Chapter 18
"*sigh* What a pain that was…"
"Well… At least I got the job back as their official tutor once again."
Fuutaro mumbled to himself as he thought about his earlier talks with Maruo. Currently, he was on his way to the quintuplets' rented apartment, to help them packing their things up and cleaning the apartment since they were about to return back to their penthouse after he won the bet against their father. Originally, Fuutaro planned for a tutoring session this evening, but knowing that the five had another plan and they already scored an acceptable result on the mock exam, he had no choice but to give them a day off and to help their chores, knowing that they already work hard on the exam. Another reason why he wanted to come the rented apartment was to confront Ichika and find out the reason why she had been acting strange to him. Fuutaro planned to talk with her alone after they were done with the chores, so the other four won't be butting their head to their business.
As he still thinking about Ichika's strange behavior, unknown to him, Fuutaro already arrived in front of the rented apartment without him realizing it. He then stared at the front door and took a deep breath to prepare himself what kind of mess he was going to face. As he about to knock the door, the door suddenly opened and Fuutaro got startled by it. It was Itsuki who opened the door and she apparently about to pick up a large box on the floor with both of her hand
"Ahh… Uesugi-kun," Itsuki said as she picked up a box from the floor after she opened the door. "Ughh… What took you so long? We already started the packing from thirty minutes ago."
"Yeah… My bad. The chores in my house turns out to be longer than expected," Fuutaro said, lying about the reason he got late. "Anyway, what's with that box? You want me to help carry it?"
"There's no need to. I'm about to throw this box away," Itsuki said as she carried the big box and walked out from the apartment. "Uesugi-kun, there's a lot of things that need to be cleaned inside, so go in first. I will catch up to you in a minute," she continued to said to him as she walked downstairs to threw away the box.
"Yeah…"
Fuutaro entered the rented apartment and closed the front door behind him. He took of his shoes first before entering further to the living room.
When he set his eyes on the living room, his eyes widened and his mouth slightly opened from the sight in front of him. A lot of boxes, from tiny one to the big one, scattered around the living room and not to mention that there was also a lot of things on the floor that he never saw before in this place, like magazine, their dirty clothing, kitchen wares, and other things that he can't say because of how unorganized the condition was.
Fuutaro slowly walked and stepped over the boxes and other things carefully so he won't tripped by it. When he reached the center of the living room, he was greeted by the usual enthusiastic voice from Yotsuba and followed by a stare from Nino and Miku, who were on the kitchen.
"Ahh…! Uesugi-san is finally here!" Yotsuba shouted from seeing him arrived as she put some of the things on the floor into a box.
"You're late, Fuu-kun! I'm pretty sure that you ran away from us and I'm ready to go to your house and drag you all the way to here!" Nino slightly yelled to him with her finger pointing at him.
"Yeah, sorry about that. Anyway, it's surely messy in here… It reminded me of certain someone's room that I knew…" Fuutaro looked around the messy living room and the state of it reminded him of Ichika's bedroom.
"Well, what do you expect? We're having a packing out, so it's inevitable for the apartment to be this messy," Nino responded.
"*sigh* I guess the packing won't be finished in a day… With this kind of state, I might need to come again tomorrow," Fuutaro complained as he put his school bag near the kotatsu.
"Isn't that fine? It's always fun having you in here, Uesugi-san! With you in here, the atmosphere around can get merrier and the work can be done faster, right?" Yotsuba replied with a cheerful expression and a big grin.
"Well… I can't say the same to that. Doing this kind of things always put my body in strain and by the end of the day, I can feel it breaking apart from inside…"
"Oi, quit complaining and give me a hand in here!" Nino slightly shouted from the kitchen. "Ebata-san, who is much older than you, helped us moving our things from the penthouse to here without breaking any sweat and not complaining a single word. Don't tell me that you're weaker than an old man like him?"
"Oi, oi… That really hurt me, you know?" Fuutaro said as he walked to the kitchen to give Nino a help. "You know that I'm not strong and athletic? Even I achieved the slowest running time on PE class, remember?"
"Don't worry, Fuutaro. If you ever got tired, I knew the recipe on how to make an energy drink from the net," Miku said, opening the refrigerator to take something. "For now, here's an orange juice if you ever feel tired." she then put a can of orange juice on the kitchen counter.
