[Volleyball] Life Goes On

Ji moved his injured right hand, and even though the scalded and blistered area was covered with a bandage, the pain still gushed out unstoppably.She didn't know if the wound would affect her writing. After all, the English teacher would give a pre-final exam next week, and she didn't want to fail in the exam.

"You're welcome." Seeing Saki frowned, Xigu quickly reached out to stabilize her shoulders, "Don't move around."

"I'll be careful." Saki smiled at him.

The girl's weak smile was like a bullet with no attack power, and it stabbed Nakanishi's heart fiercely. He put down his hand in embarrassment, and looked around in a panic, "I, go get your schoolbag first, and wait for you outside."

Seeing Xi Gu running away, the young nurse couldn't help teasing her with a smirk, "What a cute boyfriend."

When Saki heard this, she became a little more energetic.She laughed, but didn't immediately deny it.

She straightened her right hand and walked out of the clinic gently. Xigu was already waiting outside with her stuff.He was carrying two schoolbags and a messenger bag for his sports clothes, and he was holding the medicine prescribed by the doctor for Saki. There were so many things that seemed to overwhelm him at any time.

Saki felt a little guilty for letting him take so much, and wondered whether to take back her schoolbag.

"This classmate, I'm really sorry—" The clerk who had been standing at the door suddenly bowed desperately to Saki to apologize. "The store manager went back in advance, we will definitely complain to that girl's school. I'm really sorry."

"It's okay, it's not your fault." Who would have expected a customer to go berserk in his shop?Saji laughed at herself in her heart, but still maintained a gentle smile, "You all paid for the medical expenses, and I won't be fussy about it, please go back to work happily."

The clerk did not forget to apologize repeatedly before leaving.

To be so sincerely cared and apologized by the other party, and to be so carefully guarded by Nishitani.Saki's gloomy mood of meeting someone she didn't want to meet also calmed down a little.Since she is no longer obsessed with the past, why should she be obsessed with the entanglement of people in the past.

"It's really a good store." Saki watched the back of the clerk leaving, and couldn't help sighing, "Shall we go together next time?"

"Of course you can—" Xigu agreed without thinking, then thought of what happened today, and asked her hesitantly, "But your friend..."

Saki pointed to the direction to the bus platform and took the lead, followed by Nishitani.

"After what happened today, she's probably very disappointed in me, and she won't expect me to return to her world." Saki said as she walked, the ends of her hair that were soaked in water to clean the coffee stains were lazily drooping. on her shoulders.She didn't really want to continue this topic, so she tilted her head and diverted the conversation, "Will Xigu be too tired to carry so many things? Or, give me the schoolbag, anyway, the left side is not injured."

"How can the wounded take things!" Xi Gu easily stepped into the trap she set.He held the things in his hand tightly, afraid that Saki would come forward and snatch them.

"Okay, then trouble Xigu."

The two of them walked to the platform for a while before Xigu realized that he had been diverted from the topic. He suddenly realized "ah", then turned his head and stared at Saji seriously, "About your friend Dongye... If she What should I do if I trouble you?"

The boy's concern, no matter what, can't make Saki feel annoying.

"She really won't, and even if she will, Xigu is by my side." Saki just said what was in her heart, but in Xigu's eyes, it looked like a girl threw a stone and it fell with a plop Into his mind, there were waves of ripples, circulating endlessly.

"That...although I will try my best to protect Higashino..." Nishitani gritted his teeth as if he had exhausted all his strength in saying this simple sentence, "but I can't be around you all the time, other times..."

"This...she's a student from a prestigious school, Shiratorizawa, so she probably doesn't have time to trouble me..." Even if she did find her, Saki didn't feel afraid. Self-defense skills have an advantage.She didn't say this to Xigu, she just wanted to be more girly in front of him.

The two were very lucky, and they stopped the bus going home as soon as they arrived at the station.

Xigu guarded Saki and got into the car first, after she paid the money, she found a seat next to her and called Xigu to come over.

"I'm not afraid of her, I just can't understand her." Not long after sitting down, Saji continued the previous topic, "It's her business that she wants to remember Bei Dao, and it's my business that I want to forget, why would she So angry? Is it such an unforgivable thing to want to come out of grief?"

She really didn't want to engrave the memory of her crush dying in front of her eyes.

