[Comprehensive] I could have HE!

Originally it was just a mild cold, but because of the continuous rain, it dragged on for many days and did not heal.

Eri put on a mask and walked through the corridor between classes with a sleepy expression. The voices of conversations on both sides were subdued unconsciously after she passed by with a low pressure on her body. When she walked out of the corridor, there was silence behind her.

Thanks to the bad state brought about by the illness, Eri thought bitterly that she hadn't enjoyed this kind of treatment in Hyotei for a long time.

So when she met someone unexpectedly at the corner of the stairs, she didn't recover from the terrible state.Seeing her like this, the other party didn't respect her like the others, but showed some nostalgia, "...where are you going?"

Eri glanced at him condescendingly, this was the first time the two had spoken since the late-night confrontation at Atobe's house.

Ninja Yuuji didn't seem to notice her dissatisfaction with him, and still watched her gently.

— just like that day.

With such a clear and conniving look, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, pointing out the most unreasonable part of her doubts about herself—Yuki Ninzu is not only her good friend, but also Keigo Atobe's best friend .

So even though there were many doubts about Yushi in her heart, she didn't continue to ask.

The pair of glasses left at home, his understanding of himself in almost every detail, and the intuition lingering in her heart that always felt contrary... She couldn't easily ignore it, but she didn't dare to approach the truth so much.

Consciousness diverged uncontrollably for many things, and when she came back to her senses, she found that she had been standing on the stairs for a long time.

Ninja Yuuji in front of her thoughtfully did not interrupt her wandering thoughts, nor did she show any impatient expression, and quietly waited for the answer.

"School infirmary." Her voice was muffled through the mask.

"Are you uncomfortable?"

Eri shook her head, passed his shoulder and walked down, and replied perfunctorily while walking, "I'm sleepy."

"Are you having a seasonal cold?" The school doctor took the girl's temperature and went to get medicine from the medicine cabinet. "At this time last year, I also had a serious illness."

"I don't remember." Eri coughed and replied indifferently.

"...you are so young, you are really forgetful." The young school doctor put the medicine and warm water on the table, "Thanks to you, because you stayed in the school doctor's office for too long last year, Renzu also helped to organize out of my medicine cabinet."

Eri's gaze followed his words, and the medicine cabinet was indeed very well organized. Judging from the identical label style and almost unbiased fonts, it was undoubtedly made by a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

In her mind, she imagined the appearance of a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder who also worked meticulously when visiting the sick, and suddenly felt a little funny.

"Will he come today?" the school doctor asked expectantly.

"will not."

After the curtain of the cubicle was drawn, Eri buried herself in the white quilt that smelled of disinfectant in the school nurse's room.

It seems that from the first day she returned to Ice Emperor, everyone reminded her that "Yushi Ninzu is your friend". Even the younger brother who disliked everyone felt that there was no need to hide the memory loss from Ninzu.

This common sense is generally instilled in the mind, but I don't know when it was shaken... There is obviously no evidence.

The drowsy head in the sickness soon couldn't hold on to the complicated thoughts, she closed her eyes, and grasped a certain line dimly before her consciousness fell into darkness.

Evidence...

It was dusk when I woke up.

The uniform slogans of the track and field team during training could be heard from far outside the window. The sky was getting dark, but the school doctor's office did not turn on the lights. I don't know if it was because she was worried about her sleeping.

She opened the curtain, and the school doctor probably left after get off work. Only Yushi Ninzu stood in front of the cabinet, playing with bottles and cans with his back to her. Perhaps because of the dim light, he rarely took off his plain glasses, which were not helpful for vision, and squinted. Look at the small print on the white medicine bottle.

This scene is familiar for no reason, but the fragmented memory is not enough to remind her of anything.

"Are you awake?" He heard the movement and didn't turn his head. "Your mobile phone keeps ringing, and the teacher can't wake you up, so I put it on the table next to you silently."

"……Oh."

Her just sober mind responded for a moment before she reached for the mobile phone next to her.

The screen displayed several missed calls at home, as well as Tezuka Kunimitsu's routine concern for her physical condition.

She first reported to her brother that she would be going home later today, and then clicked on Tezuka's message. He has been busy with tennis matches recently, and has not found a chance to meet him, so he seems to have imagined her illness too much serious.Obviously a taciturn person, the total number of emails sent these days is more than what they have said, although most of them coincide with the doctor's orders.

Thinking of this, the girl couldn't help laughing.

The laughter was a bit abrupt in the quiet room, and he reluctantly glanced at her sideways, "What is so happy?"

"Hmm... I found out that someone has the potential to become a doctor." She thought for a moment, then raised her hand to shake the darkened phone screen at him, "It's out of battery, can you lend me your phone?"

【"You haven't been home for a long time."

