My daily life with the Shiina sisters

Just because it is called a tea party does not necessarily mean drinking tea. Besides, tea is obviously secondary, and people who come to the tea party are obviously not there just for the tea.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Mrs. Imagawa, Shiina Mahiru, and Mito Kisaragi arrived at Shoto in Shibuya District.

They were not the first to arrive. For such unimportant gatherings, Mrs. Imagawa always chose not to be late.

The Sumitomo family's mansion was not very big. Through the door, one could see that the ladies seemed to be gathered in the front hall chatting about something. Upon seeing the three people coming, an elderly woman at the head also came to greet them, and as she did, the women in the courtyard also came to greet them.

"Mrs. Imagawa, hello."

"You're welcome. This is our Xiao Feng's fiancée."

Hearing this, Shiina Mahiru took a step forward at the right time and said with a smile: "Hello everyone, it's our first meeting. Please take care of me."

Seeing this, no matter whether the people here are upstarts from new money or wealthy people from old money, when facing this girl whom they privately call "Cinderella" or "lucky girl", they have to smile and say things like: "No, no..." or "Or I'm the one who wants to treat you..."

After a simple greeting, the crowd was divided into two groups like the Red Sea parted by Moses. Perhaps it was the departure of their mothers that made the girls who stayed with Shiina Mahiru like prisoners who had been freed from their shackles, and they suddenly became lively from their originally dignified and self-assured demeanor.

For this group of young ladies, there are only a few who can truly accept their own industry like Mito Kisaragi. As young ladies, they should maintain their dignity and beauty to the outside world. And the girls of this age group can only talk about some gossip or what they bought recently, or what they like.

Listening to their conversation, Shiina Mahiru was relieved even though she didn't actively join them. In her opinion, these young ladies might talk more about Scarlett O'Hara's love story in "Gone with the Wind", or the unpredictable emotions in Zweig's "Letter from an Unknown Woman", or at the very least, about their recent achievements in some musical instrument, flower arrangement, or tea ceremony.

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But all this was a little unexpected for her, and she even heard some girls talking about the idol stars that were popular recently.

So, she started chatting with Mito Kisaragi beside her, sometimes she gently picked up the tea in front of her and took a sip, and sometimes she secretly observed the actions of the people around her. She strictly followed Imagawa Kaede's advice, listening more, watching more, talking less and doing less, as if she was a silent bystander, quietly observing the world.

Although there were only a dozen people, Mahiru was still keenly aware of the undercurrents among them: the others were vaguely divided into two small groups, and there were slight differences in the closeness of the interpersonal relationships within these two small groups.

Of course, while Mahiru was observing them, these people were also observing Mahiru and Mito Kisaragi.

Before these people came, their families would definitely remind them to get along well with Shiina Mahiru or Mito Kisaragi, but everyone knows that these people don’t really know much about Mahiru, and if they say something wrong, wouldn’t that be…

As a result, some people turned their attention to Mito Kisaragi. Compared to Shiina Mahiru, a guy who came out of nowhere, someone like Mito Kisaragi, who has a "reputation", is obviously easier to communicate with.