Chapter 336 A Gift for Mana
In the early morning, the sun is shining brightly.
The light snow that fell last night quickly melted away in the rare warm sunshine. The bright light shone into the living room through the floor-to-ceiling glass door and fell on Sawayama Haruno, who was holding the washed clothes to dry them.
He subconsciously narrowed his eyes, looked at the mild weather outside, and couldn't help but smile.
“No wonder there seem to be more people celebrating the festival this year. Even the weather is so cooperative,” he sighed.
As a city with a subtropical monsoon climate, Tokyo's weather cycles vary greatly. In previous years, there were often seasons that were either not cold at all or extremely cold. However, it is very rare to have days as mild as this year while still having a winter atmosphere.
Even Zeshan Haruno, who was used to living in this kind of city, couldn't help but want to go out for a walk.
But apart from him and Salmon Maru, I'm afraid there's no one else at home who can go out with me?
Thinking of this, Sawayama Haruno touched his chin guiltily.
What happened last night is still vivid in everyone's mind. Both Miyazawa Maki and Ezaki Suguha put on limited Christmas skins. The three of them stayed up until three or four in the morning before they fell asleep. Judging from the current situation, the two of them will definitely not be able to get up until the afternoon.
The one who suffered the most was actually Ezaki Suguha. After all, she was the only person who could get close to her, and Miyazawa Maki had encouraged her a lot last night, making this tall girl who always had good physical strength look tired for the first time.
“You can’t blame me for this.”
While drying the clothes, Zeshan Haruno muttered to himself, "I have been very restrained."
The system's enhancement of him is too strong. Even if Miyazawa Maki brings along Suguha Ezaki, it will be difficult for her to defeat him in this regard.
Until I fell asleep last night, I was still in a state of unsatisfied feeling and tried hard to calm down for a long time before I was able to fall asleep.
I just don’t know what to do today. After all, Miyazawa Maki and Esaki Suguha still have some “free time” before they wake up.
Take this opportunity to give a gift?
Sawayama Haruno hung the last piece of clothing on the clothesline. After thinking for a moment, he put his things away, then turned and walked into the kitchen and began to open the small cupboard used to store sundries.
This is the least used cabinet in the house. Normally, Suguha Ezaki rarely opens it, so Haruno Sawayama put all the Christmas gifts he bought here in advance.
Not only did he prepare for Maki and Suguha, but there were also ones for Ayano Yui, Miyazawa Mana, and Mine Shiori.
He even prepared a copy of Morikawa Riho and Takashima Kazuki in advance.
After all, I owed the other party a favor for the invitation to the hot spring hotel, so I could just find an excuse to give it to him during Christmas.
The gift that Zeshan Haruno prepared for him was not a particularly expensive gift, just a small pendant with the meaning of attracting wealth.
The truly valuable gifts depended on what he prepared for those girls. Most of them were diamond jewelry. Although old-fashioned, they were very useful. It would be too much torture for Sawayama Haruno to patiently make handicrafts for them, so after much thought he finally bought these.
"Now is the time to ask them if they have time."
Looking at the several exquisite gift bags in his hands, Sawayama Haruno couldn't help talking to himself.
He originally thought that he would have to wait until after Christmas to find time to give gifts to other people, but now that he has "free time", it would of course be better to give them out during the holiday season.
After warning him, Sawayama Haruno no longer hesitated.
He first took out the gifts for Miyazawa Maki and Esaki Suguha. The former was an exquisite diamond ring, and the latter was a diamond platinum necklace. These two gifts alone almost used up all the money that Sawayama Haruno had saved before. Fortunately, the royalties arrived in time, allowing him to buy other gifts of the same standard.
Sawayama Haruno first put the ring and necklace back into their corresponding boxes, and then tiptoed to place them in the most conspicuous place in the living room.
After some hesitation, he thought that Maki and Suguha would not wake up before he delivered the gifts and returned home, so he took the two gifts and walked into the bedroom.
