trace in pocket

I don't know anymore.

In fact, they lost touch after that phone call.

The number dialed again has become an empty number.Unable to contact the other party, probably the sudden call that night was just a temporary tease, thinking this way, Kanako didn't struggle any more to do something.

Frankly speaking, she has become more and more used to returning to a person's life.The traces of a person's life are easy to erase, and it is also easy to pick them up suddenly one afternoon.She just doesn't have that much energy to care about it.

Is it useful to calculate?No matter what the other party wants to do, I have always been in a passive state and can't do anything.

During this time, she was absent from classes a lot, borrowing notes to study, review, and do homework for the final exam. She had to prepare to go abroad in about a week or two after the exam. Her parents had already started to arrange visas and other things a long time ago. There is no big problem. Once the matter here is over, you can leave this country immediately.

As the exam was approaching, the only thing that gave her a headache was Kikuchi Hideichi's increasingly subtle attitude.

His attitude, after the phone call on the day he was discharged from the hospital, became less and less normal.

It feels like a quail egg that has been hatched for a long time, and when the shell is broken, it suddenly turns into a big hen.

Maybe even more outrageous.

Just like she had never realized before that as long as he changed his name and attitude, the feeling of the two of them walking side by side on the road was not like she thought they were siblings.Most people's point of view is: Well, did you hear that Hayakawa is in love with that boy named Kikuchi?I can't tell~ So who confessed first?

Who confessed first... No one confessed, okay?

Kanako sighed.Looking down at the road under his feet, Kikuchi Shuichi was beside him.

She has tried to avoid it as much as possible and expressed that she does not want the two of them to go home together again, but his always keen nerves have committed a foolishness in this one, as if he couldn't understand what she meant, even if he was declined one day to go with him, his expression was not too serious. A big change will still appear next time.She couldn't help looking up at his face, the other's expression was the same as before, and she couldn't guess his mind at all.

How did those people feel the difference between his aura and hers?Kanako pursed her lips, feeling distressed and powerless.

"What happened to Xiuyi recently?"

"It's been fine recently, just like before."

"...No, what I mean is, hasn't something happened to Xiuyi recently? So... Uh, if you have something to tell me, maybe I can help you."

"No," he pursed his lips, smiled, and even looked down at her, asking back, "what's the matter?"

"..."

...Where is it normal!Do normal quail eggs turn into hens when they wake up?Does a normal little boy send out the signal "you look delicious" when he wakes up! ! ?

Kanako is slow, but it doesn't mean that she can't react to one thing after being repeatedly played by her ears for a long time, especially if the other party's behavior is really... It's really a very obvious process of gradual progress, okay?

_(:3)∠)_What a nuisance!

Gritting her teeth, Kanako stopped and stared at the button of the shirt on the other's chest. This guy has a great figure. She had done a long time of psychological construction for herself. At this moment, looking at the solid little body of the other person was inexplicably hot, and he didn't know much about himself. I blushed with shame.It was very easy to hold back a sentence: "... Then Xiuyi will call me as before! I am not used to changing my name for no reason!"

The corner of the other party's lips seemed to bend, and then quickly put away the smile.His eyes were burning on her, and they seemed to be clear and free of distracting thoughts.

Kanako felt even more ashamed.

It was as if I had judged the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, guessed the other party's mind and thought too much, and thought about putting on several big hats for myself, and couldn't help lowering my head lower and lower.

But I heard the other party suddenly say: "Aren't you used to it? I think it's very used to being called this way. This way, people won't want to misrepresent the age of me and you if they are heard by others when walking on the street."

"...Is there anything you can think about?"

"Of course, people will think it's sibling love."

"...But aren't you younger than me?"

"It's just a little younger than you, not a younger brother. If I really want to say, I'm the same age as you. Since I'm the same age, I have room to pursue you, so why should I continue to put my identity How about lowering one generation and doing so much more useless work?"

He seemed to be right.He was indeed about the same age as her.So it doesn't matter whether you change the name or not, because it was called casually in the beginning?

She froze for a moment, took a moment to slow down, then raised her steps and continued to walk forward. After a few steps, her brain nerves were suddenly connected, and a spiritual connection flashed in her muddy head—Kanako couldn't hold it for a while. , Shouted: "—Sister and younger brother love?? Why is it considered to be sister and younger brother love???"

