Lion King

Taking a photo with her, staring at the bouquet in her arms, I muttered to myself:

"Mariko, I like you."

She said "Huh?"

"I like you... the kind that is number one in the world."

Tou on the side looked at me in surprise, and hurriedly said: "Then, then I am the number one in the universe!"

I saw Mariko wipe the corner of his eyes, I don't know whether it was happy or sad.

Fujima

four

"That is to say, you were dumped?"

In the third year of entering university, when I was on the phone with Li Yang, she asked me lazily.I glanced at the wall clock on the wall. It was ten ten o'clock in Japan at this time, and it should be nine o'clock in the morning in the United States.

It was only nine o'clock, and she looked like she hadn't woken up. I couldn't help but wonder if she had gone on a night tour again.

"...That's right."

Barely answering this question that would stab me, I lay on my back on the tatami mat, unconsciously wrapping my hands around the telephone wire.

"Do you need me to comfort you?"

Li Yang yawned while asking.

"Just don't take pleasure in other people's misfortunes. Let's not talk about this, what time did you get home yesterday?"

"...It's so annoying, don't lecture me like an old man? It's because you always do this that you get dumped."

I can imagine the bored look of Li Yang lying on the sofa with her feet resting on the armrests.

After leaving Japan, she was like a bird flying out of the cage. Influenced by the free atmosphere in the United States, her style became more ostentatious and self-contained.I have received several calls from my mother complaining that Li Yang is difficult to discipline.

Although she lives in a relatively safe neighborhood, such things as returning home at night are still worrying.

I was about to teach her a few words, but she interrupted me.

"Haven't you thought about getting Mariko Sato back? Just confessing is useless, Kenji, you have to take action."

She forcibly brought the topic back to her field of expertise, which happened to be what I was concerned about, so I put aside the idea of ​​educating her and began to seriously discuss the "Mariko Recapture Plan" with her.

After graduating from high school, I entered Keio, Mariko went to Nippon Women's University, and Toru went to Waseda.The relationship between the two of them is very smooth, and it has been three and a half years until today.During this period, I did not give up on Mariko, but Mariko kept avoiding me.A month ago, I confessed to Mariko again and was rejected, and I couldn't contact her after that.The flower shape is the same as usual, and we played together the day before yesterday.When asked about Mariko, he only said that Mariko was not feeling well. I proposed to visit Mariko, but he refused.

I heard Hasegawa say that the two of them started living together, but I don't know if it's true or not.

"The first task now is to find Mariko. If Hanabi doesn't want to tell you, just go to Mariko's school and ask. She always has a few good friends. Besides, with your appearance, it should be easy to find out, right? "

So the next morning I went to Mariko's school, and based on the information I found, I successfully found a friend who was close to her.Probably because Mariko often mentioned my relationship in front of them, these girls shouted "It's Fujima!" when they saw me.

Unsuspectingly, they told me the address of Mariko. One of the girls named Matsushita was worried that I would not be able to find a place, and offered to take me there, but was stopped by another girl who claimed to be Yuriko.

"Today we have an appointment with Mariko to go out for a friendship. Would you like to go with Fujisan-kun? I heard that there is still one person missing from the boy's side!"

She made a bold invitation, which I naturally accepted.We made an appointment to meet at a tavern near the university at six in the evening.

Saying goodbye to Mariko’s friends, a question popped up in my heart—why did Mariko go to socialize?

She is still dating Tou. If she goes to a friendship, isn't it cheating?

Mariko has always been a person who has a beginning and an end, and I don't think she is a person who will cheat, so after leaving the women's university, I went directly to Tou's residence.He had no class in the morning and was reading alone. He was a little surprised to see me, but he still opened the door for me.

"Have you broken up with Mariko?"

When I asked directly, he froze for a moment and avoided my gaze. His tall body seemed to shrink a bit, and he stared at the floor with his back on his back.

"Tou, I'm asking you, have you broken up with Mariko?"

"...It has nothing to do with you, does it?"

It was rare for him to speak to me in such a barbed tone.

"When did it happen? Why did you keep it from me?"

"...I said, this has nothing to do with you!"

Tou's body was shaking, he quickly raised his arm and wiped his eyes, I broke his hand and forced him to face me.