The room seemed unusually dark, and the air seemed to still be filled with the smell of last night. The two men were so exhausted that they didn't even notice Sawayama Haruno who came in quietly.
After placing the gift on the desk, he quickly left the room.
“It’s done.”
Sawayama Haruno heaved a sigh of relief.
The next step is to give gifts to other girls. The top choice is of course Ayano Yui who lives next door.
He picked up his phone and sent a text message to the other party. About ten minutes later, he received a somewhat disappointing message.
Ayano Yui is out and will only be back at night.
Sawayama Haruno was not discouraged and immediately began to contact other people.
Miyazawa family.
"Don't you have an appetite?"
Father Miyazawa put down the newspaper in his hand, looked at his eldest daughter who was eating breakfast at the dining table, and said meaningfully: "I don't think you had much food last night?"
"It seems like you haven't woken up yet?"
Hearing her father's question, Miyazawa Mana smiled and said, "I don't look like I have much appetite right now."
"That's rare. By the way, aren't you planning on going out on Christmas?"
"I don't have such plans. I will probably just continue writing my school project report today."
".Yeah?"
Miyazawa's father's eyes seemed to see through Mana's inner thoughts, but fortunately, after the silence, he did not choose to ask again, but got up and prepared to go upstairs to wake up his still sleeping wife.
Suddenly, Miyazawa Mana was the only one left in the living room.
She looked at the large bowl of white rice sprinkled with seaweed crumbs in front of her, feeling indescribable irritation in her heart.
Even she herself didn't understand why she was so absent-minded today. She had clearly prepared herself for the situation in advance, but now it seemed like it was of no avail. No matter what she did, she couldn't help but think of "the other person" in her mind.
"Sure enough, I wanted to call him out."
Miyazawa Mana sighed.
Although she had decided to compete with her sister to the end, she was still hesitant about whether to send a text message to the other party at this slightly sensitive time, especially when she thought that her sister might still be sleeping in his arms, she felt an indescribable pain and pleasure repeatedly entangled in her heart.
After breakfast, do something else?
Miyazawa Mana fell into deep thought, but before she could figure out what she wanted to do, the cell phone beside her lit up first.
The person she had been thinking about day and night seemed to have guessed her conflicted feelings at the moment and took the lead in sending her a Christmas invitation.
The moment she saw the text message clearly, a smile couldn't help but appear at the corner of Miyazawa Mana's mouth.
She put down the bowl and chopsticks in her hands with some joy, turned around and walked quickly upstairs. On the way, she ran into her father who was about to go downstairs.
"what happened?"
Miyazawa's father, who had just tried to wake his wife but failed, noticed his daughter's mood change at a glance. "No friends, my friends asked me to go shopping."
Miyazawa Mana slightly restrained the smile on her face and said gently, "We happen to be in the same group for the final exam, so maybe we can discuss the project assignments."
"A member of the same group."
Miyazawa's father said meaningfully: "Be careful on the road."
"Ah."
Miyazawa Mana's face suddenly turned red.
She felt that her father seemed to have noticed something. After all, when Haruno visited before, her father said some strange things to her mother, which made her very concerned.
But no matter whether her family had seen through her thoughts or not, Haruno's invitation still made her unable to control her feelings. It just so happened that the gift she prepared for Haruno in advance had been kept in the closet. Perhaps she could take advantage of this opportunity to send it to the other party.
While thinking this, Miyazawa Mana had already returned to her room. She quickly picked out a set of winter dating outfit that best suited her, and then solemnly wrapped the gift she had prepared in advance with colored paper, and then carefully put it into her bag.
After finishing all this, she went downstairs to say goodbye to her father and her mother who had already gotten up. Under their equally strange gazes, she quickly changed into her little boots, stared at the warm sun outside, and went out.
——The other party was already waiting for him at the entrance of the residential area.
It was a bit unexpected. She didn't expect that Sawayama Haruno would come to pick her up so soon. But then she thought that the other party might want to meet her earlier, and Miyazawa Mana could no longer control her excitement.
