The school prince (♀) is only close to me (♂) Remake

(Side) Chapter 42.5

~Yuriko's first friend report~

It was halfway through the afternoon, and Yuriko had just returned home after her brother, Nanami Hayato, had come to pick her up at school. After she hurriedly took of her outdoor shoes, she immediately began running inside the house, searching for her mother

"Mama! Mama!"

"Uwah! Y-Yu-chan! D-don't scare me like that"

Yuriko hugged her mother's waist with a big smile on her face, while Nanami Kagayaki, or how everyone (just the family members) called her Kaga, had at first a stiff expression from her surprise, but quickly changed to a small smile when she looked at her daughter, then she went back on retrieving the dried clothes as she asked Yuriko about her day

"So, Yu-chan? How was your day?"

"I made two friends!"

"Eh?! R-Really?! Ah! W-we need to commemorate it!"

"We will?!"

"Yes!"

"Erm... Mom, do we really need to commemorate Yu-chan making friends?"

Hayato asked his mother if they really need to commemorate that since it brought the embarrassing memories of when Kagayaki commemorated his achievement of making friends for the first time. So if possible he wanted to avoid having to re-experience that again

"Of course, we need to! It's not always that we make friends!"

"No, no! Making friends is super easy all you need to do is- Ah!"

Hayato who was about to argue against his mother's reasoning stopped before he could say any more since Kagayaki was now starting to tear up as she made a depressed face. The reason for it was simple, Hayato accidentally hit right where it hurled the most in Kagayaki, and that was the fact that to this day she had trouble speaking to people, to the point that she even had some trouble speaking with her own husband from time to time. So for her, the fact that her children had friends when she herself barely talked to other people, was something to be commemorated

"I-I-I understand... T-There's no w-way that a-anyone w-would like t-to c-c-c-commemorate s-something with me..."

"... ... ... Y-Yay... Yu-chan made two friends today..."

" "..." "

With a heavy feeling of guilt, Hayato raised one of his hands in a fist and said so in a monotone voice, making Yuriko and Kagayaki look at him in silence. That only made Hayato slowly feel embarrassed for doing that, but his action did pay off right after that, as the mother and daughter duo quickly formed big smiles on their faces, which only made Hayato make a sour face from feeling things he didn't want to feel a second time

Some time later

The sound of the front door opening and then closing could be heard, and the image of a very manly and handsome-looking man in a business suit could be seen

"Hm?" *Sniff sniff* <Did Kaga baked a cake?... Are they commemorating something?>

The man took off his shoes, and walked further inside his house until he could see the dining table filled with food, that it could be called a banquet. Which did make the man's face show a quite surprised expression

"Hm? Ah! M-M-Minato-san?! Eh. Ah! W-Welcome, home. D-D-D-De-de-de-dear"

"... Yes, I'm home. So... What are you commemorating?"

"Ah! T-That's right! Yu-chan made two friends today!"

"O-Oh! OH! I see I see"

Nanami Minato, Yuriko and Hayato's father and Kagayaki's husband, walked closer to the dining table, and once he was close enough to his son, he patted one of his son's shoulder