When Kiritani Tetsuya returned to the downstairs of Utsunomiya Miu's apartment, the surroundings were already dark. Only the street lights on both sides of the road still shone a little light, barely illuminating the passage leading to the apartment door.

Kiritani Tetsuya took out his cell phone and looked at it, and found that it was already past twelve o'clock.

"I guess Utsunomiya Miu has already fallen asleep by this time."

Saying this in a low voice, Kiritani Tetsuya quickly took back his mobile phone and carried the sandwiches and milk he just bought from the convenience supermarket to the location of the apartment elevator.

A few minutes later.

When Kiritani Tetsuya opened the door to the apartment, he found that all the lights in the room were turned off and the entire apartment was quiet.

Only the TV in standby mode in the living room glowed with a faint blue light.

With the help of the blue light, Kiritani Tetsuya, who gradually adapted to the dim environment, saw Utsunomiya Miu wearing spotted pajamas lying sideways on the three-person sofa opposite the TV, her beautiful eyes slightly closed.

, as if he had just fallen asleep.

On the table in front of the girl, there were large and small snack bags and several bottles of beer that she had drunk at the Gyudon shop before, but half of the beer was empty.

"This guy won't wait for me until now."

Kiritani Tetsuya, who walked into the living room, smiled with a headache and went straight to the girl.

Looking closer, Kiritani Tetsuya discovered that Utsunomiya Miu's right hand, which was stretched out from the sofa, was holding a half-drunk beer can. As the girl's palm shook a little, one of the cans was about to fall at any time.

The feeling of the ground.

Seeing this, he carefully and without making any sound took the unfinished bottle of beer away from the girl's hand and placed it with the dense empty beer cans on the table.

After finishing these things, Kiritani Tetsuya leaned down slightly, stretched out his hands to hold the girl's soft and even fragrant body to his chest, and planned to send the girl directly to the room to rest.

Perhaps the movement of bending down to pick up the girl caused some movement. Utsunomiya Miu quickly woke up from her sleep the next moment, and used her left hand to rub her sleepy eyes.

"Is it Tetsuya?"

Although she didn't fully open her eyes, Utsunomiya Miu's mouth was the first to make a sound.

"How do you know it was me?"

Kiritani Tetsuya asked in a low voice, trying not to ruin the quiet atmosphere in the apartment.

"Because you are the only one who dares to hug me like this."

Utsunomiya Miu said in a dreamy voice, and as she spoke, she also took the initiative to bury the side of her face in Kiritani Tetsuya's arms, and her eyes that had just opened a little slowly closed again.

Judging from the tone of Utsunomiya Miu's words and the breath he exhaled, Kiritani Tetsuya could clearly feel that the girl tonight was probably drunk again.

"Why did you drink so much again?"

Glancing down at the half-asleep girl who was lying peacefully in his arms, Kiritani Tetsuya complained in a low voice.

"I am alone at home and can't do anything else, so I can only rely on drinking to relieve my boredom."

Utsunomiya Miu said with a slightly unclear voice.

"Sorry, something suddenly happened tonight, so I came back so late."

Kiritani Tetsuya didn't know why he suddenly said this, maybe he was affected by the appearance of the girl at the moment, and then he started to walk towards the room with Utsunomiya Miu in his arms.

"Then what are you going to do to make it up to me?"

Utsunomiya Miu still closed her eyes and muttered.

"Isn't carrying you back to your room considered compensation?"

Kiritani Tetsuya said with a slight smile.

"It doesn't count."

"Then what do you think I should do to make up for my absence tonight?"

Kiritani Tetsuya turned the question to the girl in his arms.

"I want you to stay by my bedside tonight until I fall asleep."

Utsunomiya Miu replied subconsciously.

"No problem, I promise to wait until you fall asleep before leaving."

Kiritani Tetsuya nodded in agreement. At this time, he was holding Utsunomiya Miu, pushing open the half-open door of the room, and came to the girl's bedside.

Immediately afterwards, Kiritani Tetsuya gently placed the sleeping Utsunomiya Miu in the center of the bed, then moved a chair from the desk in the room, and just quietly looked at the girl who was sleeping more and more sweetly.

The gauze-like moonlight gently swayed through the window on one side, adding a bit of white color to the originally dark room. At the same time, it also prevented the boys and girls beside the bed from being completely engulfed by the darkness of the night.

, being able to see the other person's face clearly under the pure white moonlight.

Although Kiritani Tetsuya still had a little bit of sleepiness accumulated in his body, he still forced himself to cheer up, listen to the girl's increasingly steady breathing, and admire the girl's adorable sleeping face.

"Tetsuya, are you still there?"

A few minutes later, Utsunomiya Miu, who thought she had completely fallen asleep, suddenly spoke.

"I'm still here."

Kiritani Tetsuya nodded several times in succession, although the girl could not see his movements.

"I don't believe it." Utsunomiya Miu muttered immediately.

Seeing this, Kiritani Tetsuya sighed helplessly, then stretched out his right hand to touch the girl's beautiful side face.

"Now you believe it."

Feeling the warmth coming from the girl's cheek, Kiritani Tetsuya asked again.

"Um."

Utsunomiya Miu responded softly, and subconsciously rubbed her tender face against the opponent's palm.

Afterwards, the girl stopped making any sound, as if she had truly fallen into sleep.

Since then, the entire apartment has returned to complete tranquility, but compared to the quiet atmosphere full of loneliness before, now it is more like the silent ending that should have been after the warmth.

...

New week morning.

Just after six o'clock, Kiritani Tetsuya woke up from Utsunomiya Miu's bedside.

He didn't remember much about the second half of last night. He only knew that he seemed to have fallen asleep not long after touching Utsunomiya Miu's cheek.

Since Kiritani Tetsuya slept with his head buried in his arms all night last night, he still had an obvious feeling of numbness in his arms at this time. This feeling did not dissipate significantly until a while later.

Although he went to bed very late yesterday, Kiritani Tetsuya's consciousness was quite clear at this moment, and he basically didn't feel sleepy at all.

"Maybe it's because I slept too much yesterday morning."

Kiritani Tetsuya, who really didn't know the reason, could only analyze it casually, and then walked out of the room quietly, trying not to disturb Utsunomiya Miu who was still sleeping.

Since he hadn't taken a shower all day last night, the first thing Kiritani Tetsuya did when he woke up early in the morning was to run to the bathroom to thoroughly rinse away the slight sweat smell and discomfort lingering in his body.

After spending half an hour rinsing his body again, Kiritani Tetsuya went to the kitchen first according to his usual habit, and started his new day by preparing a decent breakfast.

At seven o'clock, Utsunomiya Miu, who still smelled of alcohol, slowly walked out of the room with lazy steps. Her delicate face still showed deep tiredness, and from time to time she stretched out her white hands to cover her face.

He kept yawning frequently.

When Utsunomiya Miu came out of the bathroom after washing, he soon saw Kiritani Tetsuya working in the kitchen. A trace of confusion appeared on his face for an instant. He immediately held on to the wall next to the aisle and jumped on one foot.
Chapter completed!