Lark's

life.But this time, when his baby is born, it's time for me to leave.Gotta find my own life before he abandons me.Otherwise, it will be very painful when we say goodbye.

So when he rarely had time to sit in front of the chessboard on the corridor, I also stepped forward and sat opposite him.

As usual, he has the black stones and I have the white stones.

His eyelids were half drooped, and his concentration was almost the same as when he was a child.At the end of a game of chess, I folded the sleeves of my kimono and dropped the pieces, "When is Mr. Gong going to fire me?"

The hand that picked up the chess piece paused, Hibari Kyouya did not answer, just watched the chess game for a while, and placed the piece without changing his face, as if he was going to ignore my words.

"I'm old, and I retired before Mr. Gong was born." I was not in a hurry to ask for his answer, and continued to play chess with him while telling my plan, "So I think, if you want to I have to refuse to hire me to take care of your children. After all, I have worked for more than 100 years, and I want to take a good rest."

He played and won the game without saying a word.

It was the first time that the game did not end in a draw.

He yawned sleepily, as if he didn't pay attention to what I just said: "I'm hungry. Let's cook." After speaking, he stood up and went back to his room.

I watched his back, and finally could only sigh.

When the rainy season came in early summer, I found the phone book when he was not at home and contacted Tetsuya Kusakabe.Perhaps because the caller ID was an unfamiliar number, when the call was connected, his voice sounded a little wary: "Hello."

"Kaobi-kun?" I called him, "I'm Ito Toki."

He happened not to be on duty, so he arrived at Skylark House very quickly. "It's not really urgent." I brought boiling water and a tea set to the front hall, and made tea for him in a leisurely manner, "Does Mr. Caobi want to be Mr. Gong's assistant in the future?"

"Huh?" He looked up at me, his expression becoming bewildered.

"It's not just about work." I raised my eyes and smiled at him, put down the kettle gently, and explained to him slowly, "This kid is a bit picky, and he often catches colds when the seasons change, and he always has to stay in the hospital for a few days." The genius can recover. Therefore, in terms of life, someone needs to help take care of him."

"Uh... But Ms. Ito..." He hesitated, looked at me cautiously, as if trying to find some clues from my expression, "Aren't you doing all of this?"

"But I can't stay with him all the time." Handing him the brewed tea, I smiled, not intending to hide my situation, "I have to leave one day."

Kusakabe Tetsuya held the teacup in a daze for a while, and finally recovered after a few seconds, frowning.

"I see." Putting down his teacup, he straightened his waist solemnly, then lowered his waist and bowed deeply to me, "I respect the chairman very much, and of course I am very willing to take over this job! Miss Ito, please help me point!"

Good boy.If it weren't for his hairstyle, I would really like to rub his hair.After a while of hard work, he should be able to help Hibari Kyouya with a lot of tedious affairs.

"Then, let's take this back and look at it first." I handed him a notepad that I kept at hand beforehand, "It's all details that need attention. When you have time, I will let you know more about it." The structure of this Japanese-style gym." Taking a brief look at him, I decided to remind him appropriately, "There are still some necessary abilities that need to be trained."

"Okay!" Tetsuya Kusakabe responded forcefully, and then raised his eyes cautiously to look at me, "But...the chairman should prefer you to stay, right?"

I smiled and turned to look at the backyard outside the corridor.The fine raindrops fell, blurring the scenery in the field of vision.The wind chimes jingled, and the corners of the corridor were probably soaked again.The chessboard has been left in place, and it may have been splashed with a lot of rain.Then I remembered the first time Hibari Kyoya didn't go home for a whole day when he was seven years old, and when I woke up in the morning, I saw a similar scene.

"I don't know if Mr. Kusakabi has ever felt this way." I spoke slowly, "Bad news may make people painful, even hopeless. But it will always pass. People have to continue to live." The air is humid The smell made me take a deep breath, "But hope can paralyze people, and they will live in pain and loss for a lifetime."

I said to him at that time, "I thought you wouldn't go back," and it wasn't a joke.

I'm already old.Too old to bear hope anymore.

Kusakabe Tetsuya looked at me for a while, and finally lowered his head: "...I understand."

After sending him away, I held an umbrella and went to the yard to feed the goldfish, and then moved the chessboard in the corridor to a position where it would not be drenched by rain.The handwriting on the note hanging on the wind chime was blurred. I stood in the corridor and looked at it for a long time, but I didn't have the heart to take it down.

