The Highly Suspicious Yotsuba

"I understand." Ren agreed.

For a simple sentence like that, he could still understand its meaning.

"Ren-san, may I take a photo of this painting?"

Yotsuba took out phone and pointed at the painting.

"Yes. But wait a moment. There's still a very important part of this painting that hasn't been finished. After it's done, can you take a picture again?"

Indeed, Ren disliked taking photos, but Yotsuba was only photographing the painting he had drawn, so he had no reason to refuse.

"Um, but is there anything unfinished in this painting? Hasn't it been done very well?"

Looking at the painting, Yotsuba asked confusedly.

Even though the background she drew was bad, there was still a background, and the character had just been completed by Ren, aside from the lack of a smile, there was nothing else to add.

"Here."

Taking a pencil from desk, Ren wrote his name beneath hers in the bottom right corner of the painting.

[Nakano Yotsuba]

[Kamikawa Ren]

"This will be considered fully finished."

Ren placed the pencil in his hand with quite satisfaction.

"Eh? Wait a minute, Ren-san, why did you write your name?!" Yotsuba was very surprised, "And you wrote it with my name."

"Any questions?"

Ren didn't quite understand why her reaction was so big.

They both painted this painting together, so wasn't it normal to leave their names on the painting they painted?

"I just feel like my name shouldn't be equated with yours like this. Besides, the part I drew is really boring."

With Ren's painting skills, the background she painted looked even worse.

"Erase my name and leave only yours, Ren-san."

"No, it's okay. This is our joint work." Ren refused without hesitation, "You can take the picture now."

"Okay."

After hesitating for a moment, Yotsuba began to take a series of photos of the painting without saying anything else.

*Click – click –*

Seeing her searching for different angles to take pictures with her phone, Ren suggested, "How about you take this painting back."

"No, this is the gift I gave you, how could I take it back!"

Yotsuba, who was admiring the photos she had just taken with her phone, refused with a very firm attitude.

"Okay."

After hearing this, Ren had to let go of that idea.

"But if possible, I hope you can return the painting drawn by the senior to me."

Afterward, Yotsuba added with a very guilty conscience.

"This one?"

Ren took the painting by the senior art club student and examined it.

"Yes." Yotsuba nodded.

"Take it."

So, he handed the painting back to Yotsuba.

"Thank you."

After taking the painting, Yotsuba wanted to put it in bag, but because the framed painting was too large to fit, she could only put it in backpack for the time being.

"Isn't that painting also a gift from you?" Ren asked.

Yotsuba explained with embarrassment, "The main reason is that you are very different from yourself in this painting, so I think it's somewhat inappropriate to give it to you."

Of course, the painting skills of the senior art club student were not a problem, and they were even better than Ren's painting skills.

The only problem was that the person depicted didn't resemble Ren.

Especially when compared to the painting he drew, his appearance looked even more different.

Therefore, she could only make the decision to recycle it.

"I see."

Ren understood her thoughts.

After the gift was handed over, Yotsuba continued to sit here for a while, and then chose to leave, taking the senior's painting from the art club and storing the painting they had finished together.

"Shouldn't that painting be hung?"

Taking the painting, Ren pondered for a moment, then framed it with superpowers and found a place on the wall to hang it.

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At the same time, at the Nakano household.

"I'm back."

Yotsuba opened the door, hiding the painting behind her, entered, and shouted softly.

"Welcome back."

Nino, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, responded casually.

"I'll go back to my room first. Just call me if you need anything."

Seeing Nino actually appearing in the living room, Yotsuba panicked, but she still tried her best to pretend that nothing was wrong and went straight upstairs.

"Okay."

Nino said something offhandedly, but as she shifted her attention from Yotsuba to the TV again, she suddenly caught a detail.

"Wait a minute, Yotsuba, what are you holding in your hand?"

Seeing her sneaking around and making strange movements, Nino called her out.

"It's nothing. You must have seen it wrong."

Yotsuba stopped and turned around, holding the painting with her right hand behind her back, trying to block the painting with her body so that Nino wouldn't notice it.

"I've seen everything, so don't think about hiding it."

Nino got up from the sofa, headed towards Yotsuba's back, and took out the painting she was hiding behind her.

"What is this? It's so big."

"Actually, it's not something important. It's just an ordinary painting." Yotsuba said guiltily.

This painting was extraordinary in every way.

"Since it's just an ordinary painting, why did you want to hide it?"

If Yotsuba walked past her with this painting openly, she would never glance at it a second time. But if Yotsuba wanted to hide this painting suspiciously, then she would definitely be curious.

"Mhm..."

Yotsuba fell silent for a moment and didn't know how to answer this question.

"Isn't this the gift you wanted to give to Kamikawa-san?"

Seeing her appearance, Nino guessed.

"No, my gift is something else."

She had already given the gift, so this painting couldn't be considered the gift she wanted to give to Ren.

Nino asked hesitantly, "Can I see this painting?"