The two of them reached the front gate while bickering the whole way, and then parted ways.
However, just before they separated, Shiro launched another surprise attack, and this time Yui awkwardly began breathing through her nose, still feeling dizzy, since she wasn't particularly skilled at it.
Then, when she returned home, she saw her mother coming down the stairs with a smile on her face.
Yui thought everything was as usual, but she didn't expect her mother's first words to completely shatter her composure.
"Yui, are you and Shiro together?"
Yui didn't expect her mother to ask that the moment she got home, which made her panic a little.
She never expected her mother to say something like that, and for a moment she didn't know how to respond. At that moment, her mother continued to pour oil on the fire.
"Yui, don't even try to deny it. I saw everything clearly from upstairs. I didn't expect to come home earlier today and witness such a scene, it really surprised me."
"When did you two even get together? How is it that I, as your mother, didn't notice anything at all?"
"You really are still a child. I don't mind you dating someone."
"But why do you have to hide it? That makes it seem like we're distant, and that makes me, as your mother, sad."
After saying that, Yui's mother immediately put on a heartbroken expression.
Yui Yuigahama looked at her mother's exaggerated acting and didn't blame her. After all, her mother had already asked, and she had been caught red-handed, so there was no way she could wriggle out of it anymore.
"Mom, what are you talking about? Shiro only confessed to me today."
Her mother's eyes lit up when she heard that. So what she had witnessed was the scene of a first confession.
"No wonder you looked so clumsy, so that's what it was."
"My goodness, I didn't expect to be lucky enough to witness such a moment."
Yui Yuigahama completely blushed when she heard that.
"Mom, stop it."
She was naturally very innocent and shy when it came to such things. How could she possibly endure her mother teasing her like this?
Seeing her daughter's reaction, her mother stopped teasing and switched to a more serious tone.
"Yui, I don't mind you dating Shiro. Honestly, I've watched him grow up ever since he was little."
"However, in the past year or two, it seems to me that Shiro has become a bit of a womanizer, so you have to be prepared for a lot of competition."
Her mother said this with a worried expression. The child she had watched grow up seemed to have suddenly entered a rebellious phase and turned into a womanizer.
"Ah, Mom, you don't need to worry about that."
"Shiro won't leave me."
Her mother felt a slight sense of helplessness when she heard that. Her daughter was too deeply in love, there was no saving her.
Although it was common to have multiple women, of course with the status that came with it, she suddenly thought that Shiro's identity as a light novel author might not be such a bad thing after all.
Moreover, her husband had passed away long ago, so she had raised her daughter alone. She wasn't as naïve as Yui and felt that Shiro was becoming more and more mysterious. The key point was that this bad boy even occasionally flirted with her too! Really!
"Sigh, in the blink of an eye you're already entering a relationship. Looks like I, your mother, am getting old."
Yui Yuigahama looked at her mother's expression and listened to what she was saying, while numerous question marks appeared above her head. She couldn't understand how her mother could say something like that.
"Mom, what are you talking about? According to Shiro, if the two of us walked down the street together, and you dressed up a little, people would immediately think we were sisters."
Her mother felt helpless when she heard that, because Shiro had said the exact same thing to her, purely to tease her.
Meanwhile, as soon as Shiro returned home, someone immediately said, "Welcome home."
"Yo, Mikan, I didn't expect you to get back before me."
Mikan immediately rolled her eyes when she heard that and said grumpily:
"If I don't come back earlier, do you expect someone like you, with zero cooking skills, to make dinner?"
"You really stayed out late today."
Hearing that, Shiro quietly opened his panel, saw that his cooking level was maxed out, and then quietly closed it. It was better if Mikan didn't find out, otherwise she would definitely force him to cook.
Shiro claimed to be a master, how could he possibly allow her to be the main cook? No chance.
"I didn't have a choice. Shizuka-sensei forced me to either establish a club or join one, so I had to register a club."
At that moment, Mikan brought over two cups of tea, placed one in front of Shiro and took the other for herself, then spoke with great interest.
"Shiro, you're really founding a club? What kind of club did you establish?"
There was genuine interest in her voice. She knew her non-blood-related older brother, whom she had grown up with, inside and out. Although he had changed quite a bit over the past two years, at his core he was still an extremely lazy guy. That was why it was truly surprising for him to do something like this.
"A Supernatural Research Club!"
Shiro said the name of his club without the slightest hesitation.
Mikan, who had been full of interest just moments ago, fell silent when she heard that, then asked in a cautious tone:
"Shiro, are you sure a club like that can be approved? I mean, can it even be successfully registered?"
Shiro's lips curved into a smile as he listened and spoke with immense confidence:
"For anyone else it would be impossible, but who do you think I am? Isn't it enough to just go to the student council and pull a few strings?"
"I even registered three large activity rooms in the dormitory, and Kaguya helped me knock down walls and renovate."
Mikan looked at Shiro's smug expression and, based on his usual behavior and her understanding of him, immediately realized what kind of underhanded plan he had come up with.
"Shiro, other clubs are founded to carry out activities. But you, this looks like you're making a club just to slack off and fool around."
"If I'm not mistaken, all your members are those girls around you, right?"
Shiro immediately gave her a thumbs-up.
"Smart. Truly worthy of being my child bride that I raised from a young age."
Mikan blushed when she heard that and immediately corrected him.
"Sister, idiot! You pervert with sick ideas about your own sister!"
Shiro looked at her as she said that in a shy, tsundere tone and mercilessly exposed her.
"Oh really? Then who was it, in the third year of middle school, who secretly had me switch her drink with alcohol on her birthday, and after getting drunk, confessed and even tried to form a harem around me?"
"If you hadn't been young back then, given your provocative behavior, I would've completely eaten you."
Mikan's face turned bright red when she heard that, because although that disgusting Shiro had done such a disgusting thing back then, she had spoken her true feelings while drunk and exposed her own weakness.
Or rather, Shiro had learned her true feelings.
That was why he had become more and more shameless!
Mikan wished she could go back in time and stop herself from drinking those drinks, because then her little secret would never have been exposed, by her own fault.
"Grandma!"
"Shiro, how dare you even bring that up? Weren't you the one who secretly switched my drink?"
"Only you would switch the drink of a girl who isn't even eighteen."
"Doesn't your conscience hurt when you do things like that?"