On the first Saturday of October, Toru Watanabe returned to the street where he rented his house for the first time since moving out at the beginning of the year.

After living in a spacious apartment in Shinanomachi for a long time, the former rental house looks increasingly cramped from the outside.

There is a small window in the rental house, through which you can overlook Rin Kiyono's high-end apartment.

Occasionally at night, he would read a book and look at her light in a daze.

Passing by the convenience store between the rental house and the high-end apartment, Watanabe Toru turned in and looked at the bento area where he and Seino Rin had bought bento.

Everything is the same as before.

I bought the latest desserts and walked towards Qingye Rin's apartment.

Miki Kujo hasn't arrived yet, and Rin Kiyono is the only one in the spacious apartment with simple and elegant decoration.

"You dress like this at home?" Toru Watanabe followed Rin Kiyono to the living room.

V-neck thin sweater and slim-fitting jeans.

To talk about how good-looking it is... Toru Watanabe, as a steadfast leg researcher, was abruptly twisted into a butt observer on the spot - it's just so good-looking.

"Occasionally." Qingye Rin, who was walking in front, answered.

"Kiyo-kun, do you occasionally want to be restrained?" The two walked into the living room, and Toru Watanabe placed the shopping bag with desserts on the table, "This hobby is a bit obscene."

"What you said is obscene." Qingye Rin sighed, "What do you want to drink?"

"Whatever." Watanabe Tetsu didn't regard himself as a guest and sat on the sofa very casually.

Qingye Rin walked to the wine cabinet and made tea while saying: "Simple black tea?"

"What's a simple way?"

“Put a cup full of Earl Gray tea, add a generous amount of marmalade, and you’ll have a quick Lady’s Earl Gray tea.”

"Earl Gray tea? Oranges with jam too? Why a lady?"

"You don't have to pretend to talk to me by asking about tea, and then keep looking at my legs."

"..." Half of Toru Watanabe's eyes were seen - not only his legs, but also his buttocks.

"Actually, I can understand." Qingye Rin's series of actions while making tea have a charming sense of elegance.

"Understand what?"

"It is very natural for men to care about women's legs, buttocks, and breasts." After a slight pause here, she continued, "On the other hand, if you are not interested, I would be a little worried."

"If you don't look at you, you are worried?"

"Don't ask questions knowingly." Rin Qingye said with a hint of reproach in his tone, "If you deliberately lead women to say obscene words, it's better to take the things away."

Watanabe Toru smiled and took the packaging bag in front of him aside, and Kiyono Rin tilted his waist and placed the black tea there.

When she bent down, Toru Watanabe saw a touch of white shoulders.

After picking up the black tea and smelling the aroma, Toru Watanabe said, "It's very sweet."

"Bergamot and orange." Qingye Rin sat on the single sofa to his right, also holding a cup of Lady Earl Gray tea.

"Weird." Toru Watanabe commented, then took a sip.

"how?"

"The taste is not bad," he looked at the tea carefully. "When you are low in energy or in a depressed mood, drinking a cup will have a good effect."

After listening to Toru Watanabe's comments, Rin Kiyono smiled slightly, like the only flower in the vast grassland.

"What are you laughing at?" Although he didn't know why she was laughing, a smile appeared on Toru Watanabe's lips.

"I remembered the tea party last year." Qingye Rin explained.

Interesting things did happen when it came to drinking tea.

The two of them drank tea and ate desserts that Toru Watanabe bought from a convenience store.

"Breasts, buttocks, legs, which part do you like best?"

Watanabe Toru stopped eating, moved his eyes upward, and looked at Kiyono Rin's beautiful little face.

"Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"Because you have been staring at me since you entered the door."

"No."

Qingye Rin took his eyes away from the colorful dessert in his hand and glanced at him.

"It's not just staring at it, right? I at least looked at the living room for two or three seconds..." Qingye Rin kept staring, and Watanabe Toru had to change his words, "My favorite..."

"leg?"

"For such a serious matter as the research direction, please let me answer it myself."

"Please tell me." Qingye Rin put down the dessert and picked up the black tea again.

"First of all, let me state that I don't like a certain part, I just like to study that part."

"Just treat it like this."

"Before, I always thought that I was a staunch leg researcher, until I met you, you were simply my Max."

"Horse, Marx?" Qingye Rin couldn't help but be stunned, "What kind of metaphor is this?"

"Marx has a saying, and I think it's very appropriate to use it to express your attraction to me."

"As for Marx, I only know "Das Kapital" and I haven't read it, but there will definitely not be any topics about women in it."

In order to capture Kujo Miki, Toru Watanabe read everything from Marx to romance novels written by female high school students.

"It's not "Das Kapital", it's "To Jenny". He said this: "It is true that there are many women in the world, and some of them are very beautiful. But where can you find a face, every line of it, and even every line of it?

Can a wrinkle trigger the strongest and most beautiful memories in my life?"

Qingye Rin nodded and said, "It means that you changed from liking legs to liking Qingye Rin?"

"Research, please say research, I like to sound unprofessional."

"Okay, research, then I'll discuss it with you."

"What don't you understand?" Toru Watanabe wiped away the dust on his trouser legs and put on a calm posture, "I know everything about Rin Kiyono".

"If one day I am disfigured, my waist is thickened, and my legs are broken, will you still be prepared to study me?"

"...Isn't it too thorough?"

"answer the questions."

"Not quite what you would assume."

Rin Kiyono said nothing, playing with a strand of hair on her shoulder with her left hand, waiting for Toru Watanabe to answer.

"People admire the intimacy between hearts and believe that love should transcend everything, but I think appearance is very important. It can even be said that in most cases, appearance is the most important."

"In other words, if I don't look good, you won't love me?"

"Before I fell in love with you." Toru Watanabe emphasized this point, "Now, because I love you so much——"

"You don't care about my beauty or ugliness anymore?" Qingye Rin's eyes under her long eyelashes looked at him curiously.

"——I will never make you ugly!" Tetsu Watanabe said loudly.

His appearance of reading "Das Kapital" and making up his mind to achieve social change made Rin Kiyono helpless and funny.

"I suddenly want to hit you." She said with a smile.

"The only one who just hit me and didn't get hit by me was my mother."

Miki Kujo likes to pull her ears, and Shizuru, who was the only one who managed to break Toru Tanabe, was almost kicked to the point where her chest was choked with pain.

"Look what this is." Qingye Rin took out his mobile phone.

What is displayed on the phone screen is the chat history between Kiyono Rin and Watanabe’s mother alone.

It was probably after Toru Watanabe went to bed last night that his mother transferred the power of "teaching her son" to her.

"It's not just that." Rin Kiyono handed the phone to Toru Watanabe and let him look at it for himself.

Watanabe Toru turned up.

"That kid Archer, sometimes he cares too much about the people around him and is always sacrificing himself, so someone needs to kick his ass hard and force him to care more about himself."

"Ah Tetsu is just a horse. Xiao Rin, what you want to do is not to be a novice who holds on to the horse's mane and let the horse run on its own, but to be a superb rider who holds on to the reins and can control the horse."

All chat records revolve around these two sentences from Watanabe's mother.

"My mother has always liked you." Toru Watanabe said.

"I can't tell." Qingye Rin nodded.

"When she came to Tokyo for the first time, she hadn't met Miki at that time. When she called me, she always said, 'Can't you and Xiao Rin be together? Can't you find a way?'"

"You didn't tell me."

"How do you say this? My mother is not usually like this, but since I came to Tokyo to see you, she always asks me how we are doing, and I can't understand how excited I am. You made her a cup of tea at the time.
To be continued...