Kato Yusuke paused for a moment and said thoughtfully: "You and Shiyu-senpai give people different impressions. I just said it casually."

"Oh~ that's right. Thank you for such a roundabout compliment." Hui insulted him in a nonchalant tone, and then continued to eat noodles.

After finishing eating and clearing the low table, it was already close to eleven o'clock in the evening.

After Megumi brushed his teeth, Kato Yusuke also took a change of clothes and went to take a shower, and returned fifteen minutes later in clean home clothes.

Since they had to go to school tomorrow morning and they had no other plans, they acquiesced to their own bedtime arrangements.

"Thank you for giving me the bed." Megumi said, and Yusuke replied that it didn't matter.

After lights out.

Kato Yusuke groped his way to the floor in the darkness and lay down on it.

"Meow~"

The black cat hesitated between the bed and the floor, and finally lay down on his chest.

The surroundings were embarrassingly quiet, but turning on the TV at this moment was a very stupid thing to do no matter how you thought about it.

If there could be a radio playing some music at this time, it should be able to dilute this embarrassment, right?

Just when Kato Yusuke couldn't help but think this way...

"Hey, Yusuke, are you asleep?" The girl on the bed moved around and turned her face.

"No."

"what's on your mind?"

"I'm wondering if I should buy a radio."

"Huh?"

"This way the atmosphere won't be so weird the next time you stay overnight."

"Next time..." Hui was quiet for a while and murmured: "In other words, Yusuke thinks I will come next time?"

"No way."

"I don't know, well, at least we can't do it now, right?

"Ah, that's right." Kato Yusuke said calmly and without emotion.

"Let me ask you, if, if there really is a next time, what reason do you think I would give for coming?"

It's not so much the reason, but actually the identity.

Kato Yusuke pondered for a moment: "Observation and supervision, isn't it?"

"Hey~ um~ oh~ ah, I understand, so Yusuke thinks so, it's good."

Two feet fluttered lightly on the bed.

"At least, I'm not ready to say goodbye to you yet."

Hui suddenly became quiet, and after a while he finally said, "What do you mean by this?"

The voice was muffled, as if his face was covered in a pillow.

Kato Yusuke thought for a while and replied: "Maybe I will encounter problems at work and other things. Are you willing to continue to help?"

A brief silence.

"In that case, I will be very strict, right?"

"Um."

"Well, by answering so simply, do you hope that I will be more mean to you?"

"Will you be more evil than today?"

"It's hard to say."

"That's fine."

"What? This kind of answer is completely incomprehensible."

"But." Hui continued with a gentle voice: "The next time we stay overnight, we will have to wait for a special time."

"What is a special time?"

"I don't know either~~~"

"This answer is completely baffling."

"...I didn't speak in this tone at all, Yusuke, kimo..."

A somewhat muffled voice reached his ears, making Yusuke Kato couldn't help but smile.

The melting moonlight penetrates the glass and falls in the room, bringing the tranquility and sadness of the night. Whenever such a night comes, people always tend to become sentimental.

"Ah, there is also the radio you just mentioned." Hui rummaged under the pillow and handed something over.

"Although I don't have a radio, if you want to listen to music, wear this."

Kato Yusuke took a closer look and recognized that it was a wired headset that he had used once before.

A thin digital cable connected the earphones, and the other earphone was currently being worn in the owner's delicate ears.

The faint scent of soap came from the hand placed in front of him and floated faintly into his nose.

Kato Yusuke reached out silently, took the earphones from the girl's hand, and then held the hand.

The cool catkins trembled slightly and then became stiff.

"...Yusuke?"

A somewhat confused, soft voice came from the girl's mouth, sounding a little light and airy.

Kato Yusuke put the earphone into his right ear with his left hand, and just held that hand with his right hand without saying anything.

Gradually, the girl relaxed.

In the darkness, a pair of beautiful eyes seemed to be flickering faintly.

"Have you put on your headphones...?" Hui asked softly, her tone slightly out of shape.

"alright."

"Then, I'll let it go..."

"Yes." Kato Yusuke gently squeezed her hand, and the incredibly soft touch was unsettling.

"..."

Hui didn't say anything to this, and silently changed to a position of lying facing the outside, with a deliberately long rhythm of breathing.

She bit her lower lip gently, her eyes seemed like the moon had broken into them, quiet and bright. Finally, she awkwardly operated the MP3 player with her left hand and pressed the play button.

Soothing music flowed out of the headphones, playing soft jazz like it was gently wrapped from behind. The sound sounded extremely far away, and the timbre of the alto saxophone danced steadily in the alley that had just rained.

The swaying fragrance of mint also makes people feel fascinated.

In such an atmosphere, the senses seem to be magnified countless times.

There was obviously beautiful music, and it was such a quiet night, but Hui didn't feel relaxed at all. Instead, her heartbeat inexplicably accelerated a lot.

Kato Yusuke's initiative disrupted her mind, just like a pebble thrown into a lake, causing ripples in the calm lake of her heart.

In the silence, a magnetic low voice came to my ears.

"Good night, Megumi."

"Good night, Yusuke."

The two people just held hands, pulled by time, dreams, and each other, and gradually fell into sleep.

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Chapter completed!