"I never expected Sakurakoji-kun to be so good at singing, it really surprised me," Ogiso Setsuna exclaimed as she left the karaoke bar.

"That's not true at all. On the contrary, in my opinion, you sang very well, and you're on par with professionals." Sakura Koji shook his head and returned the compliment.

"Oh, I'm only alright in my spare time, I'm still far behind the professionals!" Ogiso Setsuna shook her head and commented on herself.

"You don't have to be so modest. At least in my opinion, you have no problem singing some pop songs."

"Mo...hehe!" Just as she was about to scold him for praising her too much, she couldn't help but laugh. "I feel a little embarrassed that we're bragging like this."

"It seems so." Sakurakoji Sai couldn't help but smile, then glanced at the sky—he couldn't see anything; the city at night was always the same.

"It's getting late. Where do you live? Let me give you a ride."

"Eh? I can go back by myself! That would be too much trouble for you!" Ogiso Setsuna blinked, then politely declined.

"Forget it, I don't want you to say afterwards, 'He's a terrible guy who lets girls walk alone at night,'" Sakura Koji said in a high-pitched voice, mimicking her tone, already having seen through everything.

"How did you know... I'll have to trouble you then." Ogiso Setsuna covered her mouth in surprise, then agreed shyly.

"give it to me."

Without further teasing her, Sakurakoji Saiko simply smiled and agreed.

However, Ogiso Setsuna's house is not far from here, and the two of them don't even need to take the train; they can walk there directly.

It's obvious she wouldn't choose a place far from home to work. If it were to avoid suspicion, she definitely wouldn't choose a place near the school, unless her home is also nearby.

The two walked quietly together on the residential street illuminated by streetlights at night.

During the short ten-minute walk, the two didn't say much, but they were both enveloped in a sense of peace. They didn't feel awkward at all and both thought that the other must feel the same way.

"...We've arrived. This is my home."

Stopping in front of a light green two-story detached building, Ogiso Setsuna pointed to the iron fence entrance next to it and said somewhat apologetically to Sakurakoji Saito.

Sakurakoji looked up and realized that the building occupied a large area. In addition to the pedestrian entrance, there was also a garage with a dedicated vehicle entrance next to it. The area of ​​the upper floor of the building was definitely more than 100 square meters, which made him speechless.

With such a large detached villa in Shinjuku, and the father's salary alone enough to cover the tuition and living expenses of two children at private school, is this what you call an ordinary middle-class family?

Go sit at the same table as that pink-haired guy next door!

"...It looks quite cozy, a nice home." But he had no right to judge others, so that was the only answer he could give.

"Hmm!" Ogiso Setsuna had a faint smile in her eyes.

"Then I'll head back too. I had a great day. Bye-bye." Having already dropped her off at her destination, Sakurakoji Saitaka prepared to turn around and go home.

"Ah, wait!" Setsuna Ogiso reached out her right hand to stop her.

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Author's Note: The first song is called "Bad Girl," a classic song by Miyuki Nakajima that Setsuna covered in the anime. If you're interested, you can look up the lyrics. All I can say is... well, the production team is truly geniuses! It's absolutely malicious!

The second song is by Rina Ogata, one of the female leads in White Album 1. I also think it's very nice. You can listen to it if you're interested!

Volume 1: Daily Life of Attracting Bees and Butterflies: Chapter 73 How Could My Brother Be a Perverted Photographer?

"Mo, you really are heartless, Sakurakoji-kun." A hint of displeasure flashed across her face as she puffed out her cheeks and looked at him. "Have you forgotten something?"

"Really?" Sakurakoji asked, looking puzzled, unsure of what she meant.

Seeing his reaction, Ogiso Setsuna could only helplessly pull out her pink phone and say, "Contact information, contact information."

"We don't go to the same school, and we don't usually have a chance to meet. Do you really want to pretend that what happened today never happened and never contact me again?"

"Shouldn't the boy be the one to suggest this kind of thing first?"

"!!!" Sakura Koji was startled, realizing he had forgotten his most important purpose! If the other party hadn't reminded him, he would definitely have left empty-handed. What a close call!

He realized he had been so careless as to forget this; he had been too lax. He reflected on this in his mind.

"Sorry, I forgot!"

“…You’re the first guy who doesn’t want my contact information, Sakurakoji-kun.” Hearing him say that, Ogiso Setsuna paused for a moment, then said quietly, “But that also proves that you really are that kind of person. I don’t know whether to be happy or sad.”

"Haha, sorry..." Sakura Koji awkwardly took out his phone from his pocket and exchanged numbers and accounts with her.

"Okay! That's fine then. Take care on your journey!" After receiving the message, her worry turned to joy. She hid one hand behind her back and waved goodbye to him with the other.

"Then I'm really leaving this time. See you next time." Sakurakoji Saiki also looked relaxed and waved goodbye.

