I have pure love with them

"pen."

"Well, mine is a crystal ornament."

Chihaya Aine took out a delicate and small crystal dolphin ornament and showed it in front of Quan, while Quan took out a fountain pen, felt the weight of the pen, and looked at the tip of the pen.

"A very nice gift."

"Who gave you this as a gift?"

Chihaya Aine looked at the pen in Izumi's hand and asked with some confusion.

"Funny world."

"Well, this pen must be very expensive, and...she must mean something special to you, right? Why did you open the gift she gave you right away?"

After hearing what Izumi said, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that Izumi would come up and open the gift that Nagasaki Soushi gave him.

"You'll have to open them sooner or later, so there's no need to worry about the order. So, whose gift is more special to you?"

Chihaya Aine put down the ornament in her hand, and fell silent after hearing Izumi's question. She seemed to start thinking seriously about whose gift was more special to her, but after a moment of silence, she gave a slightly perfunctory answer.

“Everyone is equally important to me!”

The answer was full of a sense of déjà vu, and Quan couldn't help but look at his sister. He then silently looked at the gifts piled in front of him and continued to open them.

451

Chapter 451: Anywhere is fine, except Soyo.

"What gift do you want?"

"At this time?"

After hearing Izumi's question, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and looked at her brother in surprise. She didn't expect that the other party would ask her such a question.

The girl held the music box in her delicate white hands, her eyebrows drooped, a thoughtful look appeared on her face, and she seriously thought about the gift she liked. But under Quan's gaze, the girl thought for a long time and couldn't think of a suitable gift.

If someone else asked her this question, she would probably just give an item they wanted, but when facing her brother, she thought a lot about some gifts she really wanted, and then her eyes fell on her brother in front of her, but she felt that those gifts were too ordinary.

"It's already so dark, it's too late to go out and buy gifts, right? I don't really have any particular gifts I want right now."

"It can be delivered tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, right?"

"After today, it will all be meaningless, right?"

Chihaya Aine attaches great importance to the sense of ceremony. If the birthday gift is not given out on the birthday or falls into her own hands, she feels that it is meaningless.

"Birthdays only come once a year. If you had asked me earlier, I would have been able to think of the gift I wanted. But if you ask me now... I don't know what gift I want."

Sighing softly, Chihaya Aine felt as if she had wasted a precious opportunity.

"But after thinking about it for a long time, I don't know what I want."

"..."

She looked at her brother subtly, feeling that he was trying to quibble. Perhaps he had not originally thought of preparing a gift for her, and only thought of giving herself a gift when the time came to open the gifts, and that's why she asked this question.

Thinking of the gift she prepared for Izumi, Chihaya Aine's eyes became vague again. Looking at the music box in her hand, she gently turned the spring, and then a clear and ethereal sound rang out.

"To Alice."

It was a familiar melody. Izumi, who had once heard Toyokawa Shoko play this piece of music herself, moved his ears slightly and said the name of the piece.

"Hmm? Well..."

Chihaya Aine was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that Izumi could recognize which song it was so quickly.

"Music box. The last time I saw this item was a long time ago."

"Have it?"

Looking at the music box in her hand, Chihaya Aine's expression seemed a little confused. She knew something about music boxes, but when it came to seeing it in real life, she felt a little dazed. She couldn't remember when and where she had seen it... It seemed that she had only seen it once on a TV program.

"It seems to be a gift from Deng. She also prepared a gift for you, right?"

After opening the gift prepared by Takamatsu Deng, Izumi discovered that the gift was not a music box, but a butterfly specimen in a glass frame, which made Izumi seriously suspect that it was a specimen made by Takamatsu Deng himself.

"Paradise Swallowtail."

"What? The name of this butterfly?"

Although the butterfly specimen in Izumi's hand looked beautiful, Chihaya Aine still felt a little resistant to it. She could not accept creatures like insects, even if they had become specimens.

"do not know?"

"I don't know much about these things, how could I know."

After retorting with a frown, Chihaya Aine thought again about the gift that Izumi had mentioned to her before.

"Ah... the gift matter hasn't been decided yet. What gift are you going to give me?"

"Aren't I asking you what gift you want?"

"When you ask this, shouldn't you have already prepared a gift?"

Chihaya Aine stared at Izumi in front of her, a look of doubt on her face. She wondered if Izumi had already prepared a gift for her and was just asking her here to create an atmosphere, and then give her an unexpected gift after she gave an answer.

"No."

"Really?"

After hearing Izumi's answer, Chihaya Aine's mood became a little depressed, and she narrowed her eyes and stared at Izumi in front of her.

"Ah."