"Mariko, she... has fallen in love with someone else."

His eyes were so red that I realized that there was already a layer of green stubble on his chin.This is impossible for Tou, who pursues neatness and cleanliness.If you smell it carefully, there is still a faint smell of alcohol in the room.

"After you confessed to Mariko, she was sad for some reason... I know she always has you in her heart, so this is expected... She didn't contact me after that, I thought you two were together …Until last weekend, a friend from Tokyo University told me that he saw Mariko walking very closely with a boy from their school…”

Tou wiped his eyes with the palm of his hand, and the originally clean glasses were also covered with fingerprints.

"I didn't expect both of us to be out. It's really embarrassing."

He was sitting on the tatami, his body bent into a shrimp, and his voice was crying.

I sat next to Tou and patted his back lightly, feeling very unhappy, but it was better than when I learned they were dating in high school.

Leaving Tou's residence, I went back to school for class. It was around five o'clock in the afternoon. Seeing that it was still early, I tried to call Li Yang - it was four o'clock in the morning in the United States, and she was still sleeping at this time.

However, this news will definitely surprise her, and I also need Li Yang's comfort.

"Mariko fell in love with someone else."

I tried to speak calmly, but Li Yang said "um" on the other end of the phone, still in a daze.

After waiting quietly for a few seconds——

"Wait wait a minute—wait a minute, what did you say?"

I told her the whole story, and Li Yang sighed with emotion:

"Wow, what a powerful girl you fell in love with! Nothing to do tonight? Why don't you go to Mariko and ask her to show you the Dongda nerd who beat you, Keio Boy."

"That's what I meant."

Li Yang made a small sound like a silver bell.

"Good luck, brother."

Before going out, I carefully sorted out my appearance - generally speaking, boys and girls contact each other to participate in friendships. Although the girl named Matsushita told me that there is no problem, it is still possible to be hostile by men - but I don't I don't care, what I care about is what Mariko will think of me.

She broke up with Toh, went on a date with another strange man - in such a complicated situation, I had to get her back.

This difficulty is comparable to winning the national championship in high school.

Before leaving, I looked in the mirror again to confirm that there was no problem with the image of a kind and individual male college student guided by Li Yang, and then embarked on the road of friendship.

Matsushita and Yuriko arrived very early. They told me that there was a delay on the Mariko road and they would meet the boys here directly.So I sat across from them and drank barley tea while waiting.

"Well, if Kazushi finds out that we have hired a handsome man, will he be angry?"

While waiting, Yuriko asked Matsushita in a low voice, seeing me look over, she smiled embarrassedly.

"Men...have a sense of competition in this regard, right?"

"Men will have a sense of competition no matter what - we are such boring creatures." I shrugged and smiled back at Yuriko - this was also done according to Li Yang's guidance, a humorous ugly man is better than a boring beautiful Men are welcome.

"Although you have inherited the beauty of your parents, it doesn't mean you can slack off - the bad things caused by their bad personality must never happen to us again."

Li Yang's tone is always heavy when talking about her parents.So I have been consciously honing my sense of humor, but I haven't been able to get a passing grade from Li Yang until now.

Hearing my joke, Matsushita covered his mouth and laughed, and Yuriko seemed to relax a bit. We chatted about some recent popular topics, and then others arrived.

The first thing that appeared was a tall man with a height of about 190 cm. He opened the curtain of the box and turned his head to talk to the people behind him. The moment I saw his face, my brain stopped working a little.

"...Yichi?"

Kazushi Hasegawa opened the curtain, stood at the door and smiled at me.

"team leader."

He still kept the habit of calling me captain in high school.After greeting Matsushita and Yuriko, he walked into the box and called the people behind to come in.

"Why are you here?"

He sat down to my left and raised his palm in an apologetic gesture.

"There are a lot of unspeakable secrets, I will explain to you later."

Immediately following in was a boy of medium height wearing glasses. Ishishi told me his name was Kito.Then there is another friend of Mariko whom I met today, whose name I remember is Yuanzi.Mariko was not among them, and Yizhi told me in a low voice that she would have to wait a while before arriving.

"And a guy from Dongda."

When Kazushi told me this, he also had a strange expression on his face.

