Mitsuki and Yuko, who took action, were blocked at their respective destinations.
What stopped Mitsuki was Nao's fear. The socially anxious otaku saw the face of the girl who rang the doorbell through the surveillance camera at the door. She was in a panic, not knowing whether she should open the door or what to do after opening it.
The comic she had read not long ago flashed through her mind. The hero praised the beauty of his three lovers in front of the heroine, using this to humiliate her. The heroine took a knife and went to the homes of the three girls, removed their organs that the hero praised, soaked them in formalin and gave them to the hero as a gift, and lived happily with the hero.
Mitsuki's long golden hair gleaming in the sunlight exacerbates her uneasiness. In the manga, the heroine has golden hair, and one of her lovers has black hair like her.
She buried her head under the pillow and pretended not to hear the doorbell.
Soon, the doorbell sound faded away. Nao listened for a while, then looked at the surveillance camera and found that Mitsuki had left the door.
She felt relieved, but also a little depressed.
She felt that the future in her dream was not bad. If this was Yuxi's idea, she was willing to try hard to adapt. Of course, this adaptation meant that other people would come to contact her.
And she had just rejected Mitsuki's approach.
Oh no, could that blonde girl be holding a grudge against her and not want to play with Yuxi
Nao panicked, she hurried out of the bedroom, wanting to chase Mitsuki, but the courage she suddenly felt quickly dissipated with her footsteps, and as she walked down the stairs, she stood in the corridor, the suppressed pessimism and fear rising again.
She continued forward, but turned around.
She decided that if Mitsuki asked her about it in the future, she would say that she had been playing games all night and was catching up on sleep, so she didn't hear the doorbell.
Now that she had a method to deal with it, she felt more at ease. She took deep breaths and tried to calm herself down. She felt that she was too nervous.
If she wasn't nervous, how could she hear footsteps upstairs
The footsteps did not disappear as she tried to regulate her breathing, but instead got closer and closer to her.
Miyue stood at the stairs to the second floor, looking down at her.
"Ah!" Nao was frightened and turned around immediately.
Mitsuki climbed in through the window of the study on the second floor, panting, and grabbed Nao who was trying to escape, her fingers tightly gripping her collar.
Mitsuki knew about Nao's social phobia from her dream, but she didn't expect that Nao was socially phobic to this extent.
She took Nao's hand and dragged the terrified person into the bedroom.
On the other side, Yuko also successfully entered Chigusa University Hospital.
What stopped Yuko was the visiting system of Chigusa University Hospital. She had not registered in advance and was stopped by the nurse in the lobby.
She had expected this and came out carrying Honoka's elementary school backpack. This backpack was a genuine one that was stolen from a store by Honoka's ex-ex-ex-boyfriend because he liked dress-up games.
In addition to school bags, there are also elementary school uniforms. Today's elementary school students grow very fast, and some of the gifted ones can already catch up with the size of college students.
Yuko didn't wear the uniform. The uniform was actually made for elementary school students and was just the right size for Honoka, but too big for Yuko.
A school bag is enough. Japanese elementary school students' school bags are very recognizable because of their functions and styles, and the nurse recognized them immediately.
Yuko took the opportunity to act younger and disguised herself as a sixth-grade elementary school girl who came to visit her sister, saying that she had forgotten to ask her parents to register her.
She looked at the nurse with pure eyes. The nurse couldn't bear to let such a cute child miss the opportunity to see her sister, so she personally took her to Reina's ward.
Reina claimed this sister.
The nurse who left closed the door of the ward. Yuko removed the unnecessary expression from her face, folded her arms, and looked at Rena.
"What's wrong?" Reina sat on the hospital bed and turned her head to look at her future sister.
The elementary school backpack that her sister was carrying was very conspicuous, and she found it a little funny.
The sun shone in from the window at the end of the bed, casting a block of light on the pure white quilt, and this brightness made the rest of the ward look a little dark. Reina leaned against the head of the bed, her palms placed in the light, her skin shining and attractive, her cheeks hidden in the dimness, her expression gentle and elegant.
Yuko was a little jealous, so she didn't treat Reina well. She didn't have a good face at all, so it didn't matter whether it was good or bad.
"Let's go." She said, "Golden Retriever should be at Fujisan's house by now, let's go over there quickly."
Reina thought for a while and realized who the golden retriever and Mount Fuji were referring to.
