Chapter 45

Before preparing breakfast, Sajou Fujisnow decided to take a shower first.

As for Aoba, she lay down directly in the futon where Sajou Fujisnow had slept, catching up on her sleep.

While showering, Sajou Fujisnow was still thinking about the news she had just learned. She really didn't expect Aoba to be a classmate at the same school and even in the same grade.

However, after the initial surprise, Sajou Fujisnow gradually calmed down.

She quickly finished her shower, washing away all the dust from the previous night, and then, feeling refreshed, she began to prepare breakfast.

First, she put the rice in the rice cooker to cook, then took out the saury from the refrigerator to grill, and started making miso soup at the same time.

Just then, Sajou Mai, who usually needed Sajou Fujisnow's urging to get up, surprisingly woke up early.

"Big sister, good morning," Sajou Mai, wearing loose loungewear, greeted her sister as she walked past the kitchen.

"Good morning, Mai. Why are you up so early today?" Sajou Fujisnow asked, continuing to cook.

"I want to finish watching the 'Electric Witch' I recorded last night before school," Sajou Mai replied.

"Electric Witch? Oh!" Sajou Fujisnow then remembered that her sister's favorite new spring anime, 'Electric Witch,' aired late at night. Because it was so late, her sister always recorded it and watched it in the morning.

So, for the past few weeks, Sajou Mai had been waking up early every morning to watch the anime.

But then Sajou Fujisnow remembered that the TV was in the living room, and to get to the living room, one had to pass by her room, where Aoba was still sleeping. If her sister saw a man sleeping in her futon...

Before Sajou Fujisnow could think of a solution, she heard a scream from Sajou Mai not far away.

A wave of panic flashed through Sajou Fujisnow's mind, and she quickly stopped cooking and ran to her room.

At the same time, Aoba was also awakened by the scream. Opening his eyes, he saw a young girl in loose loungewear, with wide eyes, looking at him in surprise.

Although Sajou Mai didn't recognize Aoba, Aoba recognized her. The last time he had rescued Sajou Mai from the hands of the yakuza, he had carried her back. However, Sajou Mai had been unconscious the entire time and didn't even know she had been kidnapped, so she naturally didn't know about Aoba's existence.

"It's Mai! Good morning," Aoba greeted her naturally.

"Huh? You know me?" Sajou Mai asked in surprise.

"Of course, you're Fujisnow's sister! How could I not know you?" Aoba continued naturally, even yawning.

"Huh? You call my sister by her first name and sleep in her room?" Sajou Mai's eyes lit up.

"Um, I'm just catching up on sleep. I was very tired last night," Aoba replied naturally.

Unfortunately, his answer led to a misunderstanding by Sajou Mai, who was at an age where she liked to imagine things.

"Very tired? Did you spend the whole night with my sister?" Sajou Mai's eyes lit up even more, and her face turned red.

"Ah, yes! Your sister is very clingy," Aoba replied naturally.

"So, are you my sister's boyfriend? Then you'll be my big brother from now on?" Sajou Mai, covering her red face with one hand and pointing at Aoba with the other, said with bright eyes.

"Huh?" It was only then that Aoba realized the girl seemed to have misunderstood something.

At that moment, Sajou Fujisnow arrived, just in time to hear the last two lines of the conversation between Sajou Mai and Aoba. Her face turned red instantly.

"Mai, what are you talking about! Aoba and I are not in that kind of impure relationship," Sajou Fujisnow immediately blushed and contradicted.

"But, didn't you spend the whole night with my big brother?" Sajou Mai asked, looking at Sajou Fujisnow.

"Yes, we were together all night, but not in the way you think," Sajou Fujisnow, with a red face, explained incoherently to her sister.

"Alright, alright, no need to hide it, Mai is happy to have a big brother from now on," Sajou Mai waved her hand generously.

"Mai, if you keep talking nonsense, I'll punish you," Sajou Fujisnow, with a face red enough to steam, pretended to walk towards Sajou Mai.

But Sajou Mai turned around and ran behind Aoba, shouting, "Ah, big brother, save me!" and hid behind him.

"Alright, alright, this is my fault. I didn't explain clearly earlier. We'll explain it to Mai later! I'm hungry now, is breakfast ready?" Aoba immediately changed the subject.

Aoba also liked the mischievous little girl, Sajou Mai, so he tried to help her out.

With Aoba's words, Sajou Fujisnow temporarily put aside her thoughts of educating her sister.

"Breakfast is almost ready. Please go to the dining room and wait, Aoba," Sajou Fujisnow said, then glared at her sister, who was still hiding behind Aoba, before returning to the kitchen.

It must be said that the Sajou family was quite well-off, as evidenced by the large house where the two sisters lived.

So even after their parents passed away, the two sisters lived comfortably thanks to the family's wealth.

Aoba and Sajou Mai came to the dining room together. The sudden appearance of this "big brother" piqued Sajou Mai's curiosity, so she decided to postpone watching the recorded "Electric Witch" until the evening and find out more about this "big brother" now.

"Big brother, are you and my sister classmates?" Sajou Mai asked.

"Um, we are classmates in the same grade, but not in the same class!" Aoba replied after sitting down in the dining room.

"Oh, how did you and my sister meet?" Sajou Mai continued to ask.

"How did we meet? There are many complicated reasons," Aoba thought for a moment and gave a vague answer, as there were too many things he couldn't tell Sajou Mai.

"Oh, adult reasons!" Sajou Mai took out a small notebook and carefully wrote down her understanding, then asked, "When did you and my sister meet?"

"We've known each other for about a week, less than two weeks," Aoba recalled and said.

"Huh? In such a short time, you can already do, do, do such things? The adult world is really amazing!" Sajou Mai, with a red face, continued to write in her notebook.

"Mai!" Sajou Fujisnow, holding a dish in her hand, appeared at the dining room door, her name on her lips, and her mouth twitching.