for a long time and rummaged through other pockets of her clothes.

"What's the matter, Xiaoxinzi, did you lose your phone again?" Fujiwara, who had a deep understanding of the girl's loss of her phone, asked under the helpless eyes of the other party, and quickly got an affirmative answer from the other party.

"Well, it seems that I lost it when I was in the hospital." She had lost three mobile phones in a year and helplessly supported her forehead, but soon, this passive state was interrupted by the ringing of the phone in the store.

"Hello, this is... huh?! Momo sauce?! huh~~~ I see, I will tell the store manager, don't worry."

After hanging up the phone, she called out to stop Fujiwara who was pushing the wheelchair around the store, and under the signal eyes of the other party, she explained the content of the phone call just now.

"Qianzuru's girlfriend has a cold and a high fever, and he needs to take time off to take care of others."

"Really? I can't see that kid has such a gentle side, haha." Knowing that his employees had no accidents, Fujiwara just smiled and ignored him.Anyway, the set meal of 200 servings a day has been finished, so it is better for young people to relax if there is nothing special about it.

She heard the phone ring again when she was packing up the sample, and she hung up the phone under the surprised eyes of Fujiwara and the chef in the store.

"Wait—" Fujiwara said when the girl hung up the phone. "I remember that today's set meals have already been sold out. Why do you still accept the takeaway just now, Xiao Xinzi?"

After washing her hands and fastening her apron, she bowed down apologetically to the chef named Shenyi, and then took the remaining ingredients from the other side's hands and began to cook the food on the order.

Fujiwara, who couldn't get an answer, pushed the wheelchair to the counter, reached out to pick up the takeaway list on the table, and looked at it carefully.

"No. xxx on the 12th floor of the student apartment, Yuki Asaba..." Fujiwara suddenly laughed out loud as he read the contents of the note in a low voice. "What? So it's you and Qianhe's friend, no wonder you are so serious haha, my little Xinzi has finally reached this age."

The ramen under her hand came out quickly, and without Qianzuru, the dedicated delivery person, she had no choice but to go into battle again.Contrary to her stern aura, Fujiwara and Shinichi stood behind the store door, "Ah, ah, ah, how can you not take advantage of such a good opportunity, Xiaoxinzi..." and "Don't worry, the aftermath in the store is all about it." Give me young people, go and enjoy life..." Under the excuse, she carried the takeaway box and embarked on the journey home.

——I always feel as if I have stepped into some strange trap...

Under such thoughts, she adjusted her appearance and pressed the doorbell in front of her.

"Asaba-kun, this is your takeaway..."

After paying the money, Asaba Yuta closed the door and was still in the entrance, thinking back to the cut pleated skirt under the girl's clothes just now and the looming gauze at the gap...

"What's wrong, Yuta?"

Asked Asaba Yuki, who was lying on the kotatsu and flipping through manga.

"It's nothing..." Yuta Asaba, who has always been careful, figured out the truth after a little thought. As one of the twins, when the ramen was served on the table, he casually said a word to the brother opposite.

"The one who delivered food today...is Feng."

"..."

Under his brother's remorseful (?) expression, Asaba Yuta stuffed the ramen into his mouth, and happily chewed it.

In the dim view, she reached out and pressed the photo frame face down, took out the milk and poured it into Twelve's plate, and she lay down on the sofa exhausted.After resting for a while, she got up and walked to the bathroom.

Lying on the bed after taking a shower, she reached out and touched under the pillow, and only when she touched the cold fabric did she remember that she had lost her mobile phone.Turning over, she picked up Twelve who was lying on the blanket in front of the bed and stuffed it into her arms. After pulling the quilt, she looked at the dark cabinet opposite with blurred vision.

Suddenly remembering that her handkerchief was still in the young man's hand and she didn't want to return it, but then remembered that this thing was someone else's in a sense, she angrily grabbed the pillow on the bed and pressed it on her head.

Obviously decided to stay away, but because of the other party's "I remember..." I brazenly got up to it.When will this inseparable personality change, if it continues like this...

Phototropic moths are always injured...

Lying on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, she got out of bed when the alarm clock time turned to zero. In the chilly air, she walked barefoot to the refrigerator, took out a can of beer, opened it, and drank heavily.It wasn't until 3/2 of the beer was down that she raised her hand to wipe the corner of her mouth and stopped gasping for breath.

Twelve, who was awakened, still half-closed her eyes and swayed against her calf, the warm hair on her skin made her dull mood a little better.She bent down to pick up the pet, but she didn't expect that a huge dizziness rushed directly to her brain along with the darkness.

The beer cans fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and the rich aroma of wine permeated along with the rolling of the cans.Twelve, who was instantly awakened by his master's movements, wagged his tail and turned around a few times.Putting his head close to the girl's face, Twelve, who stuck out his tongue and lightly tapped it a few times, whimpered a few times after seeing his master's death-like expression.

The bedroom not far away was suddenly lit with weak lights. Twelve squeezed open the balcony door bit by bit with his short limbs. Squeeze through the middle of the railing.

Yuki Asaba, who was changing her pajamas, suddenly heard the humming of small animals outside the balcony door. "Yuta..." He glanced at his elder brother who was still reading, and opened the curtain suspiciously.

The several-month-old husky raised its hind legs and stood upright, with its front paws resting on the glass door and digging non-stop.Under the illumination of the indoor lights, Yuki Asaba could still see the tears glistening in the eyes of the little animals.

Yuta Asaba, who also heard the movement, stretched out his hand and opened the glass door of the balcony, only to see the little guy who was wagging his tail outside the door before dashing forward, bumping into Yuki Asaba's calf inside the room.

Twelve, who fell to the ground, was picked up by the neck before he could recover from the fall. He kicked his limbs and resisted for a while. After regaining consciousness, he looked at the chestnut-haired man in front of him and yelled.

"Wang Wang-"

The two teenagers who couldn't understand the dog's language stared at the uninvited guest who broke into their house.

Asaba Yuki: "...Why did you show up at my house?"

Twelve: "Wow——" (Wags tail)

……

The atmosphere suddenly fell into a strange silence...

"That..." Asaba Yuki walked to the balcony and looked at the dark room next door. "Probably slipped out by riding the wind without paying attention."

"Wang—" the tail wagged even faster this time.

Yuta Asaba was thinking about how to send this little thing that looked very similar to someone back, while Yuki Asaba was playing with Twelve on the other side.

"Right hand."

"Wang-"

"Left hand."

"Wang-"

"Turn around."

"Hahaha——" (sticks out tongue)

"Yoshi——what a good boy." Letting go of his hand, Asaba Yuta rubbed the little guy's stomach.

"Speaking of... I remember that guy Xiao Xinzi called you Twelve."

"Wow woof——" (That's right, the master called me Twelve...)

……

"Woo——" (Master... people...)

Shun Mao's Twelve body froze.

"Wow, woof, woof --!!!" (Damn it, I actually forgot to get down to business!!! The master tried his best not to abandon it!!!)

Asaba Yuki, who was researching whether the little animal under him was male or female, felt a pain in the back of his hand, and when his elder brother was about to call someone across the balcony, the little guy suddenly jumped.Bite one of the comic books that Asaba Yuki put beside his pillow with his mouth, and ran towards the next door.

"Ah?"

"Ugh?!"

The two people who couldn't react watched helplessly as the little black and white guy squeezed through the railing and ran back to his home.

--What's happening here? ? ?

After reacting, Asaba Yuki ran to the balcony with a stride. He jumped over the guardrail and walked towards the next bedroom amidst his brother's obstruction.

"Where are you going with my manga!"

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