Zongman: Starting as a Prop Master

Chapter 35: Huihara Ai was saved from despair

I don’t know how long it took, but Haibara Ai walked out of the house with a calm face and indifferent expression, as if nothing had happened.

After closing the door quietly and considerately, Haibara Ai teleported to the kitchen.

When she came to her senses, Haibara Ai saw Nohara Misae busy at the sink.

Huiyuan Ai naturally walked to her side, rolled up her sleeves, and said:

"Aunt, let me help you prepare the ingredients."

"It's Xiao Ai, thank you for your help."

Without even raising her head, Nohara Misae handed a handful of green onions to Haibara Ai.

Judging from the skillful movements, it is obviously not the first time he has done this.

During the past three days, Haibara Ai, who was staying at the Nohara family, did not enjoy free food and accommodation. In addition to training her superpowers, she helped Nohara Misae clean the house, tidy up the sundries, or helped with cooking and other chores every day.

Nohara Misae, who had long wanted a caring daughter, was naturally very happy.

It was precisely because of Ai's performance that the Nohara couple liked her more and more and wanted to raise her as their daughter immediately.

After a long silence, Huiyuan Ai suddenly spoke:

"Auntie, Xiaoyi, um, Ichinosuke, what are his hobbies?"

Picking up the green onions in her hands, Haibara Ai pretended to be nonchalant, as if the question just now was just a casual chat.

However, she underestimated Nohara Misae's reaction.

"Hey!"

She shouted in surprise. Nohara Misae's high-pitched voice made Shin-chan, who was watching TV in the living room, yell in dissatisfaction.

Nohara Misae's exaggerated reaction made Haibara Ai blush.

Squatting down until she was at the same height as Haibara Ai, Nohara Misae, with a fire of gossip burning in her heart, stared into Haibara Ai's ice-blue eyes with her sharp eyes and asked curiously.

"Xiao Ai, are you in love with Xiao Yi and want to ask me about his hobbies and habits?"

As someone who has experienced this, in her opinion, this is the only explanation that makes sense for a girl who takes the initiative to inquire about a boy's habits and hobbies.

In her opinion, Haibara Ai's shy expression was exactly the same as that of an adolescent girl who was in love.

Being stared at by Nohara Misae's fiery gaze, Huihara Ai felt panic in her heart, and her heart began to beat wildly.

In panic, I subconsciously refuted,

"No, no, I just think that after receiving so much care from him, I want to repay him."

As if someone was caught by the pigtails, Haibara Ai unconsciously turned her head to the other side, not daring to look into Nohara Misae's eyes.

"Oh, is it so!"

Nohara Misae stared at Huihara Ai, who didn't dare to look her in the eye, with a half-smile, and suddenly said:

"Xiao Ai, I saw you and Xiao Yi walking hand in hand together today."

Hearing this, Huiyuan Ai quickly argued: "No, we were just holding hands because we were afraid of being separated by the crowd."

"Yeah!"

Nohara Misae's drawn-out tone made Huibara Ai shudder with fear.

Sure enough, Nohara Misae suddenly grinned evilly.

"But, I saw you smiling, Ai-chan, and you looked very happy."

Nohara Misae's words instantly broke down all of Haibara Ai's defenses.

After a while, Huibara Ai lowered her head with a blushing face, unable to find any excuse to exonerate herself.

These days, Haibara Ai sometimes sighed that fate is so unfortunate that you don’t know what you will face until the last moment.

Life is really wonderful. When she met her sister for the last time, her sister told her that it was time to find a boyfriend and fall in love.

However, she had already been caught up in the whirlpool of the organization and was already unable to take care of herself, so how could she have the mind to do that?

Later, her only relative, her sister, also died, and her world lost the last ray of light.

With endless despair and grief, she swallowed the poison that she had prepared for who knows how long in order to "free" herself.

I don't know if it's fate or if it's not my destiny.

After waking up, she found that she was not dead, but became an orphan with no one to rely on.

However, when she was most desperate, had nowhere to go and was homeless, it was Ichinosuke who picked her up and brought her home.

It was Ichinosuke who gave her a new name, a new life, and even led her to see another world.

At the darkest moment in her life when she was about to fall into the abyss, Ichinosuke became the light that saved her, and this light of hope filled her heart and dispelled all her fear and sorrow.

It made her full of hope for her future life again.

The short three days of companionship were the most peaceful and relaxing days she had experienced in all these years.

She no longer needed to worry about being executed by the organization for an inexplicable reason one day, no longer needed to worry about Gin's cold gun, no longer needed to worry about being discovered by the organization one day and then captured or executed.