"Ahaha… Thanks, I guess," Fuutaro thanked Miku with a weak smirk on his lips. "If I drink that energy drink that Miku made, I'm pretty sure I will pass out in an instant instead of feeling full of energy, knowing how horrible her cooking skill is…" he slightly shuddered from thinking about the energy drink that Miku ever going to made.
"Oh also, Fuu-kun. Can you help us cleaning the dust on the top of that cabinet?" Nino said, pointing at the cabinet near the front door. "Use this chair to help you reach the top of it." she then gave Fuutaro a small chair to help him reach the top of the cabinet.
"That cabinet? Yeah, got it."
Fuutaro took the chair and a duster from the floor, then headed to the living room to clean the top of the cabinet. He put the chair down and stood up on it to reach the top and he can saw there were a lot of dust and some dead small insect on there. Fuutaro immediately swept the surface with the duster and the small particle of dust flying around made him coughing and it made his eyes irritated. It took him around a minute to clean all the dust and he went down from the chair as his work was done… for now.
"Well… I'm finished cleaning the top of the cabinet…" Fuutaro said as he went down from the chair and rubbed one of his eyes, still feeling some irritation in his eye from the dust particle. "Hmm…? Where's Ichika? Is she away or something?" he looked around the apartment and noticed that Ichika wasn't here.
"Last time I checked, she's still sleeping in the bedroom," Itsuki said from the front door as she just came back from throwing away the large box.
"Huh…? She's sleeping? When you all doing the packing?" Fuutaro showed a dumbfounded expression knowing that Ichika was asleep in this kind of situation.
"Let her sleep, Fuutaro. She's been pretty tired for this whole day," Miku said as she cleaned the refrigerator and a kitchen counter. "Yesterday, Ichika came home pretty late from another meeting with her manager. She immediately went to sleep after we got home."
"We already told her to take a temporary break knowing she just got discharged few days ago. But Ichika insisted that she needed to catch up her unfinished acting work that she left when she got ill," Yotsuba said, feeling worried about her big sister decision.
"That girl… Does she ever pay any attention to her health and know when to take some time off?" Fuutaro shook his head after hearing the situation about Ichika.
"That's Ichika for you. Our eldest sister can be very stubborn sometimes," Nino said as she also helped Miku cleaning the kitchen counter and refrigerator. "Anyway, what time is this? At this time, she should be awake. Go check her in our bedroom, Fuu-kun. If she's already awake, then get her here to help us packing things up."
"Yeah… Got it."
Fuutaro quietly opened the bedroom door, hoping to not woke her up if she was still sleeping. Entering the bedroom, he can saw that the bedroom was dimly lit with a night lamp on the center of the bedroom. Fuutaro then slowly closed the bedroom door behind him and when he looked around the bedroom, he saw Ichika already awake, silently standing in front of the wardrobe, seemingly looking at something on her hand. He then wondered what did she looked at because with this poorly lighted room, Fuutaro can't really know about it.
"Looks like she's already awake…"
"I guess she still doesn't notice me yet…"
"Hmm…? It looks like she's looking at something on her hand…"
"Should I approached her or wait until she's done…?"
10 minutes earlier, the quintuplets' bedroom
"Mmmm… W-What time is it now…?" Ichika mumbled as she just awaked from her evening sleep.
Ichika reached for her phone next to the pillow to look for the time. The clock on her phone showed that the time was currently at 6 PM. She had been sleeping for at least one and a half hour ever since she arrived back from school. Ichika been feeling pretty tired for the whole day, more tired than usual. Yesterday, she had a meeting with her manager and the TV show director, discussing about her unfinished work that she left before she got ill.
Ichika yawned and rubbed her eyes, still feeling a bit sleepy and then sat on her futon. With sleepy eyes, she looked around and there were no one in the bedroom. Ichika can hear her sisters' voice in the living room and she thought that they must be packing things up and cleaning apartment while she was asleep. On the way home from school, they all agreed to wait for Fuutaro to do the chores and if he was taking too long, they will start without him so the work wouldn't take too long until tomorrow.
"It looks like everyone already started packing and cleaning…"
"I better go out and give them a hand…"
"Huh? I'm still wearing my school uniform…?"
