"Hello, Hikari-kun?"
["Uh… Auntie Sayoko, what's wrong?"]
Sayoko heard Hikari's voice coming from the other end of the phone, sounding a bit puzzled.
Sayoko immediately smiled and said, "It's nothing serious. Didn't you say before that you wanted to eat seafood at the izakaya? I bought a batch of fresh ones today, and Auntie wants to invite you to come try them. Oh right, why did you take so long to answer the phone? Were you busy?"
["I wasn't busy with anything, it's just that Aunt Miyuri wanted to treat me to seafood noodles. Oh right, seafood. Auntie Sayoko, you also have seafood there for me to eat?"], Hikari said.
"Of course. Didn't Auntie just say I got in a batch of fresh seafood? You really weren't listening to Auntie at all!", Sayoko pretended to be unhappy.
["Uh… sorry, Auntie Sayoko. Sss! Auntie is treating me to seafood, right? Okay, then I'll come over in the afternoon or evening. Is that alright?"], Hikari said, his tone a little rushed.
"Sure!", Hearing Hikari agree to come, Sayoko smiled happily, then asked with some concern, "Hikari-kun, your voice sounds a bit off. Are you feeling unwell today? Are you sick?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, then Hikari's voice came through, ["Yeah, just a bit of a cold."]
"I see. You have to take good care of yourself," The mature and considerate Sayoko spoke with great concern.
["Mm, I will. I… Beep! Beep! Beep!"]
Hikari on the other end had only spoken halfway when the call was cut off.
Seeing this, Sayoko didn't think too much about it, just smiled and shook her head.
She thought Hikari had accidentally pressed something, and didn't consider the possibility that someone else had hung up the call.
Sakai Yutaka, who had been standing not far away watching Sayoko make the call the whole time, smiled and spoke when he saw her put down her phone, "Sister-in-law, you were on the phone with Hikari-kun again?"
"Mm," Sayoko smiled and nodded. Perhaps thinking about how Hikari would come over in the evening to taste the seafood she made, her face was full of smiles.
Watching Sayoko, who had been smiling ever since Hikari picked up the phone, Sakai Yutaka suddenly felt a bit sour inside. He spoke in a slightly jealous tone, "Sister-in-law Sayoko, you're really close with that kid. It feels like you're even closer with him than you were with Brother Genji."
Hearing this sudden remark, Sayoko's willow-like brows furrowed. She narrowed her eyes and looked at Sakai Yutaka, a trace of displeasure in her gaze, because she sensed the hidden barb in his words.
Faced with Sayoko's sharp look, Sakai Yutaka hurriedly lowered his head and apologized, "I'm sorry, sister-in-law! I spoke without thinking just now and said nonsense! I shouldn't have mentioned Brother Genji, and I shouldn't have compared him with Hikari-kun!"
Hearing Sakai Yutaka's apology, Sayoko's expression eased slightly. She nodded and said, "Mm, it's fine. I'm going to cook now. Hikari-kun will probably come over to eat later. If Sakai-kun also wants to eat, you can stay too."
After saying that, Sayoko turned around and left without looking back.
"Damn it!", Watching Sayoko's graceful figure leave, Sakai Yutaka couldn't help clenching his fists in anger.
After his elder brother Genji died, he left behind quite a bit of property for him.
Relying on that property, Sakai Yutaka was able to take over a bar, and the business was doing fairly well.
But compared to money, land, and other dead things, the inheritance of his late brother that made Sakai Yutaka salivate the most was a living thing, his widowed sister-in-law, Sayoko.
Before his elder brother Genji died, Sakai Yutaka had already been captivated by Sayoko's astonishing mature charm.
And after his elder brother Genji died, Sakai Yutaka had long since regarded this widowed sister-in-law Sayoko as something already in his pocket.
But after some recent observation, Sakai Yutaka discovered that Sayoko and that high school student called Hikari were quite close.
Even closer than she was with him, the younger brother of her deceased husband.
This made Sakai Yutaka extremely jealous.
Seeing how Sayoko was indifferent to him, yet could be happy for a long while just because of a single phone call from Hikari, made Sakai Yutaka so angry he nearly ground his teeth to dust.
A faint feeling made Sakai Yutaka realize that this widowed sister-in-law he had been longing for might be snatched away by that young high school student.
This was something Sakai Yutaka absolutely could not tolerate.
