I won't be a loser.

"came back!"

When Yotsuba realized that her brother had returned, Sanye had already rushed from the living room to the door like an arrow, looking for the figure of Xianren.

Xianren, who had just put down his suitcase, looked at Mitsuha who appeared in front of him. He didn't expect that the first person to greet him would be Mitsuha, but he was not too surprised. He smiled at Mitsuha and turned his head to look at the somewhat bewildered Saionji Sekai behind him.

"Let's leave these by the door for now. I'm going to take Setsuna to the bathroom. Do you want to go?"

"Ah."

Saionji Sekai also knew that if she stayed here alone, she would probably have to face Kento's sister. She suddenly felt a little panicked in her heart, and smiled and nodded at the girl, then followed Kento, and Setsuna who was holding Kento's arm, and walked into the house together.

Mitsuha, standing at the door, stared at Xianren, Setsuna, and another strange girl. The three of them entered the house. He didn't know who the strange girl was, and he had never heard him talk about anyone else before.

"classmate?"

Sanye, who was not sure and too lazy to investigate further, looked at the three suitcases of different sizes at the door, pink, blue and black.

"This black one should be his, right?"

He stared at it for a while, but was worried that he had guessed wrong, so he did not rush to open the box. He turned around and walked into the house. At the bathroom door, he saw the wise man walking towards the living room.

"So slow! It's already getting dark outside."

"It can't be helped. The car ride took nearly six hours. From Hashima to Itomori, it took at least five hours."

He walked in front of Sanye. The height difference allowed Xianren to stretch out his hand and easily placed it on the top of Sanye's head. The girl suddenly became angry and shook her head, but it was of no avail. Xianren raised his hand and waited for her to stop, then placed it on her head.

"Don't touch my head, or I won't grow taller!"

"It does not matter, I do not mind."

"I would mind!"

"I bought you some presents."

"what gift?"

Sanye, who was about to get angry, was not so angry after hearing what Xianren said, but she stared at Xianren with some suspicion. She was sure that her brother was the kind of person who could buy her a bunch of question sets, so she could not let her guard down before seeing the gift with her own eyes.

After touching Mitsuha's familiar little head and feeling the silky hair, Xianren withdrew his hand and walked towards the door.

"Help me carry the two suitcases to the room, and I'll tell you."

"......"

Although she was somewhat reluctant in her heart, after hesitating for a moment, Mitsuha silently picked up the suitcases of Sekai and Setsuna and moved them to the empty room. The room had been tidied up and was quite clean and spacious.

Mitsuha moved the two people's suitcases into the room and went to Xianren's room. She saw Xianren standing in the room, staring at the room as if in a daze.

'You didn't seem to notice me?'

Sanye, who was standing at the door, suddenly lightened her footsteps, stepped on the floor with her pure white cotton socks, and gently came behind Xianren, then put her hands on Xianren's waist and grabbed him hard!

hiss--

Staring at his room, he was reminiscing about the wise man of the past when he suddenly felt an itch and pain in his waist. He turned around to look at the smirking Mitsuha, then turned around and hugged her, pressing her down on his bed, and lifted up Mitsuha's clothes with both hands.

"No! Wait, wait! No, no—ha! Haha—"

The difference in size made it easy for Xianren to suppress his stupid sister, and then he launched a tickling attack on her waist, causing Sanye, who was just laughing, to fall into hell and laugh in pain.

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Summer Cicadas: 217. I like this

When Mitsuha came out of Kento's room with disheveled clothes, Saionji Sekai and Kiyoura Setsuna had also finished using the toilet. They were wondering where Kento had gone when they saw Mitsuha coming out of the room and slowly walking towards them.

Mitsuha, who was tidying her clothes and straightening her hair, had just walked out of Kento's room when she saw two girls walking towards her. She naturally knew Kiyoura Setsuna as her brother's lover, but the other one was a little unfamiliar to her. She had never seen her in Tokyo.

"It's been two months since we last met in Tokyo. It's great that you can come to Itomori. You must be very tired after such a long journey, Setsuna."

"A little bit. I didn't expect to walk for such a long time without a public toilet. I endured it for a long time, and finally I relaxed when I got here."

"That's true. In big cities, they should be everywhere, like at train stations and subway stations. But in a small town like Itomori, there aren't any such facilities. Most people only have toilets in their homes."

