[Comprehensive] It's hard to fall in love

Reborn seemed to want to say something, but after a few glances with Qi Mu, he just smiled and didn't speak.

Prison Temple Hayato stood aside and apologized to them with Lanbo who had caused trouble: "I'm sorry, this brat has caused you trouble again, if you want to fix him, please do it!"

"Bastard prison temple! Let me go!!" The little boy in the milk suit kept twisting in his hands.

Ayane's expression was a little subtle: "...That's not necessary, anyway, I didn't encounter any danger."

[But that person just now...although I only glanced at it in a hurry, but the color of his hair... I should be right? ]

Saiki Kusuo's eyes flickered slightly, his hand raised unconsciously, paused and then lowered, at this moment, there was a commotion in the crowd, and Sawada Tsunayoshi finally appeared in a suit.

"Sai Mu-san, Yukimura-san, I didn't expect you to really come, welcome."

Although Tsunayoshi Sawada is young, he can already see the attitude of the leader in the future. He is neither humble nor overbearing, with a smile on his face. When he passed by them, he greeted them with an ordinary attitude.

"Sawada-kun, congratulations." Ayane smiled and congratulated him, and Saiki Kusuo also nodded slightly.

"Are you ready?"

Reborn jumped onto Tsunayoshi Sawada's shoulders, and the two walked towards the center of the field.

"Honestly, a little nervous."

…………

Peng Lie Jiudaimu also appeared at the handover ceremony. It was different from what he imagined. Jiudaimu was like an ordinary old man, and he didn't have any "mafia godfather" atmosphere on him. He looked kind and kind.

He encouraged Zetian Tsunayoshi a few words, and then officially entrusted the position of leader.

"Next, Pengo Lie will rely on you, A Gang."

"I will inherit the spirit of my ancestors and pass on the Vengley family from generation to generation. Once it goes astray, I will personally destroy this mistake."

Sawada Tsunayoshi looked solemn, and said in a firm tone, compared to a few months ago, Ayane felt that he had grown a lot, and now he has become a courageous and responsible little man.

The succession ceremony was successfully completed, and there was a dinner and celebration after that. Since most of the guests were from the other world, Ayane and Saiki left early.

The days are spent day by day in the tense entrance examination and entrance preparation, and soon February will be over, and the time will come to March when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom.

The fifth day of this month is the birthday of Ayane’s older brother, Yukimura Seiichi. She prepared a gift early in the morning. Although Yukimura Seiichi said that it’s just a birthday and doesn’t need to be too grand, the family still insists on holding a birthday for him in Kanagawa Honza The people who came to the banquet were mainly his friends from school and on the tennis court, and of course Ayane.

She arrived in Kanagawa one night earlier. At that time, Yukimura Seichi was still at the street tennis court. When Ayane went to look for him, she met an unexpected person on the way.

"Hello, how can I get to the street tennis court?"

[Um? ]

While she was waiting for the traffic light on the side of the road, someone suddenly came over to ask for directions. Lingyin followed the sound and was shocked:

"Echizen Ryoma?!"

"It's senior sister," Echizen Ryoma smiled, with a flirtatious look on his face, "I think the back looks familiar just now, and it's true."

"You...well, didn't you go to the United States?" Ayane's expression was blank, and she still hadn't recovered.

"School is on vacation, come back and have a look." He raised the brim of his hat, just when the green light came on, Echizen took two steps forward, holding Ayane's wrist and walked across the zebra crossing.

He has grown a lot taller now, and when he strode forward, Ayane had to trot to keep up.

After the two crossed the road, Ayane quickly patted the back of Echizen's hand, signaling him to let go, and the latter slowly stopped.

"Sister, where are you going?"

"Aren't you going to the street tennis court?" She straightened her wind-torn hair, "My brother is also there, I'll take you there."

Echizen seemed to purse his lips and smiled, "Okay."

On the way, the two chatted casually, and Ayane knew that Echizen was playing professional league in the United States recently. She asked with interest:

"Is Echizen-kun planning to develop in this direction in the future?"

In fact, she is not very familiar with Echizen Ryoma, but they have some intersections at the tennis event a few years ago, so she is more polite about addressing them, although Echizen Ryoma is one year younger than her.

"Almost, Yukimura-senpai should also embark on a career path in the future, right?"

The "Senior Yukimura" Echizen said refers to Seiichi Yukimura. I don't know why he came to Kanagawa this time. He couldn't be here to celebrate her brother's birthday, right?

Ayane thought about it, and asked, Echizen raised her eyebrows, as if it was the first time she knew that tomorrow was Seiichi Yukimura's birthday:

"I came here when I wanted to, but I really didn't expect such a coincidence."

As he spoke, he looked at Ayane's expression, and a smile flickered again in his amber cat eyes:

"However, I ran into my senior sister as soon as I came here. It seems that I am very lucky."

Ayane also smiled: "That's true, because I don't live in Kanagawa now, it's quite difficult to meet me here."

Echizen was taken aback when he heard the words: "Have you moved? When did it happen?"

Ayane gave him a strange look, "About last August...why do you ask this?"

