Haruka Yuzan seemed to see Madame Chiba smiling at him before she transformed into specks of starlight that dissipated into the heavens and earth.
Chiba Shimizu slowly drew back, catching her breath lightly, her eyes as soft as water. Her fingers grazed her own lips, where the warmth and pulsation of the kiss seemed to linger.
Haruka Yuzan could distinctly feel the difference of this kiss from the ones before.
"Thank you, Mr. Haruka," Chiba Shimizu said softly.
Haruka Yuzan blinked in surprise and then smiled knowingly, "This is actually the first time you've called me Mr. Haruka."
The girl rolled her eyes at him.
Haruka Yuzan grinned, and soon, Chiba Shimizu kissed him again.
This time, Haruka Yuzan didn't hold back with the girl, and pulled her directly into his embrace. Under the moonlight, the two shared a deep kiss.
"Shimizu-san, time to get up."
It was nine ten in the morning.
Haruka Yuzan gently called to the girl who was resting on his arm, tired from the night before and slightly intoxicated from the drinks. After sharing a kiss on the balcony, they both went to sleep in the bedroom.
This time it was truly innocent.
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If Haruka Yuzan wanted, she probably would have complied.
But... did Haruka Yuzan want to fully have Chiba-san without taking advantage of this opportunity?
When the emotions were in place, there was no need to use the girl's different feelings to push things forward; that wasn't the standard behavior for a Tokyo gentleman.
"Mmmhm," the girl murmured before slowly opening her eyes.
Her delicate eyelashes trembled slightly in the air, and in her clear eyes, there was only Haruka.
Realizing she had been sleeping on Haruka Yuzan's arm all night, the girl felt a bit embarrassed as she got up, her smooth hair cascading over her shoulders, causing the strap to slide down slightly.
Revealing a sliver of her delicate shoulder and the soft whiteness of her skin.
She rubbed her slightly disheveled hair and said with a bit of embarrassment, "I'm sorry, Mr. Haruka, your arm must be quite numb..."
Haruka Yuzan was taken aback for a moment by the girl's gentleness, unused to it.
"Chiba-san is very gentle today," he said with a teasing smile.
Chiba Shimizu rolled her eyes at him directly, "Classmate Haruka, being too narcissistic isn't a good thing."
The familiar scent, the familiar gaze, the familiar formula.
Haruka Yuzan said with a smile, "Let's get up, we're going out soon."
"Mhmm." Chiba Shimizu nodded, her eyes as clear as the sky in autumn, as transparent as a mountain spring, "Thank you for yesterday, Mr. Haruka."
"It's what I should do."
Stepping out of the bedroom, Haruka Yuzan found that everyone else was still sleeping and hadn't gotten up.
He muttered to himself, then went downstairs and quickly prepared breakfast for everyone.
Chiba Shimizu came down shortly after and helped with the preparations.
Milk sandwiches, vegetable salad.
After setting the table, he went to wake everyone up.
"Sister Reiko, wake up, time for breakfast."
"Misaki, stop drooling, the sun's already up!"
"Pat pat (slap on the butt)"
"Hoshina, get up, aren't you all going out to play today?"
The people, rubbing their sleepy eyes, climbed out of bed. Reiko Onodera, seeing the breakfast on the table, quickly apologized to Haruka,
"Haruka, I'm sorry, I overslept today and made you help with breakfast."
"Sister Reiko, you're too polite; I need to get moving once in a while, right?" Haruka Yuzan said, smiling as he poured hot milk for everyone.
"That's right, that's right. Lazy Haruka finally makes breakfast once, Sister Reiko, you really shouldn't feel guilty at all," Misaki Saki said as she ate her sandwich along with milk, creating a ring of milk around her mouth.
"Even food can't shut you up," Haruka Yuzan said speechlessly, stuffing another sandwich into the little girl's mouth.
At eleven in the morning,
Haruka Yuzan and Chiba Shimizu arrived at a cemetery.
At the entrance, there was a group of men in black patrolling and driving away the passersby.
This cemetery was entirely Chiba Family territory.
Chiba Shimizu led Haruka Yuzan without any hindrance to Madame Chiba's tombstone, and beside it, there was a tombstone for a middle-aged man, who bore a slight resemblance to Shimizu.
"Mother, Father, I've come to see you."
The girl's voice was soft, filled with endless sorrow.
Haruka Yuzan sighed beside her and stepped forward, gently embracing the girl's trembling shoulders.
"Shimizu, we have to look forward."
[The sweetest word a person's lips can utter is 'mother,' and the loveliest call is 'Mama.' On her birthday, on her day of ordeal. Please accompany Chiba Shimizu tomorrow to the cemetery to pay respects.]
[Mission complete: Reward received: one Revitalizing Pill.]