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"I'm not sure, because my mother still has to deal with the company's affairs. At least she has to hand over important matters to someone she can trust."
Yukino tied the scarf around her neck into a beautiful knot and walked forward swayingly.
"Let Yang Nuo stay and look after the house." Natsume Rin felt that there was no selfish motive in this suggestion.
"Am I not suitable?" Yukino said dissatisfiedly.
Even if she knew that he was retaliating, didn't she, as his sister, have the ability to control the company?
"...It doesn't seem appropriate no matter how you look at it. After all, he's just a high school student." Natsume Rin was very sure.
"Don't look down on high school students. Even in your book, isn't it the high school students who save the world in the end?"
Saving the world and managing a company are two completely different things. The former does not require logic, but the latter does require you to have sufficient management skills.
It seems that the minister cannot even manage a small community. If she is allowed to manage the company, a large number of people will leave within a month.
"Natsume-san, we might also go on a trip to the Maldives."
This gentle tone, this naked attitude, this obvious threat.
"Bullmaster, I think you are more suitable to manage the Yukinoshita family's business than Haruno. I will definitely tell my aunt about this idea when I report the situation to her."
She smiled with satisfaction, and blew a few breaths of warm air into the palm of her hand, as Shiina Mahiru had been watching their interaction.
"Natsume-kun!"
"Eh?"
"We should go prepare the things we need for our trip to the Maldives."
Just when he was about to say that it was necessary to leave so early, but under her gentle gaze, Natsume Rin began to look forward to the upcoming trip.
Chapter 214: Little Devil Mahiru
The meeting time with Haruno was postponed until after the trip. As the travel time approached, Natsume Rin became more and more nervous.
I used to joke about meeting the parents, but the actual meeting time was probably less than half an hour. As long as you are mentally strong enough, you can get through it. The trip that is about to begin may last for a week, and meeting Shiina Chaoyang every day is really not a pleasant experience.
It's not that I have any problem with Shiina Chaoyang, nor do I feel guilty. I simply feel that I can't have as much fun playing with my classmates' parents as I do with my peers.
His mental age is actually 18 years old, which means there is a sad generation gap between him and these uncles.
"Tsk." Shiina Mahiru pinched her chin. Seeing Natsume Rin's listless look, she knew exactly what he was thinking.
Since it was a vacation with nothing to do, the two people who lived closest to each other often got together. They didn't do anything weird, they just found some games suitable for the two of them to play to kill time.
Natsume Rin wanted to tell her that she was busy writing something, but under the gaze of Shiina-san, she raised her hand and accompanied her to pass the time.
In recent days, she has become obsessed with chess and would come to Natsume's house whenever she has time. The key in her hand has never been returned, and Natsume Rin really has no idea what to do with her unauthorized intrusion.
"It's your turn." Shiina Mahiru tapped the chess piece on the board.
"Oh oh." Natsume Rin glanced at the battle situation in a daze and moved the chess piece without thinking.
"You lost!" Shiina Mahiru appeared calm on the surface. She decided the outcome of the game without giving him a chance to regret, and then proudly showed off to him.
"Shiina-san is amazing." Natsume Rin clapped in cooperation, with an expression of admiration on her face.
But Shiina Mahiru didn't buy it. While packing up the chess pieces, she calmly pointed out that Natsume Rin deliberately let her win.
"Although it seems that I have made rapid progress, your mistakes in the middle stage were too obvious." Shiina Mahiru showed a cute smile.
"Nonsense, it's obviously you, Shiina-san, who are too strong." Natsume Rin said.
He felt that competing with high school students in a game that required brainpower was simply bullying, so he consciously controlled his winning rate. He thought that after the previous preparations, Shiina Mahiru had already become accustomed to this kind of accidental victory, but he didn't expect that the other party had already seen through it.
"It's a lie." Shiina Mahiru said slowly, "But I like it."
"It's true that being handed a handicap by someone else is a failure, but Natsume, your ability is more than one level higher than mine. It should be no problem for you to become a professional chess player. It's normal that I can't beat you."
"So I'm quite happy that you can win the game. After all, I don't like losing all the time."
Shiina's logic is really touching, but there is really not much problem with it. Seeing that she has already placed the chessboard, Natsume Rin sat back down.
"Then don't expose me. It's troublesome to let a fool like you win the game." Natsume Rin played with the queen.
He had tried his best to make Shiina Mahiru's experience a little better, but this girl actually wanted to expose him.
"What a bad attitude! I still want to win this game, but I can't see that you're giving up the game." Shiina Mahiru bit her lip and made the request.
"If you don't do it, I will beat you up and make you run away immediately."
This pleasant yet heated discussion became increasingly heated as the game progressed. Just as he said, after just a few moves at the beginning, Shiina Mahiru's chessboard was already filled with Natsume Rin's army.
She bit her pink lips and looked at the boy with pitiful eyes. When he was hesitant, she decisively reached out and ate his two chess pieces.
