Seeing Xuenan's originally tense expression relax, Dongyue, who knew that Xuenan had understood something, also softened her voice.

"Yuki Nan, do you know why Rin's rice and dishes are so delicious?"

"..."

Hearing Dongyue's voice, Xue Nan realized how delicious the sashimi was in his mouth, subconsciously moved his speechless mouth.

"It's not because you can get praise from Yukio, Father Fujimoto, and everyone, nor is it because this is the only merit he has that is praised."

What exactly is the so-called family?Dongyue still doesn't understand the definition of family.But Dongyue thought that the group in front of her was a family.

(Why exactly?)

Taking a step back, Dongyue smiled at Xuenan.

"Ling him,"

"I like everyone's smiles the most."

Rin Okumura may not have biological parents, but he has a home, family, and Shiro, who is the best dad in the world to him and his brother.

"Rin wants to use her power to bring smiles to everyone,"

And everyone here also hopes that Rin will be able to smile and have a lot of happiness in his future life.

"Because of him,"

(so envious.)

There are so many "gentle things" in this "home" of Southern Cross Abbey.

(I'm so envious——)

"I like your family the most."

The vision was blurred, and the smiling Dongyue just shed tears.

Maybe it's because I feel "great" to be able to say something from my heart that I haven't been able to say in the original work for Rin.Perhaps it was because he knew that after this, Rin would inadvertently hurt Shi Lang, who regarded him as his biological father, and watched Shi Lang die for himself.Or maybe, Dongyue is just envious of Lin who has such a beautiful family, so envious that she burst into tears involuntarily.

Dongyue couldn't sort out the reason for her tears.

"—"

Rin with a blushing face, Shiro with a sore nose, Yukio with aphasia, Jingdang, Nagatomo, Izumi, and Maruda whose eyes were red because of Fuyutsuki's words, none of them expected to see Fuyutsuki's tears at this time.

However, Dongyue just raised her hand and wiped the corners of her eyes vigorously, and then her smile resumed.

"Because Rin is an idiot! He can only express his feelings in such a simple way."

With a relaxed smile, Dongyue sat back in her seat again.

"puff……"

Izumi, the youngest among the monks, laughed out loud, and then Sutra, Changyou, Maruda, Shiro who picked up the chopsticks, and Yukio, whose mouth was still full of sashimi, also laughed.

Chewing hard on the sashimi made by his twin brother with the first pot of gold he earned in his life, Yukio swallowed the sashimi and tears at the same time, and said with a smile: "Ah... that's right. Because my brother is an idiot."

"Hey! Mole with four eyes, who do you think is an idiot?! Although I'm not as smart as you! But, but I'm not that stupid..."

First there was an angry roar, and then Lin Pianzui, who realized that it was just a good-natured joke, said, his voice became smaller and smaller.

"Hahahaha...don't worry Rin. We already knew that you're an idiot."

Pointing at Rin with the chopsticks he picked up just now, Shirou grinned.

"Here, father."

Bringing back a pair of clean chopsticks for Shi Lang, Xue Nan handed the chopsticks to Shi Lang while Lin shouted, "What are you talking about, old man!"

"Oh~! Thank you, Yukio."

Taking the chopsticks handed by Yukio, Shiro let out a malicious laugh on purpose.

"Hmph~...the meat is mine!!"

Fishing a large pile of cooked beef from the long-forgotten sukiyaki pot, Shiro put the steaming beef into the egg liquid filled with stirring speed with lightning speed, and then muttered "It's so hot, so hot!" He ate the more delicious beef after dipping in the egg liquid into his mouth.

"Ah!! The old man is so deceitful!!!"

Finding that the beef that Xiao had been thinking about for a long time was missing a lot in an instant, Rin returned to his seat in a flash, picked up his chopsticks and stretched out towards the sukiyaki pot.

"Brother, don't make such big gestures when eating. And don't patronize eating meat, and save some for Dongyue."

Said angrily, Xue Nan took away Rin's bowl from before Rin's face.

"Yue Nan, you—"

Looking at his younger brother in surprise, Rin slightly opened his eyes wide.

Yukio smiled and walked past Rin.When he came to the rice cooker, he picked up the rice spoon and shook it at Rin.

"I need to add half a bowl, right? Brother."

"Snowman...!"

Just when Rin nodded and said "Yeah!", Izumi snatched the beef picked up by Rin before it slipped into the pot.

"Opportunity to take advantage of!"

"Ah! Izumi, you bastard!!"

Abandoning Rin, who was competing with Izumi, Jingdou and Changyou looked at each other and smiled, the two were about to pick up some beef from the sukiyaki pot to eat, when the fat Maruta took away most of the remaining beef in one go up.

"what……!!"

"Ahh?!"

Amidst the painful cries of Jingtang and Changyou, the beef was accidentally put into Dongyue's bowl.

"Mr. Maruta...?"

From making a sound to growing so big, no one would put the vegetables into Dongyue's bowl. This is the first time she encountered such a kind behavior. Apart from surprise and gratitude, Dongyue was more puzzled.

"hey-hey……"

Scratching his head shyly, Maruda didn't explain to Fuyutsuki why he did so.

