Tsukiyama Asari's gaze paused briefly on the other's rare white hair and light-colored pupils. Although his brain was working rapidly, he turned around and asked others without showing it, "I can make some other snacks. Can we have dinner in five hours?"

"No problem--"

"Thank you very much," Mao Lilan swallowed the biscuits in her mouth and thanked him sincerely. She felt very embarrassed that Tsukiyama Asari even needed to prepare dinner.

"It's okay, I like cooking," he smiled.

I think I like children too." Kudo Shinichi added in his heart. When he saw Tsukiyama Asari return to the kitchen after asking questions, he got up and followed him.

"What is Shinichi going to do?"

"Don't worry about that guy," Suzuki Sonoko said. She took a sip of juice and exclaimed again, "This seems to be handmade. Xiao Mu, you are so lucky!"

Asuka Mu's mouth raised a small arc.

"Hey, what is that?!" Suzuki Sonoko rushed over in an instant. She just saw a small dimple on the left side of the other person's face, "Is that a dimple?!"

The boy shrank back in fright.

"Smile again, Xiao Mu," the short-haired girl begged, "This is the first time I see dimples on the face of someone next to me. It's really cute!"

"Sonoko-you scared him," Mao Lilan gently pulled the corner of Suzuki Sonoko's clothes.

After realizing that she was too excited, and Asuka Kiri had been silent, she was afraid that her behavior would be disliked by the other party. Suzuki Sonoko sat back in her seat and apologized softly, "I'm sorry."

She really wanted to be friends with Asuka Kiri, and she also liked Brother Asari, but she must not be disliked.

"It's okay..." He was not good at dealing with this kind of situation, and he didn't talk often. Looking at the girl's eyes that were already misty, Asuka Kiri said in a panic, "I..."

He clenched his fists, opened his mouth and closed it again.

He didn't know what to say. The other children in the orphanage would not apologize to him, because freaks don't need others' apologies, and no one would think that they made a mistake.

A heavy feeling of helplessness weighed on Asuka Kiri. He was more afraid of responding to other people's apologies and kindness than being ridiculed or ignored. The boy looked at the two people with a helpless look, and finally lowered his head.

Mao Lilan looked at her two good friends and puffed up her face. She stood up and took one of their hands with one hand, and put the two small hands together, "Kiri, are you angry about what happened just now?"

Asuka Kiri shook his head.

"Do you like being friends with Sonoko?"

He nodded.

Mao Lilan shifted her gaze to Suzuki Sonoko, who had tears in her eyes but couldn't help showing a bright smile because of Asuka Kiri's answer, "Sonoko, what about you?"

"Of course I like it!" the girl said crisply.

"That's it," Mouri Ran smiled. She put her little hand on it, then put the other hand on it. "This is Shinichi's portion. We must always be good friends."

"Yeah."

Kudo Shinichi, who didn't know what he had missed, followed Tsukiyama Asari to the kitchen. He saw freshly washed strawberries and a bowl of chopped mango cubes on the shelf.

"What else is Asari-san going to make?" he asked, leaning over, "Is it mango cake?"

"Well, prepare mango mousse and strawberry pudding," Tsukiyama Asari said, lowering his head slightly to look at Kudo Shinichi who was looking up, "Shinichi, aren't you going to eat cookies?"

In fact, Kudo Shinichi had a lot of questions to ask. He knew that this was too abrupt, and because he was really curious and followed him, he stammered and changed the subject, "Let me help Asari-san."

"Okay, Shinichi, can you help me put the cut strawberries in the cups?" He took out a stack of semicircular plastic cups from the counter, "Putting one in each should be enough."

"Okay," Kudo Shinichi removed the strawberry leaves on top, wiped off the water droplets left when washing the fruit, and placed the strawberries in the center, "Asari-san looks so young."

"Of course, I'm only nineteen."

[You're testing me, right? You're so sure of your answers?]

'Anyway, according to Shinichi's personality, he won't give up unless you ask, so it's better to satisfy his curiosity in one go.'

"Huh?" The surprise in his eyes didn't seem fake, "Asari-san has to take care of Asuka, run the cafe, and take care of his studies. Can you handle it?"

Kudo Shinichi remembered the acceptance letter he saw when he and Asuka Kiri went to Tsukiyama Asari's bedroom to get a book.

"This..." Tsukiyama Asari paused and frantically summoned the system in his heart.

'Here it comes, here it comes, what is my character setting? Help me sort it out! ! '

[You thought of me at this time. You because...】

"I'm not in school now."

Not in school? !

Kudo Shinichi almost threw the strawberry down. He originally just wanted to ask why such a young Tsukiyama Asari could adopt Asuka Kiri, but who knew that he was hurting someone else's wounds? Would it be worse if he apologized...

Regret flashed in the boy's eyes. Just as he was about to say something, a pair of warm, bony hands gently stroked his head, "It's nothing, just a delay in school. You can go to school when things here are settled."

[... ...]

The system fell silent strangely.

Why did he drop out of school to open a cafe when he was supposed to go to college? Why could he adopt a child at such a young age... All the questions were connected, and Kudo Shinichi had the answer in his mind.

Seeing the other person's situation in the orphanage, and the fact that the child must have a stable financial income, there may be some special bond between the two, which makes Tsukiyama Asari prefer to drop out of school to earn money, and take Asuka Kiri out now. With

such a special appearance and rare illness, it is self-evident what that person will encounter in the welfare home.

Kudo Shinichi clenched his hanging hand at his side, and then slowly loosened it. After arranging the strawberries and listening to Tsukiyama Asari saying that there was nothing he could help with, he walked out of the kitchen.

In the living room, the girl with long black hair overlapped the hands of her two friends and was whispering something. Suzuki Sonoko had tears in her eyes but was smiling happily.

"Hey, what are you doing?" He complained, and walked towards them with a smile.

"What happened to you just now?" Seeing that the other party had left, Yueshan poured the pudding liquid into the plastic mold and put it in the refrigerator to freeze. He was still thinking about the strange silence of the system just now.

[... ...]

"Hmm?"

[Male mother male mother male mother male mother sob sob sob sob]

"......Hmm? :)"

[......Ahem, just remembered that you should call, um.]

Why can someone say the same word with two completely different feelings? The threatened system pretended that it had not said what it just said.

The phone rang the next moment, and the system breathed a sigh of relief. Tsukiyama Asari controlled Kasugawa Shugo's vest to call itself, which meant that the matter just now was over.

It was a close call.