The sky was gray and there was no morning light. Zong Gu, who was lying in the quilt, turned his head and opened his eyes at some point.

Before he could wake up, he had not had time to check the time, and first heard someone talking in the corridor outside.

"…I've almost woken up until now."

“Today is the weekend.”

"Just say hello."

It is Kirino Hiroyuki and Kirino Keiko.

Thinking that the couple might have something to look for him, Zong Gu just sat up and then heard them knocking on the door of the next room.

"Ani, are you awake?"

Not looking for him.

Zong Gu lay down again, but the person was much more awake and his attention was unconsciously transferred to the outside.

"Ani?"

After knocking on the door for a while, Kirino Keiko got no response, so she opened the door and went in.

"Look at your daughter's sleeping appearance... Akane, wake up and mom comes over."

The couple walked into the room, and Zong Gu did not continue to "eavesdrop" and picked up his phone to look at the time.

"It's only seven o'clock."

As for the weekend, it is indeed a bit early.

Looking at the ceiling, the sound of rain and the sound of vague conversation flowed along the mottled wood grains, and the morning time was still quiet.

People are really adaptable, and Zong Gu suddenly thought so when he was lying down.

Before he knew it, he had already become accustomed to awakening naturally in this room without any disturbance. In contrast, he was in danger when he was wandering in the underworld two years ago. In that environment, he was also very adaptable.

quick.

Just like after the earth-shaking change ten years ago, he accepted the new life of the Children's Welfare Home.

"...We often cannot imagine how strong our ability to adapt to the environment is." Soya remembered another sentence that Shibasaki Makoto often spoke when school started.

After looking at the ceiling for a while, his consciousness gradually subsided.

"——Zonggu, are you awake?"

Until the sudden knock on the door pulled him.

"Miss Kirino..." Soya got up and opened the door. The Kirino and his wife, dressed in very formal clothes, stood outside, "Mr. Kirino, good morning."

"Good morning, Soya."

After a brief greeting, Kirino Keiko opened the right way: "Hongyuki and I have something to do to go to Osaka, and we will probably not be able to come back tomorrow night. In the past two days, Akane will ask Soya to take care of her."

“…”

Although it was a little sudden, Zong Gu nodded quickly and agreed. This was not a difficult task.

"That's it, bye."

“Be careful on the road.”

The couple turned around and went downstairs and started chatting while walking.

"It would be great if I could hear 'Be careful on the road'."

"We need to start dating first."

"How to start? Wait until your daughter gets up?"

“Let it go.”

He could not reach a consensus with his husband, daughter and his future son-in-law. Kirino Keiko felt weak and could only sigh, and then looked back.

“…”

She sighed louder.

Zong Gu yawned and pretended not to hear it, so he turned around and hid back in the room.

He didn't plan to continue sleeping, but just wanted to wait for Kirino Kyoko who was a little difficult to deal with before leaving.

A few minutes later, Zong Gu, who had changed his clothes, walked out of the room, and the sound of opening the sliding door came from the side.

He looked over and saw a residual back.

“…”

After standing there for a few seconds, Akane Kirino slowly looked out from the room, and quickly shrank back after touching his gaze.

“…”

I didn't know what she was thinking early in the morning.

Zonggu: "I saw it."

Only then did she smile and poke her head out, and her long hair, which had not been combed, drew an arc behind her, naturally falling down.

“Good morning ~”

"Good morning."

"Mom and Dad have just arrived."

"I've said hello." Soya nodded, "I said I was going to Osaka. Does Kirino know what they were going to do?"

Akane Kirino walked over, "It seems that his parents' college classmate is getting married."

"Is that... that's quite late."

Akane Kirino is sixteen years old, and the Kirino couple is conservatively estimated to be around forty years old. Of course, their college classmates are not a few years younger.

She was stunned for a while, "I didn't even notice..."

Sonoya smiled, "It's probably because I didn't have breakfast."

“Are you connected?”

"It should be."

"Then there is one~"

The two went downstairs together, and Akane Kirino walked behind. With the height difference between the up and down stairs, her hands were naturally supported on Sougu's shoulders.

Feeling the light atmosphere emitting all over her body, he turned his head slightly, "Tungno seems very happy."

"yes."

"Because your parents are out?"

"Probably, right."

Akane Kirino thought for a while and then said:

"My parents originally planned to take me with me, but I didn't know anyone, so I didn't agree. If I had been before, I would have been able to stay at home alone. Now, Zong Gu is still with me at home~

”

Holding her shoulders with her hands and looking at his strong back, she wanted to jump up and lie down.

"I was very happy when I thought of this. Sure enough, the decision to let Zong Gu stay was correct!"

"I feel so, too."

Zong Gu experienced more and felt deeper about An Ding.

"Luckily I met Kirino at that time."

"Hey!"

She still jumped on.

Through the change of force coming from the shoulder, Zong Gu felt that she seemed to be brewing something and was ready. After she jumped up, he shook it a few times and stood firmly on the wall.

"It's still on the stairs."

"Zonggu!"

"Um."

Surrounding his neck, she poked her head out from the side.

"I was thinking, it would be great if Soya could have appeared earlier, for example, when I was in elementary school... it was wrong, it could have been earlier."

He smiled, held the girl's legs, held her up a little more, and continued to step downstairs.

"It is precisely because of this time that I meet Kirino."

"A fateful encounter!"

"Is fate?"

"Don't Soya believe in fate?"
To be continued...