Chapter 377 Everyone Wants to Get Close to Haruno
"Ahhh!"
The voice of Miyazawa Maki shouting could be heard from the kitchen.
Mana Miyazawa heard the noise, but she didn't even bother to lift her eyelids. She was concentrating on watering her small potted plants and had no time to pay attention to what was happening in the kitchen.
She had more or less guessed why her own sister was screaming.
The story began a few days ago when everyone moved into their new home. Miyazawa Maki found a large amount of dry food in the kitchen of her old apartment, so she finally remembered that she had once said she wanted to make desserts.
After discovering the dry food, Miyazawa Maki spent two days in the kitchen trying to make desserts that could rival Haruno's. The results were, of course, self-evident; all ended in failure.
"here we go again"
Ayano Yui, who was lying on the sofa, couldn't help but sigh after noticing Miyazawa Maki's screams.
"I say, Mana-sister is the older twin sister after all, why don't you go and teach Maki-sister?"
"Do you think she would be willing to learn if I teach her?"
Miyazawa Mana said without turning her head: "If Suguha is not here, you are the only one who can communicate with her a little bit now, right?"
"That's what I say, but..."
Ayano Yui touched her belly, looking a little melancholy.
In the past few days, she has been forced to eat a lot of semi-finished desserts, naturally in order to help Miyazawa Maki "taste the food".
It’s not that the food they cook is not delicious, but the taste is just average and a little too sweet. It’s okay to eat one or two bites, but it’s a bit unbearable if you eat too much.
But Miyazawa Maki is the type of person who tends to get stuck in a rut and is extremely stubborn. She will not give up until she can make desserts that can match Haruno's, so Ayano Yui also ate a lot of them, and she is almost suffering from sweets PTSD.
You have to know that she is a heavy sugar lover on weekdays and will eat Jiabeijia lollipops whenever she has time. Even someone like herself is afraid of this, so you can imagine how poor Miyazawa Maki's talent is in desserts.
"Ugh"
Just thinking about it, Ayano Yui felt indescribably tired.
Miyazawa Mana seemed to sense her tangle. After taking good care of her small potted plant, she turned around and said gently, "Don't worry about her for now. Haruno will be back tonight anyway. Let Haruno teach him then."
"Hey, what time is it tonight?"
Ayano Yui picked up her phone reflexively and took a look. It was only three o'clock in the afternoon, and Haruno would not be home until six or seven in the evening at the earliest.
"It should be soon, right?" Miyazawa Mana also said uncertainly, "I sent a text message a few hours ago, so I should be able to get back in the evening."
She paused, then continued, "Why don't we go out and buy some food so we can have dinner together tonight."
"Is everything okay? Suguha hasn't come back yet."
"At worst, we can wait for Suguha to come back and cook another big meal. After all, Haruno has been gone for a long time this time, and doesn't Xiaowei miss him anymore?" Miyazawa Mana said with a smile.
This rhetorical question hit the nail on the head for Ayano Yui. She really did miss Haruno so much.
The relationship between the two was confirmed during the last week in Osaka, but less than two weeks after returning from Osaka, Sawayama Haruno hurriedly ran off to Canada.
It can be said that after they confirm their relationship, they are actually apart from each other more often than they are together. It would be a lie to say that they don't miss their loved ones.
What's more, Ayano Yui has already tasted the happiness of intimacy between men and women. She has become more and more addicted to it, and these days, every night, she finds it increasingly difficult to control her longing for Sawayama Haruno.
When she heard what Miyazawa Mana said, she was also moved.
"Well, there are more important things than a big meal, right?"
Ayano Yui's eyes looked a little strange. She first glanced at Miyazawa Maki who was still tinkering with desserts in the kitchen, and then turned her gaze back to Miyazawa Mana.
The cute girl with pigtails lowered her voice and whispered, "Speaking of which room should Haruno sleep in tonight after he comes back?"
"Um"
Ayano Yui's question successfully stumped Miyazawa Mana.
Several people were staying in the rooms upstairs, but due to the number of people, there was no extra room left for Sawayama Haruno, unless he stayed in another guest room that had not been cleaned yet.
But this seems a bit unreasonable, after all, Sawayama Haruno is the real owner of this house.
