Chapter 48

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.