I endured the humiliation and humiliation while being besieged by the ghost story elder sister.

Unaware of what Arisa was thinking, Nozomi simply smiled softly.

"Arisa, you're here~"

"Yeah, I'm here. By the way, Mio, don't you feel cold? The air conditioning is on so strong, and you're wearing so little. It would be terrible if you caught a cold later."

As she took off her shoes in the entryway, she spoke to Xi Ling beside her, but her gaze remained fixed on the boy's legs, as if afraid of missing a single glance.

This also angered Ximiao, who couldn't help but take a few steps back and glare at her irritably.

Then the two of them walked into the living room one after the other. As soon as Arisa stepped into the living room, she felt a piercing gaze.

Without even thinking, she knew who was looking at her, so she turned her head to look at Fanxia, ​​who was glaring at her fiercely from the sofa.

"Um... Mio? How about we go inside and finish our lessons?"

If Fanxia kept glaring at her like that, she couldn't guarantee she could keep her attention on her textbook.

But before Ximiao could answer, Fanxia, ​​sitting on the sofa, was the first to disagree, and even spoke with great conviction.

"If you, Mio, go into Arisa's room with her, who knows what weird things you'll do! What's the difference between that and going to Arisa's room?!"

And so, for the same reason, Hio repeated herself, and Arisa had no choice but to give up and go into the room to enjoy some time alone with Hio.

In the center of the living room, next to a small square table, Arisa sat dejectedly on a soft cushion, placing her textbooks and workbooks one by one on the table.

As for Himo, she went to the kitchen to pour herself and Arisa a glass of orange juice. But just as she was about to take the plate and walk out of the living room, she suddenly remembered Honoka, who always wanted to compare herself with Arisa in everything.

He then poured another glass of orange juice, placed it on the tray, and walked out of the kitchen into the living room.

"Have some juice, one glass each. Your throats must be a little dry from arguing all that..."

"Thank you, Mio."

Arisa smiled and took the cup, then glanced provocatively at Honoka on the sofa before continuing.

"Mio gave me the juice first~"

"?"

No, can you even compare these things?

Ximiao froze on the spot, unsure of what to say.

As expected, Fanxia was easily angered by Arisa's provocation. She grabbed the two glasses of orange juice from the tray and drank them in one gulp.

Then he spoke to Arisa.

"I'll have two drinks, you'll have one. That's inferior, you get it?"

"..."

Arisa originally wanted to continue teasing Honoka, but after seeing Nozomi's slightly warning look, she silently shut her mouth and stopped talking.

For a moment, the only sounds in the living room, besides the television program, were the scratching of pens on paper.

Before long, even before she had finished her homework, Arisa was the first to feel sleepy and couldn't help but let out a big yawn.

"Why is there so much homework today?!"

"Who knows? Maybe it was just a whim of the teacher..."

Although Xi Ling could do all of these problems, he couldn't help but write out the steps clearly so he could explain them to Alisa later.

Even now, Ximiao has only finished three-quarters of her homework, and she went to get herself a few more glasses of juice along the way.

On the contrary, Fanxia, ​​who had nothing to do, sat on the sofa and looked at the scene in front of her, seemingly lost in thought.

She said softly, "Being a student is really tough~ But, someone like me, a corporate slave, isn't much better off..."

When Himio heard this, the boy couldn't help but retort.

"You stay home watching TV all day, and I do all the housework. Fanxia, ​​how are you working hard?"

"Hey~"

Chapter Ninety-Three I Don't Understand

As the bell rang to signal the end of the exam, the students in the classroom stacked their papers one after another and handed them to the invigilator at the front of the class.

This also means that of the four exams this semester, only the final exam is left in a few weeks.

The thought of Fanxia and Arisa going back to his hometown with him made Ximiao feel a little strange, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong.

After packing her pencil case and leaving the exam room, Ximiao looked around, trying to find that tall figure.

however.

He waited for a long time at the entrance of the examination hall, but Arisa didn't come to find him. He muttered to himself, "Could something have happened?"

Then he walked to the examination room that Arisa had been assigned to, as he remembered it. All he heard along the way were the sighs and groans of the other students, as if they had messed up again.

However, their feelings were completely incomprehensible to Nozomi.

After quite a while, because she was going against the flow of people, it took Himo a lot of effort to finally arrive near Arisa's exam room.

He looked curiously into the classroom and saw that Arisa, who should have left after the exam, was engrossed in writing her test paper. The proctor didn't say anything and just waited patiently upstairs.

