The Previous Generation's Gossip

"I'm going to take out the trash."

After eating and drinking their fill, Fujitaka Kinomoto grabbed a bag of trash and prepared to throw it out.

"I'm coming too." x2

Adam blinked. They had only eaten lunch—what trash required three people to take out together?

"Adam, aren't you coming too?"

After putting on his shoes, Toya gave Adam a meaningful look.

"No, no. I'll rest here for a while~"

Adam pretended not to see it, because he wanted to stay behind and enjoy the gossip.

Sonome Amamiya was Tomoyo's mother. After getting married, she had changed her name to Sonome Daidouji. At the same time, she was also the cousin of Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko Amamiya—in other words, Sakura and Tomoyo were actually cousins.

Incidentally, while Sakura and the others could produce a complicated relationship chart from any random photo, there was no shortage of juicy gossip in their parents' generation either.

The relationship between Sonome Amamiya and Nadeshiko Amamiya had been exactly like Sakura and Tomoyo's now. Sonome Amamiya had secretly loved Nadeshiko Amamiya, but when Nadeshiko entered high school, she fell for their teacher at the time, Fujitaka Kinomoto... Yes, Sakura's parents had once been in a teacher-student relationship too.

Sonome Amamiya had always held a grudge over Fujitaka Kinomoto, the teacher who had married Nadeshiko Amamiya. Especially since Nadeshiko had passed away young, before the age of thirty, only a few years into their marriage.

And while Nadeshiko Amamiya had not loved Sonome Amamiya in that way, her feelings were much like Sakura's feelings for Tomoyo.

Whether it had been fate or deliberate intent, the end result was that both of them had raised daughters who turned out like the other.

Like Nadeshiko Amamiya, Tomoyo had a gentle personality and long hair, while Sakura, like Sonome Amamiya, had