Lost Narrative Poetry

After not believing it but confirming it again and again, and even calling Ms. Haruno to insinuate her, but getting a generous acknowledgement, Hiratsuka-sensei naturally suffered a double critical hit, and she felt that she was not in a good condition. .

When did they meet?

When did you get together?

Did the two of them know each other early on?

Well, there were originally a lot of questions, but now Hiratsuka Shizuka is in no mood to pursue them. All she has left in her mind is the thought that even high school students have reached such an important fork in their lives. Got——

What have you been doing all these years?

who I am? Where do I come from? Where am I going?

For a time, these ancient and mysterious philosophical questions with endless meanings emerged one after another, occupying all the female teacher's thoughts.

"...Ugh, you're bullying me...I'm going back..."

After finally coming back to her senses, Teacher Hiratsuka didn't say anything else. She just wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes in despair. Her eyes were dim and lost their highlights, leaving only an inorganic gray texture, and then she looked like an aging and rusty robot. He turned around and staggered out.

"I think the teacher seems to have been hit hard. Do you want to go take a look?"

Yukinoshita looked at Hiratsuka Shizu with a little worry, watching the latter walking out of the service department room like a zombie and disappearing into the corridor outside the door.

"It's okay, the teacher is still very strong in this regard. Indomitable is used to describe her. She will get back on her feet soon after repeated defeats..." Xia Ran laughed dumbly, but she didn't think the teacher was that strong. Easily frustrated.

What's more, this is not the first time this has happened. Many times, when the aggressive Hiratsuka teacher tries to educate some irritating students, the other party will seize such pain points and fight back, and then quickly enter the standard process.

Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted.

He came aggressively as an educator, wanting to hit the lost students who had gone astray in life, but he was hit with a few light words of counterattack, and then...

Well, it’s no surprise if you get used to it. For example, soon after, Saki Kawasaki from Hikigaya’s class will get the first kill.

"Repeated defeats and repeated battles? It must be repeated defeats and defeats, right?"

Yukinoshita also exhaled and said helplessly.

"Actually, it's okay. After all, if the teacher really wants to get married, she won't say it every year but just can't get married. If you think about it carefully, are her conditions really that bad? In fact, the candidate can Here in Chiba, let’s line up to go to Mount Fuji.”

Xia Ran lay down on the table, turned his head sideways, and said this with a relaxed posture while carefully admiring the girl's upright appearance.

The curtains fluttered gently due to the breeze, and the fresh morning air from outside came in, with a distinct atmosphere of early spring in March. The whistles and slogans were faintly heard on the sports field, while on the opposite side of the special building of silence.

He really still likes this.

"If you say that, then why has she never been able to get married?"

The girl shook her head, and then seemed to think of something again. She turned to look at someone beside her: "By the way, speaking of which, I just remembered that Mr. Hiratsuka is also technically a "teacher" Yes, will you..."

"Won't."

Xia Ran blinked and denied it decisively, rushing to answer the girl's question before she finished asking it.

"Really?" The girl looked at his eyes calmly, and then nodded, seemingly noncommittal. She just asked this question out of pure whim: "But you always seem to have something strange about your teacher. Bad taste, so I thought..."

"I'm not, I didn't, don't talk nonsense!"

Xia Ran shook her head quickly and categorically refused to admit such rude accusations that slandered her great personality and noble morals.

Yes, these are just nonsense!

"Yukishita-san, I don't have such a strange hobby. At most, I'm just cute, black and straight, but I don't control any teachers or maids." He said this seriously and with a serious expression, which seemed to be very I seriously want to correct this rumor.

"Well, I don't know why, but I always feel that when you say this, you seem to be more suspicious..."

Yukinoshita raised her eyebrows. She couldn't help but put her hand on her chin and think seriously. It was just a casual question at first, but why do I always feel that after this person said this, it became... more like this?

Does this count as "there is no three hundred taels of silver here"? A person who says he has no control over his maid will always be surrounded by a truly perfect maid. In addition, it seems that Miss Artoria was also deceived into being a maid for a period of time.

Also, he said that he doesn’t control his teachers, but look at what happened to his teachers...

