The family of four ate hot pot at the dining table.
Akasaka and Ichinose Honami kept piling food onto the plate of Ichinose Izumi, who sat between them, practically doting on the little sister to the heavens.
Ichinose Izumi chewed the food in her mouth, looking utterly blissful.
Her sister and brother-in-law's feeding soon left her belly round and full, unable to eat another bite.
In the end, she gave up on her desire for hot pot, patted her stuffed belly, then lay down in her sister Ichinose Honami's arms and fell asleep.
Ichinose Honami stroked her sister's head soothingly as she looked toward her mother.
Ichinose's mother raised a finger to her lips, signaling them not to wake her, then gave Akasaka a complicated look. "Um... Mr. Prime Minister, could I ask you to come out and talk with me? It's about my daughter..."
Akasaka felt helpless. He really wanted to tell her to stop calling him Prime Minister—calling him son-in-law would be more appropriate.
But his mother-in-law was simply too unaccustomed to it. Akasaka could only give up, stand up, and tell Ichinose Honami not to worry... He would settle their marriage.
Ichinose Honami smiled tactfully on the surface, but she was not truly at ease inside. Looking at her sleeping sister in her arms, Ichinose gently picked her up and hummed her a lullaby like she was soothing a baby, singing her deeper into sleep.
Seeing this, Akasaka inexplicably thought of his future children with Ichinose, and a happy smile gradually appeared on his lips.
"Our future children... will probably be like this too, right?"
Akasaka blurted it out.
Ichinose's face instantly flushed crimson, steam practically rising from her head.
Her mother could not bear to watch any longer and hurriedly coughed, interrupting the pair's wild thoughts.