My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 291 Seaside Town
After everyone changed their shoes in the entryway, Ayumi Ajitani walked into the house, looked around, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Grandma, where's Grandpa?"

"Your grandpa went to the dock to play chess with Old Deng." With that, the old man prepared to go to the kitchen to cut watermelon for them, not forgetting to turn back and remind them again:
"Ayumi, the rooms on the second floor are all ready. Take the students upstairs to put down their luggage and rest for a while. You must be exhausted from the car ride."

Meeting the old man's kind gaze, Nishikata awkwardly gripped the straps of his backpack, shaking his head repeatedly to indicate that he was alright.

"Let's go."

The wooden stairs creaked under the footsteps of five people.

“Miyamura, you and Nishikata will share a room, and the three of us girls will share a room.” The group stood in the wooden corridor on the second floor, and Ayumi Ajitani pointed to two adjacent rooms.

"Mmm." Tsuna and Nishikata nodded at the same time.

"Of course, if you want to share with Shoko-chan—"

"Let's go, Ayumi-chan, I suddenly feel so tired."

"Uh...uh..."

Before she could finish her joke, Shoko suddenly covered her mouth, and Takagi, in perfect harmony with Shoko, opened the wooden door and let Shoko drag her into the room.

"See you later, you two." Takagi winked playfully at Nishikata before stepping into the room and closing the door behind her.

"Stop looking, the doors are all closed." Tsuna patted Nishikata on the shoulder: "Let's go in and put our luggage down too."

"Oh...oh oh."

As soon as A-Tsuna pushed open the blue wooden door, a faint smell of camphor wafted out.

The room was about 15 square meters, with some yellowish stains on the walls and a light gray watermark from rainwater seeping into the ceiling near the window.

On the left are two neatly folded blue and white checkered sheets placed on the yellowed tatami mat. The old-fashioned rattan wardrobe door facing the door is not closed properly, revealing half of the clothes hanger and folded towels.

A metal clothes rack with peeling paint stood in the corner, with a dark-colored sun-protective shirt that had been forgotten to be taken down.

"I didn't expect to be staying at the squad leader's house for seven days." Nishikata put his bag on the folding table under the windowsill and began to look around the room where he would be staying for seven days.

"There are many things you wouldn't expect," Tsuna joked, casually tossing his bag onto the tatami mat before sitting down cross-legged.

"Dong dong dong..."

The two, who were still discussing how to spend the next seven days, both looked at the wooden door at the same time.

"The door is unlocked."

Ayumi Ajitani opened the door, covering her eyes with her hands: "You two didn't do anything bad in there, did you...?"

"..." Tsuna looked at her, her hands covering her eyes, but the slit she opened couldn't completely block out her vision, and he was a little speechless.

"Squad leader, what kind of naughty things could two guys like us do in a room?"

"Then I don't know." Ayumi Ajitani shrugged and muttered to herself.

"Tsuna, Ayumi said she'd take us to town for a stroll, wanna come along?" At that moment, Shoko popped out from behind Ayumi.

"Let's go then."

The wooden stairs creaked and groaned as the five people sat on them.

"Grandma, I'm taking my friends out for a walk. I'll be back later."

"That watermelon—"

"We'll eat when we get back."

Ayumi Ajitani smiled and waved, then put her arms around Shoko and Takagi and led them forward. Tsuna politely greeted the old man and followed the three of them.

Following Tsuna's example, Nishikata said something cautiously and hurriedly followed him.

The gray-blue coastline is cut into jagged shapes by breakwaters, and the cement road follows the contours of the mountain, with two-story houses with blue roofs and white walls crowding both sides.

On both sides of the sloping road in the town center stand izakayas with a Showa-era style, plastic lanterns swaying on the eaves, and noren that have faded to pink are printed with the words "hama-yaki" and "teishoku".

A wooden pier extends from the rocky area, with more than a dozen fishing rods pointing simultaneously at the deep blue sea, their buoys rising and falling with the waves.

Because of their proximity to the sea, most of the people Tsuna encountered along the way had darker skin tones. "Shall we go buy some swimsuits?" Ayumi Ajitani suggested as they stood at a crossroads waiting for the traffic light to change. She glanced at the time.

The town is neither too big nor too small. In just over an hour, the four of them, led by their guide "Ajitani Ayumi," got a general idea of ​​what this seaside town looked like.

"Okay."

Shoko and Takagi had no objections. The three of them had already planned to go to the beach together in the afternoon. All they needed now was a nice swimsuit.

Upon hearing this, Nishikata, who had been nearly dejected, instantly perked up.

"Let's go then." Seeing that the two boys behind her didn't seem to have any objections, Ayumi pulled Takagi along and started walking back.

"There's a swimwear store we just passed by. Let's go there, buy what we need, and then go back to rest."

"Tsuna, will you help me choose later?" Shoko stepped back to Tsuna's side.

Seeing this, Ayumi Azurani and Takagi didn't say anything. They exchanged a glance and tacitly started talking to Nishikata, trying to get him away from Tsuna and give the two of them enough space to chat.

Tsuna watched as Nishikata was being carried forward by Takagi and the other man, and for a moment he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"Do I choose?"

“Yes, you help me choose, and I'll help you choose.” Shoko nodded.

She silently thanked the two people in front of her; if Nishikata were there, she would have been a little embarrassed to bring up this topic.

"I want to buy one too?" Tsuna was a little surprised. "I even brought the swimsuit that the school gave me."

"..."

Unlike the two people behind them who were discussing swimsuits, the three people leading the way let go of Nishikata as soon as they created some distance between them.

"Takagi-chan, a whole semester has passed, and Miyamura hasn't made any plans to confess?"

After saying that, Ayumi Ajitani gave Nishikata a stern look.

"I don't know." Takagi shrugged as he looked at the children chasing and playing ahead. "In junior high, dating is forbidden, but I don't know about high school. However, the two of them definitely have feelings for each other."

After saying that, she glanced at Nishikata, just like Ayumi Ajitani had done.

"..."

"What if they skip the dating process altogether and just throw the marriage certificate in our faces?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Ayumi Ajitani turned her head and stared at Nishikata for a short while.

"..."

After that, the two of them would glance at Nishikata after each sentence, which almost made Nishikata forget how to walk.

"Expected second semester—"

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Finally, Nishikata, unable to bear it any longer, raised his hand to interrupt their conversation, "I know what you mean, but Miyamura has never told me when he's going to confess, okay..."

"No way?" Ayumi Ajitani was clearly a little skeptical.

"Why would I lie to you?" Nishikata shrugged helplessly. "When we're together, we usually talk about anime or games, but we've never talked about romance..."

"..."

Takagi and Ayumi pressed him for answers several more times, but seeing that he knew absolutely nothing, they had no choice but to let him go.

As they approached the swimsuit store, Ayumi Ajitani and Takagi discussed something, then suddenly turned around and looked at him at the same time.

"By the way, Nishikata, could I ask you for a favor?" Ayumi Ajitani spoke first.

"Wh...wh...what?" Nishikata couldn't help but feel a little nervous under Takagi's intense gaze.

(End of this chapter)