During the day, Haruno-Takeru had a close encounter with two girls.
One was on Detective Slope, when he grabbed Kato Megumi, they had some unavoidable physical contact.
The other was in the family restaurant in the afternoon, sitting next to Machida Sonoko, he inevitably got some scent on him.
But Kato Megumi was a plain girl, naturally beautiful without the need for makeup. And as an ordinary high school student, she didn't need to use any cosmetics to enhance her charm.
Besides, if Kato Megumi was a girl who wanted to enhance her charm, Toyosaki wouldn't be the two school beauties, but the three school beauties.
At least in Haruno-Takeru's eyes, Kato Megumi's appearance was no worse than those two, and in terms of personality, she was even better!
So the smell on him now should be from sitting next to Machida Sonoko accidentally.
He told his speculation to Kyou, the girl who had been staring with wide eyes slowly relaxed.
"I told you, brother is so dense, how could he go see a strange woman." After figuring this out, Kyou giggled foolishly.
"Brother, look!" After no longer worrying about the perfume, Kyou pretended to be mysterious and took out an envelope from her pocket.
"Payday?" Haruno-Takeru touched his sister's little head, his face full of doting and laughter.
It seems that it wasn't just him working for this family, Kyou has also grown up.
"Brother is so boring, can't you let me be mysterious for once?" The girl puffed out her cheeks and pouted.
"Then can Kyou tell brother how much you got?" Seeing his sister's playful mood, Haruno-Takeru was happy to cooperate.
Moreover, looking at the girl's current expression, the salary she got should be far beyond the 1500 yen hourly wage.
"100,000!" The girl, who originally wanted to keep it a secret, couldn't hold back her inner excitement and announced the number herself.
During the entire spring break, Kyou worked for 10 days, calculating at 6 hours a day and 1500 yen per hour, the final salary should be 90,000 yen, but now there is an extra 10,000 yen, it seems that his sister has performed well recently, and the place where she works should have good sales.
"That's great, Kyou." Gently pinching his sister's cheek to encourage her, Haruno-Takeru continued: "You keep this money for yourself, don't treat yourself badly at school, if the food in the cafeteria is not good, you can occasionally come out for a meal."
But this time, Kyou didn't agree with her brother's suggestion, but shook her head and said: "No! Doesn't brother know, the food at Otome-Saki Girls' Academy is famous for being good. Brother can only eat his own lunch anyway, if he eats those almost expired foods, how can I be at ease at school?"
Because Otome-Saki Girls' Academy is a boarding school, the tuition is also much higher than ordinary public schools. But what matches the price is the good dormitory environment and the abundant food.
At first, Haruno-Takeru was willing to send his sister to that school because he valued the cafeteria there. If he had let his sister, who had been malnourished for a long time, go to a school with bad food, who knows what kind of trouble would have happened.
"But that's the money you earned with your own hard work, even if brother is useless, it's not to the point where he needs to spend his sister's money, right?" Haruno-Takeru comforted his sister and joked.
"It's not like that, brother is the best!" Haruno-Kyou allows her brother to make all kinds of jokes, even yellow jokes are okay, but there is one thing she absolutely cannot yield.
That is, her brother said she was incompetent.
If her brother hadn't worked hard, maybe she would have been adopted by a relative, and then watched the little legacy left by her parents be divided up, right?
Don't doubt people's lower limits, human nature is always the thing that can't withstand the test.
Even though Japan's land prices plummeted after the real estate bubble of the last century, in a place like Tokyo, where every inch of land is valuable, having a house of your own is still a considerable fortune.
Who could resist such a piece of fat?
Would you hand over your life's savings to someone else?
At that desperate moment, it was this brother who was only two years older than her who stepped forward and saved the family.
Although she didn't know what price her brother paid at the time, even Kyou, who was still young at the time, knew how much effort a 12-year-old brother had to make to let them live the life they have now.
So in the girl's heart, her brother is the best brother in the world, bar none.
Other boys, don't even talk about catching up with her brother, even if they are compared to her brother, Kyou will think it is an insult to her brother.
"Alright, alright, why are you so excited." Seeing his sister's face turn red, Haruno-Takeru hurriedly comforted his sister.
"Then do you want this money, brother?" Kyou looked at her brother with grievance.
She worked so hard in the store, working hard, all to see her brother's happy expression after seeing that she could share the burden of this family.
But now she sees the happy expression, but her brother refuses to take the money, what should she do?
"No need, brother had a big harvest today too." Haruno-Takeru patted the sofa, motioning for his sister to sit beside him, and then told Kyou everything that happened in the afternoon.
"Really, it sounds pretty reliable." Compared to being exposed to the wind and sun on the streets of Tokyo, being able to do painting work at home would undoubtedly make Kyou feel more at ease.
"If such a brother can't find a girlfriend, I, as his sister, will definitely help my brother! Yes, I just need my brother." Kyou's mind began to wander.
"Alright, I'll go make dinner, let's get some rest early tonight, I'll send you to the station tomorrow." Seeing that his sister no longer insisted, Haruno-Takeru stood up and prepared to take care of his and his sister's stomachs.
To be honest, today has been a lot of things and a lot of walking. If you don't eat something good, it wouldn't be worth the 50,000 yen from Sawamura-san.
"Hmm, then I'll go clean up, see you later, brother." Kyou also got up and returned to her room.
This time we'll be separated again, for three months.