Crossover anime, and you call this a slice-of-life story?

"Alright, alright, Lady Kaguya, you don't need to report the details to me in such detail."

Hayasaka Ai quickly interrupted her, afraid of hearing more content that needed to be censored.

Looking at Kaguya, who was completely in love, she was filled with mixed emotions.

That proud, calm, and calculating eldest daughter of the Shinomiya family could become so... innocent and adorable because of a gentle kiss.

Although the process was frustrating, the result was good.

She was genuinely happy for Kaguya.

Seeing the young lady with such a carefree and happy smile is more important than anything else.

In short—

Hayasaka Ai stepped forward and gently patted Kaguya's shoulder, who was still in a state of high excitement. Her tone was sincere and slightly teasing, "It seems your fireworks festival operation has been a complete success, far exceeding expectations. Tonight, please take this 'victory' with you and get some rest. However, I suggest you calm down first, otherwise I'm afraid you'll be so excited that you won't be able to sleep all night."

Kaguya finally stopped, clasping her hands together in front of her chest, trying to appear calm, but the wildly upturned corners of her mouth and the sweet affection flowing in her eyes completely betrayed her.

"Mmm...I know..." she responded softly, her voice still full of joy, "Hayasaka, thank you."

Thank you for always being there for me, sharing this overwhelming joy that I have nowhere to put.

Hayasaka Ai smiled slightly: "It's my duty. Then, I'll go prepare some calming tea for you."

She bowed slightly and left the room, considerately leaving Kaguya alone to savor and process this sweet moment.

After closing the door, Hayasaka Ai leaned against it, listening to the faint, suppressed cheers and joyful footsteps coming from inside. She couldn't help but shake her head again, but a faint, gratified smile unconsciously curved her lips.

"What a wonderful youth it was."

Chapter 246 Thor's Jealousy

Shangguan Yun, carrying the slight coolness of the night breeze and the lingering warmth in her heart, opened her front door.

The warm light from inside the room poured out, creating a stark contrast with the cool moonlight outside.

A faint, lingering smile played on his lips, and the touch of Kaguya's hair seemed to still linger on his fingertips.

However, as soon as he stepped into the entrance hall, before he even had time to change his shoes, a green figure rushed towards him like a whirlwind, so fast that the wind it generated almost messed up his hair.

The visitor was none other than Thor.

She stood with her hands on her hips, her red eyes wide and round, her small nose sniffing the air incessantly and intensely like a detective dog, and her tail swishing restlessly from side to side behind her, almost creating a sonic boom.

"Um--?"

Thor uttered a long, suspicious, and wary sound.

She circled Shangguan Yun twice, her nose almost touching his clothes, focusing particularly on his chest and cuffs.

Shangguan Yun was taken aback by her sudden action, and the gentle smile on her face froze for a moment: "Thor? What's wrong? Do I smell like something?"

He subconsciously raised his arm and smelled it himself. Apart from a faint smell of fireworks and the night air, there seemed to be nothing special about it.

"No! Absolutely not!"

Thor abruptly stopped, looked up, and stared at Shangguan Yun with accusing eyes, his lips pouting so high they could practically hold an oil bottle. "Yun! You smell! A strong smell!"

"The taste? The taste of the festival, I guess. The smell of fireworks and food is quite mixed."

Shangguan Yun tried to bluff his way through, but in his heart he was thinking that the dragon's sense of smell was a little too keen.

"It's not that ordinary taste!" Thor retorted loudly, his tail thrashing even more rapidly, lightly tapping the floor.

"It's Kaguya's scent! A very faint perfume scent, and the shampoo and conditioner she uses in her hair! Most importantly!"

She suddenly leaned close to Shangguan Yun's face, her nose almost touching his chin, took a deep sniff, then jumped back as if her tail had been stepped on, pointing at Shangguan Yun's lips, her voice filled with disbelief:

"It's the smell of a kiss! Here! The scent of that woman lingers! And there's that special, slightly sweet smell from when your heart races and your blood flows faster! Have you two been secretly doing something bad behind my back?!"