Most likely I caught a cold and started coughing at night, and caught a cold the next day.

It happened to be a rare sunny day. I took my book and sat on the edge of the corridor to rest, but I still coughed through the mask.So I put a piece of rock sugar in my mouth, and finally calmed down somewhat.Hibari Kyouya went out early in the morning, and didn't say if he would be back at noon.I asked Tetsuya Kusakabe, and I found out that he was going to participate in the boxing league in place of Ryohei Sasakawa who was injured.

I was a little surprised, "Has he joined the boxing club?"

"No! Although Ryohei Sasakawa kept pestering him, the chairman never agreed to join the boxing club." Kusakabe denied it very simply on the other end of the phone, "It's just that such a thing as losing without a fight must never happen to us. In the tie, that's why the chairman went to participate in the competition."

"Is that so?" I coughed twice, "Where is the match held?"

After learning the location of the competition, I took my camera and went out.When we arrived at the game site, the final had not yet started.I found an empty seat in the audience and sat down, coughing and adjusting the camera.Hibari Kyouya was not topless like the other contestants, but wore the uniform of Naemori Middle School as always, with a calm demeanor when he went on stage.

I pointed the camera at him and took several pictures.

Compared with his opponent, he is still a little thinner.But winning is fairly easy, and the whole process only takes a few seconds.

After he jumped off the ring, the audience who hadn't realized what happened broke out in applause. "As expected of Skylark! It's really extremely strong!" A young man standing not far in front of me suddenly shouted, his voice was so loud that the other audience next to him couldn't help covering their ears.I looked over at him, saw his silver hair and splinted hands, and recognized him as Ryohei Sasakawa.

There is something between the eyebrows and Mr. Nucker.But as far as I know, the priest is childless.

Hibari Kyouya yawned and left the arena directly.He didn't go to bed early last night, so he should be a little sleepy.I packed my things and got up to leave.

When I came to the gate of the gymnasium, I just saw him leaning against the wall and waiting, frowning slightly, probably because he didn't like the noisy environment in the venue.

"Mr. Gong." I was worried that I would not be able to stop my cough, so I simply called him.He glanced at me, and there was no emotion in those beautiful phoenix eyes.Then he took a step forward and said in an unquestionable tone, "Let's go."

It's not the direction of Skylark House, but the way to the hospital.

I nodded and followed his footsteps.

On the way, he suddenly called my name lukewarmly: "Ito Toki."

I raised my head and responded, waiting for the next sentence.

He didn't look back, maybe he was really sleepy, his tone was a little lazy, and there was a slight nasal sound characteristic of sleepiness, "No next time, let me find no one in the room when I go back."

I froze for a moment, then slowly put on a smile behind the mask.

"……it is good."

17. Seven...

It just so happens that the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. When I come back from the supermarket in the morning, I also like to see the cherry blossoms.

Unexpectedly, he saw an unconscious discipline committee member lying under a cherry tree from a distance.I stepped forward and inspected his injuries a little.He was hit in the side with a blunt object and became unconscious, but the opponent's attack was not in a fatal position, and the force was moderate, and his bones were not crushed.

Judging by the width of the scar, it looks a bit like Kyoya Hibari's duckweed crutch.

Probably something happened.

I took out my mobile phone and dialed the emergency number, then found another disciplinary committee member nearby and asked him to give me a ride.The young man looked nervous and described what happened to me intermittently along the way.It was probably a few students who were in the middle school who had a conflict with Kyouya Hibari when they were enjoying the cherry blossoms, but just when all the disciplinary committee members thought that he would teach them a good lesson, he suddenly collapsed from the body, and finally seemed to be struggling alone leave.

"There were also discipline committee members who wanted to go up to help...but they were all driven away by the chairman."

Maybe it was because I was worried about my overthinking, but I could hear that he still had a lot of details that he didn't say.I thought about it carefully, and there was always something that couldn't be ignored: "Are there any other people present besides the Bingzhong students?"

"Others? Ah—yes, the new school doctor is also there, and the chairman..." The young man paused, glanced at my face secretly, and didn't continue.

I was more or less interested: "The new school doctor?"

He was a little nervous, swallowed his saliva and nodded: "The name seems to be Shamar...it seems to be a foreigner..."

Trident Shamar?Then Hibari Kyouya's sudden weakness was probably due to being bitten by a trident mosquito and contracting some kind of virus.Some time ago, I did hear that most of the heirs of the Pengelie family