[bright] time

(bright side)

Pushing open the sliding door and opening the red curtain with the words Wanfu written in big letters, Guang Heliang walked out of the store first, followed by a middle-aged man in his fifties who had his head shaved and came out with a smile on his face.

"Thank you for coming──! Come more often, Hikari! Next time, be careful and I'll beat you after such a long time!"

Immediately before the door closed, there was an energetic farewell voice from the people in the store. The person who spoke was Takuto Muroi, a classmate of Hikari's elementary school class next door, that is, the one who often went with Hikari to find a ramen restaurant that tastes better than Wanfu friend.

"Understood, you can concentrate on looking at the guests' faces! Time is too late and you smash the teacher's signboard, you can't finish eating and walk around

,oh? "Guang said to the boss standing next to him, asking him to go along with him.

"That's right! Count the time for me!"

He raised his voice and yelled at the people in the store to close the door.

When he was sure that the people inside couldn't hear him, he smiled and whispered to Guanghe Liang, "But to be honest, Takuto has been able to take care of himself recently, and I plan to let him go out to open a branch."

Hearing these words, Hikaru's eyes lit up immediately: "Branch store!? Master! Come and open near my apartment? I've been waiting for a branch store for a long time!"

"Tsk, who wants to drive near the place where you, a traitor, live? Don't call me so nice. You say you're going to be an apprentice in my shop after graduating from middle school, but you let me play chess? It's really irritating. I I'd better drive to the neighborhood of little teacher Taya's house! Oh?"

Wanfu's boss raised his chin and asked Liang.

"Well, very welcome." Ryo replied with a smile and nod.I feel happy from the bottom of my heart, so that my father will not have to be afraid of meeting Go fans and seeing their unbelievable expressions, and my mother will not have to be afraid of eating ramen outside. She can order delivery with peace of mind.

"It's so fussy. How old are you and why are you so awkward? Anyway, I also introduced you to another group of customers. Where can I find a ramen shop in Japan where professional chess players come and go so often? Sigh~ forget it , Anyway, Toya's house is close to my house, so I really want to drive. Then let's go first!"

After waving goodbye to Wanfu's boss, the two walked towards Grandpa Guang's house.

As he was walking, he suddenly thought of something and laughed twice,

"Every time I come here, I think of bringing you here for the first time. The store instantly became a freezer! Hehe~"

"..." Light's reminiscence made Liang's mood fall to the bottom.

"Let me tell you, anyway, you haven't beaten Mr. Taya once, so why not come back and learn how to cook ramen with me!"My seat of the blessed heir is still reserved!With the confidence of your taste master, you can train you to be the number one in Japan!If you can't be a Go king, you can also be a ramen king!Hahahaha~』Laughing boldly with a beer belly.

He could hear Boss Wanfu teasing himself, exaggeratedly pretending to be suddenly enlightened, and lowered his palm to agree,

"Hey~ that's right too!The name Ramen King is also very prestigious, I think it’s not bad if I just change the track like this!Hey hey hey hey~' followed by a big laugh.

"...I can't..., I can't! 』

A sound of slapping the table shocked the old and the young who were happily singing together, and at the same time turned their heads to look at the dark low pressure next to the light.

I saw Liang's brows tightened as if he had taken some bitter medicine. The sound of slapping the table just now was when Liang put the cup down. The water in the cup splashed out and wet Liang's hands. .

"...The ramen is delicious, and the owner is also very nice,...and Shindo has a talent for cooking, I know very well...but please, please don't take him as an apprentice, I will be very troubled... 』

Openly disobeying the kindness of the elders, and still being a person whom he had met for less than [-] minutes, this made Liang feel pressured and took a lot of courage,

"Shinto must always be my opponent and keep playing chess with me..."If he really came to be an apprentice, I will never forgive him for the rest of my life. …Will never eat ramen again in my life…. 』

He stared at the cup in his hand with resentful eyes, as if the cup in his hands was light, he held on tightly, only missing the cup in his hand.

