Chapter 477 Live Free

From the day after sending Shiyu home.

In order to deliver the souvenirs he bought in time, Kato Yusuke decided to visit some friends one after another as planned.

During this period, Shiyu also made it clear that she wanted to act with him. The reason was to pass the time and see if there was anything he could do to help.

Although Kato Yusuke felt that it was not necessary, he still agreed.

The two even agreed on a time and place to meet, but things didn't go as planned.

Just when Shiyu was immersed in the fantasy of the two's date plan, Machida Enko came to her directly without warning with a condolence gift.

The euphemistic name is a visit, but in fact it is to urge the manuscript.

As the deadline for "Metronome of Love" was approaching, and the actual progress was far from the deadline, Machida Enko became a courier.

As a result, Shiyu's beautiful fantasy was ruthlessly rejected.

Kato Yusuke is not clear about the specific process. Anyway, the final result is that Shiyu was placed under house arrest and was not allowed to leave the room until he finished writing the required manuscript.

The girl hated this so much, but couldn't resist, so she could only express her bitterness to him through Line's video chat. Her overwhelming resentment could be felt even through the screen.

Kato Yusuke had nothing to do about it. All he could do was listen quietly and say some words of comfort appropriately.

In this way, he finally started acting alone.

Among them, the specialties brought to Yoshida were delivered yesterday evening.

The copy for Motoyama Mina was also sent by express this morning.

After that, according to the time arranged in advance during the phone call, Kato Yusuke took the lead in arriving at the Nakano family's residence.

It is a traditional Japanese garden located near the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda Ward.

Simple and heavy gates, roads paved with slates and stones, houses with a sense of age, and black-clad bodyguards scattered everywhere.

Everything tells the difference of people here.

Led by a servant in a plain yukata, Kato Yusuke walked through the vertically extending corridor and finally arrived at a tea room on the east side of the main house.

Opening the paper door and stepping inside, the scene inside immediately comes into view.

The spacious traditional tatami-style room has decorative paper fans and framed calligraphy works hanging on the wall, giving it an antique feel.

Beautiful screens are strategically placed, with vivid marigolds blooming on them.

A hole was cut into the tatami in the center of the house, with a sunken hearth inside.

There was a kettle for boiling water on top of the stove. It was vibrating gently and it sounded very quiet.

There are two pale blue cushions on both sides of the furnace, and a girl with short black hair sits on the main seat.

The girl is wearing a white round-neck shirt and a light yellow knitted vest. The diamond-shaped plaid design composed of pom-poms is dotted with several hand-knitted flowers.

The dark green skirt on the lower body covers the knees, and the satin is embroidered with retro-style patterns. Through the feet curled up under the body, a pair of pure white calf socks can be seen.

The overall matching style is biased toward girls, while still being dignified and elegant, giving people a ladylike feeling.

Before Kato Yusuke opened his mouth, the woman who led him made a first move.

"Miss, your guest has arrived."

He bowed respectfully and bowed, then quietly exited the room, moving so quickly that he didn't even have a chance to thank him.

Kato Yusuke couldn't help but feel a little distressed, and immediately turned his attention to the direction of the main seat.

"Guian, Kato-san."

Nakano Ryoko smiled at him, put her hands together on the tatami in front of her knees, bent slightly and nodded, giving a calm salute.

"Greetings after a long absence, how are you doing lately?"

"...Nakano-senpai."

The overly formal greeting made Kato Yusuke slightly uncomfortable, but he immediately suppressed it and responded while sitting down on the cushion.

"Long time no see, senior sister, I took the liberty of coming to disturb you."

"Excuse me? There is no such thing?"

Nakano Ryoko shook her head and said in a gentle tone, "And now is the time we made an appointment, isn't it?"

"That's right, but I don't have anything important to do here. I mainly want to give something to my senior sister."

"Something? Just in case, may I ask first?"

"Senior, please tell me."

"The things Kato-san brought..." Nakano Ryoko suddenly smiled, "It shouldn't be something that would cause Kasumigaoka-san to misunderstand, right?"

Kato Yusuke was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then immediately realized that the other party was joking, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"...It's just some specialties from Chiba Prefecture, and Shiyu-senpai knows about it. I'm sorry, I didn't expect Nakano-senpai to also hear about these things."

"After all, you and Kasumigaoka-san are both the faces of our school, and with such an interesting thing happening, it has basically spread throughout the school~"

"As expected..."

"Kato-san, haven't you paid attention to the school forum?"

"Because there have been a lot of personal matters in the past two days, I haven't paid much attention to these things on the Internet, but... I have imagined it a little bit, so is the matter serious?"

"If anything, I think the impact will not diminish until the end of the cultural festival, right?"

"That's a very bad situation..."

"Hmm~ It might be troublesome for Kato-san, but I don't think this is a bad thing.

For two outstanding people to become a couple, maybe it will be a positive publicity for our school~"

Kato Yusuke couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, so he didn't answer the topic and just pushed the condolence gift he brought towards the other side.

"...Then, if you don't mind, senior, please accept these."

"Thank you for your kindness, Kato-kun, then I will accept it."

Nakano Ryoko smiled and thanked her. He glanced at the many Chiba Prefecture specialties on the ground and found two familiar black vials, which were exactly the same as what the other party had given him before.

Her eyes moved slightly, and some questions flashed through her mind for a moment, but she didn't say anything more and just accepted the things calmly.

Since Kato Yusuke said that thing is a beauty cream, then it is just a bottle of beauty cream, and there is no need to delve into it.

Even so, there were still some things that needed to be reminded of this good little boy, so she gently stretched out a hand and spread her palm upwards.

"Kato-san, could you please take a closer look at my hand?"

"?"

Kato Yusuke was confused about this, but he instinctively turned his attention to the palm of her hand.

The five green fingers are fair, the skin color is also fair and rosy, and the lines on the palm are light. Even with a cursory look, you can see how delicate the hand is.

"Do you have any questions? Nakano-senpai."

"Do you think something's wrong?"

"...Should there be any problem?"

"There is one thing I should thank you for."

As if inadvertently, Ryoko Nakano spoke.

"Because I have been practicing kyudo since I was a child, my hands were not like they are now. There are many marks left by practice on them, so I was told that they did not look like girls' hands.

But thanks to the gift you gave me before, this problem seems to have been solved, Kato-san’s beauty cream works very well.”

"It's good if I can help senior sister."

"Thank you~ But I think I won't need it anymore, and it's not good to ask you to give such expensive things all the time, so there is no need to force yourself next time, just give it to the people closest to you."

"..."

Kato Yusuke frowned slightly at first and stared at the senior who took back his hand in front of him.

After two seconds, he nodded slowly, understanding something in his mind.

Nakano Ryoko didn't dwell on this for too long and was tacitly prepared to change the subject.

Just at this time, the kettle on the stove was boiling, so she put out the fire in the stove and asked:

"So, Kato-kun, are you used to drinking matcha? Or would it be better to give you the oolong tea you usually drink?"

"I don't have any objections, just let the senior sister decide."

"That's it, then just wait patiently for a while~"

"good."

Under the watchful eye of Kato Yusuke, Nakano Ryoko set out a complicated tea set and then started making tea.

Her technique is very skillful, but it is a pity that Kato Yusuke cannot understand the subtlety of it. He can only see the ease with which he is able to do it with ease from the calm expression, and he knows another one of Nakano-senpai's specialties.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
To be continued...