Momoi Taro wants to form a "don" brother duo, but it's a music anime.

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After saying goodbye, the two returned to the car. Once the car started moving, Hai Ling turned to Taro and asked, "You know, right? That's definitely false advertising."

"Is that so?" Taro asked Hailin with a puzzled look.

"..." Hai Ling didn't know how to respond to this. Momoi Taro actually believed that desserts could help with weight loss.

If it really existed, she wouldn't have to miserably eat protein powder anymore, so she could only awkwardly change the subject:

"Speaking of which, I remember you mentioned at the amusement park that you had a conflict with the people from Afterglow, but you two seemed to be getting along very well just now?"

"I never said that!" Taro refuted the other party's words firmly.

Hai Ling looked a little confused. She thought about it carefully and realized that Momoi Taro did indeed only recount the objective events at the amusement park.

To be forgiven for saying such things—is this also a testament to the power of trust?

As Hailing's thoughts gradually went astray, the delivery truck stopped once again under Taro's control.

Hai Ling subconsciously looked at Momoi Taro, and then saw him unbuckle his seatbelt. She knew they had arrived at their destination, so she quickly unbuckled her seatbelt as well and got out of the car.

"Have we arrived yet?" Hailing asked proactively.

“Yes.” Taro nodded and said, “Everyone in the shopping district lives very close to each other. Follow me.”

As before, Taro led Hailin to the front of a house and rang the doorbell.

Tomoe Udagawa sat in the room, with a broken drumstick on the floor and many bottles and jars in front of him.

Her younger sister, Ayako Udagawa, sat opposite her, looking at the things on the ground with a worried expression.

Ba scratched his head, about to say something, when the doorbell rang, accompanied by a somewhat familiar male voice: "Ms. Udagawa, are you there? Delivery!"

She subconsciously looked up at Ayako sitting opposite her.

Ayako stood up when her sister looked at her, and when she saw her sister looking at her, she gave her a sweet smile.

"Sister, Yako, go open the door."

"Yes, thank you for your trouble, Aya." Tomoe nodded, looking troubled by the pile of things in front of her.

Yako strode downstairs, opened the door, and without even looking outside, struck a pose and said, "Hmph, what business do you have with this dark demon princess like me?"

"This is not okay."

The male voice rang out again. I hadn't noticed it when I was inside the room, but now that I was outside, it sounded even more familiar.

"It won't do if it's not signed by the person in question! Please have another person, Udagawa, sign or stamp it."

Ayako subconsciously looked up and saw a face. She exclaimed in surprise, "It's Taro! Wait, I'll go call my sister right now!"

Without waiting for Taro to react, she ran back again.

Tomoe Udagawa, who was troubled in her room, heard the running sound, looked up, and asked in confusion, "What's wrong, Ayako?"

"Sister, Taro is here."

"Oh? You're coming at this time?" Tomoe Utagawa stood up curiously and walked towards the door.

"Please sign or stamp this." Upon seeing Utagawa Tomoe, Taro immediately handed over the pen and the shipping label.

"Oh! We've finally arrived!" Tomoe Utagawa's eyes lit up. He reached for the pen and paper, wrote his name down, and then eagerly took out his knife, saying with a smile, "You've been a great help. I've been waiting for you for so long."

Tomoe pulled two large pieces of wood out of the package. Taro glanced at them and said, "These are...? Are they drumsticks for festival drums?"

Tomoe Udagawa's eyes lit up, and he patted Taro on the shoulder with a smile: "Not bad, not bad, as expected of you, you really know your stuff. That's right, this is the log used to make drumsticks."

She scratched her head a little embarrassedly and said, "When I took out the drumsticks earlier, I found that they had been eaten by insects. I had no choice but to order a piece of raw wood online. I didn't expect it to arrive so late."

"Is it the one from last night?" Taro asked again, and Tomoe Udagawa nodded repeatedly, indicating that he was referring to that one.

"Well then, since you're busy, I won't bother you any longer. See you tonight." Taro put away the paper and pen, said goodbye to Ba, and then pulled Hailin back to the car once again.

"Oh! See you tonight!" Showing a smile and waving, he watched the other person leave before realizing what Taro had said:

"Huh? See you tonight?" She realized what Taro had said and was about to chase after him to ask when Taro disappeared from sight.

The two returned to the car, noticing that Taro still had a blank expression. Hai Ling turned her head to look out the window.

"You two have such a good relationship."

"Well, after all, we're friends." Taro's voice even carried a hint of pride: "One of my few friends."

"A few friends, huh?" Hai Ling pondered for a moment, then asked casually, "So, what are the members of the Dong Brothers group to you?"

Momoi Taro simply stared straight ahead, without turning his head: "No need to say more, they are naturally servants."

"A servant..." For some reason, Hai Ling felt a little unhappy, but she tried her best to suppress it.

"How long will it take to finish this?" she asked casually, feigning boredom.

Taro raised an eyebrow and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Of course, it's until all the goods are delivered."

"So I just came here to watch you deliver?" Hai Ling seemed to be getting a little impatient with some unknown emotion welling up inside her.

"Frankly, I don't think these things help with trust at all. Or are you saying that if I do these things, you'll trust me?"

