Song of Light and Shadow

The bubbling cold air was blown into the car from the air conditioner, making the already steamy cabin feel cool, but Heizi, who doesn't like the cold by nature, was wrapped tightly in the air-conditioning that made most people feel comfortable. placket.

Although it was already night and the stars in the sky lost their brilliance under the suppression of the lights and hid behind the dark gray sky, the hot and humid heat unique to Japan was not much different from that during the day.

After getting off the bus at the station, Heizi let out a long breath the moment his feet landed on the ground after squeezing out from the crowd, and tidied up his messed-up suit.

He really seldom wears such formal clothes. Even in his daily work, he wears a relaxed sweater. After all, serious clothing like a suit doesn't match his image no matter how you look at it.It's just that he needed to attend a rather formal occasion today, so he took out this dress that had been sealed for an unknown number of years from the closet.

The last time I wore it was at the graduation ceremony of the university... just wearing a suit like this, and having the first and last time with that person in the library...

How old is it?

I don't know why I suddenly felt emotional.Heizi shook his head, dispelled the sadness from his heart, raised his legs and walked towards the rented apartment.

Passing by a convenience store, remembering that there was almost nothing eaten at the banquet, Heizi went in, bought some bento for dinner, and took two cans of beer to the front desk to pay.

I really seldom drank alcohol before, but I can’t remember when it started, but beer seems to be a daily routine.After all, this kind of work that cannot be separated from holidays and weekdays is really tiring. In addition to the hot weather today, drinking some cold beer is quite comfortable.Although he still likes vanilla milkshakes more than beer, it feels a bit out of place for someone who is almost 30 years old to buy vanilla milkshakes at M Ji, even now some people think he is a high school student.

[It looks so small that it is really helpless. ] Heizi took the clerk’s change, although he really wanted to tell the clerk who looked at him suspiciously that he was almost thirty, but even if he said it, it would be meaningless...

After coming out of the automatic door, Heizi let out a breath, raised his eyes and looked at the gray sky again, if all the lights were off, he would probably be able to see the stars.

Feeling that his thoughts were boring, Heizi withdrew his gaze, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a figure not far from him walking towards him.

That once very familiar figure.

"Ah..." Looking at the man who was more than two heads taller than the average Japanese, with dark skin and deep sea-colored hair, Kuroko gradually opened his eyes wide.

Apparently also noticed his existence, the man was so surprised that he paused at first, then showed a complicated expression, but finally he greeted with a smile, "Zhe."

Such a meeting is really a coincidence.

"I didn't expect to meet under such circumstances, Qingfeng-kun." Heizi said softly.

The current Heizi, as a kindergarten teacher, has nothing to do with Qingfeng, who has become a policeman. The rhythm of life is completely different, and there is no way to compare it with when he was a student.Especially recently, the two hardly even exchanged text messages or phone calls, and they were both busy with their work.

"Ah..." Qingfeng was at a loss for words for a while, probably because he hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Heizi noticed that Qingfeng's face was a little red, "I never thought of it... Long time no see."

"Well, long time no see." Heizi replied.

"Tomorrow is a day off, so I went out to buy something." Qingfeng said as if explaining something, glanced at the convenience store behind Heizi.

"En." Heizi still responded lightly, but he felt a little strange in his heart.This convenience store is far away from Aomine's apartment. There should be many convenience stores on the road. Are there any special products here?

"Wait for me." Qingfeng said, walked quickly into the convenience store, and came out with a bag after a while.

Heizi looked inside, it was filled with beer.

"It's far away from Qingfeng-kun's home." Heizi looked at Qingfeng again.

Just raising his eyes, he met Qingfeng's gaze, and became a little dazed for a while.Qingfeng quickly looked away, and he didn't know where to look, and said in a tone that was similar to when he was a student: "Ah, that's right, I have something to do here."

"That's right..." Heizi responded, and then walked forward.

[I am too familiar with Aomine's attitude when he speaks.Thinking about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. 】

Heizi thought to himself mockingly.From the past, whenever Aomine was lying, he would always look away. No matter how old he was, there was no way to get rid of this habit.

