[Comprehensive] Chronic child love

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After reuniting with Xingshu Baijian at noon, Jiao Dong was a little absent-minded in the afternoon class.

This reaction is natural - because he never thought that he would meet Shirato, and the place is still in Xiongying, a prestigious high school that specializes in cultivating heroes.

Even, now she has become her own school girl.

Hong Jiaodong propped his chin, and casually tapped the special textbook on Heroes on the table with a ballpoint pen. On the surface, he pretended to be listening to what Mr. Aizawa said, but he was actually thinking about her.

... He remembered that he and she had known each other since kindergarten.

When he was three years old, he entered a kindergarten some distance from his home. It was an aristocratic kindergarten, and the students enrolled were either rich or expensive, and Shiratama's family was no exception—her parents were both professionals. A hero, no matter in the media or in the hero world, is rarely famous. Even, her parents have cooperated with her father's firm several times.

At that time, she was the same as now, with light almond-colored shoulder-length bob hair, and a pair of round, clear big eyes on her pink and fair face. She always liked to wear a white wool coat on top of her school uniform, It can be said that it is exactly the same as her appearance in the cafeteria just now.

But of course, this ordinary thing was not enough to make him pay attention to her.

What really made him remember her was her particularly slow and confused temperament - he always thought at that time, Bai Jian really perfectly formed a great contrast with her heroic parents, her father was a capable The hero who manipulates water, the mother is a hero who can turn the body into smoke. They can quickly rescue the victims at the scene of the disaster. They are famous in the professional world for their speed and coordination.

But Baijian is different. She is confused, and she will never catch up with everyone's progress in her studies. Everyone can recite the English alphabet backwards at the age of 3. At the age of 6, she still mispronounces, and even writes b as d and p Write it as q, and regard Q as O-for this reason, the kindergarten teacher even pulled her out of the crowd several times and forced her to recite the order of the English alphabet in front of the whole class...but no matter how many times she recites, she still has The talent for getting the answers wrong.

Bai Jian didn't know how to write her own name until she was 5 years old, and naturally she couldn't write Chinese characters proficiently until she was 6 years old.Generally, kindergarten students can write graphic diaries in hiragana when they are 6 years old, but she still writes Japanese characters in reverse when she is 6 years old. No one can understand her diary, but the kindergarten teacher asked her to read it out …she can also mispronounce what she has written.

The picture books that everyone can read by themselves at the age of 5, she can only sit helplessly next to her friends and ask them to read to her, but if the picture book is in her hands, she has to point to the picture book and read each word, otherwise she will read the picture book. not come out

And her behavior is particularly impressive - Hong Jiaodong remembers that when their kindergarten was about 3 years old, in order to cultivate students to use their individuality, they had a physical education class for everyone to move their bodies very early, but whether it was running , Throwing balloons or walking normally, Bai Jian still has the ability to fall and go astray, and even trip over the obstacles set by the teacher directly.

As for the personality that everyone awakened when they were about 3-4 years old, she has never awakened.

To put it simply, when he was able to hold a fire with his left hand and a piece of ice with his right, Bai Jian was still learning how to write his own name—pasting that innocent face on the homework, writing it over and over again, earnestly and persistently. Copy and memorize your own name writing.

Also thanks to this, she was gradually squeezed out by the children in the class who awakened their individuality. They directly called her 'stupid' and 'slow'... As for some precocious personalities, they would even be ambiguous. Shi Shi knocked her on the head and asked her in a mocking tone: "Have you learned to write your own name today?"

In this regard, she always puffed up her mouth angrily: "I'm trying to learn!"

...Well, he knew that she was indeed studying hard, because every time he looked in her direction, she would be copying her small penalty book, or pestering her friends to read to her. picture book.But in Hong Jiao Dong's eyes, these are useless efforts - because he knows that no matter how much she was fined for plagiarizing that day, she will still be able to forget half of it tomorrow.

She didn't make any progress in her studies, and even became short-sighted because of this study habit. She had to wear heavy glasses at a young age, and was laughed at by her classmates for a while.

"...Little Jiao Dong, your personality is so powerful!"

He remembered that at that time, she would occasionally say such things to him who belonged to the center of the class.

But for this, Hong Jiaodong ignored her, and complained without malice in his heart: How about you are too far behind?

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But even so, Bai Jian kept clamoring to be a hero like his parents.

