Let's do it again, Yukino.

"Kasuga-kun, come here for a second."

Saga Toru, who was not far from him, gently beckoned to him with a friendly expression without disturbing the shopkeeper, Shin, who was standing next to Kasuga, and called Kasuga over to him alone.

"Um, Kasuga-kun?"

"What's wrong, Senior Heng?"

When Henry saw Haruhi approaching, his smiling face, which had been turned away from Lisa on the other side, was now looking at Haruhi with a subtle expression.

"I remember you're in high school at Soubu High School, right, Kasuga-kun? Do you know anyone at Shuchiin Academy?"

"Shuchiin? I don't know him. What's wrong?"

Spring seemed to hear the name of a school that sounded somewhat unfamiliar, and shook her head in confusion.

"Ha, then I guess I was overthinking it. By the way."

He pointed to a seat in the direction of Haruhi, and explained what had just happened with an expression I couldn't quite make out.

"It's over there, the seat by the window. That lady just called you over there by name."

In the spring sunshine, I could vaguely see a slender, thin figure behind the partition, and it seemed that a woman was sitting alone in the seat that Senior Heng had mentioned.

"Um, Kasuga-kun, are you really sure you don't have a girlfriend you met at Shuchiin High School?"

Heng, still somewhat gossipy, asked from behind him.

“This joke is definitely not funny, Senior Heng.”

Chunri ignored the jokes of his approachable senior. Although he didn't know why someone had singled him out as a new intern who had only been there for a day, he had no choice but to go over alone since it was a request from a god-like guest.

……

"Sir, is there anything I can help you with?"

"You are the newly hired waitress at this brothel?"

When Kasuga arrived at the seat indicated by Senior Heng, he saw a girl sitting there with her arms crossed over her chest.

She exuded an air of a spoiled young lady that made springtime somewhat uncomfortable.

She had long, flowing black hair that cascaded down her back, wine-red pupils, and a delicate face; she was quite a beautiful girl.

The girl looked to be about the same age as Chunri, but in Chunri's eyes, the expression on her face was exceptionally cold.

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Looking at the red-eyed girl in front of him, who seemed to have come with ill intentions, Chunri felt an ominous feeling rise in her heart.

"Sir, you were looking for me?"

The hurried footsteps of spring broke the quiet atmosphere around the young lady. The girl silently raised her red eyes, which were devoid of any luster, and was also sizing her up.

"Did you bring this dessert over just now?"

"Ah."

Chunri glanced at a cake on the girl's table and remembered that she seemed to have taken one before, so she nodded.

"There's something dirty inside..."

The girl's delicate fingers gracefully grasped the small white spoon, touched the incredibly soft cake on the plate, and a cold sound came from her cherry-like mouth.

As she pointed towards the cake, she noticed a small, plastic-like particle mixed in between the cream and fruit.

However, Haruhi clearly remembered that there was nothing dirty in the cake before she served it.

Thinking this, the boy seemed to understand something, and his gaze towards the red-eyed girl became somewhat unfriendly.

Is this girl here to cause trouble?

"How about we redo it for you right away?"

Haruhi didn't want to have any conflict with customers on his first day of internship. Thinking about what Manager Shin had told him, he suppressed his bad temper and asked again in a low voice.

"If you find something dirty in your food, what would you do?"

"Then what do you want?"

Springtime vaguely sensed that the persistent young girl seemed to be making veiled criticisms, and the corners of her eyes slowly turned up.

The girl, however, met Haruhi's gaze head-on without backing down.

Just as the customer and the waiter were facing off, Manager Xin, who had just witnessed the incident, rushed over. After learning what had happened, he bowed deeply to the woman sitting in the seat and apologized loudly and sincerely.

"We are so sorry, miss. As compensation from our restaurant, we will make you a new cake free of charge and also give you a free meal voucher."

"No need for you to go to such lengths, store manager. I just wanted to see how this guy would react in that situation. Now that you know, I'll take my leave."

The clear, crisp voice had barely faded from his lips.

The mysterious red-eyed girl took a banknote out of her wallet, gently placed it on the dining table, and gracefully stood up.

Just as she brushed past the boy, her long black hair swayed gently in the breeze as she walked, and the red-eyed girl spoke softly in a voice only the two of them could hear.

"This is the right way to solve it. As a piece of advice for you in the future, not everything can be solved by violence and impatience. You have to use your brain sometimes, don't you think? My foolish brother..."

At the moment when springtime's body completely stiffened on the spot,

A sly smile crept across her rosy lips without her noticing, and then she drifted away from the boudoir.

……

However, what Spring did not expect was that...

On the other end.