Saki suddenly remembered that she met Bei Dao's former friend during a grave visit, and when that person recalled things about Bei Dao with her, he mentioned the person Keisuke Bei Dao liked.She remembers asking "who is that guy" sadly and wistfully.But Bei Dao's friends don't know the details. They only remember that Bei Dao once said that he likes a person named "saki".

The yarn season of Higashino Saji is indeed pronounced as saki.

But Saki knew that Kitajima Keisuke had a childhood sweetheart named Saki who was one year younger than him, and they had a very good relationship, so when Saki heard about this, she had a strong premonition that the boy's love could only be Childhood sweethearts are not allowed.

But until the end, no one knew the truth.

Until now, she didn't want to know.

"But...'wanting to get out of sadness', to some extent, doesn't it mean that you can't let go?" Xi Gu lowered his eyes, "It's like eating meat buns, because I want to eat but can't, That’s why I want to try my best to forget about the meat bun.”

In an extremely popular and cute way, the boy pierced through Saki's weakest defense, exposing her lies and pretended strong disdain to the air.She should have been furious and ashamed, but at this moment, she breathed a sigh of relief as if she had unloaded a heavy burden.

At this moment, Saki felt more clearly the strength and change given to her by the young man she knew not long ago.He made her subconsciously strip away the disguise, he made her heart race for it.

The people who used to say "try it" and start a relationship with her can't move her in any way.The communication between each other, those smiles, and those appointments, she also carried out the attitude of completing the task. No matter how perfect the performance was, it was not a performance that fell in love after all.Perhaps because of this, people who said "I like you" at the beginning will use "it's different from what they imagined" and "Higano didn't like me" as the reason to break up with her in the end.

Her friendly and lovely personality is just a disguise she slowly made. She can't act like a girl in love with someone she doesn't like.

She will not blame the other party, but she does not feel that she is at fault.

Higashino Saki, who has been repeating her life with this kind of thinking and pattern, never expected to meet such a person.

Sincere, clean and pure, like a flawless gem, it illuminates the surroundings and drives away the darkness in her heart.

7. The Taste of Love

As the sound of summer approaches, Saki's hair grows slowly.By the time she realized it, her shoulder-length hair had grown longer than her shoulders.

Instead of cutting her hair off, she tied it with a rubber band printed with water jade and hung it on the right side during class.Just by changing her hairstyle, her usual playful and lovely aura has been weakened a lot, replaced by a sense of maturity exuded by the exposed neck.

A few friends from the same class gathered around her seat, talking about the cute outfits in the latest magazine, or the big scandal of a certain idol, and finally, as expected, they talked about the topic of love.

It is said that it is a topic of love, but in fact it is just a few people saying "I really want to fall in love", "XX from class XX" or showing off what gifts their boyfriends bought.

Saki just smiled when she heard it, and occasionally said a few unnutritious answers such as "that's great" and "excellent", and would only give serious advice when a member really encountered trouble.

Maybe because Saki always looked lazy today, someone who was still talking about her crush suddenly brought the topic to Saki.

"How is Saki now? I really don't want to have a boyfriend anymore? Is there someone I like?"

The person who asked the question was one of her "friends" who had been targeting her since she was assigned a class, and today, as usual, she asked questions that she didn't want to answer in a strange tone.

Saki has always been too lazy to spoil her mood because of these things, she paused, and asked with a smile as if she was not aware of malice, "Why do you say that?"

"Didn't you reject the junior's confession before? This time you rejected the senior's confession, right? Saki would have accepted it before."

Saki tilted her head pretending to be hesitant, and happened to catch a glimpse of Xi Guxi poking her head out from the back door of the classroom, her heart moved, and she waved to him with a slight smile.

"Someone came to see me, let's talk about it next time~" She put on her mobile phone, greeted her friends and ran towards the back door.

"It's been a long time." She reached out and touched Xigu's shoulder, pushing him through the back door to the corridor. "Let's go to the library."

"Is it okay? You seem to be still chatting with your friends?" Xi Gu retracted his shoulders and looked around unnaturally. A few classmates he knew cast funny glances at him, causing the teenager to scratch his hair in embarrassment.

"I was asked a question that I didn't know how to answer. Xigu really saved my life." Saki took the notebook from his hand, opened it and looked at it, "Is it English today? The question I did before... I read