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"At night?" Natsume Rin raised her head.
"Yeah, we can't just lie down in bed and sleep now. It's impossible to have such a schedule in Tokyo, let alone when traveling."
"I see." Natsume Rin snapped her fingers, realizing what the senior meant, and turned to look at the other girls: "It's time for a night activity. Does anyone have any good suggestions? Dare or truth or dare."
"Not interested." "Don't want to play."
Not only did she get a cold reaction from them, even Kasumigaoka Utaha, who took the initiative to bring up the boring part, curled her lips and looked uninterested.
"These are the top two games that high school students must play when they get along with others. Please show some respect!" Natsume Rin muttered words that were difficult for normal people to understand.
"Although I don't know who made the so-called ranking list, we have played this game enough times, so is there any need to continue it?" Yukino said.
Well, this is indeed the truth. There is no need for them to play truth or dare with each other, but if they were to play dare, who knows what might happen.
After all, the senior student looked eager to try it out, and even kissing in public might happen.
"So what should we do? Play flying chess?"
"We don't have that kind of stuff here, but we do have playing cards." Shiina Mahiru munched on the fruit after dinner and flipped through a food magazine.
"Four people, playing cards." Natsume Rin sighed, feeling that she was unworthy of the title of "Senior Citizen" for having ended up like this.
"So what? Playing cards when you're bored is common sense." Shiina Mahiru raised her finger and pointed somewhere in the living room.
Natsume Rin went over there and took out the cards, picked a rule that everyone knew, and started shuffling them.
Although most of the participants are beautiful girls or mature women, Natsume Rin is merciless when he starts fighting. Whoever loses, he will tear out a few pieces of toilet paper and stick them on the opponent's forehead, and the glue he uses is also made from local materials.
It’s Mr. Xia’s saliva!
"It's so disgusting." "I don't want it." "Stay away from me!" Amidst the voices of resistance, Natsume Rin was very happy to stick notes on her, although of course she also had to go through the process of having others stick notes on her.
In order to ensure the fun of the game, in addition to sticking notes, there are also certain stakes. The amount is not large, only a few hundred yuan, mainly to facilitate the calculation of who will be the final winner.
"Huh." Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at the people around her with a serious expression.
Yukinoshita Yukino calmly touched her cards, not affected by the heavy atmosphere at all. Shiina Mahiru simply closed her eyes and tried to feel it with her heart.
As for Natsume Rin, he was the one being targeted by three parties and had the most notes stuck on his face. After looking at the last hand of cards, he showed an arrogant smile of satisfaction.
He wants to win back everything he lost before!
"I'm so sleepy." Shiina Mahiru, who was always paying attention to him, lifted the note stuck on her eyelashes and suddenly said, "I don't want to play anymore. It's time to go to bed."
"Huh?" The alert Yukino also noticed something was wrong. This time her cards were really bad.
As a smart person, she spent most of the time in the game accompanying the other two to chase and intercept Natsume Rin, and occasionally she would be an accomplice and help Natsume Rin teach them a lesson. Occasionally, when things went well, she could defeat the other three at once, and in the end, she had the least number of notes on her face.
"I'm also very sleepy. I'm going to bed first."
"you……"
"Natsume, bye." The senior student acted the fastest. She threw all the cards on the table, lifted her skirt and skipped back to the bedroom.
"Hey, I finally got some money!" Natsume Rin said dissatisfiedly while grabbing the change on the table.
"That's how life is, Natsume-san, try to understand it well." Yukino patted his shoulder and gave him earnest advice.
He has experienced enough setbacks in life, there is no need to continue to torture himself!
But before he could finish his complaint, the girls ran away, leaving Natsume Rin alone to clean up the things on the table.
Chapter 241 Wisdom and Stature
After packing up her things, Natsume Rin did not rush back to her room. She sat alone at the counter and started to play with the wine she found in the refrigerator.
Following the tutorials on the Internet, he used a few bottles of wine to make cocktails. Although he was not sure how they would taste, after inserting lemon slices on the edges, there was absolutely no problem with the appearance.
Adjusting the light on the counter to a soft brightness, Natsume Rin tasted the glass of wine she had mixed herself and leisurely flipped through a magazine.
The taste is not good nor bad, just like a normal cocktail in a bar.
When he felt it was about time, he closed the magazine and prepared to go back to his room to rest when he heard a noise from the direction of the corridor. A faint light came on in the dark hall. He noticed the light here and someone was slowly approaching.
Natsume Rin wondered who would come out at this time.
Shiina Mahiru? Kasumigaoka Utaha? Or Yukinoshita Yukino.
"It turns out that a person was hiding here drinking."
The answer is revealed. Judging from the content, it is the unfriendly minister.
"Comfort my tired heart." Natsume Rin joked.
Xueno came out from the shadows. Seeing him drinking, her face looked unhappy. She tightened her pajamas and sat next to him: "Give me a drink too."
"Minors are prohibited from drinking." Natsume Rin said the rules that she herself did not follow while mixing the cocktails.
She showed a proud look on her delicate face, "I am already an adult mentally."
Even someone as shameless as Natsume Rin has to give her a thumbs up. It seems that the minister has grown not only in physical strength, but also in his ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
"You might as well say your body is an adult."
