Family Gathering

"Yotsuba, why haven't you come back yet?"

The call was connected, and Nino's worried voice came over the phone.

Yotsuba's expression was serious: "I'm not coming back tonight."

"What?"

Nino suddenly raised his voice.

"You're not coming back tonight?"

"Where are you?"

"Did you meet a liar?"

"I will call the police immediately!"

"I wasn't deceived." Facing Nino's repeated questions, Yotsuba hastily explained, "I'm at Asakawa-san's apartment."

"Apparently Asakawa..." Nino breathed a sigh of relief and quickly raised his voice, "What did that bastard Asakawa bring back to the apartment? Does he want to bully you?

"Not that." Yotsuba shook his head "I took the initiative to come and ask Asakawa-san..."

"Hah?" Nino raised his voice, "Y-You really took the initiative to deliver him to the door?"

"Girls should be more quiet!" Nino hated iron not steel, "You will be looked down upon like this!"

Shut up! You are not qualified to say the word reserved if you acknowledge men in the Kabedon way!

"Nino, you misunderstood." Yotsuba blushed, and hastily said, "This is learning! I'm here to ask Asakawa-san to help me study, it's not what you think!"

"Stop talking." Nino just hung up the phone, "Start a video call!"

After a few seconds.

An invitation to a video call appears.

"Asakawa-san, what should I do now?"

Yotsuba turned his head sadly and asked for advice.

"Come on." Naoki pressed his brows and was dizzy, "If you don't answer the video call, Nino can take a taxi and kill me."

Yotsuba who had always been a good boy, suddenly didn't come home at night.

"Then I will answer it."

Yotsuba stretched out his hand, pulled his shirt down, and connected to the video call.

A second later, four identical faces appeared in the video.

Ichika: "This is surprising, Yotsuba doesn't actually come home at night."

Miku: "It's Yotsuba, huh."

Itsuki: "This is indeed Asakawa-san's apartment."

"Where's Asakawa?" Nino insisted. "Speak quickly."

Yotsuba turned the phone to Naoki, "It's by my side."

Naoki sat beside Yotsuba "What are you saying?"

"Anything will do."

Nino was really relieved, Yotsuba suddenly didn't come home at night, and was most worried that she was being scammed. After all, the Yotsuba had always been a good person since she was a child, and the others would be happy to help if asked. For that, who knows if she will be deceived.

Since it's in Naoki's apartment, it doesn't matter... The person he likes won't be so lewd and shameless.

"Anything can be done…" Naoki said firmly, "Miku is number one in the world."

"Huh!" Nino was so angry that she wanted to hit someone "Talk to me, why are you praising Miku!"

"Of course because..."

Naoki paused for a moment.

"Because of what?"

The quintuplets strained their ears, held their breath, and waited nervously.

Miku in particular, was holding the headphones to her chest, and her heart rate suddenly accelerated involuntarily.

What will the reckless Asakawa do?

Do you want to confess to me?

Naoki of course said:

"Since Miku studies best, as a tutor, what's wrong with praising Miku?"

Ichika: "Men who like to cheat should be punished."

Nino: "Go to hell!"

Itsuki: "Asakawa-san bullied us."

Miku puffed out her cheeks in anger: "Guilty, Harakiri!!"

"Okay, let's start the business." Ichika's expression was a little serious, rarely showing the momentum of big sister, "Why don't the Yotsuba come back at night?"

Yotsuba clenched his fists, his eyes firmly said:

"I have to study all night at night."

"What all night?" Naoki was expressionless, "There's no class tomorrow?"

"Forgive me." The Yotsuba quickly withered and sat down obediently, "I'm too excited."

"Bastard Asakawa." Nino said aggressively, "Don't bully the Yotsuba."

"I do not."

"You obviously did."

"Okay, I'm bluffing, you still want to push me across the screen?"

"Huh, I can't go through the screen, I can still go there by car."

"Do not fight." Itsuki asked suspiciously, "If Yotsuba wants to study, you don't have to go to Asakawa-san's apartment, why don't you come to the library in the afternoon?"

"That..." Yotsuba said hesitantly, "There's a game this afternoon, so I don't have time to go."

"You are obviously just a substitute off the pitch, without you they can't play?" Nino snorted, "Those people are clearly bullying you, and they just treat you like a fool every day..."

Yotsuba shook his head: "Ryoko-chan and the others didn't bully me."

"You still speak for them." Nino was angry, "If I really care about you, I should encourage you to hurry up and study hard, instead of calling you all day."

Miku said earnestly, "Nino, stop talking."

"Huh."

Nino snorted softly and turned to look elsewhere.

Yotsuba bit his lower lip and stared at his toes.

The atmosphere became silent for a few moments.

Naoki stretched out his right hand and landed on Yotsuba's head, smoothing her hair gently.

"Asakawa-san?"

The Yotsuba looked up pitifully.

Naoki said calmly, "I think the Yotsuba did the right thing."

Hearing this sentence, Yotsuba's eyes quickly lit up, and his head subconsciously rubbed Naoki's palm.

"Hah? That's right?" Nino raised his voice in a dissatisfied tone, "Tell me, what's wrong."

Naoki asked, "Did you see Yotsuba playing basketball at the gym?"

Nino replied, "I've seen it."

Itsuki nodded: "I saw it too."

Naoki kept asking:

"What was the Yotsuba's expression at that time?"

Nino: "😐"

The four sisters looked at each other, and none of them could answer this question. Except for the Yotsuba, there were four idiots left. One of them is one, and they all don't like sports. Even though they knew that the Yotsuba was in the club every day, they really didn't pay attention to the Yotsuba.

"I've seen it." Naoki calmly said, "When teams work together to score goals, that genuine smile is really good."

"Eh?" Yotsuba's face quickly turned red, and she leaned back slightly, "When did Asakawa-san peek at me?"

"I passed, I didn't peek at you." Naoki looked disgusted, "Don't talk."

"I apologize."

Yotsuba stuck out the tip of his tongue and quickly covered his mouth.

"Yotsuba joined the basketball club because she liked it, not because she was forced to." Naoki continued, "It's because of his nature that she likes to help others, not so stupid that she can't tell the difference between good and bad, like Itsuki likes meat buns..."

"Why take me as an example!" The hair on Itsuki's head shook and said sadly, "Why do I like to eat meat buns, everyone has their favorite food."

Nino reached out and pinched Itsuki's waist: "Meatbread Monster."

"Ah—" Itsuki exclaimed while covering his stomach in panic, "Stupid Nino, don't pinch me!"

"Sorry, let me change the example." Naoki said earnestly, "Yotsuba likes to help people, just like Nino likes to tear down houses…"

A word suddenly pierced the beehive.

"Pah!"

"Nino is used to describe the Yotsuba, so what are we?"

"Asakawa-kun is going too far and should be punished."

"Guilty, Harakiri."