My first love

　　The next morning.

　　Luxurious dishes appeared on the dining table, and there were about a dozen dishes.

　　French fries, chicken nuggets, fried sausages, boiled eggs, French toast, grilled salmon, cheese baked potatoes, miso soup...

　　Shinichi pulled out chair and said, "What is this? Last breakfast?"

　　"This is just rehabilitation training."

　　Rui came out of the kitchen and put down what was supposed to be the last plate of omelettes.

　　The left hand, which was originally covered with thick gauze, had recently had her stitches removed due to her extraordinary recovery speed, and replaced with a thin white bandage.

　　And the first thing she did when she got her freedom was to learn her cooking skills which had been lying dormant for some time.

　　"Well, as long as you're happy."

　　Shinichi didn't say much, glanced at her bandaged left hand, then looked at the plate which was emitting a tempting aroma again.

　　He seems a little indifferent and cruel, but as an older brother, Shinichi believes that what he should do is not to limit her behavior, but to trust her to be responsible for herself.

　　This summer vacation, in addition to the academic knowledge learned at cram school, Shinichi also gained valuable life experience from Rui.

　　If he had the conditions to publish a book, maybe he could write a guidebook on how to get along with brothers and sisters.

　　Not long after, Hina walked towards the living room. When she saw the plate filled with food on the dining table, she screamed in surprise.

　　"Eh? What's this! Last meal?"

　　She was obviously saying the same thing as Shinichi, but somehow, both of them found her more annoying.

　　The peaceful and warm atmosphere in the morning was completely destroyed.

　　They each sat in their usual positions, enjoying their last and most normal breakfast time in over a month.

　　The reason Rui makes breakfast look like a feast is because her hands are itchy after not cooking for a long time, it has nothing to do with "wanting to eat something delicious before leaving".

　　After that.

　　"Then let's go up first."

　　"Um, the elders will be back around noon."

　　"Know."

　　After finishing a sumptuous breakfast while chatting, Shinichi washed the dishes, while the two Tachibana sisters returned to the living room and continued packing their luggage.

　　"Rui, I'll leave the bathroom to you."

　　"In return, you have to tidy up the room! If I go back and see clothes everywhere..."

　　Rui bared her teeth at Hina in a threatening tone, and walked out of the room with repeated assurances.

　　Passing Shinichi's door, she glanced at him, walked downstairs, entered the bathroom and started putting cleaning supplies into a bag.

　　Next was the bathroom, she glanced at Shinichi's toothbrush, she put away all their toiletries, and packed away the trash.

　　Personal belongings should be taken away, and trash should not be left behind.

　　After dealing with this, she walked into the living room and looked around to see if there was anything left behind.

　　Stopping in a familiar living room, Rui listened to the familiar silence.

　　"I feel like I've lived here more than ten years..."

　　She shook her head and continued packing her things.

　　There was no one in the kitchen. After walking around the quiet living room, Rui stood in front of the wall next to the door.

　　A life contract with many new words displayed there, if she look at it, each word can bring up various memories.

　　 Rui carefully tore open the life contract, took out the tape stuck to it, and neatly folded it into a square piece of paper.

　　After all, after they left, that person would definitely throw this piece of paper straight into the trash, so she might as well keep this even inconspicuous piece of memorabilia.

　　"I can make fun of him with this in the future, the toilet incident and so on…"

　　She smiled evilly.

　　Rui put the note in her pocket, then went to the entrance to put all the shoes in a plastic bag, leaving only the shoes she needed to wear when going out, and returned to the second floor with a lot of things.

　　The sound of squeaking toes pressing against wooden steps is clearly audible today, but brings nostalgia.

　　"Very weird..."

　　Rui smiled.

　　Rui stood in front of Shinichi's bedroom door.

　　She subconsciously grabbed the doorknob, as she usually did when reading books together in his room, wanting to turn the pages of the book safely where it was.

　　But after a long time, she slowly let go of her hand.

　　"Ah..."

　　Her eye sockets started to become red and sour, and her lips became dry and quivering.

　　This is the feeling of wanting to cry.

　　Rui restrained herself for now.

　　Taking a deep breath, she took the opportunity to look at the door panel of the guest room next to her.

　　...It shouldn't appear suddenly, right?

　　At this time, no one will see her, right?

　　Then... If she cries, she won't be found out, right?

　　With this confirmation in her mind, she realized that she couldn't take it anymore.

Then inside the house, suddenly it started raining quietly.

　　A series of tears flowed silently.

　　There were no tears at all, just tears of happiness, letting the tears flow and fall in the corridor of Shinichi's house.

　　It was a smile of relief.

　　But Rui didn't want to feel relieved, didn't want to pretend that nothing happened, and left the place where she left many memories.

　　She also didn't want to bother him, and she didn't want to put another girl in his heart who was heavy enough that she couldn't fall in love.

　　She is the younger sister.

　　And Shinichi is a fairly competent brother who also respects sister quite a bit.

　　It doesn't matter.

　　Therefore, Rui was not sad.

　　These were definitely not tears of sadness.

　　(Thank You...)

　　Her cheeks were wet with tears. Even so, she still had many emotions she wanted to express to it.

　　(Will no longer...)

　　(My first love)

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　　Shinichi opened the door.

　　The corridor outside the door was still quiet.

　　He left the room to go to the bathroom, only to find that there was an area on the wooden board in front of the door where it looked like the roof had leaked, leaving several puddles of water marks.

　　"What happened?"

　　Shinichi looked up and saw that the roof didn't appear to be leaking. Even on typhoon days, there were no leaks in their house.

　　After all, it was a sunny day, where could rainwater drip into the house?

　　Did Rui take the rag and go upstairs without wringing it?

　　Feeling a little worried, he started to think subconsciously, but his bladder contracted, he stopped thinking about it, put on slippers, avoided the water marks, and went downstairs.

　　Who knows why, but he didn't want to just step on it.