Watching Sayoko's graceful figure leaving, Sakai Yutaka stood at the entrance of the izakaya and clenched his fists.
"Sister-in-law Sayoko is mine! She's what Brother Genji left to me, Sakai Yutaka! No one is allowed to take her away!"
"But that kid called Hikari does look decent, with that pretty-boy face."
"If this goes on, sister-in-law might really leave me."
"No, I must defend the property my brother left behind!"
"I originally wanted to take it slow, but I can't delay any longer. Today, I'm going to completely take sister-in-law Sayoko!"
"I'll make her understand that I, Sakai Yutaka, am the only one she can rely on as a widow!"
———
The noon sunlight poured down like a golden waterfall, draping the earth in a layer of dazzling radiance.
Inside Miyuri's home, Hikari was leaning slightly against the sofa, watching Miyuri busy in the yard at this moment.
The scorching breeze brushed against her tender cheeks, lifting the hem of her short skirt. Miyuri, with her long hair tied up in a bun, was seriously brushing her teeth and rinsing her mouth.
After carefully cleaning every part of her mouth, Miyuri then washed her hands very thoroughly.
In the end, she even bent down her slender waist, took off the white-and-black stockings from her jade-like legs, and carefully washed her feet.
After spending seven or eight minutes cleaning herself up, Miyuri threw the slightly dirty stockings and tube top into the washing machine and started it.
Only after finishing all of this did she turn around and walk back toward the living room.
"Auntie, you're really busy," Hikari smiled at Miyuri.
Hearing this, Miyuri shot him a resentful glance, "And who do you think caused all this? I already told you not to spray all over the place when playing with the water gun, and you still messed around."
Hikari looked innocent, "I did exactly what Aunt Miyuri told me to do. You're the one who didn't catch it properly."
Miyuri's pretty face flushed red, "Alright, alright, so now it's Auntie's fault again, is it? Even though I'm supposed to thank you, but… but you really were too much. We just did it yesterday… who could've expected this!"
Thinking of Hikari's astonishing amount, Miyuri felt her body go a little weak.
Facing Miyuri's somewhat coquettish helpless look, Hikari could only smile.
"Oh right, are you eating here with Auntie today?", Miyuri asked.
Hikari shook his head, "I already agreed over the phone with Auntie Sayoko to go eat at her izakaya today. Didn't Aunt Miyuri hear just now?"
Miyuri rolled her beautiful eyes and said helplessly, "You almost choked me to death just now. How could I hear anything you were saying?"
"Hikari-kun, if you don't want Auntie to be choked to death by you, you really need to hold back next time. Auntie isn't as all-powerful as you think."
Thinking about how he had pushed back disobediently at the time, Hikari guiltily lowered his head a bit, "Sorry, Aunt Miyuri, but when the call first connected, wasn't it because Auntie wanted to compete with Auntie Sayoko, so I…"
"Oh? So you're saying it's Auntie's fault?", Hearing this, Miyuri immediately put her hands on her hips and put on a stern face.
"Alright, alright, it's my fault, Aunt Miyuri, all my fault," Hikari knew there was no need to argue at times like this. He'd already gotten the real benefits, so giving a bit of face was fine. Besides, he really had nearly choked Miyuri several times just now.
Hearing Hikari admit fault, Miyuri broke into a broad smile. She happily leaned over and gave Hikari a fragrant kiss.
Accompanied by a sweet scent, her moist pink lips pressed against Hikari's cheek.
"Alright, Auntie forgives you."
Miyuri leaned her upper body closer, preparing to sit back down after the kiss.
But Hikari suddenly reached out and wrapped an arm around her round, fragrant shoulder. Miyuri immediately leaned halfway toward him, her head gently resting against Hikari.
Looking at the young face so close at hand, feeling his scorching body heat like the blazing sun, a pair of rosy clouds rose on Miyuri's beautiful cheeks.
"Hikari-kun, you… what are you doing? It's still early in the morning, isn't this… not very good? If you want to do it, it should at least be at night… right?", Miyuri's heart was pounding wildly.
Just as Miyuri was guessing whether Hikari was feeling heated because of the hot weather, and thinking about whether, as his aunt, she should go along with it or firmly refuse, Hikari reached out and patted her hair.
"I'm not doing anything. It's just that there was still a bit of white dirty stuff stuck in your hair, so I helped you take it off," After saying that, Hikari opened his palm.
Miyuri looked down and saw a small sticky clump of white filth.