Mitsuha, who has lived in Itomori since childhood, has long accepted this lifestyle.

"Who is this?"

Her gaze turned to Sekai who was standing next to Setsuna. She wanted to ask right away, but she felt that it would be a bit presumptuous, so she chatted with Setsuna for a while before turning the topic to this strange girl.

"You are Kento's sister, Miyamizu Mitsuha, right? Kento also talked about you with me on the way, saying that you have a lively personality."

"Well?"

Calling her brother "Ken" as such an intimate name made Mitsuha alert. She stared at the Saionji Sekai in front of her for a while with a look of suspicion.

"Shijie is my classmate and also my relative. She and Xianren have known each other for a long time. We usually hang out together. I was worried she would be lonely at home during the summer vacation, so I invited her to come along."

"Xiyuanji World, please give me your guidance during this period."

"Please give me more advice."

She greeted the other party politely and didn't care much about what Setsuna said. It was just that the two key words "three people" and "together" made her associate a lot of things in her mind for no reason. Her eyes couldn't help but fall on Saionji Sekai, as if she wanted to see something from the other party. The deep gaze made Saionji Sekai feel a little embarrassed.

"Mitsuha, you've been standing at the door—ah, are you ready yet?"

Noticing the two girls in front of Mitsuye, Xianren came out of the room and subconsciously reached out his hand to the top of Mitsuye's head, twisted it, and signaled Mitsuye to leave here obediently.

But the girl shook off the sage's hand in dissatisfaction, clenched her right fist and hit the sage's waist, then turned around and left in a depressed mood.

If there were no one else, she would have asked directly about the "gift", but because there were two girls in front of her, Sanye didn't want to get angry with Xianren. After giving Xianren a slap, she turned around and left in a depressed mood.

"What did you talk about just now?"

"Sanye is a little curious about the world. She asked a few questions, but that's all."

"that's it?"

After taking a look at Saionji Sekai, who was a little embarrassed just now, now faced with Xianren, she returned to her usual state and nodded with a smile.

"Well, I got to know Sanye a little bit. There's another one called Yotsuba?"

"Yoto is in the living room, right? I'll show you to your room first."

"us?"

After hearing what Xianren said, Xiyuanji Sekai was a little surprised. She stared at Xianren for a while, and it seemed that he was not wrong. She looked at Setsuna beside her, meaning that Setsuna would be in the same room with her?

"You two, since we're not in Tokyo and there are other people at home, it's not convenient for Setsuna to sleep in the same room with me. So, the two of you will sleep together. The room has been tidied, but you still have to pack your clothes and daily necessities by yourselves."

He led the two girls to a guest room which was quite far away from his room. After opening the door, the two girls entered the room. Looking at the quaint room, they felt that it was a bit like those old-fashioned Japanese-style inns they had stayed in during their previous travels. They did not feel that there was anything wrong with it.

"It's so big, much bigger than my room."

Looking at the spacious room, Saionji Sekai was a little surprised and astonished. She looked at the mat that had been laid on the floor, and then looked at the person beside her who had already walked towards the suitcase. The moment she looked at her suitcase, she also looked at her own suitcase.

"Rest here for a while. My room is right over there. If you need anything, you can come to me."

"Ah."

Setsuna responded, opened his suitcase, and began to organize the clothes and daily necessities inside. He took out the daily necessities first, and then sorted the clothes and piled them in the suitcase. As for Saionji Sekai, he looked at Setsuna who responded and started to organize, and nodded.

"Don't worry about us. Just go and take care of your own things. You just got home, and you must have a lot to tell your family. If there's anything, we'll contact you directly by phone."

"Then I'll leave for a while and come back to call you for dinner."

Seeing that both of them seemed to be fine, the wise man smiled, left the room, helped to pull up the screen door, and walked towards the living room.

Just as Saionji Sekai said, he had just returned to Itomori and had a lot of things to deal with. He had to comfort his sister, give the gifts he promised to Mitsuha to her and Yotsuha, and then go see his mother and grandmother.

"Phew—I'm so tired."

When the wise man left and the door was closed, Saionji Sekai collapsed on the ground. Because it was a tatami mat, she lay down directly and looked at Setsuna who was still tidying up.

"Setsuna, don't you want to take a break?"

"I'm not that tired physically, just mentally. I'd better pack these up first. There are other things to do in the evening."

