Aunt Xiangzi, how did you manage to live?

"what……"

Despite being so cautious for so long, Chu Hua still stepped on this unexpected landmine, and her face turned quite pale.

"Actually, I don't really have a real mother, because I was adopted."

"Oh, I see... I'm sorry..."

Why did they have to ask such an embarrassing question?

Now Chu Hua will really wake up in the middle of the night and slap herself.

"It's okay. The day my mom adopted me, I knew that only she and the aunties who have been taking care of me are my family."

Kazama didn't take the matter to heart at all; in fact, he found Hatsuka's expression even more amusing.

"I believe that the feelings between people can sometimes forge stronger bonds than the shackles of blood ties."

"Hmm...that's true."

Chu Hua's expression changed from initial helplessness to a slightly more complicated one, as if she had also connected Kazama's family situation to her own family composition.

“From this point of view… I can understand your thoughts very well, Xiaojun.”

"Yes, I know that Ren Chuhua will definitely understand."

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Kazama handed the assembled sandwich to Hatsuka and then winked at her.

"This is what I made for you. The hardworking chef can eat first. As for the little customer who doesn't work for it, let her wait a little longer."

Kazama deliberately moved closer to Hatsuka and lowered his voice. At first, the latter was a little uncomfortable with his obvious favoritism, but soon nodded happily like a golden retriever who had received a reward from its owner.

"Th-thank you!!"

If the animal sculpture had been successfully made, she would probably have a tail wagging happily behind her right now.

"And it would be better if you didn't follow me around all the time in the future, okay?"

"Eh, eh..."

However, upon hearing this, the golden retriever's big tail stopped twitching.

Chu Hua involuntarily lowered her head, while Kazama just smiled and started piecing together the sandwich for Metis, unaware of the blonde girl's aggrieved gaze.

Looking at the boy's focused yet composed profile, Chu Hua's thoughts drifted for a moment.

Kazama had just confessed his past to her without reservation, even though she hadn't given him the same response.

Even so, he still smiled and busied himself in the kitchen, even saving the first sandwich for himself.

Chu Hua fell silent, her gaze yearning.

"To Xiaojun, I am..."

She finally mustered the courage to ask the question that had made her heart flutter with anxiety.

"Has someone become... important...?"

Chapter Thirty-One: The Boy Who Traveled Through Time

"Am I now an important person to you...?"

That's what a girl's heart is like.

Like the dark clouds gathering before a summer downpour, humid and sultry with undercurrents, the rumbling thunder seems to threaten to engulf everything. But when the storm finally pours down, you realize she's simply trying to express emotions that have been suppressed for so long.

In the apartment filled with tranquil music, Chu Hua cautiously probed the sincerity of the boy beside her.

Even though the two people were standing side by side in front of the kitchen stove, there was still a distance of more than five centimeters between their shoulders.

Is the vast distance between us because I want to be close to you so much?

The speakers were playing a language she couldn't understand, but for some reason it resonated with her deeply, even calming her restless heart with the gentle guitar strings.

Compared to her cautiousness, Kazama's answer was as honest and natural as ever.

"Hatsuka has always been very important to me. Now and always will be."

A confident tone without hesitation.

The girl lowered her head slightly, not wanting the faint smile on her lips to be too obvious.

"Although I'm very happy... it's true that no one can be absolutely certain about the future, yet Xiaojun always manages to so calmly make assumptions about it. It's almost like..."

He seemed as confident as someone from the future.

In fact, she had noticed these seemingly insignificant details before.

For example, Kazama always seems to be consciously or unconsciously controlling the pace of his and Xiaoxiang's band development, and he is always calm and collected about Su Shili and the others, as if he already knew their future development.

Even when Xiao Xiang was in a car accident, it was as if he knew the accident was going to happen, and he rushed out before everyone else...

...But that's impossible, isn't it?

Chu Hua shook her head slightly, trying to put this inexplicable thought out of her mind.

After all, who can predict the future?

Kazama probably just happened to save Sho from the perilous situation by sheer luck; who would knowingly gamble with their own life knowing an accident is going to happen?

"Hmm—because I have this superpower. I know exactly what will happen in the future, right? Even ten or twenty years from now, Chu Hua will still be very important to me."

"Well……"

She gently covered the unusual blush that had involuntarily risen on her cheeks with her hand.