The originally gentle and handsome boy instantly changed Zhang Doushi's bright face, which made the noodle cook's jaw loose, forgetting that the noodle was rolling in boiling hot water.

Guang scratched his head, sighed, first stood up and reached for the noodle scoop on the side, picked up the soft and hard noodles, shook off the water and poured them into the bowl, lest Wanfu smash the signboard because of its brightness;

The second took a clean towel and wiped the water on his hands, and took away the glass in Liang's hand, lest he really crush the glass and get stabbed by the glass.reluctantly said,

"How old did you have to be before you can understand jokes?" 』

Reminiscing, the two walked side by side in the small town where Guang spent his childhood, stepping on the shade of trees extending from the back of the bridge and reflecting on the asphalt road, and strolling under the clear sky and spring sun.

"Since then, I've been thinking, even if it wasn't because of Sakai, I would definitely not change the course for you."

"Shinto..."

"Because if I don't play chess with you, you will definitely cry! Thinking of the expression on your face when you were so angry that you were about to cry is so touching~"

"I didn't cry!"

"It's almost! Ah, by the way, you also had the same expression when you first came to my school to be rejected? Standing there, outside the window of the science classroom." Hikari pointed at the entrance of Hasase Middle School that just passed by, and grinned laugh,

"Don't say no, I saw it secretly! After closing the curtains, I don't know how long you will stand there. I secretly opened the curtains and took a look. You had a tragic expression at that time. You pursed your lips and frowned. His eyes were fixed on the ground, and his body was still trembling slightly."

"Don't laugh at others." She brightened her eyes.

"It's not a joke, but I was shocked. 'Mitsumi Shinto, you did something wrong again, this guy wants to play chess with you so much!' I thought to myself, I wanted to open the window to call you, but I gave up."

"...Why?" Liang asked back with a dissatisfied expression on his face.

Just standing at the school gate, staring at the campus with a cold face,

"It suddenly occurred to me that the person you are really obsessed with is Zuowei and not me. It was useless for me to sit in front of you at that time. Between us, I can't walk in front of you....The truth is, I actually hated Zuowei at that time."

"..." Seeing the change of Hikari's expression, listening to Hikari's words, following Hikari's eyes, he looked into the campus.

During the Golden Week, the gates of the campus are locked, and there are no students. The deserted playground and empty school buildings, reflected in Shinto's eyes, may reflect the noisy and lively past. …Sawei must have been standing next to Shinto at that time, walking with him on this campus.

"I too... have times when I hate my father. You know that too, right? But it's not really hating, it's just that I feel impatient with myself who can't surpass my father... At least that's how I am."

Looking away from the school gate, Guang turned to face Liang,

"In addition, rather than a wall, I think Zuowei is like a window. ... The school, life circle, personality, and childhood dreams are all very different. We have been separated by a wall. We opened the window so that we can be like this. Isn't it?"

With a warm smile like a spring breeze, he caressed Guang Yanhan's face.

"Taya, I..."

Listening to Liang's words and looking at Liang's face, Guang's expression gradually softened.Standing blankly on the road with people coming and going, I couldn't find any suitable words, I just kept looking at Liang with my mouth shut.

"Huh?" Responding to the light, he raised his high-end Liu eyebrows, opened his black and white pupils, stared directly at the light, and waited for him to speak.

"...Yezi." Light nodded his chin to indicate Liang's head.

"what?"

Neat and clean grooming is the basic courtesy, and Liang, who never allows himself to have any gaps, combs his hair awkwardly, but he can't catch the leaf that Guang said.

"Here." Reach out and gently grab the hair behind Liang, comb it down slowly along the straight strands, and put your palm down, "It's gone."

"where?"

"On the ground."

Liang lowered his head to find the leaf that Guang said was sticking to his hair, but he couldn't see the target on the black asphalt road, "Nothing."

"Fly away. Let's go." After speaking, he walked on his own.