Soon, after the girl handed the test paper to the teacher intact, she breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the classroom door.

"Ah? Mio, you're here. Have you been waiting for me for a long time?"

Unsurprisingly, she immediately spotted Xi Ling, with her striking light blonde hair, leaning against the wall, playing on her phone to pass the time.

After hearing Arisa's voice, Nozomi raised her head and looked into the girl's smiling, wine-red eyes.

"It hasn't been long~ But, Arisa, why are you staying here alone?"

In Mio's view, the reason why Arisa was kept behind was simply because she wanted to cheat, and then she was discovered.

But she said it without much concern.

"When the test papers were being passed around, my paper was accidentally torn by the student in front of me. Luckily, the teacher just asked me to copy the answers onto a new paper, and it didn't take too long."

Thinking of the girl who tore up her test paper earlier, with that provocative look on her face, Arisa felt a surge of anger.

Fortunately, before leaving the classroom, she caught a glimpse of the girl's class and name, and she wanted to ask her why she did this.

Unaware of what Arisa was thinking, Nozomi didn't press the matter further after hearing that Arisa was alright.

It's best for him to avoid meddling in girls' affairs; if he accidentally gets into trouble, he'll only be the one who suffers.

then.

Hiyo and Arisa went back to the classroom of Class 1-A. As soon as they walked in through the front door, Hiyo felt several strange gazes suddenly fixed on them.

But after glancing around the classroom, he couldn't find out who was spying on them before those gazes disappeared.

Weird...

Hiyo and Arisa returned to their seats, intending to pack their things and head to the station to take the tram home.

Because of the monthly exam today, all three grades took the exam together, and naturally, club activities were also canceled for a day so that students could go home early and calm down.

On the street leading to the station, Nozomi stretched lazily. After sitting on the cold, hard desk and chair all day, he was quite aching.

How about next time, let Sister Fanxia take him to that spa where he can get massages, so he can relax?

Nozomi couldn't help but think that.

Suddenly, Arisa, who was standing next to him, stopped and looked at the oden cart that was still wafting its aroma on the street not far away.

The implications are self-evident.

"Mio~ how about we..."

Before Arisa could finish speaking, Nozomi nodded, took her hand, and walked towards the oden cart.

Although eating oden on the street in this hot weather is torture, it's not a problem if there are cold drinks available.

a long time.

Having eaten a little something, Xi Ling still held the slightly chilled Ramune soda in her hand, sipping it slowly through a straw as she sat on a bench by the platform, waiting for the next train to arrive.

As for Arisa...

"Mio, could you lend me your handkerchief so I can wipe my sweat?"

It can be seen that the girl's white shirt on her back is also wet with sweat, and even though she wiped her fair forehead several times with her own handkerchief, fine beads of sweat still kept appearing.

After hearing what Arisa said to her, Nozomi didn't say anything, but silently took out a handkerchief from her pocket and handed it to her.

After a while, a gust of hot air swept over us, and the tram slowly pulled into the station and stopped beside the platform.

"Let's go, Arisa, going inside and enjoying the air conditioning should make you feel better, right?"

Although it was Arisa's own fault for insisting on eating oden in the middle of summer, since Arisa paid for it, he only needed to eat it; the rest was none of his concern.

As expected, Hiyo sat on Arisa's lap, facing the few other passengers on the train, completely ignoring their envious glances.

He could lean back slightly and rest his head on Arisa's soft, round body. He would just stay there and take a nap.

However, Arisa is not in the mood to sleep right now. She is still thinking about how her exam paper was torn up during the exam.

She couldn't understand why someone she didn't know, had no grudge against, would target her like this.

then.

In an attempt to find some clues, she tried to deduce the account name on social media platforms by combining the keywords that girls might use these days with the person's name.

She didn't know how much time had passed, but her eyes were starting to feel tired, and she even wondered if she should just give up, since maybe the other person really didn't mean it.

As a result, after she entered one of the names she had deduced into the search bar, her eyes lit up.

She picked up her phone and held it close to her face, carefully looking at the other person's information. Only then did she realize that the girl was a student in Class B of the next grade.

But why would she come here to mess with her own mindset?

I don’t understand…

Chapter Ninety-Four: Getting Angry

"Mio, wake up, we've arrived at our stop!"

Arisa softly called out to the boy in front of her, and even reached out to poke his soft, delicate face, trying to wake him up.