"Yuise, are you there?" A man's voice called from outside the house.
Chen Mo and Yuan Ruoshan were sitting inside drinking tea. Upon hearing the voice, Yuan Ruoshan looked at Chen Mo with a bewildered expression.
"He's calling for the owner here! Go hide in the back first. I'll go deal with him!" Chen Mo said.
Yuan Ruoshan nodded, quickly got up, and went into the inner room—the bedroom.
With a wave of his hand, Chen Mo stored all the tea utensils on the table Inside Universe Bead. Then, replying in Japanese as he walked, he went to the dining room and swept away the unwashed dishes and other tableware from their meal, placing them Inside Universe Bead as well. Only then did he head for the door!
However, the moment he opened the door, Chen Mo had already transformed into Horiye Yuise.
In Japan, people who knew each other fairly well generally addressed one another by surname and rarely by given name! Of course, if someone introduced himself and stated how he wanted to be addressed, then everyone could follow his preference. Otherwise, surnames were usually used!
Then there was the suffix "-kun." Calling someone so-and-so-kun was how an elder addressed someone of the same generation or a junior. Naturally, it could not be used for an elder.
Therefore, the person who had come looking for Horiye Yuise and called him Yuise clearly knew Horiye Yuise quite well.
Although Chen Mo had no idea who the fellow before him was or what relationship he had with Horiye Yuise after opening the door, all he had to do was keep smiling. He would let the other man speak first!
No matter what, a smile was the best way to socialize!
Sure enough, upon seeing Horiye Yuise, the visitor smiled and