Chapter 47

Finally, she succeeded in petting Sansan’s rounded head and top.

Aoyama Nanami inexplicably remembered her important Torajiro doll.

Kitakami Yoru stood to the side, watching quietly, and then thought of something.

“Wait a moment, I’ll be right back.”

After the words fell, only Aoyama Nanami and a cat remained at the door.

Returning in a hurry, Kitakami Yoru opened the refrigerator door and took out those two bags of cookies.

He couldn't eat them, Gabril didn't want them, so either leave them to be thrown away or give them to his dad and mom.

But his dad and mom didn't eat them either; who else could he give them to?

It was impossible to give them to Yukinoshita Yukino, right?

Aoyama Nanami looked curiously into the apartment until Kitakami Yoru came out.

“These two bags of cookies are both intact; do you want them?” Kitakami Yoru came back with two bags of small cookies.

Rather than throwing them away, it was better to give them to Aoyama Nanami; at least he found her pleasing to the eye.

“Eh?”

“For me?”

Aoyama Nanami, somewhat surprised, stood up, pointed at herself, and widened her eyes.

“Right, someone gave them to me, I’m losing weight, and I can’t eat them.”

Kitakami Yoru replied faintly.

“This?”

Aoyama Nanami showed obvious hesitation, looking at the two bags of small cookies.

If she accepted them, would it be bad?

But Kitakami-san said he didn't need them and was also losing weight.

Moreover, with two bags of small cookies, she could solve her breakfast and lunch for tomorrow and save some money.

Aoyama Nanami’s obsession with saving money was truly carved into her heart.

“Just consider it bought with your 500 yen; a towel isn't that expensive.” Kitakami Yoru added.

“Then thank you, Kitakami-san.”

The balance of hesitation in Aoyama Nanami’s heart tilted, and she reached out to take them.

Holding them in her hand, she even weighed them.

“Then goodbye.”

Kitakami Yoru watched Sansan walk to his feet.

“Goodbye, thank you.” Aoyama Nanami nodded.

The next second, the door was closed.

Looking at the door in front of her, Aoyama Nanami breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on her lips involuntarily.

“I didn't expect Kitakami-san to be quite easy to get along with...”

“Wait...”

“The supermarket discount!”

Suddenly, Aoyama Nanami remembered another important matter and ran away in a hurry.

Kitakami Yoru held Sansan back to the living room, put it down, and went to the shower room to take a bath comfortably.

At the same time.

Today, Eriri still chose not to go to the Art Club.

Her important sketchbook was lost, and she had had a strange nightmare, which put her in a bad mood.

She had no way to create at all.

“Eriri, do you want to eat something?”

A Sawamura Sayuri, who was almost carved from the same mold as Eriri but much more mature, brought over a plate of sweets.

“No...”

Eriri leaned on the soft, luxurious sofa, hugging her legs, and buried her head in the pillow on her knees.

“Eat a little, your mood will be better.” Sayuri advised; Eriri had been a bit off for a while recently.

“No, Mom, I’m going to find Sagiri.”

Eriri shook her head dejectedly and got up to return upstairs.

A while later.

Eriri carried her school bag and came down after changing her clothes.

“Be safe.” Sayuri instructed.

“Got it.”

Eriri responded and came outside.

In Tokyo in late April, it usually gets dark around seven o'clock.

It was about time.

Sagiri lived a bit far away, and Eriri didn't plan to come back, just planning to sleep at Izumi Sagiri’s house for one night.

Since a long time ago, Eriri had done this.

Buying a large bag of convenient instant food and a bag of snacks on the way, Eriri took a one-hour train and walked a distance before arriving at Izumi Sagiri’s house in Edogawa Ward.

The sky had completely darkened.

Eriri used a key to open the gate of the detached house’s courtyard and walked in.

“Sagiri, I’m here.”

Eriri shouted into the house; she had sent a message to Sagiri in advance.

“Eriri-nee...”

Izumi Sagiri heard the voice, opened the door, poked her head out from the crack, and her soft, pink lips trembled slightly.

She called out Eriri’s name, but unfortunately, Eriri couldn't hear it.

Because her voice was too small.

“Sagiri... heehee...”

Eriri walked in through the door crack and barely squeezed out a smile.

Izumi Sagiri didn't pay attention to Eriri first, but instead, scared, quickly closed the door and locked it.

Eriri, standing to the side, felt inexplicably heartbroken for Izumi Sagiri.

Her dear little sister and good friend had really bad luck.

Since she was young, she grew up in a single-parent family.

Later, she finally reorganized her family and had a brother and a father.

But only a month later, they were in a car accident while out.

The family of three all passed away.

Only one person was left, raised by her aunt.

But Sagiri’s aunt was very busy with work and ran around the country.

She couldn't stay by her side either.

As her sister, she definitely had to take good care of her.

Recalling the process of how she and Sagiri met, Eriri’s mood finally relaxed a little.

44: So Noisy

“Eriri-nee, let’s go up.”

Izumi Sagiri locked the door, and her expression relaxed quite a bit.

Usually, she would never go out.

The furthest distance from home was just letting the delivery person send things to the courtyard gate, and she would sneak out to get them when no one was around.

Now the internet was very developed, and Izumi Sagiri had always bought all daily necessities and food this way.

If that didn't work, there was Eriri to help.

“Okay.”

Eriri freed a hand and dotingly touched Izumi Sagiri’s soft, silver-white hair.

Izumi Sagiri accepted it calmly and followed Eriri back to her room.

“Sagiri, what have you been doing lately?” Eriri placed the things she bought casually on the floor.