"I guess I'm going to change first…"
Ichika then stood up from her futon and heading for the wardrobe to get a change of clothes. She still wearing her school uniform when she was sleeping because she was very sleepy when she got back and didn't even think to change clothes when she fell to her futon. When Ichika about to open the wardrobe, she noticed a photograph laying on the floor, right in front of the wardrobe, and she picked it up. She gasped and her eyes widened as soon as she saw the photo that she just picked.
"Ehh...! This photo...?"
The photo showed six-years ago Yotsuba and a blonde boy that Ichika met six years ago in Kyoto. She immediately remembered about two days ago, on her date with Fuutaro in the restaurant, where he told her that six years ago, he was some kind of a delinquent with a blonde hair and was in a school trip in Kyoto around the same time as her and the other four. Fuutaro told her that he got lost with a girl for a whole day and at nighttime, he met that girl again in the hotel she was staying and ended up playing a card with her for a whole night. Fuutaro's story reeled back again in her head as Ichika tried to connects all the dot from her six years ago memory.
"Well… I used to not care about studying, which I found to be pointless. I always teased my friends and sometimes bully them… When I looked back at it, I'm not really proud of it. Also, I didn't care about school rules and always broke many of the rules, and I even bleached my hair blond because I thought it would look cool on me somehow."
"It's all started six years ago on my school trip in Kyoto. I broke up from my school group in the middle of the trip and went wandering on my own," Fuutaro continued telling his story and there was a cringe expression on his face as he remembered the part that he about to tell. "I was accused by someone on stalking and taking a photo of them without their permission. That person made a scene about it and attracted police attention. When I was about to get caught by the police, there was a girl, around my age, appeared before me and stood up to me saying that I'm innocent."
"Anyway, that girl saved me from getting apprehended by the police. After I thanked her, she followed me on everywhere I go and I really got annoyed by her. When I told her to go back home or something, she said that she got separated from her family. Without anyone to know, she decided to follow me for the whole day."
"Hmm… I can't remember clearly, but if I'm not wrong her father or her teacher found her after we prayed and took us back to the inn she was staying. While waiting for my teacher to come to pick me up, she showed up again in front of the spare room that I'm in. Since I was bored at that time, I asked her to play cards with me for the rest of the night."
After remembering what Fuutaro said to her, this photo was the concrete proof that she needed to confirm her deduction. So it was true, her deduction two days ago, where Ichika thought about the boy that she met six years ago in Kyoto… was true and it was truly him, the Fuutaro that he know currently. By combining her memories, Fuutaro's story, and this photo, everything was now connected and made sense. A smile and blush appeared on her face as she closed his eyes, feeling glad about this new finding.
"So that's how it is..."
"Finally, it's all makes sense..."
"The boy in this photo… is really Fuutaro-kun..."
"And I did meet him six years ago…"
Ichika never forgot about her first meeting with Fuutaro in Kyoto six years ago. Ever since he asked her to play card with him, Ichika got enamored by his charm and in the process, Fuutaro became her first crush. As years passed on, Ichika still remembered about that moment but she never really dwelled in past because she thought that it was just some childhood crush and she never even knew his name at that time.
That memory started to came back again when Ichika saw Fuutaro wore a blonde wig in the last year school trip, in which she got reminded of the boy that she met six years ago. When Fuutaro told her about his childhood and his school trip six years ago, Ichika starting to become suspicious that Fuutaro might be the boy that she met at the same time. With the photograph that she held on her hand right now, everything was now clear. Fuutaro was the boy that she met six years ago, the boy that was her first crush and the boy that she currently fell in love with.
"After all this time, I did love the same person..."
"I'm glad that I finally found out about it…"
"Really… Fate truly works in mysterious way…"
She was glad, that from the start, she loved the same and only one person, that person was only him, Uesugi Fuutaro. Ichika now clearly remembered that Yotsuba once told her that she was interested in a boy that always by her side when she got lost in their six years ago school trip and based from this photo, that boy must be Fuutaro. She thought that it must be inevitable because Yotsuba spent the whole day with Fuutaro at that time and when she went back to the inn, there was a happiness and joy all over her face and she told everyone that she really enjoyed spending time with the boy that she met.
Now not only Nino, Miku, and herself, but Yotsuba apparently had a feeling for Fuutaro as well. Only Itsuki left, who seems to not have a feeling for him, but Ichika was pretty sure that she was also somehow interested in him, knowing that they had a good chemistry together since the last year school trip.
