Headache.
And then body aches and back pain.
But there was also a strange sense of exhilaration, and the Hot feeling that had always lingered around her body seemed to have been completely uprooted and vanished.
↑ This was Yukino Fuyumi's first feeling after waking up early in the morning.
So refreshing...
Then the second feeling was, well, where is he?
The boy who should have been lying next to her was gone, and she quickly got up, but then remembering she was naked, she quickly found a T-shirt to put on.
As soon as her two long, white legs touched the floor, she heard the sound of oil heating up in the small kitchen.
"...What are you doing?" Yukino Fuyumi asked.
"Making breakfast."
The familiar voice of the boy indeed came from the kitchen. Although she knew that besides herself, he was the only one left in this house, Yukino Fuyumi still felt a sense of relief when she truly heard his voice.
"Oh..."
"Fried rice with green onions?"
"Either way is fine."
"You really are an indecisive person."
The boy chuckled mockingly. Yukino Fuyumi rolled her eyes towards the kitchen, then went to wash up on her own.
By the time she finished her routine, the boy had already brought out the fried rice.
It smelled delicious.
She was fine at first, but after smelling the aroma, Yukino Fuyumi suddenly felt her stomach was empty.
Yukino Fuyumi pulled out the low table, and this small room became a dining room.
Hayato looked at the two portions of fried rice in his hands; the amounts inside were not even.
"Fuyumi, how's your appetite?" he asked.
Yukino Fuyumi, who was already kneeling on the floor, looked up at the boy, "Don't...don't call me so intimately...I..."
At this moment, as if the aphrodisiac's toxins had been released, Yukino Fuyumi finally calmed down. She coughed twice and looked at Hayato.
In fact, she was not very familiar with this young man; they had only known each other for a little over a month in total, and the number of times they had met was countable...although it seemed that something significant had happened during those few countable times.
Yukino Fuyumi coughed lightly twice and said:
"Lin...can I call you that?"
"Granted." Hayato said.
Yukino Fuyumi frowned, but didn't think further. She went straight to the core of the problem:
"...Although we did that yesterday, it wasn't because I wanted to do that with you...it's all due to the 'Snow Woman' physique, and you just happen not to be afraid of this physique, plus you're male...Do you understand what I mean? Actually, I didn't want to do that with you..."
Hayato nodded:
"Understood. Only the body, not the heart; no lust, no love."
He pushed the smaller portion in front of Yukino Fuyumi.
Yukino Fuyumi looked at the fried rice, then looked up at Hayato: "It's good that you know...my body is much better now, so you can just pretend this never happened."
"No." Hayato said seriously, "How can we pretend it never happened?"
Yukino Fuyumi then looked earnestly at the boy, who was much younger than her: "...If you want to treat it as having happened, that's fine, but we need to try to get to know each other first...like that kind of..."
She didn't know how to describe it, and after gesturing with her hands for a while, she said: "...We can't just jump straight to the last step every time and ignore what comes before..."
Hayato was a bit confused: "What do you mean?"
"It's just..." Yukino Fuyumi felt a bit distressed. This child usually seemed quite smart, and he even said he was the top student in his grade, so why was his comprehension lacking now? Isn't it just starting from acquaintance, then moving into the dating phase?
Yukino Fuyumi wrung her clothes. Did she really have to shout out, "I want to date you"? It was, truly, a bit embarrassing, wasn't it?
Hayato, however, seemed to change the subject, saying:
"Speaking of which, Fuyumi, if you're feeling good now, can you go out?"
"Yes, I can." Yukino Fuyumi nodded, saying that she felt an unprecedented sense of freshness now, as if she had entered a sage mode. It had been a while since she woke up, yet she didn't have a single messy thought.
"Then you..." Hayato slowly began.
Yukino Fuyumi pursed her lips, lowered her gaze, and smiled slightly.
If it was an invitation to go out and play, she would accept it without hesitation right now.
"...Mm."
The other party hadn't even spoken, but Yukino Fuyumi had already nodded in agreement.
"Hurry up and find a factory job." Hayato said.
"...?"
"I won't forget the 480,000 yen you owe me. Yesterday, you had two choices and didn't choose to settle this debt, so what's owed must still be paid."
"..."
"But since we're all so familiar, you can just return the principal. I won't fleece you."
"...Okay."
Yukino Fuyumi didn't know how she managed to utter that sentence; almost all the muscles in her face were trembling as she spoke. After speaking, for fear of spitting out any profanities, she quickly shoved a mouthful of fried rice into her mouth.
...It was delicious.
Although she was very angry right now, she still had to admit that Hayato's fried rice was delicious. One could imagine just how good it was.
"I'm very poor," Hayato said, and then also started to eat his rice.
"..." Yukino Fuyumi was stunned for a moment. The boy had been so generous before that she had momentarily forgotten he was actually a pitiful orphan with no parents...
It seemed she really needed to find a decent job.
Yukino Fuyumi chewed slowly, thinking to herself, 'His grades are so good, going to a good university must be quite expensive... I need to start saving now.'
When she had almost finished her meal, Yukino Fuyumi began to consider another important question.
...Where did the rice come from?
She didn't remember there being any leftover rice at home...
...
Across from the apartment.
Aiya Hiroshi opened the refrigerator, glanced inside, then, as if he had opened it incorrectly, closed it and opened it again.
"...Hmm." He continued to stare at the empty refrigerator, quietly nodded, and then made a phone call.
In a distant hospital, Aiya Yayoi, still half-asleep, received a phone call.
"...Huh!?"
Then, upon hearing what the person on the other end said, she was completely energized.
"Startling so early in the morning?" Miyajima Tsubaki had already woken up and was holding her phone, contemplating whether to send a text message to someone to report her safety.
"My house was robbed," Aiya Yayoi told Tsubaki, then asked the person on the other end of the phone, "Aiwu Guang, don't panic yet, what was stolen... No way, Lin Bao said the guy who was originally planning to steal from the house should have died already... How could this happen?"
"Robbed?" Miyajima Tsubaki put down her phone and asked with concern, "What happened? Should we call the police?"
"...Lost half a bowl of leftover rice, and the last six eggs, two tomatoes...?" Aiya Yayoi was stunned: "...Are you f*cking sick!?"
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