[Comprehensive] The eldest lady of the famous family

Mao really carefully calculated at home if there was anything missing—for Akashi’s birthday party, she began to spend her mind and calculations early on. It can be done in a while.

Therefore, Mao really worried about Akashi's birthday.

Losing money is second.

For things that boys might like, Mao did not hesitate to ask for foreign aid: Huan Suo and Atobu bear the brunt.

Unsurprisingly, both of them showed varying degrees of dissatisfaction.

Ring: "Mao, you have never bothered so much about my birthday! No! Yes!"

Atobe: "Tsk tsk, it's true that the person's elbow turned out before he went out."

Mao had no choice but to appease everyone, and then plunged headlong into the enthusiasm of "preparing gifts for Masamune".

Akashi originally had something to deal with at NO.20. After Mao said that, he compressed it or pushed it to a later date, ensuring that NO.20 was almost completely free from afternoon to night.

As a result, when things came to an end, Mao became nervous first.

"Zhengjun! No matter how well I prepared or not, you can't say no!"

"Ah! No way, I'm so nervous!"

"Even if you say you will like it, I can't comfort myself! I want you to really like it... Ah Zhengjun, you don't understand my heart!"

In the end, even the words "do not understand my heart" were said by her, Akashi had no idea why Mao was so nervous.

Seven o'clock at night.

Akashi receives a message from Mao.

——He thought that the birthday would be two people together, but Maou told him early to wait for the news, but she didn't show up.

[Zhengjun!First stop, please come here! ]

After seeing the address attached to the message, Akashi was slightly taken aback: This is the kindergarten he used to attend.

With some speculation in his heart, Akashi took a step, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his lips unconsciously.

Before it really started, he was already touched.

The kindergarten that Akashi attended was not far from Akashi Honju. It was chosen by his mother when he was still alive. The elementary school was also not aristocratic or elite.Perhaps because of this, Akashi Masomi, as his father, did not interfere too much in the choice of middle school, which greatly meant to let Akashi play it by himself.

Arrived at the destination in a short time.

Akashi hadn't seen Mao's figure yet, he was hesitating whether to make a call, when the dark main entrance of the school suddenly lit up with a soft light.

Extending all the way from the door, Akashi used the light to see that there was actually a carpet on the ground, which was probably sprinkled with fluorescent powder or something, kind of...well, the feeling of the road of stars.

Akashi also saw the sign on the side:

[Please embark on your glorious journey. ]

Journey of glory?

The smile on the corner of Akashi's lips couldn't be suppressed, so he could only shake his head, to slightly express the soft feeling in his heart that cannot be expressed in words.

Walking to the teaching building, the lights gradually brightened, and the preparers were really careful, avoiding the possibility of poor transition and dazzling people's eyes in the dark.

The brightest is the picture projected on the teaching building.

It was an animation, and Akashi recognized that the main character was himself with almost no effort to make out.

From enrollment to class, he has won all the awards that kindergarten can win, and the final quiz is also a perfect score.

But these are not the point.

In the picture, besides those in Akashi's memory, there is one more person.

It's Mao.

The smooth blond hair is not as long as it is now, with twin ponytails, and the sea blue eyes are big and lively.

In the picture, Mao and Akashi became good friends. On the first day of school, the two met quickly. Mao handed him a candy, so the two little guys knew each other.

Due to the presence of Mao, in addition to Akashi's own experience, there are many things that have become different due to Mao's participation.

For example, she is a picky eater and will push all the things she doesn't like to Akashi. Akashi in the picture is planted in astonishment. He will react quickly when he waits for the next time, but he can't bear to see Mao's tearful request, and finally Had to compromise and eat double servings.

[It's all to give you more nutrition, Zhengjun! ]

The little Mao in the picture spoke so eloquently.

As if he had really done a great good deed, his expressions were very lively and righteous.

(It turned out that she was like this when she was a child.)

Akashi suddenly had an inexplicable subtle feeling - if he and Mao had stayed together since childhood, everything might have been different.

The final scene was fixed at the scene where Akashi got a full score, and the little Mao who was beside him held the handle of the ribbon with one hand, and the ribbons fell down one after another, smiling so much that his eyes turned into crescent moons.

At the end, a line of large characters appeared.

[Zhengjun, please continue to go down. ]

I guessed right, the next stop was the elementary school where Akashi attended.

This time, the door was not completely dark.

Every time Akashi walks about five meters, someone will give him a flower, which is not a repeated flower, and the variety is second, and the color is quite particular.It just so happened that Akashi learned about flower arrangement from his mother for a few days, and after a little tidying up, he understood: the implication is "unrivaled glory".

Akashi just remembered.

This time at the end of the road, what he saw was not an animation, but a real video tape.

In the clip recorded when Mao was in elementary school, the immature girl turned her face to the camera, blinking her ocean-like eyes: "I'm in elementary school now."

