Early the next morning, pure white sunlight shone into the room, and the chirping of sparrows and larks could be heard outside.
In the bedroom, Kato Yusuke slowly opened his eyes, but there was no one beside him.
He rubbed his eyes and sat up, looking around, his hazy vision gradually becoming clearer.
Open the quilt.
The white sheets were messily curled, with dots of red in the middle, like a beautiful little plum blossom in winter.
He reached out and touched the side, which was still slightly warm. A few strands of golden hair were scattered on the pillow, as if reminding him of last night's charm.
There is a sweet smell lingering in the air, lingering around like a girl's shadow.
Kato Yusuke looked at the sunny sky outside, took a breath, and felt happy.
Turn around and climb out of bed, put on the clothes hanging on the chair one by one, then get up and leave the room.
Gudu Gudu~
Follow the source of the sound to the kitchen.
Ying Lili stood in front of the stove with her hands on her hands, looking at the pot of hot water in front of her in a daze, as if she was preparing to cook something.
She wore an apron over her sailor uniform, tied in a knot at the back. Her bright blond hair was casually let down, hanging slightly messily around her waist. The overall look was very homely.
"Good morning, Eiriri." Kato Yusuke greeted.
"...Hey, Yu, Yusuke!?" Eirili was startled and turned her head quickly, "When did you come...?"
"Well, that's about it just now."
"This, that's it...good morning."
Kato Yusuke walked up to her and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Huh? Ah, well, I'm cooking breakfast..."
"breakfast……?"
"Um……"
Ying Lili blushed and nodded, lowering her head and intertwining her hands cautiously in front of her belly.
"I thought you might be hungry when you wake up, so I planned to cook some udon noodles..."
"Eh? You cook it for me?" Kato Yusuke opened his eyes in disbelief.
"What are you doing! Didn't I tell you everything...what was your reaction?" Ying Lili glanced at him resentfully.
"No, it's just..."
Kato Yusuke scratched his hair in confusion, "You don't need to do such a thing. If you are hungry, I can cook you some porridge, and you go and take a rest-"
"--I do not want."
Ying Lili shook her head firmly, "You have been cooking for me this week, at least let me do it this morning. I will add an extra egg to you to supplement your nutrition..."
"...Huh? What did you say in the last sentence just now? Can you repeat it again??"
"Because, you also... that... worked hard yesterday. I heard that it was that... right...?"
Eiriri said coyly, but Kato Yusuke didn't really listen.
"Hiss~gudugudugudu~"
The faint sound of gas and the sound of boiling water intertwined, bringing Yusuke Kato back to reality in a downtime state.
He stretched out his hand to turn off the gas, stared intently at the girl standing next to him, thinking about how to answer the embarrassing and tricky question, and finally said politely——
"...It's better not to talk about my problems. More than this, I want to know how you are doing? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"
When he said this, Yinglili's body swayed obviously, and then she frowned and said with shame and anger:
"Then...then of course I am very sore everywhere in my body!? And you are still on my body, leaving so many marks...it's really..."
As she spoke, she raised her hand to touch her neck, her voice getting smaller and smaller.
Through this move, Kato Yusuke noticed that there were many band-aids on her neck, as if to cover up those "strawberries".
He couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
"I'm sorry...there are some force majeure factors here, but this is indeed my fault, and I apologize to you. I will get some ice packs to give you a cold compress later, and the swelling should be reduced before returning to Tokyo."
"...Okay, okay, you don't need to apologize so seriously. We are mutually exclusive about this kind of thing, right? After all, your shoulder also...do you feel pain...?"
Yinglili said hesitantly, her eyes frequently flicking to his left shoulder, looking uneasy.
"Oh, you're talking about this..."
Kato Yusuke put his right hand on his left shoulder and wrote lightly: "It's nothing, don't worry about it, boys are more rough-skinned and fleshy."
Just like he left kiss marks on others, the other party also left some marks on him. What Yinglili left on him were bite marks, and they were the kind that bleed.
It is said that this is not the first time that Kato Yusuke has encountered this kind of thing. After all, it is inevitable for couples to be a little uncontrollable when you are farming and I am farming, but situations like last night are still a bit rare.
The main reason is that Yinglili has a pair of small tiger teeth. Under the cute and playful appearance, it hides the lethality that can easily penetrate the skin. It still hurts a bit when bitten unexpectedly.