Watching his figure disappear from sight, Ogiso Setsuna turned around and went to the fence, unlocked the gate and entered the yard, but when her gaze fell on the gate at the entrance of the house, she was instantly startled.

"Xiaohong! What are you doing here!"

Before the entrance hall, a somewhat handsome but still somewhat childish face suddenly appeared—it was her beloved little brother.

At that moment, he was looking at her with amusement, and asked with ill intent, "Sister, who was that beauty just now? Your new friend?"

"This has nothing to do with you, right?" Ogiso Setsuna turned her head and crossed her arms, criticizing her unruly younger brother. "But you, now you've actually learned to peek at other people's conversations. I don't remember ever teaching you this bad habit!"

"Ah, changing the subject!" Kogiso Takahiro saw through her strategy at a glance. "Besides, it's not my fault. Who told you to be so engrossed in watching? I've been standing here for ages and you didn't even notice."

"Who's so engrossed... You've been standing here for ages? When exactly did you start watching?" Ogiso Setsuna was startled, feeling as if her secret had been discovered.

"From the moment you want him to exchange phone numbers with you."

"Ugh!!!" Ogiso Setsuna's body trembled. She had seen almost everything! That Takahiro guy!

"So? That's your classmate from school?" Kogiso Takahiro continued to press. "There are such stunning beauties in Mine City? You were lying about becoming a mistress, weren't you, sister?"

"Sister, it's been so long since you brought your classmates home, although this time you only brought them to the doorstep."

"Hey, could you introduce me? I'd like to meet your friend too!"

Kogiso Takahiro stared at his sister with suspicion. He knew it. In the more than ten years they had been together, he had never thought his sister was that pretty. How could she be so highly regarded by outsiders? She must have been bragging to him.

“I’m not lying to you! We’re not even from the same school!” Ogiso Setsuna corrected him with a serious expression, then said with a complicated look, “Besides, don’t always compare him to me, it’s very rude to him.”

"Because Sakurakoji-kun is a boy."

"Huh?" Takahiro Ogiso's body and expression both froze, and he stared at her stiffly. "Sister, you're joking with me, right?"

"Do I look like I'm joking?" Ogiso Setsuna looked at him with pity.

"...But he has long hair." He still wanted to make one last stand.

"There's no rule that says boys can't have long hair, is there?"

"But he's so handsome..."

"There's no rule that says guys can't be that good-looking, is there?" Ogiso Setsuna closed her eyes with a relaxed expression, shrugged, and then looked at him mischievously: "What? You don't like him, do you?"

"...Ugh!" Xiaohong blushed uncontrollably at her teasing and ran towards the living room, shouting, "Mom! My sister came home with a boy!"

"!!" Ogiso Setsuna's expression changed, and she quickly chased after him, "Hey! Takahiro! Stop right there! You bastard!"

……

five minutes later,

After the efforts of her unfilial younger brother, the Ogiso family gathered in the living room for an impromptu family meeting. Ogiso Setsuna sat alone on the other side of the dining table with her head down, being interrogated by her parents and younger brother.

"So? Setsuna, can you tell me what's going on? Is what Takahiro said true?" The mother, who still looked young and looked like a woman in her twenties, spoke up.

"It's nothing, I just came back with a friend, it's nothing, right?" Ogiso Setsuna retorted softly.

“But you haven’t come home with friends in a long time, and suddenly it’s a boy…” The mother said, resting her chin on her hand with a worried expression.

"Xiaohong said the other person isn't a classmate from school. Where did you meet them? It wasn't some shady place outside..."

"No! No!" Ogiso Setsuna waved her hands and shook her head vigorously, her expression agitated. "How could I possibly go to those places! Besides, I'm usually too busy with my part-time job to have the time, am I?"

"So where did you meet?" The usually taciturn father of Ogiso, who was sitting upright with his arms crossed, finally spoke up. His calm and serious expression might have made him seem like a difficult person to get along with to outsiders.

“It’s…the place where I work,” Setsuna Ogiso said truthfully.

But upon closer reflection, it's actually quite difficult to explain.

"Does the other person also work at the same shop?" the mother then asked.

"No, that's not it. It's just that he knows someone in Fengcheng, so he happened to know me. He found it strange that I was working at the supermarket today, so he struck up a conversation with me," she explained further.

"Are you alright? Didn't you say you didn't want people at school to know you were working there? Should we stop for now?" Xiaomu's mother became even more worried upon hearing this. What if the other party was a bad person using this to blackmail her daughter...?

"It's alright, it's alright. Sakurakoji-kun isn't that kind of person. After today's conversation, I'm absolutely certain of that!" Ogiso Setsuna explained, defending Sakurakoji Sai.

“That being said, didn’t you exchange contact information? We can’t rule out the possibility that the other party intentionally approached you,” Komiso’s father said, his eyes narrowing, his expression somewhat dangerous.

