I play the wind instrument in Hokkaido.

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Eri Kanzaki's hands hung at her sides, her fingertips slightly curled inward, as she looked down at him and said:

"It can be given to Haruka and Ai."

Kitahara Hakuba couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. This was Hokkaido. Could it be that he specially sent a few cucumbers to his two younger sisters?

Putting aside his own absurdity, if his sister received it, she might think that her brother has a problem with his thinking, and that he should just send money and let them buy it themselves.

"Okay, I'll take it."

Before Kanzaki Eri could even feel happy, Kitahara Hakuba quickly added...

"Don't send me any more fruits, melons, or vegetables from now on. Just pick and eat the ones you've grown yourself."

"Hmm," the girl's eyelids drooped slightly, and after a moment of silence, she said, "Does everything I grow taste bad?"

Kitahara Hakuba quickly explained, "No, no, it's delicious, especially the cherry tomatoes from last time, I really liked them."

Eri Kanzaki's hands were clasped in front of her chest, and her soft, supple lips were parted slightly.

"I don't know what you like. I just want to give you what I like and hope you like it. Isn't that a bit too much?"

Won't."

Kitahara Hakuba sighed helplessly, glanced at the chair beside him, stood up, and pushed it over.

"Huili, please sit down for a while. I want to talk to you about something."

"Hmm." Kanzaki Eri sighed quietly, and as she sat down, her gaze followed him as if she were being tracked.

"It's about Nagase-san—" However, before Kitahara Hakuba could finish speaking, he was unusually interrupted and rejected by Kanzaki Eri.

"I don't want to." She gently shook her head, her hair swaying softly like willow branches.

The movements were not violent, but they conveyed an undeniable determination.

"I haven't even said what it is yet," Kitahara Hakuba said with a smile.

“There’s nothing complicated between me and Tsukiyo, so I know what Kitahara-sensei is going to say.” Kanzaki Eri’s legs were together, her eyes fixed on him.

Kitahara Hakuba clasped his hands together, forcing a smile as he spoke:

"The reason you've become like this is because she's never been able to consider your feelings?"

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"My relationship with Tsukiyo is ruined. She has neither reflected on her actions nor changed anything."

Eri Kanzaki's face remained calm as always, her speech steady and devoid of any emotional fluctuation.

"Being with her again will only hurt me, I don't want that."

?

Kitahara Hakuba didn't know how to start the conversation. After all, this was a matter between them, and since Eri, as one of the parties involved, felt that reconciliation was impossible, anything he said would be ineffective.

Perhaps the only extreme solution is to use his connections to force her to reconcile with Yueye.

But Kitahara Hakuba knew that if he did that, he and Eri would only get deeper and deeper into the vortex, which would be a losing proposition.

“Last week, Harutori told me,” Kanzaki Eri murmured, “that Kitahara-sensei is her guarantor. Is that true?”

Kitahara Hakuba was angry at Saito Harukori for leaking the information, but he knew that it was no longer possible to hide it.

"Yes, she had some conflicts with her family, so I acted as her guarantor for renting a place outside."

A sigh escaped Kanzaki Eri's lips, and it was clear that the girl's shoulders slumped with sadness.

"Did you make the same promise as me?"

Her expression revealed a faint sense of disappointment and sadness, and even her breathing became shallow and weak, almost like a moan.

Kitahara Hakuba inhaled deeply, as if trying to expand every alveolus in his lungs, and then exhaled forcefully:

“Huili, that’s not what you need to worry about. What you need to worry about is the national competition, what you should do after you get into university, and what your future goals are. After all, these are things that will last a lifetime.”

Eri Kanzaki didn't speak, but instead looked at the packaging bag he had placed on the table:

"I'll think about it."

“Good boy, let’s go back.” Kitahara Hakuba said.

Eri Kanzaki nodded and turned to leave.

Just as I stepped out of the office, a voluptuous young woman walked right towards me. Her long, brown hair, which fell to her chest, stood out against the blue banknotes.

Unlike Kanzaki Eri, Saito Haruka hesitated for a moment.

As they brushed past each other, she turned to look at Kanzaki Eri, whose steps were steady, and a complex emotion appeared on her face.

Upon arriving at the office, I found Kitahara Hakuba looking at a bag, appearing somewhat bewildered.

"Did Eri give you this?" Saito Harutori stepped forward.

