Zong Gu stared back, and the dark clouds in his heart dispersed a lot.

"Well...everything is probably going well."

Akane Kirino didn't even change her clothes, so she went downstairs in pajamas with her hair messed up from sleep.

Things seemed to be going well from the beginning, "Where's Dad?"

"Akane, my hair..." Kirino Keiko was a little helpless, "Dad took the car for inspection and will be back soon."

Her daughter came over and hugged her waist, "I'm hungry."

"Go and wash up first..."

The two of them went to the kitchen together, and of course she couldn't see her daughter constantly waving behind her, signaling Souya to take the opportunity to leave.

After finding the hidden shoes and tiptoeing away from Kirino's house, Soya was exposed to the sun again, and it was inevitable that he felt a little guilty.

"It would be troublesome if I lost my job at the izakaya..."

There was a faint sound of an engine from the other side of the house, and it seemed that Hiroyuki Kirino, who had driven for inspection, had returned here.

He returned through the stone path he had taken last night and didn't meet anyone else until he entered the courtyard of the Kirino family's old house.

About half an hour later, he saw the newly dressed Akane Kirino outside the yard. The Kirino couple driving a car were waiting at the intersection.

"Soya, do you want to visit Kyoto?"

The snow-covered yard shone in the sunshine, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Next time."

After the Kirino family left, Soya was about to go back and continue his self-study when he suddenly noticed something unusual among the bushes beside the road.

"..."
Chapter completed!