"Shindo?" Puzzled by Hikari's inexplicable behavior, Ryo caught up with Hikari and asked, "Is this what you wanted to say just now?"

"Almost." Hikaru replied impatiently.

"Almost? What's the difference?" Dissatisfied with Guang's answer and attitude, Liang continued to ask.

"The difference is that the rest of the words are things you said you couldn't say on the road of people coming and going! Want to hear it?"

"...No need." Chang Liang quickened his pace and walked forward.

"Oh? Are you not dull anymore?" Guang raised the corner of his mouth maliciously and walked to Liang's side to amuse him, "You know what I want to say?"

"I don't know. Go away a little bit." With red ears, he pushed away the face that had been leaning towards Guang.

The two continued the offensive and defensive battle and walked towards the warehouse.

***

"Grandma, I brought Taya here."

I don't know when it started, every time I come here, I will be asked "Why didn't you bring the little teacher?" 』So as soon as he stepped into the door, he announced Taya's arrival first, opened the sliding door and walked into the house.

"Excuse me." Glancing at the calamus flower planted by the doorbell, followed the light through the vestibule, nodded and greeted before entering the house, but the house was silent as if no one was there.

Taking off his shoes, Guang entered the room first, and put a pair of indoor shoes for Liang to wear.

"Go out?"

"Did you tell Grandpa Heihachi that you would come today?"

"I come every year at this time. Come up and talk later." That is to say, I didn't say anything.

Walk through the corridor to the room where you can see the courtyard and the warehouse. On the dark brown cypress table, there are two plates of long cone-shaped rice dumplings, cypress cakes and a note.

"Oh? There is a letter from home, what did you write?" Guang sat down, took a piece of biscuit and bit it, reading the note in his hand.

In the reception room next to the room, the sliding door is open today, and it is clearly visible that the inside is decorated with a samurai battle robe, which looks very majestic.Calamus flowers, zongzi, cypress cakes, and samurai battle robes are all the customs and poems of the Dragon Boat Festival, but one item is missing.Thinking in his heart, Liang looked outside the courtyard and saw three carps of different sizes floating under the clear blue sky.

"It's amazing. My grandma actually knows that I will bring you here, and wants you to eat more." Guang took a rice dumpling and peeled off the green leaves to reveal the white grated glutinous rice cake and handed it to Liang.

"Really, why... Thank you."

"Didn't I tell you? My grandma has a strong sixth sense."

"The note said that grandpa went to the self-government president's house to play chess, and he would be back before dinner; grandma went to my house by herself, saying that a lovely guest came to see today." Guang, who had just finished eating the cypress cake, quickly solved another problem. Zongzi.

"Lovely guest..." repeated Hikari's words.

"Hmm. I don't know who it is." Guang said nonchalantly, and offered himself a cup of cold tea that had already been brewed and placed on the table.

"I'll clean the warehouse first before you come back, there must be a lot of dust." Guang stood up, opened the drawer in the cabinet, took out a key, changed his slippers and walked towards the warehouse.

"I'll help too!" After quickly drinking the tea in his hand, Liang also stood up.

"A lot of dust?"

"It's okay, I want to help."

"...I really can't do anything about you." Knowing that Liang had made up his mind, no one could change his light, so he had no choice but to surrender.

Standing in front of the two-story ancient warehouse, an iron lock was hung in front of the closed door. Guang picked up the lock, made a clanging sound, inserted the key, and turned it two or three times with a clicking sound, unlocking the lock. .

Liang concentrated on watching the movement of the light, and waited nervously and expectantly for the door opened by him, a place he had not been allowed to step into for a long time.

"Taya."

"Huh?" Unexpectedly, Hikari would call himself at this time, Liang looked at Hikari tremblingly.

"Hey~ why are you so nervous?" I saw Guang grinning, and pulled Liang's hands to let him push open the door of the warehouse together with her.

