Inside the house.
Katsu held onto the door frame and fumbled for the switch to turn on the light while he said to Natsumi: "Well... you should sleep in my room tonight. Tomorrow Ratatoskr will come and give you a whole room in the Spirit Apartment next door."
"Oh oh." Natsumi stood beside Katsu and nodded obediently.
Snap!
Katsu fumbled for the switch, and the sleeping room was illuminated by bright white light.
"You go take a bath first. The bath water will flow... Never mind, I'll do it." As he said that, Katsu took off his Martin boots, put on slippers, and handed Natsumi a pair of spare slippers.
Seeing that the other party was dressed, Katsu pressed Natsumi's shoulder and walked towards the bathroom.
… …
Listening to the sound of water splashing in the bathroom, Katsu leaned back on the sofa.
He was thinking about two things. First, the Spirit Mio what is her objective for helping him.
About Tobiichi Origami: Why did she wear the DEM manifestation device?
Time, in Katsu's thoughts, slowly passes by---
Bang, bang, bang…
There was an abrupt knock on the door. Katsu's eyelids twitched slightly, but he stood up and went to open the door without any hesitation.
The handle turned slightly and the door opened. What appeared in front of Katsu was not a large group of people, but only Kotori, which made Katsu a little stunned.
His lips moved a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but when he saw Kotori's red eyes, he suddenly couldn't speak.
"Huh---" Katsu exhaled, then squatted slightly, keeping his eyes level with Kotori.
"I'm sorry." Katsu said sincerely.
"… …" Kotori didn't say anything, just looked at Katsu quietly.
This made Katsu a little at a loss for what to say, and the atmosphere was a little tense for a moment.
It was not until he saw the tears in Kotori's eyes gradually falling that Katsu could not help but be moved. What kind of feeling was this? To be honest, the moment he saw the tears falling, Katsu regretted it...
He stretched out his hand to hold Kotori's waist, and regardless of her struggle, he directly picked her up---
Then he turned around and let Kotori struggle and cry in his arms. Katsu did not let her go, but walked straight to the second floor and returned to his room---
Katsu kicked the door shut and put Kotori on the bed. There was no light in the room, only the moonlight outside the window as the light source.
Katsu had already seen the lights go off in Shidou's house next door, so he went forward and closed the windows and curtains.
Finally, in the fully enclosed room, Katsu looked at Kotori again, expressionless: "Can you forgive me this time?"
Kotori didn't say anything. Looking into Katsu's eyes, tears flowed out again. It was obvious that Kotori had not forgiven Katsu.
"There's nothing we can do about it..." Katsu muttered. Then, in front of Kotori's stunned eyes, Katsu pushed Kotori onto the bed and kissed her on the lips.
After a moment, their lips parted.
"Can you forgive me now?"
"… …"
The lips meet again--
"Can you forgive me now?"
"… …"
Lips fit again---
I don't know how many times this happened until the Katsu in the middle stuck out its tongue…
"Mmm---Mmm!!!" Kotori struggled with her little face flushed. The feeling of being invaded by Katsu made her whole body feel hot. If not for using her power too much last time she might have already burst into flame from shame.
This time, their lips were together for an exceptionally long time, and when they finally parted, Kotori's hands, which had been waving around randomly, had already wrapped around Katsu's neck without her knowing.
In the dim room, two pairs of equal eyes looked at each other, their eyes were full of confusion and emotions, and between their lips, an imperceptible thread firmly connected them---
"Now, can you forgive me?"
"… …"
Seeing that Kotori still didn't speak, Katsu took a deep breath and then pretended to stretch his hand down---
"Ah!!!" Kotori was so scared that she screamed, and she retracted her legs and quickly backed away from Katsu on his bed, grabbing the quilt from the side to cover herself.
Looking at Katsu, her pretty face turned red, her eyes were full of panic--"Perverted...perverted brother!"
"Hehehe…" Katsu laughed oddly, then stepped onto the bed. While approaching Kotori who was shivering, he whispered, "If you still don't want to forgive me, I will show you my perversion today—"
"Ugh!!" Kotori looked at Katsu with disbelief in her eyes for a moment - "I… I'm still young…"
"… …Big pervert!"
"… …" Katsu was speechless and just looked at Kotori quietly without saying a word.
Naturally, Katsu won't actually do anything to her.
In fact, at this point, Kotori was no longer angry, but the shame and anger for a moment made it difficult for her to control herself.
