Chapter 130 The Best Owner

The last piece of udon noodle at the bottom of the bowl, soaked in soup, was sucked into Mochizuki Haruka's mouth.

The girl looked up and saw Matsueda Jun washing dishes in the kitchen, while Kurusu Yoshi went out for a jog.

"Have you finished eating?" Jun Matsueda walked over wearing an apron and picked up the bowl in front of her.

A few minutes later, the sound of running water stopped, and he walked out of the kitchen and sat in front of Mochizuki Haruka.

"Your house is renovated."

The girl lowered her eyes and looked at the table, as if there was another bowl of unfinished udon there.

Jun Matsueda stretched out his hand and waved in front of her, and Haruka Mochizuki turned to the other side and started watching TV.

"There's no point in playing dumb."

"I'll go if you go," the girl said with her back to him.

It makes no difference to Jun Matsueda whether he lives in 506 or 507. What matters is that he has to change Mochizuki Haruka's current situation.

"I won't move there. There's no need for me to do that."

The girl turned around again and said, "My foot isn't healed yet." She lifted her foot and shook it.

"The head maid will take care of you. If you want to come to our place, you can ask her to take you over."

Mochizuki Haruka lay on the table and looked at him pitifully, "My feet hurt."

"Why haven't I seen you shout before?" Matsueda Jun rolled his eyes at her.

"Leaving you hurts so much." The girl's eyes actually started to well up with tears. "It hurts so much!"

"You can't live with me forever, right?"

Mochizuki Yao blinked. Why not?

"I want to sleep in my own bed, not on the floor," he said unhappily.

"I'll sleep on the floor." The girl said without hesitation.

"That won't work either. That's not the problem." Matsueda Jun went to the kitchen, got out a rag, and wiped the table clean. "I need my own space."

"Don't leave me." Mochizuki Haruka grabbed his hand, her tears dripping onto the table.

She had heard similar words in the simulation that had turned into a nightmare.

Plop, plop, all that was left was the sound of tears falling and shattering on the dining table.

The girl's mood collapsed very suddenly. Matsueda Jun sighed. Only four days had passed since "Judgment Day", and Mochizuki Haruka was still in a very fragile state.

So, never make promises with others casually.

"Let's wait until your foot is healed first."

Mochizuki Haruka looked up at him, and the girl's expression reminded Jun Matsueda of the rag doll on the trash can on the side of the road.

"Really?"

He nodded helplessly.

The girl climbed onto the dining table, hugged Jun Matsueda's waist with both hands, and rubbed her face against his thighs.

Jun Matsueda pulled her hand away and left the dining table. Haruka Mochizuki lay on the table and looked at him.

Jun Matsueda suddenly felt like he had raised a disabled cat. Only after it lost the ability to jump up and down did it realize how important its owner was.

He threw the girl back onto the bed, sat down at the desk by the window, opened the textbook, and looked over the questions that Yamamiya Moki had asked during the day.

Mochizuki Yao was lying on the bed, with the tears from the corners of her eyes still etched in her eyes. She just stared blankly at the ceiling, occasionally turning her head to glance at Matsueda Jun standing by the window.

The sound of a door opening was heard from the living room. Kurusu Yoshi hummed a song, changed his shoes, and walked into Matsueda Jun's bedroom.

She glanced at the girl lying on the bed like a corpse. "How is it? When are they going to move? It's not impossible for me to help her move some things."

Mochizuki Haruka didn't interfere much with Laiqi Yangshi's life, but the way she kept sticking to Matsueda Jun made the girl unhappy.

"Let's wait until her foot heals." Matsueda Jun didn't look back.

"Ah? Why?" Lai Qi Yang Shi walked to the desk and asked him.

"Ask her." Jun Matsueda pointed at the peaceful girl lying on the bed.

Kurusu Yoshi walked to the bedside, ready to question the girl. However, looking at the tears in Mochizuki Haruka's eyes and her empty gaze, she felt that she could no longer vent her anger.

There seemed to be no point in competing with a useless cat.

She pinched Mochizuki Yao's cheek unwillingly. The girl's eyes moved and she turned her back to her.

"Matsueda, we live together, so please don't have any affairs at home behind my back." Kurusu Yoshi said to Matsueda Jun's back.

