The main thing is Hanabi doesn’t want to...

Forget it.

I’ll seriously interrogate my wife when we get home tonight.

Regardless of anything else, I’m sure I can get Hanabi to tell me what exactly they chatted about in the afternoon.

No rush right now.

With this thought, Uesugi Sakura ordered a steak from the waiter.

"Please wait a moment, sir."

Kitagawa Sakisa and a few other girls continued chatting with Hanamaru Hanabi about some art assignment stuff, which Uesugi Sakura didn’t quite understand, so he didn’t listen closely.

Uesugi Sakura stood up.

"Hmm, Uesugi-san, where are you going? Aren’t you waiting for Hanabi-chan to go home together?" Kitagawa Sakisa asked him. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Uesugi Sakura casually pointed inside the restaurant: "Going to the restroom, want to join?"

"Ehh~~ inviting another girl to the restroom with you? Watch out or Hanabi-chan will give you a hard time when you get home!"

"No way."

Uesugi Sakura smiled at Hanamaru Hanabi’s little face.

Today she was wearing a beret and a sky-blue dress, along with her shoulder-length short hair, looking especially cute.

Having such a cute and beautiful girl as a wife, just thinking about it makes me feel refreshed.

My wife is so beautiful.

Uesugi Sakura asked the waiter for the restroom location.

The restroom was unisex.

Uesugi Sakura took half a minute to finish using the restroom, washed his hands, and then turned to head back to his original spot.

He turned around to unlock the door and pulled the door handle with a click.

As the door opened.

Standing in front of him was a beautiful girl.

Uesugi Sakura was stunned for a second: "Hanabi? You need to use the restroom too?"

Hanamaru Hanabi just looked at him with her vibrant purple eyes, not saying a word.

Just as Uesugi Sakura was about to ask why she wasn’t speaking, she suddenly walked into the restroom and closed the door behind her.

Hanamaru Hanabi stared at him, which made Uesugi Sakura feel strange.

"Hanabi-chan...?"

Hanamaru Hanabi slowly approached until she stood right in front of him.

She leaned in very close, almost putting her weight on him, stood on her toes, lifted her delicate chin, and whispered coldly into Uesugi Sakura’s ear:

"Sakura-kun... you can only go to the restroom with Hanabi, only, and can only do it with Hanabi."

Then, she gently bit his earlobe with her soft lips.

Uesugi Sakura was completely stunned.

Frozen in place.

Hanabi... what’s with that cold tone?

Uesugi Sakura quickly supported her shoulders and looked at her face.

"Sakura... Sakura-kun...?"

Hanamaru Hanabi’s voice was soft, and her expression was pitifully cute.

The most important thing was her eyes, showing a hint of vulnerability, as if she might lower her eyebrows at any moment.

Uesugi Sakura observed her brow and eyes closely.

No doubt about it!

It’s the usual Hanamaru Hanabi.

But Uesugi Sakura felt something was wrong and asked her: "Hanabi, what did you just say?"

Hanamaru Hanabi shyly said: "Hanabi... wants to use the restroom..."

Uesugi Sakura again felt she was perfectly normal now.

"No, Hanabi-chan, you... your tone just now..."

"Tone...?" Hanamaru Hanabi looked up at him.

"The tone... was very strange." Uesugi Sakura could only say this.

"Hanabi’s tone... was strange...?"

"No, not now, just now, when you were on tiptoe."

"But... Hanabi always speaks to Sakura-kun like this..."

Uesugi Sakura asked: "No transformation?"

"Nope." Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head.

Uesugi Sakura instinctively frowned.

"Sakura-kun, what’s wrong?" Hanamaru Hanabi noticed his expression and asked.

"Nothing, nothing."

Uesugi Sakura looked at the timid girl in front of him, still unsure of what’s happening.

Hanabi... why would she use such a cold tone...

He smiled:

"Nothing, Hanabi, go ahead and use the restroom."

Hanamaru Hanabi watched as Uesugi Sakura opened the door and walked out.

The small glance she gave at his back was tinged with some puzzled emotion.

"Sakura-kun...?"

...

When Uesugi Sakura returned to his seat, the steak he ordered was already on the table.

While eating, he kept thinking.