Chirp───────

The rusty door hinge made a harsh sound the moment it opened.

"I met Zuo Wei upstairs...the white and holy figure suddenly appeared in my mind and changed my life."

The pitch-black warehouse made Ryo unable to see anything the moment he opened the door, only hearing what Ryo said in his ears.

The sunlight outside the door filled the warehouse, Liang held his breath, and took a closer look at the second floor of the warehouse where Zuo Wei appeared, and a white haze was floating in front of his eyes.Could it be Zoe?

"Ha... ha chirp──!! Yah... it's all dust!"

"Ahem...ahem..."...it turned out to be just dust.Wanting to see Zuo Wei's mood too much made Ryo hallucinate.Regretfully, he shook his white hand and waved away the dust floating in front of his eyes.

"I think it's better to wear a mask and a headband before going in. It's only been five months to accumulate so much dust?"

Seeing Liang who couldn't stop coughing, she hurriedly dragged him to the edge corridor.

Guang, with a towel tied on his head and a mask, used a long broom to remove the spider webs at the foot of the wall, and wiped the treasures he had collected one by one.During the movement, he saw Ryo with a turban on his head, who looked like one of the pirates, and couldn't help but smile secretly.

Kneeling on the ground and wiping the floor, half of his face was covered by a mask, and his constantly moving eyeballs became more obvious. Every few seconds, they floated towards the tall chessboard placed by the window, explaining his intentions. mind.

"I'll introduce you guys later, don't worry."

"...I didn't say anything." Being caught thinking, Liang blushed and lowered his head to wipe the floor more vigorously.

"I'm dishonest again, oh~."

After some cleaning, the warehouse is no longer dusty, and a breeze blows from the window to dissipate the heat brought by the cleaning.

"Every time I come here, I will clean the inside first, and then sit down in front of the chessboard to say hello to Zuo Wei, and then play chess for most of the day."

Guang took off his hood and mask, sat in front of the chessboard, and waited until Liang was ready to sit beside him before speaking,

"Taya, this is the chessboard that Toranojiro used, and Saoi lived in it."

"Living on Xiu Ce's chessboard..."

"When I saw this chessboard for the first time, there was a tea-brown blood stain on it. It is said that it was left by Toranojiro when he died. It is very eye-catching, but Xiao Ming can't seem to see it. It probably has this shape."

Light painted the chessboard with his fingertips, recreating the traces that appeared on the chessboard at that time,

"But after Zuowei disappeared, the bloodstain also disappeared, and I couldn't even see it."

"Maybe it will show up again someday?"

Light slightly evoked a smile,

"I've thought about it too. Every time I come here, I'll look carefully, but it's a pity that I haven't appeared once. I don't know if it really disappeared or I'm just not allowed to see it anymore. Can you see it?"

"..."

Ryo looked back and forth where the light had drawn, but couldn't see it no matter how he looked, so he shook his head.

"Really....Well, forget it. Let's play chess?" Guang shook off his lonely mood and turned to invite Liang.

"it's here?"

"Ah, show Zuo Wei, let him see our current chess."

"Hmm." Highlight nodded.

When Liang sat on the opposite side of the chessboard, the two of them grabbed the chess pieces in their hands, and immediately changed the faces of their opponents, and fought a fierce battle on the chessboard where Zuo Wei had inhabited.

Dedicated to Zuo Wei, but also to Xiu Ce.

***

After finishing the chess game and reviewing for a while, the blue sky just outside the window was dyed orange with the sunset.Lie weakly on the ground,

"Sigh~ It's rare to bring a lover here to introduce Zuo Wei to him, but he lost the first game of chess in Zuo Wei's territory. It's really embarrassing."

"But it's a good game of chess."

"No matter how good the content is, I still lose."

"Shindo." Putting away the Go, Ryo raised his face to remind Hikaru of his bad habits.

