On the table in the restaurant, Shiina Maki sat opposite Miyahara Nagisa. He followed the process of yesterday's brother's work to tutor Nagisa.

Maki casually wrote and painted on paper with one hand, supported her cheek with the other, and looked at the clock hanging high on the wall from time to time.

The eyes are always lingering in the direction of the gate.

I don't know what I'm thinking.

Nagisa Miyahara was lying on the table, scratching her head as she looked at an ancient Chinese article.

She pointed to a passage from an article: "Maki? What does this passage mean?"

Maki stretched his neck and glanced over.

"I was given a bath in Huaqing Pond in spring, and the hot spring water was used to wash the grease."

He explained casually: "That is to say, the emperor admires this little wife very much. When it is cold in spring, she is allowed to soak in the hot spring in Huaqing Pond, which makes her skin smooth and tender."

Miyahara Nagisa was stunned, and the movement he was about to write down was paused: "Can you write this way in the homework answer?"

Maki looked at it for granted: "It's definitely not possible! You have to translate according to every word. This is called a free translation. It only emphasizes faith and elegance, and does not require rigid correspondence."

"......is that so?"

Miyahara Nagisa, a real poor student, sounded confused.

Although I don’t quite understand what it means, since I use a single Chinese character such as “Sindu and Ya” that I have never heard of before, it seems to be really amazing.

But Shiina Maki said, but couldn't help but feel a little worried: "When I talk about hot spring bathing, I always have an ominous premonition... The last time I was in the beachfront, it happened that night after I finished the hot spring bathing."

"Natsui, you said Brother Iori won't go to the bath with any woman?"

"Have he brought any strange women home before?"

"No!"

Miyahara Nagisa smiled and waved her hand: "Iori had forgotten time because she had been reading books at school. As for today... it might be because she was too busy with work?"

"Yeah?"

Shiina Maki murmured in a low voice.

Today, she took the second test of the JCQ preliminaries, so Nini didn't go to see her off because she was too busy with work.

Now, I work so late again...

I can't help but feel more worried the more I think about it.

Although I had tried my best to restrain the divergence of my thinking, I always unconsciously remembered the photo of Nini and Sano Sano that I showed her a few days ago when I asked her to go out.

She spoke with some concern: "Natsui, when you are at home, is there anything strange about Nini's relationship with Sano Sano?"

Miyahara Nagisa was still lowering her head to write about Sano left by Iori, but she was a little unhappy when she heard this.

"Maki, Shino is a very good person."

"Don't talk nonsense."

A few days ago, when I was in the beachfront, although I had a misunderstanding of late-night massage, Sano Sano also paid close attention to her emotions and came to persuade her.

Moreover, when I met in an izakaya for the first time, Iori said she was Lily.

How could these two guys get together?

“…”

As soon as he heard this, Maki didn't say much.

But Miyahara Nagisa seemed to have aroused some of the feelings of this. As he was writing, he stopped writing and remembered the scene he accidentally saw on the deck.

The pen holder was creaking with a creaking sound from her.

Nagisa gritted her teeth and said, "I think...that Terajima San is even more suspicious."

When Maki heard this, he nodded with some reason.

Although the woman Takashima seems to have sincerely exchanged Nini's information with her, such a woman who makes quick and accurate moves in private will definitely be able to do something even more terrible.

So Maki and Nagisa looked at each other, showing the hero's expression that was similar to each other.

‘You can’t be snatched away by that woman!’

‘You can’t let Nini be snatched away by that woman!’

The two heroes have their own ulterior motives.

This is the second child.

The two of them were muttering in their hearts, and they heard a crackling sound in the corridor.

Yui Igarashi walked out of the room with a soft nightgown, shaking her stomach and rubbing her stomach.

When he saw that the lights in the living room were still on, he was stunned and turned his head to look at the two people on the dining table.

"What's wrong? Iori hasn't returned yet..."

Yui was halfway through his words, and he swept the two of them with sharp eyes, and his words couldn't help but pause.

When I saw Nagisa and Maki face to face, I couldn't help feeling a little worried.

‘Maki, won’t you tell Nagisa what you saw that morning, right?’

‘But there is nothing between Iori and I...’

Yui looked at Nagisa's sharp expression, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt guilty.

Third child!

Miyahara Nagisa was full of the scene he saw on the deck a few days ago. It was not until Yui shrank and found a chair to sit down at the dining table that he would adjust his expression as if he was about to react.

Maki glanced vigilantly.

This is also a potentially dangerous element who can actually do such a straight ball so naturally.

And in the end, she actually got through the test of cuteness!

If you think about it for a moment, you will know how unpretentious my brother is to Yui!

It's simply too dangerous.

However, Maki simply explained to her various possibilities of Iori not returning late at night.

So... the three girls sat silently at the long table in the dining room in a subtle atmosphere.

I don't know what to wait for.

I don’t know how long it took, Miyahara Nagisa and Shiina Maki suddenly raised their heads.

Yui, who was browsing her phone, was still unaware of anything.

But the next second, she heard the sound of the key at the gate locking.

However, none of the three people sitting in the restaurant moved.

Nagisa and Maki were angry because Iori came back so late and didn't even have any news.

Yui is a home girl all year round and can understand this kind of "preferably not to talk" air.

Until the sound of the door opening sounded, the familiar footsteps took off their shoes in the entrance hall and walked towards the dining room along the living room.

Maki and Nagisa were just looking at the book in their hands as if they were still studying seriously. They looked at the book in their hands and seemed to have not noticed the simple and simple fact that Iori got home.

Miyahara Nagisa lowered her head and quietly wrote the title according to the paragraph that Maki had just translated by Shinda Ya.

She made up her mind.

Whoever loves to take the initiative will take the initiative.

Anyway, I won’t move this time!

‘Iori must try it and can’t get my feelings!’

The landlord looked calm and determined.

"I'm back."

Iori also seemed to see the living room and dining room with lights on, and greeted him in a low voice.

Until I passed by the restaurant, I saw three kittens sitting neatly around the dining table. Their expressions were stiff, and then they smiled unnaturally and greeted them.

"ah......"

"Didn't sleep?"

"Hmph~"

Miyahara Nagisa groaned in anger and lowered her head to continue to do the questions.

There was no reaction to Iori's greeting.

"The wine tastes so strong..." Maki waved her hand in front of her nose with a little disgusted, "Oni! How much have you drunk... What's the smell here?!"

Yui Igarashi sat on the chair with a well-behaved look on her face: "Iori, I'm a little hungry."

"Then what, something is going to happen tonight."
To be continued...