And even Aomine himself has things that he doesn't want to say, although it used to be that kind of relationship... But after all, it's been so many years... Moreover, Aomine is about the same age, even if he has a girlfriend, he won't let it go It's weird, it's better to say that it's weird if you don't have a girlfriend.If so...

Heizi felt a little annoyed when he thought that grandma would often call to ask him when he was going to get married.

"Zhe, do you want to eat?"

Just as Heizi was thinking wildly, there was a sound of rubbing from the plastic bag to find things from beside him.

"what……?"

Seeing Qingfeng stop, Heizi also automatically stopped, and followed Qingfeng's muscular arms to look into the plastic bag.I thought Aomine must have only bought cans of beer, did he have anything else?Even if there is, it is the kind of thing that is bought for the reason of "saw it and suddenly wanted to eat it".

However, after Qingfeng handed the things to Heizi, Heizi narrowed his eyes nostalgic.

"Goligori-kun (the name of the popsicle that appeared in the original work), it's really nostalgic..."

In middle school, it was a must-have snack after every summer activity.Although I have eaten with everyone in the Miracle Generation many times, probably the one who shared the most times is with Aomine.

After receiving Gorigori-kun from Aomine, he tore open the package, and put the peach-flavored ice into his mouth. In an instant, a little sweet and sour memory flooded out of his mind uncontrollably.

Really happy... The unique feeling of adolescence is still so beautiful in retrospect.But that's why I'm even more at a loss now...

Heizi glanced at Qingfeng who didn't know what he was thinking, and felt a little confused.

"Speaking of which, at that time I was really a 'shrimp at the bottom of the well (the stalk of a crayfish~)'..."

In an instant, Heizi almost choked on the freshly bitten ice.After coughing for a while, Heizi looked at Qingfeng, who had wiped out all the ice in his belly, and who was somewhat complacent about saying the wrong idiom, and pointed it out helplessly.

"...Mr. Qingfeng, that's a frog, not a shrimp..."

Qingfeng, who was pointed out by Heizi, showed an embarrassing expression as if he had swallowed a crayfish for a moment, but he quickly adjusted, "Frog or something, I belong to the crayfish pie, so don't give it!"

"...Well, it's not allowed. It's not good to change the idiom randomly."

"Cut." Pouting his mouth, Qingfeng began to feel awkward with an expression that I was just like this.This feeling seems to be like going back to the past, when the two were just ordinary friends...

Suddenly the topic changed, Qingfeng glanced at Heizi and asked, "I've been a little concerned since just now, this is..."

Following Aomine's gaze, Heizi saw the pure white bouquet he was holding in his hand.

"Ah, today is the wedding ceremony of captain Kiyoshi-senpai... and Seirin's basketball club senior... I was invited to attend."

What an unexpected wedding...the wedding between Hiraki-senpai and Muji-senpai...although it is not formal and cannot be formalized, but it looks very happy.And through the wedding ceremony, everyone from Seirin's basketball club in the past also got together. Although the work they do now has nothing to do with basketball, everyone's love for basketball has not diminished at all, so when chatting, there is no What strangeness.

"'When you are throwing a bouquet, a certain married woman, please don't disturb the people around you' Said Muji-senpai. Then Reiko-senpai said, 'I will never touch anything that falls out of your hand Teepei '. It's funny."

Heizi didn't know why he was able to say so many words, probably because Qingfeng had been echoing him with an affirmative tone.

Then Senior Muji and Rishi threw the bouquet together, and the pure white elf, which represented happiness, seemed to have magical powers, and fell directly into Heizi's arms.

"'It's Heizi's turn next!' That's what Senior Muji said." Heizi continued to narrate calmly.

A bouquet of happiness...

But will such happiness fall on him?

"...In that case, marry me."

Qingfeng, who hadn't opened his mouth all this time, suddenly said, his tone was like saying "tomorrow will be a fine weather" and "what's for dinner tonight".

"Eh?"

Seeing that Qingfeng suddenly snatched the bouquet from his hand, smelled it, and glanced at Heizi from time to time, it didn't look like he was joking.

Shocked by Qingfeng's words, Heizi was a little shocked and didn't know what to say.

"Since you don't talk, then it's settled. Marry me."