...Actually, he admitted with apology: When Kyoki Shirama announced his wish of "I want to be a hero like my parents" to the students at the kindergarten graduation ceremony, the whole class laughed unapologetically , he was no exception, he remembered that he put on a very questioning expression at that time.

Is it really possible for her to become a hero, who has not awakened her individuality until she was 6 years old, and can fall even if she throws a ball?At least that kind of future, he can't imagine.

In the children with excellent personalities in the class, and in the children without excellent personalities but with excellent reflexes, he saw their future as heroes, but when the spotlight fell on Bai Jian, he couldn't find her A little possibility to shine.

But it was also that day that he had a new impression of the child Baijian Xingshu.

On that day, Hong Jiaodong will never forget the scene on the graduation stage.

He happened to be standing next to her that day, and after she announced her wish, the ridicule of her classmates, the sympathetic speeches of the parents, and the helpless sighs of the tutors were heard in his ears verbatim, not to mention The girl next to him is gone, she is just an idiot who can't read and write, but she is not deaf - what the adults say is "very poor", and the students say "impossible"... She is sure to listen Understandable.

After that, I don't know how long it has passed and how many people have released their wishes for the future. After the public opinion on her from the audience gradually dissipated, the young Hong Jiaodong dared to carefully look at the girl beside her who was illuminated by the spotlight. The girl, and then, it’s okay if you don’t look at it, when he saw it, he was surprised by the expression on her face——

At that moment, her eyes were red, and tears were rolling behind her thick glasses frames, but even so, she clenched her fists tightly, biting her lower lip and forcing herself to face the audience to participate in the graduation ceremony Parents and classmates show smiles.

Hong Jiaodong thought, on this stage where the spotlight is on, no one will be able to see the girl's unwilling tears hidden behind the thick glasses, and she doesn't want everyone to see her unwillingness, so she puts so much effort into it. He clenched his fists to the point of trembling.

Then he thought about it, it seems that in the three years of kindergarten here, he has never seen this girl cry—whether it was when she was pulled out by the teacher to recite the English alphabet, when she fell on the court, or when she was poked on the forehead by her classmates When laughing... She didn't even show any signs of crying, but smiled softly.

That's right, if you think about it carefully, maybe when all these things happened to him, he would have been wronged enough to cry in front of everyone, but Bai Jian held back for so long.

How could she not be reconciled?How could she not feel hurt?It's just that she hid them all - and he was the one who happened to see the truth.

"You, you are really a powerful guy—"

Pay attention, the young Hong Jiaodong has forgotten that he is on the graduation stage, and directly released this feeling to Baijian Xingshu in front of the whole school.

"Huh?" His suddenness startled Bai Jian - her tears were instantly frightened back by his abruptness, she just looked at him innocently with her wet eyes blinking: "What did you just say? "

"...Ah? No, nothing!"

There was a burst of embarrassment on Hong Jiaodong's face, and then his ears turned red with embarrassment. What did he do just now?Why are you talking to this person all of a sudden?Even though he was in the same class for three years, he never took the initiative to say a word to her——

After returning home, he must not let his mother play the commemorative video of the graduation ceremony, otherwise he will definitely see how he talked to her in full view, but in fact, what broke him even more is that the moment when Bai Jian turned around happened to be It's time for a group photo——

All in all, the moment the two of them left the formation to look at each other, the school pressed the shutter and took this moment as the school’s official graduation photo—a souvenir that every graduate has in their home photo.

"Oh, Jiao Dong, why didn't you look at the camera at that time?"

He vaguely remembered the expression on his mother who received the photo a month later, when Hong Jiao Dong snatched the photo anxiously, and stared blankly at that moment of shame.

There is probably nothing worse than a moment of regret being photographed forever and distributed to everyone's homes.

Hong Jiaodong, who was only 6 years old, covered his cheeks in pain - he never thought that his important graduation photo would be destroyed in Bai Jian's hands.

After that, how his childhood playmates taunted him on the phone with the picture, and how his mother framed the picture despite his objections, he forgot to mention.

More importantly, in that season of cherry blossoms, he became a freshman of a well-known elementary school in the district.

And that slow classmate actually became his deskmate.

Hong Jiaodong: ... hello.

Baijian Xingshu also smiled awkwardly for some reason: ...a holiday is gone, Xiao Jiaodong.

Hong Jiaodong's eyes were a little tired: ... Ah, um.

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