— — this was already in the past,

It was an insignificant matter between the two fragments that were chaotically spliced above.

"Actually, my relationship with my brother is not good."

The girl suddenly said, "I haven't been in touch with him since I came to Japan. The number of times I've seen him in the past three years can be counted on one hand.

When we were young, we weren't very close. "

As soon as she said the first word,

The young man stopped in his tracks and looked at her intently.

Although he didn't speak,

However, this kind of waiting posture made her have an urge to confide in him.

Therefore, Tsurugi Lilu slightly lowered her eyebrows and stared at the white tiles of the mall. She continued speaking.

"Grandma thinks that daughters are not helpful to the family business,

She doesn't like me,

She only wants to train my brother into a qualified heir.

Dad, who has always been against grandma, feels guilty about the injustice I suffered because of my gender since I was young. He always compensates me with double the things my brother gets.

And mom hates dad's family,

The more my brother pleases the family,

The more he can't get close to her.

"Since I was young,

I had my father's shoulders, my mother's embrace,

And my brother only had my grandmother's support. "

Her gaze was fixed on the ground, and she didn't raise her head. Her fingers tightened on the shopping cart, and her knuckles turned white. "Dad taught me to be strong,

My mother taught me to be upright,

And my brother didn't know anything.

Grandma was powerless,

She didn't understand how complicated the thoughts of children at that age were. She didn't care about her brother's unusual silence and solitude.

"So when he did something wrong, I corrected him.

If he didn't listen to me, I would beat him until he cried and begged for mercy, until he was convinced … What's with your expression? "

It was strange to suddenly confide in someone like she was explaining her household register and family relationship. In addition, it was in such an atmosphere full of (affordable) life. It was obviously at odds with her serious style when she said these words. It was very discordant.

A girl with a frown and a depressed expression, talking about heavy memories, holding a shopping cart and walking between the neatly arranged shelves. Towels were on the left and toothbrushes and toothpaste on the right. In front of her were pots, pans, knives, forks, chopsticks, and kitchen supplies. It was a little strange no matter how one looked at it.

Even though Lilo Tsurumi had always been good at eliminating the distractions from the environment and focusing on what she wanted to do, she would not find it hard to talk about a topic that was depressing. Therefore, this strange pouring out of her heart (or pouring out her grievances?)

The development of the mode was rather natural and smooth.

Until she accidentally raised her head to look at the young man who was standing before her, listening.

The girl with the lustrous and beautiful black hair swallowed her saliva. Her gaze swept up and down the boy in front of her several times. After hesitating for a long time (she felt that her emotions were very complicated at the moment), she finally mustered the courage to say this sentence. "Why do I feel that the way you look at me now is like the way my father looks at me …"

However, he regretted it less than a second after he finished speaking.

He was reminded of a friend who had perfect eyesight but was passionate about collecting glasses. Ever since he joked about 'Atobe daddy', he had been tortured to the point of insanity by the target of his ridicule. For a poker face, having three different expressions appear on his face in the span of five seconds should be considered insanity, right?

At this moment, in the face of her fearless words, this was the first reaction of the person involved.

Atobe Sudden Daddy Jingo. "…???"

The young man who was called daddy by her was stunned for a moment before he reacted. He rolled his eyes at her and turned his head away with arrogance and aloofness.

Rolling his eyes, he turned his head away with a cold expression and a sharp gaze.

It felt like the back of his head was written with the words' I am the prettiest '.

Lilo Tsurumi was stunned for a full five seconds. Mainly, she did not expect the young man to react so calmly after she uttered the Yuji Ninazhi phrase. After she recovered from this fact, the haze on her face that was caused by the sad memory earlier disappeared completely. What was left was a face filled with excitement and surprise like she had discovered a new continent.

"You rolled your eyes at me?

Did you roll your eyes at me just now?! "

Her tone was so high that she was practically jumping up and down. "You did roll your eyes, right? Even though the angle is small, it's obvious that you're rolling your eyes, right?

Wow, so you know how to roll your eyes?

I've known you for so long, and this is the first time I've seen you roll your eyes!

Don't you think this action doesn't fit your persona and presence? I didn't expect you to be such an Atobe Jingo … Hmm! "

Her last words disappeared in the young man's palm.

