Chapter 100

"Ruri had a great time at school."

"Today's Art Club activity was drawing family members."

"Ruri drew a picture of Brother!"

Natsume Chikage asked curiously:

"Let me see."

Natsume Ruri excitedly let go of Natsume Chikage's hand and stepped on the cool tatami with her little feet wearing white socks.

She came to the small table and took the painting to hand to Natsume Chikage.

"Brother, look quickly."

I saw Natsume Chikage in the painting in the three-mat small room, his right hand supporting his head, leaning against the small table, just looking at the TV in a lazy and quiet manner.

Although it was a very plain scene.

But under his sister's excellent painting skills, Natsume Chikage's expression, the details of the room, etc., were all depicted very clearly.

Natsume Chikage held the painting and exaggerated:

"Ruri, your drawing is amazing!"

"You'll definitely be a painting master in the future!"

Natsume Ruri was a bit shy, but more than that, she was happy.

"Thank you for the compliment, Brother!"

However, Natsume Chikage wasn't blowing smoke; his sister's talent in painting was truly very high.

Even many teachers praised her painting skills.

She had also won quite a few painting awards.

Anyway, she was much better than Natsume Chikage.

He really didn't know anything about painting.

Natsume Ruri asked curiously:

"Brother, are you hungry? Do you want Ruri to make you something to eat?"

Natsume Chikage nodded and said:

"Mm, make something."

Natsume Ruri tied up her long hair, put on an apron, and smiled:

"Brother, you go take a bath first, it should be ready to eat after you come out."

Natsume Chikage nodded.

"Mm."

Very soon.

He came out of the bathroom after taking a bath.

A steaming late-night snack was already placed on the small table.

Natsume Chikage sat down, ate the late-night snack, and smiled:

"The food my sister makes is really delicious!"

Upon hearing this, Natsume Ruri's eyes were full of joy.

She suddenly remembered something, narrowed her eyes, and asked:

"By the way, Brother, didn't you promise Ruri yesterday that you would take a photo of Yukimura Suzu and Saionji Nanase?"

"Have you taken it yet?"

Natsume Chikage nodded, then took out his phone, clicked on the album, selected the group photo of the Collection Club, handed the phone to Ruri, and introduced:

"In the middle is Saionji Nanase."

"On the right is Yukimura Suzu."

"On the left is Fujiwara Aoi."

Natsume Ruri had seen Fujiwara Aoi before, and she would have time to contact and understand her later, so she didn't pay much attention to her for now.

She let her gaze fall on Yukimura Suzu and Saionji Nanase, and her eyes slowly narrowed.

Natsume Ruri recalled the past.

When Dad took her to visit Saionji's house before, she had also seen this Saionji Nanase.

But now, this Saionji Nanase looked okay before, but after growing up, she had become more and more beautiful.

As for this Yukimura Suzu, Natsume Ruri had never seen her before.

However, this Yukimura Suzu was not a bit worse than Saionji Nanase in appearance.

And that cold temperament could be clearly perceived even from the photo.

Natsume Ruri didn't even need to think to know that this Yukimura Suzu, just based on her appearance and temperament, would inevitably be the high-mountain flower in many boys' hearts.

There would definitely be many boys who liked her!

As expected...

Natsume Ruri knew that after her brother entered high school, he would definitely attract many girls.

But only a few days had passed, and there were already three beautiful girls around him?

Natsume Ruri's small mouth puffed up slightly, just feeling that if one of these three were to be her brother's girlfriend, she would be qualified in terms of appearance.

However, personality and other aspects were also part of the assessment.

If those weren't good, she definitely wouldn't agree to her brother dating them!!

Natsume Ruri looked at the photo more carefully, frowned, and asked:

"By the way, Brother, how did you convince them to take a photo with you?"

Natsume Chikage was eating his late-night snack and said without raising his head:

"I didn't say anything."

Natsume Ruri was confused:

"Then why were you all in a group photo together?"

Natsume Chikage explained:

"Because the four of us are members of the same club."

"We just established a Collection Club today, and just took a group photo to commemorate it."

Natsume Ruri's eyes widened in disbelief:

"You are actually in a club with them?!"

Natsume Chikage was confused:

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

Natsume Ruri's fair face puffed up slightly:

"Why did you join this Collection Club, Brother?"

"Looking at your situation, how is it that you should have joined the Game Club?"

Natsume Chikage smiled helplessly:

"Your brother doesn't have any game equipment now, so why would I join the Game Club?"

Natsume Ruri fell silent suddenly and sighed lightly:

"That's true."

"But why did you join this Collection Club? Does this Collection Club have any special features?"

Natsume Chikage explained a little.

"Actually, it's because I often have to work, and many clubs in the school require a lot of club activity time."

"If I join those clubs, asking for leave isn't an easy thing."

"It just so happened that my deskmate Saionji Nanase said she wanted to establish a Collection Club, and she said it didn't matter if I could ask for leave at will, so I agreed."

Natsume Ruri's eyes narrowed, and she felt that this Saionji Nanase was not simple.

She had actually fooled her stupid brother so easily.

However, the situation of this club did indeed reduce a lot of burden for her brother, which was a good thing.

Natsume Ruri took out a small notebook and began to record some information about Saionji Nanase.

[Saionji Nanase: Scheming, -2 points!]

"Ruri, what are you writing?"

"Writing homework."

Natsume Chikage glanced at it, although he felt it was strange, he felt it was homework, so he didn't say anything.

Very soon.

After Natsume Ruri finished writing something.

She asked curiously:

"Brother, speaking of which, what exactly does this Collection Club of yours do?"

Natsume Chikage explained briefly:

"It's just collecting some interesting things, and then writing journals or something."

"The benefit is that when the time comes, we can take the Collection Club's funding and go out to collect materials."