However, the Katsu in front of him were getting closer and closer, and the blush on Kotori's face was getting deeper and deeper---
Finally, when Katsu raised his eyebrows and almost put his hand on the quilt, Kotori couldn't help but close her eyes and shouted: "Enough! I forgive my brother---"
"… …" Katsu slowly put down his hand, feeling a little relieved… He was really afraid that Kotori would not play by the rules, but now it was the best. After all, no matter what he was like, he couldn't be so perverted as to attack her at this age she needed to wait a few more years.
… …
When Katsu and Kotori came out of the room, Natsumi just came out of the bathroom after taking a shower.
She looked suspiciously at Katsu, who had no expression on his face, and Kotori, whose face was still flushed, and then said in a strange tone, "Well, I'm done."
Katsu nodded, still keeping an expressionless look, and patted the shoulder of Kotori who was leaning on him: "Kotori, go take a shower."
"…oh."
Watching Kotori walk towards the bathroom, Natsumi finally couldn't help but rush to Katsu's side, his big eyes full of shock: "You...you wouldn't have attacked your sister?!"
Bang!
"it hurts!"
Katsu retracted his right hand from the "brain-explosion" position and rolled his eyes: "What are you thinking about all day long? Let Kotori handle the procedures for your skipping school last time. Study hard and make progress every day."
… …
In the bathroom, Kotori sat in the bathtub filled with hot water, recalling the scenes in the bedroom before, her cheeks suddenly began to turn red again, and she even felt that the hot water was not hot enough...
"Brother, you fool... just wait a few more years..." Mumbling, Kotori couldn't help but sink a little, letting the water cover half of her red face...
After lightly touching the little mouth of the sleeping Kotori, Katsu suddenly loosened his arms around Kotori.
After changing his clothes and walking out of the room, Katsu glanced at the closed door of his own room next to him---
"Hmm... Natsumi hasn't gotten up yet... Seeing her run away so early yesterday morning, I thought she was a good girl who went to bed early and got up early..."
While mumbling some meaningless words, Katsu directly pushed and pulled the door of the room - of course, he didn't want to wake up Natsumi now, the reason he opened the door was because his toiletries were all placed in the bathroom in his own room...
Brush, brush, brush…
Crash--
Natsumi, who was nestled in the warm and fragrant bed, heard such a voice in a daze...
The sound of plastic wire rubbing against teeth and running water sounded for a while, then stopped after a few minutes, followed by the sound of footsteps and the door closing...
Obviously, this noise would obviously disturb her sleep in the morning, but now, she felt an unprecedented peace of mind from the bottom of her heart.
… …
Walk down the stairs, pass the living room, come to the entrance hall, open the door, and walk out of the house.
The vision suddenly becomes clear.
The weather is very good today. Although it is not the rainy day that Katsu likes, Katsu does not reject the weather with floating white clouds, clear blue sky and dazzling rising sun.
The air outside the door was very fresh. After taking a few deep breaths, Katsu felt much better.
"It's indeed a good day for an autumn outing." Having said that, Katsu couldn't help but stretch, then turned and walked towards Shidou's house.
Katsu took out the key to Shidou's house, opened the door, and walked straight in.
However, what he didn't expect was that as soon as he entered the room, he heard the sizzling sound of frying eggs in the kitchen.
"Huh?! Shidou, you got up so early." Katsu said to Shidou in the kitchen while closing the door and changing his shoes.
"Hey, Katsu is here. It's not too early anymore. Didn't we agree to go on an autumn outing today? We have to go out and buy ingredients and tools for the outing later." Shidou said without turning his head.
"Hmm... That's true - well, what shall we have for breakfast?" Katsu said as he walked into the kitchen.
"Same old, fried eggs, milk, toast, ham and bacon." Shidou handed Katsu a bag of ham and said.
Taking the ham, Katsu skillfully started the fire, put the frying pan on, and added oil...
"Really? You don't get tired of eating Western breakfast every day."
"… …"
"Let's not talk about this. Speaking of which, did you coax Kotori well last night?"
"… We can still be friends without this."
"???"
… …
After the meal was cooked, before Katsu could wake them up one by one, everyone came over consciously one after another, which made Katsu sigh with relief: "Everyone has grown up..."
At the dinner table, everyone had a heated discussion about the specific details of the autumn outing.
Finally, they unanimously decided to run farther this time, to the outermost mountain of Tengu City...
After dinner, Katsu and Shidou went to the supermarket to buy food, while the others prepared their own luggage. Large items such as tents and grills for camping were prepared by Fraxinus just like last time.
Finally, after all preparations were completed, everyone gathered on the Fraxinus and was directly transported to the designated destination by the Fraxinus.
… …