Anime: Desolate Darkness

During lunch break, Kimura Takumi did not play games with Kitagawa Umi and his friends, but wandered around the campus alone.

Passing by the corridor connecting the teaching building and the special building, he walked to the edge and looked down at the atrium below through the glass.

Several pairs of men and women sat together under a big tree and enjoyed lunch.

They took out their own loving bento boxes, with smiles on their faces and flirtatious eyes, and fed each other back and forth. The sour smell of love spread with the spring breeze, and even Kimura Takumi above couldn't help but cover her mouth and nose.

"It's great to be young..." he sighed.

"Teacher Kimura is only 21 years old, very young." A brisk female voice came from behind him.

Kimura Takumi turned around and saw a cute girl with long cherry blossom pink hair tied in two buns and blood-red pupils staring at him.

He knew the other person, it was Matsusaka Sato from his class. (It is assumed that the male protagonist has not watched this series.)

"It's different. I'm not just referring to age, but identity." Kimura Takumi said with a wry smile.

I am a teacher now, and even though I am not yet old enough, I am still very far away from the high school student stage.

Some things, if not enjoyed at a designated stage, will no longer have meaning. Strictly speaking, the meaning is different.

Seeing the helplessness and sadness in Kimura Takumi's eyes, Matsusaka Sato subconsciously stepped forward and stretched out her hands to touch the other's face.

Unexpectedly, Kimura Takumi took a step back, leaving his hands empty.

Matsusaka Sato held her hands in the air, keeping them still, without retracting them.

The smile on her face froze, her head tilted slightly, her pupils dilated, and her terrifying gaze met that of Kimura Takumi.

"Teacher...why are you hiding?" she asked.

"Matsusaka-san, this is a school. Please be mindful of your words and actions," he reminded sternly.

Many students passing by were attracted by the special situation here. They stopped and began to watch with various eyes.

"Isn't that Mr. Kimura?"

"What does that student want to do?"

"I don't know, could it be a confession?"

……

Some students who were walking in groups were discussing what had happened.

Although it was very quiet, it was all caught by Kimura Takumi.

Seeing that more and more students were watching, Matsusaka Sato kept her strange movements. Under the surprised gazes of the people around her, Kimura Takumi took the other person's hand and left this place of trouble.

They made their way through the crowd and reached the top of the teaching building.

Kimura Takumi stopped, loosened his hand, turned around and faced Matsuzaka Sato.

He saw her eyes, a pair of empty eyes that seemed to contain no emotion, like a robot.

He felt an inexplicable chill running down his spine.

"Teacher's hands are so warm." Before Kimura Takumi could ask any questions, she spoke first.

The corners of her mouth turned up in a formula, revealing an ambiguous smile. Combined with the empty look in her eyes, her entire face looked a little distorted.

Ignoring Kimura Takumi's strange gaze, she slowly raised the hand that had been held by the other party and put it to her nose and sniffed it.

"Classmate, you..." Kimura Takumi wanted to ask the other party to stop this strange behavior, but was interrupted by the other party.

"Mr. Kimura, do you know what love is?"

As she asked this question, her eyes became brighter, no longer empty, and the corners of her mouth rose more significantly than before.

"I don't know." Kimura Takumi replied slowly.

He could see that the answer to this question might be very important to the girl in front of him, but as someone who had just recently gotten a girlfriend, how could he understand how to solve such a profound question?

"Aren't you a teacher? Why don't you know?" Matsusaka Sato continued to ask questions.

"This is not within the scope of my teaching, and the teacher doesn't know everything." Takumi Kimura said bluntly.

Just when he thought the other party would be dissatisfied with his answer, Matsusaka Sato took a step forward and closed the distance between them.

Afraid that the other party would retreat again because of her impulse, she did not reach out to the other party this time, but pressed her hands on her chest.

"Teacher, if you don't understand, I can teach you." Her voice was very soft and gentle...

"I didn't understand what love was before, until I met the teacher, saw the teacher's smile, heard the teacher's voice, and actually experienced the feeling of spiritual satisfaction."

“I think this is love~!”

Such straightforward words, and Kimura Takumi is not a piece of wood, how could he not understand what the other party meant?

"Matsusaka-san, thank you for your love, but..."

"It's not like, it's love!"

Matsusaka Sato corrected his vocabulary seriously.

In her eyes, liking and loving are very different.

Liking is too low-level, love represents eternity.

Kimura Takumi was shocked by her determined eyes and was startled.

The mental state of the person in front of me seems to be abnormal.

A breeze was attracted by their conversation and whistled past them, lifting Matsusaka Sato's beautiful hair. Under the sunlight, her originally bright face became dark for a moment because of the obstruction of her hair.

This seemed to reflect her inner attitude.

"Then thank you for your...love, classmate." Kimura Takumi said the word awkwardly.

"You're welcome~" Matsusaka Sato smiled, brighter than before.

It’s as stunning as the moment when the sun penetrates the clouds and shines on the earth.

"But I'm sorry, I can't accept your feelings." Kimura Takumi said solemnly.

He turned and walked to the edge, grabbed his hands on the wire mesh, and continued to teach: "You should know that love between teachers and students will be scorned by society. It is impossible between us. Matsusaka-san doesn't want people to talk about him behind his back, right?"

"So what if they spit on me? Their praise won't elevate my life." Matsusaka Sato made a shocking statement.

Kimura Takumi had anticipated that he might receive a confession from a student during his teaching period, but he didn't expect the first person he met to be so difficult.

He had the idea of ​​starting a harem, but that would only be for characters he was familiar with. He couldn't just take any good-looking member of the opposite sex into his pocket, right?

The scene was silent and a strange atmosphere spread everywhere.

The lunch break was almost over and the students were slowly returning to the classroom. There were more and more students down the corridor and the noise coming up further highlighted the silence here.

What the other party said made sense, but Kimura Takumi was not concerned about this issue in the first place. He just wanted to find an excuse to refuse.

……

After rejecting Matsusaka Sato, Kimura Takumi walked back to the office with his eyes changing like clouds as he recalled what had just happened.

It was clearly just a minor incident, but for some reason, he had a bad feeling.

"How strange," he said to himself.

At this moment, a person with dead eyes passed by him in a daze, which caught his attention.

"Hikigaya-san, what did you do last night? You have obvious dark circles under your eyes."

"Eh?"

Hikigaya Hachiman was stunned by Kimura Takumi's sudden words.

Teacher Kimura? He remembered that he was the "live" teacher who was "pissed off" last time.

"Nothing... nothing, I just had a nightmare." He responded hastily and walked away.

……