Jenai is tired after a week

——What a head-scratcher.

Zenai thought in distress.

If it was "Zhengkun", there would be no psychological pressure to bully him, but if it was the original Akashi-kun...

The gentle, restrained Akashi, with his friendly appearance, is always more able to arouse the hearts of girls.

Almost made her change her mind.

Hmm... almost.

People often feel what they really want when they toss a coin, watch it tumble and fall, and feel nervous.

like now.

Faced with Akashi's "accusation", Zenai naturally also remembered the unbearable one-week strategy.

Of course she couldn't answer, bowed her head and knelt, hiding her face behind her knees.

It's as if by shrinking into a ball, you can separate yourself from the Shura field.Akashi watched, but his expression softened, he felt a little amused, and sighed.

"...don't you want to say it?"

For a moment, he couldn't judge what Zenai was thinking about the other Akashi—it seemed that he was a bit resistant, and he was still a little worried. He took two steps up, but was blocked by Vulcan.

Vulcan naturally also noticed his change, but he was still very alert to the hostility shown by Akashi before, and looked at him quietly without making a sound.

Akashi had no choice but to stop, and the atmosphere became stalemate again.

Across a railing, Alex looked at them, helped the slid red frame, coughed lightly, and finally asked the doubts in his heart: "When was the last time? ——Little Zhenai, you, You were with him... er, dumped him?"

She seemed to understand something, showing an expression of shock to admiration, and suddenly looked at the young Japanese with admiration.

Zenai: "..."

Before she could explain, two other voices sounded at the same time: "How is it possible!"

Vulcan thought to himself, how could she be the kind of person who played with other people's feelings.

"—So it's Akashi-chan?"

They turned away again.

Kise's eyes also changed, while looking at Akashi, he pulled the muscles at the corners of his lips a little stiffly, as if trying to squeeze out a smile, but failed.

He thought heartbrokenly, it turns out that the lovelorn she mentioned earlier was Akashi.

... He was indeed one step too late.

Vulcan: "..."

Now he couldn't understand what was going on more and more, so he simply didn't think about it so much, and scratched his hair, almost ruining the hairstyle he had done with styling water before, and didn't really care.

He looked down at Zenai, hesitantly said: "Don't sit here, you'll catch a cold."

Although it was summer, the air-conditioning in the banquet hall was very strong, the floor tiles were covered with a layer of chill, and the material of the dress was light and thin, which could not block anything at all.

Huddling herself into a ball like she is now, I don't know if it's to escape reality, or to keep warm...or both.

Looking at Vulcan's outstretched hand, Zenai took a half-beat to put his hand up, and was held by him, pulling him up from the ground.

As soon as he let go of his hand, Zenai turned and walked forward, walked across the room calmly, picked up the tray that Kise brought, turned back, looked at them, raised his chin slightly .

A posture of running away with money.

"Can I take this with me?" she asked politely.

It was only then that Huang Lai realized that she was talking to him, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately said: "I brought it to you...Of course..."

Before saying "yes", he thought, however, that the source of the buffet supply tonight should be—

Kise's voice stopped, but instead of looking at Akashi, he lowered his head again, looking mournful.

"I said, I won't force you. Since you don't like it, there's no point in staying." Akashi said, his expression calmed down, and he looked at Kagami. "Let's go."

……

When passing through the woods, none of the three of them spoke immediately. They could only hear the crackling sound of the lantern being blown by the wind and rubbing against the branches.

Alex, who was walking in the middle, slowed down, concentrating on something, and finally said: "I can't go back."

Zenai and Vulcan were both taken aback, looking at her.

"I'm thinking, what did you and Akashi just say..." Alex turned to Zenai thoughtfully, "What do you mean? Is there something between you that we don't know about?"

She shook her head.

"It's just that there was a misunderstanding before." She glanced at Vulcan and quickly explained, "We haven't dated... Or, we haven't had time yet."

As for game bugs, this is of course not her and Akashi's problem.

Now calm down and think about it, what happened so suddenly, Zenai didn't think it through carefully just now.Whether it is Akashi, or the presence of Vulcan, Kise, or other people who are not present, they all belong to the original part of the game, and it is impossible to control the game in turn.

That's why she guessed that it was because the direction of the game's development exceeded the range set in the program, which caused the system to fail to operate, and it was impossible to provide an operation for her to log out.

But in this way, something is wrong.

If such a serious bug is encountered in the internal test of the game, it will definitely be repaired as soon as possible. Even if it is not repaired, her system should be restored first to stabilize the player's emotions.

There is another problem.

As part of the game, they should not and cannot realize that this is a "game world", and the corresponding problems should also be automatically blocked for them.Just like the last time, when she accidentally disconnected, the artificial intelligence used to cover up temporarily replaced her identity. It was obviously full of mistakes, but it didn't make the other two suspect.

But Akashi felt it.

Wait, when the system advised her to quit, it seemed that she still had the personality of "Saikun"... Zenai stopped in her tracks, closed her eyes, and recalled the change in Akashi's expression at that time.

She was a little confused, with a puzzled look on her face.

"Heizi?" Vulcan was about to speak when Alex grabbed his arm and shook his head at him.

Zenai quickly opened his eyes again, looking at the two pairs of concerned eyes.

She became more and more confused.

Is this really a virtual world?Why do they... all seem so real.

Outside the gymnasium, Vulcan circled outside the door of the lounge, wondering how long the "makeup touch-up" that Alex said would last, and looked at Zenai.