"Heh... Looks like we're truly quintuplets..."
"Our tastes of things are definitely different..."
"But we had some things in common..."
"And one from many..."
"That we ended up liking the same person..."
Back to the present
Fuutaro had been standing and waiting for like a minute and Ichika was still not moving from that spot, apparently still looking at something on her hand. He silently sighed and thought to himself, how long he needed to wait for her to finally move from her position? His legs starting to feels numb from standing and not wanting to wait any longer, Fuutaro immediately approached her and asked what was wrong with her.
"Oi, what's wrong with you? Are you sleepwalking or something?"
"Ehh... F-Fuutaro-kun!" Ichika got startled from Fuutaro suddenly entering the bedroom and quickly hide the photo behind her. "W-What are you doing in here?!"
"*sigh* I came to check if you're already awake or not. The four told me that you immediately went to sleep after coming back from school." Fuutaro shook his head after sighing. "Your other sisters already started packing things up and cleaning the living room. If you already awake, why don't you come out from the bedroom immediately?"
"Ahaha… Well, I was about to… But you suddenly entered the bedroom when I was about to get change and so, I didn't have a chance to even change my clothes you know?" Ichika weakly laughed and made an excuse so he won't be suspicious of her silently standing for no reason.
"Oi, oi… Don't put this on my fault. I've been watching you freezing in front of the wardrobe for like a minute and you didn't even open it. So what the hell is wrong with you?"
"Ehh-uhh… About that…" Ichika stuttered on her words as she thought another excuse for him. "Well, believe it or not, the truth is, I fell asleep as I'm about to open the wardrobe…" she said with a grin.
"Huh…? So for the last one minute, I just watched you sleepwalking?!" Fuutaro got dumbfounded from her reason and there was an unpleasant surprised expression on his face.
"Hehe… I guess you are," Ichika responded with a chuckle from seeing Fuutaro surprised. "I'm very sleepy you know? Last night, I didn't get much sleep and I even fell asleep in the morning class." she yawned and stretched her arms in the air at the same time.
"*sigh* Really… I swear, someday you will fall asleep on some important day… Like on graduation day or some other important event." Fuutaro shook his head again.
"Well, it can't be helped. Yesterday, I came home pretty late after meeting with my manager and the TV show director." Ichika then walked back to her futon and took a seat on it. "The meeting took so long and it's about catching up to my work that I missed last week."
"Is that so? Then, is it going to be a lot of work that needed to catch up?"
"Yeah… You heard from what I said yesterday. Starting from today until next week, I will go to the studio and shooting stage for everyday to catch up the acting work that I missed," Ichika said. "The work is about a TV drama, so I can't afford slacking up because the production time is very limited and knowing that the director temporarily stopped the production just for me, I can't disappoint him and need to work hard to catch up to my slacking."
"Oi, oi… I know that you need to catch up to your work, but shouldn't you ease up a bit? You just got discharged from the hospital three days ago." Fuutaro then took a seat on the floor as his legs started to get number. "I'm pretty sure that you're not even one hundred percent healthy yet."
"Don't worry about me, Fuutaro-kun! I already bought a vitamin and health supplement to keep me healthy!" Ichika pointed at some health supplement bottle on the table near them. "By the way, the vitamin that you brought for me the other day, it's really helping me recover. Even dad said the vitamin that you brought was very good for someone who just recovered from an illness."
"Is that so? I'm glad that vitamin was useful. Anyway, don't depend too much on it because it's all back to you, on how good or bad your habit is," Fuutaro stated. "If you still had that overworking habit, I might need to come with you to the shooting stage to keep an eye on you"
"Hehh… It's very unusual for you to wanting to come with me…" Ichika said in awe as her expression started to turn into a teasing one. "Or is it just an excuse to see how onee-san do her acting because you got charmed by her acting skills?"
"Well… Other than keeping an eye on you, I also wanted to see how you act in the studio ever since that time." Fuutaro turned his eyes away from Ichika, feeling slightly flustered from her teasing. "Didn't you say that I can come with you to the shooting stage once in a while, right?"
"That's true… Well, I guess I can't complain since I'm the one who offered it to you in the first place," Ichika said and there was a smile forming on her lips, still with a teasing expression. "By keeping an eye on me, don't interrupt the shooting production and don't creep out the production crew, okay?"
