The sisters' rooms went without saying. Since their mother passed away, their father rarely came home because of work—much like Kitagawa Marin's situation.
He took a look around both rooms while he was at it. They were fairly tidy, with Ichiji Nijika having cleared out all the clutter and trash.
Ichiji Hoshika's room had things like game consoles, while more than eighty percent of Ichiji Nijika's room was actually filled with Yamada Ryo's belongings. It had basically become that deadbeat Ryo's secret storage room outside her home.
The space that truly belonged to Nijika was only a tiny portion of it—she really was an Archangel!
If it were anyone else, they would have packed up that deadbeat Ryo and all her stuff and thrown her out together!
Come to think of it, he had been so busy lately that he had forgotten to collect her debt...
After buying the groceries, he began preparing to cook.
Not long after, Ichiji Nijika hurried upstairs after school.
"Mr. Talent! Sorry for the trouble! Is there anything I can help with?" she hurriedly asked, leaning against the kitchen doorway.
"No need~ I can handle it alone. Besides, Nijika, you're the birthday girl today, so just wait to eat."
"Um, thank you so much!" Ichiji Nijika bashfully pinched her fingers together.
She had never expected that this year's birthday would be handled entirely by him, rather than her sister causing trouble or her bandmates preparing something for her.
"You even went through the trouble of making a cake. I'm really sorry, how much was it?"
"I just made it myself. The ingredients weren't worth much, so it's nothing—has Rakuna arrived?"
"Ah, not yet. I think she'll be here soon."
"She's coming today, right?"
"Uh, I don't know. Probably? Though I did recently teach her how