No one is right or wrong in this matter. At most, it can only be said that in the atmosphere at that time, they were all a little out of control.
After appeasing the girl who was a little concerned about this and persuading her to go to the living room to rest, Kato Yusuke started cooking a pot of milk oatmeal porridge.
The method is very simple. Basically, you put rice, water, and milk into a pot and cook together, and stir in instant oats and white sugar just before taking it out of the pot.
In order to prepare the meal quickly, Kato Yusuke cooked the porridge in a pressure cooker and mixed some glutinous rice into the rice to increase the consistency, which can save a lot of time.
By the way, this is a recipe he got from Megumi.
In order to prepare healthy food for the sick Eri, they would keep in touch every day like this, and their relationship was not alienated because of what happened on Mount Fuji.
During his free time while cooking porridge, Kato Yusuke also took the time to wash up, change the bed sheets in the bedroom, and take the bed sheets to the washing machine for cleaning, as if he were a housewife.
Half an hour later, the milk oatmeal was cooked smoothly.
He stopped Yinglili who was sitting on the sofa watching animation, had breakfast with her, then brushed her teeth again, and finally went to the kitchen to wash dishes.
After this week, he has become quite familiar with this process and is quite comfortable with it.
Glancing at the clock in the corner of the living room, Kato Yusuke discovered that it was ten o'clock in the morning, and his actions were twenty minutes slower than yesterday.
"Yinglili, I'm here with an ice pack. Let's apply a cold compress."
He said this and sat down next to the girl, but saw that the girl looked sad for some reason.
"...Huh? Why are you looking at me like that? Did I say something wrong?"
"Yusuke, you are really..." Eiri said gloomily: "You have done everything like this, doesn't it show that my girl power is very low? Idiot."
"What……?"
"That means you can share some of my work occasionally! Even if it's just to help you, I'll feel embarrassed otherwise."
"But didn't you say that your whole body is sore? Just take a good rest."
"That way I will become a useless person!"
"Is that so...? Is there any difference between you now and when you were at home?"
"Big... probably...?"
"Oh? What do you usually do at home? I mean things other than drawing, watching animations, reading novels, and playing games."
"Besides these...? Hey, wait, I need to think about it carefully."
"It's okay if you think about it slowly, but can you come closer first? It's not easy for me to apply cold compress to you in this position."
Ying Lili said oh, crawled over rustlingly, and finally sat down on his left thigh, exposing her neck.
Kato Yusuke was stunned for a moment, his left hand subconsciously protecting her waist, and his eyes fell below.
The girl's legs are close together, and her white thighs are soft and round. She bends her knees, and her graceful calves are like a pair of slender strings, with attractive curves and perfect proportions.
Even through his trousers, the warm and soft touch could still be transmitted to his thighs, making his heart surge.
Kato Yusuke looked at the other person from bottom to top, paused and said, "...the Band-Aid, should I tear it off first?"
"Well, tear it apart, but don't hurt me."
Yinglili responded absently, as if she was still struggling with what meaningful things she would do at home.
Kato Yusuke didn't bother seeing this and started to take action.
When he carefully took off the band-aid, two dark red hickeys of different sizes appeared in front of his eyes, with soft glue marks still left on them.
It was like two precious rubies, dotted on the girl's swan-like graceful neck, which was extremely eye-catching.
Suddenly, the low singing from last night seemed to echo in his ears.
Kato Yusuke calmed down, hugged the opponent's soft body with his left hand slightly, and picked up the ice pack from the side with his right hand.
"...Then, I'm going to put it up."
"Um."
The next second.
"Hiss~" Ying Lili's body jumped slightly and shuddered, "It's so cold!?"
"It's an ice pack after all. Just be patient."
In order to distract her attention, Kato Yusuke asked casually: "So, have you thought about what you usually do at home?"
"This...that...such as being an aloof security guard of your own house, protecting the room from being invaded...or something like that?"
"...In other words, it means squatting at home, right?"
"Well... your rude remarks are so annoying! Anyway, painting is my only strength. If you want to hate me, feel free to hate me!" Ying Lili puffed up her face angrily and said in self-deprecation.
The corner of Kato Yusuke's mouth curled up, and he shook his head with a smile, "No, I won't hate it. Rather... I quite like your coquettish look."
