0359: It’s Fragrant, It’s Fragrant

Kitahara Ryosuke leaned against the cupboard behind him, exhaled, and said, "I'm scared. I want you to stare at me. What are Minister Muchuan and Aunt Hakuba doing tonight?"

In the kitchen, which is neither too narrow nor too spacious, the distance between Kitahara Ryosuke and Noka's mother is already one meter.

This is a very safe distance.

But Hakuba Noka still didn't put down the sword.

Someone's image in his eyes had only recently changed.

He is an asshole, and the label "liar" is always stuck on his forehead.

"What on earth are you here for?"

Noka finally spoke, with a questioning tone.

Kitahara Ryosuke hadn't eaten yet, so he picked up a cucumber, washed it and started eating it, "Anyway, it's business, we'll talk about it later, I can't stay here for a long time, I'll be suspected, you tell me Hakuba first What are you two here for?"

Full of course.

"It's for Yingzi."

Seeing that it was really like that, Hakuba Noka slowly put the knife back on the eucalyptus board.

She also knew that the warning of a kitchen knife was greater than its actual lethality. After all, the opponent was a bastard who dared to charge at the tip of the knife.

"At first, Yingzi refused to stay in Tokyo. A few days ago, she suddenly called and said she wanted to come back. My eldest sister came to ask me what was going on... What on earth was going on?"

Kitahara Ryosuke pointed the cucumber at himself, "Ask me, how do I know? Yingzi said, I think Tokyo is pretty good, so I followed her."

He couldn't say that coming to Tokyo was exactly what I wanted.

Hakuba Noka didn't believe it, but as Kitahara Ryosuke said, he couldn't stay in the kitchen for too long.

"My relationship with Yingzi... is relatively normal, so they are afraid that something will happen to me and force Yingzi to return to Tokyo."

Neither Noka's mother nor Eiko mentioned it officially, but Kitahara Ryosuke was not blind. He could see that the orphans and widowers in the Hakuba family were far from the harmony of ordinary families.

Kitahara Ryosuke and Neji's dad don't often talk to each other on the phone.

But it was clear at a glance what he was like when he returned home, and what Yingzi was like.

"Do you need my help?"

Naixiang's mother pushed him away, "It would be the greatest help to me if you don't bother me anymore."

Four words: refuse to communicate.

Hey, hey, he's worthy of being his biological son, he'll do this whenever he doesn't agree.

Kitahara Ryosuke was not afraid, nor was he afraid of being kicked out. He carried half a cucumber through the corridor and returned to the living room, where the gray-haired Minister Muchuan was chatting with his wife.

As soon as he came back, he asked: "Auntie, there is a conflict between Yingzi and Naixiang's mother, right? Can you tell me about it?"

Age is a cover again. Kitahara Ryosuke is straightforward at this age and will not make people feel abrupt.

The kind aunt smiled, changed the subject and said, "You won't even eat when Yingzi leaves, right?"

Kitahara Ryosuke said: "I forgot."

Aunt Baima pointed at Minister Muchuan: "Just like your uncle, I can't ignore you, not even for a day."

Then he shouted: "Xiaoxiang, Xiaoxiang, cook more, Beiyuan hasn't had dinner yet!"

...

Until the eldest aunt and his wife left, they did not answer Kitahara Ryosuke's question, that was because it was inconvenient.

Housework is divided between everyone and the younger family. The eldest aunt can care about her younger sister and her niece, but if she gets involved, unless she is absolutely sure, it will most likely only make things worse.

Hakuba Yoshiko lived for more than fifty years, so she naturally understood this.

Kitahara Ryosuke left with them and returned to the gate of Hakuba Shrine about twenty minutes later.

I stopped knocking on the door because it wasn't locked.

Under the light of the backyard hut, Hakuba Noka, dressed in plain clothes, was wiping the tabletop of the dining table. It looked like she had been wiping it for a long time.

Kitahara Ryosuke had eaten and drank enough, and felt confident. When he came closer, he first poked Noxiang's mother's calf with his toe, and then asked: "What's the problem between you and Yingzi? I asked my eldest aunt, but she refused to tell. I swear I don’t have any bad intentions, I just wish you well.”

However, after hearing this, Naixiang's mother just said: "You sleep in Yingzi's room tonight."

Kitahara Ryosuke said: "Okay."

Then he pressed Noxiang's hand wiping the table, closed his eyes, and came to the sea.

"The reason why I came here is very simple. This thing has appeared again. My condition had improved, but suddenly it worsened again. I don't know many people in Tokyo. The first person I thought of was you."

Kitahara Ryosuke closed his eyes,

The sea of ​​​​mind appears,

Kitahara Ryosuke opened his eyes,

The sea of ​​​​mind dissipates.

Noxiang stopped all movements, turned around and asked, "Have you taken the initiative to find him?"