"From East University?" Then it matched what Tou said. "do you know?"

Kazushi shook his head, and pointed to Kidou.

"It was introduced by that guy. I'm in the same research group as Muto, and I heard that we are his high school peers."

Like me, Kazushi is a student of Keio, he is studying in the Faculty of Medicine, and I am in the Faculty of Economics.

"Have you ever heard of what kind of person it is?"

"I haven't had time to ask yet."

I remembered what Kazushi mentioned earlier about Mariko and Toru living together, so I asked him for confirmation.

"This... I just heard from Mariko, but... I only found out about their breakup today."

I don't understand Mariko more and more.

Because of my whispering with Kazushi, Matsushita clapped his hands in dissatisfaction and asked the two of us to return to everyone's topic.

Except for the girls, the boys were not familiar with each other during this friendship, so I chatted with Mu Teng, hoping to find out some things about his peer from him.

"Kito-kun, I heard from Kazushi that you are also from Kanagawa. Which school did you graduate from?"

Mu Teng, whose name was called, turned his head, pushed his glasses, turned a blind eye to my question, and asked me instead:

"Are you Fujima Kenji? I've heard of you, one of the Kanagawa Double Walls back then, but the third-year prefectural meeting failed miserably, right?"

Kazushi immediately poked his side, and the girls looked at him curiously.

"Eh? Kanagawa Twin Walls? What a cool name!"

Panasonic stared at me unabashedly.

"Oh, why are you talking about the past... Sorry, captain, this guy is like this sometimes..."

Kazushi explained with a dry smile, and I waved my hand to indicate that it was okay, but Muto didn't seem satisfied.

"I'm telling the truth." He emphasized with a straight face.Now even the girls have an opinion.

"Oh, don't always talk about things we don't understand, Muto-kun, don't you like reading novels? Tell us about the novel you read recently?"

Sonoko and Mudou seem to be old acquaintances, so they hurriedly changed the topic.

Mu Teng stared at me for a while, then turned his head.

"You haven't told me which school you graduated from."

Seeing his angry look, I thought it was funny, so I asked him again.Mu Teng's head turned around as expected.

"Are you trying to find out about today's fourth person?"

The feeling is really sharp.

"Then I might as well tell you directly—" Mu Teng pushed his glasses again.

"I graduated from the High School Affiliated to Hainan University. You should understand this, right?"

Yizhi and I exchanged glances. This school name has disappeared from our lives for a long time, but when we hear it, we still feel a sense of excitement.

"You... graduated from Hainan?"

Kazushi swallowed, and asked in an uncertain tone.

"Yeah, it's a coincidence today, you haven't seen him for a long time—"

Following Muto's voice, the curtain of the box was lifted again, and this time Mariko's face was revealed first, seeing me and Kazushi, she stopped in her tracks, as if hesitating whether to come in.Her arm was wrapped around another's arm, a muscular arm covered in healthy-looking sun-tanned skin.Seeing that Mariko didn't move, he raised his other arm and opened the curtain.

"Ah, you're here." Muto greeted them, then turned his head and continued to introduce to Kazushi and me:

"This is another person from Kanagawa Shuangbi back then, Mu Shenyi."

Then he said to Mu Shenyi:

"Shenichi, this is Fujima and Hasegawa—you should remember them."

Fujima

五

I haven't seen Mu Shenyi since graduating from high school, and neither has Yizhi. We were both surprised to see Mu Shenyi appear in front of us—especially with the marizi in his arm.

Yizhi quickly stopped me by the shoulder and shouted at Amu hahahaha.

"Long time no see! Amu!" His seemingly intimate movements were actually to prevent me from running away—to be honest, for a moment, I really wanted to jump up and beat Amu.

Calm down, I gotta calm down—

Seeing the two of us, Amu was also a little surprised, his eyes fell on my face first, then Kazushi, and then me again.

"Fuji, Fujima?"

As he spoke, he pulled his arm out of Mariko's arms as if he had been burned, and then, as if to clear the relationship, Amu quickly walked around Mariko and sat next to Mu Teng.Mariko was the only one standing now.

"Long time no see, Amu."

"Well, long time no see."

"Haven't we met since the Winter Games?"

"Yeah, you haven't changed much."