As soon as he finished speaking, he clearly felt that the body of the little cutie in his arms stiffened.
A brief silence.
"That's it..."
Ying Lili blushed and lowered her gaze, desperately suppressing the raised corners of her mouth, gently grabbing the shirt on his chest with one hand, and asked in a voice not much louder than a mosquito:
"Then... can I act coquettishly to you more? It's like the kind between boyfriend and girlfriend..."
"..."
Kato Yusuke opened his mouth, his voice as gentle as jade, "Well, you can do it at any time."
"Really!?" Yinglili opened her eyes wide in surprise, "Then, then...can you touch my head now?"
Kato Yusuke said nothing, raised his right hand and put it on her head, gently stroking the silky hair like a cat.
The girl also moved her head towards him in cooperation and closed her eyes in enjoyment.
Kato Yusuke felt as if he had been touched on the soft part of his heart, and his movements became more gentle.
"Is this okay?"
"Hmm~"
Yingli couldn't help but nod her head and let out a silly giggle.
"...Is your reaction too exaggerated? If you just touched your head, haven't we done this before?"
"No way! The past was the past and the present is the present. They are completely different things."
"...Is there anything different?"
"Of course that's because-"
Yinglili suddenly stopped mid-sentence, as if she thought of something, and did not continue.
Kato Yusuke touched her head and asked in confusion: "Why?"
"……nothing."
"Huh? You only half-speak??"
"That's how I am anyway, don't worry if you don't think of it yourself."
Ignoring someone who was dumbfounded, Yinglili stopped saying anything after saying this.
Different from the previous period when she was treated as a sister, she really felt that she was treated as a member of the opposite sex at this moment.
Because of this, the feeling of being touched on the head is naturally different.
She smelled the scent of the person she liked, enjoyed his caress, and felt her whole body relax. Her consciousness gradually became hazy, and she fell asleep leaning on him before she knew it.
Kato Yusuke noticed this immediately, then took the ice pack away and looked down.
The girl rested on his shoulder, sleeping peacefully. Her long and curled eyelashes trembled slightly with her breathing, and her slightly opened lips exhaled bursts of warm breath. Her body exuded the fragrance of flowers.
'It's really like a kitten...'
Kato Yusuke looked at the other party's defenseless look and couldn't help but think this.
He looked around, took off the cotton robe that the owner usually wore from the back of the sofa, covered it with him, and then said silently in his heart -
'System, open the email.'
A transparent blue interface appears before your eyes.
‘Special mission [Master of the Harem], status has been updated.’
'Warm reminder: Host, please keep up the good work!'
‘[Character: Eri Sawamura] The reward has been distributed——’
‘Reward: 200,000 points, number of prop draws*1.’
Kato Yusuke thought: 'Use the lottery.'
A roulette interface pops up immediately, which is divided into five levels according to S, A, B, C, and D.
Class S has the smallest area, and Class D has the largest area.
Without hesitation, directly press the [Start] button on the retina.
With a ding sound, the pointer on the roulette wheel spun rapidly.
Kato Yusuke stared at the roulette wheel for a moment, his lips tightly pursed.
According to what the system said last time, it seemed that he had a slim chance of obtaining a special item, which made him a little nervous.
After a few seconds, the pointer's rotation speed suddenly dropped.
——The miracle did not happen.
Finally, with Yusuke Kato's pale face, the pointer stopped on the D-level grid.
‘Ding, the lottery is over! You will get a beautiful hand model.’
He flipped his palm, and a female character wearing a blindfold and holding a chain weapon appeared on his palm.
"Rider..."
Kato Yusuke squeezed out a few syllables through his teeth, threw the figure on the sofa aside, and looked a little ugly.
He took a deep breath, adjusted his mood, and continued to check.
First, there are two new products in February and March.
[Smart water cup (300): This water cup is equipped with a smart sensor and water quality detection device, which can automatically sense and detect water quality, including water temperature, PH value, oxygen content, impurities, etc. 】
[Ghost Face's Leather Clothes (10,000): A special leather coat sewn by Ghost Face himself. When worn, the user's own presence can be significantly reduced and cannot be detected by biological and electronic devices (invalid during the day). 】
how to say?
Both products are so subtle that people don’t know how to evaluate them.