Her cheeks immediately flushed pink as she realized she had misunderstood.
"S-so that's how it was. You really gave Auntie a scare. I thought it was something else!", Miyuri scolded him playfully as she slapped Hikari's chest once, then took a few steps back to put some distance between them, slightly covering up the embarrassment from her wild thoughts just now.
Hikari also pulled a tissue from the nearby table and wiped his hands clean.
The misunderstanding just now made Miyuri feel a bit awkward, so after chatting with Hikari a little more, she said she was going to take a nap and had Hikari head back first.
———
After leaving Miyuri's house, Hikari walked toward his own home under the blazing noon sun.
The vicious sunlight shone down on him, making Hikari feel like he was being roasted.
It wasn't that his constitution had weakened, it was mainly that both his body and mind were feeling overheated.
Just now, after helping Miyuri deal with that cuckold Nogi Hiroya, Miyuri, as usual, had given him a round of rewards.
In Miyuri's own view, she had already done a very thorough job.
But for Hikari, it was still lacking a bit.
Actually, Miyuri really had tried very hard. For the sake of teaching, she used both hands and feet.
Her mouth even got sore from talking, so it could be said that Aunt Miyuri really went all out.
But for the well-experienced Hikari, it was still lacking a bit.
After all, Miyuri's only teaching experience all came from him, and her skills were still very unpolished.
On top of that, the weather was extremely hot, so it could be said it treated the symptoms but not the root cause.
However, Hikari was already used to it, so he didn't think too much about it and just quickened his pace toward home, since there was still someone waiting for him there.
On the small road home, there was a large patch of dense trees, and Hikari was able to enjoy some shade.
With the cool breeze blowing in from the mountains, Hikari felt both body and mind calm down, feeling much cooler.
But just as he returned home in a refreshed state, the scene that entered his eyes made the flame that had just been extinguished in his heart flare up again with a whoosh.
Taking out his key and opening the yard gate, as soon as he walked inside, Hikari saw a graceful figure in a maid's short skirt busy in the living room.
This figure seemed to be wiping the TV cabinet against the wall, so her upper body was leaning forward while her lower body bent at the waist and stuck out.
Just that bent-over, butt-raised posture alone was enough to make it impossible to look away.
On top of that, the maid skirt was so short it couldn't fully cover her backside, and paired with the white stockings wrapped around her long, beautiful legs, it was enough to make anyone's blood instantly boil.
Looking at this busy, graceful figure, Hikari called out, "Arisa."
Hearing Hikari's voice, Arisa, who had been busy working, immediately turned around with a face full of surprise.
"Hikari-kun, you're back?"
Seeing Hikari return home, Arisa immediately threw down the rag, hurried over to him, and quickly poured him a cup of tea.
Smelling the fragrant scent mixed with a hint of sweat that still smelled nice, Hikari smiled and said, "Mm, I just got back. Are you feeling better? Why are you doing housework? There's no rush for these things."
Hearing Hikari's concern, Arisa smiled sweetly, "I'm fine now! That bottle of drink you left for me, Hikari-kun, was super effective. After I finished it, it basically didn't hurt anymore and I could move normally. Then when I came downstairs and saw how dirty the house was, I couldn't help it and habitually wanted to clean."
"I see," Looking at the sweet smile on the delicate face of this beautiful Russian girl, Hikari reached out and patted her head.
"Mm! After all, I'm eating your food and living in your place, Hikari-kun. I can't just do nothing. From now on, all the housework and things like that, just leave it to Arisa!", Arisa said with a smile as she patted her full, perky chest.
"Alright," Hikari also smiled.
Arisa then continued, "Oh right, Hikari-kun, I've already broken off the engagement with that guy Suzumura Kouta!"
"Good. It's good that it was smoothly resolved," Arisa had mentioned it yesterday, so Hikari wasn't surprised by the news.
"Oh right, where did this outfit come from?", Hikari asked curiously as he looked at the maid outfit Arisa was wearing.
From what he knew, the countryside house that Miss Mira bought didn't seem to have maid outfits like this.
Hearing Hikari's question, Arisa scratched her head, a bit embarrassed, and said, "This… actually, I found it among the luggage I brought before."
"When I left the Suzumura household earlier, I packed a lot of clothes and didn't look carefully."
"And then when I was organizing things today, I realized there were several sets of unfamiliar uniforms I'd never bought."
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