The Elf Is a Freeloader

It's mid-August and there's a little summer vacation left.

Now, the Akatsuka family held what could be considered the norm of this period every year.

In other words, it is a contest for homework finished by Yasushi by Ryu and Aoi.

"Hey, Ryu! I'm going to copy that!

"Isn't that nice? While I'm at it, get rid of that guy."

"Hehe. I'm cleaning up on my own, right? So come over here!

When Aye forcefully takes your notebook from Ryu, he quickly begins to copy what was written there.

"Phew. It's still hot this morning."

Aye just rests his hand writing down his notebook and stares out the sunshine from the glass window facing the garden.

The time now is before 11: 00 AM, but the temperature outside would already be over thirty degrees. The heat wave travels hiccups and relentlessly in the living room where the air conditioning is running.

"Absolutely, the heat really has been unusual the last few years. Besides, this isn't what we call a dialogue that's been interrupting the cooled living room in the spare room since the morning."

"Ugh... sure, but... don't have to do anything hot!?"

"Mm-hmm. I do understand what Aye is trying to say. So here's a suggestion."

"... what?

Take it off.

"Ha!?"

"No, no, don't get me wrong, Ay Kung? I'm not telling you to get naked about anything. I don't care what you look like in your underwear. If you're wearing underwear, it's not that different from the swimsuit you had at the pool last time, is it? If you take it off, it'll cool off a little bit, and most importantly..."

Ryu protrudes his right index finger perfectly and tells Aoi with an extremely serious face.

"─ ─ ─ If you see your underwear, you must be absolutely delighted that it's healthy. He's a man, too."

When Yasushi was told he would be happy, Aye's heart leaned just a little. Really just a little bit.

"We've been getting Yasushi to photograph long vacation homework, like every year, right? So here's one thing. How about showing off your underwear, including what you've been thanking me for? You'll be cool, and Yasushi will be happy. This is exactly one stone and two birds!

"Phew... so, as I show Yasushi my underwear, including what it means to thank him... what does Ryu do for Yasushi, who takes care of him in the same way? I don't think Yasushi would be happy to see Ryu's underwear."

"Absolutely. If I were Yasushi, I'd be great with him right away."

"So, what are you doing?

Aye looks at Ryu with a slight eye.

Without such a glance, Ryu smiled invincibly here.

"Thus... my gratitude to him for negotiating for you to look like underwear!

Ryu showed his right thumb up toward Aoi.

In contrast, when Aye covered his eyes with his right hand, he looked up to the ceiling of the living room as if he were tired.

"... let's not do this anymore. It just gets extra hot when you're talking about something so unrealistic."

"... right"

Previous exchanges have been based on the understanding that they are both joking about each other.

Even though I just photograph it, it's still kind of cool to do my homework. He was trying to uplift his depressing motivation a little bit with jokes without other love.

This was also one of their regular events.

and there, Elle, who had previously brewed tea in the kitchen, places a well chilled tea in front of both of them with a smiling smile.

"You both look like you're having fun."

"Oh, thank you, El"

"Oh! You look like an angel to me now, Elle."

Aye giggles thanks, and Ryu worships Elle with his pampered cedar hand.

I should put in the penetration that if I were supposed to say angels or something like that, it would be different sects to strike a cedar hand, but Hate and Elle don't know that much about this religion.

"With that said, what is Yasushi doing?

"Is that Mr. Yastaka? If you're Yastaka, you can use" Pa Pa "or something in your room.

"Yasushi's on the computer? Phew, that's unusual..."

Yasushi is one way or another an outdoorsman. His primary hobby is fishing - both lure and bait fishing - and it's unusual if you try to keep him in the room and rub the computer.

"Seems like he's been doing something lately at night"

"It is... does Elle know what Yasushi is doing?

"No, that's just it..."

Even though Elle lives with you, she doesn't step into your room that often.

Speaking of when she enters your room, it's about as much to go in to clean his room while he goes to school or part-time, and naturally the computer is off at that time, so I don't know what he's doing on the computer.

Most of all, even if the computer was left on, Elle would hardly understand.

After that, as Ryu and Aoi struggled with their homework, Yasushi, who came down from his own room upstairs, appeared in the living room.

"Oh, you're hanging in there"

"Oh, I'm just picturing the guy you did it to."

"True, I'm always grateful to you."

They raise their faces from the notes they are copying and each say thank you to Yasushi.

"It's noon, and shall we make something? What would you like?

"Right. When it's hot like this, it's nice around the noodles."

"Bare noodles? It could be good for sure. Hey, is that all right with you?

"Yeah. There's no way you can complain more than having it made, is there?

Yasushi, who mounted the two understandings, enters the kitchen wearing his favorite apron.

"El. Help me"

"Yes."

Elle, who responded to Yasushi's request, also wears her own apron and when she enters the kitchen begins working shoulder to shoulder with Yasushi.

