Laid-Back Life in Tokyo: I Really Didn't Want to Work Hard
Chapter 294 - 231 Saturday, Park_2

Chapter 294: Chapter 231 Saturday, Park_2

Hanamaru Hanabi’s bright eyes looked at him and slowly said:

"The happiest thing for Hanabi is having Sakura come here..."

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"People are always changeable; their love fades over time," Hanamaru Yuuki seemed to summarize the drama she watched last night at the breakfast table.

"You haven’t been in a romantic relationship, have you?" Uesugi Sakura asked Yuuki while taking a bite of toast with bacon.

"Only by not experiencing love can one understand its beauty, those yearnings, those desires, that difficult-to-reach elegance," Hanamaru Yuuki said, holding her knife and fork, looking up in contemplation.

Actually, she’s only two months younger than Hanabi; Hanamaru Hanabi was born on October 10th, and she was born on December 9th.

It was at this moment that Uesugi Sakura remembered that it was her birthday in two weeks.

What should I... do?

"Hey, Hanabi, why did you start painting?"

Suddenly curious, Hanamaru Yuuki asked, "Let me tell you why I started: it was out of boredom, but I later discovered, as I painted, how joyful it is to capture beautiful things with my own pen."

Hanamaru Yuuki was the kind of girl who loved beautiful things—pink, sweets, and secretly fantasizing about kissing the male protagonist in a comic, her face turning red as she rolled around in bed with her quilt.

"Me?"

Hanamaru Hanabi poked at her cooked bacon with a fork, "Initially, Hanabi’s painting was terrible, only able to draw circles and stick figures, always being laughed at for how ugly they were."

"No way!?" Hanamaru Yuuki always thought her older sister had much better painting skills, with their teacher often praising her for having a strong foundation. The blending of colors she managed was refreshing to the eye.

Mind you, that’s a professor from the Royal College of Art.

"Yes." Hanamaru Hanabi nodded lightly.

"Then how did you become so good now? I find it hard to catch up to you, whether in watercolor or illustration."

"It’s probably due to persistence... mainly because there was always someone encouraging Hanabi,"

Hanamaru Hanabi sneaked a glance at Uesugi Sakura sitting across from her and hurriedly lowered her head when she saw him looking at her too.

Hanamaru Yuuki didn’t notice the small interaction in her gaze, but instead took a bite of fried egg and, while chewing, said:

"I’m so envious you have such a great friend, as for me... uh, they just laugh at my comic characters having no knees."

Speaking was broken up as she was eating.

"You’ve drawn comics?" Uesugi Sakura raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Of course," Hanamaru Yuuki was not embarrassed, "as a girl, we all have youthful yearnings for a beautiful romance, and I wanted to draw that beauty. Unfortunately, those who don’t know how to appreciate just focus on whether my characters have knees."

After saying this, she puffed up her cheeks and then used a fork to put the remaining fried egg into her mouth, biting down angrily.

"By the way, Uesugi, are you working at the cafe today?"

"Today’s Blaise’s shift; he told me to take the day off."

Hanamaru Yuuki used a fork to lift up her toast and shook it, saying, "I feel like the Soho cafe can’t do without you now, with how busy it is every day."

Uesugi Sakura: "It’s fine; there aren’t that many customers either."

Hanamaru Yuuki leaned on Hanamaru Hanabi who was wiping her mouth with a napkin. The two girls of similar age pressed their faces together.

"My sister and I are going out to sketch today; would you like to join?"

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Some say that in the UK, everything outside of London is the countryside.

But actually, London is the smallest city by land area in the UK, the smallest city.

However, London is also the most populous urban area in the UK, which can also be said to be the largest city.

Hyde Park, the most famous and largest royal park in the UK, is located to the west of Buckingham Palace, just separated by a wall.

It is divided by Nine Curves Lake into two parts, Hyde Park and Kensington Garden.

Facing the Saturday sun, entering from the gate, you can see many old-fashioned bicycles parked on the right side.

