[Three-year Class E] Asagao

However, Xingzhi has not been seen since their infiltration operation started.

Then he and Nagisa boarded the rocket going to space, when the tension was extremely high on the eve of the cabin launch.

He calculated that it was time to start the countdown, and what he heard was an unexpectedly calm female voice, so familiar.

"Launch countdown, ten, nine, eight..."

He understood what happened to Xingzhi's vague answer at that time, and showed a helpless smile.

As the number gradually decreased, the vibrations around them became more and more intense, almost reaching an unbearable level.

After the lift-off, Teacher Kill's voice came in through the iron wall outside.

After hearing the two people's answers, it cleared its throat pretendingly.

"Finally, for the teacher, let me convey the words of Xingzhi-"

"The countdown staff can't say much—"

"Have a nice trip, both of you!"

Even after the countdown that he was in charge of ended, Xingzhi still stared at the constantly changing data on the screen, and clasped the phone in the bag with his fingers.

Seeing that her expression was not very good, the staff on the side asked concerned: "Miss Xiaoyuan, what's wrong?"

"...No, it's nothing." Seeing the sign of a successful launch, the girl breathed a sigh of relief, shook her head and smiled, "I've been taken care of today, thank you for accepting such a sudden and unreasonable request."

Hearing that the staff in suits seemed to be relaxed and let out a sigh of relief.

When it was arranged by her superiors, she thought it would be some middle-aged greasy man or an old lady, and she didn't know which one it was, but it frightened her.

But when she saw the figure in the kimono, the pattern embroidered on the satin made her immediately recognize the identity of the other party.What surprised her was that such a young girl turned out to be the current patriarch of such an ancient family. Although she didn't know why this great god counted the countdown of the experimental launch on a whim, it was better to send her away.

"It's nothing, our side is the one that is most cared for." Immediately shaking her head and giving a standard official answer, she stretched out her hand as a gesture of invitation, "Miss Shinohara, please come this way."

"Okay, sorry to bother you."

The restraint of the hem of the kimono made her a little unable to move. After confirming that she had left the other party's sight, Xingzhi simply lifted the hem of the Chinese dress on her body, slipped into the dressing room, and changed into the school uniform that Kurahashi and Taohua smuggled in. superior.

After changing into a light outfit, she carried her suitcase and headed up the agreed hillside.

Glancing at the time on the watch, the girl looked up at the sky, but the clear blue color contained a distance that the naked eye could not reach.

She didn't know what was going on there, so she could only pray like a believer.

Looking forward to the return of the two without incident.

The unstoppable anxiety rising in his heart could not be ignored, Xingzhi started to look at his watch every half an hour, and finally changed to staring at the number changes on the standby screen of the mobile phone without any accident.

With the cheers, the launcher with the parachute was pushed by the killing teacher in the air and changed direction and fell into the river behind the mountain.

The water vapor evaporated by the surface temperature hissed, and through the translucent mist, two students who had just returned from the universe showed their figures.

Almost subconsciously, Xingzhi's eyes fell on the smiling red-haired boy.

Looking up into the other's eyes, she tightened the suitcase in her hand.

As if nothing happened, the space trip seemed to be just returning from a trip to the suburbs. The teenager who smiled indifferently mouthed her across the crowd: "I'm back."

"...Welcome back." Noticing the other party's movements, the girl also smiled, her eyes filled with soft and bright colors.

With the results obtained from the universe, the group of Class E rushed towards their teaching building.

Taking over the luggage in Xingzhi's hand very smoothly, Akabane weighed the weight, turned his head and asked, "What's in it?"

"Hmm... let's call it work clothes for now?" Thinking about how to define the silk and satin inside, Xing Zhi gave an ambiguous answer.

"Honka's kimono?" Looking at her expression, he asked, and the young man stretched out his other free hand in her direction.

"Um……??!"

