Only after taking a bath did Feitao feel like she was finally coming back to life. Deidara knocked on the door right on cue, and Yaboto had cleared the room for the two of them under the pretext of going to play mahjong with the landlady.
"Deidara, how have you been these past few years? Did you receive the bean candy and letters I sent you?" She remembered that she had met Orikusa Koharu just before the final match of the Chunin Exams. Back then, she had actually thought Koharu was going to do something to her—how funny that seemed now.
"Yeah, doing great." *I'm sorry, Feitao, I'm lying to you. It's not great at all.* The older he grew, the more he understood what the world of adults was really like, and that innocent mindset he once shared with Feitao was long gone. Yet, he still stubbornly guarded his inner pride, unwilling to tell her certain things.
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