The Nakamori family.
Nakamori Aoko took out her keys and opened the door to her house.
Yuzuru immediately noticed a smiling gaze coming from his side and above.
He instinctively turned around to look.
On the second-floor balcony of the neighboring Kuroba residence, the phantom thief lady—Kuroba Chikage—was leaning lazily against the railing, one hand supporting her chin, watching him with a smile, her eyes full of amusement and undisguised admiration.
Those eyes clearly said: 'Master is indeed amazing, getting to the mother-in-law stage so quickly? That's lightning fast!'
She even secretly gave Yuzuru a thumbs-up, a smile playing on her lips as if she were enjoying the spectacle, before disappearing like a phantom, her merits and fame hidden away.
Yuzuru shook his head with a chuckle.
If Kaito, who's still busy with his phantom thief career and clues about the witch, knew that his own mother not only wasn't helping him pursue his childhood sweetheart, but was actually hiding on the neighbor's balcony cheering on his "number one rival" and watching the drama unfold...
I'm afraid she'll really cry herself to sleep in the bathroom.
"What's wrong?"
Nakamori Aoko noticed his turning around and, while bending down to change her shoes, casually asked him a question.
"It's nothing, Aunt Bizi, I just think the sunset view around your place is very beautiful." Yu Shengnan turned his gaze away without changing his expression and replied with a smile.
Nakamori Aoko, unsuspecting, smiled and said, "Yes, this area is quite quiet. Come in, don't be shy, make yourself at home."
"Mom, you're back!"
Upon hearing the door open, Aoko's soft, weak voice, tinged with a slight complaint, came from the direction of the bedroom.
She rubbed her dry eyes, slipped out in her cute fluffy slippers, clearly still struggling with a mountain of homework. "Are there a lot of case files today? I'm starving... Ugh?!"
Before she could finish speaking, her gaze passed over her mother and landed on Yuzuru Nanami, who was standing in the entryway, smiling at her.
The girl's eyes widened instantly, her drowsiness and complaints vanished, replaced by immense surprise and disbelief, and her cheeks flushed rapidly.
"Hanyu-kun?! What are you doing... at my house?!"
Seeing her daughter's instantly brightened expression and rosy cheeks, Nakamori Aoko smiled knowingly, as if to say, "Just as I thought" and "Everything is under control."
His gaze swept meaningfully between the two young men.
Everything is understood without words.
"I happened to run into Yuzuru at the station, so I invited him over for a casual meal," she said casually, as if it were just a trivial matter. "You two chat first, I'll go prepare dinner."
After saying that, he walked towards the kitchen, leaving the young man alone.
Aoko felt even more embarrassed under her mother's knowing yet teasing gaze, her cheeks burning hot.
In a flustered manner, she grabbed Yuzuru Nan's wrist and practically dragged him into her bedroom, then slammed the door shut, as if that would shut out everything from the outside world.
"You... how come you came back with my mother?"
Aoko leaned against the door, her heart still pounding, feeling both surprised and shy.
There's also a kind of inexplicable guilt, like being "caught red-handed" by parents.
Yuzuru let her pull him along, amused by her nervous, wary look: "We just happened to run into each other at the station. Aunt Biko was very welcoming and invited me to her house for dinner... What, you're not happy about it? Should I leave now?"
He made a gesture as if to turn around.
"Of course not!"
Aoko quickly shook her head, "It's just...too sudden..."
She glanced around her room, then suddenly remembered something. With a cry of "Ah!" she hurriedly stuffed a few private, cute lace-trimmed clothes that were casually draped over the back of a chair into a drawer.
My ears turned bright red throughout the whole process.
Yu Sheng Nan pretended not to see her little action and gently looked around the girlish boudoir.
Pink curtains, a bed piled high with plush toys, a desk covered in cute stickers, and the faint, fresh scent of Aoko in the air...
Yes, it fits his imagination of a chuunibyou girl's room very well.
"Aunt Bizi is a very nice person and cares about you a lot."
Yu Shengnan chuckled, pausing deliberately before lowering his voice with a hint of mockery, "Looks like... I've passed the 'mother-in-law's' initial screening ahead of time? My impression score seems pretty good?"
"W-what mother-in-law! Don't talk nonsense!"
Aoko instantly bristled, lunging forward to cover his mouth, her cheeks flushed crimson. "What if Mom hears this?!"
Yuzuru laughed and easily dodged her "attack," and the two of them laughed and joked around in the not-so-spacious bedroom.
During playful activities.
Yu Shengnan's gaze fell on the pile of homework notebooks spread out on the desk, covered with dense writing and numerous corrections.
"A lot of homework?"
He walked over, picked up a math workbook, and flipped through it. Many of the questions had small question marks next to them.
Mentioning this, Aoko immediately seemed to lose all her energy, drooping down with a pained expression, sighing, "Yeah... so much... it feels like I'll never finish writing it all... especially math, it's so hard, I have no idea how to do it, it's giving me a headache..."
She looked at Yuzuru with a pitiful expression, her eyes filled with pleading.
Yuzuru raised an eyebrow, a smile playing on his lips: "What's so difficult about this? If you don't know how... I'll teach you."
It's important to know that this happens before the system is officially activated.
With only the [Memory Bread] and his own hard work, the most solid, unquestionable, and hard-earned line in his identity column is—academic genius.
He, Yuzuru Hanyu, never uses cheat codes.
For him, homework was simply a relaxing and intellectually stimulating game, and he even missed this kind of pure mental activity.
He picked up a pen decorated with a little rabbit that was on the table, sat down naturally in the chair in front of the desk, patted his leg, and gave Aoko a smile that was both teasing and seductive:
"Come, sit here. Teacher Nan's one-on-one VIP class is starting now. Guaranteed to teach and you'll learn. If you don't learn... there will be a punishment."
Aoko's face flushed red again, and she said shyly, "W-how can you teach homework like that..."
“This way of teaching is more ‘in-depth’ and ‘thorough,’ and it’s easier to communicate at any time,” Yuzuru said with a straight face, making his reason sound perfectly reasonable. “Otherwise… does Aoko want to go to the living room and have Aunt Aoi watch us study? I don’t mind…”
Teacher Nan and the female student.
"Forbidden Tutor", "Secret Tutoring", "Sir, I Know You...", "Answers to the Equation of Impossible Love"...
The mere thought of that scene made the chuunibyou girl immediately shake her head violently.
That's so shameful!
Absolutely not!
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