spooky love

distance.He couldn't accept the Dema who said "even if he can see it, there's nothing he can do about it", and he knew very well that he was narrow-minded, so he became more anxious and depressed.

Ryoichiro understands that it is impossible to have only good things in life, even in the organization to which he belongs, there will be conflicts of different opinions.To put it simply, only Tokuma, Ryoichiro hopes that he is pure, like the white kimono he is wearing, without a trace of dust.Even though Ryoichiro knew that such a person could not exist, he still hoped so.

Later, when Ryoichiro went out to collect plants, he only took Hara with him. After two or three times, Hara asked him, "Mr. Dema hasn't come to collect with us recently."

"He had some things to do at home, so I didn't bring him."

After listening to Ryoichiro's casual answer, Haru just said "I see" and didn't go any further.Hearing people ask about Dema, Ryoichiro's unresolved knots became more and more serious, and then his thoughts gradually drifted away from the flowers and plants in front of him.

"Former classmate, former classmate."

Hearing Ryoichiro's call, Hara, who was staying by the river in the distance, hurried over.

"Teacher, what's the matter?"

"Uh...that..."

It was Ryoichiro himself who called someone, but he was at a loss for words, so he said to Hara, "Let's take a rest", and then asked Hara to go to the shade of the tree together.Although he was quite confused in the shadows and caught cold, he didn't know whether to say it, but he finally said it.

"In the eyes of former classmates, what kind of person is Dema?"

Yuan turned around and tilted his head to think.

"Mr. Dema?"

"Um."

Hara whispered: "He is a very beautiful person..."

"As far as a man is concerned, he is too beautiful. Even I think that if he was born with his looks, the relationship with the opposite sex must be endless. However, Mr. Dema is inconvenient to speak, so I can't help but think of " Sweet melons are bitter, and there is no perfect beauty in the world'' proverb."

"I'm not asking about his appearance, but what's inside him."

Ryoichiro asked, Hara was puzzled.

"About this part, shouldn't the teacher know better than me?"

"If I knew better, I wouldn't ask you such a question."

Hara seemed amused after hearing this, and laughed:

"I only saw Mr. Dema when I was collecting plants and arranging specimens, and I hardly talked with him. I don't know anything about it except for the parts that are visible on the outside."

Hara's opinion was reasonable, and Ryoichiro fell silent again.

"You had a quarrel with Mr. Demar, didn't you?"

Hearing Ryoichiro muttering vaguely "Hmm...", Hara smiled again:

"I think Mr. Dema respects his teacher very much and follows him wholeheartedly."

"Respect to follow?"

"It's hard to express in words. I think, as much as the teacher values ​​Mr. Dema, Mr. Dema respects you and is willing to follow you, isn't it?"

He respects and follows me wholeheartedly... Hearing what Hara said, Ryoichiro felt that the haze in his heart had at least cleared up a little bit.

Back home at dusk, Dema came to the porch to greet him.After handing over the collection tube to Dema, taking off his shoes and walking into the corridor, and resting on the tayang mat in the Japanese room, dinner will be ready in a short while.

After dinner, Dema handed out a piece of paper to Ryoichiro, which said "I have something to talk to you."Ryoichiro thought to himself: "What's the matter?" He went to the Japanese room and sat across the table from Dema.

But the chatterbox couldn't be opened, even if Ryoichiro asked him: "What's the matter?" He kept his head down.Squeaking insects sounded along the corridor.Although Ryoichiro was concerned about what the other party wanted to talk to him, he didn't want to force him to say it, so he left a sentence of "Call me when you want to talk", and then came to the corridor.After sitting there for a while, Dema finally came to him.Although I received the slip of paper from the other party, the hallway was too dark to see clearly.Ryoichiro opened the paper towards the room where the oil lamp was placed.

『A long time ago, I thought about going back to the countryside to honor my mother.My mother in the country was getting old, and I was getting more and more worried about letting her live alone, since I had no other siblings.Although I feel very sorry for Master Ryoichiro who took care of me...』

After reading it, he looked up.After looking at each other, De Ma bowed his head deeply.

"This, what is this..."

Ryoichiro's fingertips trembling as he grasped the paper.

"I'm asking you what this is!"

Hearing the other party's roar, De Ma closed his eyes slightly, and then wrote on the piece of paper again:

"If you allow me to resign from my job here, I will be very grateful. 』

The trembling of Ryoichiro's fingertips stopped, but a storm started to blow in his chest.

"What are you going to do when you quit here?"

Dema wrote "Returning to Hometown to Work".

"What's the job? You can't speak, so even if you go back to that kind of rural place, how can you have a decent job?"