"Is that it? Is Elle ready to cook over here?

"No, it can only be simple yet"

"Elle seems to be able to cook originally, so as soon as you get the hang of this one, you'll be better than me, won't you?

"No, that's... I don't think you can do better than Mr. Yastaka..."

With a soldering grin, Elle still handily provides your support.

I was staring at Yasushi and Elle like that with a face that seemed complicated from the living room.

"... I'll try to cook, too..."

Aye's whining had reached Ryu's ears well where he was nearby.

"The fact that I even handmade the noodle juice (Tsuyu) is so amazing about Yasushi..."

While sipping the bare noodles, which is cooperation between Yanggui and Elle, the smell zeroed.

"I made it by hand, I just made it in bulk before and left it behind, didn't I? After all, because we often eat bare noodles in the summer"

"Still, regular high school boys don't make bare noodle juice by hand. Hey, Ryu? You, bare noodle juice, can you make it?

"Ainya. Besides noodle juice, you can barely cook decent food."

"Look, look. This is the normal high school boy. Well, in Yasushi's case, my youngest father and my youngest mother earned money together, so there's a reason I've been involved in chores for a long time..."

"Plus, my sister used to tease me about chores."

Ryu and Aoi laugh when they look at Yasushi with his shoulders flaunted.

Yasushi's sister is now married and well housewife, but until before she got married, she couldn't do any chores at all.

The sister suddenly said she was getting married, and her mother, Kaori and Yasushi, slapped the chores into her sister with a short intensive lecture.

One way or another, Yasushi's sister, who was keen to do her chores while half a dozen years at the end, means she can understand how strict the instruction was for the two of them.

"Than that..."

If Yasushi looks to his side, Aye and Ryu look to you the same way.

There's one elf's daughter there sipping bare noodles with a blissful look on her face.

"You look happy, El..."

"Oh......"

"Something will heal you this way when you look at such a happy Elle..."

"Oh......"

In a truly clear atmosphere, the three watch over Elle.

"Oh, that...? Guys, what's going on?

When I noticed Yasushi staring at me, Elle tilted his neck.

In the end, Aye and Takashi were to fight their homework at the Akatsuka family until evening.

After 5pm, my homework finally cleared up coarsely, and Aye and Ryu stretched out their solidified bodies.

"Is that...? If you say so, today..."

While cleaning out the notebooks and references I had spread out on the table in the living room, I happened to look at the calendar in my sight and remembered that there was something awkward about it.

"Today, surely there was no bonsai in town?

"Oh, no, it was today. I totally forgot what I saw on the circuit board."

"So, it's a corner, so why don't we all go? I think it'll be a good experience for Elle, too."

"Ah! Then I'll wear my yukata! If you ask your grandmother, she'll wear yukata. So, Elle, why don't you try on some yukata?

"Uh... Bon Odori or Yucata... what is it?

Naturally, Elle, who knows neither the bonsai nor the yukata, has the look of not knowing.

"Well, both bonsai and yukata will come from this, but in a nutshell, it's a summer poem from this country."

"Fuubutsushi......?

Once again, Elle just tilts her neck at the advent of words she's unfamiliar with hearing.

"It's actually quicker to look at it than to say it with your mouth. A yukata would have left my sister's, and I think it would fit Elle's size because it was from some years ago"

"Then it's settled!

Aye's decision officially led him to go bonsai.

As Ryu said, it's a good opportunity to let Elle experience Japanese summer poetry, I think, too, Yasushi.

Once they each return home, they will now gather at Aye's house. Ask Aoi's grandmother to wear Aoi and Elle's yukata, so gathering at Aoi's house would be a natural flow.

Yasushi also searches for yukata in her sister's room, which is now Elle's room, and goes for Aoi's house on foot with small items such as bands and waste.

Along the way, he will teach Elle what he knows about bonsai as he walks slowly.

"Oh, uh, yeah, yeah!? Something to comfort the spirits of my deceased ancestors... I mean the ritual of soul relieving!? It's awesome to summon ghosts or something!?"

I listen to you and see you. I see you. Elle's complexion gets worse.

The so-called undead - such as ghosts - is about her. I guess I made some weird mistake when I heard it was meant to comfort the spirits of my ancestors.

"I said I would comfort the spirits of my ancestors, because I wouldn't call the spirits themselves. Bonsai - Japanese basins are not a ritual of witchcraft."

It is true that the Japanese basin means that the spirits of our ancestors will return, but we will not actually summon or unload the spirits or perform suspicious rituals.

"Ho, that's true!? Won't come out obnoxious or anything!?"

"I won't answer, I won't answer. You can rest assured."

Hanging paper bags with yukata and waste.

With no such other love to talk about, Yasushi and Elle walked away in the towns of Nikken, which began to get dark, towards Aye's house in front of the station.