"No." Yukino supported her cheek with one hand and looked at Natsume Rin who was mixing drinks inside: "In fact, my body is still underage. I believe in myself."
Natsume Rin heard the hidden meaning and responded perfunctorily: "Indeed, there is a chance. Come on."
He thought about whether he should help Yukino find some folk remedies, but after realizing that he would definitely be scolded for doing so, Natsume Rin gave up the idea.
"This is actually a small matter." Yukinoshita Yukino took out a bottle of milk from the refrigerator: "I have always believed in wisdom, even if it is flat... it's a small problem."
She patted her chest as she spoke and preached very seriously.
"Yukinoshita-san, your drink." Natsume Rin handed her the cocktail.
"Thank you."
While she was mentally struggling over whether to drink the strangely colored wine, Natsume Rin wiped the water off her hands and sat in front of her, "There's really no need to care so much."
"Ok?"
"Anyone who knows Yukinoshita-san will probably be impressed by your cuteness at first sight, and then they will either be driven away by your attitude, or they will become true friends, like us."
"Let me correct you. We are not friends." Yukinoshita Yukino emphasized, "Our deeper relationship should be family."
"It makes no difference. Just keep listening to me." To shut up the girl who was not listening, Natsume Rin cleared her throat and said, "Once we become friends, you will definitely understand the wisdom of Yukinoshita-san. Anyone who is still obsessed with their body shape is definitely not qualified to be your friend."
"Tsk." Yukinoshita Yukino squinted her eyes happily, "You are so good at talking?"
On second thought, she realized that the only person she knew who would joke about this was Natsume Rin in front of her, and her eyes became full of disgust again.
"It seems that you are indeed not my friend."
"Yes, I'm your brother, come and try my cooking." Natsume Rin urged.
"If it doesn't taste good, I'll trouble you." Yukino rubbed the surface of the glass, and her cherry lips slowly moved to the edge of the glass with determination.
Yukino, who was well-versed in many aspects of enjoyment, licked her lips, savoring the taste that had just come to her tongue, and her performance was almost the same as Natsume Rin.
The taste is okay, but not amazing. If I were to work as a bartender in a bar, I probably wouldn't be fired, but I wouldn't be very famous either.
"It's just so-so."
"After all, it's my first time, and I even learned how to make this glass of wine from the Internet," said Natsume Rin.
"It's not bad for a beginner to reach this level, but why are you mixing cocktails? Are you drinking to drown your sorrows?" Yukino guessed.
This guy kept saying he would confess during the summer trip before the holiday, but there is no sign of anything happening until today. Could something have gone wrong?
"To relieve my sorrow?" Natsume Rin shook her head: "I just can't sleep. I plan to have a drink so I can sleep more comfortably."
"And I'm so happy, do I look like someone who is troubled?"
"That's me thinking too much."
The two of them fell silent, with only the sound of Yukino sipping her cocktail. About halfway through, she put the glass down and prepared to go back to her room to sleep.
"If you really want to talk about your troubles, would you please listen to me, Yukinoshita-san?" Natsume Rin said as she was clearing away her cups.
Yukinoshita Yukino sat back in her seat, picked up the unfinished bottle of milk, and made a gesture to him to continue.
She knew that a boy who stayed up late at night and drank alone must have something he wanted to say, and Natsume Rin was still pretending with her.
"It's about Shiina-san, and you." Natsume Rin frowned.
"Let me make it clear in advance that this has nothing to do with me. This is your unilateral action." Yukino first put on a shield for herself.
"…Don't be so heartless."
Seeing that she was unmoved, Natsume Rin could only continue, "I want to confess my love to Shiina-san here."
"I knew it a long time ago." Yukino played with the bottle boredly.
"Not only that, I'm also thinking about my relationship with Yukinoshita-san."
"Relationship? Didn't you call yourself your brother? What do you want to do now?"
"It's natural for a brother to like his sister." After Natsume Rin washed the cups, she invited her to go outside to get some fresh air.
Summer nights should be the coolest time of the day. They walked out of the villa without making much noise, sat on the bench on the lawn and looked at the starry sky above their heads.
"I can actually see the stars." Yukino put her hands in her pajamas pockets.
“Because it’s in the suburbs, the environment is definitely better than in the city.”
“Maybe I can see it at night in remote areas of Tokyo,” she imagined.
Natsume Rin didn't hold out much hope for this. Not to mention the daily haze, just considering the average height of the buildings in Tokyo, it was unrealistic to want to see the natural scenery.
"What do you want to say? Go ahead."
After chatting a few more words about the environment, Yukino nodded slightly, secretly looking forward to what tricks Natsume Rin could come up with.
"Actually, it's a topic you've known about for a long time." Natsume Rin, who usually acts without scruples, spoke unusually slowly at this time, and every word was carefully considered before being uttered.
Chapter 242 Don't bow your head, tears will fall
"I see." Yukino nodded in boredom, "Since it's just the two of us, let's have a serious chat."
Yukino clasped her hands together and looked into the distance with a vague look. At this time, there was not much light outside the house. There was only a faint light in front of the courtyard of the villa.
"Natsume-san." She spoke in a measured pace.