You haven't changed much, you're still so dark.I didn't say that.

A Mu and I exchanged casual greetings across the wooden vines.Mariko also took off her shoes and put them on the futon.Now everyone is gathered.Starting from the side near the door for boys, there are Amu, Muto, I, and Kazushi, and for girls, Sonoko, Yuriko, Mariko, and Matsushita.

After the routine self-introduction was over, the seemingly dull Muteng took on the responsibility of stirring up the atmosphere, making the girls rock and roll - except for Mariko.She neither stared at A Mu nor at me, but just sipped her tea silently.After the food was served, she kept digging into the pizza again.

"Miss Sato, are you in a bad mood today? I haven't seen you talk much."

Muto turned into a coin magic trick, and everyone except Mariko gasped in amazement.Hearing Muto's voice, Mariko finally raised her head and smiled awkwardly.

"I-I'm hungry..."

Yizhi and I really wanted to ask her about the relationship with Mu Shenyi, but it would be strange for the two of us to ask such a gossip question, so we have been patient since just now.

Fortunately, Kazushi and I were not the only ones who were curious about the relationship between the two of them. After Muto performed another rope magic trick, Sonoko, who was sitting opposite Amu, opened his eyes wide, leaned forward and tilted his head to stare at Amu.

That look reminds me of Leo.Sonoko is a round-faced, pretty girl, and Li Yang is more beautiful in comparison—this is not biased, the only advantage of Li Yang that I can praise regardless of blood relationship is her beauty.

Yuanzi's behavior caused everyone to press the pause button on the topic, and they all turned their heads to look at her and Amu.

Amu—I don’t know if he is blushing, I can’t tell if his skin is so dark—blinking his eyes, his body instinctively fell backwards.Yuanzi stared at it for a while, then smiled secretly, and turned to ask the marizi who was still absorbed in eating.

"Hey, Mari, is this your boyfriend? He's very stylish!"

Mariko let out a "poof" sound, and then coughed violently, spewing food residue onto my plate, but I didn't hate it, because she finally looked up at me.

"Sorry, sorry!"

Mariko desperately wiped the food residue on the table with a sterile towel, then waved to the waiter to change a plate for me.

Seeing the messy look on her face, I couldn't help laughing.

"Don't laugh at me..." I heard her mutter under her breath.

The commotion caused by Mariko attracted everyone's attention, but no one noticed Mu Shenyi, and I didn't know what his expression was.After everything was settled, Yuanzi brought the topic back.

"So, you are Mariko's boyfriend?"

This time she asked Mu Shenyi.

A Mu was drinking tea, unlike Mariko, he didn't spit it out but choked himself.After coughing for a while, he waved his hands again and again.

"It's not what you think, Sato and I are just...just...uh, that...just..."

In the middle of the explanation, he suddenly got stuck, A Mu opened and closed his mouth, and turned his head to look at me with help-seeking eyes.

……why do you look at me?

"Really, it's really not the kind of relationship you imagined, please believe me."

Even this sentence is said to me.Kazushi also found it strange, and asked me in a low voice: "He doesn't know about your relationship with Mariko, does he?"

"This is impossible."

Yizhi agrees, so Amu's behavior becomes more suspicious.

"That is, the lovers above AUO are not full?"

Sonoko made a summary for them without authorization, and Amu waved his hands again and again: "It's not that kind of relationship! Sato is single, and so am I."

Then he turned to me seriously a second time, emphatically, "I don't have a girlfriend."

Sensing the direction of his gaze, the way Matsushita, Yuriko, and even Mariko looked at me changed subtly.

"...Don't say such things to me!"

I can't help but complain.A Mu immediately turned his head, pretending to be calm and drinking water.

Under Yuanzi's persistent digging, we learned that Amu and Mariko met in a bookstore. They were both looking for the same book by coincidence, and they met several times afterwards.

"And then start dating."

Yuanzi said when concluding his statement.A Mu waved his hand out of the afterimage again, while Mariko covered her face.

"It feels a bit strange..." Yizhi whispered, and I agreed.But what is so strange, I don't understand.If it were Li Yang, she would definitely be able to quickly find out what was unreasonable.

I wanted to know what Mariko was thinking, but she kept her head down and didn't speak, so I had to force myself to divert my attention, and I also lowered my head and ate.

