CHAPTER 334: CHAPTER 255 TOKYO UNIVERSITY MAY FESTIVAL (1)_2

"How do you feel?"

"Quite, quite good..."

"Do you want me to help?"

"Sakura..." Hanamaru Hanabi clutched his clothes tightly, her voice suddenly becoming so shy it was barely audible.

Uesugi Sakura whispered softly, "Do you want it?"

Her hands grasped more tightly at his chest, her face blushing like a fever, and she lowered her head more deeply:

"Okay..."

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Knock, knock!

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

Uesugi Sakura sensed that Hanamaru Hanabi, who had closed her eyes with a red-hot face, instantly tensed up.

"Sakura..." She was very worried.

"Don’t make a sound, just pretend to be asleep."

Seeing no response, she opened the door and Mrs. Hanamaru saw with her eyes that the two of them were still asleep in bed:

"Sakura, Hanabi, why are you still not up?"

In her mother’s arms, Hanamaru Hanami was sitting curiously looking at the big bed.

"Didn’t Hanabi just wake up? Hmm... well, she’s been a sleepyhead since she was little."

"Go, wake your brother and sister up." Mrs. Hanamaru said to her and placed the little one on the two’s comforter.

Hanamaru Hanami looked very happy; she knew who the two people still asleep were in front of her, her hands and legs scurrying around the comforter.

Very quickly the little one crawled between the two of them, and seeing her brother and sister’s asleep faces, she was momentarily bewildered, as if considering who to wake first.

In the end, she chose her sister, reaching both her soft hands onto Hanamaru Hanabi’s face, and called out in a milky voice:

"Sister~ Sister~"

It’s quite painful when kids grab someone because they can’t control their strength well.

Under her sister’s urging, Hanamaru Hanabi had to sit up, her face still red.

Standing at the door, Mrs. Hanamaru smiled, "Wake Sakura up, come out for breakfast, and after getting dressed take Hanami out to feed her, aren’t you attending the campus festival today?"

With Hanamaru Hanabi nodding in agreement, she closed the door again.

With the mother-in-law gone, Uesugi Sakura sat up from the bed too, reached for a tissue from the bedside cabinet, and handed it to Hanabi.

His sister-in-law wiggled restlessly in his arms, and seeing the tissue handed over by him, Hanamaru Hanabi still showed a shy expression.

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After breakfast, we took the train and got off at the station in front of Tokyo University.

The two mothers accompanied us; they also came to visit and enjoy the Hongo Campus festival of Tokyo University today.

Tokyo University’s campus festival happens twice a year, Komaba Festival in November at the Komaba Campus, and May Festival in May at the Hongo Campus.

The main activities include mock shops run by student bodies at the university.

Exhibition of research results by specialized fields or laboratories, interesting scientific experiences, and lectures.

Stage performances by school clubs, individuals, and other artistic groups.

Originally, Uesugi Sakura planned to just participate in a mock shop, but Kyujuu and her friends wanted to join the stage performance, so as an old friend, he joined in as well.

Of course, the biggest reason he agreed to participate in this performance was because Hanabi wanted to perform on stage with him once.

In the previous cultural festivals during high school and junior high school, he didn’t participate at all; he went to England in his second year of high school, and in his third year, he missed the cultural festival because he went to the Kyudo tournament.

Arriving at the entrance of Tokyo University, a huge signboard announcing the 95th May Festival of Tokyo University was erected.

This day there are many parents bringing their kids to visit and play, so the two mothers carrying Hanamaru Hanami and Uesugi Shin for a fun time isn’t unusual.

The two little ones have never seen so many people before, their eyes kept on staring at people wearing bizarre costumes.

"People from Tokyo University are doing so much cosplay, huh?" asked Mrs. Hanamaru.

"Quite a lot probably." Mrs. Uesugi replied.

"Oh yeah, back in our days we did too, Sakura can you guess what it was?"

Uesugi Sakura was walking beside Mrs. Hanamaru, as his and Hanabi’s stage performance wasn’t until the afternoon, "Dragon Ball, Magic Girl Sakura, stuff like that."

Mrs. Uesugi smiled, "Actually girls mostly dressed up as characters like Pikachu."

