Wearing gold-rimmed glasses, Amami Nanamigetsu holds a book in both hands and sits on the single sofa diagonally opposite Sakakibara Raku. When she hears the sound of Sakakibara Raku and her sister coming back, she still has her head buried, her eyes always falling.

Between the lines in the book.

"Isn't Aunt at home?" Tianhai Jiuliuli walked out of the kitchen.

"No, this is the busiest time for their restaurant." Raku Sakakibara handed the water he had just received to Suzu Sakakibara without even saying "Thank you, brother."

Tianhai Jiuliuli: "So, we are the only ones coming to dinner today?"

"This is the only way."

Cooking has always been what Raku Sakakibara does.

Buying vegetables, chopping vegetables, cooking vegetables, washing pots, washing dishes... After more than ten years, he has become accustomed to these things.

After all, my father ran away, and my mother was working five odd jobs alone at that time, working from dawn to dusk to make money.

As the eldest son in the family, how can he not bear the pressure of daily life in the family?

Looking at the various ingredients I just bought from Don Quixote in front of me.

Raku Sakakibara was thinking about what to eat today.

Three sisters.

Their preferences are different.

Tianhai Jiuliuli likes vegetables and fruits and prefers light foods.

Tianhai Qimingyue is unknown for now, but she likes potato chips.

Make a hodgepodge salad for your sister, and make fried rice with potato chips for your sister?

Although the potato chips fried rice is a bit strange.

But Raku Sakakibara can only think of this one dish related to potato chips.

Just do it.

Eggs, cucumbers, tomatoes, grapes, melons... Sakakibara put these ingredients into a basin, and suddenly remembered that when he moved, he brought over the corn that he had not eaten before.

So he turned around and opened the refrigerator, took out the corn and put it in the basin.

"Almost." Raku Sakakihara took a look and reached out to pull out the small kitchen knife placed next to the microwave.

Peel and cut the cucumber into pieces, wash the tomatoes, prepare the corn, peel, wash and cut the melon...

Raku Sakakibara cut cleanly with a kitchen knife. He turned back to the cupboard and took out a large glass bowl, and put the cut ingredients in place for later use.

Finally, start boiling water, and cook the eggs and corn together.

"Do you need help?" Tianhai Jiuliuli put his hands behind his back and said to him with a smile.

"It's okay, I can handle it all by myself." Sakakihara smiled at her.

"Really not necessary?" Tianhai Jiuliuli was probably not confident in his cooking skills, and his tone was not very firm.

"It's okay, just watch TV. I can probably finish it in half an hour."

"Okay then."

In fact, Sakakihara Raku feels that as the oldest brother in this group family... he has to shoulder certain responsibilities - this has also been his habit for the past ten years.

Whether it is dealing with relationships between several people or in life, just do what you can do without bothering other people, let alone the step sister you just met.

Please, Sakakibara Raku will always feel a little sorry.

Put the corn in the pot and cook it. During this period, Raku Sakakibara prepared the carrot and potato curry rice and potato chips fried rice that Suzu likes to eat.

Preparing three dishes at the same time, I was very busy.

Amami Kuriuri, who was sitting back in the living room, kept looking at Raku Sakakibara who was busy preparing meals in the open kitchen, and asked:

"Is Sakakibara-kun so busy every day?"

"Yes, I like cooking, but my mother can't come back in the afternoon, so I let him cook." Suzu Sakakihara was lying on the largest sofa, scrolling through her phone with an expressionless face.

"That's it."

While washing, chopping, cooking, and preparing condiments, you should also pay attention to the temperature of the water in the pot.

The cutting board where raw meat has been cut must be washed again, and the bowl where raw meat has been served must be washed again...

Tianhai Jiureli silently looked at the busy shadows in the kitchen, turned back and said to Sakakihara Suzu:

"I'd better go help Sakakibara-kun."

"No, he can handle it alone." Suzu Sakakihara smiled at the message on the phone screen and answered in a casual tone.

"I think... I still need to help." Tianhai Jiuliuli stood up and walked over.

"Then go ahead."

Suzu Sakakihara didn't pay attention. She held the screen of her mobile phone with both hands and looked straight away. When she saw the chat history in the group chat of her colleagues, she smiled happily again and kept swinging her legs on the sofa.

She turned over, looked left and right, and suddenly felt a little thirsty. She turned her upper body sideways and reached for the glass of water on the coffee table that Raku Sakakihara had just poured for him.

But when she picked up the water glass and sat up cross-legged, she looked up to the stage and found that in the open kitchen diagonally across from the living room, Amami Kururi and Sakakibara Raku were chatting and laughing.

......

Sakakihara Suzu stared there for a long time.

"This situation should have been anticipated in advance." Tianhai Qimingyue, who was sitting on the single sofa, weighed her gold-rimmed glasses and opened the pages of the book with her delicate white hands.

Sakakibara Suzu glanced at the half-filled water in the cup, and then looked up at Amami Nanamigetsu who was sitting upright.

"What...?"

Tianhai Qimingyue picked up the steaming teacup in front of her, placed it on her thin lips and took a sip. Without looking at her, she said unhurriedly: "It's nothing, it's just that as a combined family, I think some things must be prepared in advance.

OK."

The heat lingered on the girl's calm face, and Sakakihara Suzu couldn't see her face clearly.

"Why do you feel like I know you?"

"My name is Nanami Nanami and your name is Suzu Sakakibara. We know each other now."

"No, I always feel that you look familiar... very much like a... hateful person."

"What kind of abomination?"

"The kind of person who robs my things is disgusting."

"Sister-chan, why don't you take a closer look?"

Sakakihara Suzu did take a closer look at her foster sister.

It's very pretty...but I don't know why, I just don't like it.

Obviously I don’t feel this way about Jiuliuli!

Tianhai Qimingyue put down the teacup and said no more.

......

Ten minutes later, Raku Sakakibara brought all the dishes to the table, and gave them a pair of bowls and chopsticks from the disinfection cabinet in the kitchen, placing them in front of their respective places.

"Nine-glazed glass, here you go."

"Thank you."

"Seven Bright Moons."

"Thank you."

"A Suzu." Raku Sakakihara gave her the last pair of chopsticks in his hand.

"Why am I the last one?" Sakakihara Suzu raised her head, her beautiful purple eyes reflected Sakakihara Raku's appearance.

"...?"

Sakakihara hesitated for a while, "You are the youngest, so you are the last one."

Sakakihara Suzu took his chopsticks and remained silent.

The two sisters, Amami, sat across from each other, while Sakakibara Raku and Sakakihara Suzu sat on one side.

Sakakihara looked around at the family that suddenly gathered together, coughed twice and said:

"Then, you can start now, you're welcome."

Tianhai Jiuliuli smiled, held his chopsticks with his hands together and lowered his head: "I'm starting."

Tianhai Qimingyue's face was expressionless, she put her hands on her skirt and lowered her head: "I'm starting."

Sakakibara Suzu secretly glanced at the smiling Amami Kuriuri opposite her, poked the curry rice in the bowl with her chopsticks, and said, "I'm starting."

Sakakihara Raku heard something wrong with her voice from the side, lowered his voice and asked: "Didn't you feel fine just now? What's wrong?"

"You don't have to worry about it." Suzu Sakakihara responded in a low voice, holding her stool with both hands and moving it to the side.

This period is here and you haven’t had it yet?
To be continued...