Did he really need to elaborate on how he used to be a farm owner in Pelican Town and consistently worked 007 every day?
He wasn't showing off, really.
Weeding and watering? That's nothing. He could even perform logging for them on the spot.
However, after a brief thought, Hayato decided against it.
Because logging was tiring.
By the time Grandma's small yard was tidied up, it was already past ten o'clock.
Nanao Akane didn't plan to eat lunch at home. She wanted to take Hayato around Yaso Inaba, to properly introduce him to the small town where she was born and raised (until elementary school).
Grandma didn't have any objections to this.
She also had her own matters to attend to in the afternoon and needed to go out.
Hayato then followed Nanao Akane, planning to stroll around outside.
Once they were out of Grandma's sight, Nanao Akane immediately asked,
"Kobayashi-chan, are you alright?"
"Are you alright?" Hayato counter-asked.
"Huh, what kind of spell did you cast on Grandma?"
Could it be that Grandma's previous warning was just a joke? But it didn't seem like it. Grandma was usually kind but serious, not someone who liked to joke around.
"Oh, that," Hayato said calmly, "It was all just for a tactical home invasion."
"…What do you mean?"
"Grandma saw me wake up in your room first thing in the morning, but you weren't there. How would she react?"
Nanao Akane was momentarily confused.
Nanao Akane had indeed slept in the guest room where Hayato was.
However, Hayato had gone to Nanao Akane's boudoir.
When Grandma came to check the rooms first thing in the morning, she saw Hayato coming out of Nanao Akane's room and immediately frowned.
But after realizing her granddaughter wasn't in the room, she showed an expression not much different from Nanao Akane's current one.
"Akane was afraid I wouldn't sleep well without a bed, so she switched rooms with me."
↑ This was Hayato's answer.
"...That girl really spoils you." → Grandma could only reply like that.
This tactical room swap completely dispelled Grandma's suspicions.
In her imagination, if something had happened, either they would both wake up in the guest room, or both in Akane's boudoir, or even pretend to go back to their own rooms, which was highly possible, but Hayato waking up from Nanao Akane's room...
How to put it, this explanation from beginning to end revealed two words.
True Sincerity!
As a male lecturer who understands human nature, what if you're fifty or sixty years old?
You're still in his palm!
Hayato smiled rather cruelly. This is my counterattack against your previous "oppression," Miss Nanakio!
Surprised? Unexpected?
Nanao Akane understood what had happened but couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.
"Kobayashi-chan, you should have woken me up…"
If Grandma had really noticed something, it would have been a huge mess—although it was really… Never mind, let's not talk about whether it was enjoyable or not. Listening to Nanao Akane's resentful and slightly reproachful nagging, Hayato glanced at her,
"I'm not the culprit."
Nanao Akane wanted to say something more, but then her eyes darted around, and she covered her delicate lips with her hand:
"You're so kind, Kobayashi-chan, you didn't want to disturb my sleep, so you didn't wake me up, right~~ Humph~~ You should tell me when you're being nice to me~~ If I weren't so clever, I might not have understood your good intentions~~"
A gentle light flickered in Hayato's eyes, and his watery gaze flowed over Nanao Akane's cute and graceful face. He chuckled,
"I called, but the pig slept soundly and showed no signs of waking up. Even if I pinched her pig face hard, she would only grunt twice."
"…"
Nanao Akane's face immediately turned crimson. She quickly blurted out, "I, I didn't! No, don't say such strange things, it's so unpleasant…"
As she spoke, Nanao Akane lowered her eyes, and her watery gaze, after arguing forcefully, rolled around twice, then she tilted her head and thought for a moment.
She held up a finger to Hayato:
"…Say it again?"
"Are you eating oil cakes? Very big?" Hayato said scornfully.
"Gulp,"
Nanao Akane choked on her saliva, "…Hehe~~~"
Hayato: ...
Before eleven o'clock, the sun in Yaso Inaba, though bright and warm, was not yet scorching.
After eleven o'clock, when the temperature rose slightly.
Hayato and Nanao Akane had already arrived at Junis.
Junis was the new shopping mall that Yamano Yuta had mentioned before.
Rather than a shopping mall, it was more like a sizable commercial complex.
Although it couldn't compare to the prosperity and international flair of places like Ginza in Tokyo, being built in a small town like Yaso Inaba was in itself a dimension-reducing attack.
Moreover, it had air conditioning.
The free air conditioning brought a certain amount of foot traffic to the mall.
Even at the outermost elevator entrance, there was a Grandma wearing a straw hat, enjoying the cool air. She seemed to have just finished working in the fields, with mud still on her clothes.
However, there were no students among the crowd at Junis.
It wasn't that young people weren't interested in this shopping mall; in fact, Junis could be considered a dating hotspot for Hachijojima High School students.
The reason no one was there was entirely due to,
"They're all in class…" Hayato said with a smile.
Having a holiday is great.
He's on holiday, while others are still in school—even better.
He's on holiday, while others are still in school preparing for exams—the best of the best.
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