Echizen pursed his lips, his complexion not very good-looking: "Ha, I don't know at all."

"..." She wanted to say that this was of course, and that no one would be bored—she deliberately went to the United States, which is far away overseas, to tell Echizen Ryoma about her move, but Echizen didn't seem very happy, so she moved topic:

"Aren't you in a hurry to leave these days? Tomorrow is my brother's birthday, and there will be many people you know coming to the birthday party. Echizen-kun, are you going?"

Echizen's eyes lit up, he nodded and said, "Since it's Yukimura-senpai's birthday, of course I can't miss it."

At this time, they had almost reached the street tennis court, and Echizen suddenly stopped in his tracks:

"However, can I ask my senior sister for a favor?"

"Huh?" Ayane looked sideways at him, "What's the matter?"

"Senior's birthday, I haven't prepared a gift yet, so it's not good to be empty-handed?" He lowered his head and touched his nose, and said, "Can I trouble Senior Sister to accompany me to choose a gift?"

"...Now?" Ayane hesitated, because there was a tennis court a block away, and Seiichi Yukimura was waiting for her there.

"Please." Echizen Ryoma tilted his head towards her, maybe he didn't intend to be coquettish, but it looked like he was being coquettish, and Ayane couldn't say no.

"...Well, let me tell my brother first, go and come back quickly." She took out her mobile phone and sent a text message to Yukimura Seichi, saying that she has something to do now and will be late; Reply quickly so that she doesn't have to rush here, and be careful on the road.

So Ayane took Echizen, who was unfamiliar with the place, to take a taxi to the shopping street. There was a large shopping mall next to it. She used to go shopping here when she lived in Kanagawa.

"What kind of gift do you want to buy?" The two walked and chatted, Ayane asked, and Echizen scratched his head, looking distressed:

"...Yukimura-senpai should like tennis-related items, right?"

"Well, not necessarily."

She can guess just by imagining that there will be a lot of tennis-related gifts from many people tomorrow. Even if one person only gives one, the repetition rate will definitely not be low, so she does not recommend buying such products in Echizen .

Echizen also seemed to see what she meant, and said decisively: "Then what did senior sister say is better? I'll listen to you."

At this moment, Ayane's cell phone vibrated twice suddenly, she took it out to have a look, and found that it was a message from Saiki Kusuo:

[tomorrow……]

Her gaze had just swept to the screen, and she only had time to see the first two words. The next second, the message was withdrawn, and then the other party sent another one:

[Passing by the park today, I saw that the cherry blossoms were already blooming. I don’t know how the cherry blossoms in Kanagawa are. ]

She smiled crookedly at the corner of her mouth, and replied:

[The cherry blossoms in Kanagawa are not in full bloom yet, let’s go back and enjoy the cherry blossoms together. ]

Because Yukimura Seichi hinted (explicitly) that she "don't bring people who are not related to me", so Saiki didn't come with her this time.I don't know what Qi Mu was thinking, but at this moment, she suddenly had a feeling of returning home.

"Is it Atobe?" Echizen stared at her for a long time, then asked suddenly.

"Huh?" Ayane looked up at him, with a sweet smile on her face that she didn't notice, "No, why is it him?"

"Don't the King of Monkey Mountain like senior sister very much, so you are not together?" Echizen's tone became a little strange, "Who is that? Akiya Kirihara? Masaharu Nioh? Or someone from another school?"

"Hey..." Ayane was surprised at his rude attitude, before saying anything, Echizen said again:

"Forget it," he pressed his hat, strode to the front, paused again, and turned back to Ayane, "Is senior sister's boyfriend coming tomorrow?"

"Ah? No." After she finished speaking, she still felt a little guilty, and quickly looked around, thinking:

[I didn't deny the statement that there is a boyfriend, Qi Mu-kun is so powerful, he probably wouldn't know about it...]

After that, Ayane accompanied Echizen Ryoma to buy gifts, and then the two went to the street tennis court. Echizen also played a ball game with Yukimura Seichi.

It started to rain in the evening, and the pattering spring rain hit the new leaves on both sides of the road. Ayane saw clusters of small flower buds growing on some bushes and branches, not only cherry blossoms, but also many unnamed flowers. Small yellow-yellow-white flowers, with a faint fragrance lingering on the tip of the nose.

She unconsciously took out her mobile phone and took a few photos and sent them to Saiki Kusuo.

[Show us the flowers of our Kanagawa. ]

Qi Mu replied quickly:

[Thanks, I think it's beautiful. ]

Ayane couldn't help but secretly smiled:

[Qi Mu-kun's reply is also so serious, he even said thank you, but...it's quite cute. ]

The highlight of the second day was Yukimura Seiichi's birthday party. Many tennis specialty schools that had played games with Lihai University came. In addition to the three major seed schools, Hyotei, Aigaku, and Lihai University, there were also four players from Osaka. Tenpoji Temple and Fudo Peak in Kyushu, etc.

But the most eye-catching one is Echizen Ryoma who came back from the United States.

"Happy birthday, Yukimura-senpai."

