Chapter 378 Shiori Joins the Big Family
In the end, Mine Shiori agreed to Sawayama Haruno's proposal.
However, on the way to Minato Ward, she still felt some unspeakable worries in her heart. After all, she knew that Suguha Ezaki had been staying in Ota Ward for the past two days.
This means that, apart from Mana Miyazawa, none of the girls he will meet tonight are particularly familiar to him.
Although it's not that they have never met each other, she certainly can't say that she knows them well. Whether it's Maki Miyazawa or Yui Ayano, she has only had a simple meal with them once.
In addition, they had not been together with Sawayama Haruno before, so the feeling of meeting each other again at this moment would naturally be different. Mine Shiori was worried that she would be targeted by others. If she had known earlier, she would have gone home to rest and wait for Ezaki Suguha to come back before visiting her.
It seems that I agreed to it a little too hastily.
Obviously, Sawayama Haruno on the side did not notice the worried expression of Mine Shiori. He was still immersed in the comfortable feeling of being home. Looking at the relatively unfamiliar environment outside the window, he couldn't help but sigh a few words.
The changes between Minato Ward and Shinjuku Ward are huge. If we were to say what the most intuitive feeling that Haruno Sawayama had, it would probably be that the houses in Shinjuku Ward are arranged more densely. After all, the Shinjuku in the past could be completely described as a Tokyo urban village.
As the port area is the focus of development by major real estate companies, it is naturally much better than Shinjuku. Although it is not as developed as Bunkyo Ward and Chiyoda Ward, it is much better than other areas.
Especially when getting close to Zeshan Haruno's new home, it is difficult to see any extra buildings around, and most of them are privately owned luxury villas.
In this way, the taxi drove all the way to the foot of the hill before it stopped completely. After paying the fare, Sawayama Haruno took Mine Shiori and started walking towards their new home.
Looking at the strangely quiet atmosphere around her, Mine Shiori asked, somewhat uncomfortably, "Are there no neighbors near Haruno's new home?"
"No, because this is a small hill, and it is too difficult to develop the surrounding area, so few people build houses here."
Sawayama Haruno stroked his chin and said casually, "I prefer a quiet atmosphere, and there are street lights here, so it won't be too gloomy, right?"
"makes sense."
Mine Shiori pursed her lips and said nothing more.
She had never experienced the feeling of living in a large luxurious villa. Since she was a child, she had basically lived in the streets of her neighborhood. She was the type of person who could see the shops of her neighbors opposite as soon as she opened the door of her house.
In fact, this is also the living environment of most islanders since childhood, similar to that of China in the early 2000s, with small shops downstairs and their own homes upstairs, and even the nostalgic iron grille windows.
Every place has its own characteristics, but when people become rich, the basic choices are limited to a few, and at most they will try to decorate the interior more luxuriously.
The house that Sawayama Haruno bought is naturally magnificent, needless to say. How could a property purchased with such a large sum of money appear to be petty?
Before they reached the top of the mountain, they could already see part of the large luxurious villa. The European-style villa with milky white walls was brightly lit in the night. The nearly 400-square-meter house standing alone on the top of the mountain was quite jaw-dropping.
There is also a super wide viewing balcony on the second floor. Just by standing outside, you can imagine yourself standing on the balcony overlooking half of the port area. It really deserves to be a house that is sold at a sky-high price. It is a little beyond Mine Shiori's knowledge. It is the first time she has seen such a mansion outside of TV.
"Come in, it's a bit cold outside"
It was also the second time that Sawayama Haruno came over, and he couldn't help but take a few more glances, but fortunately, he was used to big scenes and quickly recovered, and called for Mine Shiori to go into the house with him.
What was a bit embarrassing was that Sawayama Haruno didn't bring his keys.
Before he left for Canada, the house transfer procedures had just been signed and the furniture inside had not yet been put in place.
In order to make it convenient for the other girls to come over, he left his only two keys behind, so now he could only ring the doorbell and stand outside waiting obediently.
"Ding-dong-ding-dong-"
The doorbell rang through the heavy door and barely made it outside.
Not long after, the door was opened from the inside, and a pretty face that made Sawayama Haruno a little haunted appeared behind it.
