It had been a long time since she had slept so well.
She hadn't even turned on the nightlight.
The feeling of being held deep in Ms. Unohana Chiyo's embrace gave Su Yuzu a long-lost sense of security.
It had nothing to do with Unohana Chiyo's strength.
It was... a near-maternal sense of security that only a mature and glamorous older sister could bring to Su Yuzu.
And... it was probably a realm that Soga Yura would never be able to reach in her entire life.
When Su Yuzu woke up from the sweet, soft dream that was like fluffy marshmallows, the first thing she saw was... Unohana Chiyo, who was even softer and gentler than the marshmallows in her dream.
Warm and gentle sunlight penetrated the thin paper of the shoji doors, casting golden traces inside the room.
The slender, deep collarbone right before Su Yuzu's eyes, draped with a lock of slightly curled hair from her temples, seemed to be rendered with an artistic touch by the fragmented sunlight.
Su Yuzu raised her head.
Clearly, the two of them had gone to sleep almost separately last night.
Unohana Chiyo had even prepared a separate set of bedding for her.
But... when she woke up, it had inexplicably turned into this situation where they were almost tangled together.
A sweet, soft fragrance, delicious and crisp like a peach, constantly wafted into Su Yuzu's nose.
Very... sweet.
Recalling the dream from last night where she chased after marshmallows and finally dived directly into a cloud of soft marshmallows.
Even a little bad woman like Su Yuzu felt as if the roots of her ears were slightly burning.
She looked up at Unohana Chiyo's pretty face in the gentle morning sunlight.
The woman's deep, dark red, gentle eyes were rippling with a watery sheen, gazing right at her.
Judging by Unohana Chiyo's gaze, the woman had probably been awake for a long time, yet she had maintained this posture, afraid of disturbing the sweet dream of the girl in her arms.
"How did you sleep?"
Unohana Chiyo asked Su Yuzu softly.
Smelling that peach fragrance filling her nose, Su Yuzu hugged Unohana Chiyo's waist and nuzzled into Unohana Chiyo's embrace again like a spoiled child.
The girl who had just struggled free from her sleep was completely different from her usual nastiness.
As if she had unloaded all her bad intentions, she was lazy and cute, just like a child.
No—
It should be said that in front of Unohana Chiyo, Su Yuzu was a child.
Unohana Chiyo's body obviously stiffened for a moment, but soon relaxed again, turning into that considerate softness.
She gently brushed aside the hair hanging down from Su Yuzu's forehead.
"Very well—" Su Yuzu said from the bottom of her heart.
It had been a long, long time... since she had slept this well.
If Soga Yura next door were to see the warm and harmonious scene in the Unohana household at this moment, she would probably bite her handkerchief and cry for three days and three nights without sleeping.
'My Yuzu...'
Almost nestling in Unohana Chiyo's warm and soft embrace, Su Yuzu slowly sobered up from the haziness of just waking up amidst that lovable peach fragrance.
She looked into Unohana Chiyo's eyes.
Only then did Su Yuzu notice that the hues of Ms. Unohana Chiyo's two eyes had subtle differences.
The hue of the right eye was obviously a bit deeper.
Compared to the fresh, moist peach pink of the left eye, the color of the right eye was closer to the bright and beautiful purple-red of a red cherry.
It couldn't be noticed when looking from afar.
But when snuggling this close, it was quite obvious.
Unohana Chiyo noticed the girl's gaze.
She tried to struggle away a bit uneasily. But her arm was being used by Su Yuzu as a pillow, and she couldn't bear to disturb a single hair of Su Yuzu, so how could she break free?
"Teacher Chiyo's eyes..." Su Yuzu was quite frank.
If it were really something that shouldn't be mentioned, Su Yuzu would definitely shut her mouth honestly and then ignore it.
But Unohana Chiyo's reaction was clearly not like that.
Rather than letting Unohana Chiyo dodge and hide, it was better to openly pierce through it.