Echizen Ryoma handed over the gift he and Ayane had picked together yesterday. He glanced at the two who were standing not far away talking, and asked inadvertently:

"Senior, didn't senior sister's boyfriend come today?"

The smile on Yukimura Seiichi's face suddenly faded, "When did Ayane have a boyfriend, why didn't I know?"

Echizen Ryoma scratched the broken hair in front of his forehead. He didn't wear a hat today, and he felt a little unaccustomed:

"Really? Maybe I remember wrongly."

Atobe and Ayane not far away:

"My family is going to let me study in the UK, how about you?" Atobe said casually.

"I... If there are no accidents, I should go to Dongda." Ayane smiled at him, "When will I go abroad? I'll go to the airport."

Atobe tugged at the bow tie on his shirt, his expression was not relaxed, and he asked tentatively:

"If... I want you to go to England together, would you like it?" He looked anxiously, "Don't worry about the school dormitory, I will arrange it, you just need someone to go."

"..." Ayane was a little surprised, but also a little speechless, she didn't expect Atobe to ask such a question.

"Well... I have no plans to study abroad for the time being." Seeing that the Ministry of Tradition still wanted to say something, she continued:

"Although it may be a bit narcissistic to say this, but if you are going to confess to me... Sorry Atobe, I already have someone I like."

Atobe sighed, not knowing whether he should be sad or relieved, and had a feeling of "it really is so" in his heart.

"Do you have to be so direct?" The elite education he received since he was a child quickly recovered his emotions, and he was still in the mood to laugh at himself.

Seeing him smile, Ayane also relaxed, "Isn't it because I was taken aback by you, what did you say all of a sudden..."

The expression on Atobe's face was a bit complicated, as if he was holding back the loss for a while and relieved at the same time. He turned his eyes to the distance, and then moved back after a while, and asked softly:

"Still friends?"

Ayane smiled and patted his arm: "Of course."

In mid-March, Ayane's manga "The Hero and the Demon King of Another World" officially ended, and editor Maeda helped her organize a signing event.

Editor Maeda met her in real life, so he asked her if she wanted to show up. Showing up and not showing up have their own advantages and disadvantages: showing up can increase popularity, but after the identity is exposed, you may be harassed later; To deal with such troubles, but the effect of the signing will definitely not be as good as showing up.

Ayane thought about it, and finally decided to wear a hat and a mask to attend.

She doesn't need to use her face to hype, just let readers and fans focus on the work itself.

Editor Maeda naturally respected her ideas, but on the day of the book signing, Ayane still became popular with only a pair of exposed eyes and autographed hands. "The trend of these two topics on social networks continues to rise, and the discussion is getting more and more heated.

So, as a matter of course, after seeing the photos circulating on the Internet, almost all her relatives and friends around her recognized her.

In the next two hours, Ayane received no less than fifty condolence messages on her mobile phone, some asking her when she would become a cartoonist, some asking if she would be tired after signing the book, and others asking Can she help keep a few autographed comics...

There are even idiots like Chiya Kirihara, who have been chasing serial comics for two years, only to find out that the original author is by his side.

[Ayane! ! Are you the one who drew "Alien Brave"? !That photo on the Internet is you, right? ?Ahhhhhhhh I was going to the book signing today but the tram went the wrong way, can you wait for me there for two hours? ! ]

Ayane felt a little helpless in her heart: [...Chi Ye, why don't you just go home. ]

When she was signing, the girl manga artist Sakiko Mengno (Nozaki Umetaro) and the well-known light novel writer Masamune Izumi also sent congratulatory messages on social networks. Teacher Mengye also bluntly said that Alice is a " A [-]% undisputed pure beauty", sparked another wave of discussions among netizens.

After the signing session for more than three hours, Ayane was too tired to lift her hands. Of course, editor Maeda and other staff members also worked very hard. Then everyone went to eat something together, and Ayane was sent back by editor Maeda. home.

She had a good night's rest, and when she got up the next day, she found a letter tucked outside her window sill.

[Please arrive at XX location before [-]:[-] pm.The roadmap is as follows:]

Ayane scanned the "map" that was obviously hand-painted, and moved her gaze to the bottom, where she saw that the signature was "Saiki Kusuo".

[Hey... was it written by Sai Mu-kun? It's so formal, what are you going to do...? ]

She couldn't help but start thinking about it, and it wasn't until she was eating breakfast that she saw the notification on her phone, and Ayane realized that today is the No.14 White Valentine's Day in March!

[Is it to give me a gift in return?It's so mysterious...]

Having said that, she still carefully matched her clothes, put on light makeup, and waited nervously and excitedly for the arrival of the afternoon.

[Why is it three o'clock in the afternoon... I want to go now! ]

She was restless and excited, and read the letter over and over several times, thinking:

[It says 'before three o'clock in the afternoon', a few minutes earlier is 'before', and a few hours is also 'before', so it shouldn't matter if I go now, right? ]

After a while, Ayane couldn't sit still any longer, so she greeted her mother, carrying a small bag and a "map", and followed the route marked on it.