He seemed to have already foreseen that this was a story of a wild boar running into his yard and trying to destroy the cabbage he had carefully cultivated.

"Ah, that's alright, since it was my sister who offered to exchange contact information," said Kogiso Takahiro, who was lying on the table looking bored.

"Takahiro!" Setsuna Ogiso exclaimed, blushing, trying to stop him from saying anything further.

What sins have I committed to have such a brother who likes to betray me?

"...What's going on here? Setsuna, shut up, Takahiro, continue." The strict father gave the order, and Ogiso Setsuna could only let out a "woo~" and give up resisting.

“Because the other person clearly wanted to leave, it was my sister who got angry and said that he didn’t ask for her contact information, so he agreed to exchange it.” Kogiso Takahiro continued to add fuel to the fire for his sister: “To be honest, my sister is the one who was pestering the other person.”

“I’m not angry,” Setsuna Ogiso added quietly.

"Is that so, Setsuna?" Both parents looked at their daughter in surprise, never expecting her to be this kind of person.

Why has she changed her mind about getting close to friends before?

"Well, roughly speaking," Ogiso Setsuna awkwardly smoothed her hair and chuckled in response.

"That's good, at least it shows that the child doesn't seem to have any bad intentions." Kogiso's mother was slightly relieved.

"No, no, no! That's the problem!" Seeing that his parents were about to back down, Takahiro Ogiso protested from the side, "Have you ever seen my sister bring a strange man home? Especially on the first day they met! It's really weird!"

"Ko-Giso-Takahiro-!" Ogiso Setsuna clenched her fists, veins bulging on her usually gentle and beautiful face. If her parents weren't sitting nearby, she would have wanted to beat up her younger brother, who was three years her junior.

"You're the strangest one! It's unbelievable that you're getting all horny over a guy!"

Now that things have come to this, she's not going to hold back for her younger brother anymore and is going to expose his past.

"What—" Xiaohong's face changed drastically, and then he shouted, blushing, "What are you saying! Sister! I never said that, did I?!"

"Hmph, you can fool others, but you can't fool me! Do you think I've been your older sister for so many years? I can tell what you're thinking with just one look!"

"Wait, what are you talking about?!"

"Hiroshi! What's this all about Setsuna?!"

Upon hearing their daughter drop another shocking bombshell, their parents could no longer contain themselves and slammed their fists on the table, demanding their opinions. They felt dizzy and disoriented; could their son, whom they had raised for over a decade, actually be...?

"Dad! Mom! Let me explain!" Xiaohong excitedly overturned the stool and stood up, desperately trying to explain.

"Hmph, you were just asking me to introduce him to you, and now you're turning your back on me?" Ogiso Setsuna seized the opportunity, smiled slyly, and continued to deliver the final blow.

"Takahiro!" X2

The doubt and denial in his father's eyes, and the worry and surprise in his mother's eyes, were like two thorns deeply embedded in the heart of this second-year junior high school boy.

Seeing this, Ogiso Setsuna was overjoyed, and a smile and optimism returned to her face. She had been criticized for so long; now, finally, someone else had taken her place.

"That's not it! That's not it!" Takahiro Ogiso's face was contorted with pain. "If anyone's to blame, it's my sister's friend, who's just too deceptively good-looking! It's not my fault!"

"...What's going on here?" Kogiso's parents were confused again, almost driven crazy by their troublesome children.

"Oh right, I also took photos!" He suddenly had a flash of inspiration, excitedly took out his phone, as if he had found the key to exonerating himself.

"You actually did something like that?! Taking photos without permission is illegal!" Ogiso Setsuna slammed her hand on the table in surprise and scolded her younger brother.

"It's unbelievable! My brother is a pervert who's been secretly taking pictures! Dad, you can't let this happen!"

"Takahiro! You're violating Sakurakoji-kun's right to privacy. I advise you not to show it!"

Of course, part of her emotions may also stem from knowing that things would become unsustainable if things continued this way.

"Who cares about you at a time like this!" Overwhelmed by his hot-bloodedness, Kogiso Takahiro could no longer bear the strange looks from his family. He quickly opened his phone, found the photo he had just taken at the door, and then placed the phone in front of his parents.

Although they knew such behavior was wrong, the parents couldn't suppress their curiosity. They wanted to know what kind of child could turn their two children into this in just one day.

"Ah..." Ogiso Setsuna wanted to stop her parents' immoral behavior, but she knew that she was powerless at this time, so she could only regretfully put her hands down.

Because it was nighttime and the only light sources were streetlights and door lights, the quality of the photo needs improvement, but the figures and appearances of Ogiso Setsuna and the other person can still be seen relatively clearly.

In particular, in addition to the panoramic photo, Xiaohong also took a close-up of the other person's full body and a close-up of their face.

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