"Thank goodness..."
Amamiya Natsuki secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank goodness he'd opened the window to air out the room when he got up that morning. Otherwise, Yukino would probably have turned around and left with frost on her pretty face.
"Do you know what I went through last night?" Amamiya Natsuki said ruefully, holding up four fingers. "I spent four whole hours in the conference room. Besides all the people who came in person, there was the online video conference too. One person after another kept asking me questions, going over the same things for four hours straight. Isn't it perfectly reasonable for me to sleep in now?"
Yukinoshita Yukino: "..."
When Yukino didn't say anything, Amamiya Natsuki took half a step forward, ready to pounce like a hungry tiger.
Yukinoshita Yukino watched his every move warily. She immediately stepped back half a pace and raised her guard.
"Don't come any closer."
Amamiya Natsuki looked aggrieved.
"I spent half a month in another world, and you went back to Chiba Prefecture before that. Round it up, and it's been a whole month since I last hugged you. I promise I'll only hug you and won't do anything else."
Yukinoshita Yukino didn't believe a single word of that last part.
Only hug her and do nothing else?
He'd said the exact same thing before, and it had turned out to be a complete lie!
Amamiya Natsuki continued, "Does Little Yukino really not worry about me at all? Since we met yesterday, you haven't even been willing to let me hug you."
Yukinoshita Yukino bit her lip in annoyance.
"The Future Diary made it perfectly clear that you'd be fine, so there was no need to worry."
After a pause, Yukinoshita Yukino continued, "I checked the Future Diary again when