"Spring, Haruno."
Even though they had known each other for a long time, Miyazawa Mana acted as if they were meeting for the first time. She was even so nervous that she accidentally bit her tongue, which stunned Sawayama Haruno, who was waiting for her not far away.
"Mana, you're coming out so soon?"
Sawayama Haruno smiled.
"I thought you had to wait a while."
"No, today."
Miyazawa Mana was embarrassed to say that she had actually been anticipating meeting today, so she said somewhat stiffly: "I was planning to go out to buy something this morning, and after seeing your message, we just happened to meet up."
"is it?"
Sawayama Haruno scratched his head and didn't think much about it.
He took out the gift he had prepared for the other party from his pocket and said with a smile, "This is for you. It's a Christmas gift."
"Thank you, thank you."
Miyazawa Mana pursed her lips and solemnly took out the things she had prepared from her bag.
She held both hands in front of Zeshan Haruno and whispered, "I have prepared some for you as well, so please accept it."
"Ah, okay."
Sawayama Haruno saw her being so serious and thought to himself, what is this all about? When they were dating in high school, they had never exchanged "love tokens" so seriously and formally, right? But how should I put it? This rare solemn look made people feel that the corners of their mouths couldn't help but rise.
It turns out that the other party had already prepared a gift for him.
"can I open this?"
"Sure. Inside is a pen I prepared for Haruno."
Miyazawa Mana accepted the exquisite gift box handed over by the other party and whispered, "Although Haruno doesn't seem to use a pen to write books, there are times when he needs a pen. I think a fountain pen can play a better role in important occasions, and it can be preserved for a long time, so I bought this."
Hearing what she said, Sawayama Haruno opened the long and narrow box without hesitation. After seeing the obsidian pen body inside and a layer of soft gold pattern inlaid in the outer shell, he smiled knowingly.
"Thank you, I like it very much." Sawayama Haruno said softly.
This pen looks like it is very expensive. The soft gold pattern is obviously made of real gold. Only real gold can have such a soft feeling. Using other metals will make the texture appear harder.
"As long as Haruno likes it, I'll open it too?"
"Open it."
"Um"
Miyazawa Mana carefully pulled the purple ribbon on the small gift box. After pulling it open completely, she opened the box and saw the bracelet that looked particularly dazzling under the sunlight. The sparkling crystal clear diamonds made her squint her eyes, and after seeing it clearly, she froze in place again.
"What's wrong, don't you like it?"
Seeing that she suddenly stopped talking, Zeshan Haruno thought that she didn't like the bracelet.
After hesitating for a moment, he was about to say that if he didn't like it, he could change it, but Miyazawa Mana spoke before he could say anything: "No."
"I like it very much. I like everything Haruno gives me."
Miyazawa Mana raised her head and revealed a thin and fragile smile.
"I just didn't expect Haruno to give me something like this."
"Mana."
Zeshan Haruno took her hand and whispered, "Let's start over again with what we talked about before?"
This time, I will definitely not let you and Maki have the same conflicts as before, he said silently in his heart.
Once he decides to do something, he will do it to the end no matter what happens. He had thought it through clearly at the class reunion. He couldn't accept Mana dating other people, or seeing Mana alone, so no matter what difficulties there were, he would find a way to get back together with her.
Although what happened in Macau cannot be undone, fortunately everyone has come out of the psychological shadow and slowly let go of some of their grudges against each other.
As time goes by, Maki no longer shows as much disgust towards her sister as before.
During her conversation with Mine Shiori, Mana also came to terms with her desire to give in to her younger sister.
The most important thing is that he has found a way to make the twin sisters live in harmony. As long as he can give Maki enough sense of security and make Mana happy at the same time, it will be worth it no matter how troublesome it is.
As if she felt the sincerity in Sawayama Haruno's words, Miyazawa Mana couldn't help but close her eyes.
She leaned on him little by little, and after a long silence, she whispered:
"Then I'll leave it to Haruno."
(End of this chapter)
