Floating [free] [True Haruka] [Zong Rin]

"The intensity of Haruka's recent training is still the same... Can you spare time on weekends? How about going to the aquarium together? I heard there are dolphins."

"Sender: Tachibana Makoto"

Haruka Nanase stared at the email on her notebook.

After clicking on reply, the fingers tapped on the keyboard repeatedly, favoring the delete key favorably.

10 minutes passed and the reply page was still empty.

Nanase Haruka pushed the computer away irritably.

To be honest, he is not busy, it can be said that he is too relaxed.

However, Tachibana Makoto must not let Tachibana know about this ease.

The heating in the house is on full blast.I ran out of another box of facial tissues.On the TV, the dolphins jumped out of the sea and fell down, splashing bright water, and the scene of the killer whale hunting before the mail arrived-a total of 37 and a half minutes-a familiar figure.Last night, I was too busy to review the emails sent by Tachibana Makoto from the beginning, and I counted mackerel before going to bed to help me sleep.Still the same thirty.

This is the life after Nanase Haruka, who caught a bad cold and couldn't breathe normally because of not paying attention to keeping warm, was temporarily banned from going into the water.The body temperature was 37 and a half degrees before the fever subsided.

One of the most taboo diseases for swimmers is influenza, which can even cost the entire season in severe cases.

In this way, even Nanase Haruka couldn't calm down - unlike the coach who was worried that his training results would be greatly reduced, the focus of his anxiety was that not staying in the water made him feel like a dying fish.

Nanase Haruka raised the watch on her wrist with a brown thin wristband of the same style as Makoto Tachibana to check the time.According to the usual practice, Tachibana Makoto probably posted it before class, and in class, he was as focused as an elementary school student who had just put on his schoolbag.

Nanase Haruka thought for a while and pulled back the mouse to mark the email as unread, rubbing her closed nose and quickly got back into bed, turned off the TV, closed her eyes and began to recall the contents of Tachibana Makoto's email.

Due to my height, I am too embarrassed to sit in the front row, so I have less opportunities to interact with teachers.University is different from the schools he has been to before, everyone seems to be busy with his own business, and he has no new friends yet.Until, the relationship with my roommates became better and better, and I gradually started to get in touch with other classmates.I was sent a love letter and chocolates by mail from an unknown girl. Although I like chocolates very much, I still gave it to my roommate Morita-kun who said "I don't have any" with a sad face.

If you close your eyes, every scene that happened to Tachibana Makoto will flow out through words that you are no longer familiar with, and will be imprinted in your mind with incomparable reality, becoming more and more vivid and three-dimensional.

I'm doing fine now... that guy.

The mood was slightly depressed because of this.

No... no.not like this.

"You should be happy."

Why... can't you be happy.

"Too selfish."

Selfish enough to want to keep Tachibana Makoto by her side forever... I don't want to admit that Tachibana Makoto can live a better life without me, and I don't want to be left behind.I don't want to admit that my need for him is greater than the other's need for me.

want to see him.Want to be the same as before, together.

I dare not see him.Afraid to hear him say more things that make him feel strange, afraid of the growing blank space.Afraid to see the lonely self from those gentle drooping eyes.

become more and more depressing.It's becoming less and less like the original self.

bound by something.Not at all...not free.

The mayfly named Nanase Haruka stayed in place, and the water wave slowly flowed away from him.Knowing that it was useless, he desperately tried to stop the flow of water waves.

Because, there is someone's breath there.

Nanase Haruka was in a trance for the notification tone of the notebook email, took a deep breath, and broke free from her own world.

"It's not like he was discovered..."

Nanase Haruka crawled out of bed nervously, and opened the mail.

"From: Rin Matsuoka"

He breathed a sigh of relief just seeing this.

Fortunately, Tachibana Makoto didn't find out that she was reading the email... Otherwise, that guy would definitely ask this and that, so it's not a good class.

When he was about to watch the next content, the other party couldn't wait to send a video chat invitation.

Nanase Haruka, who had a bad cold, originally wanted to click "Reject" subconsciously. Seeing the mess in the room behind Matsuoka Rin with his head down, the inexplicable sense of disobedience made him click "Accept" by accident.

"You read the email. Don't train?"

When Matsuoka Rin opened his mouth, he threw a hard sentence.

Nanase Haruka always felt that something was wrong with him today.The cold tone that should have belonged to two years ago forced him to turn his head away habitually: "Didn't you go too?"

"Huh? Me? I'm back from training."

Nanase Haruka just remembered that there is a thing in the world called jet lag.

"I said you, are you playing childish temper? Did you quarrel with Makoto?"

Nanase Haruka still tilted her head, neither saying yes nor no.Are you fighting?Obviously not.And I also did it because I had a cold.everything fine?Obviously not.