Keigo Atobe suddenly raised his hand to press on the chattering girl's face. It covered her whole face from her forehead to her chin. The lower part of his palm pressed on her lips, and he could feel the softness that was different from other parts of her body.

Tsuru could see the purple-haired, fair-skinned young man through the gaps between her fingers. He sighed softly, then said to her with an emotionless but serious expression, "If you don't look gorgeous again, I'll leave you at the cashier's counter when it's time to pay."

Hmm?

Is he refusing to help me pay the bill?

She blinked a few times and tried her best to express that she was a good girl.

When the young man's gaze landed on her face for two seconds before he slowly released his grip on her, Lilo Tsurumi quickly raised her hand to pinch the bridge of her nose. As she did so, she said, "Then, I'll put everything back …"

"… No, I mean, what if you flatten my nose?" Halfway through, she noticed the young man's expression and cleverly changed her words.

Keigo Atobe scoffed coldly from his nostrils.

He looked at the girl in front of him who was rubbing her nose awkwardly. She was trying to move her eyes around to see if the shape of her nose bridge had really not changed. That kind of concentrated look — to be honest, it did look a little too silly.

Therefore, he could not help but sigh again.

The girl who was being stared at did not realize that she was the culprit who caused him to sigh twice. She was surprised by the unusual behavior of the usually confident young master in front of her. However, before she could widen her eyes, the young man flicked her nose forcefully.

"Ouch!" She hissed and swallowed the sigh that was about to come out of her mouth.

Keigo Atobe had already retracted his mischievous hand. He took the shopping cart that was thrown aside when the girl started to care about her nose. "Let's go."

As he spoke, he walked forward and turned his head to look at the black-haired girl who was still standing in the same place, gently massaging her nose with her fingers. "Tsurumi?" His tone was patient.

Lilo Tsurumi looked at the young man's perfect side profile and the beautiful curve of his eyes. She replied with a muffled "Oh." After she stopped massaging her nose, she still raised her hand in front of her face.

Due to her usually rather nervous appearance, the young man glanced at the part of her face that she was trying to cover and did not pay too much attention to her action.

What should I buy?

Other than the necessary daily necessities and the strawberry milk that the young man seemed to be in so much pain that he would die if he did not drink it for a day, she did not know what he wanted at all.

The words that she did not say when she was interrupted was, "So when he does something wrong, I will correct him." It was just her own wishful thinking.

She was just three years older, and she was also a child who did not have any sense of right or wrong. How would she know what education was?

In the name of education, even if she occasionally did good things out of kindness or by accident, she could not tolerate opinions and thoughts that were not in line with her own. She required the absolute approval and submission of another independent personality. She was so arrogant that she thought that everything she thought was righteous and did not recognize other right and possibility. For this reason, she did not hesitate to use violence to maintain a false sense of superiority.

In fact, for Akira Tsurumi, it should be a very tragic childhood.

He had such a twisted family, a biased father, an indifferent mother, and an arrogant and stubborn sister.

Why on earth did he have feelings for such a family and such a sister?

What kind of thoughts did he have when he gave up the opportunity to study in the main family, rejected the advantage of being closer to the family than the other candidates, and chose to live with himself in Japan?

He did not understand at all.

But sometimes, when Lilo Tsurumi thought about what she had done in the past — and because of her habit and the young man's indulgence, in fact, it was not much better now — she would feel waves of guilt and frustration in her heart.

She was obviously the older sister, but she did not fulfill her responsibilities at all.

…

But compared to the negative thoughts that had been brewing in her heart for a long time, the stronger desire to talk was because of a very common scene.

["Let's go."

After he said that, he walked forward and turned his head to look at the black-haired girl who was still standing in the same place, gently massaging her nose with her fingers. "Tsurumi?" His tone was patient.

Lilo Tsurumi looked at his perfect side profile and the beautiful curve of his eyes, and answered with a muffled "Oh." After she stopped massaging her nose, she still raised her hand in front of her face.]

Was it because his every move was picturesque, and his every frown and smile was so moving that she had feelings for him, or was it because she had feelings for him that she felt that the person in front of her was as beautiful as a picture scroll that moved her soul?

For a long time, I wanted to tell you, but I never found the right opportunity to say it —

This passionate feeling of liking you —

From the day they first met, to the day they decided to date and finally broke up —