"Okay, okay, Mariko will cry if I continue talking! Have you guys watched a movie recently? There is one..."

Seeing Sonoko started teasing Mariko again, Matsushita stopped the topic that made the person at a loss in time, and turned to discussing the recently released horror movie, and the topic of the chat turned to the out-of-body experience.Everyone began to talk about their experiences one by one, and the first one was Muto:

"When I was in the second grade of high school, a girl in the same school suffered a very serious accident and fell into a coma. Her friend and I were in the same class. They went to see her every day and read her novels to her. Later, I heard That friend said that the girl asked her what the ending of the story was after she woke up.

As soon as I heard the beginning, I knew it was Li Yang, but I didn't expect that Amu also visited him.

"Ah, yes, I've been there too." Amu turned his head to look at me for the third time. We were sitting in the same row, so he turned around a lot, and the girls on the opposite side followed his gaze.

"I thought you were tired of seeing my face."

Putting down his words angrily, A Mu turned his head back.

"Uh, after the end of the second-year county meeting, that is, after the final with Xiangyang, I went to the hospital to visit Fujiwara, and before I left, I felt like there was something in the room—"

"What?" Matsushita asked nervously.

"Well, maybe I'm too tired so I'm hallucinating, I feel like there's a girl sitting on the hospital bed, waving goodbye to me..." Amu made a gesture of waving.

"Eh?! Isn't that a ghost?" Matsushita asked in surprise, and Amu shook his head.

"Probably not, it's not that gloomy, it just seems—how should I describe it?" He touched his chin and considered his words. "It was as if Fujiwara was sitting there saying goodbye to me, that feeling."

"Wow—it's scary, but it smells warm!" Matsushita clapped his hands and said with a smile.

Next is me.

"My sister fell into a coma due to an accident for a while. When I went to see her, I said some exaggerated words. After she recovered, she was always very indifferent to me. Later, I realized that she heard what I said at that time, and I always held a grudge. For To apologize to her, I had no choice but to write a twenty-page apology letter to her."

After the bland narration was over, not only Amu, but even Kazushi turned to look at me, both of them had distorted expressions that wanted to laugh but didn't dare.

I wrote the letter of repentance after I went to college.When talking to Li Yang, she mentioned what I said when I visited her back then, expressing that she was very sad and angry.I was also very guilty, so I wrote a letter of apology and sent it to her.

"I was laughed at by my friends after seeing it."

This is her impression after reading it.The friend who laughed at her also studied at New York University with her, one year younger than me, and Li Yang said that she met when she was still living in Tokyo.

After everyone shared their stories about the out-of-body experience, the curtain of the box was lifted again.This time it was a tall man with towering hair. He was wearing a blue shirt. He lifted the curtain with one hand and put one hand in his trouser pocket.Behind him is an equally tall male with a black student hair and a black tracksuit.

Sonoko was the first to respond to them.

"Wow, handsome guy!"

She covered her mouth and whispered, Yuriko and Matsushita also showed the expressions they saw when they saw the outstanding-looking opposite sex.And A Mu, who was closest to the two of them, stared at the visitor without saying a word.

"Huh? Sorry, we seem to have gone the wrong way..."

Xiandao took a step back, checked the words on the curtain again, and poked his head in again.I waved at him, and he showed that smile that should be said to be relaxed or not to take people seriously.

"Good evening, Fujima-senpai. Ah, and Mu-senpai and Hasegawa-senpai, how are you, what a coincidence. Oh, there are so many cute girls!"

Xiandao skillfully greeted the people present one by one, and I was not surprised by his appearance—Li Yang told me that the friend who laughed at her had recently returned to China, and his residence happened to be near the Women's University.

After greeting everyone, the girls became interested in the man behind him, but the other party seemed to have no intention of introducing himself, and kept looking around until A Mu took the initiative to say:

"Long time no see, Rukawa."

"Oh, Senior Mu, hello." He finally poked his head in, scanned the audience, and nodded unceremoniously.

"Hello."

Rukawa Kaede went to the United States before graduating from high school. Among the MVPs of the county convention that year, he was the only one who went on a career path.

