Mochizuki Momiji's dress was light pink, perfectly matching her hair color.
The only issue was that the dress showed off her figure a little too well. Just that one photo alone made Iijima Yun and Eriri unbelievably jealous.
After everyone finished looking through the bridesmaids' photos one by one, it was finally time for Ichin, the groom, along with the groomsmen's photos.
Although Ichin did not wear suits very often, everyone had still seen him dressed formally from time to time, so the impact was not overly shocking.
After all, there were only so many things a groom's suit could do. As long as it looked good and did not mess anything up, that was enough. No matter what, it was impossible for the groom to steal the bride's spotlight anyway.
And then, it was finally Utaha's turn.
The moment the pure white wedding dress appeared, everyone's attention was instantly drawn to it.
Kō Yagami widened her eyes and exclaimed, "She's seriously so beautiful! If I had known, I would've gone with you guys. It definitely looked even better in person than in the photos."
Ichin smiled and said, "Of course it did. And this was with Utaha barely styling her hair and without any special makeup. If she had gone all out, the result would've been even better. Once the wedding photos are finished later, you'll all get to see them."
After Ichin finished speaking, Utaha proudly placed her finger on the tablet.
"Wait a second, we're not done yet."
With a swipe of her finger, everyone's vision was suddenly filled with red.
They had taken several photos in traditional Chinese wedding dresses as well, so naturally she had to show everyone properly.
"Oh! This one looks amazing too! And it feels really festive at first glance!"
"That's not all, there's something even better!"
Then everyone saw the group photo of Utaha, Yukino, and Haruno all wearing wedding dresses together.
"Whoa, this one is seriously on another level!"
Kō had not expected that at all and said in surprise, "Even Yukino and Haruno wore them too? They actually look amazing! Hmm... but now that I think about it, any of the girls here would probably look great in a wedding dress, right? Yun, did you guys try any on?"
Iijima Yun shook her head.
"Nope. I think something like that should wait until I actually find someone first. For now, just looking is enough."
Even though she said that, the envy and longing in her eyes were impossible to hide.
Kō laughed as she wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
"Then go find yourself a boyfriend. Weren't the groomsmen this time all pretty good?"
"Well, that's true, but none of them really clicked with me."
Yun spread her hands helplessly.
"I'll just leave it to fate. We're all still young anyway. Didn't you see? Even Hazuki-san only recently got herself a boyfriend."
"That's true." Kō nodded, then smiled at Ichin. "By the way, you probably don't know yet, right? Hazuki and that arranged date partner of hers officially started dating already."
"Huh? Really? I seriously didn't know that."
Ichin was genuinely surprised. Before leaving for China, Hazuki had told him they were still in the 'getting to know each other' phase. And now they were already together?
Rin Toyama added from the side, "Apparently they made it official after going on a date last week. Honestly, Hazuki-san got pretty lucky this time. The guy has a great personality, and he's also a university professor, so he gets regular vacations every year. Even if Hazuki-san keeps working in the future, they still won't end up constantly missing each other."
One was a university professor, while Hazuki's job rarely required overtime anyway, so it really was a pretty ideal situation that would not interfere with family life.
Ichin nodded with a smile.
"Once we get back to work tomorrow, I'm definitely going to ask her all about it."
Before long, everyone finished looking through the photos and gathered together to watch a movie.
At this hour, nobody was planning to go home anymore. They simply stayed over for the night and planned to head to the company together the next day.
As for Ichin, he did not join the girls' sleepover party. Instead, he went to the studio and continued working on the game proposal. The proposal for Tales of Arise was still unfinished, after all.
The next morning, Ichin opened his eyes under the merciless assault of the alarm clock.
Yawning, he hugged the Yukino in his arms and kissed her twice before finally sitting up.
The sleepy Yukino, after being kissed awake, also yawned groggily while curled up beneath the blanket.
"So it's morning already..."
They had played around way too wildly last night, leaving her still incredibly sleepy. Meanwhile, the Utaha on the other side had not even woken up yet.
Ichin smiled and leaned over to kiss Yukino once more.
"It's still early. It's only six thirty. Sleep a bit more. I'll come wake you girls up again at seven thirty."
Although Ichin himself also wanted to stay in this warm and gentle paradise a little longer, there was no helping it. Quite a few people had stayed over last night, so he needed to prepare more breakfast today.
If he cooked everything himself, he could only make porridge and something simple. The rest he would have to go out and buy.
Hearing his words, Yukino obediently closed her eyes and went back to sleep.
Meanwhile, Utaha groggily opened her eyes for a moment. After noticing Yukino had not moved at all, she immediately lost any motivation to get up herself. The bed was simply too comfortable.
Unlike Yukino, who still had classes to attend, Utaha had already graduated and was now a freelance writer. On top of that, the revisions for the latest volume of her novel had already been submitted, so even if she slept until noon today, it would not matter at all.
After getting up and doing a bit of exercise, Ichin started the porridge before driving out to buy breakfast.
There were only dumplings in the fridge at home, so he needed to buy some steamed buns as well.
After being out for half an hour, Ichin returned home and discovered that Umiko and Rin Toyama were already awake.
"Umiko, Rin, why are you both up so early?"
Ichin glanced at the time. It was only seven thirty.
Umiko smiled while stretching her body.
"I'm used to waking up early. Besides, your place has such complete equipment, so of course I had to get some exercise in. Did you go out to buy breakfast?"
"Yeah. Dumplings and porridge weren't enough, so I bought some steamed buns too."
Ichin shook the large bag of buns in his hand before walking into the kitchen. Rin Toyama also came over to help, and the two of them each started frying a pan of dumplings.
At eight o'clock, everyone gradually came downstairs one after another.
The moment she came down, Hajime Shinoda immediately flopped onto the sofa and said, "Big villas are seriously amazing. I've decided, I'm buying one in the future too! I'll wait until Haruno-san's project over there is finished!"
Haruno laughed.
"Sure. I'll reserve one for you, so make sure you actually buy it when the time comes."
After that, Haruno turned on the TV and led everyone in yoga right there in the living room.
Honestly, the scene was pretty shocking. Ichin felt that if he snapped a photo and uploaded it online, it would definitely explode with comments. Breaking ten thousand comments would be effortless.
Before breakfast officially started, Yukino finally finished washing up and came downstairs.
As for Utaha, just as expected, she had slept in and never got up.
Ichin did not go wake her either. He left some food warming for her, then after finishing breakfast himself, headed to work together with everyone else.
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