A long-standing habit will not be easily changed. Even if you think a little bit before agreeing, the thinking is not "whether you want to promise her" but "what she wants to do", and then it evolves into "whatever you want, just agree." , This is an inevitable blind spot of inertial thinking - he has never imagined the possibility of rejection.

Yuji Shinobu stood where he was, his jewel-like dark blue pupils suddenly dimmed.

Unexpectedly, he remembered the scene that coincided with her remaining memories, like what happened yesterday, so clearly that the girl's eyes suddenly turned red, and he smiled reluctantly and said that it was because the contact lens fell off—in fact To this day, he still doesn't understand why such a simple sentence makes her cry, but the unknown pain remains fresh for a long time, and after a long time, it will still appear in her uneasy sleep.

There are still thin beads of sweat in the girl's temples, and the sweat-soaked hair is scattered on both sides of her cheeks. Maybe it's because of the cloudy weather. She has caught a cold recently. She just put her hand on her forehead, and her body temperature is also a little high. Abnormal, it looks like he has experienced a nightmare.

Coming to this conclusion is like hearing someone sneer in the dark night sky, saying that she knew you would be a nightmare for her.

Shinobu shook his head, the hallucinations in his mind made him feel dazed, he didn't answer her like before, but turned his face slightly, met her gaze, and asked seriously, "So... what's the matter? "

She is not the type who is good at disguising, or maybe she is too tired from waking up from the dream. At this moment, the wavering in her eyes is obvious, "...Since you don't know, why did you promise me?"

"Probably because I'm not good at rejecting girls." The boy showed a helpless expression, "Don't look at me like that, I'm trying to change."

Eri still wanted to say something, but there was a commotion in the living room.

She followed the source of the sound and walked a few steps forward, and saw Keigo Atobe woke up at some point, teaching Jiro and Taketo who wanted to play games all night but fell asleep on the sofa accidentally.

The two teenagers hugged the quilt, without any awareness of being reprimanded, they said "I know, I know", and they followed Huadi upstairs as if sleepwalking, feeling very happy. He kept covering his mouth to keep himself from laughing.

However, she still underestimated Keigo Atobe's insight.

The young man looked straight over, perhaps because of the day's events, his gaze paused for a moment, and he didn't turn a blind eye to her as usual.

"..."

"..."

In the silence, it was Eri who couldn't bear his dean's serious expression.

"I didn't play the game," she explained, holding up her glass. "I just came down to get a glass of milk."

There was no light on where she stood, and the cold moonlight poured from the window, dimly sprinkled on her body, perhaps because of the blurred light, she looked much worse than during the day.

The boy's Adam's apple rolled, as if he wanted to say something, but he fell silent in the end.

In Keigo Atobe's life, this was the first time that there was such a moment when there was nothing to say. He was even a little jealous of her ignorance, and he would not think of the past disputes and those hidden behind the disputes at the moment of meeting each other. The intention of missing and missing each other.

But how the past is clamoring and refusing to be quiet, and the relationship between them has long been settled—there is no misunderstanding, no accident that caught people off guard, and no other people's interference. A rift was formed and moved towards irreparable ends.

"..."

The atmosphere had been stiff for too long, Eri put down the glass, she was looking forward to someone who could come out at this time to relieve the frozen atmosphere, but looking sideways, Yuji Ninata had disappeared without a trace.

Really disrespectful.

She silently reprimanded her friend, and looked back at Keigo Atobe's icy face, even if she claimed to be eloquent, she didn't know what to say to him.

She doesn't have those memories, no matter how angry and brooding he is about this matter, Eri can't empathize with his feelings, let alone respond to his feelings.

Because the girl who likes Keigo Atobe has been away for a long time.

They looked at each other in silence, and it was she who finally looked away first, sighing and saying "I'm sorry."

——She threw this impossible mess to Keigo Atobe, but she was not bothered. Comparing the two sides, she couldn't think of any reason for Atobe to forgive her.But she is not an evasive character, even if she has to say countless words of sorry in the future without getting a response, she will always face this choice directly.

From the corner of the eye, the boy seemed to sneer silently.

In the end, he didn't say a single word to Eri, and in the extremely suppressed silence, he turned and returned to the room.

With the sound of the door being gently locked, Eri slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

She poured the cold milk into the kitchen sink and turned on the tap to clean the glass.While she was doing all this, Yuji Shinozu just leaned against the door frame silently.

"Yushi, why did you hide just now?"

Putting the glass back in its original place, she finally settled her mood. There were only the two of them left on the first floor. When they spoke, they could even hear the lonely echo of questions falling in the night.

【…

I can't remember the content of that movie clearly. For a person with a superb memory like Renzu, the only explanation is that he didn't pay attention to the pictures on the screen at all during the entire two-hour screening time.

I noticed it when I was seated at the beginning. The girls in the front row happened to be classmates, and they seemed to have noticed him. Occasionally, they glanced sideways during the movie breaks, as if they were very curious.