"Follow me~ I know I was wrong, little teacher~"

Guangyue got up, helped put away the Go and looked out the window,

"It's getting dark, I've been playing chess for so long without realizing it, and I'm getting hungry. I don't know what delicious food grandma is cooking today." I began to imagine today's dishes in my mind, every time I brought Taya here. , Dinner will always be particularly rich, and it has become an unwritten practice of Shinto's family.

"Knowing that you are here, my mother will come too? Wow, I can eat a lot today~"

However, Hikari didn't hear a word of Hikari's words, and lowered his head, looking at the place on the chessboard that Hikari said was stained with blood, "...you always... shut up here and play chess by yourself."

"Huh?" Hikari turned his head to look at Ryo. After the review, Liang's face, which had removed his opponent's expression just like Hikari, was reflected in the red sunset.

"...Seeing you like this, if I were Sakai, I would be sad and regret leaving you. Where did you go,...Sakai." Stretching out his hand to touch the traces of light painting,

"It would be nice if it could appear again..." He smiled gently at the light.

Seeing Liang's smile, Hikaru grabbed Liang's hand and brought it to his mouth, kissing Liang's fingertips,

"Well, it would be nice to come back again."

The moment he touched the bare lips, Liang hurriedly withdrew his hand, frowned, and lowered his voice,

"Now across the board."

"Anyway, what does it matter if you have disarmed the Go Demon?"

"But it's still across the board! I said you can't foul if you're across the board!" The tone became more and more severe.

"I said, you were the one who fouled, right? That smile! It's forcing me to cross the line!"

"When did I laugh!" Liang's smile just now was purely a subconscious reaction, even he didn't realize it.

"Just now! [-] seconds ago!"

"I said no, no!"

"You blunt bastard!!"

The two who couldn't hold on anymore stared at each other stubbornly, neither of them would take a step back.

There was a sound of "pong".

Almost at the same time, both hands held both ends of the chessboard, Hikaru tried to move the chessboard, Ryo tried hard to stop it.The two started another wrestling battle across the board

"Taya...what are you doing...!" Guang asked ferociously.

"That's what I want to ask...! What do you want to do, Shinto!" Ryo was certainly not to be outdone.

The chessboard vibrated "tack-tack-tack" due to the force exerted by the two sides.

"Of course...remove this obstructive thing!"

"Don't say that about Zuo's chessboard! I'm going to be angry!"

"... Tsk-." Guang, who was scolded by Liang, let go of the chessboard, his face full of boredom.

Seeing that Guang had given up on Liang, he let go of his hand with a sigh of relief.

It was too late to say it, and then it was too late, and Guang, who was retreating as an advance, immediately moved away from the chessboard at lightning speed, clasped Liang's hands and pressed him to the ground.

"Shinto! You idiot!! What are you going to do in this sacred place!?"

"...You actually used the word sacred... It seems that you are more poisoned than me...?"

Hearing that Ryo protected Zuo in this way, he felt happy from the bottom of his heart.

How perfect is this guy?How much do you want me to like him?

The ever-expanding love made Guang more and more depressed, evoked a difficult smile, and uncontrollably pressed on Liang's lips before fully saying "I love you", sucking the two soft lips, licking and insisting Refused to separate the white teeth.

"Taya...open your mouth?"

Knowing that at this moment, if he accepted Guang's deep kiss, everything would be out of control, Liang turned his head too hard, and just didn't open it.

No matter how incapable of looking at the light on his face, he could feel that Liang was seriously rejecting it, so he had to take a step back.

"I can't help it..., okay~, I won't kiss you or hug you for now, but you want to make me play a prank."

"mischief?"

"Ah, let me smell you and see all of you."

Taste...all! ?

「／／／What are you talking about──!! How lustful are you?!」

Ignoring Liang's resistance, the tip of Guang's nose approached Liang's neck and shoulders to pour out breath, smelling Liang's scent.

"Idiot Shinto──!...I was sweating just now, stop it...!"

"That's why I want to smell the steamed pheromones in my body. Your smell is very tempting."