Under the cover of night

Shortly after leaving the restaurant with the girl, she walked a short distance in silence. Under the cool, watery moonlight, she let out a sigh of relief, and the coldness and arrogance that had been in her eyes vanished in an instant.

A clear, crisp voice rang out silently beside her.

"Miss."

The blonde girl who was respectfully waiting for the red-eyed girl was none other than Hayasaka Ai, whom Kasuga had rescued from a group of delinquents that day.

"I have met him once as you requested. How should I put it, my first impression of that child was that he really didn't seem like a man with the blood of the Shinomiya family at all."

“Dull-witted, incapable of thinking, reckless, and utterly lacking in cunning and shrewdness, he is a person completely contrary to the principles of the Shinomiya family.”

"But young master Chunri grew up outside since he was little, so it's understandable that his personality would turn out this way." Zao Ban wanted to say something nice for the boy.

"That's enough. I know what you want to say, but I was just pointing out his shortcomings."

She chuckled softly, her expression completely different from the icy demeanor she displayed inside the brothel.

"but------"

"He is, after all, my brother, and my only brother."

She seemed to recall the boy's gaze in the brothel, as if he wanted to devour her whole, and his fearless, soft voice.

My foolish little brother...

"Now that I know that Kaguya Shinomiya has younger brothers in this world who need to be properly nurtured to grow up, I will naturally not allow anyone to hurt him before he grows up."

Shedding the coldness she displayed in the restaurant, the young lady's voice softened, and she took a few more steps forward.

"In short, please keep my visit to the Fengliu Temple a secret from Father for now. As for the Yukinoshita family, please go and tell Mrs. Yukinoshita that I am not feeling well and I am afraid I will not be able to visit her tonight. Also, please give my regards to her meddlesome youngest daughter."

It seems that my younger brother is secretly getting closer to that unattainable beauty in Soubu High School, who is also the little princess of the Yukinoshita family.

"Um, Miss?"

The blonde girl seemed to have something she couldn't say.

"what happened?"

"Well, actually you're a few days younger than young master Kasuga... logically, you should be his younger sister."

"Hey!! I said I'm the older sister, and that's final! From now on, no one is allowed to mention 'younger sister'!!"

The daughter of the Shinomiya family suddenly blushed and, in a serious tone, shouted angrily at the blonde maid next to her.

(P.S.: I'll continue to ask for your support, thank you. I hope I can stay true to my original intentions, just like when I first started writing.)

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P.S.: Shinomiya Fat Girl (the fake older sister) should be considered a solid second female lead in this book.

Chapter Fifty: No one wanted to let go of that connection.

"Young Master Chunri, remember this: when something like what just happened occurs, our Fengliu Temple cannot prove 100% that it wasn't our shop's fault. Moreover, in the eyes of other customers, defending one's own shop is actually a foolish thing to do. People mostly act out of emotion, not out of justice. Do you understand?"

After the black-haired, red-eyed girl left, Manager Xin looked at the boy who was standing there in a daze. He thought the boy had suffered some setback, so he pulled Haruhi to the back of the hall and patiently explained the reasoning to him.

At this moment, Haruhiko was also seriously sizing up the not-so-young acting store manager. Although he seemed a bit frivolous, Inaho Shin was quite tall, and the contours of his face looked as if they had been carved out by a sharp knife after many years of vicissitudes.

But when he put away his frivolous smile and spoke, he gave Haruhi a strange sense of trust and reliability.

“When you first served that young lady, I saw it all clearly from the front desk. You didn’t look directly at her, do you remember? And when she ordered dessert again, you didn’t look at her face before saying ‘okay’, you should remember that too, right? These are things that are taboo in the service industry. You’re new, so it’s forgivable that you don’t know them. But in the future, I hope you can try to avoid such things from happening again, okay?”

Everything has a cause, and everything is interconnected by cause and effect.

"Um... I'm sorry, it's my fault."

"No need to be so polite with me. I didn't mean to blame you at all when I told you this, because I, the manager, consider all the employees of Fengliuan as juniors worth taking care of."

Xin patted Chunri on the shoulder, his warm smile returning.

"Furthermore, I've been observing that young lady for a long time. From the moment you came to her seat until the very end, her gaze remained fixed on you. I don't think she meant any harm. Did you two really not know each other before?"

"I wouldn't say we know each other, maybe she mistook me for someone else, who knows."

Although he heard the black-haired, red-eyed girl call him "little brother," just like when he met the blonde girl last time, he didn't take it to heart.

Even though he knew the girl might really be from the Shinomiya family, he had no interest in paying her any attention.

But who is he?

If you want to mess with the Shinomiya family, why are you asking me, Kasuga Gian?

You go your way on the main road, I'll go mine on the small bridge; let's keep to ourselves and not interfere with each other.