[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

15#The Backside of the Moon

When Aomine Daiki saw Kuga Aoi, she was standing alone on the Kamogawa Bridge, looking at the river below in a daze, and slowly leaning forward.Dark clouds piled up on the sky, and the rain fell pattering down, hitting her body with a muffled sound. Her whole body was soaked by the rain, and her long hair was wet into strands and tangled in the water-soaked clothes. On, the high heels and calves were splashed with muddy water.Jiuwokui suddenly heard Qingfeng Dahui calling her name, she was startled, lost her balance and fell down the bridge!

"Wow--!"

"...Hey!" Qingfeng grabbed her by the collar and pulled her up, looking at her expressionlessly, "You want to jump into the river?"

Jiugaoi fell to the ground, she lowered her head without saying a word, with her hands behind her back, her right hand clasped her left wrist tightly until the wrist was bleeding.Stubbornly turning his head away, he refused to look at Aomine Daiki.The clothes and skirts were all stained with muddy water, and she was in a complete mess, but her back was still straight.

Qingfeng sighed deeply, and handed her the umbrella in his hand.

"Although I shouldn't say this...But, the panties are exposed."

Jiu Wokui blushed immediately!She jumped up from the ground suddenly, stretched the turned up short skirt flat, and pulled it down hard.A pair of cat-like eyes stared at Aomine Daiki forcefully, almost bursting into flames, angrily scolded, "Don't look at it!!!"

Qingfeng raised his hand as if surrendering, and when he saw that she didn't take the umbrella, he could only shrug his shoulders and turn away, his words were very helpless.

"Isn't that very spiritual?"

Jiugaoi's face was flushed red with embarrassment, stomped her feet and stared angrily at Aomine Daiki's back, wishing to turn her words into a big stone and smash it on his head.

"Hate! Hate! Hate hate! Y'all hate! I hate all of you!!!"

Qingfeng scratched his hair and turned around, seeing Jiuwokui blushing and about to cry, he suddenly felt that he had lost all his temper.He stretched out his hand and put the umbrella on Kuwo Kuitou, covering her from the heavy rain falling from the sky, but most of his body was drenched in the rain.

"Do you want dinner?"

He made an excuse at random, Jiu Wokui looked at his rain-wet clothes, pursed his lips, and finally leaned over, snatched the umbrella to cover both of them tightly, because Qingfeng was very big, She had to stick him closer to ensure that neither of them would get wet.

"...You lead the way." She looked away awkwardly, "I won't let you go if it doesn't taste good."

***

Aomine finally took Kuwaoi to eat oden.When the steaming oden was served in front of her, she seemed to be suffocated by the heat. She lowered her head and wiped her eyes as if nothing had happened.Aomine Daiki handed her the broken sanitary chopsticks, and started to eat the bowl of oden in front of him, pretending not to see her wiping her tears while eating.

"Is it hard work?" He asked nonchalantly.

Jiugaoi bravely said: "One, just a little bit!"

"is it?"

"..."

Jiugaoi fell silent, and the heat rose. In the hazy white mist, she pressed her fingers on the chopsticks, and hesitated to speak.

"I... dreamed about Mana."

Aomine paused with his chopsticks. As Kuroko Tetsuya's best friend, he naturally knew the name of Kuroko's twin sister.

"……yes."

Aoi slowly raised her hand and covered her face.

"In the dream, Mana was still the same as before. Standing in front of me in a white yukata, she smiled and held out her hand to me and said, 'Aoi, let's go to the fireworks display together'. Erika looked at me with a smile beside her. The three of us I went to fish for goldfish, set rings, and eat apple candy together. When I passed by an old woman’s stall, Erica clamored to buy a bracelet, so I bought three bracelets of the same style, only the flowers on them were different, you see .”

Aoi stretched out her hand so that Aomine could see the bracelet on her wrist.The silver cable chain is dressed in golden flowers, which show a bright color under the light.

"Mine is a sunflower, Mana's is a blue lotus, and Erika's is a red poppy. Now that I think about it, it was like a little ceremony. We wore the same bracelets and held hands to watch the fireworks, even in the crowds. I'm not afraid to get lost. The moon is so bright, I look at their faces, and think this is the best time of my life, it's ridiculous, but at the age of 15, I dare to think about it for the rest of my life."

Aoi's expression became dazed, she showed a self-deprecating smile, her blurred eyes stopped on the bracelet, tears gradually came to her eyes, but she stubbornly refused to let it fall.

"Then i woke up."

she said softly.

"Until this moment, I can convince myself that Mana is really gone."

——Until the moment she woke up crying from her dream.

Kugaoi slowly stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to grab something, but her fingers twitched slightly, and she withdrew her hand as if awakened.

That's right, even if you stretch out your hand with all your strength, this hand can no longer hold that person.

She smiled lowly.There was a hint of twisted madness in that laugh, Qingfeng was stabbed by that laugh, and looked up at her.

"Hey, Aomine Daiki, if your relatives killed your best friend because of you." She cast her eyes on him, suppressing the rolling darkness in her eyes, "What should you do?"

***

At the same time, Erika Dikoro was also staring at her bracelet in a daze.The fiery red poppies showed a coquettish color in the dark, and in her eyes, there was a gloomy red.

A man's hand came from behind and covered hers.A black cigarette was held in that graceful hand, with slender fingers and well-proportioned knuckles.Before the hand hooked around the bracelet, Erica let go and let the bracelet slide into the bag, sealing it with a finger hook on the silk cord that tied the bag.Ichinose Qiao smiled helplessly, and wrapped that hand around Erika's bare/naked shoulders.

