When the protagonist of the otome game is unintentional strategy [system]

"Ding, Gloria's favorability is +20."

The familiar non-mechanical prompt sounded in the ears, and the board was reporting the numerical fluctuations upright, but the content was not as straightforward as the tone, but it made people want to be moved and shed tears on the spot.

But Kolusta didn't care about surprises, and still stared blankly at the pair of deep eyes of the girl in front of him, which were no longer quiet and soft, only a clear longing and fear remained, and even a little bit of it was hidden. A nice look of dismay.

Kolusta looked at the other party blankly, seeing Gloria's eyes clearly, and the heartstrings that had been disturbed by her words just now returned to calm, leaving only endless worries and doubts.

She frowned slightly, stretched out her hand while lying on her back, and carefully touched the silver-haired girl's cheek with her fingertips, as if flapping the tip of a swan's wings, the force was gentle but full of temptation.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?"

"..."

Gloria lowered her eyes lightly, and because of this movement, her silver-white eyelashes lightly swept over Kolusta's eyelids. Giving Gloria the opportunity to continue to get closer to her.

The distance between the two narrowed even more, and even Ru Lan's exhalation when the silver-haired girl spoke could easily reach Kolusta's scarlet lips.

"You called me Le Kesi just now."

Gloria said lightly, "Why don't you bark now?"

"Le Kesi... light?"

"Yes.—Light, that's my name."

There is an urgency that cannot be ignored in the gentle voice, and the dark blue eyes are full of overly complicated emotions, as if they are telling something through the eyes.

Kolusta couldn't understand it at first, but after staring at it for a while, she suddenly realized it.

——This was the first time Gloria clearly conveyed to her the emotion called "fear".

She is afraid of her own changes, afraid of Kolusta's forgetting, and also afraid that she will still get an answer from the other party that has not changed in the slightest.

The brown-haired girl closed her eyes, but a tearful smile appeared on the corner of her lips. She stretched out her hand to wrap around Gloria's neck, and she was as intimate with Gloria as she was when she was a child. She said in a slightly hoarse voice: " I remember, Le Kesi."

"Sorry for keeping you waiting for so long, but I finally remembered."

15 years ago, the town of Seaside.

The sound of the waves rings from morning to night, and the wet and salty sea breeze will blow across the entire town across the ocean. When the first ray of sunlight shines on the roof, there will always be a family with restless cats lying on the beams Going up, slowly turning over, let out a lazy meow, just like a dutiful morning alarm clock calling the morning on time.

The day of the Seaside people officially starts from such a moment.

"Good morning, Uncle Lake."

"Greetings from Haifeng, dear Mrs. Matty!"

Smiling, the old sailor, Reick, dropped the bag of crabs crawling around on the ground. The green fishing net was covered with seaweed, and the long legs of the crabs squeezed out of the mesh, and the shiny black shell reflected the Today's sunshine is just right, pull it next to the soft grass growing on the soft sandy beach, and look in the direction where they spread, and you will find that behind the fence not far away, there are clumps of golden trees. Lush roses.

Mrs. McGrady pushed open the fence of the door with a smile on her face, came to the bag of seafood, bent her waist slightly to look at it for a while, and then praised neatly: "It's still the same excellent quality, and it really deserves to be the most experienced fleet in Seaside." , it seems that Kvitt will praise you again at the dinner table tonight!"

"Hahahaha, it's my honor to be praised by Mr. Maitie!"

The dark-skinned crew member patted himself on the chest and gave a rough salute to Kvit's mother. Just as he was about to turn around, he asked suspiciously as if he had suddenly remembered something, "Oh, ma'am, excuse me ...It's just that the whole boat has been talking about it recently, why haven't I seen Mr. Saugerta come to order seafood for two days? ——I just caught a net full of fresh Holt's white shrimp last night. But little Ruth's favorite thing!"

"Brilliang's family?" Mrs. McGrady froze for a moment, showed a helpless smile, waved her hands and said, "Their family is receiving guests from afar from the Central Kingdom recently! It must be because I haven't contacted you recently. The guests have lived inland for a long time, and they are not used to seafood, so it's hard for you, Uncle Lake, to think about it."

"guest?"

Old Lake was also taken aback. He had been floating on the sea this week, but he really didn't know that the always lonely big wooden house occupying the easternmost part of Seaside Town would receive guests. Are you an old resident of Side Town? I haven’t heard that Mr. Saugerta has relatives and friends from the inland..."

"Uncle Lake, you are really getting older, and you are getting more and more like a mother-in-law!" Mrs. McGrady picked up the net crab with one hand, pushed open the gate with the other, and rolled her eyes at this familiar elder unceremoniously. , "Those two guests are naturally not relatives of Mr. Sogeta, but friends of Mrs. Breviu!"

"Lady Breviu?"

Looking at the back of Mrs. McGrady disappearing into the garden of their home, Old Rick touched his chin with his callused rough hands, sighed softly, and finally turned around, swaying towards the pier go.

"I really can't bear to talk about the days... Time flies, and four years have passed."

……

The Breviws are well-known old residents on the west coast, and they have been with the ocean for generations.

If you have to go back, it’s probably when Nobili’s waves eroded the surrounding area into a beautiful beach, the earliest Breviu and his family made the decision to settle in this remote town .

After many years of living, their house is the largest and most ostentatious house in the whole town. Not to mention the large area, it even comes with a small garden. Apart from being a little far away from the sea, there are no other disadvantages.

However, the small town of Seaside is not very big. The wooden house of Breviu's family sounds like it is in the farthest east, but in fact it is only a dozen minutes away from the town to the sea.

