Chapter 174 Nighttime talk with Suguha
The footsteps finally stopped outside Sawayama Haruno's door.
Through the moonlight shining into the courtyard, it is not difficult to see Youdao's slim figure standing outside.
Just by looking at him, Haruno Sawayama could already guess who was coming.
But for some reason, he felt an inexplicable irritability, as if he was angry when he woke up, and his mood gradually became irritable.
It's a bit strange. Are you tired?
Sawayama Haruno took a few deep breaths and said patiently, "Please come in."
As if his vocal permission emboldened the people outside, the sliding door creaked again, and Suguha Esaki changed her clothes again and appeared at the door carrying a small bag.
Different from the light green yukata she wore during the day, Esaki Suguha changed into a black silk nightgown at night. The lace with gold threads made her tall girl look inexplicably noble.
Coupled with her pair of slender and fair legs, they look even more attractive with the contrasting colors, and they also have the firmness and voluptuousness unique to sports girls.
It's a pity that there are no stockings, otherwise you can see that kind of strangulation?
No, I'm thinking too far ahead
Sawayama Haruno came to his senses and said in a slightly stiff tone: "What's wrong, Suguha?"
"I saw the email you sent. I didn't expect you to be so late and still haven't rested, so I wanted to ask you if you wanted to eat something?"
Esaki Suguha's tone was calm, as usual.
It's just that her eyes seemed to contain other thoughts.
".Sorry, I'm actually a little tired today."
Sawayama Haruno rubbed his eyebrows and smiled slightly tiredly: "If possible, I would like to rest directly."
"Yeah."
"I won't have any late-night snacks. We'll wait until noon tomorrow," Sawayama Haruno said with a smile.
He originally wanted to say that he would take the two girls out to treat guests to dinner at noon tomorrow, but before he could finish his words, Esaki Suguha suddenly interrupted him.
"Then, can you have a drink with me?"
".Um?"
"You might as well drink some juice." Esaki Suguha turned away and said softly, "I can't sleep tonight, so I want to find someone to chat with."
".Is that so?"
Sawayama Haruno couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Since this is the case, there is nothing that can be done. After all, Esaki Suguha still has problems, and the other party has said so, so he can't really let it go, right?
Although it is true that I feel very irritated, it will probably be okay as long as I endure it.
"Then let's chat for a while. Anyway, we don't need to work anymore tomorrow."
"Um."
Esaki Suguha responded with a faint smile, and then closed the sliding door behind her.
It was still the familiar kneeling posture, so Haruno Sawayama had to sit cross-legged again.
But after he sat down, the things that Esaki Suguha took out from the small bag that he had just brought with him instantly made him feel a little less calm.
".If there is juice, I can still understand."
"As for biscuits and snacks, that's not unreasonable, but..."
Haruno Sawayama looked at the pile of "food" stacked on the tatami, and asked hesitantly: "Why, Suguha still comes to me with the taste of rice."
"Didn't I just say that I wanted to ask you if you would like a midnight snack?" Esaki Suguha said softly.
So this is the late-night snack you were talking about? I don’t know why it’s inexplicably down-to-earth.
Sawayama Haruno twitched the corners of his mouth, but soon stopped paying attention.
"What flavor would you like to drink, Haruno?"
"Can I have orange juice?"
"Let me see if there is any in my bag."
"Thank you." Haruno Zeshan said casually.
He is not very obsessed with things like taste. Tonight, just think that Suguha Esaki simply wants to find someone to chat with. Anyway, this is a good thing for him, indicating that Suguha is finally able to talk to him. Something happened.
As long as you know her "troubles", it will become much easier to solve the subsequent crisis.
Thinking of this, Sawayama Haruno no longer hesitated.
After casually taking the orange juice drink that the other party opened and handed him, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "Speaking of which, do you usually go to bed so late? When I sent Shizhi an email just now, the other party received it very quickly. "
"Master, maybe it's because he's quite busy at work."
Esaki Suguha stared at the bottle of orange juice in his hand for a long time, and then explained in a low voice: "I usually go to bed early, but today I occasionally want to rebel."
"Really, sleeping late isn't considered a rebellion, right? It's not like one or two o'clock in the middle of the night." Haruno Sawayama said casually.
He felt that Suguha Ezaki was sometimes too harshly disciplined. Although the entrance exams and school exams she was facing were indeed very difficult, wasn't it normal for teenage girls to go to bed late occasionally?
In his previous life, not to mention staying up late, at this age he often stayed up late and stayed overnight in Internet cafes.
People often say that if you go to bed late, you won’t be able to see the sun at six in the morning. But in the words of Haruno Sawayama, if you go to bed early, you won’t be able to see the moon at three in the morning.
As long as you are happy watching it.
He is such a casual, consistent man.
"I go to bed early because I want to recharge my batteries for the next day's training."
Suguha Esaki stared at Haruno Sawayama as he brought the orange juice to his mouth, and said slowly: "However, if I don't have to train, I actually want to go to bed later."
"Although I don't know what I can do by staying up late, I just want to enjoy this time more."
