[Ultraman] Atypical exchanges

18.

After the hug, Max said a few more words to Cynthia before reluctantly saying goodbye.

When he walked to the door, he bumped into the expressionless Jeno, showing a rather surprised expression, as if he didn't expect him to be here.And when he saw the brutally destroyed bare board in the opponent's hand, the fastest and strongest suddenly realized, nodded to Jeno, thinking he knew the reason why he came to Cynthia.

"Come to repair the screen?" Max patted him on the shoulder with a simple face: "Don't worry, Cynthia is very good at this."

And Jeno: ...

What a bragging speech.

Does my dating partner have half a dime relationship with you! !

Leaving the battlefield seemed to have lost those sharp acumen. Max didn't notice Jeno's instantly terrified expression, and left after saying hello.Only the Ultra soldier was left standing at the door, his bare hand twitched a few times before he finally endured some sudden impulse, took a deep breath, pretended to calmly open the door and walked in.

Basically, Geno is sure that he is trying to control the expression on his face, but judging by the results, it may not be so successful.As soon as Max was sent away, he saw his neighbor walking in. Cynthia greeted him with a little surprise, but stopped at an arm's length away from him, with a little bit of bewilderment in his eyes.

"Who messed with you?" she asked.

"..."

Jie Nuo didn't answer, but he didn't deny it either, he just stood there and stared at her fiercely.And Cynthia was panicked by him, and couldn't help but glance around, and then found that a piece of bare board was missing in his hand, and he was still struggling to smoke, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is it because you accidentally broke this?"

She smiled, took the wreckage from Jeno's hand, turned around and went back to the laboratory: "It's okay, I can finish it in 10 minutes."

"..."

This sentence is so similar to Max's, Jeno almost couldn't hold back his deeds.He stood where he was, looking at the back of the person he was dating to look for tools, he hesitated many times, if it wasn't for the last sliver of rationality reminding himself that Cynthia also has the right to make friends, he shouldn't care about it, Jeno is afraid He had already gone up and grabbed the other party's shoulder to ask for an explanation.

"All right."

The hairy little problem of the polishing board is not worth mentioning to the elite researchers of the Science and Technology Bureau, and Cynthia obviously belongs to this category.It only took less than half of the estimated time to export the data, and she stuffed the brand-new device back into Jeno's hands as if by magic, with a calm expression as if she just tightened a screw casually.

"……thanks."

Although that was not the intention, it was obviously not a polite thing to hand over the broken wreckage to the recipient, so the gratitude in Jeno's tone was indeed sincere.He looked at Cynthia and nodded, and after turning back to the experiment table, he felt a little better.Anyway, there is always some social relationship between people, it’s just that his partner and his work partner know each other, it’s not a big deal, and Ultraman quickly convinced himself that there is no need to think too much , so as not to make Cynthia feel that he is too small.

"Are you free tonight?"

After seeing the busy figure of the other party for a while, Jeno smiled slightly, with a bit of pleading in his tone: "You haven't been back for a long time."

The time we can be together seems so short anyway.A few months ago, Jie Nuo could never have imagined that one day he would be so attached to a person, that he would think about her day and night when he couldn't see her, and taste all the sourness and sweetness brought by longing. There was such an intoxicating wave in his chest.

He felt that Cynthia should have the same idea as him.

Because the researcher of the Red Race raised his head, thought for a while, and obviously agreed.However, before she really nodded under Jeno's gaze, the communicator on the table suddenly rang, and a message came in.

Cynthia froze for a moment, took a look at it, and then showed an apologetic look towards her date.

"I'm sorry, maybe not tonight," she said. "I have to get together with Max... oh, you should know the one who just came out of my lab."

Jeno: ...

OK, fist hard.

19.

The Ultra fighters threw the bare board to Hikari, and then forced Cynthia to get off work in the Science and Technology Bureau.

He followed his neighbor with a solemn expression, as if someone owed his family 800 million light coins. Even the great scientist who always liked to read gossip poked his head out from a distance, and then immediately retracted, let alone other people , almost all of them were walking around them, just leaving a vacuum in the busy street.

And as the unlucky ghost closest to him, Cynthia was also persecuted by the low air pressure around him, and felt extremely uncomfortable.But the problem was that Jie Nuo refused to say why he was angry, but kept a straight face, as if the place he was about to go to was not a café with a relaxed atmosphere, but a battlefield where he was close to death.

"...You know, if you really don't want to, you don't have to come."

After thinking hard for a while, I can only attribute this to the outbreak of social terror.Cynthia thought about her usual reaction when facing unfamiliar colleagues, and soon (thought she) understood why the other party was so tense: "Why don't you go home and wait for me first, and I will try to go back as soon as possible?"

"Do not."

Jeno shook his head resolutely, and glanced at Max who was already sitting in the reserved seat through the window in front of him. Now there is only one question he wants to ask:

"How far is it from the Silver Cross, and how many injuries will it take to be sent there before dying?"

Cynthia: "...??"

20.

All in all, the current atmosphere between them is like visiting a grave.

The moment he saw Jeno and Cynthia walk in the door together, he froze in place. Obviously, he didn't expect that there would be one more person. Still can't handle the current situation.

And Jeno wasn't polite at all, he just sat across from him, as if he wasn't the uninvited guest.The two planetary observers looked at each other silently for a while, and finally turned their heads to look at Cynthia who was still standing at the same time, like two robots waiting for instructions, each stiffer than the other.

Cynthia: "..."

She hesitated for a while, and sat next to Jeno, at the same time feeling that the other party seemed to be quietly relieved.

"Let's order first." She tried to give everyone a chance to breathe: "If you have anything to say, we will talk about it later."

Neither Jeno nor Max had any objections.

Soon, the drinks they asked for were served.Max, who had already been stared at by his partner on the verge of splitting, held back the barrage of bullet screens whizzing past in his heart, glanced at the black coffee in front of Cynthia, held back for a long time, and finally found a fairly normal topic.

"It's so rare," he pretended to sigh calmly: "I remember you used to prefer sweet things."

"The taste will always change." Cynthia smiled: "Now I only drink black coffee because—"

"Because excessive overtime requires an absolutely clear mind, and sugar will relax the mood, it is easy to make mistakes due to trance."

Before she finished speaking, Jeno had already spoken first, and replied without thinking: "Besides, Cynthia didn't like sweets very much before. She never touched cakes with any cream since she was a child."

"...Yes, is that so?"

Max's eyes widened, apparently a little taken aback.And Cynthia was equally stunned, and couldn't help recalling whether she was really like this, and the result seemed to be true.

So how did Jeno know?

The same doubts arose in their hearts at the same time. Max and Cynthia looked at each other and saw the same bewilderment on each other's faces.

However, "Since childhood?"

The fastest and strongest who couldn't keep up with this rhythm uttered a question from the soul, but before the question was finished, the two people on the opposite side who were also in a mess rushed to answer. The voices of the three collided at the same time, and each sentence With an extremely huge amount of information——

Max: "Jeno, have you known my sister so early?"

Cynthia: "You don't know that Jeno and I are neighbors?"

Jeno: "That's why Cynthia is my date. You have no chance."

"........."

Unbearable silence and embarrassment suddenly filled between them.

After a long while, they stood up almost at the same time, looking at another person who was not involved in the conversation with each other just now, with expressions as if they had been betrayed.

Jeno: "You actually have a younger brother?"

Cynthia: "You don't know that I have a younger brother?"

Max: "So my partner is my brother-in-law and the clown is me?!"