...However, Kolusta, who usually goes to the beach to tread water every evening, has not been to the beach for two full days.

Because she had two very special guests at her home.

Either very picky or very silent guests.

"—Your black tea is still of such poor quality."

The woman in a gorgeous black dress is sitting on the sofa in a dignified manner, her long ebony hair is scattered like a waterfall, and her pair of demantoid-colored green eyes are full of melancholy, which she can't hide even with gloves on. The slender and curved fingertips circled the cup ring, lightly sipped a sip of the light red tea soup, and said in a cold tone, "Even the clear water smells like the sea... It's unimaginable that Li Kana can bear it." Such a difficult environment, and even stayed here for an unknown number of years!"

Even though the other party mentioned his dead wife in a sullen tone, Mr. Sogeta still smiled with a good temper, and said sincerely and apologetically, "I am clumsy and don't know how to make tea...Madam also Don't force it, it's just a cup of tea, I'll just take it out and throw it away."

After speaking, he immediately got up, stretched out his hand slightly, trying to take the teacup from the woman in the black dress.

But unexpectedly, the other party suddenly moved to the side with a big movement, a pair of dark pupils stared coldly at Sogeta, and a sarcasm without emotion and color was curved at the corner of his lips, and he said in a stinging tone:

"Are you teaching me what to do?"

Sorgeta: "...no ma'am, that's not what I meant—I'm terribly sorry if I offended—"

Kolusta, who was sitting quietly by the side, silently put down the teacup in his hand, kicked his short legs uneasily, and looked at his father uneasily with his big golden eyes like honey, but only got a comforting smile from the latter in his busy schedule .

She lowered her eyes and sighed quietly, old-fashioned.

Ever since this beautiful but mean aunt came to their house, she has always seized every opportunity to criticize: the indoor layout is messy, the dishes and chopsticks are plain and hard to chew, the sofa mattress is waist-hard, and even the humidity in the air seems to be It has become a big mistake.

Moreover, every time the satire is over, she always has to angrily add the sentence "How can Li Kana endure so many years here"!

If it was normal, when a stranger taunted her father so frequently and kept mentioning her dead mother, Kolusta would have already started thinking about how to add food to this man's drinking water, or put it on her bed. Stuffing sea cockroaches under the mattress—no matter how bad it is, you always have to splash some vegetable washing water on the other person's face when they are not prepared, anyway, she can't make it so easy!

But... after two days of getting along, it was clear that the woman in black was always talking badly to her father and deliberately finding fault with her father, but those rebellious and vicious thoughts never appeared in Kolusta's mind once.

This is because, even when she was young, she could hear some... from the complaints of the woman in the black skirt... the sadness and longing that she had not hidden so perfectly.

This sincere emotion made Kolusta realize involuntarily—this aunt she had never met before was sincerely feeling sorry for the grievances and rough material conditions her mother had lived in. uneven.

Kolusta unconsciously pinched the cup in his hand, his eyes were empty, and his manicured nails also tapped the edge of the cup holder and small saucer lightly.

Who is she?What kind of relationship will it have with my own mother...?

As Kolusta was thinking, she thought she was hiding her eyes well, and she secretly fell on the black-haired girl beside her who was sitting gracefully like her mother, who was gently sipping black tea.

She is so beautiful.

It's like the rebirth of the goddess Clara, who is so beautiful in the legend. ——Except for this exaggerated metaphor, Kolusta felt that it was difficult to think of more suitable words in his own head to describe the delicate face that was difficult to describe in simple words.

Just when the brown-haired girl was slightly absent-minded, the girl seemed to have noticed her gaze, and suddenly turned her head to the side, showing a gentle and kind smile at Kolusta, who was caught peeking at the bag on the spot.

Those dark blue eyes were hidden behind the silver eyelashes, like sea water meeting with snow-colored waves, born with an irresistible mysterious attraction.

"..."

Kolusta raised the corners of her lips in embarrassment, Seth looked away, pretending to focus on the black tea in her hand.

But she was still secretly thinking about——

It's so strange, why does that girl have long black hair, black curved eyebrows... but only a pair of silver eyelashes?

However, before Kolusta could think deeply, the woman in black who was in a stalemate with her father spoke again, immediately attracting the former's attention.

"...Forget it, I'm not such a person who doesn't understand the rules."

The woman in black snorted. Although the content of her words softened by three points, her tone did not improve much, and she still said coldly: "I knew before I came that the hospitality etiquette in your town of Westside is Fenghai. Tea——In order to show respect to the guests, a cup of black tea with sea salt from the West Sea will be brewed in the afternoon of the first three days, so as to convey the kindness of the seaside people..."

Sogeta's eyes changed slightly, and even Kolusta couldn't help looking at this young woman who always spoke in a haughty tone in surprise, and inadvertently shifted her gaze, but happened to touch the pair of honey-colored water After brightening her eyes, the woman in black seemed to be stunned, and her eyes were in a trance for a moment.

After a pause for a while, until the girl who was quietly drinking tea stretched out her hand and tugged at her mother's clothes, the woman in black suddenly came back to her senses, sighed, lowered her gaze, and showed a gentle look at Kolusta. With a smile, the tone of voice seemed much calmer.

"So, these three cups of tea, I will definitely drink them all without leaving a single drop."

She turned her eyes and looked at the smiling Sogeta again, frowned slightly, and continued in a low voice: "Because the compliments they express... come from Likana's favorite place before her death."

The author has something to say: Licana (Licana): The full name Licanarias (Licanarias), comes from the combination of the Latin freedom (Liber) and canary (Canarias).