Hospital, second floor.
“Ayato, are you alright?”
Aether was supporting the noticeably taller Kamisato Ayato as they made their way up the stairs, but due to Ayato’s discomfort, the two were moving extremely slowly.
Watching Ayato take each step with such unbearable difficulty, every step so gritted-teeth, Aether couldn’t help but ask with concern.
“Do I…
look…
like I’m…
fine?
My stomach hurts like hell!”
Ayato apparently couldn’t even get a sentence out smoothly.
“What did you eat?
Don’t tell me it was expired food.”
“Don’t get me started — I ate the food Ayaka made.”
“Impossible!”
Aether cut Ayato off directly; he clearly remembered that Ayaka’s cooking was decent, at least not much worse than his own sister’s.
How could she possibly make a dish that would force a strong, healthy adult man to go to the hospital?
“What’s so impossible about it?
That girl Ayaka has been trying to make innovative dishes lately.”
Perhaps because Aether had interrupted him, Ayato, who had just looked so weak, had now improved a bit.
He even had the strength to grit his teeth and narrow his eyes as he spoke.
“Don’t…
don’t tell me…”
Aether couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
Of course he could tell the difference between the look Ayaka gave Su Yu and the look she gave him, and Ayaka’s brother before him was wearing that dark expression again.
Of course, Aether would absolutely never admit that he saw a reflection of himself in Ayato…
“That’s right, it’s exactly what you’re thinking.
I really don’t know what’s so good about that Su Yu kid.
Is he really worth Ayaka going to such trouble?”
Noticing the unusual change in Ayato’s expression, Aether considerately patted Ayato’s shoulder and continued to comfort him:
“That brat even stole Lumine’s heart away.
I can understand you.”
But Ayato, as if he had never heard Aether’s words, continued to mutter:
“It’s really too much to make Ayaka take the initiative.
No matter how you look at it, that brat should be the one to take the initiative, right?”
Noticing Aether widen his eyes at his words, Ayato explained:
“There’s no helping it, is there?
Ayaka likes him, and I can’t exactly deprive her of the right to pursue happiness.
Sigh, I can only helplessly accept it.”
Of course, Ayato wasn’t that kind of peerlessly good-natured gentleman.
On the contrary, he had been resourceful and shrewd from a young age, two-faced and sharp, and the family business was managed in perfect order under him.
Any opponent who underestimated him because of his youth would always meet a miserable end.
They’d either give up some business or treat him to a meal by way of apology.
The reason he made a rare concession toward Su Yu was all because this kid was somewhat impeccable.
Not a single piece of dirt could be dug up on him, which was almost impossible.
After all, no one could go through ten or twenty years from childhood to adulthood without ever doing anything wrong, yet even using his connections and family power, he couldn’t find any information about Su Yu from more than a few months ago.
If, like in some third-rate novel, he used his family’s influence to force him away from his sister, given his sister’s personality, She probably wouldn’t forgive him.
Being shut out by his sister, that kind of ending absolutely must not happen!
“Huh?
Ayato, isn’t that Su Yu?”
“Su Yu?
No way.
Why would he come to a hospital for no reason?”
Ayato didn’t pay much attention at first, but after a quick glance, he and Aether instantly hid on the other side of the wall.
Su Yu was just then passing by, holding Qiqi’s hand.
“Qiqi, what tasty thing do you want to eat?
Big brother will take you to eat.”
“Tasty food, I don’t know.
But there’s something tasty to drink: I want coconut milk.”
“Hahaha, I knew you wanted to drink this.
I just looked up on my phone the coconut milk shop nearest us, the one with the highest sales too.
Let’s go right now.”
“Wow, thank you, Su Yu-gege!”
Perhaps because she heard Su Yu’s promise, Qiqi’s tone also rarely lifted by a few notes.
Only after Su Yu and the girl had gone far did Aether and Ayato dare to poke their heads out and speak.
“Do you know that girl?”
“No, you?”
“Obviously not.
If I knew, would I need to ask you?”
Ayato felt somewhat troubled by this unfamiliar girl.
Although he wasn’t the type to look at people through colored glasses, that Su Yu guy really did accept all beautiful girls without refusal.
Just his own sister, Lumine, and his cohabitant Furina made three already.
He was somewhat worried about his sister’s future.
Could she even get a place in line…
Recently he’d also heard that Su Yu was in close contact with one of the school directors’ sisters, that cooking demon king, and there were several others in his company too…
Didn’t Su Yu open a company recently!”
“I know.
Lumine even said she wanted to go too.
It really makes me uneasy.”
Hearing Ayato’s words, Aether’s head ached again.
Male boss, female subordinate, getting a bit closer in distance while working.
He didn’t dare imagine what would happen next.
“I have an idea.
How about we disguise ourselves and sneak into his company.
I want to make his company rake in money every day.”
When Ayato finished speaking, Aether was completely dumbfounded.
Enter the company, work for Su Yu?
Wasn’t this really being a massive sucker?
“Brother Ayato, how about besides the gastroenterology department we also register for the neurology department?
I think you need it.”
“Don’t misunderstand.
My thinking is this: Su Yu, someone with no entrepreneurial experience, plus Ningguang, that failed spokesperson.
The company has a high chance of going under.
Think about it: if his company goes bankrupt, then all his attention will return to the beginning.”
“If his company gets on track and his career flourishes, then he might be busy with his career and neglect Ayaka and the others.
Wouldn’t that be so satisfying?”
Ayato felt his stomach didn’t hurt at all anymore, because he saw that his and his sister’s future was once again full of light.
“Uh, the idea isn’t bad, but that’s not what you said just now…”
Aether expressed that he couldn’t understand this fickle man Ayato.
“Ahem, that was then, this is now.”
Thinking of how he had just been worrying about whether Ayaka would be neglected, and the very next moment he was starting to deliberately make Su Yu neglect Ayaka, Even a guy like Ayato, who wouldn’t change expression before Mount Tai, couldn’t help but feel his face heat up.
“I’m not as smart as you, so I’ll listen to you.
Let’s find a time to discuss it properly, then disguise ourselves, sneak in, and really go all out!”
Hearing this, Aether also rubbed his hands together, looking fully ready to go all out.
In his excitement, Aether even bumped his body against Ayato’s.
“Uh…
Brother Ayato, what’s wrong?
Why is your head covered in sweat?”
“You damn well knocked it out of me with that bump, hurry…
the toilet…”