After seeing him, the owner of the pretty face also showed a surprised expression.
"spring"
Just as the happy words were about to come out of his mouth, the other party noticed Mine Shiori, who was following behind Sawayama Haruno and looked a little timid.
Almost subconsciously, she swallowed the greeting she had not yet finished, and instead stared at her newlywed husband with some resentment.
"Oh, you still remember to come back?"
Miyazawa Maki rolled her eyes and said angrily, "You said you were only going to be gone for two or three days, but you ended up being gone for almost a week?"
".Didn't I explain it before, because the annual meeting starts on the fifth day?" Sawayama Haruno said with a guilty conscience.
He actually knew what Miyazawa Maki was angry about. After all, he had told them the specific time of the company's annual meeting before leaving.
Now that Miyazawa Maki brought up this matter again, it was naturally not because she was complaining about him staying in Canada for too long, but purely because he came back with another woman, that is, Mine Shiori.
Perhaps she had guessed it early on. Although Miyazawa Maki looked a little jealous, she did not really reject Sawayama Haruno.
After snorting several times, she took the initiative to make way for him, then pretended to be indifferent and walked into the living room, but her steps were extremely slow, as if she was waiting for someone behind her to catch up and coax her.
Seeing this, Sawayama Haruno immediately understood what he meant. He first whispered a few words to Mine Shiori, then quickly took out a pair of guest slippers from the shoe cabinet at the entrance and gave them to Mine Shiori. He didn't even bother to change his own shoes. After taking them off, he immediately caught up with Miyazawa Maki and began to care about her health.
Seeing this, the other party reluctantly put on a good expression, but was too lazy to say anything more to Sawayama Haruno.
Fortunately, at this time, the other girls in the living room also heard the noise, and Sawayama Haruno's "savior" soon appeared in the corridor.
"Brother is finally back. Is Sister Shiori here too?"
Ayano Yui patted her face, trying to make her smile look as natural as possible.
"Are you coming to eat together? Welcome!"
It has been too long since she last saw Shiori Mine. She almost put herself in the shoes of a "cat thief". Fortunately, her expression control was impeccable and she managed to regain control in less than a second.
I guess my brother is also worried about the relationship between Maki and Shiori. If I help out at this time, wouldn't I be able to secretly "overtime" later? !
Thinking of this, Ayano Yui couldn't help but feel a little proud. No wonder she was "calculating carefully", after all, the increase in the number of people meant that everyone's time would be invisibly reduced, and now might be a good opportunity to secretly increase her time for bonding, or if it didn't work, she could do Mine Shiori a favor.
After all, sooner or later the other party will reveal the fact that he is dating Haruno. If he makes friends with her now, there might be a possibility that he will ask her to voluntarily contribute her time to him later. At the very least, he can be in the third row, right?
Ayano Yui, who is good at planning, has already imagined what a multi-person team will look like in the future. It's a pity that Sawayama Haruno, who is now focused on returning home, has not yet realized that he has been "arranged".
His eyes unconsciously fell on the figures busy in the kitchen, and he asked curiously, "What are you doing?"
"Sukiyaki Hot Pot"
Miyazawa Maki pretended to be cold when she spoke, but in fact her eyes never left Sawayama Haruno.
After being apart for so many days, she had missed him so much. After all, Haruno had just registered their marriage with her before he went on a business trip, and he hadn't even stayed at home for a few days before they separated again.
This time, he also brought back Mine Shiori, whom he had met before, which almost pissed off Miyazawa Maki to death. She now just wanted to pounce on her and bite Sawayama Haruno hard twice.
"Sukiyaki? Not bad. I've been eating Western and French food in Canada these days, and I'm a little tired of it."
After giving two dry coughs, Sawayama Haruno calmly took Miyazawa Maki's hand.
The other party struggled symbolically for a few times, but soon calmed down. However, the cold and murderous look in his eyes had not completely disappeared.
It seems that if Zeshan Haruno doesn't use the same method he used before to "deal with" her, she will continue to be like this.
Sawayama Haruno really wanted to stick with the other person for a while, but after all, there were so many people watching them, and it was almost time for dinner, so it was obviously not appropriate to do anything else.