"I don't know about that. You do remember that I already made a promise to myself that I will always reminding you to not act reckless and hold you back from going overboard?" Fuutaro answered back with a smirk, now in tune with a teasing mood thanks to Ichika. "Even if I got thrown out by the security, I will find a way back so I can keep an eye on you!"
"Ughh… You're really stubborn and insensitive… Fuutaro-kun…" Ichika showed a creeped-out face from hearing his statement. "But at the same time, you're a gentleman, you know that?" the creeped-out expression immediately turned into a cheerful smile.
"Heh! Whatever you say, Ichika."
There was a moment of silent between Fuutaro and Ichika after their talk. The atmosphere immediately went awkward as Fuutaro broke eye contact with her and his eyes repeatedly looking at left and right. For Ichika, she immediately stared at her futon below, suddenly feeling nervous even though she just talked and joked with him just a few seconds ago.
Although Ichika seemed to be normal again, talking and joking with him, Fuutaro still wanted to found out the reason on why she acted strange yesterday and at the school today. Was it really a bad mood though? If it was really it, then he needed to stop this overthinking thing and went back to his usual way of thinking. Although he partly blamed the after-effect of nervousness after Ichika confessing to him two days ago for this overthinking and the newfound feeling of him to her made him become more obsessed of a small thing like this.
Now that there was only silent between them and the other four wasn't here, Fuutaro thought that this was the perfect time to ask her the reason.
"Ichika…"
"Hmm… What is it, Fuutaro-kun?"
"I want to ask you ab-"
*SLAM
The bedroom door suddenly opened and it made Fuutaro and Ichika startled because of how loud the sound was. Fuutaro turned around and he can saw Nino, looking at him, with her arms crossed, standing by the door with an irritated expression on her face. He can already feel that Nino was going to be infuriated with him because he took too long to check on Ichika.
"Hey, Fuu-kun! What took you so long huh? I told you to check on Ichika, not sightseeing in our bedroom," Nino yelled in irritation. "Don't tell me that you're going for Ichika knowing that she was alone sleeping in the dark bedroom?! You're really a pervert and a degenerate, you know that!"
"O-Oi! What kind of baseless accusation was that?!" Fuutaro immediately stood up and there was also an annoyed expression after Nino's accusation. "I'm just having some talks with her and there's nothing more than that!"
"Is that so?" Nino said with still irritated face and moved her head to look at Ichika. "Ichika, he didn't do anything or something unacceptable to you, didn't he?"
"Ahaha… Don't worry about it, Nino," Ichika said with a laugh to her irritated sister. "Me and Fuutaro-kun only talked about my acting work and I teased him for some time. So that's why he took too long to check on me." she then showed an innocent smile to her, assuring Nino.
"Heh! Good thing Ichika saved you, Fuu-kun," Nino smirked and then turned her attention to the tutor. "Next time, I will keep my eye on you!" she said with a narrow eye and closed the bedroom door.
Nino exited the bedroom, leaving Fuutaro and Ichika alone, once more. There was a big sigh coming out from Fuutaro as he closed his eyes from this misunderstanding and Ichika can only laughed from seeing Fuutaro's expression as she patted his shoulder to calm him.
"How many times will I get accused of being a pervert from all of you…? I already lost count on being called with that term…" Fuutaro shook his head and held his forehead with his left hand as he went back to sat on the floor again.
"Ahaha… You should see the look of your face when Nino accused you." Ichika kept patting his shoulder with a grin on her face. "That expression of yours was pretty good though. You can make as substitute actor in the kind of romance drama where a man got caught doing pervert things by his girlfriend," she teased Fuutaro, again.
"O-oi… Really…?" Fuutaro can only mumbled, still feeling all gloomy from Nino's accusation.
"Ahaha… Of course it's a joke!" Ichika laughed again. "I guess you need to train your delicacy for a woman and be more sensitive. It's not good for a boy to enter a girl bedroom if you're not in a relationship, you know?" she said with a cheerful expression while giving him a playful finger gesture.
"*sigh* Yeah…"
"Anyway, let's go to the living room to help them before Nino come again and put a hand mark on one of your cheeks, right?" Ichika said as she stood up from her futon and headed for the door.
