Ms. Gojo thought she was dating an ordinary person's boyfriend.

Gojo Satoru was taken aback for a moment.

"Was this the day Sakura came to get candy?"

Sumire Kawakawa nodded slightly.

Gojo Satoru visibly perked up, a smirk playing on his lips: "Now I can hear what Sumi thought of me back then, right?"

After a brief period of static, the screen slowly brightens.

It was an April afternoon in Tomoeda Town. Sunlight streamed through the half-open window, casting dappled golden shadows on the living room carpet. Three cups of hot black tea sat on the coffee table, their steam swirling in the light as they slowly rose.

Sakura nestled on the sofa, while Tomoyo sat beside her, refilling her teacup.

The camera quietly focused on the corner of the coffee table and sofa. A moment later, a slight sound came from the entrance hall, and someone pushed open the door and walked in.

Sakura's eyes lit up immediately.

"Brother Qichuan!"

"Sorry to bother you."

In the picture, Sumi Kichikawa has changed into slippers and sat down on the single sofa by the window, her hair edged with a fuzzy layer by the sunlight.

Gojo Satoru stared at the screen and raised his eyebrows.

At this point, Sumi Kichikawa was quite different from how she appeared in the earliest videos, almost as if she were invisible.

His eyes and brows now held a touch of warmth and humanity, a look that Gojo Satoru was most familiar with: the look of "Dr. Kosumi".

In the footage, Sumi Kichikawa quickly noticed the camera with a red light on in the corner of the coffee table.

"...Tomoyo, when did you start filming?"

"From the moment Kikawa-kun walked in," Tomoyo replied with a smile, "Kikawa-kun seemed different today. I wanted to make a note of it."

"What's different?"

"I can't quite put my finger on it." Tomoyo tilted her head. "It's just a feeling. Like—thinking about something."

Kikawa Sumi picked up her teacup without refuting.

In front of the television, Gojo Satoru turned to look at the person next to him.

Was Xiaocheng thinking of me that day?

"..."

Sumi Kichikawa did not answer.

Gojo Satoru had already gotten the answer from his silence and was satisfied.

In the video, Sakura asked Sumi Kikawa why she came, and Sumi Kikawa also expressed her desire to give some candy to someone. The conversation naturally turned to who she wanted to give it to.

"Hmm. I met someone who always looked tired, so I just gave him a few." Sumi Kichikawa put the glass jar back on the coffee table, tapping the lid lightly with her fingertip. "He seemed to like them. So he wants some more."

Upon hearing this, Gojo Satoru's smile gradually widened.

"How did Xiaocheng know I like this?"

"You had already finished eating."

"I'll politely eat anything that someone gives me," Gojo Satoru teased him on purpose.

Kikawa met his gaze calmly, her tone resolute: "Satoru's expression is different when he eats his favorite sweets."

Gojo Satoru blinked.

"So Xiaocheng even noticed this."

Sumi Kichikawa didn't respond, and simply turned her gaze back to the television.

In the picture, he takes a small dark blue lucky bag out of his pocket.

"I made this myself a while ago." Sumi Kikawa placed the lucky bag on her lap. "It's been sitting in my drawer ever since, I just haven't found the right person to give it to."

Upon hearing this, Gojo Satoru paused slightly.

He knew that the lucky bag was hand-sewn by Sumi Kichikawa. But he didn't know that it had been lying quietly in the drawer for so long before he appeared.

Until they met each other.

In the video, Sumi Kichikawa has already opened the candy jar and started picking out the candies one by one.

Each time I picked one up, I would carefully examine the wrapper against the sunlight streaming in through the window.

If you find some that have been crushed, gently put them back into the jar and then pick out a more intact one.

As Gojo Satoru watched him carefully selecting items, the smile in his eyes grew increasingly pronounced.

"It's just a few candies, is it really necessary to be so picky?"

Kikawa Sumi pursed her lips: "At the time, I felt that if I was going to give it as a gift, I should choose it carefully."

"Is that really all there is to it?"

"..."

"Is it because it's a gift for me that you're being extra careful?"

Sumi Kichikawa neither admitted nor denied it.

Gojo Satoru chuckled and affectionately rubbed his cheek against him.

In the video, Tomoyo is also quietly observing Sumi Kikawa.

Only after the last piece of candy was put into the lucky bag did she softly ask what kind of person the person who received the candy was.

While arranging the lucky bags, Sumi Kizawa said:

"He was a very conspicuous man."

"Tall. White hair. Wears a strange black eye patch, seems unapproachable at first glance, but is actually very polite."

Gojo Satoru slowly turned his head.

Am I difficult to get along with?

Sumi Kichikawa's body stiffened for a moment.

Even though he knew Gojo Satoru wasn't really angry, he still instinctively pulled the person closer to him.

"no."

"But Xiaocheng said that I seemed difficult to get along with at first glance."

"I misspoke back then," Sumi Kikawa immediately corrected herself. "Satoru is a good person and easy to get along with."

Gojo Satoru didn't answer, but just stared at him with his pale blue eyes.

"Really," Sumi Kichikawa added.

Of course, Gojo Satoru wasn't angry about this.

He knew very well that his all-black appearance at the time made him look like someone who was not easy to approach.

However, this did not stop him from nestling in Kikawa Sumi's arms with a clear conscience, taking the opportunity to enjoy Kikawa Sumi's comfort.

On TV, Sumi Kichikawa was arranging lucky bags while saying...

"He seems very casual, but when he eats pudding, he folds the wrapper neatly. I used to think it was a professional habit, but now I think he's just that kind of person."

At this point, even Susumu Kishikawa himself in the scene didn't realize that the corners of his lips had already curved slightly.

Gojo saw it all clearly.

"Dr. Kosuke".

Sumi Kichikawa already guessed what he was going to say.

Gojo Satoru turned around in his arms and smiled as he moved closer to him.

"We had only met a few times back then, and Xiaocheng had already observed me so carefully."

A faint blush gradually appeared on the tips of Sumi Kichikawa's ears.

"I just happened to see it," Sumi Kichikawa said softly.

"Really?"

"..."

Gojo Satoru looked at his reddened ear tips, his smile growing wider, but he didn't press the matter further.

In the video, Sumi Kichikawa has already put down the needle in her hand.

"I always felt like he hadn't been properly taken care of in a long time."

Gojo Satoru's smile faltered slightly.

"His hands are always shaking, not pathologically, but probably because he's too tired. When asked, he says, 'I hate my job.' But he doesn't seem like the kind of person who hates his job. To be more precise, he's probably the kind of person who pushes himself very hard."

In the picture, Sumi Kikawa has her eyes downcast, her fingers gently tidying the edge of the lucky bag.

"They say they hate it, but they're actually more serious than anyone else."

The living room suddenly fell silent.

Gojo Satoru didn't tease Sumi Sakae any further, nor did he speak immediately.

This wasn't the first time he'd heard Kikawa Sumi say something like that, but he hadn't expected that Kikawa Sumi, who didn't even know his name back then, had already seen through all the nonchalant appearances and noticed something that even many people he'd known for years hadn't noticed.