On the other side, Eri looked at Akashi Seijuro who had just walked in and the middle-aged man beside him for a while, then nodded calmly, "...Uncle."

"En." The man replied, with a calm expression on his face. He could see that she hadn't misunderstood the address. He gave a token of concern, "I heard that you were injured a while ago, are you all right now?"

"..." Even caring is too delayed!Eri complained inwardly, but on the surface she was very well-behaved, "It's just a small injury, thank you for your concern."

"Really, since the injury is healed, don't do any more disappointing things." He said something like an elder, as if he was about to speak, the young man next to him entered the conversation without a trace.

"Happy birthday," he glanced at Eri, "nice clothes."

Eri: "..." Although you are saving me, this compliment is a bit casual, isn't it? !

The man seemed to have just remembered the purpose of this banquet, and he didn't continue to teach him any more. He eased the frown between his brows and said, "You children, go and play."

After the elder left, Eri brushed her hair indifferently and thanked Akashi.

"Actually, you don't really care," Akashi said realistically with a gentle expression, "I just don't want to waste time in boring places."

"... Oh." Eri was a little confused by his contrasting appearance.

"Your gift." He didn't seem to notice the girl's surprise, and naturally handed over the exquisitely packaged gift bag in his hand. The logo on it was a silent accusation of the crimes of the bourgeoisie.

Cannibalism is short-mouthed and soft-handed, Eri immediately put aside the sense of disobedience in her mind, and took it with great interest, "...What is it?"

Akashi glanced at her. In his memory, this friend has never felt joy or other emotions about other people's gifts, but this is not what he cares about. "You can open it and have a look."

Regarding the first gift she received tonight, Eri had no sense of politeness at all. After getting permission, she opened the gift box in front of him. She thought there would be something like a necklace or bracelet—— That's how it was sent, but after opening it, I saw a delicate and gorgeous... decoration?

This young man, it is not wrong to be rich, but it is your fault to spend so much money to buy something you can only see but not wear as a gift.

Eri put away the box and asked, "Why roses?"

On the necklace that Renzu gave her, there is also a rose-patterned ornament... Is this a new trend this year?

She thought Akashi would just find an official excuse to answer, something like "good-looking" "suits you" or something, but he didn't even pause for a moment, and said as a matter of course, "You like roses."

"...Huh?" Eri was taken aback for a moment, "Who said that?"

Regarding the fact that someone questioned him, Akashi frowned slightly, "I've known you for a long time."

"So?" Eri couldn't keep up with his topic.

"So," Akashi said, "you like roses."

Eri: "..." His tone was so righteous, it gave her the illusion that if she disagreed with what he said, there must be something wrong with her life.

"...Okay." After a while, Eri was defeated in this invisible confrontation, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." I don't know if it was an illusion, but there was a hint of satisfaction in the boy's indifferent brows.

——Why are you so serious in such a strange place? !

Eri suddenly fell into a state of complaining about incompetence. Fortunately, the twins of Hitachi Court quickly took her away, one on the left and one on the right, because as time went by, more and more people entered the venue, and they didn't want to miss any of them. All the possible candidates are staring at each one carefully, and by the way, explain their previous relationship to Eriko.

"...Wait," Eri rubbed her temples in response to their information-bombing introduction, "Does your introducer have to start with the origin of the family? Can't it be simpler?"

"Oh, it's not impossible." The twins changed their rhetoric graciously, and said very concisely to the next person who came in, "Xu Wanghuan, I was on a blind date with you."

"...cough, cough cough," Eri put down the juice with lingering fear, and protested, "According to what he said, he just had a meal, okay?!"

"Everyone knows what the purpose is, don't pretend to be innocent." Guang dismissed her protest without hesitation, and continued, "Ah, this is also a blind date."

Eri followed his gaze and saw Feng Jingye walking in slowly behind a group of people from the PR department, "..."

"Are you okay? Your expression is complicated." Xin asked thoughtfully.

"It's nothing." Eri looked away from Feng Jingye with concern, with a look of rejoicing for the rest of her life, "I just think that if you survive a catastrophe, you will have blessings."

Gemini: "..."

Eri originally thought they were joking, but she didn't expect that in the introduction of the twins, half of the boys of the same age who came in had a friendship with her... well, had a meal.

It's just -- it's hard to put into words.

"How worried were my parents that I wouldn't be able to get married?" She couldn't help asking.

"Ah, at that time it wasn't because..." Guangshun was about to answer, but suddenly remembered something, he paused and said, "Isn't it because I was idle and bored?"

Eri: "..." Do you think I'm stupid? !

"Tell the truth!!" She stretched out her hand and pulled her bald hair, threatening, "Say it quickly, or I won't let you go."

"Hey, hey!!" Hitachi was caught off guard by the attack, and gasped in pain, "You will suffer retribution for treating your brother like this! ——Okay, it's not something you can't say, just get over it in peace Birthday!! Xin?"

"Happy birthday first," Chang Lu Yuanxin finally restrained her look of watching the show, and separated the two of them. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the person who had just entered the door, "Come on, let's continue to get to know people."

"..."

"..."

"..."

After being silent for a while, Eri looked at the two of them inexplicably, and asked, "What about this one? Why didn't you introduce it?"

"I'm so hungry."/"I want to eat." Gemini replied, pulling Eri away as he spoke unreasonably, "You're hungry too, I think there's something wrong with today's steak .”