Jun Matsueda turned around and looked at her. His puzzled eyes seemed to be asking why people would fall in love with cats and dogs.

The girl then left the bedroom with peace of mind.

When it was time to go to bed at night, Matsueda Jun lay on the bed for the first time in a long time, while Mochizuki Haruka slept on the floor. After all, she said it was okay to sleep on the floor.

However, ten minutes later, Mochizuki Haruka got up and the girl knelt on the floor looking at him.

"The floor is so hard."

Jun Matsueda remembered that there were carpets everywhere in the Mochizuki family.

He eventually slept on the floor, but the girl's sobs started again. "What's wrong?"

“So sad.”

"Because of what?"

"I don't know, I just feel like my chest is going to burst."

She felt sad about everything but couldn't say it.

Jun Matsueda listened to her crying and looked at the ceiling above. He was so familiar with it that he could have drawn it.

He thought for a moment and said, "How about telling you a fairy tale? Let's continue with The Little Prince."

Only crying responded to him.

"Don't you want to listen?"

"Listen." She just couldn't speak.

Songzhi Jun cleared his throat and said, "So, I live alone, unable to find anyone I can truly confide in."

"Until six years ago, I had a voyage in the Sahara Desert and met the Little Prince."

I quickly asked him, "Are you from another planet?"

Wangyue Yao's crying gradually subsided. She lay on the bed and looked at him, "Come up and talk. It's strange that your voice comes up from down there."

Jun Matsueda climbed onto the bed and covered the girl with the quilt so that they would not have any physical contact.

“I tried to find out from him where he came from: ‘My little one, where do you come from? Where is your home? Where are you taking your sheep?’”

“Who knows, the little prince said solemnly: ‘It doesn’t matter, where I come from everything is so small!’”

"Then he said with a hint of sadness."

"If you keep going straight ahead, you won't get very far."

The crying that had stopped started again.

"I'm sorry," Matsueda Jun said helplessly, "This fairy tale is still a bit sad. I'll tell you another one."

"No!" the girl cried. "Go on."

The sadness of human beings is not the same, but the sadness of the useless kitten and the alien prince may be the same.

Jun Matsueda chose to obey her.

"And so I discovered that the planet the Little Prince lived on was no bigger than an old house."

"If you tell them: 'There really is a little prince. He is smiling, very cute, and he wants a sheep. A person wanting a sheep is proof of his existence.'"

When Matsueda Jun said this, Mochizuki Haruka glanced at him.

"They'll shrug and treat you like a clueless child! But if you tell them, 'He's from asteroid B-612,' they'll believe it and stop bothering you with all those random questions."

"That's just the way adults are. Children can't do anything about it except worry."

"Damn you, sir." The girl looked at him and said.

"Cute little lamb." The girl still looked at him and said.

"Keep listening, or go to sleep?"

"I can't sleep if I don't listen." She patted the pillow.

"I have tried to write here about the little prince because I shall never forget him."

"It is a sad thing to forget friends. Not everyone has friends."

"If I forget about him, I might become like those adults who don't care about anything except numbers."

"My friend never explains anything to me. Maybe he thinks I'm like him, but, unfortunately, I can't see through the box to the sheep."

"Maybe, I'm a bit like an adult. I guess I'm getting older."

At this point in the story, both of them fell silent. They thought of Yi Yi, the child who read the letter at his grandmother's funeral.

Fairy tales belong to the world, perhaps precisely because children’s joys and sorrows are connected.

"Will you forget me?" Mochizuki Haruka asked sadly.

"Will you become a hateful adult?"

Matsueda Jun shook his head, "I remember everything."

It was just one sentence, but the girl's inner anxiety disappeared in an instant.

"Can you sleep now?"

Mochizuki Haruka nodded obediently, and Matsueda Jun climbed out of bed and returned to his own bed on the floor.

The girl looked at the ceiling quietly. Although the fairy tale was sad, she wanted to continue listening.

She also wants a lamb, and of course, it would be even better if she had a friend who would never forget her.

And as long as Jun Matsueda is willing, he can fulfill these two wishes.

If Haruka Mochizuki were a cat, then Jun Matsueda would definitely be her best owner.

(End of this chapter)

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