"Even if it's just to make me happy... I'm still very happy."

"Who said this was just to make you happy? This is something that's definitely going to happen in the future, you know?"

"It's like someone from the future would speak like that, Xiaojun."

"Hmm—you figured it out! My superpower is that I'm actually a time traveler from the future!"

"Alright, alright, Xiaojun who has traveled through time."

Whether Kazama's words were true or false, she would feel very happy.

Of course, when Chu Hua recalls this day many years later, she will surely lament how easily she missed the truth.

"You two have been whispering to each other that I can't hear you since the beginning..."

The sandwiches were finally ready, and when Kazama and Hatsuka presented them to Metis, she was grumbling a little—

"Wow, is this huge for me?!"

Once she saw the sandwiches served on the table, her eyes were glued to them.

To win a woman's heart, you can certainly start by winning her stomach.

However, Kazama didn't want to win Metis's heart; he just wanted to feed her something to shut her up and stop this little rascal from being so noisy.

"Okay, even Su Shi hasn't made me a sandwich yet... If I had to choose a mother, Chu Hua would score very high right now!"

Metis wolfed down her sandwich like a little beast, but in the meantime, she still managed to steal a moment to give Chu Hua a thumbs up.

"Xiao, I want the one who's even better at cooking!"

"Why are you suddenly handing over the decision-making power to me? I'm not your real father."

"But! You're no different from my second parents! Since I already have a [father], I'll pick a mother... Hmm, but if I want both, how about I pick a stepmother too..."

We agreed to play in a band, but we've started playing house.

"I...I will try my best!"

Chu Hua also rolled up his sleeves with a serious expression, looking like a loyal soldier ready to fight at any time—wait, why are you getting all worked up about this too?

"Stop it, stop it."

Kazama gestured with his hand, promptly stopping the two men.

"So, does Chuhua still intend to agree to Xiangzi's request?"

Perhaps out of respect for Kazama, Metis stopped her reckless behavior. Her hasty swallowing always reminded Akatsuki of a gluttonous girl named Hanami who also couldn't live without food—perhaps these two would get along better.

"The request... you mean that request to form a new band, right?"

Chu Hua quickly understood, but before answering, she still turned her gaze to Kazama beside her.

"I've already said this before, Chuhua. If you want to go, then go. Don't worry about others—just follow your own heart."

"But... I want to stand more on Xiaojun's side..."

"My position is that I want you to be able to do things according to your own ideas."

"Well……"

For the first time, Chu Hua felt somewhat embarrassed.

However, this predicament was different from the previous one where she had to consider other people's feelings. Instead, she was asked to prioritize her own ideas.

No one had ever said anything like that to her before.

"Then, what about Xiao?"

Seeing that Chu Hua's attitude was wavering, Metis, who pretended to be calm, began to probe Kazama's attitude instead.

However, her hand trembled like a sieve as she picked up the sandwich.

"Well, if it's for the sake of Chuhua's harmony, then let's prioritize peace."

As expected, Kazama uttered the words Metis least wanted to hear.

"No, no to that kind of thing!! Xiao, you should fight back and crush Xiangzi and all her ambitions!"

Teacher Da Mo is now completely panicked. If Kazama and Xiangzi can make peace, then Xiao Mu will definitely have to come out and take over this body.

Then she'll never have a chance to rise in society.

"I have a feeling that you, Metis, really want Xiaojun and Xiaoxiang to go against each other..."

Kazama smiled without saying a word, and even Hatsuka, who was standing to the side, noticed something amiss.

"I...I didn't...Is it that obvious?"

Of course, the main reason is that Teacher Da Mo's worries are written all over his face, which is too obvious.

Chapter Thirty-Two: Do ​​you prefer Chu Hua's mother or Su Shi's mother?

If we look at it from a more abstract perspective, doesn't the scene at Kazama's house now seem like a happy family of three?

An unreliable and irresponsible father, a mother at the center of gravity, and a broken woman.

"If even Xiao doesn't stand on my side... Watashi...!"

Teacher Da Mo certainly wanted to do everything in her power to draw Xiangzi's hatred away from Kazama; after all, these two were sworn enemies, so she could survive by taking a shortcut.

But currently, besides using her words to stir up trouble, she really can't do anything else.

"Metis...does he dislike Xiao Xiang?"