"Idiot..." Hikari's words made Liang blush all over his face, and he scolded Hikari for being an idiot no less than a hundred times in his head.

The upright and refreshing appearance always gives people the impression of being healthy and sunny. Before dating, I never thought that Light would have such a lustful and strong side.

But if you say it's a shattered image, it's not enough.

Shock was shock, Liang actually didn't hate this kind of light.People who have always only liked women are actually interested in their own bodies. Embarrassment and peace of mind often conflict in Liang's heart.

As Guang said, there was no kiss, no hug, and no direct touch. Guang just inhaled and exhaled the hot and humid breath on the thin skin, and carefully looked at the bright white to glowing skin with the gradually dimming sunset outside the window.

"Do your hands hurt?" His sight came to Liang's neckline which had two buttons unbuttoned. Before Liang could answer, Guang slid his palm to separate Liang's fingers and intertwined with it. The scene of people making love, interlocking fingers as hard as trying to carve into each other's hands, begging for deeper copulation.

Ryo suppressed the gradually changing voice, and spoke intermittently,

"...don't...smell..., here...to be rude to Zuowei,...will get angry..."

Through the thin shirt, I rubbed it with the tip of my nose, smelling the bright and slightly fragrant body,

"No, didn't you say that he is not here anymore? He must have been reincarnated, and now I don't know whose house he is running around, don't worry.... Show me if the traces of yesterday are still there?"

Biting the shirt above Liang's abdomen, he lifted it up to see Liang's snow-white abdomen and chest.

Traces of yesterday?

"No!! Don't enter the vine!!"

When he heard the words of the light, Liang immediately struggled vigorously, turning his palms to ask the light to let go.

When he took off his clothes in the morning and was about to take a shower, seeing his own body in the mirror, Liang couldn't help but want to rush out and punch him.

There are red hickey marks everywhere, especially the two spikes on the chest are so red that they are no different from ripe fruits, and they struggle nervously at the thought of being seen by the light.

"Shinto...Stop it...──Don't look! No way!!"

"Why is there such a sudden reaction? Just take a look, what's the matter? Why can't you look? Why can't you show me?"

Liang's refusal shocked Guangda, and even became suspicious, sitting on Liang's body and rudely trying to take off Liang's clothes.

Just a second before seeing Liang's abdomen, Guang's scalp suddenly felt severe pain,

"It hurts—it hurts—let it go, let it go!!" The hair seemed to be pulled out.

"Baba!! Baba!! Hikaru!! Bullying Teacher Ryo, Baba!!"

Guang endured the pain and twisted his facial features to look at the owner of the voice. A little girl with two malnourished short ponytails was holding her cheeks and angrily grabbing her hair.

"Sayi!? When did you come? No, let go of my hair, you want to make me bald!?"

"Don't bully Teacher Liang!!" Sayi stared at her two round eyes and scolded the light with her delicate childish voice.

"Who says I'm bullying him? I can't even love him!"

"Liar, lie!! The light is bad!!" The little hand pulled the light hair mercilessly again.Although children's strength is not as strong as adults, if a child who doesn't know what "injury" is and an adult who only thinks about how not to "injure" the child confronts, the latter will often lose.

The outcome has been decided, and the only thing left is to raise your hands and surrender.

"I know, I know! Just get up!"

Following Shayi's strength, she pulled Liang up and stood up, "Tell her quickly, I didn't bully you!"

"...." Liang, who was finally able to sit up properly, pulled the clothes that were messed up by the light, touched his hair reflexively, and stared at the light, the corner of his mouth curled up for no reason.

"Hey..., hey! Don't lie, you! The child will take it seriously!"

"I'm not you. Don't worry, Sae, Shinto didn't bully me, we were just playing."

"Really?" Shayi still looked at Liang with her bald hair,

"Yeah." Nodding his head, he gently pulled Shayi's hand away to free his bare hair.