Kitahara Hakuba looked up and saw Saito Harukori, whose ample breasts created suggestive folds in the middle of her uniform.

It's fine if I don't see her, but as soon as I see her, the scene in the bathroom comes back to me.

Even though Saito Haruka was wearing a long-sleeved uniform and her lower body was covered by a skirt, Kitahara Hakuba's brain had already peeled off the girl's clothes like peeling a bamboo shoot, leaving not a single piece of fabric behind.

Now, he no longer wants to be angry with Saito Haruka. Rather, being angry is pointless. Because of him, a rivalry has already developed between her and Eri.

"What's the matter?"

Kitahara Hakuba intended to put the bag in the drawer, but there were too many cucumbers to fit, so he simply placed it on the floor to keep it out of sight.

Saito Harutori's gaze fell on the chair next to him; it seemed the two of them had been chatting for a while.

What are they talking about?

“My father contacted me last night,” Saito Harutori said.

Hearing her say that, Kitahara Hakuba immediately perked up and turned to look at her:

"Are you planning to go back now?"

Saito Haruka raised her hand to brush a strand of hair from her chest and said softly, "I'd like to ask Kitahara-sensei for your opinion."

Kitahara Hakuba didn't think too much about it: "If you go back this time, will your previous situation improve?"

"Yes, he said he wouldn't come back anymore, so he transferred the house to me and gave me some money."

A faint, enigmatic smile appeared on Saito Haruka's face.

"In a way, it should be considered an improvement."

After all, it was her family matter, and Kitahara Hakuma wasn't really in a position to ask too many details. He cautiously inquired:

"Could you explain in detail what you mean by 'never coming back'?"

Saito Haruka's gaze subtly shifted, landing on a vague point in the office:

"He will be settling down in Osaka from now on."

Kitahara Hakuba was speechless and could only nod, muttering, "So that's how it is."

"What are your plans for the future?" he asked.

Judging from the current situation, Saito Harutori has been abandoned, but fortunately her father left her an expensive house.

The girl gently kneaded the knuckle of her little finger, her eyelashes trembling slightly, a hint of hesitation flashing in her eyes:

"Is the agreement we made between the two of us no longer valid?"

Outside the window, the cloudless sky looked like spilled blue paint.

The breeze blowing in from the window was cool and refreshing, and the floral-patterned curtains swayed timidly in the wind.

Kitahara Hakuba gripped the mechanical pencil on the table with his right hand; the two had indeed made a promise back then.

But at the time, she said it was an investment.

But now that she has money, is it really necessary for the two of them to continue?

"Do you think it's still necessary?" Kitahara Hakuba asked calmly.

Saito Haruka raised her hand, clutched the coin at her chest, and said with pursed lips:

"Everything I said to you before was from the bottom of my heart. Since you could make a lifelong promise with Eri, why can't you consider me? I've been good to you in every way."

Before she could finish speaking, Kitahara Hakuba's fingers tapped on the table.

Then he kept pressing the mechanical pencil, making a clicking sound that was particularly clear in the quiet office.

Each time you press it, the pen tip peeks out slightly, only to quickly retract, leaving only this unconscious action continuing.

She could have simply kept quiet about it and continued to eat his food and use his things until she graduated from university.

Perhaps, as Saito Harutori said, she only wants to tell him the truth now.

Kitahara Hakuba took a shallow breath, gazing at the voluptuous, dreamlike girl before him, and said:

"Here's what we'll do: when you get back, calculate all your expenses for the past few months. If you feel you can pay me back, you can. If you can't, you can pay me back later."

Saito Harutori's throat bobbed up and down as she rubbed her fingernails, her voice sounding somewhat delicate and fragile:

What exactly do I need to do to make you believe me?

She did those things in the bathroom, even showing him the most important parts of a girl's body.

"It's not about that. It's just that now that you're capable, we don't need to maintain this kind of relationship anymore."

Kitahara Hakuba felt a headache coming on and leaned back in his chair, saying, "I'm actually quite happy that you came to tell me about this. What I'm most afraid of is that you'll continue to hide this from me. So, I think I don't hate you anymore."

Saito Harutori hesitated for a moment, then clasped her hands together and said:

"Really? You don't hate me?"

"real."

Kitahara Hakuba felt it wasn't appropriate to discuss this at school, so he casually said...

"That's fine. We can talk about it privately."

Saito Harutori blushed, smiled at him, bowed, and left.

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