Shangguan Yun: "??!"

This sense of smell... it's not just sensitive, it's practically a molecular-level analyzer!

How can they even smell the "taste of a kiss" and the "slightly sweet smell of blood"?

“Uh… Thor, let me explain…” Shangguan Yun tried to soothe her, reaching out to pat her head.

"I won't listen!" Thor suddenly turned his head away and covered his ears with both hands.

But it was obviously useless, because dragons also have excellent hearing.

She started acting like a spoiled child, "Yun is unfair! Yun lives with me, I'm the one who cleans your room, cooks for you, and fights for you! Why did that cold, aloof human young lady... run away first!"

As Thor spoke, he felt wronged, and his voice trembled with tears: "I really want to be closer to Yun... Waaah... Does Yun prefer her type? Doesn't she like a lively and cheerful dragon like me?"

Looking at the dragon girl in front of him, who was acting strangely because of jealousy and even starting to doubt herself, Shangguan Yun's embarrassment was instantly replaced by amusement and heartache.

He sighed, his tone softening further: "How could that be, Tohru? You and Kaguya are different; you are both unique individuals."

"How is it different!" Thor persisted, lowering her hands from her ears and looking at him with teary eyes. "I want everything she has! She kissed you, I want that too!"

As she spoke, she leaned closer, closed her eyes, and pouted, looking like she was asking for comfort and compensation.

Looking at the magnified, chubby, adorable face in front of her, and the pouting lips that clearly indicated her intentions, Shangguan Yun didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

This jealousy is... way too direct!

Of course, he couldn't actually kiss her like that.

He reached out and gently pressed his hand on Thor's forehead, stopping her from getting any closer.

"Thor, stop fooling around."

His voice carried a helpless smile.

"I don't care! I don't care! Yun is unfair! I'm hurt! My heart is deeply wounded! I need Yun's kiss to heal!"

Thor started acting like a rogue, twisting and turning his body in an attempt to break through Shangguan Yun's hand defense.

Just then, Ai Haibara, who had heard the commotion, was passing by the living room with a water glass in her hand when she happened to see the scene of the "dragon girl's failed attempt to kiss" in the entryway.

She pushed up her non-existent glasses with a blank expression and said in a flat tone, "Oh? Is this a large canine throwing a tantrum because its owner is cheating on it? What a rare ecological example."

After saying that, she calmly drank her water and walked away.

Connor also peeked out of the room when she heard the noise, holding half a watermelon and eating it with a spoon.

She blinked her big eyes at Thor, who was tangled up in a ball, and Shangguan Yun, who looked helpless, and tilted her head to ask, "Lord Thor, are you playing a new game with Yun? Kanna wants to play too?"

Shangguan Yun: "..." He felt even more troubled.

Thor didn't care what others thought and continued to grumble and express his dissatisfaction: "I don't care! Cloud has to make it up to me! Tomorrow she's going to make me a super-sized pineapple bun! No! A super, super-sized one! And she's going to play with me all day!"

Seeing her clownish antics, determined to get what she wanted, Shangguan Yun finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.

He withdrew his hand from her forehead and instead vigorously ruffled her smooth blonde hair, making it all messy.

"Okay, okay, I'll make it up to you. I'll make you a super-sized pineapple bun tomorrow and play with you."

His tone was tinged with affection, "Thor is a unique and very important family member and partner to me, and that will never change, you know?"

Although he didn't get the "kiss" he expected, Thor was clearly very pleased with Shangguan Yun's gentle words and head pat.

She hummed twice, and the tip of her tail subtly lifted up a little, beginning to wag slightly.

The hurt on her face had mostly faded, but she still deliberately kept a straight face: "Really? You mean it!"

"Yes, I keep my word," Shangguan Yun assured with a smile.

"Well... alright then!" Thor finally "reluctantly" accepted the compensation plan, but still moved closer to Shangguan Yun and rubbed against him, as if to re-cover his scent mark. "I'll forgive Yun this time! But next time you're not allowed to let her sneak away so many times!"

