Chapter 616

A quiet and leisurely air flowed in the club room.

However, this tranquility was soon broken.

"Click."

The door of the club room was gently pulled open.

A tall and elegant figure appeared at the door.

It was Yue Dao Lin.

On her intellectual and beautiful face, the tear mole under her left eye looked particularly charming.

At this moment, she was carrying a paper bag that looked quite heavy in her left hand, and holding a wooden shogi board and a box of pieces in her right hand.

Her gaze swept across the club room quickly, and when she saw Natsume Chikage sitting quietly by the window reading, a flash of joy that could not be suppressed flashed in her eyes.

The three people in the club room turned their heads at the same time.

Xiyuanji Qilai blinked in surprise:

"Yue Dao senior? Why are you here?"

Yue Dao Lin walked into the club room with a decent and friendly smile on her face:

"Club activities ended early today, so I thought I'd come to the Collection Club to visit and learn, and by the way... play a little."

Yukimura Suzune was like a cat that sensed an intruder in its territory, her eyes narrowed slightly, looking at her with a trace of imperceptible vigilance.

"Learn? Play?"

Yue Dao Lin didn't explain directly, but walked very naturally to the empty seat next to Natsume Chikage—that is, opposite Xiyuanji Qilai and Yukimura Suzune—and sat down.

Seeing her choice of seat, which was almost like "declaring sovereignty," the alarm bell in Yukimura Suzune's heart rang even louder.

Yue Dao Lin placed the things in her hand on the low table, first took out a paperback book with some traces of reading from the paper bag, and handed it to Yukimura Suzune.

"Yukimura junior, didn't I say before that I really wanted a signed book of yours?"

"I brought the one I often read today, can I trouble you to sign it for me?"

Yukimura Suzune was slightly startled, her cold eyes blinked, and the guarded expression on her face visibly eased a lot.

She did remember that Yue Dao senior had mentioned this before.

She reached out to take the book, and both the title page and the inner pages had obvious traces of reading, which was indeed not bought temporarily to make up the number.

It seems that the senior really read her book and liked it.

She nodded gently, and her tone softened a bit:

"Hmm, okay."

She took out a pen and began to sign seriously.

Taking this opportunity, Yue Dao Lin took out a red and black stone with strange textures from the paper bag and handed it to Xiyuanji Qilai.

"Xiyuanji junior, this is a stone that my family bought when they were traveling somewhere before."

"Neither I nor they understand it, and it has been at home for a long time without any use. I heard that you like to collect all kinds of strange stones? I'll give this to you."

Xiyuanji Qilai's eyes, which were born with innocent curiosity, immediately lit up. She took the stone with both hands and examined it carefully as if holding a treasure.

"Wow! It's a flame stone! Thank you, Yue Dao senior! I really like this!"

Yue Dao Lin's smile deepened, her tone natural:

"So it's called a flame stone. No wonder I used a flashlight to shine on it after turning off the lights before, and I saw red and bright light, like a flame."

Then, she took out several bags of exquisite snacks from the paper bag, placed them on the table, looked around and asked:

"Is Fujiwara junior not here?"

Natsume Chikage answered on her behalf:

"She is still in the track and field club, and may come back in a while."

Yue Dao Lin nodded knowingly and smiled:

"I see... then I'll give these snacks to her when she comes back."

Finally, she took out several brand-new girls' manga volumes from the bottom of the paper bag and handed them to Natsume Chikage.

"Xia Mu-jun, I heard you say yesterday that Ruri-chan is trying to draw girls' manga recently, these few are works that I think are very good in art style and story."

"If you don't mind, you can take them back for her as a reference."

Natsume Chikage took the manga and thanked her sincerely:

"Thank you, Yue Dao senior. I thank you on behalf of Ruri."

Yue Dao Lin smiled with her eyebrows curved:

"You're welcome, it's just a small effort."

Until this moment, Yukimura Suzune and Xiyuanji Qilai heard for the first time that Natsume Chikage's younger sister was drawing manga.

Xiyuanji Qilai immediately became interested:

"Xia Mu-jun, is Ruri-chan drawing girls' manga? Really?"

Natsume Chikage affirmed:

"Hmm, yes."

Yukimura Suzune was also a bit curious:

"Why did she suddenly want to draw manga?"

Natsume Chikage explained:

"She has liked drawing since she was a child, and she is also in the art club at school. She has always wanted to work to help support the family, but she is not old enough. So she thought about trying to draw manga to see if she could take this path."

Xiyuanji Qilai heard this, and a gentle emotion appeared on her face:

"Ruri-chan... is really a sensible and hardworking younger sister."

Yukimura Suzune also fell silent for a moment and nodded gently:

"... Hmm, yes."

In their hearts, they both felt a trace of pity and appreciation for Natsume Ruri, and at the same time, they had some ideas.

After the paving was completed, Yue Dao Lin finally placed the shogi board she brought in front of Natsume Chikage, with a look of just-right expectation and asking for advice on her face.

"Xia Mu-jun, if you are not busy now... can you teach me how to play shogi?"

Natsume Chikage had already promised first, and now he had nothing to do, so he nodded readily:

"Okay, no problem."

Yue Dao Lin was happy in her heart and immediately began to place the pieces, her movements light and fast.

Yukimura Suzune and Xiyuanji Qilai on the side were stunned at the same time.

Until this moment, they understood the true purpose of Yue Dao Lin bringing the shogi board.

Yukimura Suzune's eyes narrowed dangerously again.

Xiyuanji Qilai carried a natural cuteness and asked directly:

"Yue Dao senior, why did you suddenly want to learn shogi?"

This question made Yue Dao Lin pause, her cheeks flushed slightly, and a flash of embarrassment at being seen through her thoughts flashed.

She hurriedly coughed lightly and brought out the prepared rhetoric:

"Cough... it's just that I saw Xia Mu-jun playing chess before, and felt that shogi seemed quite interesting... so I wanted to learn it on a whim."

Xiyuanji Qilai listened, not only did not doubt, but was hooked, she turned to Natsume Chikage, her eyes shining with request:

"So that's how it is—Xia Mu-jun, then teach me too, okay? I want to learn too!"

Natsume Chikage was slightly startled, then smiled gently:

"Of course you can."

Yue Dao Lin's mouth twitched imperceptibly.

She glanced at Xiyuanji Qilai's innocent and curious expression, and for a moment couldn't tell if this junior was intentional or unintentional.

But Natsume Chikage had already agreed, and she couldn't object.

Yue Dao Lin had to maintain the perfect senior smile on the surface, but her tone carried a trace of imperceptible stiffness:

"Xiyuanji junior wants to learn too... that's just right."

"If our levels are similar, learning together and practicing with each other, the effect might... be better..."