Gently biting her lip, Unohana Chiyo looked at Yuzu's frank appearance in her arms and finally spoke with some hesitation, "Before... when I was on the battlefield, my eye was injured."
Su Yuzu could feel that Unohana Chiyo cared very much, cared very much about her own eyes.
She could also feel how serious the injury Unohana Chiyo mentioned so lightly might have been.
The fact was exactly so.
That arrow had almost directly destroyed half of her body.
If not for the timely treatment, and Director Saionji smashing [Medical Unit]s onto her body as if [Medical Unit]s cost no money.
Even if she could have saved her life, she would certainly have been disabled.
The [Medical Unit] reconstructed her body.
Under the influence of Talos Metal, the hue of Unohana Chiyo's regenerated left eye appeared slightly more pink and moist.
Su Yuzu looked at Unohana Chiyo's eyes; she could feel that Unohana Chiyo must care very much about her reaction, and must be waiting for her reaction.
"They look really nice—" Su Yuzu's praise came from the bottom of her heart.
That mature and glamorous older sister biting her lip, her eyes excessively moist and watery, caring about her reaction.
It was indeed very moving.
The arm with which Unohana Chiyo embraced Su Yuzu tightened a little subconsciously.
[Ding—]
[Praise: Unohana Chiyo Favorability +1.]
[Congratulations, you have obtained a Favorability Increase Reward: Kitchen Household Apron (White).]
[Kitchen Household Apron: A well-tailored household apron, the fabric is soft, so you won't feel uncomfortable even if you wear it directly against your skin.]
[...]
Su Yuzu's eyelid twitched.
Who would wear an apron directly against their skin!!!
However... she looked at Unohana Chiyo's moist, shimmering eyes in front of her.
Gulp—
The girl's throat swallowed along with the sound.
Just then, "Awoo~~~"
Lian's loud cry suddenly came from outside Unohana Chiyo's room.
Even though she was already a cat in her teens, Lian's voice was unexpectedly clear and bright.
"Oh... Oh no..." Unohana Chiyo tried to get up in a flurry.
Su Yuzu sat up from Unohana Chiyo's embrace.
She watched Unohana Chiyo hurriedly get up and slide open the wardrobe. "Lian usually eats cat food at six in the morning."
"Strange... today she actually waited until now."
Su Yuzu glanced at the time; it was already almost ten o'clock.
The cat was so well-behaved, as if it didn't want to disturb the sleep of its owner and the new guest.
It waited until it heard movement in the room before crying out "awoo awoo".
Su Yuzu slowly got up together with Unohana Chiyo. The girl tidied up her nightgown and slid open the very thin shoji door.
The cat, with its tail held high, paced in unhurriedly, raised its small head, and sniffed the peach fragrance filling the air.
Then it rolled over by Su Yuzu's ankles, rubbed against Su Yuzu's ankles, and exposed its belly.
Su Yuzu leaned down and hugged the well-behaved cat in her arms.
"Awoo~~~" The cat seemed to be urging for its breakfast, and also urging Unohana Chiyo to prepare breakfast for herself and Yuzu.
Without much taboo, Unohana Chiyo changed clothes in front of Su Yuzu.
The woman's back lines were excessively beautiful.
She changed clothes very quickly, cleanly and neatly.
"Strange..." Su Yuzu heard Unohana Chiyo muttering, "Where did that nightgown get lost again?"
Su Yuzu's eyelid suddenly twitched.
'No way...'
'Could it be...'
Unohana Chiyo rushed towards the kitchen in a hurry.
"Eh..."
"Where's my apron?"
Holding the cat. Looking at the [Alluring Cut-Out Nightgown with a Mature Style (Purple)] and [Kitchen Household Apron (White)] that she had just received in her Material Inventory, Su Yuzu suddenly fell into deep thought.
Then... her gaze slowly shifted.
Su Yuzu looked at the whole row of cat tails encompassing various colors.
She fell into even deeper and prolonged contemplation.
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