The "he" here refers to the monster in Kitahara Ryosuke's heart.

Kitahara Ryosuke shook his head: "I listened to your words, and the treatment went well, and then it suddenly became like this today."

Hakuba Noka said: "Don't worry, maybe it's just a coincidence. Your status in this kind of thing is very important. You shouldn't be exposed to this level, so as long as you resist resolutely, he will stay away from you."

As he spoke, a very cool force started from the palm of Kitahara Ryousuke's hand and traveled throughout his body in minutes. It felt very...refreshing.

Kitahara Ryosuke closed his eyes again and used the breathing method of [Dark Night Fantasy].

Everything is normal.

The sea disappeared.

He could feel the tenderness coming from the back of his hand, and subconsciously turned his wrist and interlocked his fingers.

Noxiang's hand began to struggle, and the intensity varied from strong to weak.

Kitahara Ryosuke's other hand hugged her, and he felt more softness and a scent that was unlike anyone else's.

"I'm just going to give you a hug. If you don't let me, I'm going to use despicable means again."

There is still more than half a bottle of small red potion, which is generally not needed at all.

Only this senior Noka needed a reason not to resist.

Of course, it's much better than at the beginning.

Tomorrow he will go see Airi. Airi is professional in psychological treatment.

Ryosuke Kitahara will never let Airi touch the underwater monster again. It is something that he himself considers extremely dangerous.

As for tonight, it can't be said that he didn't find an excuse for himself to find Noka.

…

The early morning light shines into the house in the backyard of Hakuba Shrine.

Kitahara Ryosuke rubbed his sleepy eyes and saw a graceful curve on the upper body's back, as well as an outline of one-fourth-five-six-seventh ○ overflowing from left to right.

So lovely.

Looks good?

Of course it looks good. He has come and gone, and he can go to Yingzi's room to sleep obediently?

As for the excuse, Kitahara Ryosuke helped me think of several. In the end, he forgot which one the owner of the beautiful back chose. He only remembered that it was... good-looking.

"Ding Dong"~

Tip: Picked up a lot of basic attributes...

Tip: +4 skill points.

Tip: Pick up special attributes, disguise +3.

…

"Ahem."

Kitahara Ryosuke couldn't help but coughed twice, startling Noka-senpai who was combing his hair in front of him.

It's all down to him, he has a bad habit of always messing up other people's hair before going to bed.

A coat fluttered on Kitahara Ryousuke's face.

When he took off his clothes, his beautiful back had disappeared, replaced by Noxiang's mother who was not very welcoming to him.

"Okay, you succeeded again, you can leave." Hakuba Noka said.

Kitahara Ryosuke looked at the time and saw that it was still early. He turned over and said, "Don't worry, just sleep a little longer."

Then there was the sound of the door opening, and Kitahara Ryosuke, who was lying in bed, was no longer ignored.

But about twenty minutes later, the door was pushed open again, and a voice asked him: "What do you want to eat?"

Hearing this, Kitahara Ryosuke sat up immediately and said with a smile: "Anything is fine, I like to eat whatever you do."

The figure left.

Kitahara Ryosuke was just pretending to be sleepy, so he simply got dressed and washed up.

I don't know when he started to have his own towel and toothbrush at Baima's house.

There were also clogs, but Kitahara Ryosuke was not used to wearing them. After wearing them twice, he found that it was better to go barefoot.

The pace of life at Hakuba Shrine is very slow. After dinner, Noka’s mother has to kneel in front of the ancestor statues for a long time.

For that grandma, Kitahara Ryosuke also respected her very much, but that was the limit.

After all, he was not from the Hakuba family, so he sat under the eaves and watched the figure from a distance until Noka finished her "morning class".

Kitahara Ryosuke always feels like a hot face but a cold butt here.

For example, since the morning, he has heard the words "It's time for you to go" no less than five times.

But to his ears, this actually meant retention.

Kitahara Ryosuke's mental power is comparable to level 5, and his perception is also very powerful.

There were probably a dozen or so peeking glances in the morning.

Also, before morning class, Kitahara Ryosuke stood up and said, "I..."

With just one word, Naixiang's mother immediately turned her face away, and her face looked as ugly as possible.

He said: "If you want me to stay with you, you can say so."

Noxiang didn't respond.

Replace it with: "Then I'll go?"

Hakuba Noka: "Let's go, let's go now, don't come here again!"

Just like that, Kitahara Ryosuke still dared to "walk". He wandered around the yard obediently until about ten o'clock, and then changed into his own shoes.

He came close to the figure who was pruning flowers and grass, and smiled, "According to the procedure, I should report to the Investigation Department. I am expected to return at six in the afternoon. Do you think that's okay?"

Hakuba Noka didn't respond again.

Judging from experience this is the default.

"Let's eat sukiyaki tonight and have more meat."