"You're so stingy, you can't even touch it?"

"No way." Erica laughed, with deep dimples on her cheeks, "I won't let Qiaojiang touch her."

"Hey, I will be sad if you are so indifferent." Takumi Ichinose took Erika into his arms, "We haven't seen each other very much since you went to Kyoto, and there was one after the last Tokyo Kodokai" I haven't seen you for many months, you always refuse to come to me, if this st national tour just happened to arrive in Kyoto, I'm afraid I won't be able to see you. Don't miss me at all?"

Erika leaned on Ichinose Kochi/naked chest, smiled and stretched out her hand to shave his face, her cheeks were still pink, very pretty.

"Don't be shy, who misses you? Anyway, Qiaochan is accompanied by Miss Leila, so she definitely misses me."

"Leyla and I don't have that kind of relationship." Qiao turned slightly cold, but still pinched the tip of Erica's nose with a smile, "Don't be jealous of everyone."

Erika puffed her cheeks, raised her face and nibbled on Ichinose Qiao's cheek, then rubbed against his neck like a puppy, biting a strand of his hair and giggling.

"I hate such a clever sauce."

She said with a smile, then suddenly stretched out her hand to push Ichinose Qiao away, sat up deftly, pulled the clothes on the bedside table and put them on.Ichinose Takumi grabbed her hand from behind, pulled her back onto the bed with all her strength, rubbed her cheeks, a little dumbfounded.

"Is this angry?"

"Erica doesn't like that Qiaojiang treats Erica badly."

"I came to see you as soon as the concert was over, isn't that good?"

"...Hmm..." Erika blinked hesitantly, reached out and pinched Ichinose Qiao's face back, "Okay, I forgive you."

She laughed again, a sweet smile with deep dimples on her cheeks.Ichinose took a puff of cigarette, raised her chin with a smile, passed the puff of smoke, Erika put her hand around his neck, raised her head to meet and deepened the kiss.

Qiao's kiss slowly slid to her ear, her fingers wandered around the girl's body, Erica's breathing became rapid, her hand climbed up Qiao's back, and the strength of her hand fluctuated with his movements Heavy.Qiao sniffed the fragrance in her temple hair, and dropped small kisses on her ear as if teasing.

"The scent on your body is very strange...is it a special perfume?"

Erika's voice was intermittent: "It's... 'Todaiji Temple'...that is, 'Kannadai'...It's the incense tree that Fuekoji's family...enshrines..."

"A game of splitting words..."

"Hate...don't touch there..."

The handbag containing the bracelet was left on the bed. The strong smell of cigarettes and the scent of Todai Temple were entangled, permeating the night.The sparks of the cigarette slowly dimmed in the ashtray, and the ash became colder.

***

Erika was still fast asleep when Ichinose Takumi left the next day.He stretched out his hand to straighten her hair, and lifted the quilt up again, tucking in the corners of the quilt.Finally leaving a kiss on her cheek before leaving.

When I walked out of the room, I happened to bump into Serizawa Leila who came out from the opposite door.He smiled at the lead singer of his band, and Leila was about to smile back, but her face changed slightly when she smelled his fragrance.

"You... went to see Miss Dixiaolu again?"

"Shh." He stretched out his hand and made a quiet gesture, then smiled and looked back at the door behind him, "She's still sleeping, go downstairs and talk about it."

Leila pursed her lips.The enchanting fragrance was like maggots attached to the bones, winding up from her back, she silently clenched her fists, and finally followed.

"Although I shouldn't interfere in your private affairs... But, coincidentally, Miss Di Xiaolu is too young, once a reporter finds out..."

"Then just don't get caught." Qiao took out S's cigarette and lit it, the black cigarette had a strong fragrance when it burned, "Anyway, other people's impression of me is that S's long-haired one rarely pays attention to me The focus of the bar st is you and Lian."

"But, coincidentally..."

"No problem." Qiao casually rubbed Leila's head, "Don't worry about it, how is the new song practice?"

Leila could only press her lips tightly together, and then let her lips go pale, she lowered her head and replied absent-mindedly.

"……fine……"

"The national tour is coming to an end soon, let's all go have a drink together. You haven't seen Tai for a long time, right?"

"……Um."

After the voices of the two completely disappeared in the corridor, Erica Futekoji opened her eyes.She reached out from the ashtray and took half of the cigarette that happened to be left behind, and lit it for herself. After taking a puff, she coughed violently, her throat was sore.But she still smoked half of the cigarette while coughing. In the curling white smoke, no one could see what kind of eyes she showed.

"……Ah."

Erica gave a short sneer, turned on the phone, and dialed a number.

"Hello~ Is it Yuluo sauce? Um, I'm Erica." She smoked a cigarette expressionlessly, and coquettishly said to the person on the other end of the phone with a sweet and smiling voice, "Are you free today? I want to go shopping, can you accompany me?...Ah! Pomelo sauce is the best! Then at eleven o’clock, see you at the xx mall! mua~~~~~”

After hanging up the phone, she casually threw the cigarette butt on the ground, then stepped on it with her bare feet, and extinguished it bit by bit.

Amidst the slight buzzing sound, the girl looked out of the window expressionlessly, her expression was gloomy and pale, which was completely different from before.

"Hey, why don't you come to see me, Mana?"

Her voice was low, with a creepy calmness.

"Come and see me, Mana."

The bare/bare ankle was even more forceful, crushing the cigarette butt into crumbs, dragging a bloody trail.

"I can't wait any longer."