Just like that, the cold fingertips were brought together, the girl blushed, she wanted to break away in embarrassment, but she finally lowered her head in compromise amidst the booing of her companion who noticed the situation, and gave up struggling .

The flushed skin was faintly exposed between the loose hair.

Congrats, congratulations.

"Xingzhi, you go out first."

It was a tone that could not be refused, the kind she rarely saw, Xingming's posture as an elder.

"..." Thinking about what the other party was planning, Xingzhi standing by the hospital bed didn't have any intention of moving. He narrowed his eyes and tried to find some clues from the other party's face.

Under the girl's direct gaze, the young man was about to appear shaken.

Seeing the gradually delicate atmosphere between the two brothers and sisters, Akabane quickly judged a certain attribute of Xingming.

"Ah, Miss Shinohara, are you here?" The one who broke the silence was Xingming's attending physician who came in to make the rounds. The timing of his appearance was very ingenious, "Just in time, I changed a few doses of medicine recently, and you Let me tell you about my brother's recent situation."

"Oh... yes." Still casting a suspicious glance at Xingming who was already fidgeting on the bed, the girl nodded obediently and followed the doctor out.

Watching her back leave, Xingming felt relieved.

Akabane closed the door with a wink, slammed it shut, and said with a smile: "So... why did your lord brother ask Xingzhi to bring me here?"

——Is this kid really all right?

"...don't call out your address, kid." Xingming's eyes twitched when he heard that he wanted to kill his impulsive self for a moment, but he still answered his question and took the handkerchief bag aside, "Come back to business , I called you here to give you this."

"You should have seen it."

In the center of the handkerchief spread out on the palm lay two silver rings, strung together with a necklace.

The styles of the two pieces are very plain and simple, but they are still slightly different, and one of them...

Akabane had seen it before.

Seeing through his thoughts the moment they met their gazes, the young man nodded and added: "That's right, it's the matching ring with the one in that child's hand."

"It's a token passed down from our parents." Untiing the necklace and taking out the pair of rings of the man, Xingming stretched out his hand to him, the light in his dark brown eyes flickered, "That child really likes you, I can tell Come out, and you too."

"Although it is hasty, I still want to hear your thoughts."

"I didn't intend to force you to accept the meaning, so you can refuse."

This brother, who is quite a sister-in-law, now has the appearance of a serious elder, with a deep and calm voice.

"Once you take it, there is no way to let it go. Once you promise, there is no chance to go back. For so many years to come, you are very likely to experience something like the last time."

"Are you really ready, ready for that?"

In the youth's voice, Akabane closed his eyes.

--Can you see it?Those futures with her?

Inexplicably, what appeared in front of my eyes was the scene I saw for the first time.

The sun shines through the leaves, casting mottled colors.

The girl's bright brown eyes behind the lens were full of surprise, as if wondering why he would call her name.

The students who deliberately lowered their sense of presence were unexpectedly conspicuous in his eyes.

The eyes covered by the glasses rarely reveal any emotional fluctuations, and this has not changed even after the two of them became classmates again in Class E.

Ever since he saw her weeping, he couldn't help being curious about the appearance of various other emotions on this young girl.

Indeed, because of his interference and approach, she gradually showed a different appearance, but it was difficult to see her smile from the bottom of her heart, and her eyebrows and eyes always had a little haze at any time.

After gradually coming into contact with a small part of those unknown pains, in order to prevent his behavior and hidden dangers, the girl took the initiative to show her alienation.

If it was simply to satisfy curiosity, it would have been enough. Even if it was to protect himself, what should have been retreated in a sensible way, and then turned a blind eye, as if he were a stranger.

But he just didn't want to be decided so easily, and it didn't fit his character at all.

He's always been the man ahead of anyone.

As for those probabilistic dangers, how could he answer them last time?

By the way, he asked for it.

——The answer, isn't it already obvious?

Looking at the young man's expression, with a smile that is not mature at this age, but has not faded due to arrogance, his eyes are dazzling like brilliance.

Star smiled.