"...Where did you learn this rule from?"
"Shiina family, you have an opinion." Looking at her smug smile, Natsume Rin felt that the invisible wings behind the delicate and lovely angel gradually became darker.
But even after giving her three steps in a row, Natsume Rin's advantage was still too small. After getting a little more serious, she could only spin in place again.
Then Natsume Rin witnessed Shiina Mahiru's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
In front of the boy, she took out her cell phone and called him, then said calmly, "Dad, why are you calling me?"
Watching her overturn the chessboard that had already been defeated and walk to the balcony to call Shiina Chaoyang, Natsume Rin pinched her chin, not knowing what to say.
Was it he who led the child astray?
But it seems that Shiina-san is actually a hidden little devil.
It took her time to make the call. The bored Natsume Rin relied on her memory to restore the chess game that she had disrupted. When she returned to the living room, she looked at the intact chess game and her expression became strange.
"It's your turn." Natsume Rin said with a smile.
This girl doesn't even think about it, does he look like a kind-hearted person?
Shiina Mahiru gritted her teeth and sat back in her seat, but she got a headache just looking at the chess game. Finally, she simply covered her forehead and lay on the table, groaning: "Ah!"
"... Chess has this function?"
"You're an idiot. Can't you see that this is a headache?" Shiina Mahiru looked at him with a pout, her teeth bared, eager to take a bite of Natsume Rin.
"I'm just talking about the troublesome function. Are you going to admit defeat?" Natsume Rin said leisurely.
She really couldn't win, but she didn't want to admit defeat. Shiina Mahiru was very conflicted. In the end, she decided to share the news with Natsume Rin.
"Maybe there will be some changes in tourism." She placed her hands on the chessboard, ready to overturn the table at any time.
"Ok?"
"It seems to be something related to politics. Dad has to stay in Tokyo for a meeting, so it's just the two of us going to the Maldives." She had already started to mess up the chess pieces, and Natsume Rin no longer stopped her at this time.
"...Uncle, do you have any objections?"
"What can he have any opinion about? Anyway, I'm supposed to spend the winter vacation alone. It's none of his business who I hang out with."
Looking at her cute pouting face, Natsume Rin suddenly blurted out a word.
puberty.
It looks like Shiina-san has also reached this age.
"It's just the two of us."
Although Natsume Rin was very happy, she still had to pretend on the surface, otherwise she would be too excited and make Shiina feel scared.
Although he is definitely not that kind of person, he is afraid of being misunderstood as that kind of person.
"Yes."
Shiina Mahiru clapped her hands in sudden realization, "Since Dad isn't going, there's an extra ticket, and I can find a friend."
"friend?"
Natsume Rin was very confused. Was her relationship with her classmates so good?
"Xiao Xue."
Chapter 215 Oh, Woman
Shiina Mahiru looked at him strangely. Isn't her friend Xiaoxue? Why did she react so strongly?
"...Buler? You might as well kill me." Natsume Rin looked sad, unable to believe the scene of Yukino and Shiina Mahiru on vacation together.
Although they had been together many times before, those were all in school classes. He had some confidence in the presence of so many people. But if he was facing two people alone, he would probably be taught a lesson.
Just as he was thinking about what excuse to use to convince Shiina Mahiru, he heard an unconcealed laugh. Looking at her smug look, Natsume Rin suddenly realized.
Why is he so anxious? Given the fake sisterhood between these two girls, how could she possibly take Yukino on a trip?
"Hey, you figured it out."
Her smug expression lasted for several days, until the moment she boarded the plane, when she saw Yukino sitting in front of them reading a book, her smile completely disappeared.
"Hello, what a coincidence." Yukino greeted them in a friendly manner.
Natsume Rin looked at the seat in the corridor, then at the plane ticket in her hand, her expression not looking very good.
Could it be that she bought the ticket that Shiina Chaoyang returned?
And what about my aunt and Yang Nai, where are they?
"Don't look for me anymore. I'm the only one here." Yukino stood up and asked them to sit down. "Because I heard that you're not coming, and Yangno has to stay home to deal with company matters. The family gathering will become a trip for two people, and no one will be interested."
It seems that the relationship between Mrs. Yukinoshita and Yukino is still not very good. Although the minister respects his mother very much, it is rather troublesome to let her get close to his wife.
"Then Xiaoxue, you..."
After Shiina Mahiru sat down at the window seat, she looked at Yukino with a strange expression.
She thought it was Natsume Rin who revealed the information, but when she thought about it carefully, there was no reason for the boy to do so.
"Because you posted a message on your circle of friends, I was bored staying in Tokyo alone, so I wanted to go out and have fun. Who knew that there were still tickets for this flight." Yukino felt very lucky.
But the question is, is it too lucky?
How did I buy a seat next to them for no apparent reason?
Oh it's you!
Natsume Rin looked at Shiina Mahiru with grief and anger. She not only provided information about the time and place, but also handed over the plane ticket.