Hanaya no Nikai de

A typical summer night turns hotter than usual at the Obinata household when a stranger named Shuu Asuou turns up and announces that he’ll be living with them from now on! Shuu explains that he has married their sister Shima and that he shall stay at the house while awaiting her return. But when she doesn’t turn up, he proclaims that he is there to stay for good! What is Shuu's motive for wanting to be with Obinata family? (Source: Juné)

This is the fifth in a series of stories: 1. Mainichi Seiten 2. Kodomo wa Tomaranai 3. Children's Time 4. Kodomo no Iibun *5\. Isoganaide.* 6. Hanaya no Nikai de Although not specifically "sequels", this is the order that the stories were written/published in.

This time, the focus is on the second eldest brother in the family from Mainichi Seiten — the bespectacled Akinobu who wakes up one morning in an unfamiliar bed with someone most familiar and unexpected.