He silently replayed Hanamaru Hanabi’s tone from earlier, that sentence.

[Sakura-kun... you can only go to the restroom with Hanabi.]

That tone... it was as if she became a different person.

Uesugi Sakura was sure that Hanamaru Hanabi would never speak with such a tone.

The harshest thing she ever said was calling him a big bad guy.

Yet, that tone felt strangely familiar to Uesugi Sakura, as if he’d heard it somewhere before.

Where could it be...

"Uesugi-san!" Kitagawa Sakisa knocked on the table in front of him.

"What’s up?" Uesugi Sakura snapped out of his thoughts.

Kitagawa Sakisa pointed to the waitress standing next to the table, "She’s asking if you want a drink, she can get one for you. She’s been asking you for a while, but you didn’t respond."

"Oh, really?" Uesugi Sakura looked up at the waitress and smiled, "Then a cola, please."

"Alright, sir, please wait a moment."

The waitress was a young girl, likely a high school student, with a fairly youthful face.

She had been looking at Uesugi Sakura for quite a while, her face slightly flushed.

After the waitress left, Kitagawa Sakisa continued to observe Uesugi Sakura’s face.

Uesugi Sakura: "What’s with you again, miss? Do I have a bug on my face?"

Kitagawa Sakisa touched her chin, "I say, are you really that handsome? Why do every girl who sees you seem to want to please you a bit?"

"Isn’t this just regular service at a family restaurant? Don’t overthink it."

"I’m not overthinking it, but I haven’t seen her pour me a glass of cola or anything. She was staring at you all the time. If Hanabi-chan were here, she’d definitely get jealous."

"Hanabi wouldn’t get jealous over such a small thing." Uesugi Sakura said.

Finding it quite problematic, Kitagawa Sakisa turned around to ask her two best friends next to her:

"Rie, Rika, do you think Uesugi-san is handsome?"

Ayaka Rie’s answer was simple: "Handsome."

She was still busy drawing, continuously writing and revising on her tablet.

Kyujuu Rika considered and then said: "Far above the standard of an average guy, I suppose."

"Thank you," Uesugi Sakura smiled back at her, then smiled at Kitagawa Sakisa, "So Hanabi-chan and I are a perfect match, don’t worry about whether I’m handsome or not."

"Sir, your cola. The air conditioning in the store is on the warm side... so I added extra ice for you."

"Thank you." Uesugi Sakura said.

Once Uesugi Sakura took the cola, the young waitress hid half her face with the tray while looking at him.

Kitagawa Sakisa noticed this scene from across the table.

Even though the waitress only covered her face for a short moment, anyone with half a mind could see that this girl had a thing for Uesugi Sakura.

At this point, Hanamaru Hanabi happened to come out of the restroom after washing her hands and saw this scene.

Her vibrant purple eyes were fixed on the young, blushing waitress standing next to Uesugi Sakura.

"Ex... excuse me... can you leave a contact method?"

"Ahem."

Kitagawa Sakisa coughed twice and told the working high school girl waitress: "He’s married."

The waitress was momentarily stunned and looked at Uesugi Sakura again.

It took her a long time to seem to come to her senses and finally asked clumsily:

"Sir, is there anything else I can help with?"

"Thanks, no." Uesugi Sakura didn’t want any misunderstandings with his wife.

The waitress hurriedly ran back to the employee area.

Her back was against the wall, and her hands clutched the tray against her chest, her heart pounding...

This was her first time doing that... asking a guy for contact information.

Among her close childhood friends, she was the only one who hadn’t fallen in love yet.

Recently, she vowed.

The next time she saw a satisfying handsome guy, she would bravely ask for his contact information!

Success or not, it was a step of bravery.

And... what if, what if it works out...

Thinking of some scenes from the shoujo manga lead characters she read, she covered half of her reddened face with the tray.

But, thinking about how that handsome guy was already married, she felt a little down...

Was her first attempt a failure just like that?

While she was thinking about these things, a beautiful girl wearing a beret suddenly appeared in front of her.

She was about the same height as herself but with a face so exquisitely beautiful she couldn’t help but admire.

However, the beautiful girl in front of her was looking at her coldly for some reason.