The subtext is, "Are you, Momoi Taro, trying to recruit laborers?"

Without turning his head, Taro asked, "Then, Hailing, what do you think trust is?"

Faced with Momoi Taro's questioning, Hailin straightened her chest confidently and said, "Trust is, of course..."

At this point, Hai Ling hesitated. She thought she could easily describe what she longed for, but her thoughts were as blocked as the school cafeteria doors opening after the bell rang.

"Trust isn't something you say, it's how others feel about you." Taro calmly parked the car and got out.

Attracted by Taro's words, Hailing involuntarily followed Taro off the bus.

Taro had no intention of continuing the topic. He simply went to the front door, rang the doorbell, and called out, "Ms. Misumi, are you home? There's a package for you."

Ms. Triangle? Is that you, Ms. Triangle?

As Hai Ling pondered this to herself, the door to the room opened the next second.

Standing inside the door, as expected, was his classmate. Completely different from the perfect idol he usually was, she grabbed Taro's arm, her face pale: "Mr. Momoi, did you say anything to Sho...?"

At this moment, Chu Hua noticed Hai Ling behind Taro and froze, realizing that her loss of composure had been noticed.

"Yo. Good morning, Sanjiao." Hailing greeted her casually. She couldn't think of a better way to handle it, so she just pretended not to see it.

Meanwhile, Momoi Taro, standing in front of her, seemed oblivious to this, handing her a pen and a delivery slip over her shoulder: "Sign or stamp."

Chu Hua (the older sister?) stiffly took the pen, signed her younger sister's name, and then stiffly handed the delivery slip back.

"It's really fate that we're connected." Taro took the delivery slip and gave a friendly smile. "If you have any troubles, you can talk to me about them."

Upon hearing this, Misaka Chuka stiffened again and subconsciously looked towards Hai Ling's position. Hai Ling calmly turned to the side and said, "No, don't worry about me. Just pretend I don't exist."

"Hmm..." Chu Hua shook her head slightly and said softly, "Thank you for your concern, I'm fine."

These kinds of things, indeed, are impossible to talk about when other people are around. Her face darkened as she closed the door.

Upon hearing Mikasa Hatsuka's answer, Hailin's face darkened. Mikasa-kun could discuss it with Momoi Taro, but was unwilling to say it here. Did she not trust me?

Taro glanced at Hailing's face, raised his head, turned and left, ordering, "Let's go!"

Chapter 46, Let's take the stairs.

After leaving the store, the atmosphere inside the car fell silent again. The deliveries to the nearest stores had already been completed, so the silence lasted unusually long.

Finally, Hailing couldn't hold back and broke the silence: "I didn't expect you to know Triangle."

"Yes, she orders through express delivery very frequently, it seems so." Taro answered Hailing's question casually: "You know her too? I heard she's a very famous idol."

"Do you know anything... she's my classmate." Hai Ling closed her eyes and leaned back in her chair.

"Hai Ling... I remember you were Hanasakikawa's student?"

"Yes, Lixi, Sanjiao, and I are in the same class."

"I see." The conversation between the two fell silent once again.

This time, the silence didn't last long. The two of them got out of the car without saying a word.

Taro picked up the package, with Hailin following closely behind. Upon arriving at their destination, Taro rang the doorbell and called out, "Delivery—are you home?"

Soon, a young man's voice responded from inside the door: "Yes! Please wait a moment."

A moment later, the door opened, and inside stood a man in a suit and tie wearing a victory-themed headscarf.

The man, recognizing Momoi Taro's voice, showed obvious surprise. He excitedly grabbed Momoi Taro's hand and said:

"It's you. I've wanted to see you for so long. Thank you for your encouragement. I passed the bar exam. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what I would be like now."

Taro paused for a moment, then clearly remembered the man's identity. He smiled and patted him on the shoulder:

"That's right, it's better for you to be doing well than anything else. There's no one in this world who can't do it. You just didn't believe in your own determination back then."

"Yes, thank you for your encouragement." The young man bowed solemnly and said, "Back then, I couldn't see my true self, which is why I lost all my confidence."

The real self? Hai Ling lowered her head, lost in thought.

"But your encouragement at that time made me realize that I wasn't so useless, which gave me the confidence to try again."

Taro nodded slightly at his serious demeanor and handed over the delivery slip and pen: "Please sign or stamp this."

The young man's eager smile became somewhat stiff, and even Hailing, as an outsider, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed for him.

……

After the young man signed his name, Taro and Hailin returned to the car. Once inside, Hailin remained deep in thought, and after some time, she finally asked:

"That gentleman seemed very grateful to you? Did Taro do something?"

“That person was feeling down before, thinking he couldn’t keep studying,” Taro explained calmly.

“I didn’t do anything remarkable, I just cleaned his room, made that headscarf, and said a few words of encouragement, that’s all.”

"Is it enough to gain trust by doing just this?" Hai Ling looked even more confused. Taro remained noncommittal and replied, "That's all I did."

Hai Ling fell into deep thought... Perhaps the reason why Momoi Taro was trusted was because he showed his true self?

She began to recall everything from when she first met Momoi Taro to her interactions with him, and seemed to have come to a conclusion.

Is Momoi Taro trusted because he always shows his true self?