The affirmative answer made Chihaya Aine withdraw her gaze from Izumi. She quietly opened the remaining gifts without saying a word.

"Wait a minute, I need to see some places to rent, do you want to come and see them?"

“…Why should I look at this?”

"For reference."

Chihaya Aine looked at her brother, and after hesitating for a while, she wanted to refuse and resist the idea of ​​Izumi moving out, but she didn't want to do nothing.

'Choose him an apartment in the next street?'

In Chihaya Aine's mind, she suddenly thought of a way to 'retaliate' against Izumi, but when her eyes fell on Izumi, she thought about it for a moment, and then gave up. She knew in her heart that neither Izumi nor her parents would agree with her doing so.

"Oh, then... let me give you some reference."

Chihaya Aine opened the gifts in silence with Izumi and put them back in their respective rooms. After having dinner with their parents and receiving gifts from their parents, the two returned to their respective rooms first, and then Chihaya Aine came to Izumi's room.

"Are you really going to move out?"

This was her last struggle, trying to keep her brother.

"It's getting to this point now. Even if we don't move out, it won't work, right?"

Thinking about the surveillance cameras installed in the apartment by Nagasaki Souyo, Quan felt that he should prepare a new private space. As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows, even rabbits know to prepare three burrows, let alone humans.

Coming to Izumi's side, Chihaya Aine looked at the browser page that Izumi had opened, which was the apartment rental website.

"Sit here."

Looking at his sister standing beside him, Quan moved his chair slightly and patted his knees.

"..."

Chihaya Aine narrowed her eyes and looked at her brother with a strange look, but after thinking for a while, she did not refuse. With a muffled groan, she sat on Quan's legs and leaned her body into Quan's arms. The sudden weight made Quan unable to adapt for a while.

After a while, the two adjusted themselves to a relatively comfortable angle and sitting position, and began to look through the apartment information on the rental website together.

"First, we selected 'Setagaya' and 'Minato'... Was 'Minato' chosen so that it would be easier for us to meet Souyo?"

Staring at the selected areas on the screen, Chihaya Aine's expression became depressed, and she asked Izumi with a slightly disgusted voice.

Whenever she thought about her brother's consideration for Nagasaki Soyo, she couldn't help but become irritated, and even the tone of her questioning Quan became a little unfriendly.

"There are considerations in this regard."

Facing his sister's question, Quan's answer was quite straightforward. He couldn't possibly rent an apartment far away from Nagasaki's home, but it wouldn't be too close either, after all, he already had an apartment.

Chihaya Aine frowned, and even though she didn't give any answer, she was already more inclined to choose an apartment closer to the Setagaya area for her brother.

"Has the budget for rent been finalized?"

"Well, around 10 yen. As long as it doesn't exceed 15 yen, it should be fine."

"Wait, wait?! 15 yen?!"

After hearing what her brother said, Chihaya Aine couldn't help but widen her eyes and looked back at her brother.

Although this amount is not as much as her previous study abroad expenses, it is already a considerable expense. It is hard not to be surprised by Chihaya Aine. She narrowed her eyes and looked at her brother in confusion.

"Although my family is prepared to pay for my rent of 10 yen per month, I still have some savings, so I asked them for 5 yen per month for living expenses, and I will pay the rest myself."

After hearing what her brother said, Chihaya Aine's expression became even more suspicious.

"What on earth are you doing? You still have so much...savings? Haven't you used up all your savings on the beach vacation?"

"Cowherd."

silence.

Chihaya Aine was somewhat skeptical and believed it, her eyes fell on Izumi, and she spoke slowly.

"You couldn't have really become a gigolo, could you? But you're not a gigolo in the store, but Shuangshi likes you so much that she gave you a large sum of money to make you her boyfriend? Could it be Yili as well?"

As Chihaya Aine thought about it, she suddenly felt that it all seemed very possible.

From what she had learned, Goto Ichiri had no friends before. Her brother might have known this and agreed to become friends with Goto Ichiri and then receive payment from her...

Seeing Chihaya Aine fall silent and her expression suddenly become serious, as if she really believed it, even Izumi couldn't help but be stunned.

"I'm ashamed that you could think that."

"Ah? But... you are still just a student, right? Can a student really earn that much on his own?"

Chihaya Aine still doubts her brother and doesn't think that her brother, at his age and stage in high school, can earn an income beyond her imagination.

"Where there is demand, there is a market. As long as you think there is demand, and then meet the needs of the other party in a targeted manner, you will naturally have corresponding income."

"That makes sense. Where can I find the market?"

After hearing what her brother said, Chihaya Aine was silent for a moment, thinking that it did make sense, but then she asked her brother about it.