Chapter 53: The Girl Living Next Door Is a Voice Actress

Hearing Kitahara say this, Matsuda Yumi was especially happy, her eyes smiling into a thin line.

She stepped forward, took Kitahara’s arm, and leaned lightly against him. She fantasized about living here together with Kitahara in the future, and her sense of happiness simply exploded.

Matsuda Yumi felt that today was the happiest day of her life.

...

After touring the house, the two did not stay long and prepared to leave.

Kitahara Chiki told Matsuda Yumi to go back and communicate with her leader to see if the price could be lowered by ten or twenty million yen. If so, he would directly pay and buy it.

Matsuda Yumi said that was possible.

The two walked out of the yard. Matsuda Yumi locked the door while Kitahara waited for her. Suddenly, the pleasant sound of girls laughing came from not far away.

Looking toward the sound, the first thing that greeted Kitahara’s eyes was a pair of somewhat familiar long legs.

It was the three voice actress girls he had met at the amusement park that day.

Huh? Did they live nearby too?

Kitahara could not help but think.

The three voice actress girls were walking toward him. They were still so youthful and beautiful, full of vitality. Like the sun at eight or nine in the morning, blooming with the light of youth.

At eighteen or nineteen years old, they were just at the age of newly matured development, retaining both the purity of youth and beginning to reveal maturity.

Their figures were graceful and curvaceous. Their slender waists seemed too small to grasp.

Especially the vibrant aura overflowing from them, and their crisp, pleasant laughter, echoing in the air like silver bells.

It made Kitahara yearn greatly.

The girls were still walking in his direction, and only stopped when they reached the house next door, taking out keys to enter.

They also noticed Kitahara’s presence, but only glanced a few times, gave a polite smile, and then withdrew their gazes.

They probably took Kitahara for a prospective homebuyer, because he had bank staff in uniform accompanying him.

"It seems this house really has to be bought!"

"Such a coincidence? The voice actress girls live right next door. Then there will definitely be plenty of chances to interact in the future."

"They’re actually quite capable! To be able to live here..."

Kitahara thought to himself.

Compared with them, why did junior schoolmate Matsuda suddenly seem less appealing...

There were not many passing vehicles here, so it was hard to hail a taxi. Kitahara and Matsuda Yumi walked for a few minutes and arrived at a slightly livelier street.

He checked the time. It was almost noon, so Kitahara simply treated Matsuda Yumi to lunch before the two said goodbye.

"Senpai, when will we have our first official date? I’m really looking forward to it. When we date, it’s okay if Senpai does some excessive things to me too!"

Matsuda Yumi held Kitahara’s hand, somewhat reluctant to part. She looked up at Kitahara’s eyes, full of expectation.

Being looked at by such a devoted girl, Kitahara also felt a headache. A date was temporarily impossible, and temptation was useless.

He raised his hand and rubbed her smooth hair, revealing a gentle smile:

"I may have to ask Yumi-chan to wait patiently for a few days, until after the matter of buying the property is completed! With this matter weighing on my mind, I always feel unable to fully devote myself to a date."

"Oh, all right. I’ll push this transaction through as soon as possible. Then Kitahara-senpai, remember to miss me. I’ll miss you too, at any time!"

After exchanging phone numbers for convenience of contact and sending Matsuda Yumi onto the train, Kitahara took a taxi back home once. Without alerting Hayami Rina, he took all his savings and went out again.

Buying a house would cost one or two hundred million. His money was not enough.

He was going to get money.

He went to Mitsukoshi Department Store and looked around, but did not find what he wanted in his heart. So Kitahara went to the slightly farther Ginza center.

What he wanted was something expensive but very low-key, something that would make Hayami Rina unable to guess the price, make her think it was cheap, and make her able to accept it easily.

This really required some thought.

The Ginza center of Tokyo was located in Chuo Ward, and was the most prosperous commercial center in Tokyo. It was famous for high-end shopping centers and restaurants with cuisine from all over the world.

Numerous internationally renowned brands and all kinds of luxury stores and high-end shops were spread throughout this area.

Presumably, it would not disappoint him.

There was some traffic congestion on the way, wasting some time, but he finally arrived.

As soon as he got out of the car, looking up, all he saw were tall buildings. Kitahara was a little dazzled. Damn, this place really was prosperous!

Why did it feel like there was nowhere to start? Fine, he would just stroll slowly!

Originally, Kitahara had thought of buying something like a jade or emerald bracelet. As the old saying went, gold has a price, but jade is priceless. He could buy a good piece of jade and then fool Hayami Rina into thinking it was very cheap. She probably would not know much about it and would be able to accept it.

He had initially been looking toward that kind of shop.

But when he wandered into a "high-end pawnshop," that is, a pawnshop, Kitahara somehow went in and looked around, and discovered something even more suitable.

This pawnshop specialized in high-end goods taken as collateral. There were no cheap goods. Many pawned items had been left unredeemed by clients, so the shop priced them for sale.

There was the jade Kitahara wanted, and some second-hand items that were all quite good, but several antique ornaments satisfied him even more.

Especially a hairpin. It looked inconspicuous, yet was actually priced at more than nine million yen, and it was only made of silver, just inlaid with a few not particularly good-looking gemstones.

This suited his needs perfectly. He liked this kind of plain and unadorned thing.

Without even bargaining, Kitahara directly bought it in full and then took a taxi home.

"I’m back, Rina-nee. Look what I bought for you!"

As soon as he returned, Kitahara took out the hairpin from his pocket and presented it to Hayami Rina as if offering a treasure.

The hairpin originally had a high-grade lacquer box for storage, but Kitahara had thrown it away along with the receipt, invoice, and everything else.

Without those things to adorn it, the hairpin really did look a bit ordinary. No one could imagine it was something worth more than ten million yen.

Hayami Rina was naturally the same.

But this kind of thing perhaps had a sense of age and texture from passing through the years, making people feel it was not ordinary.

Hayami Rina liked it at first glance:

"Kitahara-kun, this hairpin is really pretty. I like it very much. Where did you buy it? It shouldn’t be cheap, right?"

"Not expensive. I bought it from a street stall by the roadside. It only cost a few thousand yen!"