How I will face Tachibana Makoto, what kind of posture I will stand in front of him, and what kind of identity I will continue with... are things I don't know.

"Still arguing... like a child... so stupid... still the same as before and not making any progress. Are you two idiots... I said you are too free to have time to quarrel... there is that Give me time to train..."

"It's too rude to talk like that."

Nanase Haruka, who was already anxious because she couldn't go into the water, was depressed again and again.He knew that Matsuoka Rin had always been a duplicity person, so saying this could prove that he actually cared about this matter.

But today's Matsuoka Rin seemed to speak more and more vigorously, and his voice became higher.Nanase Haruka frowned, clenched his fists tightly and then slowly loosened them - he felt that he was about to be pushed to the limit.

"What are you talking about? Anyway, we will go our separate ways in the future..."

"Noisy!"

When Nanase Haruka heard the last sentence, her anger burst out uncontrollably as if she had been offended by Ni Lin.

The rare angry expression began to change the moment he saw Matsuoka Rin clearly, the anger diminished little by little, doubts and puzzles emerged little by little, and finally solidified into a surprised expression.

On the opposite side, Matsuoka Rin's hair is messy, and the single dormitory has traces that seem to be left after a fight.More importantly, even if Nanase Haruka didn't look at the empty wine bottles lying on the ground, she could almost be sure from Matsuoka Rin's expression and behavior that the person on the screen had drunk alcohol.

At this time, Nanase Haruka remembered that in elementary school, every time it was Rin Matsuoka's turn to be on duty, he would be laughed at like his mother for being too serious-that guy is a clean freak.

How could his room be so messy.

There is also the problem of time difference - there is only an hour's time difference between Tokyo and Sydney.At this time, Matsuoka Rin should also be training.

No wonder his tone was so strange today.

Matsuoka Rin on the opposite side didn't react when he heard Nanase Haruka's roar, but he stopped complaining about how stupid Nanase Haruka was, and stood up waddlingly, staggering and almost falling backwards when he tripped over the wine bottle behind him go.

"Rin!" Nanase Haruka forgot about the ocean between the two of them, so scared that she almost rushed over to support him.

Fortunately, although Rin Matsuoka was unconscious, his body still reacted subconsciously for self-defense. He grabbed the chair with the back of his hand and quickly adjusted his balance. After a flick.

"Swimming...is the most important thing to me! Whether it's Sousuke or Haruka, whoever it is...isn't important anymore!"

"Hey...Rin..." Nanase Haruka was a little flustered, it was the first time he faced a drunken friend around him, and he was not the one around him.

Nanase Haruka still wanted to say something, but she could only open her mouth in vain and could not make a sound.

Big drops of tears rolled down Matsuoka Rin's face.First, they hit the floor drop by drop, and then the tears gushed out so fast that they couldn't fall in time, and all flowed down his neck and into the collar.

"Get out! Get out! Don't bother with me! I'm just so willful!"

Matsuoka Rin took out another bottle of unopened beer on the table, bit off the bottle cap with shark teeth and spat it aside, took a few sips, and then slammed it hard on the ground.Fortunately, the wooden floor did not cause the beer bottle to burst, but the floor was completely soaked in beer.

It's easy to slip and fall!

"Rin! Don't move!" Nanase Haruka nervously stood up from the table, turned around to look for the phone, "Calm down!"

"Rin... Sousuke."

Very natural association.

Sousuke's number... Yamazaki Sousuke...

Bastard...won't you answer my phone...

Nanase Haruka called several times repeatedly, but there was always a busy tone.

Shouldn't personal grievances be timed?

He turned back, and Rin Matsuoka was no longer visible on the screen, only the whimpering sound from the clenched shark's teeth could be heard.

Nanase Haruka's frantic movements stopped suddenly.

Close your eyes and you can see 13-year-old Rin Matsuoka kneeling in front of the pool and whimpering that I will never swim again.It seems that the 19-year-old Matsuoka Rin can be seen kneeling in front of the computer and whimpering that no one matters anymore.

"It doesn't matter, Sousuke...no matter who...it doesn't matter anymore!"

Nanase Haruka's pupils shrank suddenly.

"I want to go to a world where there is no distance."

What is hidden in your words.Obscure, cryptic, tangled, frankly dishonest—what are you talking about.What is oppressing you.What is it that wants to push you into the abyss?

Nanase Haruka tried to adjust her breathing, tried to stabilize her emotions, and spoke with difficulty.

"Rin, listen," Nanase Haruka's voice was a little hoarse due to a cold, "I have a vacation. Don't mess around, I'll come to you right away."

The author has something to say: Zongsuke did not shut down the phone on purpose_(:з」∠)_