Laid-Back Life in Tokyo: I Really Didn't Want to Work Hard-Chapter 859 - 506: Uesugi Makes Another Mistake Again (2)

Chapter 859: Chapter 506: Uesugi Makes Another Mistake Again (2)

Kitagawa Sakisa only then remembered that Rika still holds that position.

No wonder she asked for help to find a few boys to attend the year-end event a few days ago; she thought it was a school requirement.

Had it not been for those unreliable boys, she wouldn’t have wanted to lower her guard and ask Uesugi for help.

"Even so, you can’t just sneak off to the school next door without telling me!"

"I told you, it’s not to avoid you, it’s because Hanabi wanted to avoid Uesugi."

And Uesugi Sakura, just walking into the dance studio with the polished floor, immediately saw Hanamaru Hanabi looking like she wanted to avoid him.

"Hanabi?"

"Sakura, don’t come over."

Uesugi Sakura stopped his step immediately, stood in place, and asked in confusion, "Hanabi, what’s... wrong?"

"Jerk!" Hanamaru Hanabi poked her head out from behind Kyujuu Rika and whispered to him.

"Still angry?" Uesugi Sakura assumed it was because of what happened a few days ago.

Sigh, it was when he asked her for advice and accidentally tickled her waist...

Angry... It shouldn’t reach the point of ignoring him for several days.

Uesugi Sakura thought again about the affection levels between them.

Little Hanabi and Dark Hanabi do not share affection levels.

Dark Hanabi is probably maxed out on affection towards him now.

Little Hanabi... avoiding him like this, her affection level is probably negative by now.

"Someone came looking for you guys, so we’ll take our leave; there’s not much left to teach, just practice the moves a few more times, you shouldn’t make any mistakes, and contact us if needed." the people from Waseda said.

"Alright." Kyujuu Rika nodded to them, seeing them out of the dance studio.

She noticed Uesugi Sakura was still standing there, clearing his throat with a fist to his lips, and said:

"Uesugi, no matter what, as a boy, you should apologize when you anger a girl, right? This whole week, you haven’t apologized to Hanabi; instead, you’ve been ignoring her, and even not coming home at night, locking yourself in the art room."

"I..." Uesugi Sakura felt he had reasons he couldn’t express.

He was working hard under the professor’s orders.

If he failed the assessment again, he couldn’t just drop a subject this semester, he’d even have trouble getting his graduation certificate from Tokyo University.

This past week, he’d turned off his phone, and apart from studying, was either eating or sleeping.

After he angered Hanabi that day, he thought Hanamaru Hanabi was deliberately sulking and wanted to avoid disturbing his studies, so he didn’t reach out to her.

Kyujuu Rika: "Do you have anything else to say?"

Indeed, there was nothing more to say.

Even if he patiently explained, they’d ask why he didn’t just apologize, which doesn’t take long at all, so why didn’t you do it?

But Uesugi Sakura never realized this at all.

"I have nothing to say." Uesugi Sakura glanced at Hanamaru Hanabi’s somewhat angry little face hiding behind Kyujuu Rika.

She noticed he was looking at her and turned her face away, not meeting his eyes.

This—

It was the first time Uesugi Sakura felt a sense of alienation from Little Hanabi.

If Hanamaru Hanabi had a visible affection gauge, it must be negative 100 now.

"Alright."

Kyujuu Rika turned back, whispered a few words to Hanamaru Hanabi. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Then, Uesugi Sakura clearly saw Hanamaru Hanabi nodding her head.

She walked towards him.

"Hanabi, I’m sorry." Uesugi Sakura knew a simple ’sorry’ sounded insincere, but as a statement, he still had to say it.

Hanamaru Hanabi just stood there, holding the castanets used for dancing.

Her fingers nervously pinched the handles of the castanets, then she started to speak:

"Sakura... that’s so mean..."

"I..." Uesugi Sakura opened his mouth but ultimately didn’t know what to say.

"Sakura... do you know what day yesterday was?" Hanamaru Hanabi still hadn’t looked at him.

Yesterday?

November 30th?

Uesugi Sakura carefully went through his memories but still couldn’t recall what day it was.

"What... Sorry, Hanabi, I can’t remember. Can you tell me?"

Hanamaru Hanabi raised her purple eyes to look at him, then lowered them again: "Yesterday was Sakura’s birthday, even Aei, Chiaei... Rika and Sakisa didn’t tell... they only wanted to prepare a surprise for you... but those days, Sakura didn’t answer calls, reply to messages, and didn’t come home even on the night of your birthday."

Kyujuu Rika added to Uesugi Sakura: "I only learned the next day that Hanabi had prepared a cake, gifts, and a surprise for your birthday..."

Kitagawa Sakisa also understood, clapping her fist to her palm: "Oh! I get it, and then Uesugi didn’t come home, so Hanabi was in the room alone all night with a bunch of presents and the cake she made for him, right!"

Unfortunately, no one praised her for her cleverness.

Instead, because she spoke the truth, the atmosphere turned cold.

"Haha, hahaha..." Kitagawa Sakisa tried to ease the awkwardness with laughter.

...

The air grew colder.

...

Uesugi Sakura had completely forgotten his own birthday because since childhood, with his parents often working night shifts, birthdays were never that important.

Hanabi used to give him small gifts... but back then, Uesugi Sakura saw her as a little sister, nowhere near as important as now, so he naturally neglected it.

What a sin.

Both in the past and now.

He actually let Hanamaru Hanabi spend a whole night in a room full of surprises alone.

Waiting till late at night, in a dark room, surprise lights never turned on.

With nothing else to do, Hanamaru Hanabi, who couldn’t wait for Uesugi Sakura to return home, dejectedly turned on the lights, staring at the birthday cake prepared for him, but untouched.

As to why she didn’t come to the art club room to call him home, it was probably because she was still sulking those days, hoping to see if he would come home on his birthday.

This was just like when she went to the UK.

Hoping Uesugi Sakura would take the initiative to find her.

Even just saying, "Don’t go," would suffice.

But what did she get in return?

—Only feelings of loneliness.

Understanding this, Uesugi Sakura could easily see why Hanamaru Hanabi was so distant from him now.

It’s deserved, and it has to be.

"I hate Sakura..." Hanamaru Hanabi muttered these words in a girlish voice with her head down and then returned to the side of Kyujuu Rika and the others.

"Hanabi..." Uesugi Sakura wanted to raise his hand to stop her, but his hand ultimately didn’t lift.

Kitagawa Sakisa looked around, thinking... Uesugi is probably heartbroken, right?

"*Cough cough,*" the serene-faced Kyujuu Rika coughed twice, "Hanabi told me she didn’t want to deal with Uesugi for the next few days, so... let’s call it a cooling-off period, yes, that’s it."

Uesugi Sakura understood what she meant. After looking once more at Hanamaru Hanabi, who didn’t want to look at him, he turned and left the dance studio, closing the door behind him.

He went to the corner of the stairs and turned to look at the sky.

His own birthday...

He’d never considered what month and day his birthday fell on, nor did he ever think his birthday held any significance.

But, now he’s married, there’s a girl who likes him.

In her eyes, that trivial birthday became extremely important.

Having someone you love, having someone who loves you back.

Now, he’s not just living for himself anymore.