My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 302: Profitable!

"Ears? What do you mean, does your ear hurt?" All she felt right now was that her ears were burning hot.

"No...it's alright now." He still underestimated the destructive power of his physique combined with his wet appearance; the child was already stunned.

"Snapped……"

Tsuna suppressed a smile and gently slapped away her hand that was stealthily reaching out. "Continue with your illustration commission. I'm going back to where I was before." With that, he turned and went back to the shower area.

"..." Shoko rubbed the back of her hand, staring at his back, feeling a little unwilling.

"You first plan out the key points of support for my next movements in this illustration," Tsuna suggested, leaning against the wall and tilting his head.

“Hmm…hmm…” Glass nodded mechanically.

"You're not paying attention, Shoko. How can you draw a good illustration like this?"

A-Gang felt a little helpless as she kept shifting her gaze between his face and the wet cloth.

He had thought about finding a similar picture online and having Shoko look at it, but as soon as the idea popped into his head, he felt uneasy.

In the end, I decided against it. It's better to let her see ready-made examples; it will allow her to observe and draw from multiple perspectives. However, it seems... probably... it might have had the opposite effect...

"Tsuna..."

"What?" Gang asked, a little puzzled, seeing her hesitate.

"When did you develop those abs?" Shoko blushed, pointing to the damp fabric billowing with his breath, and stammered:

"Last week...we went to the beach, but I...didn't see any of them?"

"Is that the point?" Tsuna was speechless.

"Mmm-hmm." Shoko nodded repeatedly without hesitation.

"..." After a moment's hesitation, he slowly covered his abdomen with his hands: "Your focus right now is on your illustration commission, okay?"

Shoko, holding a tablet, clasped her hands together and pleaded, "Could you answer my question first? I'm curious."

"During those 7 days we went to the beach, did my upper body ever get wet?" Tsuna asked helplessly.

"It seems so..." Shoko recalled for a moment, nodded, and continued to ask, "Then why didn't I see it during swimming lessons before?"

"Back then, the lines weren't clear, so they weren't easy to notice."

Then, Tsuna patiently explained to her when she started practicing and at what point it became noticeable.

"Oh..." Shoko nodded, seemingly understanding. If Tsuna hadn't explained, she would have thought it was something she could learn in a week or two...

"Then let's continue. If you don't concentrate soon, Shizuka will be back soon, and you might not be able to keep an eye on things."

"We can get off—"

"Damn it!" Tsuna crossed his arms. "This is your only chance."

"..." Shoko puffed out her cheeks in dissatisfaction, but his words had an effect, and she stopped glancing around.

She regained her usual seriousness in studying, but her hands would occasionally wander off. However, Tsuna always noticed and gently slapped away her groping hands.

"Tsuna, I want to take a picture!"

"Don't even think about it." When Tsuna saw her pointing the tablet at him, he immediately turned around, his back to her. "It's already a favor that you're showing it to me. You think you can take it with you?"

"Tsuna, listen to me." Shoko put down the tablet and listed examples on her fingers one by one:
"You see, if I only look at it once, I might forget it tonight, and that won't have any learning effect at all."

"Next time I need a request like this, I'll come back to you. Thank you for your help." She now desperately wants more requests like this.

"Moreover, if I can take photos from different angles, I can observe them carefully. If I forget them later, I can just take them out and review them. Isn't that convenient?"

"..." He retorted without hesitation, "After all that you've said, isn't the last sentence the most important?"

"Tsuna~" Shoko said, about to act cute again.

"Stop." Tsuna turned around and immediately covered her mouth with his hand. "If I take pictures of you, what do I get in return?" "Mmm..."

Shoko's heart tightened; this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. She immediately placed her hand on the other person's stomach and rubbed it a couple of times, then mischievously poked the bulging abs with her fingertip.

"Boom...!"

"what……"

Tsuna took a few steps back, creating some distance between them, and said, "You've gone a bit too far, Shoko-san."

"made money!"

"..."

Shoko realized she had inadvertently revealed her true feelings and immediately changed the subject, asking, "Tsuna, what do you want in return?"

“I’ve changed my mind, don’t even think about it.” Tsuna shook his head. “Continue drawing your illustrations.”

"I was wrong..." Shoko quickly begged for forgiveness.

“Tame…” Tsuna remained unmoved and reminded him, “Hurry up, or your dear Aunt Miyamura will be back soon.”

Even after Shizuka Miyamura returned, Shoko still asked several times, but Tsuna ruthlessly rejected her each time.

Shizuka Miyamura initially thought the two had some kind of argument, but seeing how they were always sticking together, it didn't seem like it, so she didn't say anything more.

At a little past six in the afternoon, the cicadas' chirping rose and fell in the slanting sunlight, carrying the heat of the setting sun. The sweltering heat from the asphalt road was gradually pushed into the shadows of the trees by the twilight.

"Tsuna, I'm going back to help Grandma prepare dinner. I'll come find you later."

Before he could give any response, Shoko got up from the sofa, waved at him with her tablet, and quickly left the living room.

"Click..."

In a few strides, I crossed the Gongcun house and turned into the Nishigong house, splashing the last rays of the setting sun all over the ground.

"Click..."

"I am back."

"Welcome home..."

"Wang..."

The voices of Yuzuru Nishimiya and Hachiko, mixed with the theme song of Action Kamen, drifted from the living room.

Shoko changed her shoes in the entryway. As she passed through the living room, she saw Nishimiya Yuzuru resting her head on Hachiko's pillow, with Action Kamen playing on TV. She only glanced at it before looking away and skipping back to her bedroom.

“Something’s not right…” Nishimiya Yuzuru heard her sister close the door and turned the TV volume down to the lowest setting with the remote. She said suspiciously, “Nine out of ten things are not right.”

"Hachiko, you think so too, right?"

"Woof..." Hachiko wagged his tail and nodded in a very human way.

Nishimiya Yuzuru immediately got up from the tatami mat and headed to the glass room, with Hachiko following behind, wagging his tail.

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"hey-hey……"

Shoko sat on the edge of the bed in the room, her eyes fixed on the photos on the tablet, and she subconsciously raised her hand to wipe her pink lips.

"You don't allow open filming, but you didn't say we can't film secretly."

Sure enough, sometimes Tsuna isn't necessarily smarter than me, hehe..."

She quickly made several copies of the photo, then kept only one in her album and transferred the rest to a private album labeled 'Tsuna'.

(End of this chapter)