I thought they just went to the wrong box, and when they found someone they knew, they came in to say hello, and left quickly, but Rukawa Feng kept looking left and right.The girls liked his appearance, and they all stared at him obsessively, but the boys didn't have that much patience. Mu Teng's face was ugly, and he was about to explode.

"What is the Shura field?"

Before Mu Teng saw off the guests, Rukawa Feng suddenly said such a sentence, and Xiandao who was asked by him immediately smiled wryly.

"Does it mean the place where Shura is? Where is Shura?"

Rukawa Feng's question aroused the girl's curiosity, and Sonoko kindly explained: "The Shura field refers to the place where Shuras fight. It was originally a Buddhist term, but now it mostly refers to the battlefield."

Then she seemed to think of something, glanced at Mariko, and continued to explain: "It also refers to a love triangle."

Rukawa nodded half-understood, scanned the audience again, and blinked: "I didn't see the Shura field." He turned to Immortal Road: "Did you see it?"

Xiandao smiled noncommittally, and Rukawa's expression was even more confused.After understanding the meaning of Shurachang, Yizhi glanced at me quickly, and I couldn't help but have a headache.

"Okay, let's not disturb other people's friendship, let's go quickly, there are still things to do at night."

Xiandao said goodbye to us, patted Rukawa on the back and wanted to push him out, but Rukawa didn't want to move.

"Didn't you say that there is a Shura field here for us to see? I haven't seen it yet."

"You've seen it, go and go."

Rukawa Feng refused to let go: "Where is it?"

The conversation between these two people was simply inexplicable, and Amu, who was closest to them, couldn't help asking: "Sorry to interrupt, who told you that there is a Shura field here?"

Rukawa Feng turned to look at A Mu, paused for a while, and replied in a showy tone: "My girlfriend told me."

Immediately, Xiandao stabbed him in the stomach and explained to us—no, to me. He stared straight at me: "It's a girlfriend, a female friend, a female friend..."

"It's also the object of my date." Rukawa added seriously, this time he was stabbed in the chest.

"It's just language tutoring twice a week, it's the relationship between the teacher and the student..."

"We'll see each other on weekends." This time Rukawa retreated to a place out of Xiandao's reach, and raised his index finger to explain.

"That's because I asked you to do my acting class homework! Don't get me wrong!"

"Oh..." Rukawa looked at Xiandao and pointed his raised index finger at him. "Anyway, I lead by one point."

"...you will be beaten for saying that, really."

In the end, Xiandao won, and the two left one after the other. Before they left, Rukawa asked Xiandao: "Senior Leo asked me to report to her, what should I do if I didn't see it?"

"I'll explain to her."

Sendou covered Rukawa's mouth while talking.

Watching their figures disappear behind the curtain, I have mixed feelings.

When I was suffering because of Mariko, my own sister, Li Yang, actually asked her boyfriends to watch the duel between my brother and his love rival.

It seems that they still have to write a report to Li Yang.

My sister is really good.

I want to correct one point, the only thing about Li Yang that I can admire from an objective point of view is that, besides her beauty, she also has a sense of crisis that she actively reserves partners all the time.

I also want to be like Li Yang, who can immediately withdraw my feelings from one person and quickly plunge into the next relationship, but I can't.

Or rather, I don't want to do that.

Until the end of the sorority, Mariko didn't look at me properly and said even a word of concern.But even so, I still like her.

However, it would be great if the person beside her was not Mu Shenyi.

Strange to say, after Xiandao and Rukawa left, Amu didn't say much.When parting from everyone in front of the tavern, he did not refuse Mariko to hold his arm.

It was a strange night.

When I got home, the first thing I did was to call Li Yang. I wanted to listen to her lazy voice, to reassure me that it was no big deal for my sweetheart to be with my former enemy, but Li Yang's sobbing sound came from the receiver.

"Kenji, there is something I want to ask you, please answer honestly."

"Mu Shenyi—does he have a girlfriend?"

"Also, is it Mariko Sato whom you like?"

At that moment, my whole body froze, and the hand holding the receiver went numb for a while.Li Yang didn't wait for my answer, she continued: "Why are we two so unlucky... It's ironic that Kenji's sweetheart is actually with my sweetheart."

Li Yang... actually likes Mu Shenyi?The truck guy?

