Sitting in the entrance hall, Akane Kirino stepped on his shoes with barefoots.
“…So, is Akane willing to accept it?”
Zong Gu held her hand and his legs were numb.
"I can't fully understand what Zonggu said so much at once."
"Okay." He took a breath, "What else can't understand?"
"all."
“…”
Akane Kirino patted the next to him, "Sit here and tell me slowly."
Zong Gu sat over, her head tilted and leaned forward.
"My love for Soya is until today."
“…”
"I planned this way before."
Akane Kirino turned her head to look at him, with a smile on her face, "I feel that Soya suddenly became nervous just now, so happy."
Zong Gu looked up.
"Ah, you roll your eyes at me."
He turned up a little more.
She lowered her head and hit him on his shoulder, "It's so ugly."
Zong Gu tilted to the side, then lay down on the floor of the entrance hall, looking at the ceiling above his head.
Akane Kirino looked at him for a while, lay down beside him, using his arm as a pillow.
"Zonggu."
"Um."
"Are I awake now or dreaming."
"You pinch yourself and you will know."
She stood up sideways, touched his face, and her five fingers gradually restrained again, and pinched his cheek for a few seconds.
"Nothing feels at all, it seems to be a dream." Zong Gu said.
"Who are you lying to? I heard the sound of you sucking in the air conditioner."
He also turned around and faced her, "So, everything you're going through now is true."
When he faced the veneer, Akane Kirino subconsciously held her breath and looked into his eyes.
"That's proven... um."
He kissed her, and she opened her eyes wide and closed immediately.
“Um…”
Close her eyes tightly, and she let him pry open his lips and teeth without resistance and hooked the softness.
Responding clumsyly, she wanted to keep up with his rhythm, but he suddenly pulled away.
“…”
Akane Kirino opened his eyes, he was looking at her, "Do you believe it now?"
His eyes rolled, and Akane Kirino licked her lips.
"It's so sudden... This is my first kiss."
"What are you saying? Your first kiss has long disappeared."
"…My first kiss was taken away by Zong Gu!"
"Didn't you come to kiss me secretly? I saw it."
Akane Kirino was very surprised, "Love!"
"If you don't believe it, you can ask her."
She bulged her mouth, her eyes turned, and then fell on his lips.
"It's completely different from that time..."
"Because that time was not considered a kiss, just a few touches of lips."
"Even if you know this kind of detail, you really saw it!" She was still surprised.
“…”
Zong Gu was a little helpless and lay down again.
Her hands were on his face.
He turned his head to look, and she looked back, her face gradually becoming rosy.
“Do it again.”
"What."
"I said I'll do it again..."
"What's happening again."
She quickly understood, glared at him, leaned over and kissed him again.
" バカ… um… ”
The second deep kiss was much longer than before.
From being clumsy and at a loss at first to becoming more proficient, she mastered it very quickly and even took the initiative to attack.
When they were entangled with each other, Akane Kirino had already sat on him.
She held her hands on both sides of his head, and she looked at him and gasped slightly.
"What's wrong... show this expression."
"fine."
Zong Gu shook his head, "It's just the first time I've experienced the feeling below, and I feel it's a bit unique."
"What..."
Akane Kirino smiled and looked at his lips steadily.
"What should I do? I still want to continue... I seem to fall in love with Sonoya."
He smiled and held her waist, "Didn't you fall in love with me?"
"I like it more, I can't extricate myself."
She leaned down, touching the tip of her nose, and kissing his lips one after another.
"I like you, I like you so much. I would have understood it earlier."
“It’s not too late.”
"I always feel like I missed a lot."
"At least it hasn't turned into a regret." Sonoya raised his hand and hugged her body. "The days ahead will be so long that you feel tired of it."
"I will never get tired of being with you."
Kitano Akane held up again, "Let's go to the room."
Zong Gu was stunned and looked at her with uncertainty, "Do you want to do it?"
She was also stunned, and her face turned red quickly: "No... don't you want to do it?"
"I think...it's just not the time yet."
"Why?"
He raised his hand and touched her face, "Because Akane still knows nothing, doesn't she?"
"I believe in Soya." Akane Kirino said.
"Don't trust me too much, I don't trust myself very much now."
"What's this?"
Zong Gu signaled her to get out of the way and then sat up.
"Because the bottom line has been lowered, I can't see where my bottom line is. In order to achieve that goal, I have used quite bad means."
For example, use Hongko's safety to threaten the Yoshikawa couple.
Akane Kirino sat on his lap, wrapping his arms around his neck, "But I still believe that Soya will not hurt me."
He looked at her, "So, is Akane willing to accept it?"
"Zonggu stepped on two ships with one foot... no, is it a matter of stepping on four ships?"
Although it doesn't sound nice, this is the truth.
"……Um."
"I don't want to agree."
“…”
Akane Kirino moved backwards and asked him to look at his serious face, "Even Hongzi, I don't want to share with her about love."
He pursed his lower lip.
"But, Zong Gu is so entangled now, there is probably no other way. Even you can't help, so I can't do anything."