“I don't want to draw erotic manga anymore; I want to draw light novel illustrations.” Izumi Sagiri sat back on her small bed, which was decorated in a full girly style.

“Hehehe, why don't you want to draw them anymore?”

Being alone with her intimate friend, Eriri temporarily threw away the worries in her heart and pounced on Izumi Sagiri.

Izumi Sagiri, who was pounced on unexpectedly, didn't struggle at first, but her cute face showed some reluctance.

“Sagiri is so soft, so fragrant~”

Eriri used her slender hands to hug the cute, soft little loli very skillfully.

She pressed her body against her and gently rubbed her face against Izumi Sagiri’s cheeks.

One big and one small, two cute lolis.

One wearing black over-the-knee socks, one wearing thin white silk stockings, playing and fighting on the small bed filled with a girl’s body fragrance.

It was enough to make one’s blood boil.

No one would have thought that the elegant, cold, white-skinned, noble mixed-race young lady was like this in private.

“Er... Eriri-nee...”

Izumi Sagiri started to be unable to take it and pushed Eriri with her small hands.

“Heehee.”

Eriri smiled, and her mood felt much better.

She decided that she would temporarily stop thinking about the things that worried her tonight.

Subsequently, letting go of Izumi Sagiri, Eriri accompanied her to eat a luxurious takeout meal and take a bath together.

Lying on the bed, chatting, reading manga...

Playing until very late, Eriri finally fell asleep.

The next day, Kitakami Yoru got up as usual.

Since the start of school, he had developed enough self-discipline.

Once the phone alarm rang, he got up immediately and never stayed in bed.

If it were before, even if the alarm rang until it stopped, he wouldn't necessarily crawl out.

“Early to bed and early to rise is good for the body, keep exercising...”

Kitakami Yoru put on his slippers and folded the quilt.

He wasn't just fat; because he was too obese, he had more or less some underlying diseases brought on by obesity, and his immunity was also low.

After tidying the bed, Kitakami Yoru started brushing his teeth and washing his face, drank a little water, and started doing warm-up exercises, then losing weight.

Half an hour later, it was only just past seven o'clock.

Kitakami Yoru walked into the bathroom naked and rinsed his body with warm water.

He discovered one thing.

That was that he seemed to have changed.

Carefully comparing his body, one could slightly see that he seemed to have lost a little weight.

Another place seemed to have become a little stronger.

Kitakami Yoru had heard before that fat people were generally very small, but he didn't care at all.

He was already more than half again the average for an adult.

“Could it be, if I lost weight...”

Kitakami Yoru muttered while gesturing in front of the mirror.

After showering, he prepared today’s breakfast and lunch and left some cat food and water for Sansan.

While eating breakfast and watching the news on TV, Gabril came to knock on the door.

“Morning, Gabril.” Kitakami Yoru greeted.

“Here, I’ve cleared this cartridge; I’ll return it to you first.”

Gabril reached out and handed over a cartridge.

“Didn't sleep well?”

Kitakami Yoru saw Gabril’s somewhat exhausted appearance and took the cartridge.

“Mm, but I’m fine, it’s okay.”

Gabril said, yawned, and then added: “It was fun, it’s just that this type of game doesn't have much replay value.”

“Online game types have more replay value.” Kitakami Yoru replied subsequently.

“Online games?” Gabril muttered softly, waved her small hand, and walked back.

“Phew phew~ finally made it!”

Eriri came out of the station at the end of the commercial street in a hurry, checking the time on her phone.

She got up early in the morning to prepare to come to school.

But Izumi Sagiri’s house was too far, the commute was too long, and she was always worried about being late while on the train.

“There’s about twenty minutes left.”

Eriri breathed a sigh of relief again, watching casually to see if there were any breakfast shops or convenience stores on the way to school.

Just then, Eriri, whose gaze was wandering randomly, saw a familiar back ahead.

She couldn't help but stop.

“Isn't that...”

Eriri looked ahead in surprise.

A dead-otaku was walking together with a petite blonde girl.

Both were wearing Shuchiin uniforms.

“No... way... and they’re talking and laughing?”

Eriri’s expression gradually became strange.

Those thoughts that worried her so much surged into her heart again.

When Kitakami Yoru arrived at the classroom, morning reading was about to start.

He put down his school bag and took out his phone.

Kitakami Yoru noticed out of the corner of his eye that there was a gaze from beside him, sizing him up.

When he turned his head, he met the emerald-green eyes of his beautiful blonde deskmate, Miura Yumiko.

“Wha... what’s wrong?”

Kitakami Yoru was stunned, watching Miura Yumiko’s gaze constantly scanning his body.

It was as if she were in a zoo, carefully watching a rare animal.

“Nothing.” Miura Yumiko moved her gaze away faintly and landed on Yuigahama Yui.

“Inexplicable...”

Kitakami Yoru let out a breath and muttered.

Morning reading ended, taking advantage of the break time.

Kitakami Yoru took out his phone and sent a short message to Kato Megumi, nervously expecting a reply.

In the classroom.

Sitting silently alone in her seat, taking advantage of the short break, many people got up to move around and find friends to chat with.

However, Kato Megumi didn't know what to do at all.

Resting her chin on her hand, she looked boredly at every scene in the classroom.

“Ding-dong~”

The phone in her school bag suddenly rang.

Kato Megumi, who never received messages from others, knew without thinking that it was an advertisement or an app push.

Bored, she took her phone out of her school bag and found it was sent by Kitakami Yoru.

“It’s Kitakami-san, only he remembers me...”

Kato Megumi held her phone, recalling the time she and Kitakami Yoru went out to play last weekend.

Replying with a message, Kato Megumi held her phone with both hands, a faint smile on her lips.