——It is not something that needs a reason to bring food to the family.

"Dongyue Sauce."

Mushrooms, flower-shaped carrots and baked tofu were put into Dongyue's bowl.

It was Jingtang, Changyou, and Izumi who had stopped competing with Rin at some point.

"..."

Looking up at the generous or shy smiling faces of the crowd, Dongyue was speechless for a moment.

(In the eyes... in the sukiyaki...)

In the fumigation of the heat, Dongyue only felt that all her thinking ability turned into tears hitting her eye sockets.

Shiro took out the sashimi that was not placed on the table at the beginning, but which was obviously made extra on purpose, from the covered cooking table.

Then this was decorated with ingredients very beautifully, the plate was full of sweet shrimp, scallops and sea urchins, and the sashimi made of Dongyue's favorite ingredients was placed in front of Dongyue by Shiro.

"...?"

Seriously, he held Dongyue's hand full of doubts, and Shi Lang asked Dongyue to stand up.At the same time, the lights in the restaurant dimmed.

"Hoshino Fuyuki,"

The warm yellow light lit up little by little, and Rin took out a cake with candles out of nowhere. At this time, he and Xue Nan lighted the candles on the cake with four hands.Even if there is no prior discussion, the tacit understanding between the Okumura brothers is surprisingly high.I saw that the two of them lit all the candles quickly, and then carried the cake with candles to the direction of Dongyue.

In the dim light, Dongyue could clearly see the words written on the cake.

"Happy birthday! Fuyutsuki!"

"—"

Taking a breath in astonishment, Dongyue covered her mouth forcefully.

"Happy 19th birthday."

Shi Lang pressed Dongyue's shoulder with his warm and thick palm.

"Happy birthday!!"

"Happy birthday."

As bright as the sun, as gentle as the moon.The two completely different smiles of Rin and Xuenan were reflected in Dongyue's black eyes, leaving a more brilliant light than when the candle was burning.

"Happy birthday!"

"Happy birthday!"

"Happy birthday~"

"Happy birthday!"

The blessings of Jingtang, Changyou, Maruda, and Izumi made Dongyue's tears well up in his eyes.

"Why, why...?"

Dongyue didn't celebrate her birthday very much, and for a few years her birthday was forgotten by all family members including her biological mother, and Dongyue couldn't restrain the trembling in her voice.

"Well..."

Putting down the cake with Yukio, the embarrassed Rin smiled innocently.

"Today was originally planned to celebrate Dongyue's birthday after I reconciled with Yukio.... No matter what happened, Yukio and I have also reconciled."

Glancing at Yukio at the side, Rin smiled and said, "Of course it's Dongyue's birthday!!"

"My birthday……"

Dongyue suddenly remembered her birthday.On that day, none of Dongyue's family members remembered that there was another birthday person in that family.Dongyue herself will not mention her birthday, because this is not the first time Dongyue's birthday has been forgotten by everyone.

Then Dongyue, who had no close friends in the three-dimensional dimension, received the only blessing that day when Dongyue opened a certain otome game with PFP.

"Happy birthday.Hope to see you again this time next year. 』

Holding the PFP in hand, sitting on the bed in the school dormitory, Dongyue was surprised for a moment, and sad for a moment, but more than these were moved.

In fact, Dongyue knows that this is just the voice played by the program according to the date.As long as you change the host date setting of PFP, you can hear the birthday wishes or holiday congratulations you want to hear on any day.The program doesn't actually know Dongyue's birthday.

However, Dongyue still prefers to think of this short blessing as coming from that game, from that Two-dimensional world, and she wants to cherish the sincerity of the person she wants to love.

(Lin they don't know when I was born.)

Some people say that history always repeats itself.Dongyue didn't know if this was a repetition of history.

(I don’t know that I actually passed my 19th birthday in the three-dimensional world.)

We can only meet each other for a limited time, and we can only get along with each other for a limited time. After this limited time is exhausted, everything we meet and get along with may become non-existent...

However, even that is the case.

"...one, two—"

Everyone looked at each other, guided by Rin's voice.Loud blessings rang out from Southern Cross Abbey.

"Happy birthday--!!"

Tears wet Dongyue's palm covering her mouth, and dripped from Dongyue's fingers onto the table and the floor.

Dongyue, who has never shed so many tears for anything other than pain in her nearly 20 years of life, showed the most beautiful smile in her life.Even though, at this time, Dongyue's face was full of tears, and the snot was about to flow out of her nostrils.

"thanks……"

There are many kinds of distressing things.There are always too many tormenting emotions to count.But there is only one kind of happiness.The only one.

"Thanks……"

Tears made Dongyue feel so shy.

The snot made Dongyue feel ashamed.

The sobbing made Dongyue feel so shameful.

But at this time, Dongyue grasped the feeling that she could never grasp, and even thought that she might never be able to grasp it in her whole life-family affection.

My heart is full of the family affection given by "relatives" who have no blood relationship, and the happiness brought by this family affection. Dongyue, who has a lot of things to say in her mind, finally can't say anything other than "thank you". if.

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