"I will accept it." She looked into his eyes, "I have already understood that if you want to get something, you must give something else to exchange. The way to make Hongzi and I always be friends is to follow the
She shared that Zong Gu…as long as Hongzi and I can’t do it?”
Soya shook his head, "Suzu and Kyoko are also very important to me..."
"Is it more important than Hongzi and me?"
“It is impossible to compare, nor can it be given up.”
She let out a long breath.
"Okay... don't tell Senior Sister Ling and what they said just now."
Zonggu touched her back.
"Um."
Akane Kirino thought of something and asked, "Then have they accepted this?"
"Except Kyoko."
"It would be strange if you accept such things with the senior sister's personality."
Zong Gu took a deep breath and nodded.
"What are Soya planning to do?"
"I'm still thinking."
"Don't force it." Akane Kirino came up and kissed him on his lips, "Respect the senior sister's own choice."
“…”
Zong Gu shook his head speechless.
Buzz —
The phone vibrated a little.
He took out his cell phone and took a look, "Hongzi said she was home."
"oh."
"When did you separate?"
Akane Kirino thought for a while, "When Hongzi went to the gardening department, I followed Soya..."
"really."
"You saw me at that time?" she asked.
"Um."
"I've been pretending not to see it... it's really bad."
"I want to see when you can follow."
"When Soya walked into the apartment, I was about to go back...ah." Akane Kirino thought of something he cared more about, "Soya just said that he had decided to move out, so he was also lying to me."
"I didn't lie to you. If I really wanted to move out, I decided to live there."
She looked at him, "But you won't move out. There is no reason to move out now, right?"
Sonoya smiled, "Akane thinks I decided to move out because of you?"
“Isn’t it?”
"Part of the reason is because of you," said Zong Gu, looking at the time again, "It's getting late, you can get down first."
Akane Kirino got up from him, put on her slippers, and went to the kitchen to take a look.
"Ah, I don't even leave dinner for me."
Zong Gu didn't change his shoes, so he just waited for her at the door.
"Miss Qingzi probably thinks we will get back together today."
"Uh-huh."
She trotted over and hugged him again, "It's better."
"It's time for us to go to the store." Sonogu said, making a decision in his heart.
Just today.
"Let's ride a bicycle over there." Akane Kirino said.
"Um."
"Zonggu took me on a bicycle."
"Then ride my car."
After leaving Kirino's house, the two returned to their old house. Soya put down his schoolbag and came out. Akane Kirino had already gone to the backyard to ride his bicycle outside.
She moved back and patted the cushion.
"Get on the bus!"
Zong Gu got on the bike and she hugged his waist.
“It’s so hot.”
"That's still so tightly."
She rubbed behind him.
“It’s so hot.”
Soya couldn't help but smile, stepped on the pedal, "Sit firmly."
"Uh-huh."
The slight shaking of the start was soon replaced by stability and briskness. Facing the evening breeze, Zong Gu only felt that he had never felt so relaxed in recent times.
"Zonggu."
"Um."
"Do you want to tell your parents about our affairs?"
"Well. But even if you don't say it, they can see it."
The ease in my heart subsided a little, Zong Gu looked ahead and continued, "I will explain everything to them."
Akane Kirino looked up at him and hugged him tightly.
"good."
More than ten minutes later, the two arrived at Lequan Pavilion.
Stopped the car, Soya and Akane Kirino walked into the izakaya together, paying attention to Kirino Keiko who immediately smiled.
"Songgu is indeed here today. Have you already visited the house?"
"I've seen it." Akane Kirino said.
"Akane has gone too?"
"yes."
"Akane wants to move out with Soya?" Kirino Keiko looked at her daughter, and the sorrow that had been entangled for many days finally disappeared from her face.
"Although the apartment over there is very good..." Akane Kirino looked at Soya, "But we still prefer to stay at home, right?"
Kirino Keiko was slightly stunned, and her eyes changed suddenly.
"Yeah." Soya nodded to Akane Kirino, "You go and change your uniform first."
"Uh-huh."
Looking at his daughter walking towards the changing room, Kirino Keiko looked at him again: "I finally made up."
"Yes."
"Has Akane confessed to Soya?"
Sure enough, I can see that the mature women feel really keen...
Zong Gu nodded again.
"Soya accepts it when Akane looks so happy?"
"I confessed first."
Kirino Keiko raised her eyebrows.
"In addition, there is another thing, I want to explain to Miss Keiko and Mr. Kirino."
"Okay. But now I'm a little busy. Sogo should tell me when the store is free."
"Okay." He planned so too.
Akane Kirino has already changed her uniform and came out, "Soya goes to change her clothes."
"Here you come."
After changing into his uniform and coming out, Zong Gu immediately became busy and had almost no time to stop.
"Brother——"
"Here you come!"
"June Zonggu, come here."
"What else do Ms. Machun want to order?"
"The little guy over there, why haven't my wine been delivered yet?"
"Come soon!"
Soya was busy and handed the order ordered by the guest on the No. 2 table to Keiko Kitano, then took a full beer from Akagi Kitano and delivered it to the guests on the other side.