Ichika then exited the bedroom to help the four packing and cleaning. Fuutaro also stood up from where he sat. Before he heads out, he saw Ichika's futon state and thought that it was much better than the last time he saw it. The last time he saw Ichika slept in this bedroom was in January, where Fuutaro tried to woke her up for a tutoring session and the state of her futon was a mess, just like her bedroom where a lot of things scattered around her futon. This time, there were not many things around her futon, saved for some magazine and clothes which still kind of messy, but it was still acceptable knowing her serious messy habit. Fuutaro chuckled on seeing the slightly improved state of her sleeping space and thought what she just said at that time was true.
"Even though it's still kinda messy, at least it's really a big improvement from the last time I saw it…"
"I guess what she said was right. The other four really helped her changed her messy habit…"
"Well… I certainly won't miss that sight of uncivilized land. This sight is much better…"
Fuutaro eyes caught something interesting on her futon and he kneeled to looked at that something. He immediately recognized that something that caught his attention and a smile formed on his lips as he grabbed it. It was a hippo plushie that they won at the arcade and four photographs that they took in the photobooth when they skipped school together on last month.
Fuutaro take a look at each photograph and he never saw these photos before because Ichika only gave her one photograph, which he still had it in his student notebook. He can saw many expressions from Ichika, where she was smiling, laughing, and pulling out her tongue with her hippo plush and much to his surprise, Fuutaro can saw that he was also smiling and laughing in the last three photos even though at that time he didn't realize it. Knowing how she put her hippo plush and the photographs on her futon, Fuutaro can saw that Ichika truly treasured their school skipping experience together and how she really loved him.
"Really… Sleeping with a photograph…?"
"I can understand if it's with the hippo plush…"
"You really treasured our school skipping moment, aren't you…?"
"Well… I'm glad you did…"
"Because it's the same for me…"
Fuutaro looked at the hippo plush once more with a chuckle and then put it back on Ichika's futon along with the photographs. He then pulled out his student notebook and looked at the back of the cover, where he put the photo of them together. In this photo, Ichika made a peace finger sign with her right hand and her left hand was holding the hippo plush with her grinning. While Fuutaro, only showed a bland uninterested expression and slightly moved his head to look at the cheerful Ichika next to him. He stared at the photo for a moment, remembering about having a fun time with her at the arcade.
"No running, Fuutaro-kun!" Ichika said with an evil smirk, showing the coin that she just found. "This coin is enough for the photo booth. Don't try to run away from me, okay?" she dragged Fuutaro inside the photo booth.
"*sigh* I'm really tired…" Fuutaro sighed, feeling tired as he forcefully pulled into the booth by Ichika.
"Then, get ready for the photo!" Ichika said as she started to pose with her hippo plush. "Don't give that usual dead and blank expression of yours, okay?" she teased Fuutaro as the timer of the camera started to counting down.
"Yeah, yeah…"
Fuutaro let out a chuckle after remembering that photo booth session. He felt a slight regret of not showing a better expression while taking a picture with a girl that he liked. Even with that regret, Fuutaro was still glad and satisfied with the photo result and he thought as long as Ichika was by his side, it was enough for him. He closed his notebook with a satisfied smile and put it back to his pocket. Fuutaro then headed to the door to exit the bedroom to help the quintuplets with the chores, knowing that there was nothing to be done in this room anymore.
A/N:
Chapter 18 is finished! Only one more chapter left and this story is complete!
So it looks like Ichika is back to normal and Fuutaro really wondered about it, whether it was him overthinking things or she did really act strange to him. It's still not over yet and the reason behind their little drama will be revealed in the final chapter.
With next chapter will be the final chapter, I will need more time to prepare it so it won't feel rushed and half-hearted. I can't set the exact timetable for its release, but if the chapter is ready, it will be released as fast at 8th April, so keep an eye on that day. But I can't promise that too, since either next week or in two weeks, I will be on a work trip and yeah, not much free time for me in that period.
Just some heads up for the final chapter, the A/N will be a long one because I'm going to explain the future for this story and many other things related, so be sure to read the A/N if you still interested on the future of this story.
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-Rosalina:
Glad you liked the chapter as a whole. Yeah, I can't believe that I finally reached the end point of the story and I really miss those times where I created the story concept and wrote every chapter. Definitely one of the best moments for me in year 2021.
-Tsubaki Lover:
Welcome back! Irl stuffs definitely come first. Anyway, glad to hear that you enjoyed the chapter!
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