Interlocked Fingers
After careful consideration, Ren found the letter Gabriel had written to her.
He only wrote once, and what he meant was the letter he wrote to hrr. In such a situation, it was impossible for him to learn to write a letter for the second time.
"Why hasn't Gabriel replied to my letter?"
After reading letter again, Ren pondered this issue.
It had been a long time since he sent her a letter, and he still hadn't received a reply from her. Was there something wrong somewhere?
"Is it because I didn't ask Gabriel to reply to me?"
Immediately, Ren found the problem.
In Gabriel's letter to him, she specifically emphasized that he should reply, but he didn't write something similar.
Therefore, it was reasonable if he didn't receive a response from her.
"This is the first time I've written a letter. It's reasonable if I didn't know this..." Ren found a reasonable excuse for himself.
However, that wouldn't happen again when this letter was written.
He would specifically address this in the letter asking her to respond. After all, he asked her if she wanted to go to the water park with him, and he needed her answer.
After sorting out his thoughts, Ren took a pen and started writing on the letter paper.
After one hour.
"It's almost done."
After reading letter and ensuring there was nothing wrong, he put it into an envelope.
Although it took an hour to write the letter, in reality, the contents of the letter were very short, and most of his time was spent formulating vocabulary and arranging language.
Seal the envelope, write Gabriel's home address, and finally stamp it.
His letter to Gabriel was finished.
"Now I'm writing letters to Raphiel, Vigne, and Satania."
Reading aloud, Ren continued to write the letter.
Because he also wanted to invite them to the water park, he needed to write a separate letter to ask them.
The only problem was he didn't know Vigne and Satania's home addresses.
But this problem was easily solved.
That is to ask Raphiel to help inquire if they both wanted to go to the water park or ask her to help deliver the letters to them.
Why not ask Gabriel?
The main reason was because Gabriel was usually too lazy to do troublesome things, even her homework was copied directly from her or she asked him to help her write it.
Therefore, regarding asking something from someone that sounded like a lot of trouble, it was better not to entrust it to her.
Ren knew Gabriel well enough.
Another hour passed.
His letters to Raphiel, Vigne, and Satania were finished.
Inserting the three letters into envelopes addressed to Raphiel, sealing them, writing the addresses, and affixing stamps, his letter writing task for the day was completed.
"When should I send these letters?"
Seeing the two letters on the table, Ren pondered this issue.
In fact, he was relatively free lately and basically had time to send letters.
"Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow." He made a decision.
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The next morning.
"Kouhai-kun, can I ask for your help?"
After making breakfast for Ren, while he was eating, Asumi suddenly spoke up.
"What's wrong?"
Ren looked at her with an apron sitting across from him.
"Can we take a photo together?"
Asumi took out phone and revealed her true thoughts.
"A photo?"
"Yes."
Asumi nodded eagerly.
"Sorry, I don't like being photographed."
Under normal circumstances, Ren would refuse requests to take photos of himself.
Unless there was a special circumstance.
"Can we just hold hands?" Asumi lowered her request.
"That's fine."
Ren could still accept this level of photography.
He just couldn't find any problem with it.
So he asked, "Senpai, why do you suddenly want to take a photo with me?"
"It's not that I want to take that photo, my father asked me if we have a photo together." Asumi explained helplessly, "Maybe my father is still unsure if we're a couple, or there might be another reason."
"My father requested a photo of us, so I can only ask you."
"So that's it."
"If there's no problem, we can take the photo after eating."
Seeing the breakfast Ren had just finished halfway, Asumi said this.
"Yes."
After finishing breakfast, washing the dishes and chopsticks, and washing his hands, Ren sat next to her.
"How should we take the photo?"
Stretching his hand in front of her, she asked gently.
Asumi held his right hand with the couple bracelet on it and emphasized: "Where's your couple bracelet? Wear it and then take the photo. It will make us look very close."
"Okay."
Ren found the couple bracelet from the drawer and put it on his left wrist.
"Is it okay now?"
Sitting next to her again, Ren extended his hand again.
"Great."
Then, Asumi began to direct.
"Spread your fingers a little."
"Like this?"
According to what she said, Ren spread his fingers, leaving a certain gap in between.
"That's right."
After saying this, Asumi's right hand held Ren's left hand from above, and ten fingers intertwined to fill the gap.
The two couple bracelets were also close together, shining together.
"Eh?"
Why did it turn into holding hands?
This was different from what Ren thought!
However, seeing how Asumi held phone and concentrated on finding the angle to take the picture, Ren didn't say anything.
After all, both of them had held hands before, so it didn't matter if they held hands again this time.
The only thing that made him slightly uncomfortable was holding hands this time was slightly different from before.
When he held hands with Gabriel, Fumino, and the others before, it was just two hands held together.
The same thing happened with Asumi last time.
But this time, their fingers were interlocked, something Ren didn't usually do, and it also made him feel very gentle.
Just when he was thinking wildly, Asumi suppressed her embarrassment and tried to find as good an angle as possible.
"Click—"
When the sound of the photo being taken sounded, a photo of ten intertwined fingers and a pair of wrists appeared in Asumi's phone photo album.