Never Not
Ch. 18: How to Call the Right One

Imagining her brother being alone with another man in the apartment, makes Ryo staggered to the point of almost falling down the stairs. Fortunately, his back was immediately restrained by Yuriko who happened to be climbing the stairs.

"You okay?"

Ryo turned his head slowly with a head that seemed to swirl. "I'm .. not okay" said the man, descending the stairs with a shaky step and a stiff face. However, after only three steps, he went back up and chose to use the elevator.

It seemed, what he had just seen had really taken him by surprise. Honestly, it was the first time he had seen a foreign man come to his brother's apartment in this late hour. At his disposal, Rai never showed any intense closeness to the same sex. Even with Yuta who had known him for seven years. His brother is a man who likes to play women and often change sleeping partners. How could it be suddenly interested in men, right?

Meanwhile, Yuriko is still watching Ryo's strange behavior. The man pressed the button but just stood petrified in the line of the elevator door. Yuriko held back a laugh as the elevator clamped down on Ryo's body, leaving him stunned as if he had been struck by lightning.

Yuriko frowned while remembering something. Ah, he just realized that Ryo is Rai's sister who had come to the apartment before.

"Basic, brother and sister are both stressed!" murmured Yuriko while entering her apartment.

Inside the apartment, Shohei explained that their next target was not from government officials, but a student attending Keio University. Hearing that, Rai slightly gasped. Because Yuriko also attended the same university with her target this time.

"Actually I kept evidence of his crime from the dashboard footage in my car the night of the incident. But, using that as evidence would make others suspect me. So, all you have to do is make him confess his crimes in public" Shohei said in a serious tone after telling them what they were about to reveal.

Rai looked at the figure of the man who was inside Shohei's laptop. "It's a very easy thing!"

"Remember, don't do anything dangerous."

"OK, trust me!" Rai patted his chest.

Suddenly, Rai remembered the steak she had cooked with her sister. "Oh, yes, I just finished cooking Wagyu steak. Would you like to eat with me?" tawar Rai while walking to the dining table.

Shohei followed Rai from behind. His eyes were fixed on the bottle of white wine that Seina had brought that night. Her lips reflexively reviewed the thin smile recalling the first date between her and her lover.

"How was your date?" asked Rai while sitting cross-legged.

Shohei also sat in front of Rai. "We fit in with each other" Shohei replied with a smile.

"Sugoi! So, how many times have you done it on vacation? Is it like a doctor's prescription three times a day? Or is it like playing gambling aka difficult to stop?" tanya Rai was excited.

"Hey, you're too advanced!" reprimand Shohei as their faces barely fused together.

Rai immediately rewinded his face. "Gomen, I get excited when I talk about bed relations. Especially since I got out of prison I have never been in contact with any woman" he said with a tickling laugh.

"If it's about that .. we haven't. He's been sleeping all night."

"What?! Already roomed but didn't do anything?" rai shouted to make Shohei's shoulder lift.

"Your reaction is too much" recalls Shohei, "in my opinion, getting into a relationship before committing is not just to channel biological passions. But in order to learn to understand each other."

"Em .. You must be the type of man who always tries to make your partner happy" Rai said as he poured wine in Shohei's glass.

"No. Rather than making my partner feel happy, I prefer that he feels comfortable when with me. Because I'm sure for a woman like her, it's easy to achieve happiness. So I want to try to make him feel comfortable. So that if one day he finds a man who can make him happy, I am still his consideration because of the comfort he has when he is with me."

Rai clapped his hand. "Sugoi! You really are a dream man in the eyes of a good woman" Rai praised.

Rai raised his glass containing white wine, then took Shohei toast. For a moment, he remembered Yuriko who had so much admiration for Shohei. And actually he had a debt promise to introduce him to Shohei.

"You mean ... Miss in the hat who found my wallet?"

Chuckling for a moment, Rai nodded. "He's studying at the same place as our target. He just lives alone. Maybe not dinner yet. If you don't mind I'll take her here to eat."

"Please!"

Rai quickly stood up, but did not immediately leave. He went to the kitchen and looked for something.

"Well, here we go!" rai said once he found two pan caps twenty-five centimeters in diameter.

"Hey, don't you want to call your neighbor? reprimanded Shohei who was surprised to see Rai even into the kitchen and scrawled the contents of the closet.

"Yes, this is how I call him. Summoning the girl couldn't be in the usual way, it should be with this," Rai replied as he showed two pan caps.

"Huh? Really true?" Shohei looked curious.

"If you don't believe come with me!" bring Rai.

Shohei then stands up and follows Rai to Yuriko's apartment. Once in front of the door, Rai called out to the girl while knocking on her apartment door.

"Yuri-chan, it's me!" call Rai many times. Unfortunately, there was no response from inside the apartment. "Yuri-yuri, open the door!" This time Rai raised the tone of voice and even shouted calling Yuriko's name repeatedly. However, the door was still closed, there was not even an answer at all.

Shohei, who was standing next to Rai, said, "Here you go, maybe he's not home."

"I know at this hour he must have gone home. All right, then we'll use the second way." Rai hit two caps of the pot like he was clapping. The sound of the pot clanging loudly made noise so that Shohei closed his ears tightly.

Rai continued to hit the two lid pots vigorously. Shortly after, the girl's apartment door opened. However, coinciding with that a pillow also floated towards Rai. Fortunately, the man rushed to hide behind Shohei. Damn, it hit the face of the glasses guy.

At the same time, Yuriko who was wearing a mask appeared with fiery eyes. How not, this is not the first time Rai has disturbed him. The man often seeks attention in irritating ways.

"I told you not to keep calling me every ma—"

Yuriko did not continue her sentence when she saw Shohei standing right in front of her. The girl's eyes were perfectly rounded followed by a slightly open mouth.

"Konbanwa (good night)," Shohei said, looking down politely.

"Kon–ban–wa," his reply disjointedly followed by an expression full of shock. The mask on his face looked cracked like earthquake-hit land.

"Hey, we're taking you out to eat together at my apartment. You want to not?" tanya Rai who appeared from behind Shohei's body.

"Of course I want to!" yuriko replied spontaneously with a glued look on Shohei's face.

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