What's more, what Ayano Yui meant was who would spend the night with Sawayama Haruno tonight.
Although this question sounds a bit unreasonable, considering the current relationship between the few people, it is indeed necessary to hold a very serious family meeting for this purpose.
After all, there is only one Sawayama Haruno, but there are four girls living here. Looking at the strange attitudes of Ayano Yui and Esaki Suguha recently, there seems to be a possibility that a fifth girl will move in.
In fact, Miyazawa Mana had guessed that the fifth person would be Mine Shiori. After all, she had already seen through the other party's thoughts when she confessed in the cafeteria. In addition, the other party would also go to Canada with Sawayama Haruno, so she knew the final result after a little guess.
If there are five people, then we will have to renegotiate everyone's schedule.
Everyone wants to spend as much time with Sawayama Haruno as possible, but in order to be fair, a balance in time is essential.
"Xiao Wei, what do you think about allocating time?"
"I?"
Ayano Yui immediately became alert.
Of course she wanted to stay with Sawayama Haruno for a while longer, but with so many people watching, it would not be a good idea to be the first to speak out.
Even without talking about the time arrangement, just asking Haruno to spend the night at someone's place could easily cause trouble.
If you think about it carefully, it seems that except for Maki Miyazawa, the most suitable candidate to take the position of "first", everyone else will more or less cause dissatisfaction among others.
If you think about it this way, what you are actually striving for is second place?
"I'm fine with that. Why don't we let Haruno and Maki-nee take a break tonight?"
Ayano Yui said innocently, "After all, we just flew back from Canada, and Haruno must be tired. As for the time arrangement, I think it's best to wait until everyone is together, then kick Haruno out and discuss it in private, right?"
"That's right."
After listening to what Ayano Yui said, Miyazawa Mana nodded in agreement.
After all, it was difficult to discuss the issue of allocating time in front of Sawayama Haruno. Besides, there were seven days in a week, and it would be troublesome for five people to divide up the seven days. Even if they could take turns to work on the last two days, some people would still be dissatisfied because the time would drag on too long.
Even without talking about others, just talking about Miyazawa Mana herself, she felt that it was a bit inconvenient to take turns in the next two days.
But if we don't take turns, wouldn't it be like what Ayano Yui said before, where everyone goes together?
Thinking of this, Miyazawa Mana's face suddenly turned red.
The subtle changes in her expression naturally fell into Ayano Yui's eyes. With just a little guess, Ayano Yui knew what Miyazawa Mana was thinking.
She immediately put on a smiling expression, ready to further instigate the other party, but unexpectedly, Miyazawa Maki, who had been staying in the kitchen, suddenly ran out at this time.
"I'm so angry. I'm so angry!"
Miyazawa Maki, whose defense was somewhat broken by the dessert, rushed out angrily. She picked up her water cup and gulped down a big gulp. Then she said dissatisfiedly: "I obviously followed Haruno's previous steps, but why is it so much sweeter than his."
"I even reduced the proportion of chocolate sauce on purpose, but it took me a long time to stir it. It was so annoying."
Right from the start, she started complaining a lot about her dessert research over the past few days, completely unaware of the strange expressions on Miyazawa Mana and Ayano Yui's faces.
But after calming down a bit, Miyazawa Maki quickly put the matter behind her and asked curiously, "What were you talking about just now? Are you going out to buy groceries?"
"Well, Haruno will be back in the evening, so let's eat Sukiyaki together then?"
Miyazawa Mana chuckled and said, "It just so happened that when we moved last time, you brought the induction cooker and small pot from the apartment here, right?"
There are still many things in the apartment that have not been moved in. After all, the lease has not expired yet, and Miyazawa Maki and the others are not in a hurry to move all the things in.
Of course, as a top foodie, the first thing that Maki Miyazawa moved away was naturally the kitchen utensils that Haruno Sawayama used for cooking.
Although other girls in the family can cook, none of them can compare to Sawayama Haruno's cooking skills. Therefore, in order to allow her man to cook all the time, moving kitchen utensils has become one of Miyazawa Maki's top priorities.