As a famous attraction in this hundred-year-old city of London, you can see many people lying on the lawn resting, feeling the relaxed side of this bustling city.

People with a leisurely air passed by, most of them wearing sunglasses, golden hair shining even softer under the sunlight.

Two girls with painting boards and tubes on their backs followed Uesugi Sakura, seemingly engaged in conversation and laughing from time to time.

"Do you want to eat ice cream?" He pointed to the small cart parked in the shade ahead and asked.

"Oh? Are you treating?" Hanamaru Yuuki curved her eyes into a smile.

"My treat," said Uesugi Sakura.

"Then there’s nothing to hesitate about; I’ll go line up first!" Hanamaru Yuuki peered over at the crowd chatting in front of the small cart, handed her painting tube to Uesugi, and hurried over.

Hanamaru Hanabi walked with even, airy steps, standing obediently beside Uesugi Sakura, and softly said to him:

"...It’s making Sakura spend money again."

Uesugi Sakura took his eyes off the queueing Hanamaru Yuuki and turned to Hanamaru Hanabi with a smile:

"Now I work at the Soho cafe and make 3000 pounds a month, a small amount like this is no issue."

"By the way, Hanabi, do you have anything you especially like right now?"

"Why do you ask this, Sakura?" Hanamaru Hanabi’s small hands held the painting tube in front of her skirt and cutely tilted her head slightly.

With the park’s green shade reflected behind her, under the bright sunshine, her small face showed the purity and beauty of a young girl.

"I just wanted to ask." Uesugi Sakura smiled slightly.

"Sakura, do you know the Serpentine Gallery?" Hanamaru Hanabi looked up at him.

"Not really."

"The Serpentine Gallery is in Kensington Garden; every year the building is demolished in the summer, inviting a new wave of designers to create anew. From June to October every year, you can see a cutting-edge contemporary pavilion design."

"Is Hanabi thinking of exhibiting work there?" Uesugi Sakura asked.

"No, no," Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head, smiled lightly, and said, "The Serpentine Gallery doesn’t exhibit paintings; the pavilion structure itself each year is an artwork."

"Then what does Hanabi like?"

Is it that she wants to participate in the pavilion design once? But she studies painting, not architecture.

Hanamaru Hanabi looked up, showing a smile that warmed the heart:

"Hanabi would like to sit inside with Sakura. Many times before when I came, Sakura was still in Tokyo, and there was no chance to see those beautiful buildings together."

Her smile lit up everything, seemingly making the world begin to reveal the warmth that moves the heart along with her.

"...Doesn’t Hanabi think I’m very selfish?"

"Selfish about what?" asked Hanamaru Hanabi in confusion.

"Speaking words about wanting you to grow, bringing you here, but just half a month later, regretting it and wanting to take you back to Tokyo."

Hanamaru Hanabi: "Does Sakura remember what Hanabi said when she was about to leave?"

’If Sakura doesn’t want Hanabi to leave... Hanabi wouldn’t....’

Uesugi Sakura recalled half of the sentence and stopped remembering further, attentively gazing at Hanamaru Hanabi’s adorable face that could make the world indulge.

"Hanabi means—"

"Ice cream’s here!!"

Hanamaru Yuuki rushed over, holding three cones and cheerfully saying, "Come on, the milk-flavored one is for my sister, the strawberry’s mine, and the remaining chocolate’s yours, Uesugi. Hmm...? Why aren’t you taking it?"

Uesugi Sakura came back to his senses, withdrawing his gaze from Hanabi’s face, and took the cone she handed over:

"Sorry, I was thinking about something."

"With something sweet, you won’t think about all kinds of trivial things," Hanamaru Yuuki smiled at him and then stretched out her palm.

"What?"

Hanamaru Yuuki’s expression was slightly surprised: "Money! The ice cream costs 15 pounds each!"

A cup of coffee doesn’t cost 5 pounds, Uesugi Sakura pointed to the sign outside the ice cream cart:

"It’s 5 pounds each, I’m not a fool."

"Hehe," Hanamaru Yuuki laughed.

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