Still no response.

It wasn't until Ryosuke Kitahara walked out of the gate of Hakuba Shrine that Noka put down her tools and her shoulders slumped.

Here we go again.

That bastard has only been gone for a few days, but he's back again.

It's simply a haunting.

"Forget it, poison him."

Hakuba Noka bit her silver teeth and thought.

…

It turns out that the earth does not revolve around Kitahara Ryosuke.

He wanted to find Airi, but unfortunately, Deputy Minister Airi Nishijima was not here, and he was really not there.

Yesterday, news came from Kyoto that strange phenomena appeared on the streets, and they were suspected to be half-human and half-trickster.

Half human and half weird, that is, the product of the combination of human and weird.

Theoretically, apart from the ghost realm, half-humans and half-tricksters only have nurture and not innateness, but the Kyoto Special Affairs Department doesn't talk nonsense.

Then, the old head of the Special Affairs Research Department who was not very involved heard about this and sent Airi Nishijima to Kyoto urgently.

Kitahara Ryosuke rushed to nothing, but the call was connected.

It can be heard from Airi's voice that she is very busy and tired. Airi is a research-oriented talent, and her attitude shows the importance of the matter.

Kitahara Ryosuke said a few words of concern and asked her to pay attention to safety and come back early. He went downstairs and met the lady at the front desk of the Investigation Department again.

I don't know if it was an illusion or something, but Kitahara Ryosuke felt that the attitude of the short-haired girl who looked pretty good today was very different from yesterday.

Yesterday the deputy minister's niece came to see her uncle, and today she is the niece's boyfriend, so there is no need to be so polite?

Kitahara Ryosuke thought for a moment and waited until noon on the fifth floor.

His personal file was transferred from Kyuda to Tokyo, which required personal confirmation. Otherwise, it would be equivalent to "doing things in another place" and there would be no way to proceed to the next step.

"Team 3...Tokyo...looks like there are a lot of people watching."

"That Minister Muchuan's sense of me is probably not much better than Nishijima Akazawa's sense of me."

It wouldn't be a big problem for Ryosuke Kitahara to marry a daughter from any of the Hakuba family, Nishijima family and his own daughter if she wanted to.

However, Kitahara Ryosuke wanted it, thought about it, and took action, but he had to bear the consequences of "all".

"very good."

Kitahara Ryosuke glanced at the still busy corridor behind the front desk and went out to eat.

During the meal, he contacted Yingzi and Airi respectively.

Airi was still busy, saying that her natural half-human and half-cunning nature seemed to be the result of an accident in the ghost realm.

Yingzi is about to be transferred from the branch section chief to the Tokyo section chief, and she is also very busy. Kitahara Ryosuke's request for a passionate video was ignored, so he told Yingzi to wait, and he was very arrogant.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Kitahara Ryosuke rushed to the front desk to report.

The short-haired girl was still very polite and asked him to go to the lounge and wait for a while.

Kitahara Ryosuke said yes, but didn't move.

His upper body was leaning on the platform, and he seemed to be chatting, "Sister, I'm going to be transferred from Kyuta to Tokyo. Will the benefits be upgraded to a higher level?"

Who would ask the front desk about welfare benefits?

The short-haired girl was decisive and embarrassed, saying that everyone’s situation was different and she didn’t know very well.

Then Kitahara Ryosuke said: "Is my uncle Muchuan here? It's too boring to be alone in the lounge. I just want to ask him about something."

Young lady: “The deputy minister is not here.”

"Then will he come today?"

"...I'm not sure about that either."

"Oh, let's chat about gossip. Anyway, waiting is just waiting."

"..."

"Uncle Muchuan, does he have a good little sister? He can be called a handsome old man. I'm worried about Aunt Baima."

"..."

"I heard there are a lot of spies in the building, do you know that?"

"..."

While chatting about gossip, there was really nothing serious about it, leaving the young lady opposite speechless.

He suspected that the deputy director of the investigation department was having an affair, and also encountered the special affairs building?

There are probably spies in the building, but who dares to say such things without any evidence?

At this time, a visitor stepped out of the elevator, and Kitahara Ryosuke decisively gave way.

But after this person left, he immediately came back and continued to gossip.

Young lady Lu Xiang: Extremely speechless! ...

It is said that someone did set a threshold for the handsome young man across from him today, but he came up to Uncle Muchuan and his uncle. How dare Lu Xiang, who was only responsible for the front desk work, really offend him to death.

He was talking nonsense, and Lu Xiang could only listen to him talking nonsense here.

But this guy kept talking more and more, and the investigation department, audit department, research department, board of directors...all the big shots in the building from bottom to top started gossiping.

Finally, there is the general manager.

Kitahara Ryosuke said: "I heard that the head of the headquarters is retiring soon. Who do you think the next head will be?"