The teaching building after school seemed a little deserted, and I endured the tennis club's training, and finally blocked Eri, who had just woken up from sleep, in the corridor in the classroom.

"Your brother is looking for you everywhere."

Eri probably didn't get enough sleep, and with an indifferent attitude, she walked past him and continued walking, "So?"

"He's worried about you."

"Forget it," she stopped at the corner, "do you even have to pretend to be someone else's greeting now?"

"Of course I care about you, too."

"But it's not the first day we met, Yushi." There was a stream of light in her eyes, like sunlight falling through a stream on a stone, clear and pure, "You never cared about where I was before, nor did you care What do I do, let alone who I'm with."

"Admit it." Her eyes slowly locked onto his from top to top, the stream of light penetrated through the surface of camouflage and forced calm, causing a strange trembling in the depths of her soul, she said, "... ...Even if you have a guilty conscience about someone, so what. This can't change, you have already been shaken."

"……I do not have."

"Really?" She was noncommittal, "Then shall we finish?"

Before he could answer, an abrupt ringtone cut through the awkward air, Eri lowered his eyes to glance at the screen, and turned the phone to him.

Kise Ryota's name flashed on the screen.

"If there's nothing else, I'm leaving first." Her action seemed to have no other more meaningful meaning, just to remind him.

It was as if someone had slammed a rap on the temple, and discussions on the Internet about the other party's careless attitude towards making friends flooded into my mind, and by accident, I would ask such direct and rash words, "...Why him?"

"Didn't you say it? I'm too lonely, so anyone can do it." The ringtone fell silent, and her smile was followed by a hint of irony, "Why, did you finally realize that it's yourself who can't accept it?"

"I just don't think he made a wise choice."

If it weren't for Kise Ryota's scandal-ridden and controversial type, he would never comment on her friendship... However, her current state is already very dangerous, and with this restless factor, no matter how you think about it, It is not reassuring.

"Not everyone is like you, looking at everything rationally." She gave him a slightly warning look, not knowing whether she was complaining for Kise or explaining their relationship, "Please stop it, Ryota is me friend."

Hearing such an answer, he drew the corners of his lips silently, and said in a meaningful tone, "So what, am I not?"

How ironic.

After realizing her own intentions, she would be so unguarded against overly close friends of the opposite sex.

"Yushi," she frowned sideways, "I don't know what reasonable logic you have found for your behavior to convince yourself, but I think you seem to be jealous?"

"..."

"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. As long as you say that you don't want me to go," she restrained her attitude of rejecting people thousands of miles away, maybe it was an illusion, he heard a hint of softening from her cold tone, " I won't go."

It was as if something sharp pierced into the skin and pricked lightly at the heart. The instinct was infinitely close to compromise, but the sarcastic voice in his heart was asking——since the situation between her and Keigo Atobe was able to If you stand by and watch, what right do you have to interfere with other people?

"...It's because I care too much." Under her gaze, Yuji Ninata slowly shook his head, "I'm sorry."

"The sentence you owed me was never 'I'm sorry'." Eri turned around, "...I still don't understand, but I won't force you anymore."

"Liking clearly is something to be happy about." She finally said with a little confusion, "But Yushi, when I think of you, I feel like there is a little hedgehog rolling around in my heart, which makes me very vulnerable and vulnerable .”

"I'm in so much pain. I don't want to catch that hedgehog."

He watched her figure disappear at the corner of the stairs with patience. He looked from the window on the third floor. Her figure disappeared on the long school road. she goes.

With them as the center, the eyes of almost everyone around them were gathered.

Kise said something to her, Eri shook her head, and the boy reached out to stroke her hair.

The sound of the camera freezing one after another, in the somewhat impolite flashlight, Kise Ryota glanced back, and across the trees on both sides of the road, Ninazu Yuuji met his gaze from afar.

Although he couldn't see clearly because of the distance, he still accepted the silent provocation that the other party wanted to convey. 】

After recovering from the faded memories, the boy's eyes looked nowhere from under the thick eyelashes. He deduced Eri's intentions from the few words and jokes, "Do you want to contact Tezuka?"

"Well, I happen to have something to go to Qingxue."

He met the frank gaze of the girl in front of him, and suddenly remembered that now is no longer the time to "I won't go if you say a word".

Even though she used to be so repelled by being influenced by others, and all the emotions were in her hands, after she let go, she didn't feel any happier.

"It's always raining recently, remember to bring an umbrella."

He handed his mobile phone to Eri, and his fingertips inadvertently touched the warm palm of the other party, as if being scalded, for a moment, he simply wanted to withdraw his hand and said the sentence "Don't go".

Obviously this time, she didn't ask herself.

The author has something to say:

The hostess asks you to borrow a cell phone.

→ Not to borrow (towards the plot)

→ Borrow (BE warning)