"You're even better than I taught you back then. You really are talented," Natsuki Aoi praised.

"Thank you, thank you..."

Keiko Hayakawa clasped her hands tightly between her knees, remaining motionless as she awaited his next assessment.

Natsuki Aoi took a bite, and it tasted pretty good as expected.

Life would definitely be much more comfortable if I only spent time with Hayakawa. A girl who can cook well, has a gentle personality, and is good at studying should definitely be worthy of an S-level rating.

I looked at it again.

Okay, still Grade A.

However, it is quite difficult to jump directly from C-level to A-level.

At least in her, he saw endless possibilities.

"How about it?"

"Mmm! Delicious! The fish bones in this fish have been removed very cleanly. Haha, I'm the kind of person who loves to eat fish but doesn't like picking out the bones. I also dislike the muddy taste of inexpensive fish with few bones. I'm really something else."

"Ah! I also prepared some soup. Would you like some?" Hayakawa quickly bent down, picked up a thermos from the ground, and handed it over with his head down.

“Okay,” Natsuki Aoi nodded.

Hayakawa looked pleasantly surprised and quickly unscrewed the bottle cap: "It's kelp and bonito soup."

Aoi Natsuki took it and glanced at the milky white soup inside. In his memory, this soup would take an hour to cook, making it a very time-consuming soup.

He took a sip and found the flavor to be incredibly rich; he hadn't tasted such a high-quality soup in a long time.

He took another sip, and then started eating his bento with Hayakawa.

Looking at Hayakawa's favorability rating again, it's 76 points, which already meets the basic requirement of 70 favorability points. Now all that's left is the level.

What exactly is this so-called S-class...?

……

night.

It was nearly 11 o'clock.

Ayano Takahashi hadn't gone to sleep yet. With a headscarf tied around her head and wearing cotton slippers, she carefully walked down the second-floor corridor and slowly approached her sister's door.

After checking the crack in the door and finding no light,

He reached out and grasped the doorknob.

Slowly open the door.

He sneaked inside.

After searching together, they finally settled on the cell phone on the bedside table.

Chapter 67 My sister would never approve of him!

Ayano Takahashi glanced at her phone, then at her sleeping sister beside her, and finally approached to pick up her phone.

Turn on the screen, use facial recognition, scan your face and it's open—that's one of the advantages of being a twin!

Ayano was rummaging through her belongings when her older sister suddenly rolled over, startling her. Her hands trembled, but thankfully she still had her phone firmly in her grasp.

Seeing that her sister seemed to be gradually waking up, she also demonstrated her amazing memory. She only glanced at the content on the screen, then immediately locked the screen and slipped out of the room.

Everything was done in one go.

He turned the doorknob behind him, let out a long sigh, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

But is that really the case?

Inside Mito Takahashi's room.

Takahashi Mito, who was lying on her side fast asleep, slowly opened her eyes. Yes, she hadn't slept at all, because she had been thinking about Aoi all night.

My gaze finally fell on the phone on the bedside table.

Upon picking it up and opening it, the first thing that appeared was Aoi Natsuki's contact information...

Now, Mito Takahashi was even more unable to sleep.

……

"Mito, you..."

Hayakawa looked at her best friend, Mito Takahashi, with a strange gaze. Today, she looked... well... a bit disheveled.

"What's wrong?"

Mito Takahashi picked up a cup of lime-flavored fruit tea and drank it, her tone listless.

Keiko Hayakawa smiled in agreement and said, "You just seem a little different from usual, though you're still very beautiful! It's just... just today..."

Her gaze slowly moved upwards, finally landing on a single tuft of hair sticking up on Takahashi Mito's head.

A cowlick? I've never seen Mido's hair in such bad condition before. Her most prized possession used to be her smooth purple hair.

Can……

"Is there any change?" Takahashi Mito reached out and touched her hair. "Oh, it seems like I haven't styled my hair for a few days, and it's a little split."

I don't care at all!

She doesn't care about her hair at all!

Hayakawa was shocked, but continued with a forced smile: "Or would you like to see what else you'd like to order? It's on me today."

