——Clang.

The metal knife and fork fell onto the porcelain plate with a crisp sound.

Ying Lili looked at the message she received on her phone. Her originally relaxed mood suddenly tightened, and her whole body became nervous unconsciously.

"Eiriri...?"

"Mom, I'm full, so I'll go back to my room first...!"

Ignoring Sayuri Yuzamura's questioning look, she hurried back to the room holding her cell phone.

Even so, the random thoughts in my mind could never stop.

"That woman... sent such an incomprehensible sentence, what on earth did she mean!"

The girl muttered irritably, wondering how to deal with this difficult news.

Is it a reply?

Ignore it?

Are you going to say it back as rudely as usual?

Or should you pretend to be confused and ask what the other person means?

Thousands of thoughts are piled up in my head, but I have yet to make a decision.

At this moment, a photo was sent to the mobile phone.

"ah……"

Through the screen, the back of the person you like appears there.

The young man was wearing a black housecoat and an apron. He was standing in front of the kitchen at home and was busy with his head down.

Yinglili was speechless for a moment, she just looked at the people in the photo carefully.

Suddenly, she realized the sender's intention.

——Stay away from my boyfriend.

Combining the previous news about the "cat stealing" and this photo full of demonstrations, it is not difficult to draw such a conclusion.

For no reason, she suddenly felt guilty.

Yinglili quickly exited the chat interface with Shiyu and turned her phone upside down on the table.

Although the specific circumstances are not yet certain, at present, it seems that the incident between her and Kato Yusuke has been known to the other party.

This is undoubtedly an embarrassing and embarrassing thing.

The girl picked up her cell phone uneasily and called her best friend involuntarily.

——Durruludurruludurrulu.

After a busy tone.

"Eiriri...?"

An attractive face appeared on the screen.

"Mei~~~!"

Ying Lili adjusted the angle of her phone so that the front camera faced her face, "I'm sorry for calling you suddenly. I wanted to chat with you. Are you free now?"

"Huh? But I'm getting ready to take a shower now, how about I wait until I finish taking a shower before contacting you?"

"Ah, but I'm in a hurry right now. Can you just keep talking to me and go take a shower?"

"Eh~~~? I always feel so embarrassed like that."

"Please, please, I'll just ask a few questions and I'll be fine soon."

"That's it..."

After a little hesitation, Hui nodded slightly, "Well, then I'll take a shower later~"

"Really? Thank you!"

"It doesn't matter~ So, Yinglili, what is the urgent matter you are talking about?"

"Well, what about that, Megumi——!"

Ying Lili's eyes were wandering and her voice was erratic.

"What if, I mean what if...! If a girl kisses a boy who has a girlfriend for some reason, and the other girl happens to know about it... what do you think we should do...?"

"--Eh?"

The girl on the screen blinked twice blankly, staring at her with a pair of obsidian-like eyes. After two seconds, she said:

"...Um, I'm sorry ~ Yinglili. The signal here may not be very good. Did you just say something...?"

Hearing this, Yinglili had to repeat it again.

"Just, that is to say...if you accidentally kiss a boy who has a girlfriend, and his girlfriend finds out...what should you do...?"

There was a moment of silence.

"~~Well, just in case, let me ask first, Yinglili, the protagonist in the matter you are talking about..."

"--Is my friend!"

"Friend...?"

"Well, that's right."

Yinglili pretended to be calm and said: "A friend of mine recently encountered such a thing. I wanted to help her but didn't know what to do, so I had to come and ask Hui."

"That's it..."

There was an indescribable expression on Hui's face, and she said with a headache: "Well, although I am very grateful that you are willing to trust me, I really don't know how to help you, Yinglili..."

"--not me!"

Ying Lili emphasized: "I told you he is a friend of mine."

"Ah, um... let's just treat it like this."

"...So, would you like to listen to me tell me about my friend and give her some advice?"

"..."

Hui stared at her troubled expression for a while, then said hesitantly: "Well... it's okay if you just listen, but I can't guarantee that I can give you any useful advice?"

"It doesn't matter, that's fine. Please, Megumi."

Yinglili took a deep breath and began to talk.

Things about childhood sweethearts.

The time you spend grieving alone after a friendship breaks up.

Later I met a boy who was like family.

And that special New Year's Eve.

The person involved became more and more enthusiastic as he spoke. He did not notice at all that the personal emotions he inadvertently showed in his statement had already exceeded the level that someone who had not personally experienced it should not have. He just kept talking.

Hui's eyes on the other side of the phone were strange. He wanted to remind her several times, but he couldn't find a chance to interrupt.

One of them spoke and the other listened.

A stupid person who doesn't understand anything yet dares to say anything.

A person who obviously knows everything but pretends not to understand is both a bit disgusting and a bit helpless in his heart.

Although Eiri used pseudonyms in her description, the overly specific description allowed Hui to guess who the people she was talking about represented with little effort.

"...Anyway, this is what happened. My friend has now received a warning from that girl, Kei, what do you think she should do?"

"Yes~~ Well, this is really a thorny issue. People don't know where to complain."

"Make complaints……?"

"Let me ask you, now that things have happened, does your friend have any thoughts on quitting?"

"quit……?"

"Well, after all... the boy your friend likes is already dating another girl, right? If you quit as soon as possible, maybe you won't be targeted by others?"

"——That won't work."

Yinglili shook her head vigorously, "My friend will never quit, that's what I think..."

"That~~ is really a very firm statement."

Hui said and sighed: "If that's the case... then there's nothing more to say, right?"

"Huh? I don't quite understand what Hui means..."

"After all, the master already has his own ideas. I really don't think other people have any good suggestions. If you have to say it, just do what you want to do, right?"

"Do what you want to do...?"
To be continued...