"Oh..., I'm sorry Hikari... Pain?" Sayi's expression changed like a deflated ball, and she stroked Hikari's hair like she was petting a kitten or puppy.

"No way. You like Teacher Ryo so much? You pull me so hard?"

"I like it the most!!" Sayi jumped up and hugged Ryo, smiling happily.

"Hmm~" Sayi's words made Guang not know whether he should be jealous of Liang or feel threatened, and the appearance of Sayi 15 years later was automatically synthesized and changed in his mind.Although it was still early, the image of Sayi hugging Liang affectionately finally fermented in Guang's eyes, it really was a threat.

"Thank you, Sae." Liang smiled and touched Sae's head, thinking that Hikari's silence came from jealousy towards herself, so he asked Sae, "What about Shinto? Don't you like him?"

"I like light too! But I don't like light when it's bad! Light can't be bad!!" She pursed her cherry-like red lips, and forced her cute face to look fierce like a Sanniang godson.

"This kid... you Zuowei? You care about me so much?" Thinking of the past when Zuowei always whispered in his ear when he was playing pranks or doing bad things, he blurted out naturally.

"It's sa.i! Who is not sa.i?"

Puzzled by Hikari's question, Shayi asked Hikari back with a strange face while tilting her small head.

Tong Yan Tongyu's rhetorical question flashed before Guang Heliang's eyes like a bolt from the blue, making them glance at each other at the same time.It was Ryo who smiled first, "It seems that I really came back, back to you."

"Hey..., it's fine." The unfounded guess still made Guang smile with relief.

"In my opinion, even if I came to see you, right? Hug you so tightly. Shayi, come here, uncle hugs you, let's go down?" Opened his arms to Shayi.

"Hmm! Just hug!"

When Shayi jumped into Guang's arms, Liang saw that Guang tightened his arms forcefully, and Xiaoxiao said "Welcome back." Liang lowered his head to cover up his hot eye sockets.

Hikaru held the gauze with one hand and stretched out the other hand towards Ryo, gently curling the corner of his mouth, "Go down, Taya?"

"Teacher Liang, come quickly!" Sha Yi also waved to Liang.

Close the window of the warehouse, hold the light and warm hand in the dark, and walk down the stairs step by step towards the door.

***

Heihachi, Emi, Masao, Mitsuko, Sae, and Hikari and Ryo sat around the round coffee table in the living room and ate the sukiyaki pot specially made by the Shinto family.

After asking, I found out that Hikari’s cousin Takeshi and his wife Xiaolu went to the local product exhibition in Tokyo to participate in the sale of Gero’s famous products. They lived in Hikari’s hometown for the past few days. It was Mitsuko who was accompanying Sayi.

"Will Takeshi Xiaolu come later?"

"The product exhibition is over today. My name is Takeshi and I'll come back tomorrow night. It's rare for these two young people to come to Tokyo. I want to give them a day off."

"Hmm~. Is Sayi easy to wear?" He stretched out his hand across Ryo's back and played with Sayi's ponytail.At this time, Sayi was concentrating on eating the tofu that Huimei gave her.

"In my mother's opinion, there is no child in Japan who is more difficult to take care of than you. I am so curious that I want to get involved in everything. I always disappear in the blink of an eye and make my mother look everywhere."

"Yes~ yes~ Thank you for your hard work, mom, eat more meat?" He took a piece of meat and put it in Mitsuko's bowl.

"It's still soft!" The tofu in the eating bowl danced with short chubby legs propping up the side of the table.

"Okay~Grandma Zeng~" It's rare that there is such a young child in the family, and Emi, who feels nostalgic, draws her crow's feet and smiles, just about to put down her chopsticks to help Sae.

"Grandma Huimei, I'll use it. Would you like to eat more?" Liang put down his chopsticks first, picked up a piece of tofu, put it into the plastic bowl of Shayi, and blew it carefully.