He had no choice but to lean close to Miyazawa Maki's ear and whisper, "I'll make it up to you tonight, okay?"
"What do you say?"
Miyazawa Maki gently bumped her head against his chest and said unhappily, "It seems that someone has been living a very carefree life in Canada these days. It seems that he has gained a lot of weight."
"No way?" Zeshan Haruno said innocently, "Besides, except for the first few days when we went to the waterfall and had some good food, we ate takeout in the villa afterwards."
"It's only one or two days in total, right?"
After hearing what Sawayama Haruno said, Miyazawa Maki couldn't help but puff up her cheeks, feeling very dissatisfied.
It would have been fine if he didn't mention the big waterfall, but as soon as he mentioned Miyazawa Maki, he immediately became a little dissatisfied.
After all, Mine Shiori was standing next to her, and she guessed that Sawayama Haruno was most likely going with him. It was a pity that she hadn't even been there yet. If he didn't compensate her with a chance to go on a honeymoon, she would never forgive this guy!
"Haruno is back?"
As if she heard the noise outside, Miyazawa Mana, who had been processing beef in the kitchen, quickly came out.
When she noticed the extremely reserved Mine Shiori, she was obviously stunned for a moment, then immediately smiled and said, "Shiori is here too, welcome."
"Mana."
Mine Shiori looked at everyone somewhat awkwardly.
This scene was even more suffocating than she had imagined. If only Suguha was here, at least she would have someone she could talk to. Now she really didn't know what to do.
"Just sit anywhere, the ingredients are ready."
As if she noticed Mine Shiori's uneasiness and Sawayama Haruno's worry, Miyazawa Mana immediately said, "You came back at the right time. The sukiyaki is ready."
"Let me help."
Seeing this, Sawayama Haruno immediately volunteered to step forward to ease the embarrassment.
He quickly took out the sukiyaki and a bunch of side dishes that he had prepared in advance, and then coaxed Miyazawa Maki to wash her hands before she got upset.
And under the intentional care of Ayano Yui, Mine Shiori sat next to her after washing her hands.
Miyazawa Mana finished preparing the last bit of food in the kitchen, then came out holding an exquisite glass plate.
Seeing Zeshan Haruno having a headache, she couldn't help but laugh softly.
“Sorry for the long wait, the wagyu roll is here”
She carefully placed the wagyu roll on the table.
Fortunately, Zeshan Haruno had specifically emphasized that there might be a lot of people living in the villa, so the furniture arranged by the agent was basically purchased according to the specifications of the number of people. For important items like the dining table, they bought a very large one.
Not to mention seating five of them, even adding two more would be more than enough, and the many side dishes for the sukiyaki pot were placed on the table one by one. There was even an extra seat left, and Miyazawa Mana filled the last seat with seafood.
She had spent the entire afternoon preparing these carefully. After they were all laid out, even Miyazawa Maki, who had some grudges against Mine Shiori, could not show an unhappy expression in such an occasion of family dinner.
But she still held Sawayama Haruno's sleeve tightly, as if she was declaring her sovereignty like a little girl, which made Mine Shiori beside her feel a little amused.
She felt that the other party was worrying too much. Although she really wanted to be recognized by everyone, she was not brave enough to do anything with Haruno in front of everyone. Besides, she knew very well that she could not shake Miyazawa Maki's position.
Besides, the only legal relationship here right now is between Maki and Haruno.
"Okay, okay, sit down."
Noticing that the atmosphere was inexplicably tense, Sawayama Haruno coughed lightly and took the main seat without hesitation.
Miyazawa Maki naturally sat closest to him, while Miyazawa Mana sat in the seat closest to his left, as if to appear symmetrical with her sister.
Ayano Yui pulled Mine Shiori to sit next to Miyazawa Mana, and she didn't seem to have to worry too much.
Sawayama Haruno gradually felt relieved. Looking at the steaming Sukiyaki pot in front of him and the looks that the girls were casting at him, he smiled helplessly.
"Let's eat first." He said in a gentle voice.
Seeing that the "head of the family" said this, the girls looked at each other, then picked up their chopsticks tacitly and put aside other things for the time being.
(End of this chapter)