Mrs. Hanamaru: "I remember there was a red horn robot wanting to take photos with me back then, that robot was shaped like a round barrel, can’t recall what it was called."

Mrs. Uesugi: "Wasn’t there a bunch of guys in golden armor?"

Mrs. Hanamaru: "That was later, didn’t you have one too? A red-haired guy with a chain on his waist, with white lapels covering the legs."

Mrs. Uesugi: "What was it we were playing then?"

Mrs. Hanamaru: "I think it was Team Rocket, that one with a big ’R’ on the white clothes."

Uesugi Sakura listened to the two mothers chatting and couldn’t help but imagine what they looked like as delinquents back then, curiously asking:

"Auntie, do you have any photos from before?"

Mrs. Hanamaru smiled broadly, "Sakura, I’ll show you pictures of your mom, she was really ’trendy’ back then."

"Meiko!"

Mrs. Uesugi didn’t want to be exposed in front of her son, that style... would be too ridiculous by today’s standards, "Do you believe I’ll show Hanabi the photos of you chasing after Takuya back then."

Hanamaru Hanabi curiously asked, "Mom did you chase after stars before?"

"Your mom was young once too." Mrs. Hanamaru grabbed Hanamaru Hanami’s small hand and waved it.

Uesugi Sakura for a moment felt that the three of them were very alike, even though their personalities were completely different.

The little one might have sensed he was looking at her, so she extended her hand asking to be held.

Mrs. Hanamaru couldn’t control Hanamaru Hanami’s mischievous nature, compared to when Hanabi was little, she was far more active.

"Alright, alright, go find your brother."

Uesugi Sakura took his sister-in-law from his mother-in-law’s hands, the little one’s features were quite nice; petite versions, the purple eyes looked very pretty, sparkling under the sunlight.

"Sister~"

Unfortunately, she liked to call her brother sister.

His own sister was sitting in Mrs. Uesugi’s arms, and seeing her hold Hanami, she also wanted to be held by him.

Though a few months younger than Hanami, she recognized the ones sitting in her brother’s arms.

Her brother often fed her, she understood that he was someone very close.

Looking at her son, Mrs. Uesugi said, "Akai, how about you hold both of them?"

What is this...

Holding two little ones, wouldn’t it make classmates and seniors think he was showing off how happy he is?

"Alright." he agreed.

With his right hand, he held Hanamaru Hanami, while his left hand went up to clutch the sibling passed over by his mother.

So his sister-in-law and own younger sister were held in his two arms.

The two little ones looked at each other as if they were recognizing faces.

Hanamaru Hanami was a bit older, she reached out trying to grab Uesugi Shin, but Shin immediately leaned against her brother’s shoulder, not wanting to be caught.

Babbling in their baby talk that adults couldn’t understand.

Though Hanamaru Hanami couldn’t speak well, she seemed to understand and leaned against Uesugi Sakura’s shoulder as well, wrapping her arms around his neck.

Uesugi Sakura thought the two of them got along well, frequently exchanging information with their eyes.

Seeing the two of them, Hanamaru Hanabi instinctively and lightly smiled, "Sakura, you’ll definitely make a good dad in the future..."

Seeing her daughter’s starry-eyed expression, Mrs. Hanamaru teasingly said, "Little Hanabi wants to get married and have kids? That’s not happening, you’re still not an adult, not even 18 yet."

In Japan, adulthood starts at 20.

Immediately, Mrs. Uesugi chimed in to expose her, "What are you saying, Meiko, you weren’t much older than her when you had Hanabi."

"Nobuko, you were too, weren’t you? When I was pregnant with Sakura, I wasn’t even showing yet."

"I was a bit older than you."

"That’s no excuse, we were in the same year."

"So what, I was still older, and don’t forget I was the one who won."

Mrs. Hanamaru: "You won, but it wasn’t like I lost, it’s not like I could decide when to get pregnant."

This meant she was blaming Hanamaru Hiroki.

Watching the two mothers bicker at the gate, Uesugi Sakura suddenly realized they were talking about who got pregnant first?

Were he and Hanabi’s birth timing actually used as a competition by their mothers?

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