Serizawa Yu scratched her cheek in embarrassment and said with a slight blush:

"But Brother You just gave me a large amount of money and didn't have any thoughts about me, including later arranging for me to live with Xiaoxiang. For now, I'm still a virgin."

At the end of the sentence, her voice almost disappeared.

Sayu also became embarrassed and hurriedly said:

"That's right. I'm sorry, I said something strange. That... this kind of old-fashioned place is very Yusuke's style."

"Um...yes, yes."

The two looked at each other with dry smiles, and it was a bit hard to say anything for a while.

"Ahem..."

In order to break this delicate atmosphere, Sayu coughed slightly and changed the topic with a blushing face.

"Thank you, Xiao Xi, for telling me this~ I may have understood it wrong all along. Maybe the reason why Yusuke established this association is for you? This kind of tender feeling is really good~"

"...No, I think that's not the case." Serizawa Yu shook her head gently.

"What?"

"Well, how should I put it? Rather than saying it is because of me, I think Brother Yu established the association more because of Sister Sayu..."

"Huh……?"

Serizawa Yu looked at Sayu's face and spoke with a subtle expression.

"What I say may sound a little strange, but Brother You occasionally looks at me with very lonely eyes, as if he was looking at other people.

I didn’t know who Brother Yu was thinking of at the time, but now that I think about it, I feel that person was probably Sister Sayu..."

"Eh--?"

Sayu couldn't help but be startled, and when he was about to ask further——

"Ding Dong~"

The doorbell suddenly sounded from the direction of the entrance.

After opening the door, the person standing outside was Shinjo Chiaki.

"Sorry, Xiao Xi, I have prepared dinner for those girls. Do you want to come next door to have a look?"

"That's it~! Well, I'll go now, Aunt Qianqiu. Sorry, Sister Sayu, I'll go and get busy first."

"Ah, okay, please do it." Sayu waved gently, watched the two of them leave with a smile, and then slowly walked back to the living room.

"You're not looking at Xiao Xi, but you're looking at me...what does that mean...?"

She was talking to herself, always feeling a little uneasy.

It would be fine if she looked a lot like Xiao Xi, but they obviously have nothing to do with each other?

Just wandering around the room again and again.

I don't know why, but instead of getting better, that uneasy feeling became stronger.

"strangeness……"

In order to suppress this weird feeling, she went to the kitchen to get herself a glass of water and drank it all.

"Do Xiao Xi and I have anything in common..."

The confused soliloquy was swept into the air of the room.

A certain sense of disobedience eroded her heart, hovering like a dark cloud and lingering in her mind.

After standing in front of the kitchen for a long time, my perception of the outside world dropped significantly until——

"……what are you doing?"

A cold hand was placed on her shoulder. Sayu shuddered and almost screamed, but she held it back after seeing the person clearly.

"...What, it turns out to be Xiaoxiang..." She pressed her left chest, which was pounding violently, with enough heart, and said resentfully: "Really, don't scare me~~~!"

"I've already said hello to you, but you didn't respond for a long time. Is there something wrong?"

"Huh? Ah, no, I'm just in a daze..."

"In a daze...?" Shinjoka looked suspicious, his eyes roving back and forth on her face, obviously not believing this explanation.

"Oh, Xiaoxiang, please don't look at me like that, I'm serious! I was chatting with Xiaoxi just now, and she said something that made me a little concerned."

"What did Xiao Xi say?"

"Um……"

Sayu was a little hesitant, but thinking about it, it didn't seem like something that couldn't be said, so he recounted the conversation between himself and Xiao Xi.

Shintiao Xiang listened indifferently, let out a dull sound, and then stopped talking.

"Um... I want to ask, Xiaoxiang, do you think Xiao Xi and I are similar?"

"do not think so."

"Well, I think Xiao Xi didn't lie..."

"Well, she didn't lie. When she said that to the president, that Kato-san and I were also present."

"He actually said he was there! Did Yusuke say anything?"

"have no idea."

"You said you don't know! Please think again. Could it be Xiaoxiang that you forgot?"

Sayu asked anxiously, shaking Shinjoka's shoulders back and forth with both hands, eliciting a disgusted look from the latter.

"Please stop it a little bit. How could I forget what the president said?"

"Then did he have any special reaction? I think this is very important to me..."

"You have to ask Kato-san about this. The president attaches great importance to her. If the only person who may know something is her, she is the only one. However, that side is very repulsive to you."

"Well……"

Sayu pursed her lips unwillingly and began to think hard.
Chapter completed!