She looked at Xizi and asked curiously, "What am I?"
"elder sister."
Reina was a little disappointed, she also wanted a nickname.
"I can't walk far. You have to go to the nurse to borrow a wheelchair," she said to Yuko.
"Won't you be healthy in the future?" Yuko wondered.
"That's because of Yuuki."
"What exactly?"
Yuko keenly realized that there seemed to be a secret that she didn't know about, a secret that Reina had not revealed in the future of their loving family.
"Thanks to Yuki, the operation was successful. But it's not time for the surgery yet." Reina concealed the information that the surgeon was Yuki.
Yuko didn't think there was anything unusual. She asked about Reina's condition, and after making sure that she could go out, she went downstairs to borrow a wheelchair.
The nurse thought they were going to take a stroll in the garden and just told them to be careful.
No matter how careful the nurse was, she could not have imagined that this elementary school student was planning to escape from the hospital with his sister.
Yuko hid Honoka's clothes in her schoolbag, which were just the right size for Reina. The two of them managed to hide from the security guard at the door and left the hospital safely.
The morning rush hour has passed and the subway is very empty. Yuko and Reina look at each other, recalling their friendship in the dream future, thinking about what attracted Yuki to the other party, and wanting to learn from their experience.
Reina is a quiet person and Yuko doesn't like to chat, so the two of them remained silent.
As the subway was approaching Tsukimi-ri Station, Yuko brought up something.
"Arrange for Dad and Mom to meet in the evening."
Her words were succinct and to the point, and Reina's response was even more succinct.
"Um."
The blind date between Nakajima Yohei and Ibuki Honoka was decided. Nakajima Yohei has always been single, and Ibuki Honoka's current boyfriend has lost contact. They are both single.
After answering, Reina found herself a little cold. She recalled what Yuuki often did to her and reached out to pinch Yuko's cheek.
The arrival announcement was loud and enthusiastic. Yuko declined the female attendant's help, pushed Reina out, and went all the way to Asano's house.
She rang the doorbell and it was Mitsuki who opened the door.
Four women met in the living room of Asano's house. The atmosphere was silent. One of them didn't want to talk, and three of them hesitated about where to start.
Nao, who didn't want to talk, looked at the ceiling, the floor, and then the other three people. She quietly got up from the sofa and went upstairs with her back bent.
Yuko, Reina, and Mitsuki glanced at her out of the corner of their eyes, and when she opened the door to the living room and "successfully" escaped, Yuko stood up and caught her back.
Nao huddled on the sofa, feeling very depressed, as her emotions went through a huge ups and downs from successfully escaping to being captured again.
Mitsuki laughed.
Her laughter dispelled the silence, and the smile soon reached Rena's face. Yuko did not laugh, but just changed from sitting upright to lying on her side. Nao felt the atmosphere relaxed and she felt much more comfortable.
"Let's get together often in the future," Reina said.
"Call Yuki." Yuko added.
"There is also Yimei." Miyue added.
The three of them looked at Nao.
"Okay, okay." Nao tried to agree. She understood what Yuko, Reina, and Mitsuki meant, and she thought that this was the way it should be.
The four of them did not dig into the matter like detectives, nor did they negotiate like businessmen. What they meant was actually very simple, which was to stay together often, just like in their future dreams.
They hope that Nan Youxi will be the same as in their dreams in the future.
In this way, none of them will lose, and each of them will be able to live a happy life.
When they imagine the future, they sometimes wonder whether exclusivity is better than sharing.
But soon, their beautiful imaginations of successful exclusivity were wiped out by the sadness of a future of exclusivity failure.
In addition to the confused Nao and the uncompetitive Reina, Yuko and Mitsuki came up with the idea of stepping on both plans.
All he had to do was get close to the other four people while trying to pull Yuuki into his arms. Once he saw signs of failure in his monopoly, he would immediately jump back to the sharing plan. If his monopoly was successful, everyone would be happy.
Yuko has the strongest belief. Mitsuki feels that her hope is slim, but she should still give it a try.
Nao and Reina don't have clear ideas, but the most amazing thing about love is that lovers can often act on instinct to achieve victory.
The living room became quiet again.
Nao looked down at her fingers. Her two fair palms rested on her knees. Her slender fingers moved nervously for a moment, then slowly clasped together.
