This child is terrifying.
Hiro gasped.
Yayoi-nee also looked at Satoru in surprise.
This kid looked quite quiet, but not in the way a good student is quiet; rather, he had an air that leaned more towards a "bad kid."
No matter how she looked at him, she couldn't tell that he was capable of being first!
But Aiya didn't know him at all and wouldn't lie to her about this.
Could it be that this kid was more serious than she imagined?
Although there's no necessary connection between a "serious person" and "good at studying," generally speaking, "good grades" can be equated with "serious person."
So, after Hiro tremblingly handed over his test paper.
Yayoi-nee was so angry that she almost had a heart attack.
Aiya ! He's already a serious child!!
She loudly declared the classic line: "Look at him!!"
The "him" referred to Satoru.
Satoru smiled harmoniously, enjoying his moment of glory.
Aiya wished he could fight him.
At this moment, Aiya 's eyes finally showed emotions akin to "jealousy," but he was only jealous of Satoru's talent.
Heaven is unfair!
How can someone be both handsome and have good grades!?
When he noticed the name "Satoru" suddenly rising to prominence this time, he thought it was just another bookworm at Baiqiu High School.
But why the hell was he a trendy guy!?
Aiya was filled with resentment.
Yayoi-nee intended to nag him a bit more, but the pot in the kitchen started to make noise.
Yayoi-nee then glared fiercely at her disappointing brother-in-law and admonished Satoru:
"Help me talk some sense into him!"
Satoru: ...
Aiya : .......
Wait? Yayoi-nee? It seems like I'm the original resident of this house!
After Yayoi rushed into the kitchen to rescue the soup.
Aiya and Satoru looked at each other... Oh, no, only Aiya was looking at Satoru.
And Satoru was examining the test paper Yayoi-nee had casually handed him.
"You scored twenty points in Japanese language, that's really something," he said. "In 'Records of the Three Kingdoms,' there's an anecdote about warming wine and cutting off ( ), and you filled in 'warming wine and cutting off Hua Tuo'?"
...Aiya gritted his teeth.
"The famous Chinese writer, Lu Xun, ( ) person, and you filled in 'Zhou Shu,' right?"
...Aiya was filled with indignation.
Satoru still wanted to say something.
Hiro turned his head and said fiercely, "I'm going to the bathroom!"
With that, he rushed into the bathroom, leaving no room for Satoru to say another word.
Satoru shook his head, quite amused.
Aside from the sizzling sounds of cooking in the kitchen, Yayoi-nee's loud question came through:
"Is Hiro listening to your lecture properly!"
"Ah, I've already lectured him, Yayoi-nee, you can rest assured," Satoru replied.
"Oh," Yayoi-nee responded softly.
She continued to focus on her cooking.
Yayoi-nee suddenly tilted her head.
Something was a little off.
This feeling was like a mother wanting to discipline her son but not having the time, so she handed the task to her husband, but the husband was a doting father who couldn't bear to scold his son...
Yayoi-nee suddenly smiled knowingly. Forget it, she didn't know if she would ever truly experience such a scene in this life, but it felt quite interesting.
The "husband" wasn't that he couldn't bear to scold his son, but rather Satoru knew that no matter what he said now, Aiya wouldn't take it to heart.
Instead, it would only make his rebellious psychology worse.
Satoru sat on the sofa again, his attention drawn to the coat rack in the living room.
When Aiya entered, he took off his baseball cap and hung it there.
But the style of that baseball cap looked so familiar, no matter how he looked at it.
Satoru pushed up his glasses.
"X-Ray Vision," skill activated.
He didn't look lewdly at Yayoi in the kitchen, but rather focused his gaze on Aiya 's backpack.
Just now, after Aiya took out his test paper, he forgot to zip it up.
Through the "X-Ray Vision" ability, Satoru clearly saw that besides a few textbooks, there was only... a disc inside the backpack.
The title was, "My Sister-in-Law Can't Be That Cute."
Good heavens! Satoru exclaimed, "Good heavens!"
Damn it, so it was you, kid, who was in front of me at the DVD rental store!
So the disc I wanted most was taken by you first... No.
Satoru quickly pulled out the pure love anime "snake and cat" from his own backpack and swiftly performed a swap.
He took the NTR-type "My Sister-in-Law Can't Be That Cute" into his own possession.
At such a young age, even if you're going to watch R18, at least pick something wholesome to watch.
Satoru thought sadly, this kind of dark anime should be left for him to savor. If he doesn't go to hell, who will!?
"Ah, ah—!"
Just as Satoru had swapped the discs, Aiya rushed out of the bathroom.
He grabbed his backpack, whose zipper wasn't fully closed, and quickly rummaged through the inside.
Seeing that the disc was still there,
He let out a big sigh of relief. Good, good, he almost thought he'd been discovered.
That would be social suicide!
"...What are you doing?" Aiya saw Satoru smiling kindly at him and found it a bit strange.
"Nothing, enjoy yourself," Satoru said.
"?"
What the hell?
Aiya still refused to talk much with Satoru and went into his own room alone.
Afterward, Satoru only saw Aiya once at the dinner table.
After finishing his meal, he silently retreated into his own little world again.
Meanwhile, Satoru was led upstairs by Yayoi, who had finished clearing the dishes.
"How was it? Was it delicious?" Yayoi started with some small talk.
Satoru nodded, giving a very high evaluation: "It was alright."
"Tsk, are high school boys so hard to please these days?"
Yayoi was quite confident in her cooking, yet it only received an "alright" rating.
Yayoi-nee led Satoru into a room that resembled a study.
The books on the shelves here were exceptionally neat, looking as if they were rarely read.
But it must have been cleaned regularly, as there wasn't a speck of dust.
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have almost forgotten."
Yayoi-nee said, pulling out an old photo album from the bookshelf.
It seemed to be quite old, with the cover yellowing.
"...Shizuka George, he was my classmate in high school," Yayoi said, then patted the album cover vigorously: "This contains photos of me when I was your age, teacher! I was so pretty back then, don't get too captivated by me~~~~"
With that, like opening a magic book for battle, she quickly found a page and pointed to a girl in the photo.
"How about it!? Isn't she pretty!!" she asked loudly, grinning.
Satoru's eyebrow twitched. Playing it awkward, aren't we?
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