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"To avoid putting too much pressure on you,"
After dropping Gotō Hitori off at her home, Asakura parked the car outside the fence and rolled down the window, saying to the girl: "We won't go inside."
Gotō Hitori clutched what was probably her stomach, nodded with difficulty, and then walked falteringly into the house.
"You've already put enough pressure on Hitori-chan, haven't you…?"
Yuigahama Yui complained.
"After all, the Founders' Festival is in just a few days."
Asakura said: "Hitori's level as Guitar Hero is definitely professional, but she can't unleash her full power due to her personality."
"That doesn't mean giving her pressure will make her perform beyond expectations, does it?"
Yuigahama Yui said: "This child looks like a strawberry no matter how you slice it. If you just press a strawberry gently, won't it all get squashed?"
"Don't instinctively treat her as a strawberry just because Hitori always wears pink clothes…"
Asakura retorted, then said meaningfully: "How should I put it… Hitori gives me a feeling… Although she usually seems weak and powerless, she yearns to show a special brilliance with her own strength, and even turn the tide when necessary, that's why she's a Guitar 'Hero'."
"You really think highly of Hitori-chan, but aren't you afraid she'll get sick, like a stomach ulcer, by putting so much pressure on her all at once?"
Yuigahama Yui said.
"Then I can only say I misjudged."
Asakura shrugged, then suddenly noticed Yuigahama Yui running out of the car, then opening the front door and sitting in the passenger seat: "What's wrong?"
"Hitori-chan already got out of the car, so it's no fun for me to sit alone in the back,"
Yuigahama Yui held up a small fist: "And I feel like the view will be better in the front."
"Whatever you want."
Asakura naturally had no objection to this. After all, after being expanded by the Undetectable Extension Charm, the magic car, which looked small and exquisite on the outside, had a considerably spacious interior, capable of directly fitting twenty people without feeling crowded if necessary.
He pressed the invisibility button, then stepped on the gas again, soaring into the sky once more.
When Asakura, Yuigahama Yui, and Gotō Hitori came out of STARRY, the sky had already begun to darken.
Gotō Hitori's home was quite far from Shimokitazawa, taking two hours by train one way. Even though the Flight Magic car could ignore obstacles and go directly in a straight line through the sky to the girl's house, it still took over an hour to arrive.
By this time, the sunset had completely disappeared below the horizon, leaving only a golden line on the distant horizon, and the sky was completely dyed ink-black by the night.
Although due to light pollution, the cosmos above was not as dense and abundant as the city lights below, it still had a unique beauty. The two, one suspended high in the night sky and the other embedded in the city, were like two starry skies reflected by a gigantic Mirror.
"I miscalculated. I should have sent Yuigahama home first."
Asakura said annoyedly: "Now I have to drive for another half an hour…"
"It's okay, I don't mind."
The girl, who had been captivated by the view from an angle that would normally be impossible to see outside the car window, came back to her senses and quickly said.
"Given the current situation, it will probably be quite late when I drop you off at home. Is that okay with your family?"
Asakura asked.
The girl was silent for a moment too.
Actually, it originally wouldn't have mattered, as her parents had always trusted her and didn't enforce curfews or anything similar.
However, after Hiratsuka Shizuka finally managed to contact them while they were on a business trip and tattled about the girl's previous 'absence', Mrs. Yuigahama and Mr. Yuigahama became vigilant.
Now, Mrs. Yuigahama had changed jobs and was almost always at home every night, waiting for Yuigahama Yui to return, fearing that her daughter might encounter some trouble again. At the same time, she often subtly probed in daily life, hoping that Yuigahama Yui hadn't developed any psychological issues.
Playing until so late with Asakura today, she would definitely be nagged a bit when she got back.
But besides that, there seemed to be nothing else, as Yuigahama Yui understood her mother quite well; she was just a gentle and kind person.
"Of course, it would be even better if Asakura-kun could come and help explain a few things,"
After confiding her situation to Asakura, the girl said: "That way, Mom would probably feel more at ease."
"I don't mind, though…"
But this young lady, don't you think that having a boy explain to your mother why you're coming home late today will only make her worry more about you? Asakura thought to himself.
"Hmm~. The night wind feels so nice~"
The girl rolled down the car window, leaned against the window sill, and poked out half her face, feeling the cool evening breeze blowing in from outside. While holding her hair to prevent it from being messed up by the wind, she said happily: "The temperature has started to get hot recently, and I feel like the irritable mood I had during the day because of the stuffiness has calmed down~"
"Do you really get irritable over such small things?"
Asakura asked curiously: "You usually seem to be in a silly good mood all the time, I can't tell at all."
"That's too much! What do you mean by 'silly good mood'!?"
The girl pouted and complained: "Asakura-kun really doesn't understand a girl's heart!"
"I think it's also a problem for a boy to understand a girl's heart too well…"
I feel like I'll either become a scumbag or a sympathetic old sister.
I don't want either. Asakura thought to himself.
"To use Anna-chan's words, 'Asakura-kun, you're just no good like that'~"
Yuigahama Yui showed a charming and sweet smile, winking at Asakura, her long eyelashes fluttering slightly.
However, her attempt to imitate Yanami's tone was completely off, instead making Asakura feel as if she was pouting at him.
"You just said Hitori was like a strawberry, but I think Yuigahama, you're more like a strawberry, like a strawberry daifuku or a strawberry mochi,"
Asakura, who had wavered for a moment, came back to his senses and said: "Anyway, you're pink too."
"Ero."
The girl puffed out her cheeks, looking at Asakura with a cute, sulking expression.
"I was talking about hair color. Please don't make strange associations."
Asakura said leisurely.
"I know that, of course…"
Yuigahama Yui mumbled.
"Speaking of which, since your family is already home, Napoleon should be fine, right?"
Asakura asked with concern.
"Ever since my mom accepted the idea that 'Napoleon is a very rare breed of dog,' our Sable has fallen out of favor…"
Yuigahama Yui said.
Asakura was silent.
This was understandable, after all, who could refuse a cute, obedient, and seemingly very intelligent little dog snake?
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