"Soya confessed to Akane?"
“…”
Akane Kirino turned her head and looked at her mother, trying to pretend to be calm, but the curve of the corners of her mouth was betrayed her heart.
"Right."
"Mom has been waiting for this day for seventeen years."
"How could it be so exaggerated..."
Kirino Keiko picked the ingredients according to the list, "The moment a woman gave birth to a child, she was already imagining what he looked like when she got married. When Akane became a mother, she would understand."
"Really?"
"Fake it, I'll just say it casually. I didn't think about it anyway."
"Mother!"
She smiled, "But my mother has been waiting for a long time, and Akane finally understood what she wants."
Akane Kirino was stunned, "Did mom know it long ago?"
"It should be said that anyone can see that only Akane himself doesn't understand."
Kirino Keiko handed over the selected ingredients to her husband, and continued: "Akane inherited her mother's beauty and mobility, but she also inherited all the dullness of her father."
"is that so……"
Akane Kirino looked at her parents separately.
"Did Zong Gu confess it first?"
"Um……"
Kirino Keiko looked at Soya who was ordering orders for another table of guests, "It seems that the last person he chose was Akane."
Akane Kirino was stunned for a while.
"...Mom also knows that Sonoya likes Hongzi and the others?"
"I have already said that only Akane is slow to do this kind of thing."
“…”
"However, he told me about this."
Kirino Kyoko took a breath slowly, "Akane has many competitors. Mom once felt that you had lost hope and could only be a sister for Soya. It would be great that he could choose Akane."
Akane Kirino fell silent and looked at Soya again.
He said, leave everything to him to explain...
"Mother."
"Um."
"Did my mom and dad hope that I can date Soya, get married, and then inherit Izakaya and spend my life step by step?"
Kirino Keiko looked at her daughter, and after a while he spoke:
"We just hope that Akane can maintain her current mentality and live her life well and happily. If it falls into actual life, it may be what Akane said just now. However, there are countless ways to inherit the family business in front of Akane.
Not the only option - why, do you have any bold ideas?"
Akane Kirino nodded, looked at the foot of Zonggu who was walking over, and whispered: "Songgu will tell his mother."
"Is Soya planning to drop out of school with Akane and then go around the world?"
“…”
Zong Gu was stunned for a few seconds, "What?"
"It seems not." Kirino Keiko smiled and signaled him not to care, "What do the guest want?"
He looked at the mother and daughter at the bar again, and then handed out the order book in his hand, "The customer at Table 1 ordered a few more skewers of grilled goods. Akane, and took another beer."
"Ah, OK."
"Brother--" Zong Gu was called over by the guest on the other side of the bar again.
Akane Kirino looked at her thoughtful mother while continuing the beer.
Will this help him if you said it just now...
Everyone is busy, and the night is getting darker.
By eleven o'clock at night, no customers came to the store. The remaining guests occasionally called wine, and Soya and Akane Kirino were free;
Kirino Keiko waited for Soya to speak on his own initiative, and he only mentioned the thing he wanted to say until all the customers in the store left and were about to end today's business.
"I like Akane."
Soya and Akane Kirino looked at each other, then looked at Kirino Keiko next to her.
"I hope Miss Keiko can hand her over to me."
"Is it just that? Then Sonya can take Akane away now." Kirino Kyoko looked at him and said, "What about the bolder part."
"besides……"
Soya took a deep breath, "Suzu, Hongzi and Guanhara Kyoko are also dating. From now on, they will continue to maintain this state."
"……I see."
After a brief silence, Kirino Keiko nodded slowly, and there was no surprise or look of shock or anger on her face.
She glanced at her daughter and spoke for a while.
"It's not that I chose Akane, but that I chose everyone, including Akane. Is this the way Soguchi racked his brains to come up with?"
Sonoya nodded, "Yes."
Kirino Keiko hugged her arms, "Is this possible possible?"
"Suzu, Hongko and Akane have accepted it. It's only a matter of time before Kyoko."
"What about parents?" she asked again.
Sonoya looked at her, "I'm waiting for Miss Keiko to agree."
Kirino Keiko smiled briefly, looked at him for a while, and asked, "Did Suga teach her what Akane said just now?"
"What?"
"No..." Akane Kirino said from the side.
"Mom never thought that Sogo would tell me such a thing."
Kirino Kyoko took a deep breath and looked at the two children in front of her and beside her, "But it's better than Soya who played with Akane and then left... Can you only think about this?"
She paused and looked at her daughter, "What did Akane think?"
"I like Sonoya...I don't want to be separated from Hongzi either."
"Just that's it?"
Akane Kirino nodded, "That's enough."
Kirino Keiko sighed and stopped talking to her daughter.
"Zonggu."
Sonoya looked at her, "Miss Keiko."
"I will hand Akane over to you. But you can't take her away."
Kirino Keiko looked at her husband and said, "Hongyuki and I believe in you, but after all, you are just a child."
Zong Gu opened his mouth, immediately reacted, and nodded solemnly.