Hearing the words of marriage proposal again, Heizi seemed to be angry, and his whole face turned red.Even the ears turned red on the face that obviously seldom showed emotion at the moment, it seemed more shy than angry.

"Have we dated before that?"

He threw out a question in a fit of anger, because of the previous doubts, he wanted to be angry with the guy in front of him who was worthy of the word bastard.

At that time, it was obviously Qingfeng who suspected him first, although he kept apologizing afterwards, he couldn't care less.Even though I've hugged him, I still don't believe him...

"But, the feeling is the same, right now..."

I don't know where Qingfeng's self-confidence comes from, although Heizi is right, he still doesn't want to admit it like this.

It's not very frequent, but even if you don't see each other, you will come to say hello.When choosing a residence, I subconsciously chose a place closer to Qingfeng's house, which can be reached by walking, although I have never been there once.

"I've been regretting... I didn't believe Zhe's words and pushed you away. If I believed Zhe's words at that time, I probably wouldn't need you to find Vulcan to prove it, and I wouldn't have caused so many misunderstandings ...In short, it's all my fault." Qingfeng scratched his head and said with a blushing face.

"Did you just apologize now for such a thing?" Heizi also knew that he was starting to make trouble for no reason, because Qingfeng did apologize many times afterwards, but they were all in college.

"Although I realized it at that time, I still couldn't say it." Qingfeng was embarrassed, "I have been regretting it since then... and I don't know how to make you forgive me, so I just let it go. Thinking about it now, It really feels like a 'frog at the bottom of a well'."

[Although the body has been growing, is it still at the level of junior high school internally?And the usage of the frog at the bottom of the well is wrong. 】Heizi couldn't help complaining in his heart.

Looking up at the night sky where there seemed to be some twinkling stars, Qingfeng's tone suddenly sank, and he stopped in his tracks.

"Zhe."

"……exist."

Hearing Qingfeng's voice, Heizi also stopped and turned to look at Qingfeng.

The distance between the two is not far, and they can get close in about one step.You don't need to be too loud to hear the other person's words.Heizi looked at Qingfeng's serious face, and suddenly his heart beat faster.

"I don't know if I can make up for past mistakes by saying this until now, but I still want to tell you. I like Zhe very much, not the kind between friends, but the kind who wants to hug you, wants to The kind that wants to live together forever from now on. In the future life, I think there will be philosophy in my life.”

He stared blankly at Qingfeng, didn't even notice that the bag and the melted popsicle fell from his hand to the ground, just stared blankly at the man in front of him who had hurt him but loved him deeply.

"Let's get married."

In that earnestness, Heizi couldn't find the slightest element of joking.

"Then, please give me your advice, Aomine-kun."

Is this what happiness feels like?

"Ah, of course." A strong arm wrapped Heizi into his arms, tightly hugging the person who was going to spend his whole life together, "Then, let's move to Zhe's house tonight."

"Eh?"

Before he could react, Qingfeng picked up the bag that Heizi dropped on the ground, took Heizi's hand and walked towards Heizi's house.

"It happens to be a day off tomorrow, and the kindergarten is also closed on Saturdays, so I have to make up for the things I haven't done in the past few years. It just so happens that Zhe's home is also close, so I just move there."

"Do you know where my home is?" Heizi watched in surprise as Qingfeng walked down to the apartment where he lived with incomparable accuracy.

"Nonsense, how could you not know. You knew it from the first day you moved here." Qingfeng said, but his face seemed to be burning, and he held Heizi's hand a little tighter.

He took out the key to open the door, almost couldn't wait to close the door, and pressed Heizi against the wall, frantically kissing the lips that he had missed for several years.

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The next day, when Heizi opened his eyes, it was already afternoon.

He didn't seem to have counted how many times he did it last night, but now his back hurts badly.

Thinking back on everything that happened yesterday, I always feel as if it was taken for granted...

"Mr. Qingfeng, there is something wrong with what you said yesterday. In fact, you must have thought about it a long time ago." Nestled in Qingfeng's arms, Heizi finally expressed his guess.

"Yes." Qingfeng didn't deny it at all.

"It's so..." Before he could say anything, Qingfeng kissed him directly, blocking his words.

"In any case, now you are mine, and I will never let you go."