"I understand this very well." Haruno Sawayama took a big sip of orange juice and sighed after putting it down, "I'm so busy every day now. It's rare that I have some free time, even if I'm so exhausted that I don't want to do anything. I don’t want to sleep either. “That’s pretty much it.”
Watching Sawayama Haruno drink orange juice, Esaki Suguha's expression became softer.
Soon, she also picked up a bottle of grape-flavored drink.
When she drank it, she didn't hesitate at all, but she didn't drink as much as she seemed. In fact, she just took a small sip.
Don't drink too much, because this bottle also contains ingredients.
In order to prevent Haruno Sawayama from not being able to drink the flavored drinks, she deliberately had all the drinks tampered with in advance.
Of course, there is another advantage to this, that is, even if the medicine still has no effect on Haruno Sawayama, it will work on her.
In addition, arrangements were made in advance for all other personnel to exit outside Ginkakuji Temple, so it was impossible for anyone to disturb them tonight.
Right?
"Then, you just said you couldn't sleep. What's the specific reason?"
Haruno Sawayama had already begun to unpack the potato chip bag. After tearing it open, he pretended to be casual and asked: "Is it also related to the unhappy relationship these days?"
"Um"
Esaki Suguha pursed her lips and whispered: "Since it has come to this point, I might as well make it clear. In fact, it is related to the family I mentioned before."
"Haruno may not know about the relationship between my brother and me."
"Is it Naoto Esaki, the one who invited guests to dinner last time?" Haruno Sawayama asked curiously.
He was quite impressed with that guy.
In addition to paying for the treat and helping to reimburse him for the damaged items, the bigger reason is that the other party seems to be very busy but is still willing to attend his sister's game.
Of course, the opponent is equally powerful in terms of kendo. Could it be that this is some tradition of the Esaki family, that is, all family members must practice kendo?
Haruno Sawayama couldn't help but guess, but Suguha Esaki, who was kneeling in front, spoke quietly.
"As I said before, my father ran away after having a relationship with my mother. In other words, Naoto Esaki is not actually my biological brother. To be more precise, he is my cousin."
"I used to have an uncle, and he should take care of the family business. However, because there are so many members in the Esaki family, it is inevitable that there will be dissatisfaction during management, and there will be times when the uncle is tired. It was because of this that he became sick due to overwork and finally fell down after being unable to hold on any longer. "
"Are you too tired?" Haruno Sawayama hesitated and asked tentatively, "Maybe not. Don't you have other relatives who can help? You are a family business, right?"
"Do you know how many members there are in the Esaki family?" Esaki Suguha asked in return.
"How many?"
"Nearly a hundred people."
"?"
Sawayama Haruno's expression suddenly felt a little off.
Nearly a hundred people?
Suguha, do you have too many relatives in your family?
"The history of the Esaki family can be traced back to several generations. Of course, there could not have been so many people in the beginning, but as long as the family business continues to be prosperous, it only takes three generations to multiply from seven or eight people to what we are today. A scale of hundreds of people.”
Esaki Sugaha paused, and then whispered: "Once there are more people, their thoughts will also increase, and the loud and large voices in the family will become more and more disturbing to others. It was under this situation that the uncle became ill." of."
"Then, after my uncle passed away, my grandfather made the decision to adopt Naoto to my father. That's when Naoto became an official older brother from a cousin."
"I can understand this a little bit." Haruno Sawayama touched his chin and said casually, "It's like that, raising a son for a brother. But your father probably doesn't know about it. He had already gone to Italy at that time?"
"Yes, I went there, but I may or may not know about it, I don't know for sure."
Esaki Suguha took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly, and said with some difficulty: "This is part of it, but the thing that makes me feel most uncomfortable is probably the arrangement between my mother and other uncles."
"What's the meaning?"
"They hope that I can compete with my brother for the position of the head of the family, because my brother's ambition is too big, and my uncles are already old and have lost the momentum they used to have. They are also afraid that my brother will liquidate them after he takes over."
"So that's it."
Hearing this, Sawayama Haruno suddenly understood.
Although Esaki Suguha's mother is now nominally Esaki Naoto's mother, it seems that this mother is not very cold towards Naoto.
Hmm. That's right. The other party doesn't seem to even care about his biological Suguha, let alone his adopted one.
Sawayama Haruno thought for a while and said softly: "Can't you give up?"
"You can't just give up on this kind of thing, right?"
Esaki Suguha looked at Haruno Sawayama and smiled helplessly.
"Actually, my uncles have already arranged everything for me, probably after I return from this trip."
"What to do?"
Sawayama Haruno instantly became alert.
His intuition told him that the cause of Ezaki Suguha's death was about to surface.
So far, he has obtained enough information. It is simply that the business empire controlled by the Esaki family is so big that he has to ask Suguha Esaki to do things he is unwilling to do.
But he still doesn't know what specific things the other family will arrange, and only after learning about this can he "prescribe the right medicine."
In other words, can I really "prescribe the right medicine"?
Even if you become a literary giant, it will be difficult to shake the family that "you can live in Ginkakuji Temple casually", right?
Haruno Sawayama couldn't help but complain in his mind about the uselessness of the system, but before he could think about it, Suguha Esaki's light words that followed made him freeze in place.
(End of chapter)