"Hey, hey, Miss Medea is just an example, and I'm just working on helping her get her memory back. It's just a pure teacher-student relationship, okay?"

Xia Ran found that the direction of this topic was a bit unfavorable. If it continued like this, it seemed that he would really become a strange person, so he tried to distinguish it for himself.

And to take a step back, even if Miss Medea is really included, as he said, this is a one-time case.

That's right, once is just an example, a single exception, not a plural form at all. How can this be considered "always"?

"But, I remember you are more than just a teacher." The girl tilted her head and raised the corners of her mouth slightly, outlining a soft smile.

"Well, even if I count Mephala, I... No, this can't be counted. The relationship between me and this good teacher is actually very bad." Xia Ran thought quickly and felt that this still couldn't be counted. Something convincing.

"But, strictly speaking, Ms. Yakumo is also your teacher."

"..."

"..."

The air suddenly became somewhat silent.

"Is this what I wanted to ask?"

After a while, Xia Ran's expression became a little subtle, as if Teacher Hiratsuka had suffered a real critical attack not long ago. It was the kind of look that someone had poked at a pain point, but it was not so shaken.

"Well, I'm a little concerned, Xia Ranjun... Speaking of which, you should have had a good talk, right?" Yukinoshita Yukino hesitated for a moment, but chose to ask, "Can I ask, you guys talk about it?" What is it?"

"..."

"..."

Xia Ran smiled, straightened up again, reached out and touched the girl's head, feeling the soft and silky feeling, and gently changed his tone: "Don't worry, I'm not a person who likes to break my promises. Yukinoshita-san.”

"I'm just curious."

The girl's eyes were unnatural and she looked away erratically, but she still pretended to be calm and spoke in a cold tone.

"Yes, yes... But even if you are curious, you can't help it, because we haven't talked about it yet." Xia Ran didn't care, he just lay back on the table again, sighing and touching the corners of the table with his fingers. Drawing circles.

"No?"

The girl frowned slightly. She thought about it and said with some uncertainty: "But now she has not left, but she left directly the previous forty-three times..."

As she said this, she looked down at her own shadow. Although she didn't think it was anything special at ordinary times, it seemed that the exchange of shadows had no effect on her. There was no change on the surface. At most, she walked by occasionally. Be careful when looking at the windows of shopping streets.

But, ultimately, something has changed.

So Yukinoshita has also noticed that the world line has been reset again and again. This is the forty-fourth time. Every reset before was due to Yakumo Murasaki's lack of cooperation. The first time after the reset, she went on her own. Leave this world.

So again and again, until the forty-fourth time now, the world line finally stabilized.

So from Yukinoshita's point of view, this should be the two of them finally having a good talk, so that realm monster didn't run away from home without saying a word... But now it seems that the problem is still unresolved?

"I'm probably tired and want to take a rest first. It's understandable..."

Xia Ran was talking irresponsibly.

"Maybe she understands that no matter which world she goes to, it's just the difference between going from the front to the back of the house. There is no different reason."

Yukinoshita listened quietly, and then sighed softly: "It's best to have a good talk with Miss Yakumo... But I think there are a lot of people who want to have a good talk with you. ." As she said this, even she felt a headache and rubbed her eyebrows.

"It's not a big problem, don't panic."

Xia Ran was not worried at all.

"I hope so. I don't want to see our names appear in the newspaper again, and it will be serialized for more than ten issues..." the girl said lightly.

The incident was a bit big at the time, and it was undoubtedly big news for Gensokyo, so "Bunbun Daily News" was the first to report it, and then "Hanaguozi Nianbo" followed up in time, and then the two sides seemed to be competing. Same, even more than ten issues were published in one go——

In the end, the doll maid couldn't bear it anymore, so she went to Hakurei City Management to discuss it. She believed that it was necessary to crack down on the chaos of illegal operations in Gensokyo, regulate those illegal gray areas, and ensure a good public security environment in Gensokyo. convoy……

By the way, I paid a small bribe... ahem, invested a sum of money as a fund for public security rectification.

After the Boli city management went to the Monster Mountain to sweep up a group of illegal workshops and dens, and by the way arrested the leader of the evil forces, they finally stopped this evil trend. Otherwise, I am afraid that That news can spread for years.