Eri next to her is wearing a hood. She has never been interested in this kind of love movie. If she hadn't been able to bear the favor, she probably wouldn't have stepped into the theater for it. The soft music and the lengthy dialogue between the hero and heroine quickly made her faint. Drowsy, she was propping her chin with one hand at this time, the black hair on both sides was hanging down to block her expression, but she could imagine her appearance of suppressing sleepiness.

He was a little worried that she would really be unable to hold on and collapse, but during the next two hours of watching the movie, she managed to maintain her sobriety precariously.

Therefore, when the movie was over, there were sobbing sounds from girls who were delicate and thoughtful, but Yushi Ninzu gave a chuckle.

Eri, who had been distracted throughout the whole movie, suddenly woke up and raised her head, just in time to meet the boy's dark blue eyes with a gentle smile. She froze for a moment, and asked curiously, "Is it a good ending?"

"Well, isn't it." He replied boldly amidst the unbelievable stares of his neighbors.

The white lights of the theater gradually came on.

The classmate in the front seat waved at Shinobu, and was about to walk this way, but he looked away calmly, and said to Eri, "You go out first."

Eri didn't see what happened behind her, she stood up, "Okay, I'll wait for you outside."

"Huh? Is it Ninzu-kun's girlfriend?" When the girls walked up to him, they saw a somewhat familiar figure walking down the steps against the light.

"No."

After exchanging pleasantries with the classmates I met by chance, we parted ways, and found Eri at the ice cream shop next to the theater.

It was already the middle of winter, and her fingertips were red from the cold, but she still refused to let go of her favorite dessert—in some respects, her stubbornness and willfulness reached the point of unreasonable.

He clasped her palm in his hand, and his fingertips felt icy cold.

"how--"

He didn't say his responsibility, but was interrupted by the girl, "Just now, why did you let me leave first?"

Turns out she wasn't unaware.

Someone sighed in his heart, but on the surface he couldn't be more gentle, slowly stroking her fingertips, "...I just think it's better not to let them see."

The feelings that grow secretly in a place where no one can see, finally have no chance to show in front of others.

It's more like a prudent approach than fear - Ninja Yuuji is always very considerate, and it's not uncommon for him, Eri, and even bystanders to leave a retreat.

Eri lowered her eyes and looked at the fingertips of the two of them. She still felt very cold, but she used to think that Ninjutsu could bring warmth. In fact, it was she who contaminated his life with this irreversible cold. .

but--

"No matter what you think in your heart," the neon light flashed across her eyebrows and eyes for a moment, outlining a touching and soft meaning, "I think this relationship should not be discovered by anyone, or let someone down, hurt someone..." She tightened her fingertips, as if grabbing a piece of driftwood in the ocean, "Yushi, I have a clear conscience to come to this point."

A hint of surprise flashed across the dark blue pupils under the lens.

Ren Zu didn't know if she had noticed something before she said such a thing.But the feeling of being hit in the heart for a moment made the sense of loss of control stronger than ever, and he frowned because he rejected this strange feeling.

--What do you know?

——It is precisely because you do not understand anything that you are in this situation.

Many voices that did not belong to me emerged in my mind, repeated over and over again ironically and darkly, so noisy that it was annoying, but I couldn't refute it rationally.

"Yushi?" Because of his silence, Eri was a little uneasy, tentatively pronouncing the boy's name.

Responding to her in a low voice.

The street band in the distance suddenly turned up the volume. She only saw his lips open and close, but couldn't hear the content clearly. She asked blankly, "...What did you say?"

"I said—" There was a pale smile on the young man's lips that didn't reach his eyes, at that moment all the voices faded like the tide, and the whole world was silent only his answer: "I have."]

The wind after the rain carries the sweet aroma of green grass, spreading silently in the quiet air.

For a moment, he mistakenly thought that her back was trembling slightly, but what was really shaken might be his own eyes that were staring at that figure.

Unexpected thoughts that are seen through, thoughts that can be easily guessed... When she faces herself, she is always more comfortable than facing other people.

"There is something I've always wanted to ask you." Because there was no response for a long time, Eri turned around and stared at him deeply, "Yushi, who are you?"

【"—Is that Shinobu's girlfriend?"

"No."

The girl next to her showed disbelief.

"Huh? But I can't tell you're the type to watch movies with girls. 'Human beings are in trouble.' Is that what Ninzu Yuji would say?"

"It's really troublesome." He shook his head, distressed half-truthfully, "Who made me insist on falling in love with her unrequitedly."]

"...Of course I'm your friend." Under her aggressive gaze, the young man still maintained his gentleness. He lowered his head and pondered for a while, with an inexplicable smile at the end of his voice, and it was clear in an instant whether he was close or distant, " ...But Xiaojing looks in a bad mood, and I'm not you, if I don't hide, I will definitely be scolded by him."

He didn't seem to notice Eri's mood, and said in a joking tone, "You will understand me, right?"

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Eri: OK, let me go. I wish you and Keigo Atobe happiness.

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