"whats the matter?"

While packing his suitcase, he looked back at Sekai Saionji who was lying on the ground with a listless look on her face and sighed.

"The family of the wise man across the street, and the matter of taking a bath."

"Ah... I sweated a lot today... I really need a good shower."

As she spoke, Saionji Sekai raised her arm, moved it towards her armpit, sniffed it gently, and immediately couldn't help rolling her eyes, turning her head to the side, and started coughing uncontrollably.

"Ahem—ahem—it's indeed time to take a bath."

"Vacation, planning to stay at home for two weeks?"

Seeing his grandmother weaving knots in the room, Xianren placed the gifts he bought from Tokyo next to her. There were some small items that the elderly could use, such as some old-fashioned ornaments that were popular a long time ago, and fabrics bought in Tokyo.

The grandmother wearing old-age glasses put down the knot in her hand, slowly raised her head and looked at her eldest grandson. After being away from Itomori for such a long time, when she saw Xianren again, she felt that her eldest grandson was different.

"You've changed a lot since you went to Tokyo."

"Because I've experienced some things that I wouldn't have encountered in Itomori, there are some differences and changes compared to when I was in Itomori."

"It seems like there are two girls coming with you, and one of them is dating?"

"Ah."

He told his mother Erye, and Erye was worried that her mother Yiye might have objections to this, so she informed her grandmother in advance before he returned home. After thinking about the general situation, Xianren was not surprised.

"Have you met your mother?"

"not yet."

"It's been a while since we last met. Go see your mother. She's been missing you a lot while you've been away."

"Ah."

After coming out of his grandmother's room, Xianren began to look for his mother in the house. Finally, he saw Miyamizu Futaba picking vegetables in the backyard outside the house.

"came back?"

"Well, I just met with my grandmother and she asked me to help."

"There's nothing special I can help you with... Just wash these carrots first. Also, I'll leave the peeling of the potatoes to you."

"Ah."

He walked to the backyard, reached out to take the basket handed to him by his mother, and looked at the potatoes and carrots inside. Unlike when he was in Tokyo, he had to go to the supermarket to buy vegetables. In the backyard of Itomori's home, he planted a lot of vegetables for daily cooking.

"By the way, what's wrong with those two kids?"

"Vegetables? I don't seem to have any particular dislikes when it comes to cooking. Maybe I don't like green peppers that much?"

After thinking back, it was Xianren who basically had dinner with Setsuna, and he didn't know much about the vegetables that were hated in the Saionji world. Setsuna didn't have any vegetables or dishes that he particularly hated, but he did have some resistance to green peppers, but he could swallow them with difficulty.

"Is that so? I understand."

An expression of understanding appeared on Miyamizu Futaba's face. She waved her hand and asked Xianren to deal with the vegetables in the basket first, while she continued to look in the backyard to see if there were any other vegetables.

"Hey, where's my gift?"

As soon as he entered the house, he met Sanye head-on. The other party had a dissatisfied look on his face, as if he had been deceived, and stared at Xianren with resentful eyes.

"In the room, but I have something to deal with right now, so I can't..."

Before she could finish her words, Sanye ran directly towards Xianren's room. Looking at her back helplessly, with a long sigh, Yotsuba came to Xianren's side and stared at the vegetables in the basket.

"Do you need my help?"

"Hmm? Then I'll leave the cleaning to you, Yotsuba. I'll go check on Mitsuha in her room so she doesn't mess up my room."

"Even if you bully her, I can help hide it."

"Bullying... forget it."

I don’t know how much torture Yotsuba had endured from Mitsuha, but she actually asked herself to bully Mitsuha. After he refused, Yotsuba seemed to be quite regretful. She held the basket handed to her by Xianren and walked towards the pool, while Xianren walked towards his room.

"Where is the gift? Where is the gift? The gift is hidden in the small box~"

After hurriedly running to Xianren's room, Sanye glanced at the large black suitcase, and pounced on it like a tiger. She put the suitcase on the ground and unzipped it.

"Look at what we have, um... clothes? Toothpaste? Yeah, and toothbrushes, towels, and other daily necessities, do we need to buy new ones? The old ones are still hanging around the house, what a waste!"

He took it out and put it aside, picked up the pile of clothes, and threw them on the sage's bed. He saw a small white box, took a look at it, and his eyes were fixed on the small box.

"Um?!"