After all, Gensokyo is such a large circle, and the main residents are still a group of immortal species. The concept of time is completely different. Daily life often remains unchanged for hundreds of years. The rhythm is often not that much, so naturally there will not be too much news worthy of attention.

So much so that clichés such as "offal soup in the bamboo forest" and "the pad manager of the Scarlet Devil Mansion" can be made over and over again. In the final analysis, it is because there are no new hot spots to hype, forcing the paparazzi girls to just show off. This is the next best thing.

Finally, there is new big news. A group of guys headed by Wenwen who are afraid of chaos in the world have to be caught trying to kill themselves...

——That’s basically it.

So Yukinoshita is a little worried. Now that the world line has been reset, might these terrible things have to happen again? After all, Shemingwanwen belongs to the type of people who don't know anything, and it is very likely that they will die in silence.

"Probably not. At most, the Moriya Shrine that suddenly appeared at this time and occupied Yokai Mountain made the Tengu curious."

Xia Ran thought about it and felt that it shouldn't be such a coincidence. Even the strongest paparazzi in Gensokyo has his limits.

"By the way, aren't you going to find Yuigahama-san?" He changed the subject naturally, "Should you wait for her to come to you later?"

"I think... it's better to let nature take its course for this kind of thing, right?" A slight smile appeared on Yukinoshita's face, "Didn't you say that if the first time is meaningful, then repetition is also meaningful? Right?"

"No, I'm not saying this is meaningless..." Xia Ran hesitated slightly, "It's just that if it is repeated, then Yuigahama-san's cookies..."

"..."

"..."

"I'll go find her later." The girl said calmly.

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The golden crow falls in the west, and the afterglow illuminates the earth slantingly.

The young man slowly walked along the long hiking trail and walked through the shrine with maple trees on both sides. It was clearly mid-spring and March, but the bright and burning maple leaves were falling with the wind. The beauty was flamboyant and unrestrained, not a little bit. Regardless of whether it matches the season or not.

Of course, it doesn’t have to match the season, it just needs to be beautiful.

"Master, you are back."

After walking past the torii gate, which is said to be the symbol that distinguishes the world of gods and humans, before reaching the main entrance of the shrine, the exquisite doll head maid has already greeted her. Her expression is as calm as ever, and she just reports dutifully: "Yes. The guests are coming..."

"Huh?" Xia Ran's eyes lit up. Could it be that Zi finally wanted to talk?

Ten seconds later——

"Hey, it's you, Princess Kaguya."

Xia Ran didn't regard herself as an outsider at all. Although she was wearing gorgeous clothes, she was huddled on the sofa without any ladylike manner. While enjoying the air conditioner, she was holding the remote control and pressing random buttons on the TV. The Moon Princess twitched her lips.

"What does '嘁' mean? It's so rude..." Horaishan Kaguya glanced at him dissatisfied and put down the remote control in his hand. "I muster up the courage to take the first step and come to you." , are you treating me like this? "

She actually doesn't appreciate those TV shows with cliched plots. She was just interested in them, so she just clicked on them randomly.

"Princess, please respect yourself. According to my personality, you don't know me yet..." Xia Ran was not at all tempted by this woman and pointed this out righteously.

"Tch, according to the original time trend, Moriya Shrine at this time should not have appeared in Gensokyo at all, but now it just takes up space on the top of Yokai Mountain. When I came over, the group of tengu were surrounding me. It’s a big circle..." The Princess of the Moon was noncommittal.

She looked around curiously: "Where is your Yukinoshita classmate? Why didn't he come back with you? Are you alone?"

"Her sister came and took her away. The two sisters must have something to talk about." Xia Ran glanced sideways at the princess, "Her Majesty, let's be more direct. What's the matter with you?"

"Well, this..."

Horaishan Kaguya pondered for a moment: "Well, actually, the thing is like this, it was when I got up this morning that I realized that the time didn't match up..."

"—Skip."

Xia Ran blinked and spoke silently.

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"..."

"Hey! I told you, don't skip the plot dialogue."

The princess was interrupted and punched him on the shoulder angrily: "Are you doing the second round to rush through?"