"Bro, seeing you isn't easy either. Don't engage in online dating in the future. Since Enyun-chan blocked you, it means she also wants to end this deception quickly."
"Ishigami, go get a cold drink for Kondo-kun, let him wake up."
Ishigami Yu nodded, stepped forward, and patted this Senior Kondo on the shoulder. Although he didn't know what happened, he estimated that some villain from Gotham City had escaped.
After Ishigami Yu left the room, Uchiha Ryo continued to persuade.
"Forget her. Just treat it as a dream. Consider the money spent as water under the bridge."
Uchiha Ryo's tone was calm, comforting the friend who had gone astray like a good brother of many years.
"Sigh... Actually, from the moment Enyun-chan blocked me, I just... Wait a minute!!"
"Fine, fine, fine. Almost got tricked by you. Enyun-chan is your younger sister, right?! What qualifications do you have to comfort me!"
Uchiha Ryo smiled. "Then what can you do? It's impossible to call Enyun-chan over, and it's also impossible to ask her to return your money."
"You! Uchiha Ryo, if you have the guts, let's go out and duel."
"Duel is fine, but don't beat the young one and the old one comes. I'll be very annoyed."
Kondo clenched his fists. "I hate guys who bully others with their power the most. If you win the duel today, I guarantee I won't ask anyone else to touch you!"
As the ace of the Shuchiin Judo Club, Kondo-san asked himself about his bare-handed fighting ability. No one in the entire academy was his opponent, including Kojima from the Kendo Club! That guy only dared to spar with him holding a weapon!
Three minutes later—
Ishigami Yu walked into the room. "Uchiha-senpai, I just realized that not being home for a week caused the refrigerator to be empty. Fortunately, there is a supermarket nearby. I bought ice cola... Senpai, what is this mummy?"
Uchiha Ryo sat in front of the computer and took the ice cola. "Oh, that's not a mummy. He accidentally got hurt just now, so I helped him bandage up."
Hurt... so the whole body is bandaged?
"Uchiha-senpai, is it okay..."
Ishigami Yu was not a rich kid who knew nothing. He had heard of the identity of Shuchiin VVIPs. If something happened to Young Master Kondo who represented the military, even the Student Council couldn't protect Uchiha Ryo easily.
"Of course it's okay."
Uchiha Ryo stood up and poked Kondo-san's arm.
"Hiss—"
A sound of sucking in cold air came. Kondo-san endured the pain and forced a smile.
"I... I accidentally fell, mn..."
Uchiha Ryo nodded. "Alright, the matter between you and Enyun is over. Don't send things to the cafe in the future."
"Uchiha! Wait a minute."
Kondo-san took a deep breath enduring the pain. "Really can't... let me chat with Enyun-chan again?"
Seeing this pitiful appearance, why did Uchiha Ryo have a sense of déjà vu that he was the villain preventing the male and female leads from meeting?
"Tell you the truth, then let you give up. Enyun-chan... is not a woman. (It's a female cat)"
One sentence, like a bolt from the blue, made Kondo-san freeze in place, then burst into laughter.
"I don't care about that bit of game money, just can't forget the wishful thinking of these few months... Uchiha! Even if it's a male, can you let me meet once?"
This time it was Uchiha Ryo's turn to be shocked by his statement. Even Ishigami Yu subconsciously took a few steps back.
"Ishigami, leave this guy to you. Farewell!"
"Senpai!! Uchiha-senpai!"
Ishigami Yu looked at Uchiha Ryo's quickly leaving back, turned his head awkwardly to look at Kondo-san whose whole body only had face and fingers movable.
...
A few days later, since returning from the trip, Uchiha Ryo basically stayed at Yukino's house downstairs, accompanying Rumi to tutor Shuchiin's coursework.
Although he still slept in the guest room every night, at least he could... have some fun when Rumi was not around.
As a social professional, occasionally Uchiha Ryo would also go out to visit the Chitanda family and the Shinomiya family, exchanging coursework with them.
Then... what even Uchiha Ryo didn't expect was that he actually received an invitation from Shirogane Kei to come to the Shirogane house.
"Kei, do you need me for something?"
"Ryo-nii! Come help me quickly. My brother has been acting strange recently. I don't know what happened!"
Walking into the living room, only the two siblings were home today at the Shirogane house. The second floor was their rooms, but now Shirogane Miyuki was staying inside alone, while Kei could only stay on the first floor.
"Kei, calm down first."
Uchiha Ryo sat at the table, frowning slightly with a confused look, signaling Shirogane Kei to speak slowly.
"Mn, it's just recently, I found that my brother always likes to lock himself in the room..."
Uchiha Ryo rested his chin on his hand. "That study maniac, isn't he always like this? Probably previewing next semester's courses, right?"
"But it's still very wrong... He finished previewing in the first few days of the holiday. It's just recently he suddenly likes to lock himself up, and stays up all night without sleeping."
"Mn, Kei, tell me all of Shirogane's abnormalities recently first."
Shirogane Kei nodded.
"First is staying up late, then there are always crumpled balls of paper in the room. He actually won't let me help clean up... don't know what he's doing."
"Because compared to Dad, I feel Ryo-nii is more reliable, so I came to find you first."
"..."
"Mn? Dad is very reliable, Kei." The first-floor door was pushed open, and Shirogane Dio walked in slowly.
"Kei, I was wondering why you were a bit off recently. Turns out the one really off is Miyuki."
Uchiha Ryo stood up. "Uncle Shirogane, that."
Shirogane Dio waved his hand. "I should be happy that my daughter can find someone she trusts. But compared to that... the trust level actually exceeds her father, truly heartbreaking."
Actually, what Uchiha Ryo wanted to say was, as a father, you noticed your daughter was off, but never noticed that the son was the first to be off?
Shirogane Kei snorted lightly. "Anyway, Dad will only tell me that Bro is raised free-range, just let him be, and won't help me solve the problem at all."
"That's how it is originally?"
Shirogane Dio stepped forward and sat down casually. "I heard everything you just said. As the saying goes, men! There is always an age when they think family members are annoying, and precisely because of this, he will become independent."
"Don't bother with him. Just remember to remind him to wash his hands when he comes out of the room. Also... hide some comic books deeper yourself. I don't care, but Kei shouldn't read them randomly!"
Shirogane Dio said to himself. "Mn, let me go up and remind him."
"Wait a minute Uncle Shirogane!"
Uchiha Ryo stood up first. "For this kind of thing, parents saying it will make Shirogane-kun embarrassed instead. Let me go."
"I see, then I'll leave it to you!"