Chapter Eighty-Six: Nayue, When Are You Having a Baby? / Chapter Eighty-Seven: You're a Married Woman Now, Nangong Nayue!

When Are You Having a Baby, Natsuki?

The restaurant staff quickly brought out the food. This was just an ordinary restaurant, and the dishes were nothing more than typical family set meals.

The two began eating.

"My mother passed away five years ago."

Halfway through the meal, Aoba Asagi suddenly spoke.

Hearing Aoba Asagi's words, Saigō paused, set down his chopsticks, and looked at the middle school girl seated across from him. He said nothing, merely adopting an attentive posture.

"My mother had an incurable illness. My father searched everywhere for famous doctors for her, but in the end, he still couldn't save her. She passed away."

"...My parents had always loved each other deeply since they were young. They were always harmonious, and I grew up in that kind of warm, loving family."

"After my mother died, my father cried so hard. I still remember how devastated he was that night, holding me as he cried."

"...After that, Father threw himself entirely into his work. But no matter how busy he was, he still cared about my studies and my life."

"Aoba Sumire... well, she's called Aoba Sumire now. She became my stepmother this year."

When she spoke of her stepmother, Aoba Asagi bit her lip, her expression tense.

"Aoba Sumire had always been our family's driver. She was already our driver while my mother was still alive."

"...Actually, I know my father isn't even forty yet, and he's an outstanding man. I don't mind that he remarried and found me a stepmother."

"But it couldn't be Aoba Sumire. I always felt that she only got together with Father for my family's property, because she was our driver!"

"...I always felt she was a deeply calculating woman. She took advantage of Father's emotional emptiness after Mother died and slipped