Natsume Ruri blinked:

"So that's how it is."

After finishing the late-night snack.

Natsume Ruri, as usual, watched the comedy show on TV leisurely, occasionally letting out giggles.

And Natsume Chikage's gaze fell on his phone, his fingers jumping quickly, constantly clicking on the screen, writing his novel.

At this moment.

He suddenly remembered something, picked up the schoolbag on the side, and while his sister wasn't noticing, directly registered the 'Straight-A Student's High School Notebook' on the panel.

[Registered Equipment Quantity: 5]

[Equipment: 'Boy's Sorrowful Diary', 'Dust-Covered Shogi Score', 'Favorite Button', 'Oden Immortal's Ladle', 'Straight-A Student's High School Notebook']

[Available Attribute Points: 0]

[Distance to Next Attribute Point Reward: Still missing one piece of equipment!]

After registering.

Natsume Chikage looked down at the pile of love letters that had already filled his schoolbag, intending to find a place to put them.

If someone came to ask for them back in the future, he could still return them to others.

He felt that throwing them away directly was also quite strange.

And his action of taking out the love letters with a rustle clearly made his sister notice.

Natsume Ruri turned to look at Natsume Chikage.

When she noticed the pile of envelopes he took out, she was stunned for a long time, then immediately picked up one that had fallen to the ground to look at it, finding that it was written with confession words wanting to date Natsume Chikage.

After she finished reading this one, she couldn't help but let her gaze fall on the pile of love letters Natsume Chikage was organizing, and her pupils instantly shook:

"Brother, what on earth did you do at school?!"

"Why are there so many love letters?"

Natsume Chikage fell silent slightly.

"If I say I didn't do anything... do you believe me?"

Natsume Ruri's fair face puffed up slightly; she knew that her brother was very low-key no matter when.

But the brother in the past was truly completely unpopular!

As for the reason, Ruri vaguely remembered that it seemed her brother didn't know how to groom himself before, always keeping long hair that blocked his eyes and part of his face, looking quite gloomy.

Now, after cutting his hair into a refreshing style and not covering his face, he was indeed much, much more handsome.

Whether she liked the brother in the past or now, she did like the current one.

But Ruri couldn't be happy at all about her brother being so popular!

Natsume Ruri muttered:

"Ruri believes you."

"And Ruri also knows that Brother looks very good, so having love letters is also a matter of course."

"But this quantity, isn't it too much?!"

"And Brother, aren't you thinking about not dating girls during this time? Why did you bring these love letters back?"

Natsume Chikage couldn't say he was trying to test if these could become 'special equipment', so he had to brush it off:

"If I throw away the love letters others wrote properly without even looking at them, it feels like trampling on others' feelings."

"But I don't have any intention of responding or reading the love letters, so I thought I'd put them at home for the time being and deal with them later..."

Natsume Ruri blinked and smiled beautifully:

"So that's how it is!"

"But no matter what, with so many love letters, keeping them all the time isn't a solution, right?"

Natsume Chikage thought for a moment and said:

"They won't be kept all the time."

"When the economic situation gets better in the future and I have time to find a girlfriend, I'll let her handle them, I think that would be better."

"At that time, she can throw them away or keep them, whatever she wants."

Natsume Ruri puffed out her small mouth; although she didn't like her brother finding a girlfriend, she understood that such a thing would happen sooner or later.

After all, there were too many girls surrounding her brother now, and it was impossible to defend against them all!

Rather than letting strange girls date her brother.

It would be better for her to help her brother find one.

That was what Natsume Ruri thought.

As for these love letters now, since her brother didn't intend to read them, they could naturally all be PASSED.

And her brother being in a club with Saionji Nanase, Yukimura Suzu, and Fujiwara Aoi clearly meant he didn't dislike these three.

Because once a person dislikes someone else, they wouldn't be willing to stay in the same space with them no matter what.

Then it seems the girls most likely to date her brother are these three?

Natsume Ruri pursed her small mouth, looking at the group photo of the 'Collection Club' that had just been secretly sent over using her brother's phone, her gaze scanning back and forth between the three beautiful girls...

Late at night.

Click—

The light in the three-mat small room went out.

Natsume Chikage returned to his bed in the dark, preparing to take out his phone and write until he was sleepy.

And just at this moment.

Natsume Ruri on the other bed turned to look at Natsume Chikage and asked:

"By the way, Ruri remembers that Brother doesn't have a shift on Saturday."

"After school tomorrow, what do you plan to do, Brother? Are you going straight home?"

Natsume Chikage asked back:

"Why are you suddenly asking this?"

Natsume Ruri muttered:

"Ruri was thinking that we haven't been to the supermarket to buy things lately, so I was thinking that since Brother doesn't have classes on Saturday afternoon and doesn't have to work, I wanted to go shopping and visit the supermarket with Brother."

Natsume Chikage was stunned.

Speaking of which, he hadn't been shopping with his sister for a while either.

He was either busy working or busy writing.

Thinking about it, he hadn't accompanied his sister out to play for a long time, so she must have felt a bit lonely.

As for tomorrow, Saturday, besides having to go to the publishing house to submit his manuscript, there was really nothing special to do.

It was completely possible to go accompany his sister shopping after submitting the manuscript.

Of course.

Natsume Chikage wasn't saying that he would completely ignore the Collection Club.

The time he had agreed with the publishing house to submit the manuscript was around four o'clock.

So from noon after school until he went to the publishing house at three-thirty, he could completely stay in the Collection Club for a long time.

And for the publishing house, submitting the manuscript, he thought an hour should be enough.

Calculating this way, after five o'clock, he could accompany his sister to play.

Natsume Chikage agreed:

"Speaking of which, it's indeed been a long time since we went to the supermarket, and I also want to buy some things."