The two best friends took a day off to eat at a family restaurant, but they didn't expect Mei Du's reaction to be so depressed.

"It's okay, I'll do it again today." Takahashi Mito said weakly, stirring the drink in her cup with a straw. She had been doing this about three or four times already. The fruit drink must have turned sour by now, right?

Oh? She drank it again!

He remained completely unmoved.

Continue stirring the lime drink.

My gaze would occasionally drift to the pale green lime in the glass, and as the drink was stirred for longer, the color became increasingly cloudy.

Keiko Hayakawa couldn't stand it anymore. She stood up, walked around the table, and sat down next to her. "What happened? If something's on your mind, just tell me. Don't keep it bottled up inside!"

At this moment, Hayakawa's tone became assertive. Strangely enough, ever since she had shown such assertiveness in front of Takahashi last time, it was as if she had opened the door to a new world. She was still weak in normal times, but when faced with a situation where things couldn't be resolved, she would now become serious in her words.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems quite realistic. After all, Hayakawa has two younger brothers, so as the older sister, she probably wouldn't be too timid.

Takahashi Mito had rarely seen Hayakawa like this before. The last time she saw her, she panicked immediately, and this time was no different. After two or three rounds of questioning, she finally revealed her concerns.

"I feel like Ayano has been getting a bit closer to Aoi lately."

"Huh?" Hayakawa's expression froze instantly.

Now that we've started talking, let's get started!

Mito Takahashi faced Hayakawa and said seriously, "A few days ago, Ayano sneaked into my room and wrote down Aoi's phone number from my phone!"

"Eh!" Hayakawa Keiko managed a long, drawn-out "Eh!"

Mito Takahashi pressed on: "Ayano said she was just going to talk about manga-related things, but you know my sister's personality. She's so nice to everyone. This kind of personality will definitely cause her trouble in society in the future!"

Sigh, your personality will probably be a disadvantage in the future society as well.

Keiko Hayakawa sorted out her thoughts and understood the cause and course of events from beginning to end. She was surprised to find that it had actually started so many days ago.

But as Mido narrated, Hayakawa's initial tension gradually eased, and her expression changed from tense to calm.

This puzzled even the Americans.

"Hayakawa, aren't you worried? I'm so worried about this that I can't sleep at night."

Keiko Hayakawa glanced at her, chuckled, and then patted her back: "I thought it was something serious, but it's just this? You're too sensitive, Mido."

"???"

“Natsuki has always been this kind of person. I believe in him, and I also believe in your sister. Besides, didn’t your sister say that Natsuki is not her type of guy at all? What are you worried about?”

At this moment, Takahashi Mito, having come to her senses, slowly began to understand. Yes, her younger sister didn't like guys like Aoi at all! She seemed to be overthinking things. Even if the two of them were having a very passionate conversation, her younger sister probably wouldn't be interested in Aoi!

Seeing her brow relax, Hayakawa continued, "Besides, we've known Natsuki for so long, don't we know what kind of personality he has? And about the potatoes he mentioned sending to your sister, he told me that they were sent to him by his grandfather in the countryside, and the taste... was indeed very different."

"Hmm...Hmm?!" Takahashi Mito suddenly realized her blind spot and turned to look at Hayakawa. Hayakawa reacted in an instant and immediately reverted to her usual shy self, blushing and quickly lowering her head.

"A couple of days ago at noon, he brought me some mashed potatoes. I really didn't go to his house!"

OMG!

As Takahashi Mito listened to these words, even though they had absolutely nothing to do with what she thought, why did they still make her feel so uncomfortable?

……

Meanwhile, at the other end of the line, Natsuki Aoi was cooking corn chowder at home, mashing potatoes with a special tool. The aroma of the corn chowder wafted out of the kitchen, causing Rina, who was playing with her dolls in the living room, to crane her neck and sniff the air towards the kitchen.

"Favorability-2"

"Favorability +3"

"Favorability-1"

"Favorability +2"

……

Aoi Natsuki kept listening to the notification sounds about Takahashi Mito's favorability rating.

What is she thinking about now?

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Chapter 68 No! Don't go see him!

……

"Well, that's roughly how it happened."

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