Chapter 146 - 142 Who Has a Question?_2

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Chapter 146: Chapter 142 Who Has a Question?_2pieces for 245 yen, 12 pieces for 490 yen. Fried dumplings, boiled dumplings, both types are available. Boiled dumplings are slightly more expensive. The price is acceptable, and the taste... Uesugi Sakura has already gotten used to it. In Japan, dumplings are considered a side dish, so you’ll find combinations like dumplings with ramen, or dumplings with rice. Little Hanabi was always by his side, saying he looked good while shooting arrows. The way she looked so fondly, you’d think her eyes were about to turn into stars. "What do you want for lunch?" "Aren’t you eating with everyone?" Hanamaru Hanabi asked. "Silly," Uesugi Sakura smiled and tapped her forehead, "You just realized it after all this time?" Hanamaru Hanabi felt a slight pain in her head and held her forehead with both hands, "Realized...what?" "We’re heading home now." "Doesn’t Sakura-kun still have a match?" "The afternoon match is for Mizuki High School, it doesn’t have much to do with us." "But everyone from the Kyudo Club stayed there." Uesugi Sakura saw the sunlight jumping brightly on her white shoulder, smiled, and said, "They want to watch the Mizuki High School match, but I don’t. Right now, I just want to keep little Hanabi company and enjoy this training-free break." Hanamaru Hanabi said worriedly, "Hanabi thinks Sakura-kun would be better off staying with the Kyudo Club members." "Training and rest should be in proportion." Uesugi Sakura leaned down next to her ear, catching her scent, and said, "Last night when Hanabi was helping Sakura-kun massage his shoulders in the bathroom, she knew his shoulders were tired." Hearing the words "bathroom," Hanamaru Hanabi’s face suddenly turned a deep red, and she immediately turned away, not looking at him. They stopped in front of a few vending machines. Uesugi Sakura pointed at the ring on her hand and laughed, "You’re practically a wife already, and still this shy?" "It’s... it’s fiancée..." Hanamaru Hanabi tried hard to lift her head, "Hanabi hasn’t formally married Sakura-kun yet." The dress was not long, and the girl’s fair, slender legs were quite eye-catching. Uesugi Sakura still remembers her short, chubby legs when she was little. "If only we were old enough, I’d take little Hanabi to apply for a marriage certificate right now." "Sakura-kun said similar things to Hanabi before." "Wasn’t I just joking?" Uesugi Sakura chuckled, casually pulling a few coins from his pocket to get a bottle of coffee and a bottle of milk from the vending machine. "Just things we said as kids." Thinking back carefully, she often tumbled onto his lap saying naive things that only little girls would say back then. "Hanabi was always serious," Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head, her tone firm, then looked up at him and said, "Hanabi always said that when she grew up, she would marry brother Sakura." Little girls always dream about the so-called adult husband-and-wife relationships, always saying things like "I’ll marry you when I grow up" to people they’re close to. But when they look back as adults, it’s just considered as child’s play. The deep feelings for old playmates are gone. Too far apart, they’d become like strangers. "Were you serious back then?" Uesugi Sakura smiled, thinking she had just mixed up her memories a bit. Hearing the two bottles drop into the vending machine, he bent down to pick them up. "Yes!" Hanamaru Hanabi’s pretty face showed a trace of childhood innocence, her tone very serious, "Sakura-kun may not know, but Hanabi was always serious." Uesugi Sakura stood up holding two bottles. Hanamaru Hanabi continued to look at him and said: "Hanabi knows Hanabi isn’t liked by everyone, and the only person she can get close to is brother Sakura. If she lost brother Sakura... there would be no classmates or friends to care about Hanabi anymore... "So every night before she sleeps, Hanabi thinks about how to make brother Sakura happier." He used to not like smiling, especially around those kids who bullied others. He couldn’t manage even a fake smile. So they spent a lot of time together, so-called outsiders, shunned by others. He didn’t care much about it. But Hanabi was indeed just a naive child, feeling hurt when others disliked her or excluded her. Uesugi Sakura said half-jokingly, "Hanabi’s been talking to me a lot about the past lately. "So the method you thought up at night to make me happy is to marry me when you grow up?" "Hanabi... never had the chance to say these things to Sakura-kun before..." Hanamaru Hanabi replied quietly, then immediately nodded and said, "Yes, but Hanabi knows she’s annoying, reclusive, dull, not even pretty... not worthy of being brother Sakura’s wife." Uesugi Sakura smiled a bit, handed her the milk, "Aren’t you doing well now?" Hanamaru Hanabi took the bottle of milk with both hands, cradling it in her palms, her violet eyes fixed on his face, shimmering with a warm light. "Hanabi, striving hard for those words, always learning from mom." "Always." "Haha, then you..." Uesugi Sakura laughed and laughed, then suddenly stopped. Seeing her familiar face, thinking about the things she’s done recently, the bento in the morning, the dinner in the evening, washing his clothes by hand, massaging his shoulders when he was tired from practice. He suddenly realized that her sentence "I’m going to marry him" really wasn’t just child’s talk. Everything she did was meticulous and earnest, trying to become that so-called "wife to marry him." Some things she did for him long ago, some she learned recently. At 15, she had a kind of maturity unlike any girlfriend should have. It seemed she truly had been working hard quietly all along. Soft-spoken, reserved, not very likeable, but truly always putting in sincere effort quietly. Never seeking praise, never having complaints. This long companionship, silently watching you, caring for you, selflessly doing things for you... I don’t know how to describe this feeling.

Chapter 146 - 142 Who Has a Question?_2

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