It can be said that the preparations were quite thorough. All the ingredients for the Sukiyaki pot we had in the apartment were brought over. There were even some sterilized eggs in the refrigerator that I had just bought some time ago, which were just right for use tonight.
"Sukiyaki hot pot?"
After hearing what Miyazawa Mana said, Maki's eyes obviously lit up.
These days, she ate too many desserts that she had developed herself, so she had no appetite during meals and basically just ate salads.
However, after hearing Miyazawa Mana's proposal, she suddenly became tempted again.
"If you want to eat, you have to go out now."
Ayano Yui glanced at the time on her phone and reminded, "If you're any later, the fresh ingredients in the supermarket will be sold out."
"I'll go."
After hearing what Ayano Yui said, Miyazawa Mana thought about it and prepared to get up and go back to the second floor to change clothes.
She also added: "Maki, remember to clean up the kitchen. I will prepare the ingredients after I come back from shopping."
"Tsk, I know how to handle it without you telling me."
Miyazawa Maki puffed up her cheeks, but when she thought about having delicious food in the evening, she quickly became happy again.
She had a hard time during the days when Sawayama Haruno was away. Although if she wanted to eat Sukiyaki hotpot she only had to say it and the others would be happy to satisfy her, the tsundere Maki Miyazawa just couldn't bring herself to ask for it.
As a result, they have been eating ordinary home-cooked meals these days, such as fried hamburger patties, fried sausages, or omelette rice or curry rice.
It’s not that these are not delicious, but after often eating Sawayama Haruno’s cooking, Miyazawa Maki’s appetite has become more sophisticated. Of course, she feels a little uncomfortable when eating these island country dishes.
Ayano Yui was the same, she seemed to be allergic to these dishes, so when she heard that Miyazawa Mana was willing to go out to buy groceries, she immediately stood up and volunteered, "Then I'll just go clean the living room again, hehe."
The living room had actually been cleaned once. A few days ago, before Ezaki Suguha returned home, she cleaned it again for everyone. In addition, a cleaning company came to clean the house on the day they moved in. Now the house can be said to be spotless.
But Ayano Yui was a little bored these days, and the school didn't assign any art homework, so she wanted to find something to do.
Of course, the most important thing is to make yourself look busy so that Maki Miyazawa will give up the idea of torturing herself with desserts.
All I can say is that Ayano Yui really put a lot of effort into escaping dessert hell.
After seeing that Ayano Yui, who was as lazy as herself, took the initiative to do the housework, although Miyazawa Maki was still a little confused about her dessert-making, she had to return to the kitchen and start cleaning up the "remnants" she left behind for the sake of the family dinner in the evening.
6:45 pm, Tokyo Haneda International Airport.
The plane landed slowly, and after taxiing on the runway for a while, it came to a complete stop.
After waiting patiently for several minutes, the passengers left in an orderly manner under the instructions of the flight attendant, and Sawayama Haruno and his group were naturally in the queue.
Feeling the colder temperature in Tokyo, Sawayama Haruno let out a breath and subconsciously looked at the people behind him.
"Finally back, are you guys going out for dinner later?"
"I, I made an appointment with my family to go back early for dinner." The deputy said weakly.
Morikawa Riho pulled her buttons in annoyance and said casually, "I'm almost there too. My aunt-in-law is also in Tokyo, so I guess I can't miss the dinner tonight."
"Should I go home?"
When saying this, Mine Shiori's attitude became obviously hesitant.
She was secretly observing the changes in Sawayama Haruno's expression. After all, returning to Tokyo meant that Sawayama Haruno was divided into five equal parts again, and four of them were with other people.
This made her very entangled, and most importantly, Sawayama Haruno had moved from Shinjuku to Minato, and her route home was different.
Even though the two had just started dating and had been very sweet during their few days in Canada, as the return journey was about to begin, Mine Shiori couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.
Fortunately, Sawayama Haruno had anticipated her reaction in advance, so after hearing Mine Shiori's answer, he said without hesitation: "Shiori, come back with me to eat?"
"Before I boarded the plane in Canada, I told my family what time I would arrive. I guess they would prepare dinner in advance for me. If you don't mind, would you like to go over for dinner together?"
"Hey, is it really possible?"
Mine Shiori was suddenly moved.
(End of this chapter)
