When Natsume Chikage wanted to deny it, Yukimura Suzune tugged at his hand.
She shyly whispered in his ear, "Don't deny it yet—Grandpa is a very sensitive person—if you deny it, he can easily get caught up in his emotions. Sometimes, he even holds onto it so much that he wants to kill himself."
"Th-that serious?" Natsume Chikage froze, immediately swallowing his words. He understood the value of a well-intentioned lie.
Yukimura Takahiro looked at the hands the two had been holding all this time and hesitantly asked, "So—
you two really are dating already, right?"
While Yukimura Suzune blushed, she also wondered whether she should answer directly or brush it off vaguely.
Natsume Chikage coughed. "Pretty much."
Yukimura Suzune's face instantly turned crimson, and she didn't know how to describe the joy in her heart.
Yukimura Takahiro was ecstatic. "Wonderful! I knew Suzune and you were a match made in heaven! If you two are together, you might even spark more inspiration!"
As he kept rambling on and on.
The utterly embarrassed Yukimura Suzune hurriedly cut him off. "All right, now that you know what you wanted to know, we should be leaving."
"Huh, so soon? Why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Yukimura Takahiro asked, confused.
Still holding Chikage's hand, Yukimura Suzune shyly explained with a sharp tongue, "We have other things to do."
"Things to do—?" Yukimura Takahiro's expression turned strange. Then he let out a long sigh. Back in his day, even sending out a single letter took a long time, let alone dating a girl. That required a great deal of time.
But kids these days were far more open and mature in both thought and action than they had been before—it seemed he really was getting old.
"Go on—" Yukimura Takahiro said