"..."

Picking sesame seeds and losing watermelon, she was completely unaware that she had missed the point.Kikuchi Shuichi also stopped, and explained in a good voice, "Because I called you 'Sister Hayakawa', people thought I was younger than you, and I was in love with younger siblings."

_(:3)∠)_Huh, is this the reason? ...It seems so right... Ah, his eyes are so black and look scary QAQ Well, they are actually very beautiful, like glowing black glass balls...

A beauty trick makes people dizzy.She was stunned for a while, not knowing what to think, finally grasping the rationality beyond the soul, Kanako collected herself, but felt that something was stuck and she couldn't understand it.

Well, what do you want to understand?Standing dryly for a moment, he scratched his scratching bangs, and accidentally saw a black car parked there quietly not far away——

Blessed to the soul, she suddenly woke up.

After waking up, Kanako was stunned, and she almost asked with her tongue open: "...you said you...wanted to chase me??"

His eyes seemed to be saying that it's a pity that he finally found out, but his mouth couldn't be more sincere "Yeah".

"...How is it possible! Am I older than you??"

"Just now Kanako admitted, hey, we are indeed the same age."

"..." She admitted that she was too stupid to be involved in it just now, "but you have called it for so many years, is there anything wrong with it and you have to change it? — Or are you actually joking?"

She was too hasty and lost her words, accusing the other party of joking was indeed a little too much, his eyebrows and eyes suddenly fell silent, like oil paint turning into black and white ink in an instant.Kanako was a little frustrated, but she was reluctant to apologize.She was uneasy, annoyed, and uneasy.I even really hope that even if the other party is angry, he can't be more frank: just now was indeed a harmless joke.

Even if he's not much of a joker.

But he didn't.

He didn't hear her prayer at all.

It was the first time for Kanako to see the other party showing such a cold and quiet expression.The eyes are like stars in the dark night, some kind of light is dancing brightly, without stopping for a moment.

It was also the first time for her to look at him so seriously, to look at the expression on his face, and to analyze his heart.

What the other party gave was not what she really wanted, a purely negative answer.

Kikuchi Shuuichi even laughed, although it was an ugly smile.Embarrassed and sad, Kanako's heart trembled a little, and she regretted that she had spoken directly, but she didn't want to give in and change the status quo.

So he said: "As you wish." After a second pause, he smiled and added, "...Although this joke has been around for a long time....I really want to stop it, but it seems that Seems a little out of control."

"..."

"Don't worry, I won't mention it again in the future. Just pretend it didn't happen....But can I still call you Kanako? At least allow me to ask for one thing." He smiled wryly, "...So, just pretend it didn't happen , so that we will still be good friends in the future, and nothing has changed, okay?"

"..." Kanako couldn't say anything.The degree of shock in my heart was beyond imagination, and when I got the answer I wanted, apart from feeling relieved, there seemed to be some inexplicable sour emotions climbing up my heart little by little.

She didn't understand what it was.

She just looked at the other person's face whose smile was gradually disappearing. His eyes were drooping and his eyelashes were long. It reminded her that when she was a child, she was always envious and jealous, always reaching out to touch his face and his eyelashes.

At that time, he always looked small and easily shy. Even if his cheeks were flushed red, he would shyly purse his lips and give her a shy and cute smile.

Later they separated.She gradually forgot the little boy who touched her, and her eyes were set on other people. Later, she fled from Tokyo to Kanagawa. When she met him on the street, the smile on his face was like a burst of fireworks in the night sky. , Gorgeous and beautiful, very beautiful.

But... She never realized that this boy who was getting more and more stable, more mature and growing up, hidden under his body was still a soft heart that had never changed since he was a child.

Kanako remained silent, following the other person's footsteps.The two walked one after the other, neither of them said a word.

……

In fact, no matter from which aspect, a man with deep affection is the death spot of every woman.

Especially such a stupid girl of adolescent Mary Sue.

Although Kanako Hayakawa was not tempted, she was indeed trembling, and seriously began to reflect on every little thing she did when she got along with the other party.

Her brain circuit is not enough, Kikuchi Shuichi is obviously handy.

He didn't speak any more along the way, the silence was obviously the same as before, but it was clearly different.parting time