"No, I don't think there's any problem with the food brought in by air..." Eri looked back before being dragged away by them. It is necessary to draw a cold light in this lively scene of toasting and intertwining.

"Strange... I thought..." she was muttering in a low voice, when Hitachi-in Kaoru stuffed a piece of snack into her mouth, and the latter said with an expression of 'I'm such a nice person', "From Senior Honey I snatched it from there~ The ones I snatched will be more delicious~"

In the background is Senior Honey's pitch-black face, and Xu Wanghuan's carefully comforting voice.

Eri was biting the macaron, and when she raised her head again, Keigo Atobe had disappeared, and the brief glimpse just now seemed to be just her illusion.

She thought that according to the meaning of the day, Atobe would definitely not come, and a person who defined her as a "liar" probably didn't have a good impression of her.

Taking another ten thousand steps back, although there is no dress code for the banquet, Yinglan and Akashi are all in formal attire. She thinks Keigo Atobe's character of spending money like water, no matter what, he will use his clothes to show what is "expensive" It's scary', but he was actually only wearing the Hyotei school uniform, not even a tie, and walked in casually as if he was going back to the back garden of his home - even Huadi behind him was wearing a formal suit.

Really, too fantastical.

Looking at the banquet where you don't know a few people, it's really boring, even if the protagonist is herself, she can't avoid it. After several months of greeting each other with a group of people, Eri sneaked out from the side door while the twins of Hitachi-in were not paying attention. Run downstairs to catch your breath.

When she was holding the iPad and playing cutting fruit, there was a figure standing in front of her.

Eri raised her head, she was so surprised that she didn't even remember to pause the game, and heard the sound of the fruit going unimpeded and then GameOver.

"...Young man," she looked at the well-groomed person in front of her, and asked a question, "You have escaped from prison so many times, hasn't your hospital listed you as a key care object?"

"Yeah," Yukimura casually raised his wrist, straightened his cuffs, and said following her words, "It can be seen that being handsome still has its advantages."

Eri: "..."

She did mention the banquet to Yukimura. He was not interested at all, but when he heard her invitation list, he sent a suspicious response, similar to "You are so brave" and "I will go when I have time." Take a look" and other inexplicable comments, so Eri also specially reminded the front desk that if you see a suspicious person with good looks, you can let them go without an invitation.

The sister at the front desk said, "What the hell, you rich people have no integrity! Hey!" ! ' agreed to come down.

"What are you thinking?" Yukimura knocked her on the head condescendingly, "This time I went through the formal process, and I'm not going to sneak out to attend someone else's birthday party."

"Oh..." Eri responded, and realized belatedly, "So, has your condition improved?"

Yukimura nodded politely.

"That's really great." Eri was sincerely happy for him.

……

Tezuka stood at the door for a while, watching the girl's smile quietly, feeling a strange emotion in his heart.

In my impression, she seldom shows this expression in front of her, probably because... she is really a bit boring, even if she never said it, but from the reactions of the people around her, it can be known that he has not been easy to get along with Because of his personality in getting along with people, the juniors in the student union even commented on him as "unhuman" in private.

But when she faced herself, her expression was not like this.

Her expression at that time really impressed him, her eyes were covered with a thin layer of mist, she seemed a little troubled and uncomfortable, and subconsciously wanted to avoid it, as if she would be stinged by something after touching her for a while.

Although I don't know the reason, but the fact that his existence would bring her pain—on the surface, he didn't say anything, but in fact he really minded—

What has he ever done?Inadvertently hurt her?Only then, two years later, now that she has lost her memory, she is still overly sensitive to her touch, repelling and panicking.

Really mind.

Before this, Tezuka originally thought that he really wanted to know the reason, but when he saw her smiling at others, he suddenly realized that he was not so persistent in the answer. Instead of pursuing this, another thought in his mind firmly gained the upper hand.

Not jealousy or anger, but sincerely thinking... If he couldn't make her laugh, at least he couldn't make her look that way.

...that expression of being so sad that she couldn't restrain herself and could cry at any time.

He let go of his clenched fist, and there was still a fresh wound on his palm that he could not control his strength. Finally, he glanced at the girl who was separated by a door, and tried his best to restrain himself from moving forward.Just as he was about to turn around and leave, a lazy voice came from beside him. His distinctive Kansai accent made it easy to know who it was without looking back.

"Aren't you going in?" Ninaku Yushi asked with a smile, as if he didn't mind the impolite silence of the other party at all, and his tone was clear with some insight, "It turns out that Tezuka-kun also hesitated sometimes."

"Cut," the youthful clear voice came from beside him, and the Yue Ren next to him quickly dismantled the stage, "I'm ashamed to say others, didn't you dawdle for a long time when you went out by yourself?"

Shrugging his shoulders, he retorted nonchalantly, "It's not me who chose the tie for a long time."

"..."

Just when the strange silence fell, a tall figure walked in from the middle of the main entrance. He seemed to realize something was wrong when he walked halfway, and stopped in front of both parties.

"Huh?" Feng Chotaro asked curiously with a confused look on his face, "What are all the seniors doing standing here?"

The author has something to say:

Seniors are hurting each other (...

The player Chotaro took the opportunity to use the AOE skill to complete a triple kill

Come talk to me, friends (⊙ε⊙)

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