"How did you know?"

Although they are close, Amu has always emphasized that he is single.

Li Yang sniffed, and there was a crying voice in her voice: "Zhang said they were wearing couple rings on their hands. Although I'm not in Japan, I still have a lot of informants."

"If you're not a couple, why do you wear a pair of rings? Isn't it strange?"

Li Yang's breathing became rapid, which was a sign of her crying.Hearing her cry, whether it was the joy of seeing Mariko or the frustration of knowing that she was with Mu Shenyi, all of them were thrown into the sky by me.

"...What's so good about that kind of black and strong truck guy, I don't want that kind of person to be my brother-in-law...Okay, don't be sad..."

I was clearly comforting Li Yang, but I shed tears myself.

The younger sister who was dumped for no reason, the me who was dumped for no reason, and they who were together like lightning.

Mushen one, Mushen one, Mushen one!Why always you!

Thoughts tangled like balls of wool coiled in my mind, I fell on the tatami and hugged my head, beheading Mu Shenyi thousands of times in my mind.

Fujima

六

One month after the fellowship, I received a letter from Li Yang, with seven photos attached to the letter, which were photos of her and the students in the language class, among which Rukawa Feng was listed.

Rukawa Kaede is also good... I carefully looked at the younger sister in the photo. She was wearing white short sleeves and denim shorts, with her hands behind her back and a cheerful smile on her face, standing in two vertical parallel lines with Rukawa Kaede.

Very harmonious.

This picture is very harmonious.

I picked up other photos. There were Japanese and Caucasian boys in sportswear, smiling confidently at the camera.In every photo, Li Yang looks happy.

I tried to cover their faces, and replaced their faces with Mu Shenyi in my mind.

Then my nose started to bleed.

Nosebleeds dripped onto Li Yang's photo, staining my sister's face red.

After the bleeding stopped, I received a call from Kazushi, who invited me to play golf in the afternoon, and then whispered to me that Mu Shenyi would also go as if he was afraid that the people next to him would hear.

Just right, just right.

I blocked my bleeding nostrils with absorbent cotton, ate a bowl of pork chop rice, and went to the gymnasium I had promised with Kazushi.In addition to Kazushi, Toru, Mariko, Sonoko and Yuriko who I met on the day of the friendship went with me.

This combination is weird no matter how you look at it.I really don't know what Kazushi was thinking.

Yizhi smiled wryly, and whispered to me that it was Mariko who was invited by Toru, and Mariko invited Mu Shenyi.

I really don't know what's going on in their heads.

I looked through, compared to his decadent appearance a month ago, now he has finally returned to normal, his hair and clothes are neat, and he greeted me as before when he saw me, except that he didn't talk to Mariko.

Mariko didn't talk to us either, just talking quietly with her friends in a corner of the gymnasium.Sonoko would glance at us from time to time, but it was only a glance, and soon returned to the girls' discussion.

Mu Shenyi came the latest, and he brought his high school juniors Shenzong Ichiro and Kiyota Nobunaga.After the three of them arrived, the girl group moved towards us, and the group finally got together.

"Senior Fujima, what happened to your nose?"

It was Ichiro Shinmune who first noticed my nosebleed. Hearing what he said, both Kazushi and Toru looked over with surprise in their eyes.

"Captain, the cotton is about to fall out." Yishi kindly reminded me, I quickly covered my nose and went to the corner to change a cotton ball, and then urged them:

"Okay, let's get started!"

There are a total of nine of us, and Yishi suggested that we assign a referee, and then play in teams of four.Since my nosebleed hadn't completely stopped, Ah Shen suggested that I be the referee, but I sternly refused.

"I'm fine, hurry up and draw lots."

This time, Toru reminded me: "Kenji, the cotton ball fell out again..."

After I changed the cotton balls for the second time, they had already prepared the lottery. The result of the lottery was that Toru was the referee, Mariko, Yuriko, Kazushi, and Ashin were in a group, and Mushenichi, Sonoko, Kiyota, and I were in a group.

Except for the girl group, everyone was speechless about the lottery result, and the awkward atmosphere gradually spread.

"The last time the Kanagawa Twin Walls combined was in... If I remember correctly, it was only the Akiguchi body?"

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