My love is abyss mode

Chapter 97 Shin-chan's Little Thoughts

While waiting for Chitose Toyama to arrive, Kiba Kuronuma and Shiona Shinkai left Tsuchiya Dojo and had lunch at a family restaurant in a nearby shopping district.

A little after 1 p.m., the peak dining period ended, and there were only seven or eight tables of customers in the restaurant.

Kuronuma sat at the simple dining table, looking sideways at the station outside the window, his index finger stroking the rounded top of the can of cola, lost in thought.

The Donghai Bus drove across the sun-drenched asphalt road, its tires slowly coming to a stop, the sound of the doors opening reminiscent of prying open a can of food.

Groups of tourists disembarked from the rear door, while the waiting crowd squeezed into the carriage through the front door. The doors closed, and the Donghai Bus slowly started moving towards the next stop.

He raised his Coke and took a sip; the icy carbonation burst on his tongue, leaving a refreshing taste.

"Hey, Ya already knows my secret, right?"

A muffled voice came from across the simple dining table, deliberately emphasizing the word "secret."

Kurogane Kiba turned to look at Shinkai Shiona, who was wolfing down an omelet rice, ketchup on the corner of her mouth, her pure face tinged with a playful charm.

"I know you have a big appetite, so you have to hide in the sports storage room to eat lunch."

He gave a perfunctory reply, his gaze falling on the dining table. Two bamboo knives were stuffed into a light green tote bag, and several plates next to it were covered with food scraps and sauce.

In Kuronuma's opinion, Shinkai Shionai really has a huge appetite.

She had just finished a steak, a plate of pasta, and a serving of fried chicken; her omelet rice was also instantly gone.

That's not what I meant.

Shinonome Shionai finished the last bite of her omelet rice, gulped down a large glass of orange juice, her throat moving rapidly, then put down the glass and made a cute sound: "Ah~ I'm full."

"You can eat more than the cows on my ranch."

"Huh? Really? Girls tend to have bigger stomachs."

“Fun fact: cows have four stomachs,” Kuronuma Fang replied indifferently, her gaze sweeping from her ample breasts to the street outside the window.

"Well, I guess I have five stomachs then. Anyway, that's not the point, is it?"

Shinkai Shiona moved the empty plate of omelet rice aside, picked up a large portion of French fries, pinched one between her index finger and thumb, and dipped it in ketchup to eat.

She stared intently at Kuronuma Kiba, her bright blue eyes shimmering with the unique charm of a pure and beautiful young girl: "Matsusaka-senpai and I aren't really sisters, Kiba already knows that, right? Huh?"

"Matsusaka-senpai cares about you a lot and even paid the price for you."

Kuronuma held up the can of cola, took the last sip, and threw the can into the trash can at his feet: "I don't quite understand what you mean by saying that now."

Seeing the cold light in his eyes, Shiona Shinkai gave an awkward smile, withdrew her outstretched hand before Kuroguma realized her intention, and put the fries into her mouth.

The fawn, its heart pounding wildly, crashed headlong into the cold winds of Hokkaido and died.

The sunlight absorbed all the sound, and the air suddenly became quiet.

Shinonome lowered her head and slowly chewed the fries in her mouth. Noticing that the atmosphere was a bit dull, she smiled brightly as usual to lighten the mood:

"The tomato sauce here is a bit sour. People in Izu have such strange tastes, even though it's not that far from Tokyo."

"You didn't seem disgusted when you were eating the omelet rice just now," Kuronuma said coldly and indifferently.

Indeed, a woman's heart is as fickle as a feather in the wind; the book was absolutely right.

"The omelet rice is different now."

Shionai lay contentedly on the table, her face turned to the side, eating fries one by one, saying as she ate:
"The Matsusaka family is an ordinary family, but they are not bad off. Mr. Matsusaka is a corporate employee, and his mother is a housewife."

"However, I have never received any favors since I was a child. People around me seem to be unable to see me, and even my parents do not pay attention to me."

“We received no care or necessities. Our food and housing were the most basic. We were often hungry and had no clean clothes to wear.”

“That’s how I grew up~” “I didn’t know why I was disliked until I started elementary school.”

As she spoke of the past, her bright eyes gradually dimmed, but the shimmering filter that had surrounded her disappeared as she remained in the sunlight.

"That sounds a bit pitiful." Kuronuma Fang cast a look of pity at him, but did not offer any words of comfort.

Even a meritocrat couldn't force Shinonome Shionai, who was in elementary school, to face all of this on her own, especially since she hadn't done anything wrong.

"No, not really. It might feel painful at first, but you get used to it later."

Shionai sat up straight, picked up the tote bag on the table, took out a tissue to wipe her fingertips from eating fries, and said with a smile, "Anyway, even if I lived huddled in a corner of the house, I still survived."

"It's really not easy," Kuronuma Fang commented somewhat coldly.

He never comforts others and is not good at expressing empathy.

"Only Matsusaka-senpai takes care of me. Even though Mr. Matsusaka and my mother would lecture me in a fit of anger, she still made me omelet rice after my first home economics class."

Shinkai Shiona didn't mind at all. After wiping her fingertips clean, she pushed the fries between them to share with him.

“I used to hate her because Matsuzaka-senpai had everything I didn’t have, and I hurt her deeply.”

"It's probably because of low self-esteem."

"But later I realized that only Matsuzaka-senpai didn't treat my birth as a mistake, and sincerely apologized and was forgiven."

Kanon Matsusaka is indeed a very gentle person.

Thinking of her clean and beautiful face, her gentle temperament, and the unexpected contrast, I feel genuinely happy that she belongs to me.

As Kuronuma thought to himself, he picked up a French fry, dipped it in ketchup, and put it in his mouth.

It's a little too sweet.

Snapped--

Shinkai Shionai clasped her hands together in front of her, making a crisp sound that drew his attention.

"Please make my sister happy, this is a once-in-a-lifetime request!"

She wore a serious expression, her clear eyes sparkling, and her pleading posture in the sunlight was as devout as if she were praying to a god: "If it requires paying a price to make Matsusaka-senpai happy, please tell me, and I will definitely do it."

Why has Shinkai Shion addressed Matsusaka Kanon differently than usual since just now?

Even two simple sentences are addressed with completely different terms.

Kuronuma couldn't quite grasp the underlying logic, so he looked away from her, turned his head to look at the street outside the window, and nodded slightly in agreement: "Okay."

"You've been looking outside since just now. Is something interesting happening?" Seeing that he agreed, Shinkai Shiona put away her devout expression, and her sparkling energy once again covered her innocent face.

She looked in the direction Kuronuma was looking, and a taxi stopped in front of the family restaurant. The door opened, and a long, straight leg stepped out first, followed by a beautiful purple figure.

Chitose Toyama arrives at the battlefield.

The moment she saw her, Shiona Shinkai possessively pushed the fries all the way in front of Kurogane, then got up from her seat with her tote bag slung over her shoulder, rubbing her full, rounded tulip skirt against his arm as she sat down.

"What's going on?" Kuronuma asked, frowning, and moved to the inside with disdain.

"My senior definitely doesn't want you to join the kendo club. I have to protect my sister's spoils!"

Shinkai Shiona pressed down on the back of her tulip skirt with her hand, sat down close to him again, and placed her tote bag on the other side, taking up the entire seat.

The little deer that had died in my heart miraculously came back to life.

(End of this chapter)