"Sakura, it's been so many years since we last met, and you've grown quite handsome."
"Just barely," Uesugi Sakura replied modestly.
"Have you attracted many girls?"
"What do you want to say, Shio?"
Uesugi Shio, lying on the table, tilted her head toward the kitchen and said, "If I remember correctly, Hanabi is only 15, yet she's already become your fiancée, Sakura."
"You're not sweet-talking and deceiving the feelings of an innocent girl, are you?"
"I'm sincere," Uesugi Sakura said, confident in his own sincerity.
Uesugi Shio let out a "Huh~" sound:
"But you used to always tell me that little Hanabi was your sister."
"Didn't you say I like to lie, Shio? This is it." Uesugi Sakura took a sip of the hot tea brewed by Hanabi, the rising steam blurring his face.
"No, you weren't lying back then."