Yuko tilted her head to look at the floor behind the sofa. The windows were open, the wind blew the curtains, and the light and shadows intertwined and flickered. After a while, the wind stopped, the curtains stopped shaking, and the sunlight shining on the ground was bright enough to be dazzling.
Reina raised her head and saw the dim ceiling. She leaned back and looked further back. The blue sky shone into her eyes.
Mitsuki stared at her own shadow for a while, then raised her eyes and moved them to Nao, Yuko and Reina.
The silence was broken by the ringing of Reina's cell phone. The sun had already climbed high in the sky and it was almost twelve o'clock. The ringing was the alarm she set, reminding her to go back to the hospital.
"Stay for dinner." said Yukiko.
"Yeah." Reina nodded. She sent a message to her father, saying that she was at Asano's house and asked her father to explain to the hospital.
"I'll go cook." Nao stood up.
"You go and help." Yuko looked at Miyuki.
Miyue sighed: "Although my future self will be a good cook, unfortunately, right now I can only boil noodles and I can't even use a knife skillfully."
Yuko looked at Reina again. Reina stood up with her hands on the armrests of the sofa, but Yuko pushed her back.
"Forget it, I'll go." Xizi walked to the kitchen, not forgetting to pull Miyue up: "You come and study."
The kitchen of the Asano family is not small, and three people can barely squeeze in. Nao is a little restrained. Yuko teaches Mitsuki seriously, and Mitsuki learns absent-mindedly.
The atmosphere was a little awkward at first, but gradually, the three of them got used to each other and found a sense of familiarity in each other's presence. It was like a dream movie.
"When will Reina be better?" Mitsuki asked Nao and Yuko while washing dishes.
She found that Nao was not as nervous when she saw Yuko and Reina as when she saw her, so she guessed that Nao, Yuko and Reina had already met each other. So she asked them about Reina.
"Dizang said that it will only get better after surgery." Yuko replied.
"Um... Is it really okay to ask Buddha about illness?" Nao asked carefully. She thought Ksitigarbha meant Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
Mitsuki chuckled and glanced at Reina outside. The girl was sitting elegantly on the sofa, staring at the sky outside the window, motionless and looking demure.
This kind of elegance and tranquility can also be understood as solemnity and piety, isn’t it just like the small stone statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva that is often placed on the roadside, sitting cross-legged and staring at the road in a daze
"You bad guy." Miyuki pinched Yuko's face.
"I'm older than you, so please be respectful to me, senior." Yuko glanced at Miyue.
Nao was confused by what she heard.
"Nao-sister, you don't need to know this." Mitsuki patted Nao's head again.
"Oh." Nao agreed verbally, still thinking in her heart.
By the time lunch was finished and the four of them sat down at the table, she figured out what was going on.
It turns out to be a nickname!
She quickly thought of herself. Since Reina had a nickname, she must have one too. What would her nickname be? She was uneasy.
Mitsuki was also thinking about her own nickname, she just thought it was interesting, and this interest soon spread to others.
She glanced at Nao's chest. In the dream movie this morning, she was shocked when she saw Nao's towering figure for the first time. The nickname given by Yuko must be related to this.
Mount Everest? Maybe with some Japanese elements, maybe Mount Fuji.
However, Yuko and Nao knew each other before the dream movie this morning. If the nickname was decided before this morning, before Yuko saw that majestic figure, and had not been changed, the nickname would be more common, something like "Cow".
She thought of Yuko again. The nickname of this girl with facial paralysis was easy to find: "Doll", which combined the two elements of being short and having facial paralysis.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but laugh.
"What's wrong?" Reina asked confusedly.
"Nothing." Mitsuki said perfunctorily.
"You should eat less Mapo tofu and more celery." Yuko took the opportunity to speak and make a request.
"Is senior actually picky about food?" Mitsuki asked half teasingly and half surprised.
Reina was also surprised, because this sister had many roles in her own dream movie, so she knew Yuko's character well. This doll-like girl should not care about anything else except Yuki.
"Yeah." Yukiko nodded and admitted that she was picky about food.
In fact, for her, it makes no difference what she eats. Not only is she not picky about food, but she also has very low requirements for food.
However, Yuuki likes all tofu dishes and dislikes celery.
In her own dream movie, she was the one who made all of Yuki's lunch boxes when she was a student, so there were many scenes involving lunch boxes, and she knew Yuki's preferences because of this.