Akabane looked down at the ring in his palm and gathered his five fingers together.

Let's just push everything else to fate, he intends to admit it.

"Don't, let her experience any more pain." The face with a gratifying smile one second gradually distorted the next second, and Xingming's tone was still threatening, "And... if you don't If you can become a big shot, just wait until you get married and get in the door, kid."

"Hey—" As he put the ring on a necklace and hung it around his neck, Akabane narrowed his eyes and said with a smile, "The elder brother must work hard to live a long life, although it is only a matter of time before I become a big shot—"

"Even if you don't tell me, I'll live, you brat!"

Xingming felt that his back molars started to itch after many years.

How can a sister-in-law beat up her future brother-in-law without being hunted down by her sister, wait online, hurry.

Xingzhi, who came back with the key to the ward, felt that he was too prescient, and the two of them suddenly fell silent when they heard the sound of unlocking the lock.

Feeling strange, Xingzhi raised his eyes when he entered the door and saw something extra on the young man: "Hey wait, what is Yejun?!"

Without even looking at the one hanging around his neck, Xingzhi was completely sure whose masterpiece it was.

"Brother???" She immediately turned to the young man on the hospital bed, already aware of how well this guy has recovered. Get out, your own!"

If one ignores the flushed face, everything is still convincing.

With the shaking, the necklace with two rings jumped out of Xingzhi's collar.

"Think about yourself first, okay! I don't want to keep you for another seventeen or eighteen years, old bachelor!!"

"..."

An arrow hits the red heart, the star shines, and the pawn.

The brothers and sisters made such a fuss, and it was almost the time when visits were prohibited.

Stepping on the tail of the sunset, two figures in uniform walked leisurely towards the station.

After coming out of the ward, he kept rubbing his forehead, Xingzhi still felt a faint headache.

But the boy next to her looked completely fine.

—Oops, my head hurts even more.

She sighed: "Ah... Speaking of Yejun, don't listen to my brother's nonsense."

The boy rubbed the ring for a while, waiting for her next words.

"What he said doesn't count, the ring...you can return it to me directly."

"Then ask you to give it to someone else?" He squinted, and found that the other party felt that what he just said was not convincing, and seeing her helpless look, he smiled, "Do you not believe me so much? "

"Eh? Although that's not the case..."

——But, isn’t it too hasty to say something like this now?There are still many, many years to come, maybe you will meet someone better and more suitable?

He quickly denied it, but Xing Zhi swallowed the second half of the sentence back.

Because of her little selfishness, she wanted to keep him by her side.

want him to stay.

——Can she really be so willful?

Feeling that the only glow in front of her eyes was blocked, Xingzhi raised her eyes, and a figure against the light came into her eyes.

"Since this is the case..."

He didn't know when he came to her.

Or rather, he had always been ahead of her in some respects.

The light in the boy's eyes was even as bright as the stars, and he stretched out his hand towards her.

"Won't you give the future to me for a try? Ms. Shinohara Hoshieda?"

Calling out her long-lost full name, he waited for her answer.

Xingzhi pursed her lips and wet her eyes for no reason.

But she still raised the corners of her mouth and smiled back.

"Then, let me pretend that I'm on a pirate ship? Mr. Akabane?"

The moment her hands folded, she fell into a familiar embrace.

"...A friendly reminder, there is really no room for regret."

"I know."

For a long, long time afterward, every time I thought of this scene, Xingzhi, who was surrounded by the surprise and doubts of his old friends at the party, felt pain in his head.

That person can be said to be a busy person now, and he will not participate in such activities for no special reason.

Although she herself is not that free, she can squeeze out a half-day vacation anyway.

As the first couple among the students in class E, the students in class E used to think that the children of these two people were afraid that they would be able to go to the house.

Who knew it would be such an unexpected result seven years later.

The two parties did not expect it.

Still issued a question from the depths of the single dog's soul.

"So why are you still not married???"

However, that's all for later.

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