CHAPTER 375: CHAPTER 278 HAPPY LIFE_2

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Hanamaru Hanabi, hearing this, also started to yearn, "Then Sakura-kun can’t buy it alone."

"Why?" Uesugi Sakura laughed, "Want to work hard together with me?"

"Yeah! Work hard together."

As time passed, Hanamaru Hanabi busily made strawberry cake in the kitchen in the afternoon.

His fiancée wouldn’t let Uesugi Sakura do these chores, so he ended up watching TV in the living room.

The current big goal is to buy a villa with a garden together.

Such a house in Tokyo would cost at least several hundred million yen, right?

Although his current savings are more than 90 million, which is enough to buy a house, for a garden... that’s far from enough.

Uesugi Sakura thought about becoming a barista, but this job requires fame to earn big money. Even working in some high-end restaurant would at most pay a few hundred thousand yen a month, too slow.

Now he’s considering accepting Uncle Sakihara’s invitation to participate in a Sword Dao competition.

The prize money constitutes a large part, and maybe the cheap master might offer some additional subsidy because of it?

Lost in thought, the doorbell rang.

"I’ll go."

Uesugi Sakura glanced at Hanamaru Hanabi, who was busy by the oven, stood up, and walked to the entrance.

Upon opening the door, two neatly dressed little girls were standing in front of him.

Aei, wearing a hat, tiptoed, hands behind her back, and looked up at the big brother, saying:

"Welcome home."

Chiaei: "Aei! You should say ’Excuse me for disturbing you.’"

Though she was scolding her sister, Chiaei’s voice was gentle, not angry, but carried a hint of minor complaint.

Aei: "Oh, that’s something the elder sister should say."

Uesugi Sakura found it hard to handle this little girl Aei. Last time she said he’d better wash his neck clean and wait, maybe from reading too many comics.

"Does Aei-chan like reading books very much?"

Aei’s small mouth formed an ’o’ shape, looking very surprised, "Eh, how did brother know?"

The brother that Aei was referring to wasn’t the ordinary ’onii-san’, but the ’ani’ when introducing her brother to others, or sometimes just ’nini~’.

In short, it’s a very affectionate term, without seeing him as an outsider.

"Aei, do you like brother a lot?" Uesugi Sakura remembered their first meeting; she wasn’t afraid of strangers.

"No, no," Aei-chan shook her head non-stop, her little hat almost fell off, "That’s a crime, brother, you’ll be arrested and jailed."

Uesugi Sakura laughed, "Not in that way, even if it were, Hanabi’s dad is the police chief, I can still come out."

"Chief ah!"

Aei’s small mouth formed another ’o’ shape, feeling it’s impressive, seemingly understanding it as the head of the police, "Then in that case, brother can’t come out for a lifetime. Clearly, brother has Hanabi sister and still wants Aei to like him, once the police chief knows, he won’t let brother come out."

Through an unexpected mishap, she spoke the truth.

Uesugi Sakura felt that if he really did that, his father-in-law would imprison him for a lifetime.

Now being willing to let him and Hanabi live together is merely out of trust.

But if the matter became a settled fact, he might spend the rest of his life in prison.

Setting aside these impossible matters, Uesugi Sakura first invited the two little girls into the house.

Chiaei greeted politely, while Aei looked around the room.

"Brother’s home is so big~"

"It’s alright, rented."

"Rented?" Aei seemed unable to grasp the meaning of it but didn’t dwell on it, "Is it just you and Hanabi sister in brother’s house?"

"Yes."

"Where are mom and dad?"

"They live over in Shinjuku District, not too far from your home, right?"

Walking into the living room, Hanamaru Hanabi in the open kitchen exchanged greetings with the two little girls, letting them sit for a bit as the food would soon be ready.

Uesugi Sakura originally planned to pour them a cup of water, but suddenly remembered the two little girls liked milk as much as Hanabi did, so he warmed a cup of milk for them.

"Thank you, brother." Chiaei held the cup with her small hands, looking as if she cherished it.

Aei, seeing Hanamaru Hanabi busy in the kitchen, curiously asked Uesugi Sakura, who was handing her milk: "Did brother make a baby with Hanabi sister?"