She thought, Yuxi likes tofu, and she also likes tofu. Yuxi hates celery, and she also hates celery. To round it off, she and Yuxi get along particularly well.
She didn't want to tell this little thought to Nao, Yuko and Reina, so she would rather accept the impression of being a picky eater.
She didn't expect that her little thoughts would be revealed by the person who had the least tricks.
Nao looked at the tofu and celery, a little surprised, and whispered, "Yuuki also likes tofu, but not celery."
Of course Nao would not buy something that Yuki doesn't like to eat. The celery appeared in the refrigerator because she accidentally ordered the wrong one when she was buying groceries on her mobile phone two days ago because she was sleepy.
This portion of celery had been kept in the refrigerator, and she took it out today because Yuxi was not here.
She said it unintentionally, but Reina and Mitsuki took it seriously.
Mitsuki and Yuko fought for the ownership of the mapo tofu. Although Reina did not grab the mapo tofu, she did not reach for the celery with her chopsticks.
The three of them were caught in a strange emotional competition. The one who ate the most tofu won, and the one who touched the celery lost.
The mapo tofu was sold out quickly, but the celery mountain did not decrease. It would have been fine if Yuko didn't eat it, but Reina and Mitsuki, who had eaten two bites, also refused to eat it. Nao immediately understood the situation.
She also doesn’t want to eat celery, so she tries a marketing scam: “Actually, Yuuki still eats celery… Ugh!”
Three hands reached out to her, two grabbed her mouth, and one hit her forehead hard.
Nao understands the value of honesty.
After lunch, the four of them completely broke the ice because of tofu and celery. Nao took out a game to play, Yuko found a book from the study to read, Mitsuki lay on the sofa and looked at her mobile phone, and Reina was by the window, holding her chin and looking at the different scenery.
The sun sets in the sky, and the twilight shines red in the sky. It is getting late, and Mitsuki leaves the Asano family first. Reina looks at the message from her father urging her, and then looks at Yuko, asking her how to arrange the date between Hinata and Honoka in the evening.
Yukiko sent a message to her mother.
"Yuko: Come pick me up."
"Honoka: Where did you go?"
"Yuko: The old house in front of the apartment, the surname is Asano."
"Honoka: Huh? Why should I pick you up when you're so close? Did you lose your head?"
"Yuko: There is a handsome, gentle, wealthy, and well-educated middle-aged unmarried man."
"Honoka: I'll be there in twenty minutes!"
Yuko put down her phone and said to Reina, "Mom will be here in twenty minutes."
"Dad will be here in half an hour." Reina sent a message to her father and got the specific time.
The blind date was arranged by the two daughters.
"I'll take you back in half an hour." Xizi said again.
Nakajima Youhei is going on a date with Honoka and can't send Reina off.
Reina shook her head: "It's getting dark, and Dad won't agree."
"It's okay, Yuuki." Yuko's lips curled up slightly as she stated her true purpose.
Nao, who was playing games nearby, raised her head and looked at Yuko and Reina.
Yukiko glanced at her, and she retracted her head behind the sofa, but soon came out again.
When it comes to Nan Youxi, she is unwilling to back down.
Anyone who sees it gets a share! Her eyes said so.
"Nao-sister, come along." Reina agreed on behalf of Yuko.
Yuko didn't say anything and tacitly agreed to Nao's joining. She had no intention of excluding Nao.
There was one thing Reina and Mitsuki didn't know, but she knew it very well: Nao often went out with Yuuki at night, which was nothing to Nao.
The only person she wanted to kick out from the beginning to the end was Mitsuki.
In the morning, she thought carefully about Moyu's dream movie, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt something was strange.
In the future, when they reconciled, when Mayu arranged for them to date Yuuki, why did Mitsuki prefer to sign an unequal treaty and promise to give her all the chances first, and go on a date with Yuuki with her? The reason Mitsuki gave at the time was not sufficient.
She suspected that her future self was being used by Mitsuki, and that the future between Mitsuki and Yuki might not be as happy as hers with Nao and Reina.
Did her future self guess this? She thought that her future self might have taken advantage of the situation, or she might have been thinking too much about Yuki and not thinking it through.
No matter what, Mitsuki must have plotted against her, and this revenge must be avenged.
Don't take her with you on tonight's action!
The update is late, but there are more words. <(￣︶￣)>
(End of this chapter)