As if being forced to say these words, the little girl showed some old-fashioned helplessness: "...Okay, mom."

She wrinkled her nose, her big eyes shone brightly: "My brother is in the next class, it will be too late if mom doesn't take pictures."

Then another female voice appeared on the screen: "I have already asked the housekeeper to take a small scene."

"Brother who is so eccentric will cry."

"Then I can't make Xiaozhen cry."

The little girl puffed her cheeks rather gloomily.

The screen turned to the other side.

It's a videotape of Akashi's freshman speech.

Akashi remembered that it was recorded by his mother.

She is looking forward to her enrollment, and every time, she gently prepares what he needs.Mother has always been gentle and demure, and doesn't move around much.

In the same period of time, two completely different scenes appeared on both sides.

The turning point begins in fifth grade.

Mother died.

Akashi was absent from school for several days.

The picture changed to an animation again. Little Mao on the screen heard the news of her mother, and silently went to the room to pack things. The servants who should bring them were all tidying up, but she hesitated, picking up a box of candy for a while, and picking up the candy for a while. A bouquet of flowers.

——She was hesitating what gift to bring to comfort herself.

Akashi saw it.

Randomly, she fell ill, and before boarding the plane, Chisa Atobe hesitated whether to keep her in England: Xiaojing was still here anyway.

"...Go." Mao's expression was weak, and his tone was weak, "I'm fine, Mom."

Akashi can only roughly recall and speculate that Mao was sick when he came to the funeral, but he didn't expect Mao's insistence behind it.

Then there is the road to the middle school.

It can be seen that Mao is interested in love, and there are no outsiders who shouldn't be there.

This time, Akashi's journey from the gate to the destination was one gift after another.

No more, no less, exactly thirteen—the previous thirteen years of his life.

Akashi didn't bend down to pick up a copy, and a piano tune sounded beside him.

Love in Atlantis

Atlantis, Plato's Utopia.

The beauty that exists in the imagination is actually impossible to pursue.

Just like Akashi walked all the way, but in reality he didn't go through that part of life with Mao.

When he finished all the presents and reached the end of the journey.

Akashi saw Mao.

The girl was wrapped in warm winter clothes, and the white fluffy scarf around her neck made her whole face smaller, and even a little bit of redness could be clearly seen.

In front of her is a cake trolley, on which there are lifelike flower petals made of fruit as the bottom layer and dotted with chocolate. dialog:

[My birthday, my oldest. ]

Unprepared, Akashi let out a laugh.

"Zhengjun—"

Mao finally took out the left hand behind his back. It turned out to be a spray-painted ribbon: I saw it in the first animation.

"Happy birthday!"

Reflecting the warm-colored lights, gorgeous colors bloomed in patchwork colors between the two of them.

Kindergarten, elementary school, middle school.

Love of Atlantis for piano.

Up to now, Mao has taken the initiative to restore the scenes that appeared in the animation.

Akashi finally knew what she was calculating.

In order to describe those things that didn't exist, try to warm his memories, but don't let him be overly immersed in the regret that he couldn't realize it.Mao showed with practical actions: she will accomplish all those things one by one.

——It’s more than just well-intentioned.

From imaginary perfection to reality.

Akashi even felt that the loneliness and emptiness of his past had been healed.

"Zhengjun!"

Mao lit the candle with one hand, his cautious and expectant eyes reflected the light of the fire, the beating frequency almost caused Akashi's heart to contract and change the rhythm of beating.

"Come and make a wish."

She was so excited, the excitement in her voice couldn't be concealed.

"……it is good."

An action I haven't done in a long time.

Akashi recalled the scene he had seen before, clasped his hands together, closed his eyes and remained silent for a few seconds.

"You can't say it if you make a wish, or it won't work." Mao whispered in his ear.

After a while, Akashi opened his eyes.

Mao came closer: "Have you finished your wish?"

"Yeah." Akashi immediately turned his gaze to her.

"Don't say it!" Mao hurriedly said, seemingly convinced by the unreasonable rhetoric, she put her hands behind her back, and said in a light tone, "Birthday, blow out the candles."

Akashi obeyed and blew out the candles.

He just made a wish.

Afraid that the protecting gods would not be able to hear clearly, he repeated it three times.

He will win by relying on his own strength.

But even if he could plan and have confidence in this matter, he was afraid that something would go wrong, so he greedily made three wishes.

[May she be by my side every year in the future. ]

He is greedy.

He worries about gains and losses.

He was terrified.

He is strong and calm, but he longs for Mao to never leave.

Wanting to hold her hand despite clearly getting the promise, this feeling has never appeared in Akashi's experience and plans in the past ten years.

"——No. 14 birthday presents, clang clang~"

Mao took out the prepared gift from under the cake trolley, held it up in front of his eyes, and presented it to Akashi.

"I will give you the birthday present in the future."

She promised him again.

Easy to appease.