"..."

You understand everything.

"Do you know what making a baby means?"

"Of course, it’s when brother’s sperm combines with sister’s egg, there’s a baby, with brother’s—"

Uesugi Sakura understood, she really did know, even aware of the key structure and specific steps.

Probably learned from a textbook.

Leaving her sister Chiaei blushing scarlet beside her.

Aei could casually say these words, while many adults even consider it unspeakable.

The words themselves are pure, and in a kid’s mouth, they’re also pure, perhaps this is the difference between adults and kids.

Hanamaru Hanabi’s baked bread soon finished, she placed several servings on the coffee table for the two little girls to eat first.

How should I say it?

Uesugi Sakura thought they were eating very well, eyes like discovering a new continent.

"Is it delicious?"

"Yeah, it’s delicious," Chiaei’s expression was interesting, her face also faintly blushing, "The bread is warm and soft, never eaten something like this..."

"Best in the world!" Aei declared in an exaggerated tone, still in that soft and adorable childish voice.

They were so serious just eating the pre-meal snack bread.

Uesugi Sakura had long gotten used to it, while Chiaei had never eaten such kind of bread.

Clearly, at this age, the sisters are cuter than Hanabi was back then, but they were abandoned by their parents.

I really can’t figure it out.

Perhaps in those parents’ minds, cute children aren’t anything, what makes themselves happy is the most important.

So the sisters’ existence was just dispensable.

"Chiaei, do you know what your father does?"

Hearing his inquiry, Chiaei shook her head with small hands holding the bread, "But, dad seems to be very rich, the house we live in now was also bought for mom by him, although after I was born... he rarely came by..."

Aei gulped and forced a piece of bread, Uesugi Sakura advised her to eat slowly.

"What does dad look like?"

Chiaei shook her head, "Can’t, can’t remember... but dad is tall, wearing a silver watch..."

"Mom would come visit us every month, she also said next time she’d bring dad along."

Chiaei lowered her head, "Mom won’t come again..."

"Mom was just not here last month." Aei pouted, turning her face away.

Chiaei continued to keep her head down, holding the bread, just saying, "Won’t come again...."

"She will."

"No, she won’t."

The sister was trying to convince the younger one, Uesugi Sakura thought Aei might still have some fantasy about their mom, while the sister had entirely given up.

"Want to hear stories about Hanabi sister when she was little?"

The two sisters both turned to look at him, with Chiaei being more formal in her posture out of courtesy.

Uesugi Sakura continued, "In the past, Hanabi was easily bullied because she was soft natured and willing to help others uncompensated, thus easily ordered around. Others would casually find an excuse to order her to help."

"I urged Hanabi to try refusing but because she was too kind-hearted, many people would hold her hand, saying one ’Please!’ and she’d agree."

"Even duties that weren’t hers, classmates would have her do. Over time, it became natural, so much that when she didn’t help out one day, classmates scolded by the teacher would resent her."

"Her original intention was out of friendship in helping, but the friendship she gave was being taken advantage of. Not understanding this and still helping, the only one hurt would be herself."

Chiaei: "Did Hanabi sister also get bullied?"

That ’also’...

Uesugi Sakura’s intention was to change the topic so the sisters could steer away from the subject of their mother, but seeing Chiaei like this, she probably also got bullied by some nasty boys.

Similar things like having her pen or textbook hidden by classmates.

Hanabi also went through it, in elementary school, by a boy.

That boy even deliberately told her, "Hanabi-chan, can I borrow your pen? I accidentally dropped mine."

Little Hanabi was kind-hearted and of course willing to lend it, but she couldn’t find it after searching for a long time.

Just about to apologize.

Then the boy said he found his pen, and when he took it out, it was exactly the same as the one Hanabi used previously.

A little shark pattern.

Then he blatantly used Hanabi’s pen to flaunt and write notes next to her.

Little Hanabi vaguely felt the pen seemed to be hers but didn’t dare say, just watched him proudly in silence.

And she herself, meanwhile, sat at her desk anxiously thinking she might have carelessly dropped it during break.

The more she thought, the more anxious she became, then really believed herself to be clumsy, and was down for the whole day.