Chitanda Eru lowered her head. "I... I didn't say I refused. You let me go back first. What if Yukino sees us tomorrow morning?"
Uchiha Ryo decided to just let things happen.
"Then just tell her straight! What else can we do?"
Chitanda: "No!"
Not knowing where the courage came from, Chitanda Eru was no longer that gentle and lovely girl next door, but turned into a real young lady.
"Ryo-kun, since I am the first person to know your identity as an onmyoji, then I have the right to help you filter!"
"Filter? Select what?"
Chitanda rolled her eyes at Uchiha Ryo. "What do you think! Apart from me and Yukino, I won't mention Hayasaka Ai. What if you find more and more! So before I approve, you are not allowed to show your cards to others! Not even Yukino!"
Facing the extremely assertive Chitanda Eru, Uchiha Ryo, who had just made a mistake, naturally wouldn't refuse.
After eating some more Eru-flavored candy, Uchiha Ryo reluctantly let her leave.
.....
Early the next morning, Uchiha Ryo woke up alone in bed. He got up very early today. Seeing that the two girls next door were still in their room, he decided to go prepare breakfast.
Speaking of which, his skills were all copied, meaning the cooking level of this world wasn't high. Otherwise, Uchiha Ryo would have to learn dishes that glow (make clothes burst) to cook for them every day.
But for now, simple white rice plus rolled omelet, tofu miso soup and pan-fried salmon, preparing three portions would be enough. As for fish, make a little for the cat.
The kitchen door suddenly opened. It seemed that the first one to wake up in the next room was.... Enyun-chan who smelled the fish.
There was no need to eat too much in the morning, and Yukinoshita and Chitanda didn't have big appetites, so cut a few pieces of the remaining unprocessed salmon for Enyun-chan.
Enyun-chan: "No need to cut, just give me the whole one~"
Uchiha Ryo looked at the whole salmon almost as long as Enyun-chan in the freezer. "Can you finish it?"
Enyun-chan's cat face showed an extremely humanized expression. "Tch, I'm a ninja cat with the power of the Two-Tails now. If I want, I can swallow a ten-meter-long fish in Tailed Beast form."
Uchiha Ryo: "Don't try to fool me. Your Tailed Beast transformation is just like my Susanoo, just wrapping a layer of chakra cloak outside the main body. The size of the main body will not change."
Enyun-chan: "....Cough cough, actually I wanted to take it to the cat cafe."
Uchiha Ryo raised his eyebrows. "Yo, you cat boss actually cares about your subordinate employees. This King Salmon from the Yukinoshita family is high-end, about 2500 yen per pound. What are your intentions for taking seven pounds at once?"
Enyun-chan rolled her eyes. "Well, of course I'm taking it back to share with everyone."
This is a lie!
Actually, Enyun-chan has a secret food storage in the back kitchen of the cat cafe, which is all kept for herself to enjoy.
The cat cafe has only been started for a few months. Although the passenger flow looks good, it takes time to recover the cost. Plus, the cat can't help but spend money on games, so to eat this kind of high-end fish and cat food, she can only mooch off Miss Yukinoshita and Miss Chitanda.
Uchiha Ryo: "Forget it, take it all. Anyway, the Yukinoshita family doesn't lack a King Salmon."
The cat used a summoning scroll to seal the fish meat, waiting for a chance to take it to the cat cafe.
While cooking, Uchiha Ryo said.
"When you arrive at the cat cafe, entrust Maki Yanagi to help buy some high-end cat food and send it to the apartment. Maki told me about your hiding food storage. Would I starve you? That's trusting you can get food yourself."
Enyun-chan: "...."
What trusting me to get food myself, now her cat food is all bought with her own money or eaten from Yukinoshita, okay!
Enyun-chan: "No need. My heart has been filled with delicious salmon. Maybe I won't like other food in this life."
"I'll pay.... enough for you to buy two more King Salmon. Then your task during this period is to stay at the Yukinoshita house and protect the safety of the two of them."
Enyun-chan: "Yay!!"
Breakfast was done, and the two girls upstairs also walked down. At this time, whether it was Yukinoshita or Chitanda, there was something wrong in their eyes when looking at Uchiha Ryo.
Yukinoshita was apologetic because she didn't keep the appointment last night, hoping Ryo wouldn't be angry with her.
Chitanda was shy. After all, she just confirmed the relationship last night and knew Uchiha Ryo's secret, so her brain was still buffering.
"Let's eat. After breakfast, I'll go back to the apartment first. Yukino will also come back in a few days, right?"
Yukinoshita nodded, then ate silently. Ryo didn't seem angry with her. It seems she really has to find a chance to compensate him!
The three ate breakfast very quietly. After the meal, the two girls also actively asked to wash the dishes, while Uchiha Ryo left the Yukinoshita manor after saying goodbye.
So next.... how about going to find Bocchi and the others.
Gotou house. Just after today's breakfast time ended, hearing the doorbell ring, Mother Gotou who was washing dishes called Bocchi who was about to go upstairs to open the door.
Ask me to open the door for a guy who is uncertain whether he is a stranger? Can I refuse!
Bocchi pulled Gotou Futari beside her.
"Um, open the door with big sister, okay?"
Gotou Futari raised her head. "Big sister, you just don't dare."
Bocchi was despised by a second-grade elementary school child, but she still pulled Gotou Futari to the door and instigated little Futari to open the door, saying she would watch from behind.
"Ryo-oniichan!"
After Gotou Futari opened the door, she was pleasantly surprised to find that it was Uchiha Ryo standing behind the door, and was immediately very excited.
And Bocchi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was someone she knew. She, Gotou Hitori, has also grown, okay! At least facing Ijichi Nijika and the others as well as Uchiha Ryo, she can talk normally now!
"Hello Futari. But I'm here to find your sister today. I heard her guitar is damaged. Are you planning to buy a new one these two days?"
Mentioning buying a new guitar, Gotou Hitori suddenly raised her head and said very happily.
"Mhm! Dad has already prepared funds for me to buy a new guitar. I was planning to go to the musical instrument store with Nijika-chan and the others today."
Uchiha Ryo: "Is that so? Then go back and change your clothes first, and then go out directly."
"Eh?"
Bocchi looked at Uchiha Ryo. Could it be that the other party came to ask her out!
This.... this is the first time! The first time a classmate took the initiative to come to her home to ask her out.
Bocchi: "I... I'll go prepare right away!"
Gotou Hitori ran back upstairs, while Uchiha Ryo stood at the door waiting for her, and politely declined Mother Gotou's invitation to enter the living room.
Mother Gotou had a good impression of Uchiha Ryo. In this era, such gentle boys are rare.
Just when Bocchi changed clothes and went downstairs, Mother Gotou also handed over a small gift.
"Hitori, you should put this in your bag, in case you have a chance to use it!"
Gotou Hitori saw the stack of 10,000 yen bills.
"Mom!"
Gotou Hitori was very moved because Dad just gave her money to buy a guitar yesterday, and she received new funds today.
Bocchi took the cash, but it felt wrong as soon as she got it. It seemed something was sandwiched in the money....
Seeing her eldest daughter go out, Father Gotou who was reading the newspaper in the living room also asked curiously.
"What did you give Hitori?"
Mother Gotou looked at her second daughter who was still waving outside the door, and whispered to her husband in the living room.
"The ribbed ultra-thin ones you bought a few days ago...."