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Her body felt wet, but when standing in front of the mirror, Shiina Mahiru subconsciously straightened up. Looking at the tall and slender figure and the overly fair skin in the mirror, she pursed her lips with satisfaction.
After the white steam rising in the bathroom obscured the delicate body that had taken off the last bit of underwear, Shiina Mahiru wiped her body and thought about how to repay Natsume-san's kindness.
He seems to like the food he cooks...
Should we start from this aspect?
What my aunt said was indeed right. If you want to capture a man’s heart, you must first capture his stomach.
After practicing cooking for so long, my skills are finally put to good use.
Natsume Rinno doesn't know yet that his beautiful neighbor is determined to repay her. After sending the stumbling Shiina Mahiru away, he finds instant noodles at home and prepares to cook them himself.
There was no other way. It was raining outside and he was too lazy to go to the convenience store to buy a lunch box. He simply used the surplus emergency food he had prepared so that he wouldn't go hungry.
He sat in front of the computer with a bowl of steaming instant noodles. Just as he was about to start eating, a phone call interrupted his dinner.
"Boyfriend, what are you doing?"
Only Yukinoshita Haruno would call him that weird name, but it was inconvenient for her to just hang up the phone.
"Let's eat." Natsume Rinno looked out the window. The rain was still falling.
The weather forecast said that the rain would continue until the weekend. It was strange that it didn't affect the holiday.
"Eh? I was planning to treat you to a nice meal, but you just took the initiative and started eating."
From Yukinoshita Haruno's tone, Natsume seemed like her pet who couldn't eat without her permission.
As sensible as she appears when she's in disguise, her true self is as disgusting as it is.
"If you have something to say, just tell me. I'm hungry." Natsume Rinno said impatiently.
"Your tone towards my sister is so harsh. You took my first kiss, but your attitude is still so bad." Yang Nai said aggrievedly.
"..."
Did he want to emphasize that the so-called first kiss was done under Yono's coercion?
"Forget it, stop teasing me. Don't run around this weekend. Wait for me to go shopping with you, and I'll buy you some good stuff."
She seemed to have lost interest in teasing Natsume, and after saying a few words, she hung up the phone.
Natsume threw his phone onto the bed and turned on the TV to study the weather conditions for the next few days.
"Tokyo weather tomorrow: light rain and cloudy"
While slurping instant noodles, I watched the beautiful host on TV pointing out the weather in various districts of Tokyo in the next few days.
Natsume prayed in his heart that it would rain heavily in Shinjuku, but then he remembered that he still had a system with an extremely weak sense of existence, so he immediately looked in the mall for props that could change the weather.
Hard work pays off, and he actually found a prop that can control the weather.
The better news was that it only required 5,000 points, and the task he had done with Yang Nai had rewarded him with 20,000 points.
The bad news is that props are used to change bad weather.
[Sunny Doll: Makes the weather in a city sunny immediately.]
It is useful indeed. Even if it is a disposable consumable, it is still a good prop. Especially when you encounter important things outdoors and it suddenly rains, it is simply a magic weapon.
But it was of no use to him. He had originally wanted it to rain that day, and since there was a sunny day doll, couldn't there be a cloudy day doll?
System, you are garbage.
After despising the system, Natsume picked up his mobile phone out of boredom while lying on the bed. The program on TV had changed from Tokyo Weather to a foreign TV series.
[Natsume, do you want to go out and play on the weekend? ]
While reciting the lines of the old lady on TV in not very fluent English, Natsume rejected Totsuka Ayaka's invitation.
On the weekend, if nothing unexpected happens, he will have to go shopping with the perverted young lady from a rich family.
Chapter 28: Afternoon of the Snow Sisters
As expected, the weather was unusually good this weekend, and the dazzling sunlight shone through the window into the room before Natsume woke up.
When Natsume was awakened by the light, he lay on the bed looking at the weather outside with a look of despair on his face.
Soon, he cheered up.
"It has already happened. There is no point in hoping it would not happen again. The most urgent task is to reduce the losses."
Comforting himself with this line from "Downton Abbey", Natsume changed his clothes and opened his cell phone while buttoning up. Yono had already sent him the destination, urging him not to be late.
"Ugh."
Amid the boy's sigh, she didn't even bother to tidy up her clothes and hurried out to get on the tram.
……
Chiba.
As a relatively important city in the Tokyo metropolitan area, it is not difficult to get here from Tokyo. It only takes about two hours by train.
The place that Yono had agreed to meet today was in a city outside of Tokyo. Natsume was a little confused, but he was not unfamiliar with the place.
"Next stop, Chiba Zoo."
After hearing that they had arrived at their destination, Natsume squeezed to the exit and rushed out before the train started again.
On a hot summer day, Natsume Rinno, who had just walked out of the station, found her target, but there was no trace of Haruno in front of the zoo.
