Chapter 59: Rina-nee Takes Good Care of Her Body

Kitahara Chiki wrote his novel until past ten at night. Feeling somewhat exhausted, he tossed down his pen and stopped writing.

That’s enough for today. Come on, let’s go back and sleep.

He went to the washroom and splashed water on his face to clear his somewhat groggy mind, and while he was at it, washed the ink stains off his hands.

Then he walked out of his house, took out his keys, and opened the door of the house next door.

At this hour, Hayami Rina’s home was pitch dark. It was indeed quite late, and Hayami Rina and little Aya-chan must both be fast asleep by now.

Afraid of waking them, Kitahara moved quietly, trying his best not to make any loud noises. After reaching the bedroom, he took off his clothes and carefully climbed onto the bed.

Tonight, little Aya-chan was sleeping here too. She must have had exercise in the afternoon, and since Hayami Rina knew there would be no activities at night, she had kept her daughter here.

At this moment, mother and daughter were both quietly immersed in sweet dreams, sleeping peacefully.

Moonlight streamed through the window onto them, as if draping them in a layer of silver gauze.

The two slept in a warm, tender posture. Hayami Rina lay on her side, one hand resting on little Aya, as if protecting her, while little Aya curled up into a tiny ball, snuggling tightly against her mother.

Such a scene warmed Kitahara’s heart.

Slowly, he drew closer, and like them, he drifted off to sleep.

The night passed without a word!

...

The next morning, Kitahara was roused from sleep by little Aya-chan’s fussing.

The little girl went to bed early and woke up early too. Though she didn’t deliberately try to stop Kitahara from sleeping in, she kept squirming and wriggling in his arms, and before long, Kitahara couldn’t sleep anymore either.

Fortunately, Kitahara’s current physique was quite good.

Although he had gone to bed a bit late last night, it was no big deal for him. All told, he had still slept seven or eight hours.

That amount of sleep was enough to meet his body’s needs, keeping him in good spirits and full of energy.

Waking from his dreams, Kitahara felt refreshed and full of vitality, as if his whole body were brimming with energy.

"Little Aya-chan, you won’t let Kitahara-onii-chan sleep in, so onii-chan is unhappy and is going to punish you. Are you ready to accept my punishment?"

"Huh? Kitahara-onii-chan, how are you going to punish me?"

"I’m going to dress up as a big tiger and eat little Aya-chan!"

"No, don’t eat little Aya-chan! Mommy, help..."

After romping around on the bed with little Aya-chan for a while, the two got up to wash.

Hayami Rina was already urging them to come eat breakfast.

While eating breakfast, Kitahara took the opportunity to tell Hayami Rina about going out that evening:

"Rina-nee, I probably won’t be home for dinner tonight. I’m planning to invite some friends out for drinks, and I might come back a bit late."

"Sure, Kitahara-kun, go ahead and go without worry. Don’t think about anything else — neither Aya-chan nor I need you to worry about us!"

Hayami Rina was delighted to hear this. It seemed her persuasion from yesterday had worked. She had just spoken to him yesterday, and today Kitahara-kun was already taking the initiative to socialize.

What a good sign!

Kitahara-kun really was quick to follow good advice!

Seeing Hayami Rina so encouraging and supportive, Kitahara felt a bit ashamed.

But not much.

"Rina-nee, you shouldn’t stay cooped up at home all day either. After you finish the housework, you can go out and find a beauty salon for some maintenance, or if you had any hobbies before, you can pick them up again!

Our financial situation is decent now. We should appropriately improve our quality of life and enjoy life’s pleasures."

Returning kindness with kindness, Kitahara was a man who knew how to reciprocate. Hayami Rina was generous enough to let him go out and have fun, so he had to show some appreciation too.

It was just a matter of spending some money — that was the thing he lacked least.

"Mm, thank you, Kitahara-kun. I will. For your sake, Kitahara-kun, I’ll take good care of my looks and my body!" Hayami Rina said with a charming smile.

No woman doesn’t love beauty. Now that she had become Kitahara Chiki’s woman, and there was a several-year age gap between them, in order to maintain enough charm to hold onto Kitahara’s heart and keep him from growing tired of her, she certainly wouldn’t slack off in this regard.

"As for hobbies? I did practice belly dance for a while before. I quite liked it..."

"Nani? Belly dance!" Kitahara was extremely surprised.

"That’s right. Back then, I had just given birth to Aya-chan and my figure was a bit out of shape. I heard belly dance could help restore your figure, so I took some classes. Mm, at the time my family’s financial situation hadn’t run into problems yet."

Hayami Rina explained briefly.

Hearing this, Kitahara became excited.

"Rina-nee, please be sure to sign up for belly dance classes again. It doesn’t matter how much it costs. Please!"

...

The day passed mostly in writing, very fulfilling, and also very dull.

At five in the afternoon, Kitahara stopped working.

He changed into clean clothes, tidied up his appearance, and headed out, preparing to go to the agreed meeting place with Matsuda Yumi and begin today’s romantic date.

To be honest, Kitahara was rather looking forward to it!

Yumi-chan had a lively and cheerful personality. Today’s date was sure not to be dull or boring — in fact, it would probably be quite wonderful.

There was still time, so Kitahara chose not to take a taxi and instead took the train.

Tokyo’s train system was very developed. The dense network of lines basically covered every corner of the city, and it was the primary means of transportation for most residents.

Kitahara wanted to experience it too.

Except, in the end it disappointed him — there was no beautiful chance encounter.

No longer harboring any expectations for this sort of thing, Kitahara composed himself and headed to the date location.

After walking for about a few minutes, the tall archway of "Golden Gai" was already visible in the distance. At this point, there were still more than ten minutes until the agreed time of six o’clock!

But Kitahara could already see from afar that beneath the archway, Matsuda Yumi, dressed in a pure white gauze dress, was already standing there waiting.

He could see her occasionally raise her wrist to check the time on her watch, as if confirming whether the time was accurate.

Then she would nervously move her gaze away from the watch and look around, as if afraid of missing any figure that might appear.

In the evening sky, the afterglow of the setting sun filled the air, spilling over Matsuda Yumi and making her look especially beautiful!