There was a visibly startled look on the other end of the phone, as if she were turning to confirm with her family. "Wasn't she a female classmate? Mom, how could you let Yumi stay overnight at a boy's house?"
“No, no,” Chisato explained. “I am Chisato Akasaka, Yuko and Fujita’s classmate and Yuko’s neighbor. My parents were afraid they would be scared, so they asked me to stay with them. I sleep in the living room.”
To be precise, they're all sleeping in the living room now.
Yumi's older sister immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you so much for troubling you with my Yumi! By the way, could you please ask if that videotape is any good? This child insists on being the first to watch it, and I need to give my classmate an answer tomorrow, asking her to recount the plot. I need to give my classmate an explanation."
Qianli lowered his voice, his tone somewhat accusatory, "Is it that documentary? The kind that makes a child grow up immediately after watching it?"
Yumi's older sister didn't recognize the title and instead asked, "What documentary? It's clearly a Miyazaki Hayao animation! It should be called—Heidi, Girl of the Alps!"
Cheng Shuang and Qianli couldn't help but look at Youmei, whose expression had changed drastically.
The voice on the other end of the microphone continued, "I put it on the table, did she take the wrong one?"
Finally, after asking around and clarifying all the details, it turned out that Yumi's older sister often exchanged videotapes with her classmates. There was one unfamiliar tape that she hadn't had time to watch and had forgotten who lent it to her. She was waiting for her classmate to ask for it back so she could return it, so she put that videotape in her drawer.
Yumi rummaged through her sister's drawer, thinking that the plate her sister had hidden was the most beautiful one...
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