"Little teacher is really considerate, but you should eat more yourself, seeing how thin you are! Come on?" Huimei also picked up two or three pieces of meat and put them into Liang's bowl while Liang was blowing on the tofu in Shayi.

"Ah...thank you grandma."

"That's right, just call me grandma! There are so many grandchildren in our Fuji family who can't read. It would be great if the little teacher came to our house to be a child, hehehe~" Huimei smiled cheerfully with her mouth covered.

"Please don't say that..." Emi's words made Ryo not know whether to be happy or ashamed.Emi didn't know her relationship with Hikari, so she said that without any grievances.Concealing the worries in her heart, she glued Shayi's bowl back to the table and let her eat it with a spoon.

At this time, as if the time had been calculated, he interjected from the side,

"Taya, do you know why my grandma's name is Emi?"

"..." Despite being extremely abrupt, he shook his head.

"Isn't the Japanese word エミ (EMI) the same as the English word EMMIE? It's actually a loanword written in katakana, not Chinese characters!"

"Huh? So that's the case... Then why did you deliberately change it to Emi in Chinese characters?" Liang looked at Emi.

Emi smiled and said, "When Heihachi's mother didn't like it when she first married in Japan, she changed it to Chinese characters."

"So after the Shindo family changed mothers, all the grandchildren's names were given in katakana, changing the family tradition! Right?" Masao continued.

Guangxin nodded with a feeling, "ㄟ~ So grandma Zeng and grandma had a mother-in-law war with grandma? Mom and grandma are quite harmonious."

"It's inevitable that a foreigner's daughter-in-law will be dissatisfied when she comes suddenly."

"Yes, yes."

"Oh! Speaking of which, Teacher Xiaoliang's name is only in katakana! Why?" Heihachi put the tofu into the pot and rolled it, thinking of Liang's name, he asked.

"When I was still in the womb, my father decided to give me AKIRA's name, but I haven't decided which kanji to use. My mother suggested that when I gave birth to a girl, I should use hiragana, and if I were born, I would use katakana, so it became アキラ."

"That's right! Katakana is a boy's character. Teacher Xiaoliang's mother is very thoughtful." Heihachi nodded in admiration.

"ㄟ!? This is the first time I've heard you say it!" There was a little dissatisfaction in Hikari's tone.

"You never asked me."

"I didn't ask you, you can say it yourself!"

"You didn't ask me how I knew what you wanted me to tell you!?"

"Anything is fine! Every time it's just Go and Go and West."

"Not every time! It's just often!"

"Often is also very indifferent! You can reduce it to occasional by telling me all the funny things you didn't tell me when you were young, right?"

"Look! You admit that it's often not every time!?"

"My point is not there! I want you to tell me more about your childhood!"

"Why do you want to know so much!?" Liang was very reluctant to mention his childhood, but Guang often asked Liang to tell him.

"It's not because Ogata-sensei, that old boy always...&﹪＊◎#"

……

Facing Guang Heliang who had already entered the two-person world and quarreled with each other, the others continued to eat dinner without any surprise.

"Whether the relationship between these two children is good or not is really confusing?" Mitsuko said with a wry smile.

"It's because you're good that you often quarrel with these useless fights, right?"

"Hehe, that's right~. By the way, why did Mom know that Taya-kun would come today?"

"Hmm..., intuition." Emi wiped her mouth full of gauze with a mysterious smile.

"intuition?"

"Hmm. Mitsuko has a good heart and won't attack anyone. She always makes people around her feel relaxed. Mom really likes that. But sometimes she's a bit dull, although Mom likes that too."

"...Well, thank you mom." I didn't understand the meaning of Huimei's words, but Huimei said that she liked her and had to thank her first.

Sayi, who was concentrating on eating tofu, suddenly heard a word from out of the sky, participating in the conversation between Emi and Mitsuko,

"Mother-in-law ~ Auntie ~ Let me tell you~ I didn't bully Teacher Liang! I didn't spoil you! I was playing with Teacher Liang just now! Teacher Liang said don't do it,