She squatted on the bench next to her, holding her chin, and concentrated on watching the lights flowing in the distance.

The empty tray was placed at the other end - Zenai's appetite was of course not so good, most of the meals that Kise carefully selected were settled by Alex and Kagami.

He pondered for a moment and asked, "Aren't you planning to go back to the dormitory?"

As soon as he asked the question, he thought of the sentence "I can't go back" that Alex had just thought out of his head, and his heart skipped a beat. He couldn't mean that because Zenai rejected Akashi, he would be kicked out by Teiko Come out?

Thinking of this, Vulcan's expression was slightly shaken, and Zenai immediately noticed it and glanced at him.

"How is it possible, Vulcan-kun is thinking too much." She said calmly, "If Akashi-kun is really angry, you should let me return the clothes first, right?"

"……what."

After a second thought, Vulcan was right.Looking down again, Zenai wrapped his arms around his legs, his body leaned forward slightly, swaying, his hair was scattered on his shoulders, looking down from his angle, he could clearly see a piece of whiteness exposed from the back of the dress, and quickly Move your eyes away.

If Akashi had said something like this just now... he would have become a blatant hooligan.

He was gentle after all—and, likewise, very proud.

"He seems to be different." Vulcan recalled, while carefully looking at Zenai out of the corner of his eye. "For a moment, I thought he was going to punch me."

Is it his delusion?

Zhe Nai also raised his head with a serious expression.

If it was "Zheng Jun", she would believe it was offensive, but...

"No." Facing Vulcan, she still wanted to save Akashi's image, "Akashi-kun never does things that are not sure."

"Ah?" Vulcan didn't react immediately, "What are you sure about?"

Zhe Nai raised his head, looked up, blinked his eyes, and reminded him with the difference in height and body shape between the two: "Of course, we must first consider whether we can beat each other."

"..."

"Vulcan-kun has a sense of security!" she added appreciatively.

The original atmosphere was completely destroyed by her few words, Vulcan was in a complicated mood, he hesitated to speak: "Thank you so much."

He looked at the door of the unmoving lounge, then bent down and sat down.

Zhe Nai moved to the side, giving him enough space.

"Then now..." Vulcan hesitated.

"However, it is indeed inconvenient for me to go back to the school dormitory." She nodded, and continued the topic just now, "Although it was my own wish, but anyway, I am really sorry for Akashi-kun , if he guessed right, he probably doesn't want to see me now either."

"...Then isn't this the meaning of driving you out of Diguang?"

"No, it's not the same." Zhenai corrected, "This is what I mean by leaving voluntarily."

Vulcan said: "Okay. But your clothes are still in the dormitory...won't you change them back?"

Zenai stared at him for a moment.

Vulcan was slightly uncomfortable and turned his neck: "Well, what's wrong?"

"Didn't you say it looks good?"

"...Yes." He nodded slowly, "But it was given to you by Akashi, right?"

"If you return it, it's a 'borrow'." Zhe Nai said.

Vulcan didn't want to haggle over words with her, and said: "And it doesn't keep warm, so it's not suitable to leave school dressed like this?"

Makes sense, but...

Zhe Nai stared deeply into his eyes, and suddenly sighed: "Okay, I see, you must have never talked about a girlfriend."

"...Hey, hey." Vulcan protested, "Why did the life attack suddenly start?"

"It's just stating the facts, is it considered an attack?"

"Your tone is clear!"

Alex curled his index finger and tapped twice on the wall next to him.

"Hello," she cleared her throat, the corners of her lips curled up slightly, "is the size of the shoes still suitable?"

Zenai quickly dropped Vulcan, stood up, and answered kindly: "Yes, thank you very much."

"you are welcome."

Alex stretched out his hand and put it on her shoulder, his voice was extremely kind and soft: "Although I don't know what happened before, but no matter what time it is, 'now' is more important... I lent you the shoes, I will also lend you the little tiger."

Zenai nodded blankly.

Then, she suddenly understood what she said, and her cheeks turned slightly red.

Vulcan was standing up, also stunned.It was really strange to see her blushing. He looked at Alex suspiciously and raised his eyebrows as a question.

What are you talking about?

Alex didn't say anything, put on a coat over the dress, walked out calmly, and said with a wave of his hand.

"I'm going to find Chen Ye, don't worry about me."

Vulcan looked at her leaving back, judging from the direction, it should be returning to the place where the dance was, to save Mr. Himuro who had no partner.

At this time, he thought of something belatedly, quickly unbuttoned his jacket, and handed it back.

Zhe Nai has never said that she is cold, but her lip color is more transparent than usual, which occasionally gives people an illusion—as if it will disappear in the next second, when the sun rises, and in the story like a mermaid into a bubble.

He thought that perhaps Akashi's worry was not without reason.Sometimes, Zhenai gave them the feeling that they really didn't look like people from this world.She is always in a daze, using an independent attitude to "observe human beings" daily, too calm and too lacking in emotion.

The only thing that can be felt is her love for basketball, which makes her real, close at hand and within reach.

No, it's not the only emotion either...

Vulcan looked at her.

"Then what about us... now?"

Zenai pressed her hand to her cheek, letting the coolness of her fingertips cover the rising temperature.

Then she put down her hand and looked at Vulcan calmly: "Actually, I'm already an adult."

"……what?"

"So, things like staying outside... It's also completely possible."

The author has something to say: boo.

(If you have read the Longma chapter, you will understand everything, um...)