Every day, she can sleep until she wakes up naturally instead of waking up from nightmares.

Although Ichinosuke's body is that of a five-year-old child, she is completely unable to regard him as a child.

Sometimes, she couldn't help but fantasize that it would be nice if she could grow up with Nohara Kazunosuke and experience the childhood sweethearts together.

It sounds incredible, but in just three short days, she came up with such an incredible idea.

A hero saving a beautiful girl, although old-fashioned, never gets out of date.

Chapter 36: Heart-beating Huihara Ai

Realizing Haibara Ai's embarrassment, Nohara Misae stopped asking.

"hey-hey!"

When she thought that she might have such a capable and well-behaved daughter-in-law, Nohara Misae couldn't help but smile.

With her eyes narrowed in excitement, Nohara Misae did not continue teasing Haibara Ai.

Instead, while she and Ai were packing up the ingredients for dinner, she began to recall and recount every detail of Ichinosuke's past.

"Xiaoyi."

The action of washing the mint slowed down a few beats. Nohara Misae recalled Ichinosuke's childhood and slowly spoke:

"Xiaoyi, he has been a very special little guy since he was born."

"I remember that when he was born, he didn't cry or make a fuss. He just stared at the world with his big watery eyes, curiously."

Recalling the initial scene, she only had a vague idea of ​​what happened and thought it was nothing. But now, it seems so abnormal.

"Even if Xiaoyi is hungry or wants to go to the toilet, he will scream to remind me and Guangzhi."

"Because I've never taken care of a child before. Also, although Shin-chan is not as good as Xiaoyi, he still has a special relationship with her."

"So Guangzhi and I still thought he was just behaving like a normal kid."

"Ha ha!"

As if she felt that she was very stupid, Nohara Misae smiled awkwardly and wanted to skip over this point in time.

Rolling her eyes, Xiao Ai looked at Sennohara Misae speechlessly. She was really speechless about the generosity of this couple.

Listening to Nohara Misae mention Shin-chan,

Thinking back to all the performances of Shin-chan that she had seen in the past few days, Huiyuan Ai's forehead was covered with black lines, and she nodded helplessly.

"Xiao Xin is indeed a very special child."

Nohara Misae had no reaction at all towards the old-fashioned Haibara Ai.

Their family already has a Xiaoyi who has super powers, and a Shin-chan who gets so angry that people want to blow up the earth. It doesn't seem like a big problem to have another more mature child.

"That's it!"

Nodding in agreement, Nohara Misae continued:

"Maybe it's because of Shin-chan, so we didn't pay much attention to Xiaoyi's abnormality."

After removing the old leaves and roots from the green onions, Haibara Ai gave them to Nohara Misae to wash. She grabbed a cabbage in one hand and picked up a kitchen knife in the other.

With a "click", the old stem at the root is cut off cleanly and neatly.

Then, while peeling the leaves, he curiously asked Nohara Misae:

"So what happened next? Auntie, how did you find out that Xiaoyi, no, it was Ichinosuke who was different from the others?"

Without answering the question directly, Nohara Misae looked at Huihara Ai with amusement and suggested with a smile: "Xiao Ai, you must be very uncomfortable with it, and so should you. Just call him Xiaoyi. If you behave too abnormally in front of that boy, he will notice it."

Nohara Miya, who knew the little girl's mentality well, kindly gave Haibara Ai some advice.

With a red face, Huihara Ai nodded imperceptibly.

"Then how did you discover that Ichinosuke was different from the others?"

Hearing Huihara Ai's question, Nohara Misae smiled knowingly and continued:

"Later, it was my mother, Xiaoyi's grandmother, who came and discovered Xiaoyi's abnormality. She then quietly told us that Xiaoyi was not normal. It was only then that the idiot Guangzhi and I realized that Xiaoyi was a very special child."

After a pause, she took a cup of water to moisten her throat, and then continued:

"After that, Xiaoyi didn't show any abnormal behavior except being a little more obedient. Then Guangzhi and I gradually forgot about it."

Having said this, Nohara Meiya suddenly changed the subject.

"Until Xiaoyi and the others were three years old."

Feeling that the climax was about to come, Haibara Ai quietly pricked up her ears, and the noise of peeling vegetables in her hands became a little slower.

Ignoring Haibara Ai's strange expression, Nohara Misae continued with great interest:

"I remember it was the day after Xiaoyi's third birthday. After Guangzhi went to work, I left the two brothers at home and asked Xiaoyi to take care of Xiaoxin, and then I went out to buy groceries."

Hearing this, black lines appeared on Haibara Ai's forehead again. She thought she had overestimated the generosity of this couple, but she didn't expect that she underestimated it in the end.