Chapter 222: Half of the Vacation Has Passed
After watching the fireworks with Kaguya and Hayasaka Ai.
Sakurai Saki stayed at home for a few more days, choosing to keep his mother company—mainly because she was too clingy. The next day, even though Sakurai Saki wanted to leave, he couldn't; that pitiful, tearful face of hers really made anyone's heart ache.
Tamaki: (இ﹏இ`｡)
With no other choice, he had to stay a few more days.
That day, she even pointed at a news report on TV and solemnly said: ["Look, Tokyo has another fire, it's too dangerous, baby, don't go back this summer."]
She was talking about the TV news report, saying that near the Minato area, a cargo ship by the coast had suddenly caught fire.
Just to make her beloved son stay a few more days, she could find every possible excuse.
When Sakurai Saki watched that news report, he remembered that about a month ago, near the Minato area, a construction site had also caught fire, but it probably wasn't related.
Hot summer, easy to catch fire—very normal.
The day after watching the fireworks, Sakurai Saki discovered something else.
The wish he had written in the diary had disappeared, perhaps because it had been fulfilled.
He had once written there the wish to watch fireworks together with Hayasaka Ai. That wish had indeed come true, and very smoothly at that. Although the process was a little different, the superpower of Sakurai Saki yesterday had truly been very suitable for sneaking them out.
Perhaps, could the future diary interfere with his superpower? Sakurai Saki guessed so.
...
Back at his rented apartment in Setagaya Ward, Sakurai Saki spent a few days finishing his homework. In a few days, he would go to the beach with everyone in the student council—Kaguya had said she would take care of arranging it.
To make sure the beach trip went smoothly, Sakurai Saki wrote into the future diary the wish [to have an enjoyable summer vacation].
As a result, the next day, news came from Kaguya, saying that someone from the main family had suddenly come, forcing her to stay home throughout summer vacation. They said her recent behavior had been improper, told her not to show her face outside, and moreover, if she went traveling, the attendants would have a hard time protecting her.
In short, many reasons—but the beach trip was completely canceled.
Everyone in the student council could only comfort her. Kaguya herself wasn't too sad; she had already gone to the fireworks festival, even if it was with Sakurai Saki.
After Kaguya relayed this news.
The next day.
Sakurai Saki discovered that the wish he wrote in the diary had come true! This left him puzzled for a long time.
Until three days later, on the very day they had originally planned to go to the beach.
Sakurai Saki looked at his superpower — [Death Regression].
He immediately understood.
It seemed the small island they had planned to visit wasn't safe. The residents there probably had bad temperaments, unwelcoming to outsiders, and who knew, there might even be some filthy things.
In many novels and manga, this kind of small island was often connected with eldritch creatures.
Although Sakurai Saki wasn't afraid, the people around him might be in danger. Thinking about it, this wasn't a bad thing—otherwise, if Ai-chan or Chika got into trouble, he would have to waste time and energy saving them.
But even though he knew this was a good thing, Sakurai Saki still felt a bit disappointed.
He actually really wanted to see Chika and Hayasaka Ai's swimsuits. Perhaps you might ask—since he had already even seen their naked bodies, why would he still want to see swimsuits? Of course, it was because of the sense of ritual!
Girls definitely looked more beautiful when wearing clothes than when not wearing anything at all. After all, besides covering the body, clothing also served to increase one's charm.
As for Shinomiya Kaguya and Kei-chan-chan's swimsuits… the former was just a flat board, nothing worth looking at; the latter was his friend's little sister, best not to touch.
Kei-chan-chan was still a middle schooler; Sakurai Saki really only considered her as a cute little sister, nothing more.
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On August 13, going with the Shirogane family to the water park, Sakurai Saki discovered that Shirogane Miyuki couldn't swim, moreover Kei-chan was dressed extremely tightly, not to mention a swimsuit, even a winter coat was thinner than this. After asking, it turned out that it was because of Shirogane Miyuki, that siscon, who said that when a girl goes to play in the water, she mustn't dress too revealingly.
…Sakurai Saki had actually secretly looked at Kei-chan's swimsuit. While Shirogane Miyuki was practicing swimming, Kei-chan took off her outer coat and asked Sakurai Saki if it was pretty. Probably because she felt it had been very difficult to finally buy a swimsuit, yet no one paid any attention to it, she was a little disappointed, so she let him take advantage like that… even though Sakurai Saki himself didn't really want to look at Kei-chan's swimsuit.
After all, she was still his friend's little sister, so it was best to keep some distance, otherwise, when brothers turn into brothers-in-law, for no reason his status would be lowered a rank.
[ ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧"Very cute, like the morning dew, fresh and delicate, making people want to protect you." ] At that time Sakurai Saki praised her like that.
Recently he was practicing saying sweet words, all just to please Hayasaka Ai.
[(⸝⸝⸝OωO⸝⸝⸝) "Saki-nii~ this swimsuit is only for you to see~" ] At that time Kei-chan's face turned red, her words were somewhat subtle.
Hopefully the girl didn't misunderstand anything.
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Now it is August 26, school will start on September 1.
Sakurai Saki received a phone call from the Nakano quintuplets, or to be precise, from Yotsuba.
"Sakurai-san!!! Help meeeeee!!!"
༼;´༎ຶ ༎ຶ༽
Sakurai Saki felt as if his eardrums were about to be shattered by her scream.
She shouldn't study in high school, but should go work on a demolition site instead, not even needing to use much strength, just one shout and it would be done.
"What's the matter?" Sakurai Saki said helplessly.
It's summer vacation now, isn't it? Our tutoring work has slowed down, hasn't it?
In this scorching heat, Sakurai Saki's rental boyfriend work had also stopped, and recently he hadn't even mentioned this not-so-dignified job, precisely because Sakurai Saki hadn't taken any clients for a long time.
"Homework! I can't finish my homework." Yotsuba let out a wail of despair.
Yotsuba: (つ╥﹏╥)つ
'What the hell did this idiot do during summer vacation?' Sakurai Saki couldn't understand.
Logically speaking, even if she had gone traveling to Kyushu at the beginning of summer vacation, it shouldn't be to the point that she couldn't finish her homework in the last few days, right?
But the truth was, Yotsuba really couldn't finish it.
"I spent half the summer vacation helping the basketball club practice… every day I was so exhausted that I didn't want to do homework anymore." Yotsuba said in a small voice.
Moreover, the most important thing was, she had asked her sisters for help, but none of them agreed.
After Miku refused and even smiled when she heard Yotsuba threatening that she would call Sakurai over to help her with homework, this made Yotsuba furious!
Miku: (˵ ¬ᴗ¬˵)
Yotsuba: ᕙ( ᗒᗣᗕ )ᕗ
[ "If you won't help, fine! But to even laugh at me! Miku is really mean!" ] Yotsuba felt that they couldn't even be considered sisters anymore.
Ichika had been very busy with her part-time job recently, and her homework situation was probably just as bad as Yotsuba's, so Yotsuba didn't even bother asking her.
When Nino heard that she wanted to call Sakurai Saki to help, her expression was exactly the same as Miku's.
Luckily Itsuki agreed, but she said: [ "If you want me to help, I'll only teach you how to do it, I won't tell you the answers." ]
"I won't let you copy answers either." Sakurai Saki cut off the girl's next words.
On Yotsuba's side, it went silent.
"Oi! Yotsuba! What's wrong with you?"
"Are you there? Can you hear me? Oi!? Moshi moshi~? Oiiiiii."