As Shangguan Yun felt the dependence of this large "accessory" and "jealous dragon" beside him, the slight melancholy in his heart caused by their separation was dispelled by this lively warmth.

It seems that the "surprises" of returning home are no less than those of going out.

He let Thor cling to his arm like a koala, whimpering as he followed him into the living room.

Chapter 247 Evening Email with Kaguya

In the dead of night, after calming down Tohru, who was throwing a tantrum because of jealousy, and making sure that Kanna and Haibara were also at rest, Shangguan Yun finally returned to his room.

The moonlight outside the window was still bright, casting a clear glow on the floor through the glass.

He lay relaxed on the bed, but the brief yet thrilling moment under the tree that night, and Kaguya's panicked escape, unconsciously resurfaced in his mind, and a gentle smile involuntarily appeared on his lips.

I remember Kaguya didn't seem to have a smartphone yet; the group chat she created before was also on Hayasaka Ai's phone.

He was thinking about when to give Kaguya a smartphone and create a social media account for her.

'At this time... Kaguya shouldn't be asleep yet, right?' Shangguan Yun thought.

Based on his understanding of Kaguya, after such a shocking event, she would most likely be in a state of extreme excitement and insomnia.

Moreover, he returned directly across space, and not much time had passed.

So he took out his phone and sent Kaguya an email.

"Kaguya, are you asleep?"

Almost simultaneously, in Kaguya's room at the Shinomiya family mansion.

Kaguya Shinomiya was rolling around in bed, clutching a soft pillow, burying her burning cheeks in the cool, silky surface of the pillow, trying to cool down the persistently high temperature.

The scene under the tree kept replaying in my mind, every detail was savored, and then it triggered a new round of blushing and heart-pounding.

Just then, the phone on the bedside table suddenly emitted a crisp notification sound—"You have a new email."

Who could it be so late?

Official business? Family matters?

Kaguya raised her head somewhat lazily and reluctantly, her wine-red eyes still misty with tears.

When the sender's name appeared on the screen, she froze completely, as if she had been frozen in place.

From: President

"President...?" she murmured incredulously, her heart pounding wildly again, even harder than before.

The president actually sent me an email?

With trembling fingers, she almost cautiously opened the email.

President: Kaguya, are you asleep?

'President, he cares about me!'

Overwhelmed with happiness and excitement, she almost jumped up on the spot.

Kaguya forced herself to calm down and took deep breaths, but it had little effect. The scene of that kiss from tonight kept replaying in her mind.

My fingers rubbed against the buttons on the old-fashioned mobile phone, and for a moment I didn't know how to reply.

Five or six minutes passed, and just when Shangguan Yun thought Kaguya had gone to rest, his phone suddenly vibrated.

Kaguya: Not yet, I can't sleep.

Was this reply too simple, too cold? Will it make the president think I don't want to talk to him? Or was it too direct? Will he guess that I can't sleep because of that kiss? Ugh! I should have thought more carefully about my wording!

Clutching her old-fashioned mobile phone like it was a hot potato, she rolled around on the bed in frustration. The small screen's light flickered in the darkness, illuminating her face, which was filled with entanglement and shyness.

However, before she could feel annoyed for long, almost instantly, her phone screen lit up again, and the new email notification sound was exceptionally clear in the quiet room.

Kaguya's heart skipped a beat, and she frantically pressed the button to check.

President: Me too.

'Hmm—'

Kaguya let out a cute whimper.

The president said she couldn't sleep either, which means she's also constantly reminiscing about that kiss?!

A tremendous, indescribable sweetness and shyness swept over her like a tsunami, causing her whole body to tremble slightly and her toes to curl up shyly.

Shangguan Yun was indeed recalling that kiss, after all, it was his first kiss.

Kaguya Shinomiya's fingers became even more unruly with excitement, clumsily pressing the letters one by one on the number keys of her old-fashioned mobile phone.

Typing became incredibly difficult, but she remained extremely focused, her wine-red eyes fixed on the small screen as if performing a sacred ritual.

After a long while, another message was finally sent with difficulty.