Even when he saw the other party's sad eyes, Ryoichiro didn't stop his rough words.

"With a monster like you, who would hire you on purpose?"

The man just lowered his head and lowered his eyes all the time, and he vigorously picked up the front of the man's chest.

"Do you hate me that much?"

He looked straight into Dema's eyes.

"I'm asking if you hate me so much that you don't even want to be around me!"

Even though the other party shook his head from side to side, Ryoichiro still couldn't understand the meaning of his gesture.He threw Dema roughly away, crumpled up the piece of paper he handed him, and threw it on his fair face.

"If you want to go back to the country so much, go back! You ungrateful thing!"

Ryoichiro yelled at Tokuma.After standing up, he saw what Dema was writing on the piece of paper again, so he snatched the paper and pencil and threw them into the courtyard. He didn't know if they fell into the pool, and there was a "plop" sound of water.Ryoichiro left Tokuma, who looked blankly at the courtyard, and came to the room where the quilt was spread, and got under the quilt without taking off his clothes.

When I was full of irritability and couldn't fall asleep, my mother-in-law asked from the other side of the paper door: "Master, do you want to take a bath?" He rudely replied no.

"What is Dema doing?"

The mother-in-law replied "ah" blankly.

"I didn't see him..."

Ryoichiro jumped up from the bed and opened the paper door with such force that his mother-in-law was startled.

"What do you mean you didn't see it?"

The mother-in-law blinked her wrinkled eyes and replied, "I didn't see anyone else, it should be in the room."Ryoichiro walked through the corridor with a thumping sound, and opened the paper door of the four-and-a-half stack (Note 23) room drawn for Dema without a sound.

Dema is in the room, opening the paper door of the quilt cabinet, taking out the bag for returning home that Ryoichiro bought him, and making preparations for the door.Just seeing him like this made Ryoichiro furious.

"what are you doing?"

Hearing a roar from above his head, Dema slowly bent down.

"You are not allowed to leave this house without my permission!"

Dema raised his head, put his fingertips together on the ground in front of Ryoichiro, as if he was begging Ryoichiro for forgiveness.

"If you go out without my permission, I will even drive out your mother who works at home in the country!"

After saying this, he walked out of the room and lay down on the bed again, but his head was filled with anger and he couldn't fall asleep no matter what.He couldn't calm down the raging emotions in his chest, and gnawed on the pillow like a dog.

The night was getting deeper and deeper in the sleepless, and after midnight, it started to rain.The loud rustling sound came to his ears noisily, Ryoichiro put the quilt over his head and closed his eyes.

The next morning, Dema came to wake him up as usual.But long before the paper door was opened, Ryoichiro woke up.

Dema usually "knocks" on the paper door, and enters the room if there is no response.After Dema opened the paper door, he saw Ryoichiro sitting cross-legged on the quilt with a surprised expression on his face, and then he immediately bent down.

Is it because I think too much?Ryoichiro felt that the opponent's eyes seemed to be red.Although his anger had calmed down, it was only one night after the incident. He didn't know how to get along with Dema, so he walked past the kneeling man without saying a word.

It was the same at breakfast, even though they sat opposite each other across the table, they didn't look at each other.Even though Dema's figure disappeared from view, the heavy atmosphere continued.After being left alone, Ryoichiro pressed his forehead and sighed deeply.

It had been four days since Dema submitted his resignation request, and Ryoichiro woke up every day before Toma came to wake him up, and he did not know how many times he woke up during the night.If his heart was disturbed, he came to the corridor with an oil lamp in his hand, slightly opened the paper door of De Ma's room, let the light shine in through the small gap, and felt relieved when he saw that the bed was raised.If he doesn't, he won't be able to sleep peacefully.

He was restless day and night, worried that the other party might leave.During the day, he said that he forgot to bring the books he needed at home, so he sent Yuan to fetch them for him, and then asked Yuan Dema if he was at home.But I can't confirm it at night except to see it myself.

Since then, he hasn't looked at De Ma or spoken to him.Although Ryoichiro knew that this could not go on, he tried his best to avoid facing Dema face to face.He felt: If he talks to De Ma again, if De Ma still wants to resign no matter what, he must let De Ma go back to the countryside.He just didn't want this, so he couldn't break the deadlock.

On that day, Ryoichiro assisted the professor in giving lectures until noon. In the afternoon, when he was about to start to identify the specimens that had not yet started, he was suddenly called to the assistant professor's room.

The weather was fine, and the associate professor's room with the windows open was scorching hot.Associate Professor Kamikawa sat on a chair, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and slowly fanned his face with a bamboo fan.

"You are here for nothing else. I think you have heard that the professor has taken over the supervision of "Daily