Natsume, who had been mentally prepared, was not surprised by her lateness and found a shady place to stand.
"Drip."
The shrill ringing of a bell rang in his ears, and a lady's car stopped next to Natsume.
If it wasn't a rich lady passing by who noticed this handsome young man and came to chat with him, then it would be obvious who it was.
Yang Noi had a car and drove here, but she actually let him squeeze into the train in this weather. She is really a pervert.
Natsume Rinno sighed in her heart, stood up straight, looked at the car parked in front of her and opened the door.
Yukinoshita Yukino got out of the back seat and looked at Natsume in front of the zoo with an unusually complicated look in her eyes.
Outside of school, Yukino never liked wearing school uniforms, but today's temperature forced her to change into cooler clothes, and even her most common long hair was tied into two ponytails.
Before her sister found a place to park, she quickly walked over to Natsume and said, "Why are you here? My sister followed you. If you don't want to see her, leave now."
Natsume was a little dazed. From Yukino's perspective, he and Haruno should still be in a hostile state, so when Haruno appeared, there was really no need for him to stay.
The hostility is still real, but the possibility of retreating has been nipped in the bud.
He actually wanted to run home and sleep, as long as he could accept Yang Nai's crazy behavior.
“……” Natsume Rinno didn’t know what to say for a moment.
Yukino was a little anxious. She wanted the two of them to restore their normal relationship, but she usually sounded out Natsume's attitude and knew that she still had a lot of resentment towards Haruno. A sudden encounter would definitely disrupt her plans.
"She will soon..."
Just as she continued to urge, Yang Noi had already walked over and shouted excitedly.
"Rinno, long time no see! Xiaoxue, please don't block me from meeting my brother."
Haruno, who has very good acting skills, didn't have the slightest sense that she was the one who called Rinno over, and her actions during the reunion were particularly natural.
When she pushed Yukino away and hugged Natsume, he could only cooperate with a forced smile and spoke word by word.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
"Is there something wrong with the language system? Do you want your sister to help fix it?" Pinching his cheeks, she had her own solution to Natsume's silent protest.
Feeling the increasing strength in her hands, Natsume Rinno quickly broke away from her overly enthusiastic distance, noticed Yukino's surprised expression, and said calmly: "Xiaoxue, you are here to see the pandas, right?"
"Hmm..." Yukinoshita Yukino rubbed her forehead, a little confused about the situation for a moment.
Is the hostility between them fake?
Or maybe as long as her sister takes the initiative to be enthusiastic, Rinno will have no way to refuse.
"Then let's go together."
"It's been a long time since the three of us went shopping together." Yang Nai applauded in agreement.
Before Yukino could figure out the situation, Yangno took her towards the zoo.
If it were in the past, they should stand in order of age, but now, in order to avoid suspicion and out of instinct, Natsume walked next to Yukino and became the last person.
Although Yukino spends most of her time in Tokyo, due to her excessive love for cats, and the fact that pandas are only found in Chiba Zoo, she has the highest level annual pass.
"Do you want to go see the pandas?" Yukino asked instinctively.
The biggest reason why she agreed to go out and play with her sister was to be able to see the pandas with her own eyes. The other animals were also cute, but they had nothing to do with her.
"Don't go straight to see Mr. Pan every time you come here. We still have plenty of time. Take a walk around the park first!" Yang Nai opened his arms to the sun, enjoying the rare warmth.
If you go too late, the panda exhibition might be closed early.
Thinking all this in her mind, Yukino did not refute her sister's words. She glanced at Natsume, who looked indifferent. Yukino could only follow Haruno to the nearby elephant exhibition hall.
Although it is not as popular as the most popular panda house, it is also very lively during holidays.
[Mission: Afternoon of the Snow Sisters]
[Introduction: As Yukinoshita Haruno's boyfriend and Yukinoshita Yukino's brother, it is your responsibility to protect them. Please give the Yukinoshita sisters a perfect afternoon.]
[Rewards: Mastery-level fighting skills, attribute point discount coupons]
Natsume, who was originally just doing his job, finally became interested after hearing the task suddenly released by the system.
He squeezed from the back to the front, clearing the way for the two of them, and used his limited knowledge of animals to introduce the contents of the exhibition hall.
"This is an elephant." Natsume pointed at the huge creature in the center of the exhibition hall and said seriously.
Yang Nai was waiting for his next words, but after two minutes she didn't hear anything new.
"What else?" she couldn't help but ask.
"What else? This is an elephant." Natsume said as a matter of course.
What kind of high school student would be so bored as to know information about the animal world? No matter how good his memory is, he can't know things he has never paid attention to.
Feeling that he was being teased, Yang Nai rubbed his hands in anticipation, planning on teaching him a lesson.