Chapter 53: Let's wash them together today!

Natsume Chikage proposed: "Ruri, do you like the bracelet you're wearing now?"

Natsume Ruri said happily: "I like it, the kind of like where I plan to wear it for a lifetime!"

Natsume Chikage sweated slightly on his forehead: "Can you take it off and let Brother see it? I plan to buy you a new one later."

"Why waste that money?" Ruri pouted, but the corners of her mouth couldn't stop rising; she was clearly very happy.

She didn't even refuse, took it off, and gave it to Natsume Chikage.

Chikage accepted it with secret joy, then looked up at the lights in the three-mat room and muttered: "The light here is a bit dim, the light in the bathroom is brighter, I'll go inside and take a few photos to save, so it'll be easier to find this type of bracelet in the future."

Natsume Ruri didn't think much of it and just smiled happily: "Mm-hmm."

Hearing this, Natsume Chikage quickly went to the bathroom.

He unwrapped the packaging of the new matching bracelet he had bought and then swapped this new one with his younger sister's.

He planned to find an excuse to trick his younger sister after the swap, making her voluntarily give him that piece of special equipment.

However, while doing so, he suddenly heard his younger sister's surprised voice.

"Brother, you already bought a new one?"

"Oh, you must have seen that fortune-telling program on TV a while ago, saying something about wearing two purple bracelets in April bringing great luck."

"So you bought an extra one for Ruri, right?"

Natsume Chikage's mouth twitched; he hadn't thought of that at all.

Just as he was about to explain something.

Natsume Ruri walked over excitedly, holding both bracelets in her hands, her eyes full of joy.

"Brother, you're so good!"

"But why are they both the same style?"

Natsume Chikage looked at his younger sister, who was so happy, and couldn't help but fall silent.

Since their father passed away, she rarely felt this happy.

So seeing her like this now, he really couldn't spoil the mood by saying anything else.

After taking a deep breath, he smiled and went along with it:

"But after I bought it, I realized it seemed to be the same style as the one you had before, so I asked you to take it and see if it was."

"If it was, I'd take it to exchange or something..."

"Now it seems it really is the same style."

"Although it only cost 500 yen each, not very expensive, it's not great to wear the same ones, should I take it to exchange?"

Natsume Ruri shook her head and smiled:

"So that's how it is, but never mind about exchanging; as long as it's bought by Brother, I like it!"

Saying that.

She put both bracelets on her wrist and looked at them, clearly unable to put them down.

Natsume Chikage smiled helplessly.

He thought his plan had failed, and he had even lost an extra bracelet...

He had originally intended to pull a switch, but now it seemed he would have to think of another way.

However, being able to make his younger sister happy again was a pretty good outcome.

After a while.

Natsume Ruri yawned and rubbed her sleepy eyes.

"Brother, Ruri is sleepy..."

Natsume Chikage checked the time; it was indeed time to sleep.

"Mm, sleep."

He got up, put away the small table that occupied most of the room, and laid out the floor bedding again.

"Go to sleep, I'll turn off the lights."

"Mm."

Natsume Ruri lay on the bedding, her breathing quickly becoming steady and even, as if she had already fallen asleep.

Natsume Chikage turned off the room lights and lay down as well.

He didn't plan to sleep immediately, but prepared to take out his phone to continue typing.

His younger sister was still young and could sleep soundly without worries.

But as her brother, he couldn't.

Since there was now an opportunity to change their impoverished circumstances through writing novels, he had to work twice as hard.

The three-mat room fell into pitch darkness.

Natsume Chikage prepared to type in this dark room.

Just as he took out his phone, he noticed two people had sent messages on LINE: Kondo Miyuki and Fujiwara Aoi.

He clicked on the message from Kondo Miyuki first.

【Kondo Miyuki: Natsume-kun, are you asleep?】

【Natsume Chikage: Not yet, Auntie Kondo, do you need something from me?】

The message was replied to quickly.

【Kondo Miyuki: Calling me by my surname is so distant; I wanted to say it during dinner, but just call me Auntie Miyuki from now on.】

【Natsume Chikage: Okay, Auntie Miyuki...】

【Kondo Miyuki: (=^_^=) Didn't you ask me to help find the whereabouts of your father's two shogi heirlooms before? I've already found the owner of one of them.】

【Natsume Chikage: So fast? Who is it?】

【Kondo Miyuki: That person is named Onishi Keiko, but she's married now, married into the Yasui family, so she's called Yasui Keiko now.】

【Natsume Chikage: Yasui Keiko... then where should I go to find her?】

【Kondo Miyuki: You don't need to find Yasui Keiko directly; her son, Yasui Ryoto, is at your Private Moonlight Academy, he's your senior, and seems to be in the Shogi Force currently. I've already told his mother about the situation; if you really want to know about the heirlooms, you can learn about it through him.】 ===== CHAPTER 54 =====